http://emoclops.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] emoclops.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2012-01-20 12:27 am
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Leadership, Friday, 3rd Period

Scott sent out an e-mail letting his students know that they were going to be meeting in the Danger Shop this week. And as probably half the class knew, when you put Scott Summers in charge of a group in a room whose name began with 'Danger,' things were going to get pretty interactive.

This was probably a different kind of interactive than those people were thinking, though. You could probably tell that by the fact that Scott was holding a balloon in the middle of a park on a sunny day.

"A crucial part of leadership is understanding how to actually work in a team," Scott said, kicking things off. "So today, we're going to be doing a small team-building exercise."

"I've put you into four teams of four. You're going to be building balloon towers. The goal is to build the tallest tower you can before the end of the period using nothing but the provided balloons, rolls of masking tape, and your wits. And if anyone here has powers, those are forbidden for this exercise," Scott said. "So no flying up to dangle a string of balloons from the top of the room, no telekinesis to stabilize the tower. If you do that, I'll use one of my powers."

Scott pulled out a remote and pointed it at the balloon he was holding. It popped. No, he wasn't going to use optic blasts for that.

"Good luck."

Was that a suspicious smirk as he said that? Nah, couldn't be.
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Cara
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[personal profile] wrongkindofsith 2012-01-20 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
Cara was not, repeat, was not playing with a balloon. It's just that there weren't any in the Midlands, and she hadn't really had a chance to handle one before while she was here, so naturally she had to test it to see exactly how it worked and what kind of stress it would hold up to.

So that was what she was doing.

Regardless of how it looked.

She wasn't smiling as she tested it either.
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Warren Worthington III
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[personal profile] wwiii 2012-01-20 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
Warren was not at all frowning about the 'no powers' thing. Really.

"I guess the easiest way for us to do this would be for each of us to make smaller towers, and then stick them together as they get too big for one person to handle? We don't want to be tripping over one another, all trying to add to the same chain at once," he suggested, looking thoughtfully at the balloons and tape.

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Quinn Fabray

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"I guess that makes sense," Quinn concurred. She'd been preoccupied bouncing a balloon lightly off the sides of her hands. "I mean, I'm not exactly an engineer, but that doesn't sound hard."

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Rebecca Logan
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Karla

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[identity profile] zetabetabrat.livejournal.com 2012-01-20 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, don't pop it," Rebecca said after a moment of eyeing Cara. Then to the group at large, she clapped her hands and declared, "Okay. Strategy." She took in the setup of the 'park.' "I say we tie a whole bunch of them together, then release then so they collide with that tree over there and can't float away. And then we can start building down from there."

Bossy, bossy, bossy.

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[identity profile] zetabetabrat.livejournal.com 2012-01-20 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Rebecca was here, and busy barking out orders to her team.

Like a relative lack of experience as a strategist would keep her from bossing people around? Please.

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