Hero Management- Monday- Period 3- Class #2

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The students were meeting in the Danger Shop today, which looked quite a bit like the school library, but with enough computer terminals for about half the class. "If you haven't had to do research yet in the course of helping your friend or coworker or whoever it is you have in mind, I can almost guarantee you will at some point or another," Hermione began. "In fact, should there be any sort of invasion or islandwide problem while you're here, there will probably be an opportunity for you to use this skill. Information is very important. You want to be as prepared as possible for any situation in which you might find yourself, because that will give you the start to solving the problem. Personally, I'm used to using books for this sort of thing. I know now you're more used to computers, which is something I'm still getting used to. I know that doesn't mean it's not a useful tool. Just know that whatever's out there can be put up by anyone, and it might not always be the most accurate information.

"Now, for class today, I'm going to give you things to research. Since we're in Egypt, I changed my original plan at the last minute and found some ancient Egyptian artifacts for you to learn about." Hermione maybe sounded really excited about that, even picking up speed when she talked. "You're going to pick an item to research and find out everything you can by the end of the class period. What it is, when it's from, what it's used for... You can use the computers or look things up in the stacks here, but please note that there are only so many computers and either you'll have to take turns, or some of you will only be looking in books. I'm also not going to assign something specific to any of you, so you can pick whatever you're most comfortable with, and you can ask others for help. Sharing information is another very good way of getting information. Just don't spend the whole class gossipping, please."

Just as she was about to let them get to work, she stopped and said, "Oh, and keep in mind that not everything in ancient Egypt was exactly... pleasant to research, so if you're looking at anything about mummification, try to keep the 'ew's to a minimum."

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Researchy-like!

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Dana Scully

Listen to the lecture

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From someone who knows waaaay too much about research.

Re: Listen to the lecture

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If Spock looked a little antsy today (for a Vulcan; his antsiness level was so low for a Human that it was possible no one would notice), it was because he'd figured out where they were. Granted, it was the early days of the city, much of it was probably still under construction and the Library would be at nothing like its later splendor, but still. If it had indeed been founded under the reign of Ptolemy I Soter and not Ptolemy II, it was right there. Existing.

Re: Listen to the lecture

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Luke was waaaaaaaaaay too excited about getting to visit Alexandria after class so he was finding it hard to concentrate and sit still. He tried to focus but the fact he kept checking the time and couldn't stop jiggling his leg was a pretty good indicator he wanted to get out of there.

Look, he was Greek, he wanted to go see the Greek things when they weren't ruins.

Re: Listen to the lecture

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

Like Luke, Percy was actually pretty stoked about where they'd ended up. It wasn't cold and it wasn't surrounded by Vikings. They'd actually ended up somewhere that was bound to keep his attention even despite his tendency to wander off and daydream.

He managed to keep still even if his focus was slipping away to other things already.

Re: Listen to the lecture

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Oh, this was awesome. Hermione was quickly becoming Wesley's favorite professor, and not just because she reminded him a bit of the Watcher's Academy. Researching was one of his favorite things, anyway, and yes, that made him a nerd. By the end of the lecture, he was ready to bolt over to the books and start going through them.

Honestly, he'd been planning on doing this today anyway.

Re: Listen to the lecture

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Gabrielle was just going to join in the theme of being far too eager to get out and explore Alexandria, so there was a certain restless quality to her posture in class today, but that didn't stop her from listening very intently to the lecture.

Research was fun, all right? Poteidaia had barely had two scrolls to rub together, and Alexandria had a library. The library. Never mind chronological technicalities. That never mattered in her world.

Research

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Pick anything from this list to research. (Everything should be easy enough to Google):
Statue of Nedjemu
False Door of Nikaure
Model Granary
Block Statue of Nedjem
Aegis Depicting the Goddess Hathor
Funerary Mask of Thuya
Offering Tablet of Teti Ankh Kem
Coffin and Mummy of Paankhenamun

You can use the books, the computers, or share information with each other and Hermione won't even yell at you for talking!

Re: Research

[eyebrowgoesup]

Spock selected the False Door of Nikaure, curious as to how a door could be 'false.'

By the end of class he had compiled quite a bit of information on the door, which he noted came from the tomb of a priest of Ra in the Fifth Dynasty, and which the Egyptians believed allowed the soul to enter and depart the Land of the Dead, and had begun researching the hieroglyphics on it. Linguistics was not really his area of interest, but he saw no need to not be thorough.

Spock's definition of thorough was rather more, well, thorough than a lot of people's.

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Luke picked the Aegis depicting Hathor thing. Seemed like something he could do.

Oh it was a weird art thingy.

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[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Wesley picked himself out a nice stack of about six books and settled down to research the offering tablet. This was going to be a fun class.

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Percy chose the Block Statue of Nedjem. For awhile, Percy just stared at those four words while his mind wandered before he forced it back on topic. He managed to find out that the Block Statue of Nedjem was named so because the guy, Nedjem, looked like a block in the pose he'd been carved in. Percy learned that people put the statue in the Temple of Ptah to represent Nedjem for eternity.

Somehow, Americans got a hold of the statue during the Civil War and it was used as a ballast before it ended up in an American museum for awhile. It was finally sold back to Egypt and Percy guessed that meant Nedjem had gone home.

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[trigons_child]

Raven was becoming more accustomed to using her laptop (for things other than Rumor Gal, even), but she still preferred books, and she gathered a stack to research the False Door of Nikaure.

The fact that it acted as a door to the land of the dead had her very intrigued.

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Um, could Gabrielle research everything? Absolutely everything? There probably wasn't enough time for that, though, so she narrowed it down to a (reasonable, she thought) total of three: the Aegis, the Offering Tablet, and the Funerary Mask.

And she'd stick to the books for this, thanks; computers didn't smell like knowledge as far as she was concerned.

. . . given her ambitious research goals, she might have been better off sticking to the computer. But oh well. She'd be here all period.

Oh, and never, ever, ever sharing any of this information with Autolycus. Unless they needed to steal any of this stuff for a good reason . . .

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Stephanie hit the computers to research, because they were faster and she'd had it drilled into her head by now that you had to be accurate but time-efficient when on a case. It wasn't nearly as easy or efficient as the setup in the Batcave or the one Oracle had, but she was fine with that; her first couple of Spoiler gigs had been pulled off with the help of an old desktop and a dialup connection, and the local library.

Could she help it if her research on the Statue of Nedjemu was focused mostly on whether there were any legends surrounding it that might make it of interest to Gotham's criminal element? It'd be awesome if she could get a head start on keeping an eye out there, in case.

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[harpy-daughter.livejournal.com]

Considering how badly Surreal had done in her computers lesson the other day, it wasn't a surprise how quickly she went for the books. She found the concept of a funerary mask a bit chilling, but fascinating, and may have wandered off on a research tangent to learn more about Lady Tjuya.

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[notmyownage]

Claudia actually looked up a few of the items -- mostly to see if they might have ended up in the Warehouse at some point. She didn't recognize any (if they had any special powers, they were likely in Warehouse 2, which would be out there somewhere likely on the other side of Alexandria), but that didn't mean she couldn't impress the crap out of Artie if any of them ever came up.

Re: Research

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Like Scully could pass up a mummy. And a coffin.

The coffin and Mummy of Paankhenamun were currently at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011; he'd been identified as a doorkeeper in the temple of the god Amun. A priest then. And old already when Alexandria was established, about 800 B.C....

Scully would love to see the real thing, and examine it.

Re: Research

[angelo_wings]

Rinoa knew you could research using the computers, but she liked the smell of books so much more. So she dug through the library, looking for information on the false door of Nikaure.

False doors themselves were part of tombs, to allow the spirit of the dead to move from this world to the next. And Nikaure was a particular priest from that era. Rinoa found a pretty picture of the relief on the door, and wondered if the lotus flower was symbolic in some way or just decorative.

Well. She was in a library already ... might as well look that up, too!

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Once Jack was done talking to Hermione, he was ready to face his assignment.

...

Okay he was ready to call General Dynamics and try and do his assignment.

"No, Fargo, I just want to talk to someone who knows something about Egyptian artifacts... Okay, yeah I know he died but isn't there someone else?"

Talk to Hermione

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She might be a little excited to research herself some Egypt, too.

Re: Talk to Hermione

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

At the end of class, when he was just bursting with new knowledge about not just one Egyptian artifact but several (he'd worked ahead), Wesley made his way over to Hermione and said, "You know, this class was a bit like leisure time for me. The researching and all that."

And wasn't that a little sad?

Re: Talk to Hermione

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Jack... had some bad experiences with Egyptian artifacts. Or some kind of artifacts. They were really old artifacts.

"Hi! Hello," Jack said waving his hand at Hermione, "Just curious, but were these artifacts completely decontaminated? Like as in no germs whatsoever? Just in case no black plague from days of yore traveled along for the ride to kill us?"

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Make the Mondays stop.