Choose Your Own Adventure, Thursday afternoon

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Kenzi was so looking forward to this, you don't even know.

So as people filed into the classroom, she pointed them to the various arts & crafts tables, printer, laminator, and huge Maryland I.D. billboard that she'd put together and printed out with a camera in front of it.

"Welcome to Choose Your Own Adventure!" She beamed. "For those of you who don't know me, I'm Toni Soprano." She flicked up a Canadian I.D. "At least according to this piece of plastic. According to this one, I'm Ninotchka Alexandrovich." It had a really convincing Russian sickle on it, too. "Now, for some of the things we're doing this semester, you're going to need a legit-looking piece of plastic of your own. So pick a birthday -- one that's before 1993, that'll help -- and if you don't know what that means, ask your neighbor." She paused. "Or me, after you do a couple tries."

"After, I'm going to the Horseshoe Casino here in Baltimore. If you don't know what a casino is or Baltimore is, you can ask when we're on the bus." She grinned, then added, "And you don't have to come with me! Or any of us! That's where the 'choice' thing comes in. But wouldn't it be a shame to make all these, and not see if they work?"

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Sign in!

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

With the name you're putting on your ID. It doesn't have to be your own.

Re: Sign in!

[tigerundercover]

Eddie Maria Switzer

Re: Sign in!

[bearmaidenfair]

Dagny Ingrid Karlsson

Mingle! and Make ID's

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Seriously, you can find anything on the internet.

Re: Mingle! and Make ID's

[tigerundercover]

Raven definitely appreciated the break from introducing herself, this week, and though she could just as easily pick up any old ID and just turn herself into whomever was on it, inventing a whole new identity for herself from scratch seemed like fun, too.

"We should try to alter our look a little, maybe?" she mused. "No one actually looks just like they do on their ID card, right?"

Re: Mingle! and Make ID's

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"True, true. I mean, we can photoshop the color of your shirt or something, but maybe mess with your hair?" Kenzi grinned. "I know, this is almost too easy for you, but still, documentation, always useful."

Re: Mingle! and Make ID's

[bearmaidenfair]

The Lokiskin caravans were a perfectly legal and accepted part of New Asgard life, and besides the fact that they didn't have absurd laws about things like drinking age, among them a girl was considered an adult once she was old enough to become a mother, and this sometimes carried over into society at large.

They were, however, still followers of the trickster god, which was to say: Vider had this under control.

However, she felt compelled to point out that, "This name would never be believable at home."

Re: Mingle! and Make ID's

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"How come?" Kenzi asked, leaning over to get a look at the name. "It's very freaking Nordic, but I'll cop to not knowing anything about the norm for Nordic names."

Re: Mingle! and Make ID's

[myownface]

Oh, shit. Sparkle already had a few of these things, but it wasn't like a few more could possibly hurt. He was already licking his hand and trying to tame his hair down a little for the photos. He'd wash his raccoon eyes off, too, before getting his picture taken. Just to be on the safe side. It wouldn't do to get busted with a fake ID with a face that actually stood out in a crowd, after all.

Re: Mingle! and Make ID's

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Niiiice," Kenzi told him, beaming that he was here. Yay! Friends taking her class! "Ivan." Heeeeeee.

Re: Mingle! and Make ID's

[notacokeperson.livejournal.com]

"You don't look like an Ivan," she informed him, after talking to... whatever her name was. The teacher. "Also has a fake ID ever saved your life while you were working for an underground rebellion against a non-righteous teacher?"

While paperwork did you?

Re: Mingle! and Make ID's

[notacokeperson.livejournal.com]

"Oh my God," Karina muttered to herself as she surveyed... well... everything. "My parents are going to kill me."

She wasn't so sure she wasn't going to die by the end of this either, before her parents ever got a hold of her.

This was so illegal and it kind of made her skin crawl.

Re: Mingle! and Make ID's

[shippedtomaine]

Emma was already lying about her age, but ironically enough the only problem that was putting her actual birthdate on the ID would make fake her unrealistically old.

Re: Mingle! and Make ID's

[voiceoverdue]

Cecil was making an ID that looked more or less like his real one. Maybe if he put his current picture on it, people would believe it?

He was keeping his name, though. He wasn't sure he could handle being anyone else right now.

Re: Mingle! and Make ID's

[wildandbrave]

Cosette was . . . pretty lost, let's face it. She was adapting fairly well to modern technology, but this was a little beyond her current skill level.

Not that she was opposed to the idea itself! Her father would probably be appalled, and it was a good thing she didn't know how much of a pot-kettle scenario that would be or it would not be pretty when she called him on it.

Re: Mingle! and Make ID's

[notamascot]

Kaylin had never heard of these things, but she could see where they mght be useful to have. Beyond some struggling with the technology, she actually did a fairly decent job.

Talk to Kenzi

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

She is here to help!

Volunteer to be a T.A.

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

At least for this week. If you want to.

Go to the Horseshoe Casino!

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Oh look. It's open hiring day! Do you need a job?

"Okay, people! I want anyone who's come along to leave here with at least one token that says Horseshoe Casino on it! Don't care how you get it, but I won't let you back on the bus until you have one!"

Kenzi paused, and added, "And now these lovely business cards are for calling me in case you get busted with that fake I.D. I don't have bail money, but I'm sure we can figure something out for you if that happens."

[The card:

Kenzi Sommersby, M.S., jD
Fandom High Gen Ed Dept.
(410 ) 555-YNOT
"Higher Education through Sober Experience"]

Re: Go to the Horseshoe Casino!

[tigerundercover]

"Sober experience, huh?" Raven read (oh, like she wasn't going to take the chance to visit a casino with Kenzi again?). "I'll try to keep that in mind."

Re: Go to the Horseshoe Casino!

[voiceoverdue]

"It feels almost like our honeymoon again!" Hopefully they wouldn't all end up in jail this time.

Re: Go to the Horseshoe Casino!

[wildandbrave]

Turned out that Cosette remembered enough of the alternate-universe life she'd led to figure out her game plan: find an employee who seemed nice enough, then play up the confused and slightly pitiful charm a bit.

. . . she didn't have enough practice at it in this life to quite pull it off successfully, or maybe for all that she still looked fourteen years old, because she got herself kicked out, but she'd done well enough that her plaintive exclamation of "I only wanted a souvenir!" got her the token she needed after all.

Re: Go to the Horseshoe Casino!

[bearmaidenfair]

Vider walked into the casino.

Vider walked out of the casino ten minutes later and rolled a token over her knuckles before flipping it at the teacher to catch.

What had transpired in those intervening ten minutes was for her to know.

Re: Go to the Horseshoe Casino!

[notamascot]

Betting?

Kaylin's eyes lit up. A whole entire establishment devoted to it?? This was amazing!

She didn't exactly win anything, but she managed to snag a token anyway.

OOC

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Feel free to go to the casino, or not! Or to drink, and gamble, or not!

And if you want to get in trouble and need an NPC, ping me here! I'll be happy to be a croupier/bouncer/cop or bartender.

And if you want to be TA This Week, Kenzi doesn't have one, and may pick one at random.