Boom-De-Yada Science - Danger Shop, Wednesday, Period 1 [Week 11]

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The students were greeted by a large open arena that may or may not have looked like a fully intact Roman Colosseum only with a completely flat and open centre. Something that was definitely not Roman was the Doctor, the remote control in his hand and the oversized (twice the size of a human) robot spider.

"Hello!" the Doctor said, looking far too happy about his toy. "Arachnids this week. Eight legs, definitely not insects since those have six legs but you could still call them bugs since that's all encompassing. No antennae or wings, the body is organised into the cephalothorax and the abdomen and the former is usually covered by an unsegmented carapace. All spiders are arachnids, but not all arachnids are spiders. You have scorpions, mites, ticks and assorted others that you can research in your own time. Anyone want to play with the robot spiders?" he asked, finally taking a moment to breathe. "There's a remote control for each of you on the table over there. You can figure out which one is yours. The legs on these spiders, though not non-robotic ones, are good for destroying other robot spiders. Last robot spider standing wins a chocolate bar."

His spider then skittered off to start attacking the others. Someone hadn't had his monthly destruction of property fix.

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[worsethanaunts.livejournal.com]

Like you're dealing with motherfrakking SPIDERS.

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[wrongkindofsith]

Cara

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Zatanna Zatara

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Bobby McCallister

Chatter and Get Your Remote Controls

[worsethanaunts.livejournal.com]

Or have a gander at the Colosseum.

Re: Chatter and Get Your Remote Controls

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara looked up at the robot spiders with an expression best described as unfettered glee, then started trying to figure out how exactly a remote control worked.

The Doctor wasn't the only one in the class with a penchant for property destruction.

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[talks-backwards.livejournal.com]

"Does this thing have a flamethrower?"

What, it was a giant robotic spider; it so had to have one of those. Zatanna was still trying to get it to walk straight though, so she might not really get to the flame throwing anytime soon.

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[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"I do not th-think they would," she said, having overheard the question. "I... mean, normal spiders do not and these seem to be modelled after those."

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[notlikejack.livejournal.com]

Okay, officially the coolest class ever. Not that Mt Everest and Mars hadn't already gotten there on the coolness meter.

Right now his spider was dancing. He'd get around to attacking someone in a moment.

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[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

The place deserved a few good stares, in her opinion, though most of her attention was on, well, playing with her spider. She was practicing having it spin and feint.

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[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

Helen adored spiders and was absolutely fascinated by the mechanical ones! She quietly called up a number of real spiders in the area and was comparing them with the robotic one.

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[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"Suddenly I'm getting flashbacks to that awful Will Smith movie," Peter said, grabbing a control.

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[notmyownage]

Claudia wasn't a huge fan of real spiders? But giant robot spiders were awesome. This would be her, going straight for a remote to start causing some giant robot spider damage.

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[notavalleygirl.livejournal.com]

Kitty had her droid baby with her in class today, and was wondering whether or not she'd be able to like, sit so she could hold little Archibald Charles and hold the remote, or if anyone could hold him for her. And then there was a more pressing thought. "I hope these robots don't cry."

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[bamf-tastic.livejournal.com]

Kurt grabbed a remote control with glee.

Spider Battle!

[worsethanaunts.livejournal.com]

Battle against each other with remote controlled spiders. Awesome? Maybe.

Re: Spider Battle!

[talks-backwards.livejournal.com]

"Okay then, let's try not to kill each other...but our spiders?" It was the best she could manage, but she wanted to make sure she didn't end up under the body of one of the things.

But she was excited!

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[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

Hinata was smiling faintly as she bowed slightly.

"Maybe the best spider win," she announced solemnly.

Then, without further ado, her spider lashed out with about half its legs as Hinata danced back, carefully out of the way of the battle, hoping she knew the controls well enough to put up a good fight.

(Or win, though Hinata was not counting on it--just that it would be nice.)

Talk to the Doctor

[worsethanaunts.livejournal.com]

If you can pin him down long enough!

Re: Talk to the Doctor

[notlikejack.livejournal.com]

Bobby made it a mission (when he wasn't distracted by the freaking coolness of the class) to track down the Doctor. "Doctor! Can I talk to you for a second?"

Re: Talk to the Doctor

[worsethanaunts.livejournal.com]

"Bobby! You can talk to me for more than a second but I won't promise not to attack your spider in the meantime."

Talk to the TAs

[worsethanaunts.livejournal.com]

Who are not spiders.

Re: Talk to the TAs

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara was neither sneezy, twitchy, or feeling compelled to tell the truth, so she was much more approachable than last week.

Relatively speaking.

Re: Talk to the TAs

[notlikejack.livejournal.com]

Bobby was there. He was torn between gaping at the Colosseum (which he was doing a heck of a lot) and playing with the robot spiders. He was in heaven. Geeky geeky heaven.

OOC

[worsethanaunts.livejournal.com]

SPIDEEEEEEEERS.