fandomhigh | Fandom Invasions: A Survival Guide- Friday, Period One

This week, Jono had left a note on the classroom door directing his students to the library, where he was waiting for them with a small grin on his lips. It felt good to be in here today. He'd spent most of his Sundays in this very room throughout high school, after all.

"We're in the middle of a hypothetical invasion," Jonothon informed his class once it looked like they had all arrived. "We don't know what it is or where it came from, all that we really know is that the island is covered with monsters. Some of them spend a great deal of time near the water, and they look suspiciously like turtles, except that they're always carrying a saucer of water on the top of their head. They've already tried to pull people under the water, and at one point they chased a person halfway across the park in order to steal their picnic basket just so they could pick the fillings out of the cucumber sandwiches that were inside."

He smirked a little.

"Some of the other monsters are something that look almost as much man they do bird, with faces that are human except for those ridiculously long noses they've got. They spend most of their time guarding the outskirts of the preserve, and aren't afraid to use the feather fans they carry to blow trespassers away with gusts of wind... or to grow or shrink a person's nose if they're feeling more playful than antagonistic." He gave a small wave of his hand out toward the stacks. "Your mission today is to figure out what these creatures are, and, if possible, how th'hell to get them to leave. Or, at least, to get them to stop attacking the locals. And you have one class period and all th'resources in the library outside of Special Collections in order to do it. We'll take the last ten minutes to clean up any books you've left around. Let's figure out how to save our island, hm?"

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Gettin' your research on.

You're in a library! That's got to be way more exciting than anything Jonothon can go on about, right?

Except that he's not going to repeat his descriptions of the monsters for you, so you should probably pay attention anyhow.

There are books! There are computers! There are old newspapers if you think there's a chance the island has seen something like this before!

The whole of the library's resources are at your disposal. Except for Special Collections, which Jonothon is keeping an eye on. Nobody will be sneaking through that door on his watch, thank you.

Should he choose to keep an eye on this madness, himself.

She knows her way around the library!

~~But will be AFK for most of the day because she's driving up to see meeee.~~

He's casually reading one of his favourite Vonnegut novels, but he's there to pester if you have no idea how to navigate this formidable wall of books or something.

The two monsters in question are, of course, the Kappa and the Tengu, from Japanese myth. Feel free to have your kids research themselves in ridiculous circles or know the monsters' descriptions right from the get-go, however you see fit!

Korra

Marasiah Fel

Sholeh Zeela a Zhahar

Oh, Sholeh HAD this! She was more than happy to start directing people to various parts of the library if they were confused, either where to start or where different books were kept.

Normally, she would be flustered at being so...officious or whatever, but in the moment, she was happy to just be helpful.

"Mythology is over there," she said, pointing. "And information about invasions past? That's over in that row over there. Umm...xenobiology texts are behind me, but another good place to start would be in the collections of different world. Looking up their flora and fauna might help!"

Availability is what the lady said up there!

Oh, John was keeping an eye on the madness, thanks, and making himself available as a resource.

...a resource with a large cuppa coffee in one hand and an unlit cigarette in the other. He tended to restrict his smoking to his office, least he become a complete fire-hazard.

"Thanks for tolerating us while we ransack your library, mate," Jono said, stepping up beside John with a bit of an apologetic smile. "What my students don't clean up after class, I'll stick around and take care of myself. I've got a bit of experience with this library, anyhow."

A bit. A couple of years. Something like that.

"Eh, that's what it's here for, innit?" John asked. "So long as your lot doesn't try prying open the doors to Special Collections out of morbid curiosity, it's all fine."

"I'll smack'em on th'wrist if they try," Jono replied, smirking faintly. "If Special Collections doesn't do it for me. That part of th'library and I go way back."

He'd been with the group that had retreated in there, to escape the Nothing. And before that... mostly it just ate his things when he went in to clean.

"All mass chaos will be kept to a tolerable level, at least so long as the library doesn't get all... Fandom while we're in here."

Arietty Clock

Ace McShane

"Finally, someone sane," John grumbled under his breath, giving a small shrug. "I put some non-violence wards around the place this morning. It's itching at them, but it's holding. We shouldn't have any random attacking books or anything."

"Anything else, I can't claim responsibility for. Damn place does what it fucking wants."

"That it does," Jono agreed. "Always has, always will. It's almost like home, but with less burying people I actually like."

So, thanks for that, Fandom.

"I'd say 'you get used to it,' but once this island thinks you are, it comes up with something new and exciting to throw at you."

Karolina Dean

"So it only buries the people you don't like?" Sorry, Jono, John's just got a 'special' sense of humor. "Handy, that. Maybe I ought to send a few people invitations to come visit."

At least it was the sort of sense of humour that Jonothon could appreciate. Morbid suited him just fine.

"Oh, it'll still bury th'good ones," he replied, with a small wave of his hand. "But th'rotten ones have a smaller chance of attracting the cavalry that rushes in to save the day when people need it th'most."

Because this place. This place.

"White knights of the oppressed? Here?" John pressed a hand to his heart melodramatically. "Perish the thought."

"Mmm, I know. You'd never guess it to look at this place." Jonothon gave his head a shake. "That's half the reason I taught this class, honestly. Because I'd rather half the students in the school not get themselves killed while trying to play the hero."

He glanced around the room, frowning a little.

"Not nearly as many of them were raised to be soldiers as they'd like to let on."

John snorted in disgust. "Raising them as soldiers or heroes is the fastest bloody way to get 'em killed," he pointed out. "What the hell happened to telling kids 'run away from the man with the gun?' Is it that hard for them to get?"

"Around here?" Jono raised his eyebrows slightly. "Hell, I know where they're coming from. I had to learn to fight around their age, too, and it's not like that need ever went away. I can even understand how for some of them, it's something they will have to know when they go back to their respective nightmares after graduation. But the ones who never had to fight, the ones who won't need to when they leave... they're just chasing trouble when trouble comes to this place, I'm afraid."

He sighed, wrinkled his nose, and glanced back at John.

"The whole 'child soldiers' thing never did sit well with me. I'm not terribly popular back home for having that opinion, unfortunately."

Stupid X-Men.

Mercy Thompson

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