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Jono Starsmore ([personal profile] furnaceface) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2015-09-07 07:43 am

Creative Inspirations: Monday, Period One

For today's class, they had booked not only a portal, but a vehicle. Hannibal had made all the plans in person, to avoid any potential Portalocity...creativity. They were meeting at the docks, and the students (as well as alumni and anyone else who wanted to join them) had been asked to meet them there promptly.

"You can fly this?" Hannibal asked, just to be sure.

//I've flown more complicated aircraft than this,// Jono replied, shrugging his shoulders. //This thing is nothing, trust me.//

Between Weapon X and the X-Men, Jono had been relegated to 'pilot' duty at least a few times in his life. They'd be fine.

Hannibal nodded. If Jono said he could...well, he very much doubted Jono would take the tiniest risk with his students' lives.

He turned to face the people who'd gathered in the...he wasn't sure if he ought to call it a plane or a ship. It was large, reasonably comfortable, slightly shabby, and glass - or at least clear-material - walled. "Hello and welcome to class, whether you're here as a student or tagging along."

//For those who are tagging along, this class is intended to be a bit of inspiration for our students. Each week we go somewhere new, in the hopes that what we show our students gives them the urge to create art. Music. Poetry. Dance. Whatever suits them. This week, we thought we'd take in something a little bit historic, provided to us by nature itself.//

"Our journeys have been a mixture of beautiful and disturbing," Hannibal said. "This week's is likely to be both."

Their portal appeared, and he waited for Jono to steer them through and join them again before he continued. They now hovered a few hundred feet over a mid-morning ocean, slowly approaching an island with a cloud hanging over it.

"It is August 27th, 1883, just before ten a.m. local time," Hannibal continued. "We are in Indonesia, between Java and Sumatra. And that island there," he nodded toward the one they were approaching, "is called Krakatau."

Oh, Hannibal. Jono wasn't going to outright call him such, but really, he had quite the flair for playing drama queen when the muse so hit him, didn't he?

//Please keep your arms and legs inside the aircraft at all times,// he said, because Hannibal seemed to have the tour guide routine all handled. //Once that thing gets going, I imagine this flight is going to get somewhat more turbulent.//

[OOC: Open! Not just for students today- Visitors are welcome to come on this field trip, too. Giant natural disasters! Whee!]
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Re: Sign In!

[personal profile] rebelseekspizza 2015-09-07 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
Dante
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Re: Boarding, and Lecture

[personal profile] rebelseekspizza 2015-09-07 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Now what?" Dante muttered, mostly under his breath, his mouth setting into a dubious frown as he watched the weird cloudy island approach through the window.

And that was before the much-less-under-his breath, "Wait, what the hell is Krakatau?" Going by the drama, he took it was something he should know about... like, now.
Edited 2015-09-07 11:18 (UTC)
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[personal profile] candycrushlove 2015-09-07 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
Maria DeLuca
rebelseekspizza: (dante pb - fuuuck)

Re: Watch the Eruption

[personal profile] rebelseekspizza 2015-09-07 11:22 am (UTC)(link)
Looked like... Limbo come to Earth.

Yeah, Dante was out of needlessly profane language for as long as this eruption thing went on; instead he was staring. A lot.

Enjoy it while you could.
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Re: Boarding, and Lecture

[personal profile] candycrushlove 2015-09-07 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
Maria had no doubt as to the safety of this craft she was in because she had absolute faith in Jono and Dr. Lecter to look after them.
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Re: Watch the Eruption

[personal profile] candycrushlove 2015-09-07 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
Maria was in the seat next to Dante's and she suddenly remembered why the name of Krakatau had sounded so damn familiar.

She made one sound of shocked distress and then she was quiet for the rest of the eruption, just watching and imagining everything that the people down there must have gone through.
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Re: Create

[personal profile] rebelseekspizza 2015-09-07 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dante was still mulling all of that over, actually-- and the crappy memories it was stirring up. And eventually-- when he was sure no one was looking-- he might've grabbed a piece of canvas and some red and yellow paint and retreated with it to a corner of the classroom.

Whatever the result was, by the end of the class, he'd mutilated it again and painted a giant smiley and a middle finger all over it, leaving only the faintest trace behind of angry fire and misshapen faces.
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Re: Watch the Eruption

[personal profile] rebelseekspizza 2015-09-07 11:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, that was fucked up," Dante muttered quietly, when it was over.

There. He'd found his swears again. He was fine.
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Re: Create

[personal profile] candycrushlove 2015-09-07 11:31 am (UTC)(link)
Back in the classroom, Maria took out her composition notebook and pencils. She planned to work on a song about the images in her head...

...and she would begin doing just that when the shaking in her hands finally stopped.
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Re: Watch the Eruption

[personal profile] candycrushlove 2015-09-07 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
Maria nodded, murmuring something that sounded like she agreed with him. She didn't think she had any swear words that matched this.

Then again, she had never really had many swear words that she used.

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[identity profile] never-dull.livejournal.com 2015-09-07 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
After seeing some of the still-dazed looks as they left the aircraft, Hannibal detoured home before coming to the classroom.

He might not have been traumatized himself, but if anybody could appreciate the effect of good comfort food...

So he'd be less creating, and more setting out various sorts of chocolate, cheeses, breads, and meats.

Re: OOC

[identity profile] never-dull.livejournal.com 2015-09-07 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Hannibal resembles that remark!

Re: Create

[identity profile] never-dull.livejournal.com 2015-09-07 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Would a mug of thick hot chocolate with homemade marshmallows on top help? Hannibal set one on the desk in front of her, smiling.

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[identity profile] never-dull.livejournal.com 2015-09-07 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
When he wasn't doling out comfort food (and drinks) (though not alcoholic), Hannibal came and sat very near Jono. "That was quite the sight, wasn't it?" he murmured.
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Re: Create

[personal profile] candycrushlove 2015-09-07 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Maria looked up from her notebook when the cup was placed in front of her and gave Dr. Lecter a small, but sincere smile.

"Thank you, Dr. Lecter."

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[identity profile] never-dull.livejournal.com 2015-09-07 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"And after all of that, life began again. Seeds and animals returned and repopulated the islands that were left and that rose anew. It began erupting in earnest again a few years ago. Nothing stops life or destruction, it seems."

Hannibal thought both were beautiful, personally.

Re: Create

[identity profile] never-dull.livejournal.com 2015-09-07 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're welcome." Hannibal nodded. "A reminder of the power, destructive force, and beauty of nature. It's all right to be a little shaken."

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