Study Hall -- Monday, September 12th

[principalconnor.livejournal.com]

Welcome to today's Study Hall, kids. For all you new students, Study Hall is an open daily post for me to make announcements and for students who are not in class to mingle, study, eat lunch, explore the lunch, cause incredible amounts of trouble that make me want to fucking fill them full of ammo, and other non-class-related activities.

Today's announcements:

-- New students should make sure they are signed up for three classes and an extracurricular activity (part-time jobs count). They must post once a week in each class they have (or more, depending on the teacher's guidelines, but that's a school requirement). Keep that in mind when taking a class.

-- Our first detention will be this weekend. For you newbies, detention is a room you never want to enter unless you were planning on losing limbs in this lifetime. If there are any teachers who wish to run detention this weekend, that would really help, as the principal will probably be (OOC: Off celebrating her mun's birthday early ... woohoo!) otherwise occupied.

-- Reports are coming from the cafeteria that after a rather strange taste-testing incident this morning, the staff recommends that you do not eat the chicken salad sandwiches. From what I heard, everybody who's tried them has turned into a chicken. Let's not overwhelm the school nurse with an overabundance of shape-shifting poultry today, shall we?

-- There's been a reported sighting of a zombie on the third floor of the dorm. Whoever raised the dead on school property without the proper paperwork will be immediately given detention this weekend. Oh, and if somebody could wrangle the zombie, that'd be nice.

EDIT: Also, by request ... fandomhighicons.

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[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

*Jonathan walks in complete with briefcase and a vial of an unknown substance. He is fiddling around with an equation in his notebook that is clearly not for class.*

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory perches tentatively on the chair next to the almost-pretty guy she spots scribbling away in a notebook.

She decides not to disturb him, and opens a book instead.

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

*Jonathan can almost feel the eyes on him and looks up to see Rory looking away and opening her book. He smiles, not used to the attention, and pretends to unconsciously pull his chair closer to her.*

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory notices the guy scoot closer. She looks up and smiles at him when she catches him looking at her.

"Hi," she says softly. "I'm Rory."

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

"I'm Jonathan," he said, putting down his pen. The work could wait, it's not like it would suddenly self-destruct if he wasn't working on it.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Nice to meet you, Jonathan," Rory said with a grin. "So...um...where are you from, originally?"

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

"Gotham City," he replied, smiling. "Not too many people have actually heard of it.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Well...yeah, group me in with those people," Rory says, shaking her head slightly. "I have no idea where that is. Is it nice?"

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

"Well, it sure beats the cornfields where I grew up. But it's nothing special," he replied, nearly wincing at the memory of the farm.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory notices Jonathan flinch very slightly, and decides to change the topic. "So...what're you working on there?" she asks, pointing to his notebook.

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

He scratches his head laughing slightly nervously. How was he going to play off this? "Oh, this? I'm trying to work out the balanced amount of chemicals needed to...er...secrete a specific substance within humans." He realized how stupid he sounded and blushed slightly. "Yeah, trust me, I barely understand it either," he lied.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory arched a brow. "Um...like adrenaline, or pheremones or something?" she asked, trying to alleviate his embarrassment.

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

"Something like adrenaline. It's used to induce...fear," he said, shrugging. "Psychology experiment."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory nods slowly. "So...you're a scientist? Or is this just what you do for fun?"

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

"Well...I guess you could say I'm a scientist. Not a professional one, but I'm training to be. I do find fear's effects on the human mind to be simply fascinating, though," he said, grinning.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"...fear?" Rory asks, willing her voice to stay steady. Something about this guy seems...off, somehow. "Like phobias, or what?"

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

"Something like that," Jonathan said, shrugging. "What are you afraid of?" He smirked, sensing the slight tremble in her voice, which normally would not be audible to the normal person. But he recognized it, having sensed it before.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory pauses for a moment, then answers honestly.

"Failure. I'm absolutely terrified that I'll never ammount to anything, that I'll never achieve my goals."

She looks him hard in the eye, determined to overcome her nervousness. "What are you afraid of?"

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

He was relatively surprised she actually answered him. Most girls walked straight out of the door by this point. Then again, this school wasn't exactly like home

"Me? I'm afraid my own experiments will backfire and I'll become the very thing I experiment on..."

He was even more surprised that he actually answered her, and so honestly. What was getting into him?

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory nods in understanding, until she realizes something.

"Experiments? Who, exactly, are your...shall we say 'guinea pigs'?"

Suddenly, Rory could name off a couple more things she was afraid of.

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

"That, my dear, is something I will not tell even you." He smirked again. "But don't worry, I believe there is a rule against experimenting on other students without their initial consent."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory narrows her eyes at Jonathan, but her curiosity gets the better of her.

"So. These experiments. What exactly do you do, anyway?"

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

"I've been testing with small doses of a chemical that simulates fear," he said, innocently. "Then I take measurements of specific chemicals to see how it effects different individuals."

Of course, what he did not mention is that the chemical also happened to be a hallucinogen, and a bit more than a small dose could cause permanent damage.