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fandomhigh2012-03-01 02:17 pm
electrocynic) wrote in fandomhigh2012-03-01 02:17 pm
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Superheroing 101, Thursday, Period 4
This week, Electroclash met the class outside the Danger Shop. "Right," she said, glancing up from the magazine she was flipping through, once they'd all assembled. "Here's how we're gonna start the class today: you're gonna go in one by one and do a simulation rescue or fight. It's child's play, you can't fail, but it's important we do this." How she said any of that with a straight face, she'd never know. She pointed to a random student. "You first."
There were severalmoddable scenarios for th students to stumble into, ranging all the way from saving someone from a building on fire (that one included, for some reason, a man in a red and black costume standing outside the building yelling out "It wasn't my fault, honest!") to taking down a super villain in their gadget-filled lair. And, of course, Electroclash had lied about it being easy. All the sims seemed to be easy, at first. In fact, they were designed in a way that made the students start feeling confident about being successful. They were allowed to get within about a minute of actually saving the civilian or capturing the villain: victory was almost in their grasp!
... Until right at the last moment, Excelsor came swooping in and saving the day right from under the student's nose, probably insulting him or her for good measure befre making his exit with their civilian/villain/dignity.
So that might've explained Electroclash's slightly smug look of amusement once the sims were done and she led them all back into the Danger Shop, now just a regular classroom. "So, before the break," she said, leaning against the desk up front, "I told you we were gonna be moving into looking at superhero problems. Now you should know that one of the major problems for superheroes is other superheroes." Yup. "You may think you're special, but there are shitloads of other equally special people out there, and some of them are pricks who will let you do the work and then come in and snatch your glory. Like you've just seen."
And she was pretty proud of that simulation, actually. Looked it, too.
"So now, we're gonna talk about how to deal with that, the competition thing. The SPA says you should just accept it and be glad that the heroic act got done at all, but I think that's a load of old bollocks. What do you think?"
[OCD up!]
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... Until right at the last moment, Excelsor came swooping in and saving the day right from under the student's nose, probably insulting him or her for good measure befre making his exit with their civilian/villain/dignity.
So that might've explained Electroclash's slightly smug look of amusement once the sims were done and she led them all back into the Danger Shop, now just a regular classroom. "So, before the break," she said, leaning against the desk up front, "I told you we were gonna be moving into looking at superhero problems. Now you should know that one of the major problems for superheroes is other superheroes." Yup. "You may think you're special, but there are shitloads of other equally special people out there, and some of them are pricks who will let you do the work and then come in and snatch your glory. Like you've just seen."
And she was pretty proud of that simulation, actually. Looked it, too.
"So now, we're gonna talk about how to deal with that, the competition thing. The SPA says you should just accept it and be glad that the heroic act got done at all, but I think that's a load of old bollocks. What do you think?"
[OCD up!]