fandomhigh | Multidimensional Economics; Friday, First Period [12/04].

Since the classroom sim for the Danger Shop wasn't just for irony these days, that was what the students (and guests!) were being given for their setting for class this week. And it was definitely set up like you'd expect a high school classroom in a typical high school to be decorated for a holiday party, with streamers and some cardboard decorations just stuck to the wall and a plastic Christmas tree banner hung over the blackboard. But all the desks were shoved aside to make space in the center of the classroom, the main desk at the front had a festie tablecloth on it, as well as tons of canisters of shrimp-flavored Pringles and jello (sorry, kids, you were definitely getting non-alcoholic ones because ohmygod, no), and then there was a long table at the other end of the room with four chair proudly declared the Judges' Table with a big banner.

Oh, and eggnog. Soooo much eggnog.

And Summer, dressed appropriately in just one of the terrible sweaters she would be wearing that day, beamed at everyone as it was time to get started.

"Sooooo," she started, "as you all may have gathered from Nina's email, today's class is going to focus on competition. Namely, an ugly Christmas sweater competition, in which you all have the opportunity to present a case to our helpful panel of judges," she gestured to the judges table, where she herself would be soon sitting along with Iris, Tisarwat, and Cait Sith, because all of those choices made perfect sense for judging a holiday sweater contest, "as to why we should pick yours as the worst-best sweater of the bunch! Now, since this is economics, there is an opportunity to do a little trading here, albeit something generally frowned upon: bribery. There's plenty of jello and shrimp chips to use to maybe grease the palms of the judges or maybe convince your fellow competitors to drop out. Or maybe you want to run a nice smooth clean and honest competition. Who knows? It's up to you and all your fellow students. You'll have some time before the competition to figure it out and get ready, and then we're off, and we'll announce a winner at the end. Any questions? Just remember, have fun, take some time to admire each other's sweaters and get ready, and then we'll begin."

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Ask questions if you've got 'em. Mingle with your friends and fellow competitors. Size up the competition and make your plans to try to throw the judges somehow or try to convince everyone to play nice and fair for this thing.

Or just hang out and enjoy jello, because this is mostly just an excuse for you all to have a classroom-appropriate ugly sweater contest amongst yourselves.

One good thing about your radio co-host also being your teacher is that, when you admitted you didn't have a Christmas sweater for class that day on account of not supposed to celebrate Christmas, she could help you out!

So while Troy's sweater was not really traditionally ugly at all, he was pretty sure it was still pretty ugly in the eyes of Jehovah, and that was good enough for him. He was new to all of this Christmas stuff, baby steps seemed like a good idea.

Nina had gone all out with her hot mess of an outfit today because, like, once the competitive spirit was engaged it was impossible to turn off.

Her leggings were hilarious---to her---and while the shirt couldn't been seen under her sweater, the skirt was plainly visible and it was a life choice, sure. Her earrings were legit cute and going to be worn again this season.

But the real thing that brought her outfit to life? Her ugly sweater.

She was almost impressed with herself for having the nerve to wear it.

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