http://worsethanaunts.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] worsethanaunts.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2010-11-17 09:19 pm
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Boom-De-Yada Science - Danger Shop, Wednesday, Period 1 [Week 11]

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.
wrongkindofsith: (Oh no. We're all about to die horribly.)

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[personal profile] wrongkindofsith 2010-11-17 11:38 am (UTC)(link)
Cara
wrongkindofsith: (Someone has to hold the wall up)

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[personal profile] wrongkindofsith 2010-11-17 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
Cara was neither sneezy, twitchy, or feeling compelled to tell the truth, so she was much more approachable than last week.

Relatively speaking.
wrongkindofsith: (In these halls where youth rejoices)

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[personal profile] wrongkindofsith 2010-11-17 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
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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[identity profile] talks-backwards.livejournal.com 2010-11-17 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Zatanna Zatara

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[identity profile] talks-backwards.livejournal.com 2010-11-17 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"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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[identity profile] notlikejack.livejournal.com 2010-11-17 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Bobby McCallister

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[identity profile] notlikejack.livejournal.com 2010-11-17 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

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[identity profile] notlikejack.livejournal.com 2010-11-17 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
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?"

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[identity profile] notlikejack.livejournal.com 2010-11-17 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
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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[identity profile] shyest-eyes.livejournal.com 2010-11-17 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Hyuuga Hinata

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[identity profile] shyest-eyes.livejournal.com 2010-11-17 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
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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[identity profile] shyest-eyes.livejournal.com 2010-11-17 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"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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[identity profile] talks-backwards.livejournal.com 2010-11-17 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't all too easy to tell if Zatanna was actually disappointed a the lack of flamethrowers, or if she was just pretending. Whatever it was, it didn't last much. "Modeled after them, but I bet they don't make any webs neither..." Unless she was missing a button. "Still, these are pretty cool, although I'm not sure where is the Science here. Because the Boom-De-Yada? Perhaps." But not the science, though.

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[identity profile] shyest-eyes.livejournal.com 2010-11-17 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Perhaps the spiders," she suggested, eyes amused at the thought. "The study of them could be scientific."

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[identity profile] elephantgadget.livejournal.com 2010-11-17 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Helen Haras-Uquara

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[identity profile] talks-backwards.livejournal.com 2010-11-17 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Now that was an idea. "So...we need to tear at least one open to see how they look on the inside!" And it was so not going to be her's.

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[identity profile] shyest-eyes.livejournal.com 2010-11-17 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not mine," she said hastily. "I need it for class. Maybe a spare one?"

If there were any spare ones?

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[identity profile] talks-backwards.livejournal.com 2010-11-17 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know? But I'm sure the Doctor could, um, generate a spare one? Although I'm pretty sure he would want us to battle and use the losing spider for science." Air quotes happened there.

"Or...we could team up and sneak on someone else and take that spider."

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