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

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."

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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'!)

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

The paper Arden had pulled read:

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

Oh gosh, was anybody really from around here, though?

Arden looked around, trying to get a feel for her fellow classmates.

Steve reached for a piece of paper because participation was important!

The paper Steve had pulled read:

from Canada, plays guitar, has a 'charm'ing personality, and has a lot of aunts

Steve ~~who can totally ping in the correct spot sometimes but not today~~ smiled at the slip of paper. He'd listened to radio enough--and had met the person in question--to know who this was.

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

The paper Irene had pulled read:

Male, white, military vet.

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.

The paper Amaya had pulled read:

I'm taking a class at this school.

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

The paper Gray had pulled read:

I am right-handed

- My birthday is 15/3/82

- I am an only child.

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

The paper Humphrey had pulled read:

I'm a Virgo

I'm allergic to bronze

I was homeschooled from 3rd grade till I came to Fandom

I'm creepy good at mimicry

I usually wake up around dawn, but I don't get out of bed for another hour or two.

Charlie reached into the hat with a grin.

The paper Charlie had pulled read:

Is fond of riddles and puzzles and games
Lived in London and the Caribbean before coming to Fandom
Has no siblings
Has a concussion more than half a dozen times

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