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Students would arrive to find Ghanima regarding them skeptically, Trebor balanced on her hip as he attempted to eat her hair.

"Capitalism is destroying your city, and you are showing up to class," she said dryly. "What part of 'assassination is a tool to bring down unjust systems' have you all not yet absorbed from my lessons?"

Her suite at the Arms was now a Motel 6. This was unacceptable.

"I hope you wore walking shoes, because Trebor and I are going into town, to find and evaluate potential targets. If you want to stay here and continue your mental vacation from last week, I did bring a movie you can stay and watch, but I will be disappointed in you."

Ghanima marched over to the DVD player and hit 'play' before heading to the door, deftly removing her hair from Trebor's mouth and instead offering him a... wooden toy shaped like a knife.

"Chew on that instead, dearest," she said absently. "Come along then, those of you who'd like to be productive. If we can't find a shadowy cabal behind all this we can string-up, perhaps we can find a formerly-abandoned warehouse turned McDonalds that you can burn down in a collaboration with Professor Beaker."

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Rage against the machine!

Lana Beniko

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Arden Finch

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You have two options to choose from today for your class...

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For those that would rather lounge in the safety of the school, there's a movie for you to watch or fall asleep during...

Ghanima set out briskly from the classroom, not bothering to see if anyone was following her.

"Eyes and minds sharp, please," she said, not slowing down as they exited the building towards the North Gate and turned on to Loon Drive. "We are going to catalog which stores in town have changed into something else, and I'd like you all to keep your eyes out for anything more suspicious than usual."

"Feel free to break off from the group if you'd like, but your homework -- due next week -- will be to tell me about your reconnaissance of the situation."

"I am going to cover the east part of the island first, then south, and over to west. Now, let's go."

[OOC: Go nuts! Feel free to ping off each other, break into teams, make observations, plan arson...]

Lana had nothing in particular against capitalism, but she didn't much care for whatever permutation of it this was, so she was perfectly ready to hunt down something.

She eyed the TV-headed people. "How aggressive do you think they'd have to get before it would be socially acceptable here to decapitate them?"

"I don't think they've shown much sentience, as far as I'm aware," she answered, eyes flickering towards the nearest ones. "The moment they get aggressive with students, is the last moment they have free movement."

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind, multiple residents of Ghanima's Other Memory hissed, all of them on-edge around so many not-faces.

"I wonder if they're all individual units, or networked to each other," she mused aloud, tightening her grip on Trebor just slightly. "I'm sure we'll find out."

"Probably at the least opportune moment," Lana agreed. "Perhaps some of us should patrol the dorms."

"The dorms have their own defenses, but perhaps offering an escort service for students from the dorms to school or town wouldn't be a terrible idea," Ghanima replied. "Not that I think many of them will take us up on it."

"The students tend to be terribly independent."

"I remember," Lana said somewhat fondly. "Perhaps I'll just patrol a bit, then."

Listen, Arden would one day be an urban fantasy protagonist, but right now she was just a girl who'd had 'keep your head down or you will die, this is not a joke or exaggeration' drilled into her since she'd been a child. So the idea of running towards danger seemed like ~~some real white people nonsense~~ a terrible idea.

But.

Arden was also a people pleasure and she really respected Ms. Ghanima and this didn't seem like it was actually dangerous or anything yet. Which made this more an investigation than anything else. And that was right up her alley.

"Had anyone seen where these things come from?" she asked. "Do they have shifts? Power down? Is there any way we can follow them back to where they came from." She looked thoughtful. "Also, they don't seem super bright. I bet it'd be really easy to trap them if we wanted to."

"All excellent questions!" Ghanima encouraged, nodding at Arden. "From what I've heard, no source has been found, but that could be determined if a way is found to track them."

"Perhaps a round of paintball? Tag a few with colors to tell them apart, and track them from there? While maintaining a distance, of course, to prevent them becoming aggressive or in case they are indeed intelligent."

They are around, before class and during the walk!

Look, Ghanima's here for Waffle House, she thinks it's fantastic. But NOT her housing accommodations.

The History of Assassination. Wednesday, First Period [10/25]

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During the Lecture

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Class Option: Assassination Research

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Talk to Ghanima & Trebor

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