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fandomhigh2017-05-10 01:04 am
jedigrammarians) wrote in fandomhigh2017-05-10 01:04 am
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Archaeology for Fun and Profit! [Tues, 1st Period]
Finding out about the Danger Shop had been a delightful surprise given the average level of tech about this place, but even Aphra needed time to familarise herself with entirely new hardware and software. So reluctantly she'd settled for one of the 'normal' classrooms today.
Which didn't even have holoprojecters. Honestly.
Once it looked like she had roughly the right number of students, Aphra turned the chair at the front desk around and flopped down into it backward, forearms dangling over the backrest.
"I'm Doctor Aphra and given some of the things I've been hearing I should probably assure you that I'm actually qualified to teach this subject," she began. "Which is archaeology in case some of you just dropped in because you're bored.
"But what is archaeology?" She drummed her fingers against the chair. "Well, essentially it's grave-robbing with fancier paperwork. In both cases you go somewhere people used to live, dig up the place, and take their stuff. Sometimes their corpses too. Only difference is that paperwork."
"Buuuuuuuuuuuuut..." Aphra drew out the word. "That paperwork makes all the difference. See you get the same loot, and the same dead bodies if you're into that, but archaeologists take notes and verify their finds, which means their old, dead stuff is worth a lot more." Academically and monetarily. "They become artefacts, and you can learn from those, including where to find more artefacts.
"Still, much as I love the sound of my own voice, apparently I'm supposed to do introductions this week, so we'll do that then an exercise so you can understand what being an archaeologist is all about."
Aphra pointed to a random student. "You with the face. You're first. Who are you? Why are you here? What's in your pockets?"
Which didn't even have holoprojecters. Honestly.
Once it looked like she had roughly the right number of students, Aphra turned the chair at the front desk around and flopped down into it backward, forearms dangling over the backrest.
"I'm Doctor Aphra and given some of the things I've been hearing I should probably assure you that I'm actually qualified to teach this subject," she began. "Which is archaeology in case some of you just dropped in because you're bored.
"But what is archaeology?" She drummed her fingers against the chair. "Well, essentially it's grave-robbing with fancier paperwork. In both cases you go somewhere people used to live, dig up the place, and take their stuff. Sometimes their corpses too. Only difference is that paperwork."
"Buuuuuuuuuuuuut..." Aphra drew out the word. "That paperwork makes all the difference. See you get the same loot, and the same dead bodies if you're into that, but archaeologists take notes and verify their finds, which means their old, dead stuff is worth a lot more." Academically and monetarily. "They become artefacts, and you can learn from those, including where to find more artefacts.
"Still, much as I love the sound of my own voice, apparently I'm supposed to do introductions this week, so we'll do that then an exercise so you can understand what being an archaeologist is all about."
Aphra pointed to a random student. "You with the face. You're first. Who are you? Why are you here? What's in your pockets?"
Re: Introductions - ArchFun [01]
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"How psycho?"
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Because that sounded like one particular guy's severe anger management issues...
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"Might've been."
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And boy, had swinging that been fun.
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"How'd you manage that?" Mara asked, eyes wide.
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"Let him know just how much I didn't want the airlock when I wasn't useful any more," she said. "Then danced along that line of usefulness until the right moment came." A very fine line indeed, Aphra unconsciously rubbed her neck as she remembered that Force choke.