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Adventuring for Idiots, Because Clearly You Need It [Thursday, 2nd Period]

Cara had informed her students to meet her at the causeway.

"I'm taking advantage of our current location for this," she said once there seemed to be the right number. "So follow me, and try not to get lost. That means you too, Leroy."

In short order Cara led them over the causeway and into Stormwind, and from there into one of the taverns in the Dwarven District, where she pointed them towards a large corner table with a view on the common room. "Sit."

Once everyone was seated, Cara continued. "So you're probably in this class because you like the idea of adventuring, or because of some kind of paperwork error," she said. "When it comes to adventuring, the first and best lesson I can give you, is don't. Adventures get people killed, and if you're fortunate, it'll be the other guy.

"But since you're either going to ignore that or have no choice in the matter, the next bit of advice I can give you is to try to be smart about what adventures you go on, and one way to do that is to not walk into obvious traps, which is why we're here, as taverns and the like are one of two place where people inevitably come up and ask you for help." The other was wandering around outdoors minding your own business, but Cara was in no way stupid enough to tempt fate by having the class do that. "So we're going to spend this class observing. Pay attention to your fellow patrons, especially if someone comes up to them with some kind of idiot quests. Discuss what makes them seem trustworthy or not. Try to be discreet. Apparently it's a bad example if I get into brawls during classtime." Plus she might have to pay for damages.

"But before we get started with that, first class means introductions. So name, class, one time you might have avoided trouble if you'd looked before you leaped."

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Cara is hoping you possess at least some capacity for self-reflection.

"Ada Miller, 'm a senior," she said, and no, Ada was not going to talk about the one time she could have avoided trouble if she'd listened to Chester and been more careful, thanks, though she did rub absently at the scars on her wrists. "'S not so much that I go running into trouble, it's that trouble arrives when 'm out somewhere because this island, so I signed up for this more as self-defense from adventures."

Ada was more the 'blow off the quest and nap' type of girl, thanks.

There were times Cara wished she could be that kind of girl. Napping was much more pleasant than rescuing livestock, Richard.

She also recognised those kind of scars, so she didn't point out Ada had answered a question she hadn't asked instead of the one she did. "It's probably the most sensible reason to."

~~Yes, well, Richard was a human Care Bear and there was only so much room in his brain and it was being used by his heart. Because Care Bear.~~

There was only one time Ada could have avoided the trouble she'd landed in, and she sure as hell wasn't airing that trauma in front of her classmates. All other trouble? Had been pretty much unavoidable.

Stupid Brood.

"So, if'n we're observing people an' being discreet about it, shouldn't we, I dunno, get drinks so we're less suspicious-looking?"

ADA NO.

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"I'm Mara Jade, and I suppose dating Eggsy hasn't been the most non-insane thing I've ever done," she said, smiling, "but it's been fun. Especially making hipsters cry in Brooklyn."

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Making hipsters cry was never a bad idea.

"I doubt people ever think about matters of the heart," Cara remarked dryly. Because if they did they might talk themselves out of making a move until the island went insane and showed them AU versions of themselves who did without it all ending horribly.

Not to be specific or anything.

They'd pretended not to know what kale was. It had been great.

"Well, I've done some thinking," Mara said. "It's not good to just let emotions lead you everywhere."

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"I'm Gratuity Tucci," Tip said, having gotten at least a little used to introducing herself by now. "I'm a freshman. And there was this one time I got chased into the Haunted House ride at Happy Mouse Kingdom by a hungry lion. Which -- I had to go to Happy Mouse Kingdom, it was the only lead I had on a human resistance to the alien invasion, but I probably should have brought my friend with me, even though he was an alien himself. Then I at least wouldn't have been wandering around an abandoned amusement park alone."

Of course, she and J.Lo had still been in "reluctant truce" mode at the time. They hadn't bonded over the impending threat of the Gorg and become actual friends, yet.

"A real lion or someone in a suit?" Either seemed plausible from what she knew of those kinds of places.

"A real one. I think it escaped from the animal park they have. It hadn't been fed in a really long time and wasn't really equipped to live in urban Florida, so it was starving." Tip didn't really blame the lion for its behavior. "And it made a great distraction later when we were trying to escape the aliens."

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"Cassandra Pentaghast, senior," Cassandra said matter-of-factly. Cara knew who she was. "And I may have been somewhat overzealous during the altercation that led me to the island."

Hurling herself at a mage had not been her best decision ever.

"At least you survived to learn from the mistake. More than enough don't."

"And I will not make it again," Cassandra assured her.

Sure, we believed you. Bearpuncher.

... Who had done exactly that when tackling Anders, no less.

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"Tali'Zorah, senior," she began, waving a hand, "and I don't so much go around looking for trouble as I do just hang around people who are trouble magnets."

And couldn't stop touching mysterious alien technology and things like that.

". . . so anything I can do to keep it to a minimum, really, would help."

Arguably she could have just stayed with the Fleet and never gone on pilgrimage, but.

Or she could get new friends, but considering that Cara basically needed to be ordered to leave Richard and Kahlan...

"All you can do is try to talk sense into them. It might even work."

~~lol whoops~~

Maybe she should have sabotaged the comm system to filter out all of Admiral Hackett's weird random requests to go to remote planets and do things like search five thousand monkeys for a single data module. That would have cut down on some of it.

A very small amount, all things considered.

"Wouldn't it be exciting if it did?"

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"Hey!" protested the friend who, thankfully, was not as bad as the Human Disaster Known as Shepard. "I resemble that remark."

Tali made an exaggerated show of leaning back in her chair. "Uh huh. My point exactly."

No one was as bad as the Human Disaster Known as Shepard.

Well, Hawke, but wrong game.

Ringo's formal bow probably didn't do anything to make her look inconspicuous. Sorry.

"I'm Ringo Noyamano. I'm, um, what's the word for a second-year?" Whatever that was.

"And, uh, a time I could have avoided trouble? Maybe if I'd realized my sister's boyfriend was trying to take over the world? Probably could have avoided some trouble if I'd done that."

"It happens. Lots of people seem to like trying that." At least in Ringo's case she hadn't been aware of that very popular ambition.

Yeah. Crazy people back home tended to have pretty modest ambitions. Take over a city, maybe. The whole world? Well, Sora had been pretty crazy.

"It didn't even occur to me," Ringo admitted with a shrug. They'd never even thought to look into him.

"I'm FN-2187," FN-2187 said, "And I'm a...according to my schedule I'm a 'sophomore' but I don't really know what that means. And I've never been subjected to disciplinary action." He was an exemplary cadet! Until later.

The joys of being a brainwashed child-soldier, Cara did not miss them (when she actually acknowledged Mord'Sith were anything like that). "Let's keep it that way, then."

So name, class, one time you might have avoided trouble if you'd looked before you leaped."

"I'm Velma Martinez and a senior," Velma said, slouching in her seat, letting her hoodie fall over her features. "When I was twelve, I accidentally caused an incident in the Natural History Museum on a school trip."

'An incident.' More like a riot when she brought the T-Rex skeleton to life. Which she'd done because she had been exhausted and frightened.

"Pretty much all the major trouble in my life could have been avoided if I hadn't done that one stupid thing."

"Sucks when that's the case." Cara, there were better ways to express sympathy.

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