Spaceships 101- 1st period- Week #10

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When Jaina figured out she still felt just as restless as she had yesterday, and then she heard radio, she figured she should maybe rethink today's class. Rather than making them learn something that might frustrate anyone, she'd just let them choose their own comfort level. "I'm going to take a wild guess and say most of you probably have some energy to burn off. So today we're going to have a bit of a refresher class. Choose a ship we've covered, and I don't care if you just want to redo a simulation you've done before to get some extra practice, or if you just want to blow something to bits. Sometimes that's cathartic.

"Oh," Jaina added, "and if I see anyone doing more than making googly-eyes at each other in my class, I have a water pistol and I will hose you down."

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With a dirty icon, like they're not going to get used enough.

Listen to the lecture

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Oh wait it's over. That was quick.

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Hang out while waiting for the sim.

Get in the sim

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Pick a ship you wanna fly, and give it another spin. Or blow things up. That works, too.

Talk to Jaina

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She is so serious about the water pistol, you don't even know.

OOC

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Why is my foot starting to hurt a week after I hurt it? Who allowed this to happen?

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Calvin

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Andrew Wiggin

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Shane Gooseman

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Leia Organa

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Ben Skywalker

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Oh, sure, let's be a controlled ball of hormones in a class with his girlfriend. It wasn't the water pistol that was keeping Ben in check: it was the mental image of the humiliation of being sprayed down by his cousin that was doing it.

As he waited to make things explode, he kept his mind on the most mundane things he could come up with.

...it wasn't working.

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[endsthegame]

Ender had been projecting little waves of grateful since the start of the class - between being given something to subliminate through, and spending most of the morning prior to this class in the gym, he was just about exhausted enough to cope.

Hopefully, it wouldn't be much longer.

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Tahiri Veila

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. . . um. Why did Tahiri have a really bad feeling about this class today?

For reasons other than the threat of the water pistol if she tried anything -- which was awkward enough in front of Jaina at all, thank you. For one, she kept thinking the sim was missing certain qualities of an actual ship, like her X-Wing out in the junkyard, which just prompted thoughts of certain things that had, um, happened on the S-foil of said X-Wing out in the . . .

Oh, stang.

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A water pistol, really? Tahiri sent Ben's way, sounding a little indignant, although her (she thought) righteous anger was blunted a bit by a lack of focus. Is that really going to be necessary?

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He grinned at her. No. We have more self-restraint than that. Plus there are all kinds of poke-y...things...in the sim that would just get in the way.

Not helpful, Ben.

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Not helpful, no; thanks for making Tahiri squirm a little.

There's always the junkyard later, she replied, only turning a little bit red.

What exactly was wrong with your room, Tahiri?

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The shuttle has beds, he suggested, blushing.

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I remember, Tahiri replied, pretty sure the tips of her ears were about to spontaneously combust at the thought. Want to go for a ride, then?

. . . you really, really could have phrased that better, Tahiri.

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He snickered aloud. "Really?"

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[weetuskenraider]

"Yes, really," Tahiri replied, looking confused for a moment before her eyes widened when she realized what she'd said.

. . . which she didn't look repentant about, at all. "Oh, you're laughing now, but we'll just see how funny you think it is later."

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He winked. "After classes?" he suggested. "I'll bring snacks."

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"Ice cream will just melt," Tahiri pointed out with a grin. "But I wouldn't say no to chocolate."

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Well, now he had images of melted ice cream and Tahiri and that was not what he needed if he was going to avoid getting hosed down by a water pistol.

"Noted," he said, blushing.

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Tahiri did not need to be thinking about how much she could make him blush. Or how to measure that. And yet she was.

"Good thing I don't have to worry about your memory," she told him, thinking . . . less about if he'd remember to bring the chocolate and more about things that, in Earth parlance, were closely related to phrases about riding a bicycle.

. . .

Not. Enough. Ice. On. Hoth.

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Cally

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Cally was was curious as to what a water pistol might be, but not curious enough to hope anyone acted on the hormonal and psychic ...stew...that the school had become since yesterday. The atmosphere itself didn't make her uncomfortable, exactly. She'd grown up on a world full of telepaths, after all, and teenage telepaths were still teenagers. But the strength of the feeling, and the fact that it was everywhere...

Let's just say Cally had her arms folded about herself and was shifting lightly from foot to foot as she waited, more grateful that she couldn't directly read people's minds than she'd ever been before.

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Bobby Drake

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Momoko Akatsutsumi