So You Want to Be a Detective; Friday, First Period [01/12].

[died8yearsago]

The danger shop was set up like the bullpen of a police station, one that looked suspiciously like the fourth floor of the Nine-Nine, because who the hell was going to recognize it as such anyway? Rosa was sitting, arms folded, on 'her' old desk, waiting for everyone to come in, and offering a cup filled with pens for everyone to grab one if they didn't already have one.

Which, this was a class, you idiots, why are you coming to class without a goddamn pen?

Either that, or they were just taking it to fit in or be nice, which was almost as bad.

But that was neither here nor there and mostly just a little test for Rosa's amusement. She looked at everyone gathered around, looked at the clock, and sighed. Well. Time to get to it.

"So," she said, "you want to be a detective."

Heeeey, she said the class name!

"Or," she said, giving a glance to the stupid amount of people in this room right now that already had that title, "you already are and you want an easy grade for class that doesn't matter in a school that doesn't really do grades, or you just want to pick up some good skills from one of the best damn detectives we got around here. Or maybe you just think it would be fun because you like true crime or solving mysteries, or whatever reason you took this class, here's how it's going to go, more often than not: each week, we'll have a case, you'll try and figure it out, maybe there will be some particular method or details to focus on, but right now, for our first class, our mysteries are each other.

"Now, I'm the last person to tell you the importance of knowing who you're working with; I don't even know if I could be bothered to tell you the names of my two employees, to be honest." This was false, of course, but not the point. "But I do support investigating the people you're working with. It's good practice and you can find out some really weird shit. We're not doing full on dark web deep dives today, though, just a little bullshit get-to-know-you ice breaker in lieu of the usual introductions.

"Here's what I want." She hopped off the desk and started handing out slips of paper. "Write a few facts about yourself on these papers, we're going to throw them all into a hat. Then you're going to pick a random one from the hat, and your job is to figure out who that is on the paper. We'll start you out with some light investigative work, especially since this is a very small island where we already know each other pretty well, anyway. So, take five minutes, think of something good, and then we'll get started."

Comments

Sign In - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[died8yearsago]

Like a detective!

Re: Sign In - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[grenadesandohana]

Steve McGarrett

Re: Sign In - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Arden Finch

Listen to the Lecture - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[died8yearsago]

Questions? Comments? Concerns?

You could also just ignore Rosa for the most part and start rifling through desk drawers, although, depending on whose desk you get, you might regret that.

Oh, and, yes, there's coffee and doughnuts.

Not because Rosa is nice, though, just because she thinks it's funny.

Re: Listen to the Lecture - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[grenadesandohana]

Steve said yest to coffee and no to donuts and then tried to find the neatest/least potentially sticky desk to sit behind.

Re: Listen to the Lecture - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Arden sat down, trying to figure out what that weird smell was, and tried her best to eat a donut without touching anything more on the desk than she absolutely had to.

Re: Listen to the Lecture - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[napking]

Gray helped himself to the doughnuts and ignored the coffee. Gross, coffee.

He also might be going through someone's desk drawers like the nosy little Nephilim he was.

Re: Listen to the Lecture - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[mess_and_i_are_friends]

Humphrey was definitely helping himself to some coffee and a doughnut and he was doing his absolute best not to spill anything on the desk... or the floor... or himself..

Class Activity: Draw from the Hat - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[died8yearsago]

Ping in as the hat gets passed around and find out what information you're going off of to find which classmate it refers to!

(Everyone should have gotten an email from me for submitting your data to create an element of surprise; if you haven't sent me info but want to, just hit me up and I'll add them to the 'hat'!)

Re: Class Activity: Draw from the Hat - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Arden reached in and grabbed a piece of paper from the hat.

Re: Class Activity: Draw from the Hat - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[died8yearsago]

The paper Arden had pulled read:

I'm not from around here.
I own a business.
I have pets.

Re: Class Activity: Draw from the Hat - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[begmetwice]

Irene, when it was her turn, reached a delicate pair of manicured fingers into the hat to select a paper.

Re: Class Activity: Draw from the Hat - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[special_rabbit]

Still looking fairly all too proud of her own contribution to the hat, Amaya reached in a gloved hand to pull out someone else's.

Re: Class Activity: Draw from the Hat - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[napking]

When his turn came around Gray stuck his hand in the hat and pulled out a piece of paper.

Re: Class Activity: Draw from the Hat - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[mess_and_i_are_friends]

Humphrey reached into the hat when it was his turn and pulled out a slip of paper. This was rather exciting wasn't it?

Re: Class Activity: Draw from the Hat - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[wildgalegirl]

Charlie reached into the hat with a grin.

Class Activity: Find your Classmate! - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[died8yearsago]

And now that you have your information to go off of, it's time to actually (ugh) interact with your classmates and see if you can figure out who you've picked from the hat!

Re: Class Activity: Find your Classmate! - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Tucking her paper into her pocket so nobody could see what she had and try to throw her off, Arden stood up and started trying to make idle chitchat with her fellow students.

Re: Class Activity: Find your Classmate! - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[special_rabbit]

"Oh, come on now!" said Amaya, who was looking incredulously at her paper and then almost accusingly at her fellow classmates, because that was...

She blinked.

....kind of brilliant, actually? And so now Amaya was considering them with the squinting eyes of trying to suss out who would be that clever and then trying to figure out if her first impulse was the correct one or just clearly some kind of bias at work here.

Re: Class Activity: Find your Classmate! - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[begmetwice]

Irene had a pretty good idea of who her information applied to, actually, just based on what she already knew and what she could...you know, see.

But she was still quite game to play along, and eyed her classmates to see if anyone non-obvious seemed like a military veteran.

Re: Class Activity: Find your Classmate! - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[napking]

Well, Gray's facts weren't the most helpful. You'd think a birth date would narrow things down, but this was Fandom, so he found himself wondering which '82, and if this person had skipped any years, and if they aged like a human, etc., but he thought he'd found a clue, and now he was studying his suspects trying to decide how to proceed.

Re: Class Activity: Find your Classmate! - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[grenadesandohana]

Steve was sure he knew his person, but he was going to refill his coffee and see who found him first.

Re: Class Activity: Find your Classmate! - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[mess_and_i_are_friends]

"Ok so this is an interesting list of clues indeed...." Humphrey mused as he studied the clues and then his fellow classmates for a moment

Talk to the Teacher - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[died8yearsago]

But do you really have to?

OOC - SYWTBAD, 01/12.

[died8yearsago]