Shop Class: [3/15]

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

Once again, the room looks like something out of a normal shop classroom.

Weird.

On the walls are blueprints and instructions on building the scenery for MSND's play.

"That's right kids. I'm forcing you to do slave labor for the theatrical production this weekend. We need to build a castle scene, a forest, a fog machine and a fairy dust dispenser."

"Okay technically it's a glitter dispenser but I'm just telling you what they call it."

"Please make sure you put the hats back on the hammers when you're done with them."

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Assignment: Forest

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

"Just normal trees please. This is Shakespeare, not the lorax."

Re: Assignment: Forest

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia raised her hand. "What's a lorax?"

the show needs a thneed! For a thneed is a thing that every show needs!

Re: Assignment: Forest

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

Mac gives Nadia a surprised look. "You've never heard of the Lorax? He speaks for the trees. If you're really interested in knowing more about him...

I suggest that you go to far end of town
where the Grickle-grass grows
and the wind smells slow-and-sour when it blows
and no birds ever sing excepting old crows...
that's the Street of the Lifted Lorax.

And deep in the Grickle-grass, some people say,
if you look deep enough you can still see, today,
where the Lorax once stood
just as long as it could
before somebody lifted the Lorax away.

What was the Lorax?
Any why was it there?
And why was it lifted and taken somewhere
from the far end of town where the Grickle-grass grows?
The old Once-ler still lives here.
Ask him. He knows."

Re: Assignment: Forest

[soldtoarmenians]

"Huh," Xander says. "And I was gonna say it's the gross juicy middle bits of a bug. and bug-people." He almost manages a straight face when he says it, too.

Re: Assignment: Forest

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia stared at Mac, her eyes growing progressively wider as his little speech went on. She took some comfort in the fact that it wasn't haiku . . . but so help her god, if Mac got more poetry stuck in her head, she'd kill him.

"Oh."

She turned to go work on one of the projects, then turned back.

"Um, there is there really a guy living on the island named the Once-ler?"

Re: Assignment: Forest

[suzotchka.livejournal.com]

Ivanova is dead of hiding snickers. "That was very illuminating," she said seriously. And was really impressed that he had recited it.

Re: Assignment: Forest

[stykera]

Stark wonders idly if the Lorax is a plant, since it speaks for trees. People that happen to be plants (or plants that happen to be people?) aren't anything new, after all.

While he's wondering, he's attempting to make a tree. It actually looks mostly like a tree, too. A flat tree. And he puts the hat back on the hammer when he's done with it.

Re: Assignment: Forest

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Kawalsky helped out building some pretty realistic looking trees, but he didn't do much bending, stretching or lifting.

Assignment: Castle

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

It's only a model.

Re: Assignment: Castle

[soldtoarmenians]

Which is why Xander is totally not making little glitter flags and attaching them to the fake wooden battlements. At all.

One of the flags does not say "John/Rita" because that would be wrong.

Re: Assignment: Castle

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

Mac looks at the "John/Rita" flag with a cocked eyebrow. "Harris? I've never met this Skeeter woman face to face, but unless you want to turn into... well almost anything you might want to rethink that flag."

Re: Assignment: Castle

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander shrugs. "I have. She gave me detention. I survived." He grins. "Besides, if challenged I can always tell her the slash stands for 'versus' and that I'm totally rootinating for her side."

Re: Assignment: Castle

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John does not noticed the flag.

And he does not go and hide somewhere.

Re: Assignment: Castle

[02maxwell.livejournal.com]

Duo wonders if putting hydraulics on the castle to make it a super mobile castle would be at all representative of this Shakespeare guy's time period. Or even just a good idea.

Assignment: Fog Machine

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

Gosh there's some weird looking supplies over here in the corner. I wonder how you could MacGyver make a fog machine out of them.

Re: Assignment: Fog Machine

[nadiathesaint]

Her glitter flinger was a success! She had clues to look for this odd "Once-ler" guy and whatever the heck a "lorax" was! She was determined to make the fog machine work for her, too!

. . .

Of course, by the end of class, she'd managed to create quite a lovely, dense cloud of fog in her immediate area, but was not yet able to figure out how to a) turn the fog machine off or b) even turn down the amount of fog produced. She had a sneaking suspicion that c) she would smell like maple syrup for the rest of her life.

Re: Assignment: Fog Machine

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

"Why does the fog smell like Maple syrup?"

Re: Assignment: Fog Machine

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

After spending all of the day before in bed, Sam walked into class, more or less prepared to get down to work. The turtleneck sweater she was wearing was hopefully high-necked enough to hide the bruises.

"Hey, Nadia? Mind if I lend a hand?"

She was also having quite the craving for waffles.

Assignment: Fairy Dust Dispenser

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

Or Glitter flinger. Whatever works.

Re: Assignment: Fairy Dust Dispenser

[nadiathesaint]

The fog machine was taunting her, but she had no clue what to do with it yet, so she decided to take a stab at the fairy dust dispensers, first.

The love potion in the play was apparently made from a flower--that was something she could work with. She grabbed her sewing kit out of her backpack and sifted through the supplies until she found several bits of fabric and some wires. Then she grabbed her gaffers tape and set to work.

The first thing she did was to make small tubes out of the fabric, then attach them at one end to the wires. She used her pliers on her leatherman to bend a few paperclips into little leaf shapes and attached those to the wires. Now she had little fabric tubes on wire plant stems.

She filled one of the tubes with glitter, then twisted the open end up and tucked it into itself, until she had something resembling a silver, black, and white fabric rose.

But would it work? That was the question. What to test it on, what to test it on . . . ?

Re: Assignment: Fairy Dust Dispenser

[nadiathesaint]

Considering the fact that Mac seemed to have gone off the deep end, she decided he was not the appropriate candidate for a test subject.

"Hey Xander, hold still,"

OOC:

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

If these threads have offended...

Re: OOC:

[nadiathesaint]

Have I but slumbered here,
Whilst these shadows did appear?

No. I haven't. I'm tired, but you're making me try to think of how to MacGyver make a fog machine and/or glitter flingers.

*ferret revolts and pings you in revenge!*

Re: OOC:

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

*gives the ferrets cookies*

*Duct tapes the ping to the ground where it can do no harm*

Re: OOC:

[stykera]

I'll never be able to read The Lorax again without picturing MacGyver and giggling. Woe.