Creative Inspirations | Monday, period 1

[sharp_as_knives]

"Good morning," Hannibal began when they were all present. "Today we will once again be experiencing a manmade curiosity. In the thirteenth century, the abbot of the Sedlec Cistercian Monastery brought back soil from the holy land, prompting a great number of the faithful to want to be buried in the church. As has happened in other places, once there was no further room for burial, the bones were kept in an ossuary nearby."

//From the outside, it doesn't look like much,// Jono said, hands in his pockets, looking over the faces of the students for any signs that anybody might be uncomfortable with today's trip. It wasn't exactly a cheery vacation destination, however fascinating it seemed to himself and Hannibal, after all. //It's just a small old church, more or less. The inside is… a little bit more striking. The bones were stored there, yes, but there were so many of them, a woodcarver was hired to put them in some sort of order. The result was… rather spectacular, if macabre.//

"If at any point you feel unable to remain with us," no pun intended, naturally, "there is a nearby gift shop, or you can wander the small town. Though we will be in the Czech Republic, so unless you speak Czech, I recommend you not go too far," Hannibal cautioned.

Jono was still briefly tempted to elbow Hannibal for that completely-unintentional-honest pun all the same. Honestly, Hannibal.

//If you're exceptionally uncomfortable and would rather not wander alone, feel free to grab me,// Jono added, just to be on the safe side. //I'd rather not have anybody doing anything they're really not okay with today, especially given that these are actual human remains we're dealing with. For those who do stick around… no touching, please. Because, again, human remains. Respect for this history and the people involved in it above all else, while we're out today.//

"And whether you are awestruck, horrified, or any combination thereof, we hope that it inspires you," Hannibal said.

He led them through the portal, which let them out in the charming little cemetery surrounding the chapel. It was a lovely day.

[OOC: OCD up! Also, a warning, links lead to photos of (very artistically arranged) human bones. Click at your own discretion!]

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Alluka Zoldyck

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Nathan Byrn

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Lottie Grote

Listen to these two natter on

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They're very good at it.

Enjoy the ossuary!

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Just inside (https://www.google.com/maps/@49.961782,15.288043,3a,75y,82.17h,84.11t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sbkyhcKvK9ukAAAQfCV3_1g!2e0!3e11!7i6000!8i3000)
Tons of photos (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sedlec+Ossuary/@49.961833,15.28791,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1s37894646!2e1!3e10!6s%2F%2Fstorage.googleapis.com%2Fstatic.panoramio.com%2Fphotos%2Fsmall%2F37894646.jpg!7i1536!8i2048!4m2!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0x320cc9caa5f1508e!6m1!1e1)
The restaurant across the street, if you'd rather (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Restaurace+U+Bal%C3%A1n%C5%AF/@49.961521,15.287734,3a,75y,246.97h,86.06t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s5nbX3W8Cd2K7OyazlyZVYQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26output%3Dthumbnail%26thumb%3D2%26panoid%3D5nbX3W8Cd2K7OyazlyZVYQ%26w%3D223%26h%3D75%26yaw%3D275%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D120%26ll%3D49.961521,15.287734!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0x677265fbab35f099!6m1!1e1)

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[that_oldsaying]

Guess who wasn't going to need to go for a walk or be kept away from the bones? Guess?

Alluka bounced in--but quietly, since they were supposed to be respectful, though she didn't really get that point--and stared big-eyed and seriously up at all the bones.

"I didn't know you could make them so pretty," she said happily, and then wandered further inside to get a better look. If it was creepy, Alluka really wasn't aware of it, as she hummed under her breath and named the bones she could see.

She was pretty good at naming bones. What ones that she couldn't remember, Nanika could. Nanika was even better at bones than she was.

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Hannibal heard her and smiled. "You know a lot of the bones," he observed. "Do you enjoy learning about bodies, or is it collections of things?"

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She had tilted her head back to study the ceiling when he spoke to her, so Alluka looked his way and beamed.

"My family taught me," she said. She hadn't been left alone in her room at first, just mostly isolated. There had still been lessons for awhile, while they'd decided if they could figure out a way to make use of her--not that Alluka knew their motivations. "And the lessons were always pretty fun, so the first one maybe?"

The only collection Alluka cared about was her toys.

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Nathan hadn't ever been in a place like this before. It helped finally get him to a calm, unafraid state of mind. He still felt concerned about what he'd experienced last week but he was dealing with it. He could deal with it.

He stayed inside, walking slowly to take everything in.

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[bestatmystery]

"Oh. My. GAW." Lottie turned slowly in place, staring up and around at the walls. "This is the most ma-CAW-brey thing I have ever seen."

She loved it.

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Hannibal chuckled, at both her reaction and her pronunciation. "Inspiring?"

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"'s a bit off-putting, isn't it?" Edward mused to himself, like a man completely unawares of the amount of skulls he'd be putting on things five years from now.

To be fair, he wasn't genuinely put off. A little weirded out, perhaps.

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"Is it?" Hannibal asked. "Why do you say that?" There was no judgement in his voice, only curiosity.

Create!

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Back in the classroom, have at! Did you buy a plaster skull at the gift shop?

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Alluka wasn't very good at creating (and Neither was Nanika), but when they got back to the classroom, she settled down with paper and pencil crayons.

She scowled as she worked on her picture. The reds weren't right, and neither were the shapes.

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[furnaceface]

Jono hadn't said anything back at the ossuary, really, because he'd been busy processing the fact that Alluka had absolutely no reservations about the displays of bones that were decorating the place, and how much she knew about them besides. But now that they were back in the classroom, after he'd had a chance to sort of work that one over in his head a few times, he made his way across the room to sit down beside her.

//Is it giving you some trouble, Sunshine?//

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Nathan sat down with a sketchpad and a pencil, going out outlining some of the intricate skulls that had been patterned on the wall.

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Hannibal took a break from his own sketching to check on the students, and smiled when he saw Nathan's. "Should I be worrying about competition?" he teased.

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Lottie sat down and instantly started writing lyrics for a black metal song. She was muttering some pretty impressive imitations of electric guitar and bass as she went along.

In her head her little black metal band was rocking out in a music video at the Ossuary itself.

It was beautiful.

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[doesnotkneel]

Edward still barely had an inkling of what he actually wanted to do with himself in this class, but he'd picked up a booklet about folk songs at some point during the trip (as he'd wandered away from the bones and into a shop when even the 'this is weird' novelty had worn off).

He was scanning it with care. He read faster now, but still much slower than what he figured the locals intended.

Talk to the teachers!

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Who are dorks who think looking at human bones is cool!

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Hannibal will be sketching human bones in artistic configurations - some from the ossuary, some of his own design.

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[furnaceface]

Jono was extra careful to keep an eye open for students who weren't feeling comfortable with today's trip, while they were out.

And, yes, he was glancing up from his piece of paper, where he was noodling at maybe writing a slow, somewhat more haunting arrangement of 'Dry Bones' intended for the theremin, just to make sure things were still sitting well with people once they'd returned to the school.

OOC!

[nuclear_snide]

Because damn it, I have a skull icon and I wanna use it!