Monday - Period One: Fuck Yeah! Science!

[badassprodigy]

Instructions had been sent out in handwavily means to tell all students to meet Barry at the park. When they arrived there they would find Barry had set up a few tables. One of them had various breakfast foods and beverages because it was fucking Monday morning and who wanted to deal with an 8:00 am class on an empty stomach? The second table had composition notebooks and a bunch of research materials on dinosaurs available.

The final table was off limits and had a sheet draped over it. Behind it was a very large tent.

"Morning. I'm Barry Ween and I was student much like yourself a few years ago," he said cheerfully once everyone had gathered. "So you're probably either an old hand at this or totally freaked out by now. My advice? Embrace the weird and your life will get a lot easier for you. Welcome to Fuck Yeah! Science! The whole point here is to have fun and make sure you learn something as well."

"Normally the first class is all about introductions. But fuck that. I'm turning all you motherfuckers into dinosaurs."

[ETA: Dinosaur icons are on the OOC thread if you need them]

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Sign in

[badassprodigy]

Like it's a Monday.

Re: Sign in

[howareyanow]

Wayne

Re: Sign in

[white_oleander]

Astrid Magnussen

Lecture

[badassprodigy]

Grab some food. Mingle. Wonder why your teacher swears so much.

Re: Lecture

[sparkinyou]

Wait. Did he say that he was turning them into dinosaurs?

What the hell is this school?

Re: Lecture

[howareyanow]

This was a helluva way to start a semester, and Wayne wasn't quite sure how he felt about it, eyes narrowed, arms crossed, squinting at the table with a reserved skepticism about the whole thing.

Oh, sure, he'd do it. He knew he'd wind up doing it. If it weren't of his own volition, it'd be out of the influence of knowing full well who else was in this class, so now it was a matter of whether or not he wanted to make sure and do it on his own volition, or give her the potential satisfaction of 'convincing' him toward the inevitable.

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[complexfemale]

Two very important things: did he just call them all motherfuckers, and what dud he mean by "dinosaurs"?

He couldn't really mean dinosaurs.

Re: Lecture

[thishouseishaunted]

"I'm gonna be a DINOSAUR???" Mae shrieked.

This was definitely the best class ever.

Re: Lecture

[thebeastofhouston]

Drinking a mystery liquid that would change your shape, huh? Arabella had some concerns. Arabella had several concerns.

Re: Lecture

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"...But I just turned back!" Julius said, a bit plaintively.

Re: Lecture

[badassprodigy]

Barry gave Julius a nod of understanding, "Hey, you're not required to drink it. That's up to you and it's not going to affect your grade one bit. You'll just have to write an essay instead."

Dinosaur!

[badassprodigy]

Barry took the sheet of the final table revealing various vials.

"So, these vials contain a fluid that you can drink which will turn you into a dinosaur. These over here will turn you into a dinosaur for an hour. These over here will turn you into a dinosaur for four hours in case you don't have classes or work and just want to hang out in the park and be a motherfucking dinosaur."

"You will still have your intelligence. You can still talk normally. And if any of you jokers get an idea to eat anyone or get violent," Barry held up a small handheld device that looked like a raygun. "I'm turning you back to normal and you get detention."

He pointed to a large tent he had set up behind him. "You can go in there to change out of your clothes and drink the fluid in the vials so you don't ruin your clothes and walk around naked in front of everyone."

He pointed at the table full of composition notebooks. "Make sure you take one of these when you're done being a dinosaur and write about the experience. You'll be keeping these notebooks for all your classes with me."

Re: Dinosaur!

[white_oleander]

Astrid definitely had her reservations about this, but it didn't take long for her to reason that it wasn't any stranger than some of the other stuff that had happened to her here. She'd also had enough experience that, even though this was a new and unfamiliar teacher, that nothing was likely going to happen that would possibly go too wrong, right? And what would be the worse to happen if it did? She'd spend the rest of her life as a dinosaur, roaming the preserve, helping to manage to population growth of teal deer and alots. Seemed at least a little more exciting than being a lamb.

This would definitely be a story, too, and a possible source of inspiration for some new art, and it was miles ahead of the science lab she'd nearly fallen asleep in half the time back at Fairfax.

So now this was a thing, and the first thing she thought of now that she was a dinosaur emerging from the tent was how difficult it would be to paint with short arms and claws and whether there was enough prehensile ability in her tail to hold a paintbrush.

Re: Dinosaur!

[badassprodigy]

Barry gave Astrid some applause when she stepped out. "You look good... whoever you are," he said with a grin. "How do you feel?"

Re: Dinosaur!

[scoffs_at_tradition]

Shuri held up her tablet. "Do I have to use paper like some sort of refugee from the 1700s?" she asked.

Re: Dinosaur!

[badassprodigy]

"No. For you? You have to use a rock and another rock to chisel out your notes," Barry joked. "Use whatever the fuck you want as long as you can get it to me."

Re: Dinosaur!

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae had zero hesitation about this. Zero. She was grabbing that four-hour vial almost before Barry finished talking, and bolting towards the changing tent.

SHE WAS A MFING DINOSAUR! She had a club for a tail! There were SPIKES GROWING OUT OF HER BACK.

"THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY EVER!!!!"

Re: Dinosaur!

[thebeastofhouston]

"What's in this?" Arabella asked warily, pointing at one of the vials.

Don't want to be a dinosaur?

[badassprodigy]

"And if you don't like the idea of genetic manipulation," he said pointing at the table full of research. "You can just read some books and write an essay on a dinosaur of your choosing."

Re: Don't want to be a dinosaur?

[sparkinyou]

Miles... was definitely not in a head space to turn into anything. Nope.

So for him? It was to the table where he started working on a deliberately bad essay on dinosaurs.

Re: Don't want to be a dinosaur?

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

Oh thank god. Between not being sure how this stuff would work with his actual genetics or the seal his mother had put on him and being over transformations in general, Julius was just going to sidle over to the books.

An essay. A simple and blessed essay. Here for it.

Meet/Talk to the TA

[badassprodigy]

"Shuri, you're the randomly chosen TA. Congratulations."

Re: Meet/Talk to the TA

[scoffs_at_tradition]

Shuri was definitely enjoying her time as a dinosaur and was just sad that her little dino arms were too short to use for a selfie.

T'Challa would lose it. It would be so great.

Talk to Barry

[badassprodigy]

He's there for you.

OOC

[badassprodigy]

So the world doesn't end.

ETA: So tired I forgot to add stuff. Like these icons if you guys want them when you change into a dinosaur.