Wednesday, Period Three: What was the school board thinking giving Jamie Madrox a teaching position?

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

When the students entered the danger shop today they would notice that it looked just like a normal classroom.

With the exception of several couches pushed up all against the walls of the room.

They would also notice a very stern looking Jamie standing in front of the classroom.

"Good morning class," Jamie said with a scowl. "Did anyone remember your assignment last week? Did you?"

He shook his head and threw his hands up in the air in disgust. "Not one of you completed your assignment. Not one of you introduced yourself falsely. How do I know? It wasn't on the news. And if the squirrels didn't see it? It didn't happen."

He then made a "tsk-tsk" sound. "You kids give me no choice. As of now? You are all failing my class."

That ought to give the A-Type personalities in class a kick in the gut.

"If you want to pass this course? You better be prepared to do what I say. Your assignment today is to learn how to Duplicate. Yep. Like me. How does that work? Using kinetic energy as the key, the danger shop will then create duplicates of yourself to interact with. Like me they will show various aspects of your personality at the time of your creation. Your assignment is then to convince your duplicates to work together to do this simple task..."

He gave his students a big grin.

"Build the ultimate pillow fort from these couch cushions. Sound simple? Well start smacking yourselves and see how easy it is."

Jamie started to turn before he remembered one important thing.

"Oh! One more important thing. No matter how tempting it is, don't make out with yourself. It'll just lead to social awkwardness later on."

...

"Not that I know anything about that. Let's get to work!"

[OOC: Please read the OOC thread before pinging into the class activity]

Comments

Sign In - [WWTSBTGJMATP]

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Like you just found out you were failing a class!

Re: Sign In - [WWTSBTGJMATP]

[whitequeensfire.livejournal.com]

Angelica Jones

Listen to the Lecture!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Or chat. Or just ignore Jamie.

Re: Listen to the Lecture!

[whitequeensfire.livejournal.com]

Failing? Um, what? She didn't think that assignment was serious!

Re: Listen to the Lecture!

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

At the mention of failing, Annie let out a startled gasp.

But... She couldn't introduce herself with a fake name! She had a campaign to run! She used the light bulb as her symbol, that had to count for something!

Re: Listen to the Lecture!

[iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com]

Dave wasn't even sure this class would count towards his permanent record, so he wasn't too concerned about failing it.

Because really, how can anyone hold ANY grade in this class in any regard? The grade would probably be given in zoo animals.

Re: Listen to the Lecture!

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara was a fan of ignoring the crazy teacher. Admittedly that left her with nothing to do during the lecture.

Re: Listen to the Lecture!

[glacial_queen]

Karla really wasn't worried about failing this class. Going by some of the expressions of her classmates, though, it was kind of a big deal.

Re: Listen to the Lecture!

[necroslacker]

Sam had dropped out of school back in Seattle so hearing that he was failing was no big deal. He didn't think the teacher was serious but even if he was, oh well. He'd just take the failing grade and go on with life.

Re: Listen to the Lecture!

[momslilassassin]

Given who Ben was supposed to have talked to about his weird fake identity, he'd rather fail than get That Look from Granddad.

Re: Listen to the Lecture!

[whateverknight.livejournal.com]

Squall had been perfectly willing to take whatever consequences Jamie was going to dish out, rather than do the homework assignment. The fact that the rest of the class were in the same position he was was somewhat comforting, since it meant he was less likely to get a poor grade because of it.

Regardless, he would try to do better henceforth.

Re: Listen to the Lecture!

[onapalebicycle.livejournal.com]

This was how much George cared that she was failing. Really.

Re: Listen to the Lecture!

[squire-hand.livejournal.com]

James shrugged, not worried about the grades.

Duplication!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Smack yourself silly and try to build a pillow fort!

Re: Duplication!

[whitequeensfire.livejournal.com]

Angelica really really didn't think this was going to work, but she obligingly tapped her arm. Nothing happened, so she tapped harder. The third time she finally made a duplicate. Her double, unfortunately, had all of her shyness and then some, and fled behind the cushions to hide.

Angelica sighed. This was going to take awhile.

Re: Duplication!

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Kinetic energy. Right. So Annie had to smack herself and make duplicates appear. Not insane at all.

The problem was that hitting herself didn't really do anything because she didn't do it nearly hard enough. And then trying to fall into the wall didn't work for the same reason. So she basically had to progressively smack herself into it before any doubles even showed up. Then when they did...

Well, let's just say three Annies doing anything was just a horrible, horrible, bad idea.

Re: Duplication!

[iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com]

Dave didn't even believe he'd be able to duplicate himself until he saw other people in the class doing it. So while he started off lightly knocking on his desk, he eventually really started pounding the desk with his fist until finally a couple dupes appeared.

One didn't see the point of building a fort, so he ended up trying to take a nap on the cushions. The other was incredulous that they had to do something like this and wouldn't stop making fun of Dave for it.

So this was going well.

Re: Duplication!

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara was not hitting herself. She'd be more than happy to hit other people though. She was helpful like that.

Re: Duplication!

[notmyownage]

Claudia was fascinated with the idea that the Danger Shop could be programmed to produce duplicates of students that Jamie had only known for a single class period. Maybe he'd used their school files to create the digital personalities? And how was the Danger Shop reading the kinetic energy?

She stomped her foot. A duplicate Claudia appeared. "Sweet!" Claudia pointed to a pile of cushions. "Get to building, minion!"

The other Claudia looked at the cushions. "You know," she said. "If we had three more seat cushions, a pound of loose down, and Stonewall Jackson's bayonet, we could totally make a super fort."

The original Claudia clapped her hand over her duplicate's mouth. A second duplicate appeared. "Forget Stonewall," said the second duplicate. "This totally calls for William the Conqueror's favorite cod piece."

Claudia started faking nervous laughter, wondering if she could convince people that her computer program duplicates were just being buggy.

Re: Duplication!

[glacial_queen]

Karla wasn't going to smack herself. No way. What she was going to do was call in the drumsticks from the rocking game and use them to beat a drum solo on her legs. She kept it light because the last thing she wanted was a set of bruises, and what she lacked in training, rhythm, or any skill at all, she made up for in energy.

Energy that resulted in four more Karlas.

Two of the Karlas immediately began fighting over which one was going to be in charge and it quickly devolved into an epic hair-tugging match. One sat down and started crying because her PARENTS WERE DEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAD! And the fourth wandered over to Warren and his duplicates if he/they were there and immediately began to flirt. Shamelessly.

Really shamelessly.

Karla was just going to facepalm repeatedly. Maybe she could try again?

Re: Duplication!

[necroslacker]

Sam stepped on his own foot hard enough that it made him wince. That apparently was enough to pop out a duplicate who immediately gave Sam the finger and went to slouch against the wall.

Okay then. Sam tried it again by running his shoulder into the wall and another duplicate popped out who...again gave Sam the finger, stomped on his foot (ow) and went to slouch against the wall.

Maybe Sam needed to try and not be such a slacker. He was just creating lazy duplicates.

Re: Duplication!

[momslilassassin]

"Um, I'm pretty sure this isn't how you make clones," he finally offered.

Though it would explain why the Empire never seemed to run out.

He hadn't tried hitting himself yet, though.

The TA!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Hopefully she remembered to bring everything on Jamie's list this week. He's in a cranky mood.

Re: The TA!

[notmyownage]

Claudia decided that as a TA, she was immune to failing. Especially as she came in with a large box loaded down with:

• One sousaphone, marked "property of Bayside High School"
• 18 quarts of bargain brand 30 weight motor oil
• One pound of pastel purple M&Ms with "we love you, Conrad" written on them
• One green peanut M&M that had been left out in the sun for a week and thus faded to chartreuse
• The number for Tyra Banks' lawyer
• and one red apple

Hey, for all she knew, he actually had a plan for that stuff.

Talk to Jamie!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Who will ignore your pleas for a better grade. Maybe.

OOC:

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

First off: No one is going to fail the class. Jamie is such an attention seeker.

Secondly the assignment:
To create your duplicates you must hit something. For some of you, you might have to hit yourself harder than others. I'll let you decide that for yourselves.

Also the duplicates that will form are based on your character's personality... though somewhat wackier. Because Jamie made this class they will do everything to undermine the creation of the pillow fort. So one of your duplicates might be completely morose and unwilling to help. Another one might be too hyper. One will probably argue with you on every thing you do. Another would probably too distracted and keep wandering off. Use your imagination.

Basically? This is your opportunity to be like Jamie Madrox and play with yourself.

Not dirty. And yes being like Jamie Madrox is a scary thought.

Re: OOC:

[glacial_queen]

I would just like to say, I love this class.