Ethics, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 [1st period]

[sith_happened]

Anakin was at the front of the room with a huge, empty bowl in front of him. There were equally empty bowls in front of all of the students.

"Because I'm not all terrible," Anakin began with a tiny smile, "I've brought chocolate pudding for everyone. My bowl, of course, is too big for me to finish, so if you need more after you're done with the portion in front of you, feel free to come up and get some more. If you are lactose intolerant or allergic to chocolate, I have other options, too."

Of nothing. Because there was literally nothing in the bowls, kids. "Feel free to share with each other, too!"

Was there an ethical lesson here today? Of course. Anakin was just...testing to see how you all reacted.

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Sign in 9/11

[sith_happened]

Confused.

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[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Tisarwat

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[following_my_fishie]

Del

Right, so...lecture.

[sith_happened]

Talk to each other! Maybe someone really does have something in their bowl? Maybe Anakin has something in his bowl? Maybe it's just invisible space pudding? Maybe Anakin has lost his ever-loving mind?

And if he really does think there's pudding here, what do you do now? Indulge him? Confront him? Pull a Congress and collectively ignore it?

Re: Right, so...lecture.

[following_my_fishie]

Delirium was wearing a big swishy cloak over her eyeblinding pirate outfit today. The effect didn't really work but that wasn't going to stop her from entering the classroom in a series of spins to try to make it billow and swish!

Which left her sort of wobbly and giggling with the dizziness when she reached her desk and plunked down in the seat.

She looked at the empty bowl and smiled because yay, invisible puddings were the best! But.. there was a problem.

"Hey!" she piped up, "You didn't give us any spoons!"

Re: Right, so...lecture.

[sith_happened]

"You don't need a spoon to eat pudding," Anakin declared.

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[mother_forker]

"Dude. Apparently I'm done and I haven't even started?" Eleanor said holding up her empty bowl. "Also it's like... 8 am. Who eats pudding at 8 am?"

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[sith_happened]

"Everyone eats pudding at 8 am!" Anakin declared loudly. And he was married to Rory Gilmore, so that might not even have been for effect. "Pudding is an any time food!"

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[legionqueen]

Jules looked at her own bowl. Glanced sideways at those of her classmates. Peered at Anakin’s.

And then, slowly, raised her hand to ask the question that was foremost on her mind.

Re: Right, so...lecture.

[unusual_sith]

Lana waited; if Jules was going to ask the obvious, she was curious what answer she might get.

Re: Right, so...lecture.

[sith_happened]

"What?" Anakin asked, sounding testy.

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[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Nearly everything about this world was strange and unusual to Tisarwat, so, blinking into an empty bowl, she really didn't know what to think. For all she knew, this really did pass as pudding on this odd little planet, but she was also thinking perhaps the Dean was merely trying to pull one on the class.

Hardly as dire of an ethical dilemma as, say, granting mercy to a defiant planet or destroying it. Tisarwat looked up, sending her lilac eyes around to her classmate to guage what they were doing before deciding on her own approach.

Re: Right, so...lecture.

[unusual_sith]

Lana caught her gaze and just shrugged. Nope, this wasn't normal to her, either.

Re: Right, so...lecture.

[unusual_sith]

There...was nothing in any of their bowls. Not even invisible pudding, unless it was also invisible to the Force.

"Is your pudding somewhere else?" she asked.

Re: Right, so...lecture.

[sith_happened]

"Of course not," Anakin said. "It's right there."

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[handystand]

Okuyasu looked at his seemingly empty bowl, then the empty bowls of his classmates.

'...is this the work of an enemy stand?' was the thought that ran through his head.

And then he stuck his finger directly into the bowl, originally with some trepidation, but then with more confusion as he didn't touch invisible pudding. Because he was expecting invisible pudding.

He then went quiet. This seemed like a test and he wasn't going to be the one who rocked this boat.

Re: Right, so...lecture.

[goldfishontherocks]

Keyleth looked into her bowl. Then glanced around at everyone else's.

Then up at Anakin.

"Um, Master Skywalker . . ." She was frowning slightly at him in visible, earnest concern. "Are you okay?"

Re: Right, so...lecture.

[sith_happened]

"Of course I am," Anakin said, nodding.

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

"I hate this," Sabine announced. And she trusted none of it.

Re: Right, so...lecture.

[mylandmyrules]

Nell looked at her empty bowl, looked at her classmates empty bowls, and deduced that Professor Skywalker's bowl was probably empty, too, and just shrugged.

And waited.

Re: Right, so...lecture.

[grandpoobah]

Grog was preeetty sure their teacher's cheese had slid off his cracker, but he didn't want to be rude, so "play along" it was. "Uh, excuse me?" he said slowly, "I have a rather large appetite, being such a large person and all, so I appear to have eaten all of my pudding. Could I maybe have some more?"

Re: Right, so...lecture.

[raisedbybooklice]

"There's no pudding in here," Elisabeth said, irritated. She had been promised food and then there wasn't any. "No matter how many times you say there is and get all grumpy-faced, that doesn't change the fact that there isn't."

Re: Right, so...lecture.

[gospel_of_oblivion]

Illyana looked at the teacher who'd clearly lost it, down at her bowl, and back at the teacher.

Then flipped her bowl upside-down to use as a head-rest, and proceeded to take a nap on it, like an odd pillow. It was softer than a rock, so good enough.

Talk to Anakin

[sith_happened]

If that's the path you choose to take.

OOC

[sith_happened]

Cough. Hurricanes. Cough.