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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Write 50 words introducing yourself to me, and explaning what you did that resulted in detention. Say whether you have remorse and why.

I am a teacher of languages. Find and conjugate four verbs from the European language of your choice. Provide relevant translations.

Spanish verbs
French verbs (http://french.about.com/library/weekly/bltopicsub-v.htm)
Italian verbs (http://italian.about.com/library/fare/blfareindex05.htm)
German verbs (http://german.about.com/library/verbs/blverb_index.htm)
(http://spanish.about.com/od/conjugation/)

Dream has set out a buffet of an odd assortment of fooods -- Peking duck, nachos, croissants, pomegranate juice, grape-flavored and vanilla cream soda, Samosas, macaroni salad, exquisite raspberries and more. Eat, and chat, as you wish.

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.

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.

Questions? Comments? They go to the creepy guy.

Or pass notes. Dream will intervene if you get too loud or boisterous.

You do not want to make Dream use this thread. Trust me.

Just in case.

Janet signed in. "Please tell me I can keep my coffee, Professor," she said.

"Of course, Miss Frasier." Dream said, then paused. "I am surprised to see you here."

"My relevant discussion topic in Journalistic Integrity got me threatened with detention," said Janet. "And then I tried to explain myself. Which got me detention." She shrugged and grinned ruefully. "I guess children should be seen and not heard."

She's not bitter. Really, she's not.

My name is Janet Fraiser. Since I've already had you in two classes, how much introducing do I need to do? I'm short, have red hair, a tendency to backtalk--apparently--and a newly-discovered penchant for ancient languages. Though I'm going to attend medical school. And tonight, I will play Monopoly.

Oh, hell. Janet never took Languages of Europe, and anything she's overheard from Liz has been Russian. Though Daniel has a thing for French, so she picks that in the hopes of the handful of words he's used around her has sunk in.

Which, of course, they haven't.

Janet spends a very frustrating time trying to conjugate French verbs based on half-remembered phrasing. Thank goodness they covered Latin last semester--and that she's had a lot of background in it. She barely manages to get two sets of verbs correct, completely messes up an irregular verb she'd picked without realizing it was irregular, and gets at least half of the last verb conjugations wrong.

Personally? I think we need a thread for 'in case you fall asleep in detention.' But that's just me. And now, off to entertain the kidlet for a bit before checking back in at detention.

Oh, that would be good!

*goes to add*

Ms. Frasier seems to feel this is a possibility.

John Crichton signs in.

Dream raised one eyebrow before nodding at Janet's explanation. "Some do believe that," he said. "But I am sorry a teacher at this school is among them."

My name is John Crichton. I live on the second floor and like math and physics. To get into detention, I decided playing the mimic game with one of my professors would be a good idea. It was not. As for feeling remorse, I’m not sure yet. We shall see.

John grimaces. He's barely fluent in the English language.

John picks the Spanish language because he's seen Spanish spoken, heard it before and might be able to cobble something together.

Of course, he'd thought it'd be easy but the Spanish language has all kinds of accent marks and odd looking words. John starts conjugating and starts out okay. The verb isn't irregular but he keeps spelling things wrong. He's chosen vivir which, he thinks, means living and starts slowly writing out the conjugation. I live, we live, you live, I lived, I am living, we are living, we have lived.

It all turns out quite badly. He gets a few right but spells the conjugated verbs wrong several times, forgets accent marks and writes video instead of vivir once.

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."

Nadia signs in.

And, man, is she in a bad mood.

My name is Nadia Santos. I've told you in class that I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and that I speak Spanish and English and a little bit of Russian. And I didn't do anything to end up in detention ~~yet~~.

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Detention, 02/11

Sign in

Activity the first -- writing

Activity the second

Lunchtime

Activity the third -- create!

Activity the fourth -- Creature

Talk to Dream

Talk to each other

Detention punishment

OOC

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