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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Select an Earth animal who you feel might be an appopriate being for students to study in Creature languages. Research its nature and culture, then write 100 words describing them.

John chooses meerkats because he really can't resist and he wants to know exactly what he was turned into.

The meerkat is a small mammal and a member of the mongoose family. It’s native to the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa. They are small animals, weighing between seven hundred and seven hundred fifty grams. They mainly eat insects but will, on occasion, eat lizards, snakes, spiders, plants, eggs and other small mammals. Meerkats are burrowing animals that live in large underground networks. They’re also social animals who live in colonies of up to forty. They are also altruistic animals, watching out for one another. One meerkat stands sentry and, when a predator is spotted, warns others in his colony.

Janet glances over at John's paper while he's writing it and giggles.

"The things she turns me into get weirder all the time," John says. "Figured I should know what I am after she does it."

"Maybe we should start a petition for the next kind of animal," said Janet, with a grin. "We'll ask her to turn you into something mythological."

"Like what, a unicorn?" John grimaces. "No, next time, I'm sure it'll be something small and fuzzy. That or she'll turn me into a paperclip."

"Maybe she'll turn you into a Disney creature," said Janet. "You could be a talking teapot."

John's eye widen in horror.

"If that happens, I am throwing your medical kit bag thing out the window."

"You wouldn't," said Janet. "Besides, I keep it locked up when I'm not using it now."

"No Disney creatures," John says, shaking his head. "Next week, I'm sure she'll put her creativeness to wrok and turn me into something that is not a Disney animal."

Janet grinned. "No Disney creatures at all? What about the black dragon at the end of Sleeping Beauty?" Who was Maleficent, and therefore a girl, but Janet wasn't going to mention that.

"No Disney creatures," John says, making a cutting gesture. "It's bad enough that she gets along with Aeryn, I do not wanna be an animated creature to boot."

"She gets along with Aeryn?" asked Janet. "And fine, no Disney creatures. But small and fluffy. So you've been a marmoset, a miniature elephant, and a meerkat, right? Maybe she'll turn you into a gosling next?"

"Apparently," John says. "Aeryn went to make sure the transformations wouldn't have permanent damage and they got along. And maybe I'll go one class without being turned into any kind of animal."

"It could happen," said Janet. "But probably only if you behave, which I have to say, isn't as much fun." She paused, and glanced at Professor Dream. "Um. But acting up in class would be wrong."

Dream smiled, briefly. "It would depend on the class, Miss Frasier. But trying to annoy your classics professor would not be a wise move."

Janet laughed. "I've gotten that idea," she said. "But I actually like you."

Dream merely smiles at this, and does not respond.

His teeth are very white, even against his pale skin.

Janet started wondering a bit more about her professor. She'd ignored his oddness, since there'd been so much of it at this school, but maybe she'd find something interesting if she did some research in the library?

Nadia doesn't feel like she should have to put a lot of thought, time, or research into this activity. Actually, she doesn't feel like she should have to do it at all, but she's not sure what would happen if she refuses, so she decides to pick something simple and familiar (if uninspired) to write about.

Cats can be broken down into two groups: big cats and house cats. The two groups are similar in that both are carnivorous and both think they rule wherever they happen to live. House cats would be better for students to study, because they are more likely to meet a house cat, but big cats would be useful, too. Cats have two natural defenses, their claws and their teeth. They can also make all their fur stand up so they look bigger than they actually are. Cats are not like dogs, they aren't social animals. They prefer to be the only cat in the household. They think they are very dignified creatures, even though they waggle their butt when they're hunting and sometimes fall off of things. They don't actually have nine lives.

*Hamlet, having not taken creature languages due to a schedule conflict, has no idea what sort of animal might be studied in that class. He's also not sure where the research books are in here, so writes the first draft of this project entirely using lyrics from a song he heard somewhere.*

The llama is a quadruped which lives in the big rivers like the Amazon. It has two ears, a heart, a forehead, and a beak for eating honey. But it is provided with fins for swimming. Llamas are larger than frogs. Llamas are dangerous, so if you see one where people are swimming, you shout: "Look out, there are llamas!"

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