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Unconventional Tactics, Tuesday, Period 2

"Yo, Rookies!" Starting class this way was pretty much tradition now, yes. "Hope you all had yourselves a good stupid holiday, and didn't end up doin' somethin' completely idiotic, like runnin' around as a giant chicken throwin' candy in people's faces, yo."

Clearly, Reno's Halloween had been an interesting one. He was starting to wonder just how many colours of chocobo he could possibly turn into thanks to this island.

"Today, we're coverin' the focus of the last of the island's three reserves groups, the Magic Reserves. I'm gonna state first and foremost that not everybody who attends the magic group actually has magic, yo. They'll accept any kind of powers, be 'em magic, mutant, genetic engineering... All that kinda crap."

He meant 'crap' lovingly. He, after all, was fairly enthralled with his lightning-centric spells.

"Obviously, this kinda group's not for everyone on the island, just like not everybody's gonna be big on wavin' a weapon around, and there are people who get squeamish around injuries. That's why the three different groups cropped up, yo. Started with the fighters, and then people went, shit, we wanna do somethin' too. Which is... pretty much what Fandom's all about if you ask me. But I'm digressin', here."

Reno actually knew what 'digress' meant, and today he felt like showing that fact off, yes.

"The point I wanna make is that, no matter how powerless you think you are, no matter if you got powers of your own or not, every spell's got its counterspell. Every broken bit of supernatural equipment's got a fix. You don't gotta be a magician or a Jedi or a mutant to be able to keep yourselves safe, yo. You just gotta be willin' to keep on your toes, to open up your squishy little brains and think. That's how Fandom's gotten through their worst moments, and, Rookies, that's how we're gonna get through 'em time and again."

Once again, Reno was giving his hand a wave. Which meant that this was going to turn into Danger Shop fun times, wasn't it? Oh, yes.

"So, we're gonna put them brains of yours to the test today, yo. Powers are allowed today, but that don't mean you gotta use 'em. Sometimes, they don't make these things all that much easier in the first place."

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Like you've got the power! (Dun! Dun! Dundundun! DUN!)

Raven

Kennedy

Jacob Black

Zatanna Zatara

Claudia Donovan

Ben Skywalker

Dolf Wega

Lindsay Weir

Jason Todd

Andros

Tara Maclay

Alex Russo

You know the drill for these lecture things by now, Rookies.

Raven had managed to drag herself from her room today to go to class, though she still was unsettled and unsure of herself. She kept quiet and to herself for the most part.

Kennedy had really not done much of anything since getting back Friday-- scaled-down versions of her usual workouts, and going for food, but mostly hanging out in the dorms with Tara and concentrating really hard on trying to keep things normal.

That... wasn't gonna work for the duration of class, was it? Usually she looked happier about this. Not that she looked bothered; it was just that her enthusiasm level was considerably lower than normal.

Magic against magic? Easiest class ever.

But paying attention was polite, so there was Zatanna, being attentive.

Ben was kind of desperately eager for a distraction today, so this class was right in line with what he wanted.

Alex listened to most of the lecture, while trying to remember a good chunk of the spells she'd learned in the last year or so.

Mmmm, subthread times. Feel free to attack these things solo, or in small groups. Some of them are easier with a partner, but maybe you enjoy a challenge, right?

This is exactly what it sounds like. You've been hit by a darkness spell, which means that you can't see anything outside of your little bubble of pitch. You can rely on your senses to figure out what's going on out there and just hang out until it wears off, or you can do something about it. What gets rid of darkness? The light, of course. And before you hit by the bubble, you might have happened to see a table with a flashlight on it on the other side of the room...

Raven liked the darkness. She felt safer there, hidden even. So she was quite content to spend most of the class in her little bubble.

There was darkness and then there was pitch black. Relying on his hearing and nose to keep from bumping into anyone, Jake started to make his way across the room.

"ekam thgiL." And a bubble of light appeared next to her. Yes, she was going to ace this one class. Too bad she usually didn't the same in the others.

Like a flashlight was the only source of light a modern geek had. Claudia just had to decide if she was going to use her cellphone screen, her mp3 player, or the LED squeeze light on her keychain.

Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them. Luke's words echoed in Ben's mind as he made himself comfortable in the dark, relying on his other senses to feel for any additional attacks that might be incoming.

Magic darkness still creeped Kennedy out, but after last week? Her scale of creepy still hadn't adjusted back to its normal proportions.

Which didn't mean she enjoyed it, but she also had an iPhone with a flashlight app. So. A quick flick over to the Settings screen to crank her screen brightness up to maximum, then over to AppBoxPro, and presto: nice, 3"x2" rectangle of brightness. She wasn't a geek, but sometimes she could totally get to love technology.

It was times like this that Jason really wished he could bring his belt with him to class. He hadn't managed to grab the flashlight, but luckily, he had his lighter on him, and the little flame was enough to allow him to get moving.

Tara had her ball-of-light spell memorized, and luckily it didn't need more supplies than focus and the right words. She followed the little ball of light across the area.

Alex wasn't a big fan of the dark. She reached into the inside of her boot and was relieved to find her wand there. Pulling it out, she quickly recited a spell that turned her wand into a light source.

There, that wasn't so hard.

It looks like Reno thinks he's funny and decided to take a lesson from Mickey Mouse today. Once you get past the darkness, you're inside of a room in a basement, where a mop seems to have been enchanted to go and fetch buckets of water, which it is now dumping on the floor. If you know some kind of mop counterspell to make it stop, then all the better, but if you don't, you'll just have to get creative before the room floods. How many times will you break the mop before you realize that the broken pieces just form into new mops, which are also enchanted to go and play fetch?

Of course, there's always the broom closet, Mickey.

Hello, mop, meet the Netherverse. It wasn't an evil mop, right? So Karla couldn't complain.

She was a kitten anyway.

The first mop died in a matter of seconds, but then there were four... and then six. Okay, so that wasn't working. Time to grab them and wrestle them...

For the sake of not using a spell in every scenario, Zatanna walked over the mop and...lifted it? It seemed to fight back, but being the mop it was, all she had to do was hold it carry it around...and she had no idea of what to do with it.

"ralugeR pom, esaelp?" And as commanded, the mop just...died. It was kind of sad.

It didn't actually even occur to Claudia to break the mop. She just grabbed on and looked for something to use to restrain it. Duct tape would be awesome, but she'd settle for rope.

"Hey, stop that!" Ben said, because sentient creatures came in all sorts of shapes.

It took him a bit to realize that the broom wasn't sentient, and by then he was up to his ankles in water.

Ben finally ended up shoving the broom into the closet and holding it shut with the Force--only a temporary solution at best.

...there wasn't an app for this.

Kennedy felt pretty proud of herself for all of three seconds after she managed to break the mop, at which point she realized she'd just made twice the work for herself. Trying to bribe the mops into knocking it off didn't work either, and finally she just wrestled the stupid things into the broom closet.

She was pretty drenched for her troubles by the time she slammed the door shut and wedged it in place with a chair under the knob.

Now that the mops are done their thing, you've been hit with another spell! Did the room just get a whole lot bigger, or did you just get a whole lot smaller? On that table where you might have found the flashlight earlier, wasn't there a bottle marked 'Remedy?' Of course, it'll take a bit of work to get up there, being a few inches tall as you might be. And hopefully those mops didn't dump too much water on the floor when you were big, or else you'll end up having to boat your way to the table in a bucket. If you can fly, all the better for you. If you can't, well, the chair by the table seems to be good for climbing, at least...

Raven was disconcerted at being so small, but this task was easy for a teleporter. She brought herself up to the tabletop to the remedy bottle, but before she drank any of it, she let the mop out of the Netherverse. A tiny mop couldn't do much damage now.

There were puddles, which were more like lakes now and Jake ended up swimming for a part until he reached the table and climbed his way up. Stamina was a wonderful thing.

Classes like this reminded Zatanna of why it was so easy to think that magic could solve everything...she was having a hard time trying to remember why that statement was wrong, though. Oh, whatever.

"ekaT em ot eht elbat."

Zatanna almost landed on her head, but at least she got there without much trouble. She really needed to do more teleportation spells though, for the sake of practise.

Yeah, yeah, remedy on the table, climb the chair, yadda yadda. Claudia kind of thought this whole bit was awesome. She'd get to the table eventually. Right now, she was busy exploring.

Size matters not and blah, blah, blah but it was still a challenge for tiny, drenched Ben to keep the door closed on the broom while trying to climb up a giant chair.

Jedi strength and reflexes only got you so far, after all.

Oh, like she hadn't already been kind of tiny. Paddling her way across the room in a bucket was completely uncool, but since it was either that or drowning, Kennedy was just going to have to settle for playing sailor for a little bit.

A long little bit, followed by another long-- well.

Now that she'd used the chair to trap the mops in the closet, she was kind of screwed, wasn't she?

Hopefully, they can think their way out of these pickles, too!

Thinking was a big word, but Jake was convinced he'd manage it. Then again, he thought that about pretty much anything.

He had been tempted to use his Pyramid materia on all of you and just let you chill out in a translucent yellow prism that could only be broken from the outside for the rest of the period so that he could nap, but he decided he was nicer than that.

I actually came up with today's class activities last night. While I was sleeping. Perhaps it shows?

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