Sociology of the Paranormal - 6th Period - February 1

[demonbelthazor]

Bel got to the classroom early and was waiting for his fellow students when they arrived. He handed back the quizzes as they came in with the following grades:

Lyta Alexander B
Marty Blank C-
J.C. Broots A-
Angela Chase B+
Cordelia Chase B
Walter Dornez A
Jake Gavin B+
Piper Halliwell B
Phoebe Halliwell C
Lana Lang A
Cindy MacKenzie B
Paige Matthews B
Mystique A
John Sheppard A
Stark A-
Jessica Tate A-
Jaye Tyler B
Rose Tyler B

When everyone had settled in, he said, "Dr. Grissom is still away, so today we'll be discussing the assignment I gave on Monday. Tell the class about a paranormal event that happened in your own world or at Fandom High, and how it was or could be explained away as something normal. Give me your written essay at the end of class."

Comments

Re: Sign in

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter signs in.

Re: Sign in

[stykera]

Stark signs in.

Re: Hand in your essays

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter turns in a story of a vampire that turned the entirety of a small English village into ghouls and how, after every unliving thing in the village was viciously (but playfully) slaughtered by a certain young butler and his vampire friend, the Hellsing organization stepped in to explain to the newspapers that the town had been destroyed by German bombers.

Re: Discussion

[demonbelthazor]

Bel wondered if Marty heard the radio broadcast about his making a date with Angela, or if he was just his usual glareful self.

Re: Discussion

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Weird things are easy to cover up. People don't want to believe in things that might threaten their everyday lives."

Re: Hand in your essays

[mrs-tate.livejournal.com]

Jessica hands in an essay explaining how her and her sister once believed that their family was put under a curse, as means to explain the rather bizarre and often unbelievable misfortunes that fell upon them. Although Jessica's essay is hard to decipher as the thoughts seem incomplete or unconnected, the phrases "quite unpleasant," as well as "alien abduction," "demonic possession," and "mind-controlling cult" appear quite a bit.

Re: Discussion

[chasingangela]

"Weird. Maybe it's just too hard to acknowledge, somehow. You know, you don't want to wreck your nice normal life by talking about meteor freaks."

Re: Discussion

[chasingangela]

Angela would probably glare at both of them, but she's really, really trying to ignore them. A lot.

Re: Sign in

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana gives her a reassuring smile.

Re: Discussion

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I think that's part of it. It's not like people don't know what's going on." Lana shrugs.

Re: Sign in

[absolutesnark]

Piper signs in.

Re: Discussion

[absolutesnark]

"Sometimes people don't want to acknowledge weird things because they can't handle it," Piper said tiredly.

Re: Hand in your essays

[absolutesnark]

Since Piper has not seen anything paranormal in her hometown yet, she turns in an essay about her strange experiences at Fandom High, incuding her issues with gremlins.

Re: Discussion

[stykera]

"Sometimes they said it was hallucinations. Or just that I the person who saw things was crazy."

Re: Sign in

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

Shep signs in.

Re: Discussion

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

Shep mutters something like, "We usually used a canvas sack for Rodney... oh, wait, that's someone weird."

Re: Hand in your essays

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

Shep is still flailing over this assignment. To the best of his knowledge, the Stargate project is just A Big Secret and hasn't needed covering up. On Atlantis, they took weird for granted and sought to explain it and study it, not make things up about it. But he reasonably sure he can't really explain that to anyone.

Re: Sign in

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac signs in.

Re: Discussion

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac shrugs, "I tried to explain away the amazing flying twinkies to my room-mate by convincing her she was imagining it. That didn't really work though." She then goes quiet, "that also probably doesn't count huh?"

Re: Hand in your essays

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

The paranormal had never really been a big part of her life before she came here. So she hands in an essay on meeting a supposedly-dead friend when she first came here, and how mentioning this incident on the phone to her brother resulted in a massive operation to convince her parents she wasn't crazy. She hasn't actually suceeded in this yet. Anyone need the number of a therapist? Her mother has recommended several.

Re: Sign in

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

Cordy signs in

Re: Discussion

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

Cordy doesn't look very enthusiastic. "Most people refused to believe it was happenning. Vampire attack, girls missing, crazy horned demons? Nah, you didn't see that. You're just tired, go to bed."

Cordy may have glared at Bel when talking about the demon bit.

Re: Hand in your essays

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

Cordy writes a lovely essay on how some students at Sunnydale High were possessed by some weird hyenas and took over the school, and how everyone around just kind of avoided the subject, even though they killed the principal. She doesn't mention that Xander was one of the hyenas, but she may have hinted at it slyly.

Re: Discussion

[demonbelthazor]

Bel may have mouthed "I don't have horns" to Cordy.

Re: Discussion

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

And Cordy may have discretely stuck a tongue out at him.