School Assembly, Wednesday, September 15, 2020

[sith_happened]

The auditorium looked like a regular auditorium, the chairs were arranged in a normal way and Anakin was pretty sure that the chance of teddy bear maiming was extremely minimal this week! He climbed up onto the stage and strode to the rostrum. "Hello again, students, and welcome to our third week of extremely productive and life-enriching talks. This week's is brought to you by two of our esteemed business leaders from town--Beau Lionett & Yasha Nydoorin--and they are hear to discuss with you--"

He reached for the cue card the office had provided, "--Using Your Destructive Tendencies for Fun and Profit! Wait."

Too late, Anakin, here come the speakers now!

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Re: Arrive and Mingle

[x_discospider_x]

"A board's got some weight to it," Troy allowed, "but a switch'll sting."

That was pretty hardcore that the rules were written on the board itself, though now Troy was wondering how they'd managed to fit all 3000 of them on there. With, like, maybe the tiniest writing ever.

But the smile Wei Wuxian had for his friend made Troy smile, too. "Do you miss it yet?" he wondered. "Home and your friends and stuff?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[toottootmagicflute]

"The discipline whips are worse, but those are for serious offenses," he said. His smile faded at the mention of home. "Yes, I miss them." But he pasted on a new smile. "I'm meeting lots of new people, though! What about you? Do you miss your home?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[x_discospider_x]

"Sometimes," Troy admitted, his brow furrowed a little as he wondered if maybe he should be misisng them a little more. "But this is sort of my first time actually away from home, so it's mostly just exciting and different, you know?"

And most of his friendships were all pretty superficial and based around the football he decided to leave behind.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[toottootmagicflute]

"What's your home like?" Wei Wuxian asked, curious to know about other worlds.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[x_discospider_x]

"There's...mountains," Troy offered, "...and inexplicably palm trees school. And my family. It's...pretty normal, especially compared to this place. Pretty good fro-yo, though! And there's a pretty good mall."

Okay, yeah, now that he was laying it all out in front of him, Troy did not feel all that bad about not missing it too much right now...

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[toottootmagicflute]

A whole other world, though! "What's a mall? What's fro-yo?" And, "what do you mean by 'normal'?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[x_discospider_x]

Troy shrugged a little. "I don't know," he said. "I guess that there's really nothing special about Riverside, or even the greater Greendale area, except that we've got two community colleges when, really, do you even need one? And fro-yo is frozen yogurt. It's not really that good? But it's popular." So naturally he felt inclined to like it. "And a mall is, like...a big building with a lot of shops in it, but I don't think a whole lot of people actually go there to shop, just to sort of hang out for a while?"

And he wasn't really surprised to hear that Wei Wuxian might be from somewhere that didn't even have a mall, but there was still a little sympathy in his expression for it.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[toottootmagicflute]

"A marketplace indoors? That's a clever idea! You could shop inside away from the rain and the sun," Wei Wuxian said. "What's a community college?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[x_discospider_x]

"It's..." Troy took a moment to consider the best way to describe it. "...like a regular college, but worse? And more...community-y? I'll probably end up going to one, since I probably lost out on my football scholarship with that keg flip." Here, he shook his head, to make sure to convey the proper amount of sadness for such an ill-fated tragedy. "Definitely Greendale over City College, though. Greendale has that commercial with the student who gives a thumbs up in a cool way."

Which, of course, meant Troy would have to demonstrate that cool way, cheesy grin and all, for Wei Wuxian, and then he'd totally get it, too.