The Day After Doomsday: Getting By In a Post-Apocalyptic World - Period 2

[raspberryturk]

When students arrived for class today, they’d step into a Danger Shop scene that looked something like a freeze-frame from a bad end of the world movie. They were standing in the middle of what looked to be endless wasteland, a dark greenish haze marring the sky somewhere beyond, on the horizon. And above them in the sky, there was a giant rock, burning and casting a red tinge on the few clouds above that weren’t a sick smog green. Hanging in the sky beside that meteor, less than a quarter of the size? Was the moon.

“Yo!” Yes, this was the traditional greeting of the being known as Reno, who sauntered into the Danger Shop a full five minutes late for his own first class of the term with his hands in his pockets and a smile on his face that suggested that he didn’t much give a damn what anybody thought about that fact, either. Maybe he was feeling lazy today. Maybe he just wanted to give his students a few minutes to stare up at the flaming ball of death that was looming above them.

“Welcome to the end of the world. An inescapable calamity that’ll fall down from above, wiping out all life on The Planet as we know it. And there ain’t nothin’ you can do but sit back and stare at the sky, counting down the days until it gets here. Technology won’t save you. The space program on your world is a joke, and the most powerful explosive that your world superpower could muster, that bad boy up there shrugged off like a mosquito, yo. There ain’t no hope. So!” Reno looked around at the students gathered around him, and then crossed his arms over his chest. “Introductions time, boys and girls. This is our first lesson together, an’ that’s as heavy as I’m gonna get on our first day. Name, age, what the hell you’re doin’ in a messed-up class like this one, and what you’d do with your last few weeks before rocks fall an’ everyone dies.”

Such a happy bunch of introduction questions!

“And Ino, after class, I wanna talk to you, yo. And your Rookie, too.”

[OCD is up! Syllabus and roster are here.]

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Sign In

[raspberryturk]

Facing the end.

Re: Sign In

[likethestore.livejournal.com]

K-Mart

Lecture

[raspberryturk]

Stare up at the flaming ball of death! Stare at the dead, dead land around you! Stare at the festering blot of greenish pollution hanging in the sky in the distance! Talk amongst yourselves! Try to nap in the sand! And so on!

Re: Lecture

[onlykindofdead.livejournal.com]

Madison was really, really hoping that Barnabas picked this workshop to be funny and not because of something Ron might have seen in the timestream.

Re: Lecture

[intraspective]

Ino's eyes were not wide, they were narrowed thoughtfully, as she studied the surrounding area.

She'd never seen the meteor itself, but the rest of it? Yes, she recognized.

Re: Lecture

[awakestheghosts]

Chloe was not in a bit of shock at what was in the sky.

Okay, yes, yes she was.

Re: Lecture

[bigbadgunn.livejournal.com]

Okay, so the end of the world. Right.

Throw up some buildings and make the moon look normal and it might just be a Saturday night in his old neighborhood.

Without the potentially poisonous atmosphere and doomsday scenario of course.

Re: Lecture

[eyesofahero.livejournal.com]

He didn't

He fucking didn't--

Aw man, he did.

Cloud was looking very, very pissed.

Re: Lecture

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

Hang on. Was this supposed to be Constance's way of telling her something? Like she was never going to get a hand in trying to stop the world from ending so she might as well be prepared for the worst? Because if it was, it wasn't funny, so cue Kennedy's glareyface.

...glareyface or not, she was taking in the surroundings. She hadn't really figured on the end of the world coming from above...

Re: Lecture

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn glanced around, saw the meteor and the really excellent CGI all around her, listened to the hot guy give a way paranoid speech, and summed it up to herself as she best knew how.

"Ew."

Re: Lecture

[feels-special.livejournal.com]

Jane pretty much thought this class was awesome. Nothing like a flaming ball of death headed straight towards you on your first day of summer camp.

Jane was maybe not taking this class as seriously as she should?

Introductions

[raspberryturk]

“I’m Reno. Twenty years old now, but my bein’ relatively young don’t mean I don’t know what the hell I’m talkin’ about. I’m here because, I’ll be honest, here ain’t there,” he nodded at the wasteland scenario around them, “and when I was faced with this, I kept on goin’. Because what the hell else are you gonna do?”

He pointed to the student standing closest to him. “Your turn, yo.”

Re: Introductions

[likethestore.livejournal.com]

"I'm K-Mart, I'm sixteen, I'm here because back home for me is a post-apocalyptic wasteland and I need to know everything I can about surviving in it." She shrugged. "And if I had to deal with the whole rocks fall, everybody dies... I'd just keep going, I guess. Because really, what else can I do?"

Mind you, the girl came from a world where if you just sat back and let things go by, you'd get turned into zombie food real damn quick. Sitting back wasn't in her nature.

Re: Introductions

[onlykindofdead.livejournal.com]

"I'm Madison Avery, seventeen, and I'm not sure why I'm in this class because someone else picked my workshops," she admitted. "But, uh, I think it'll be good to learn survival skills because you never know what might happen."

Like ending up dead or something.

"Oh, and if I only had a few weeks, I'd spend as much time as I could with my family and friends trying to figure out a way to survive."

Re: Introductions

[intraspective]

Well, they were certainly... class appropriate questions, she'd give him that.

"I'm Ino, sixteen, and I took this class," saying because Reno taught it was a bit too... something, for her, "because it's relevant to my interests."

Look, it was an evasion and she knew he'd know it. Ino didn't much care. And the evasion was true as well. So there.

"If I knew something like that was coming... I'd find a way to change it." Something sparked in her eyes. "Because change happens only through action."

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[awakestheghosts]

"I'm Chloe S-Saunders and I'm f-fifteen. I'm in this class because Reno is teaching it. And s-sometimes because you h-have to p-prepare for all outcomes."

She took a breath. "I w-would f-find a way to m-make sure I and the p-people around me could survive if it was possible."

Re: Introductions

[bigbadgunn.livejournal.com]

"I'm Gunn," he began puffing out his chest a little. "I'm from LA and if the end of the world's going to happen? I'm going down fighting. That's all there is to it."

Re: Introductions

[eyesofahero.livejournal.com]

"...Cloud Strife."

Another glare at Reno.

"Twenty one years old. I came here to avout this exact sort of thing. Again."

Re: Introductions

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

"Kennedy. Seventeen, senior--" this with the slight grimace that got more grimace-y with every year she had to tack onto her age-- "and I'm supposed to be in the business of helping to keep the world from ending?"

The idea that sometimes you really couldn't stop that didn't sit well with her, as an observant person might be able to tell from the way her shoulders drew in very minutely. But-- well, the pragmatic part of her could see the logic despite her stubbornly heroic tendencies' objections.

"But being prepared for it can't hurt, just in case." She glanced over at Gunn when she said that; the apocalypse wasn't going to take her down without a fight either.

Re: Introductions

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"I'm Jacob Black, I'm sixteen. I figured that with my kind of luck that might just be the next bad thing to happen, and it kind of sounds like a good thing to be prepared for," he said with a shrug.

"And if it's something I've got no influence over whatsoever? I'd go punch someone I've been meaning to punch for a while now." Deep.

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[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"Dana Scully. Fifteen." And this was exactly the kind of scenario she and Mulder had been arguing about for at least the last year, since the thing with the bees. "And I'm here because... well. I'd like to think someone knows what to do in this situation." Help. Helllllp! Because the idea of the grumpy old smokers ruling the world was just not happening.

"...I'd be trying to gather survivors and information to get ready for the worst." She paused, then an impulse and honesty compelled her to add, "Probably after one last party to remember the fall of civilization."

Re: Introductions

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Quinn Fabray, sixteen," Quinn said, and paused. "I'm not actually sure why I was registered for this class."

Coach Sylvester had picked it out. Quinn didn't ask questions.

"I guess if it was the end I'd try to take a leadership role to keep people as calm and focused as possible. Freaking out isn't going to help anything."

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[talkstodeadppl.livejournal.com]

"I'm Miles, I'm seventeen. I picked this class because it sounded like fun." Yeah, that was weird. "And, uh, I guess I'd be spending my time trying to figure out a way to survive."

Seemed like the obvious answer.

Reno

[raspberryturk]

Who is going to stick around after class for a bit, yes. But not before turning this particular scenario off. Quickly. Because there’s only so long a guy can stare down Meteorfall all over again without getting antsy.

Re: Reno

[intraspective]

She said nothing when the scenario blinked off--it wasn't like Ino didn't know, couldn't guess, why he'd wanted it gone as soon as possible.

"That is what--ugh, seriously?" she demanded, hitching one shoulder in a shrug as she approached him.

'That' being Cloud, and 'seriously' being everything ever she knew about what had gone on. Ino figured that Reno spoke fluent Ino-ese enough to parse her demand here.

[And I had to change my ping because I couldn't not. ^^; ]

OOC

[raspberryturk]

Googledocs seems to have changed their layout, and it is driving me insane as I type this class. Yessir.

Re: OOC

[onlykindofdead.livejournal.com]

Ugh, yes. I was so annoyed when I was typing up Madison's pre-FH stuff.

CHANGE IS BAD.