Teambuilding for Dummies [Thursday, 4th Period]

[thefearwasreal]

Today the Danger Shop was set up to resemble the library, though with a complete lack of librarian or library aides. Oz sat reading at the main desk with his feet up as he waited for the last of the students to file in. Once said last student had arrived, he spoke up.

"Detention. All of you." After pausing just long enough for that to sink in and get a reaction, he stood up and continued. "That's today's assignment. You see, it's easy enough to form enduring bonds of friendship and team spirit during times of adversity and life-threatening danger, but it's harder you're just shoved in a room together with nothing to do. Hence, detention."

"What I want you to spend this class doing, is to sit at the library desks, and to stay there and write essays about who you are, while I read in the office. I don't you to move, I don't want you to talk, or move, or argue, or bond over the various reasons you're in detention which are in envelopes next to your blank essays, or go on a wacky adventure to steal leftover cupcakes from the last class, or anything like that." Oz completely wanted them to do these things, he just didn't want them to get caught. "Got it?"

When the students were all seated, Oz picked up his magazine and headed towards the simulated librarian's office. "Remember, shutty," he said as he closed the door.

[OCD up]

Comments

Sign In - TfD [07/21]

[thefearwasreal]

Like you're a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, or a criminal.

Re: Sign In - TfD [07/21]

[dollpocalypse]

Topher Brink

Re: Sign In - TfD [07/21]

[lockestheway]

Peter Wiggin

Re: Sign In - TfD [07/21]

[selfhelphero]

Billy Kaplan

Listen to Oz - TfD [07/21]

[thefearwasreal]

Wtf detention?

Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write Your Essays - TfD [07/21]

[thefearwasreal]

Or at least read your reasons for being in detention.


Alice Cullen - Suspected of cheating on pop quizzes
Annie Edison - Caught dealing caffiene pills.
Billy Kaplan - It is *wrong* to try and raise an army of zombie penguins. During classtime at least.
Gabrielle - Ink-sniffing.
Jack McCallister - Clerical error.
Jocelyn Fairchild - Trying to steal Christmas.
Lindsay Weir - Being a math geek.
Peter Wiggin - Took the cookie from the cookie jar.
Quinn Fabray - Doubts with regard to her commitment to sparkle motion.
Squall Leonhart - Gremlin bites are not an excuse for streaking.
Tony Stark - Caught using school computers to try and hack the pentagon. Bad Tony.
Topher Brink - Don't think we don't know who tipped us off about Tony trying to hack the pentagon. Stoolie.


Remember no shenanigans! None at all! Bonding is simply verboten!

Re: Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write Your Essays - TfD [07/21]

[dollpocalypse]

Topher looked at his reason for being in detention. Then, instead of writing an essay, he drew a rough picture of a pentagon with a (surprisingly accurate) likeness of Tony in one of the windows.

Underneath it, he wrote I REGRET NOTHING.

That should settle that.

Re: Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write Your Essays - TfD [07/21]

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Tony was just going to glare at Topher for fake catching him. Glare at him until he could feel all that disdain.

Feel it, Topher!

Re: Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write Your Essays - TfD [07/21]

[dollpocalypse]

Topher felt the disdain, all right. He looked up and held up his beautiful drawing for Tony to marvel at. Becuase it was beautiful.

Re: Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write Your Essays - TfD [07/21]

[lockestheway]

Peter wrote his 'who I am' essay in ten minutes - just a lot of quaint crap about wanting to go into politics one day and caring about the needs of the 9-to-5s and extra-curriculars and world peace, really.

Then he grabbed a second sheet of paper and started drafting up Sunday's new Locke essay about the looming credit exchange crisis and why the United States should really consider supporting the New Warsaw Pact's attempts to restructure their debt, because that would be a real show of solidarity in the face of recent short-sighted allegations...

Peter kind of failed at bonding.

Re: Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write Your Essays - TfD [07/21]

[dollpocalypse]

A piece of paper whizzed through the air in the direction of Peter's desk. It was the very same piece of paper on which Topher had drawn a stick figure of Tony in the Pentagon. Don't ask why. He just did.

On the back, he'd written "Hi."

Re: Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write Your Essays - TfD [07/21]

[lockestheway]

The paper bounced off of Peter's arm. Peter eyed it for a second.

Then he looked up.

The look he gave Topher clearly read Seriously?!

Re: Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write Your Essays - TfD [07/21]

[selfhelphero]

Billy couldn't not do the assignment, even though he knew the essays weren't really the point, because writing about why he needed an army of zombie penguins was far too entertaining. In his defense, it really ended up as more of a list than an essay.

Re: Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write Your Essays - TfD [07/21]

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

As if the thought of detention wasn't enough to give Annie anxiety, when she looked to see her reason for being here, there might have been a "SERIOUSLY?" that probably would just get her a second fake detention.

Re: Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write Your Essays - TfD [07/21]

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Tony leaned over to try and see what her crime was. Because that wasn't rude or anything.

Really.

"What'd you get?" he whispered.

Re: Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write Your Essays - TfD [07/21]

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Uh... Got caught selling caffeine pills," she said. "I mean, who would do anything like that, right?"

Re: Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write Your Essays - TfD [07/21]

[whateverknight.livejournal.com]

Squall's eyes narrowed when he saw his supposed reason for detention.

(This is stupid.)

Clearly, they were supposed to disobey the class instructions and bond while getting into trouble. But that required disobeying the class instructions, so what kind of lesson was it teaching?

So, he wrote an essay about himself -- although, since the length hadn't been specified in the instructions, it was less an "essay" and more a "sentence".

I am an ex-SeeD who is now a Sorceress's Knight.

Let Oz deal with that how he would.

With the purported assignment done, he leaned back in his chair and stared at the ceiling. Someone else could start the wacky hijinks.

Re: Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write Your Essays - TfD [07/21]

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Tony frowned at his 'crime'.

"I wouldn't try," he muttered sulkily. "I'd just do it."

His 'essay' might have been an overly detailed thesis on how he'd manage it without anyone like Topher catching him, thank you.

The Great Cupcake Caper - TfD [07/21]

[thefearwasreal]

Somewhere in this simulation is a room full of delicious cupcakes.

Naturally none of you will attempt to steal any.

Re: The Great Cupcake Caper - TfD [07/21]

[dollpocalypse]

...Topher attempted to steal some. But it was totally Peter's fault, and thus he could not be blamed for stealing two huge heart-shaped cupcakes from the cupcake room.

So How AboutThose Essays? - TfD [07/21]

[thefearwasreal]

Since none of you went off stealing cupcakes, you have no need to return and write them or anything.

Or to get up to any more antics.

Talk to Oz or the TA - TfD [07/21]

[thefearwasreal]

Of course that might be hard when you're not allowed to talk...

OOC - TfD [07/21]

[thefearwasreal]

Don't you, forget about me...

Re: OOC - TfD [07/21]

[dollpocalypse]

UGH. EARWORMED FOR LIFE.

Re: OOC - TfD [07/21]

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't you!