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Paranormal Activity, March 15th

"Okay, so last week I asked you all to pick a topic to research on so you could teach you fellow classmates a little something today," Alaric said once everybody had come in. "One might think this is me being lazy but for teaching purposes I'm going to say it's an exercise in public speaking."

No, it was him being lazy.

"So, with that in mind, someone should volunteer to present first," he said. "And if no one volunteers then I will make my TA go first because it's her job to do the stuff no one else wants to do. So, for Caroline's sake, someone volunteer."

With that he moved away from the front of the classroom and picked a desk to sit at because he so wasn't the teacher today.

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Doing some public speaking.

Kate Gregson

Raven

Nobody Owens

Claudia Donovan

Kennedy

George Lass

Dana Scully

Calvin

Caroline Forbes

Maladicta

Helen Haras-Uquara

Bobby McCallister

Dru Anderson

Chloe Saunders

Or fight to see who goes first, rather.

Bod didn't even want to think about the weekend. He was reading his presentation for about the fifth time, fingers tapping against his desk while he tried to shut everyone out.

Even if Caroline wouldn't normally mind going first, she hated that Ric was going to make her go first. Like, hello? Did she get no say?

Handwave or make something up entirely if you like.

Kate volunteered to go first just to get the damn thing over with. She hated that this presentation thing had to be today, of all days; after the weekend, she was not keen on drawing attention to herself, not in this class. Her presentation on Furies was thorough and organized well enough, but it was obvious from just about everything in the way she acted that she did not want to be doing this, and just wanted it to be over, thanks.

And afterwards, she was just going to spend the rest of the class slumped over her desk, blocking everything out. Stupid day.

Edited 2011-03-15 16:15 (UTC)

Raven was somewhat nervous about speaking up in from of the class like this, but she gave a very good presentation about phoenixes and how they were a symbol of rebirth, immortality, and renewal. Blah blah blah.

Bod had ended up choosing the griffin. He kept his presentation concise though, not wanting to go into too much detail and not wanting to speak for longer than necessary. He still got the point across and even brought in a few illustrations of griffins to show off in place of his lack of words.

George had not remembered to do the assignment. Luckily, she'd read some on Cerberus last week, while picking the topic, and now was going to try to remember enough to fake it.

"Cerberus is a dog," she said. "A hellhound. He guards the gates of Hell. He's got three heads because --" ... shit, she didn't remember why he had three heads. "-- to, uh, to make him a better guard dog. So he can ... see in more directions. He's there to ... to make sure people didn't come into Hell who weren't supposed to. And that people didn't leave, either."

This was going so well.

"There was a labor of ~~meta for~~ Hercules? Where he had to ... like, he was given all these stupid tasks he had to do? And the last one, he had to go subdue the dog, without using a weapon, and he did it because ... you know. He's ~~meta for~~ Hercules. So ... he beat the labors and got to ... win. Whatever they had bet on the whole ... labors, thing."

Was that long enough? She hoped it was long enough. Because she was gonna nod, once, and then sit down.

"The myth of Ladon, the Dragon that guards the Apples of the Tree of Immortality, is supposedly as old as Homer." If he was a myth. Scully was tempted to talk to Gabrielle about this. "He's given several parentages, either Gaia, Echidna, or Hera for his mother, and either Typhon or Phorcys-- sea gods-- for a father. He was supposedly stabbed by Hercules, but I'm not sure if he actually died of his wounds-- years later the Argonauts came by and he was still twitching." Ergh. "He's associated with the West Semitic serpent Lotan, or the Hurrian serpent Illuyanka."

~~Not to be confused with Illyria or Anyanka, as the woman behind the keyboard briefly did.~~

"He had a hundred heads, represented strength, watchfulness, protection, and the dangers of the sea. And he's the inspiration for the constellation Draco." Scully put her notes away and added, "If it shows up here in Fandom, I'm hiding until it leaves."

Helen gave a very detailed lecture on the pegasus. Very detailed. Very, very detailed. The kind of detailed that - well, you get the picture.

Bobby gave a long and detailed presentation on lamia. Which focused more on the feminist and sociological implications of such a monster as opposed to the Greek myths. In short, he didn't particularly approve.

Chloe did a detailed presentation on the Fates... and it was obvious that she was nervous by the fact that her stutter kept creeping into her presentation.

Who must be thrilled about her job right now.

Caroline was not at all thrilled with her job, thank you very much. Nor was she even faking a smile Ric's way. He could suck it. She was going dead last.

Who was there.

Srsly I don't care if you handwave.

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