fandomhigh | Detention, 02/11

The Danger Room is set up to look like an ordinary classroom today, with slightly squeaky desks arranged in a semicircle, alphabets of many nations bordering the walls, and a flag hanging above the blackboard at the front of the room. The air smells, although not unpleasantly, of chalkdust and stale cafeteria food. In a room off to the side that resembles a formal Victorian dining room, there are a table, chairs and a sideboard from which students will take their lunch, though no food is visible at first.

The names of the students with detention are written on the chalkboard in Dream's flowing hand. He crosses each name off as the student enters:

~~John Crichton~~
~~Hamlet Dane, Jr.~~
Lily Evans
~~Janet Fraiser~~
Yuffie Kisagari
~~Nadia Santos~~
Kristy Thomas

Dream stands before the assembled students in his formal robes.

"Hello. I trust you all know why you are here.

I have been asked to furnish activities, and have done so. Likewise your lunch will be provided. Should all go well, I anticipate releasing you well in time for your evening meal. Should all not go well, you may learn what imprisonment truly is."

"Now, sign in and begin your assigned activities."

At 12:30 p.m. FHT, Dream briefly enters the lunchroom. When he leaves, a banquet has been arranged. Students may now eat, should they want to.

At 7 p.m. FHT, he rouses the sleepers and sends all of the students out the door.

[OOC note: Dream-mun has left the building for the night. I'll try to wrap these threads tomorrow. Also, minimal/handwaved participation on some activities is fine for those of you who might sign in late.]

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At the back of the room, there is a long table covered with every art supply imaginable -- clay, beads, paints, paper, wood, foil, glitter, glue and more. Make something that you remember from a dream you have had.

You may speak during this activity as long as you are quiet and respectful of the series of events that brought you here today.

John eyes the supplies and tries to remember something from a dream he had. Recently, his dreams have been pretty mundane and bland but before...

Before the image can leave his mind, John starts creating. He grabs a sheet of paper and starts roughly, and I mean roughly, sketching an image that might look like him except thinner, with two oddly shaped arms and mismatched feet.

Then, he draws a pair of pants, a vest, a short jacket, a bow tie, and a top hat on the figure of himself. Using a marker, he colors the pants, vest, top hat, and jacket black. The bow tie is colored yellow which substitutes for gold. He uses a long thin piece of clay and puts it in drawn!John's hand for use as a baton.

Then, he lightly spreads glue on the clothing of drawn!John and sprinkles glitter on the glue so it will stick. Finally, it's finished.

"It's me as the ringleader of a circus. I had that dream many times when I first got here."

"This place is definitely a circus," said Janet. The only way she knows to sketch animals is dead and dissected, with careful labels for the various anatomical parts. So she's not drawing animals. Actually, she's drawing a bright flare of orange-yellow light. It might look like the sun, if you'd never seen a staff weapon fire before.

"Definitely a circus," John says, looking over at Janet's drawing. "Drawing a solar flare?"

Dream watches John and Janet work with interest, smiling a bit at John's representation.

He likes circus dreams.

"Um," said Janet, looking down at the paper. "Not really."

Nadia grabs some paper and some gray and red paint, and starts making a picture of a dark, somewhat apocalyptic looking city with a big red sun-like thing in a dark grey sky that has sideways red Vs on either side of it.

At the bottom of the paper she adds a red horse, and a man with cheese on his head.

Then she sits back and glares at the picture for awhile when she's done.

"Nice cheese," said Janet.

"Thanks," Nadia says absently.

*Hamlet looks at the art table and thinks about what to do. Most of the dreams he's been having lately have been bad ones, with murder and incest and deception and his family an friends all mixed together. He's not sure that he wants to reveal quite that much about his family life in a detention art project.

Eventually, he grabs a pencil and some pencil crayons and starts sketching a portrait. It's rough picture because he's not a very good artist, but if you were familiar enough with the royal family of Denmark, you might have been able to recognize that the left side of the face was his own, while the right side was his uncle Claudius', and that the two blended together in the middle.*

Detention, 02/11

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