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Cara ([personal profile] wrongkindofsith) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2016-05-13 12:03 am

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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Ada Miller
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[personal profile] boneyard_girl 2016-05-12 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"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.
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Mara Jade
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[personal profile] giveherahand 2016-05-12 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"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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Gratuity Tucci
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[personal profile] intotheout 2016-05-12 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"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.
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[personal profile] intotheout 2016-05-12 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Tip had 0% familiarity with taverns and the sorts of people who frequented them -- or with worlds with an adventuring sort of culture like this one. So she kind of thought everyone in this place looked shifty. But she focused in and watched, anyway.

Just because she'd been signed up for the class without her knowledge or consent didn't mean she couldn't get something out of it.
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[personal profile] boneyard_girl 2016-05-12 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
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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[personal profile] intotheout 2016-05-12 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"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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Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
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Cassandra Pentaghast
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[personal profile] seeks_truth 2016-05-12 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"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.
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[personal profile] seeks_truth 2016-05-12 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"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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