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soldtoarmenians ([personal profile] soldtoarmenians) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2006-05-23 12:07 pm
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Scoobying Workshop #1, Afternoon 5/23/2006 (Held at Jeff, God of Biscuits today)

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A note was handwavily left at each cabin door this morning, letting the campers know where to meet, and that they should dress in shoes they don't mind running in, and clothes they don't mind getting jelly on.

Now, three tables along the window opposite the pastry cases are pushed together and covered with open white boxes of doughnuts. Yeast, cake, cruller, bearclaw, jelly, custard, cream puff and eclair, with sprinkles and without, they're all there. Chairs are arranged in a semi-circle around the boxes, and -- contain your shock -- where there are doughnuts, there's Xander. Once everybody's settled down, he grins, and holds up a cinnamon-powdered doughnut.

"This is Scoobying 101; I'm Xander Harris. Well, actually, this is a doughnut and I'm Xander, but the other way sounded more impressive. "

"Being a Scooby is more of a way of life than a thing you can hold up or chow down on." He takes a bite by way of demonstration. And politely actually swallows it before continuing. "It's a word we used back home to describe the gang of mostly -- hi there, Cordy - normal people who ended up helping out one of our friends who's kind of a superhero."

"The thing is, the girl in question's megastrong and martial-artsy...and impressively bendy... but she still ended up needing help from her friends, and we all found things we were good at that we could help with. And that's the deal here: not everybody has the flashy powers or the big guns or the superspy training, but everybody has something they can do to help. Hopefully by the end of the workshop you'll have an idea what that is for you, or at least know how to start looking."

"First day, I figured why not start small - and you can't get much smaller than the guy who makes the doughnut run, right? Trust me, I speak from experience." He picks up one of the boxes of doughnuts and models his impressive doughnut-box-carrying talents. "But the idea is to get you thinking about how to make the best use out of the skills you have, no matter how little or lame you may believe they are. "

"So today you have to figure out what's not lame about being the doughnut guy. In exchange you get...well." He points at the obvious -- though if it's not obvious or you're busy looking out the window, that'd be the baked goods. "If you can handle the job."

[ETA: You don't actually have to get your doughnut-reasons approved. ;-) Xander will wander in and out, but absolutely assume any reason you come up with is a good one, and mod your own doughnuts like the sneaky little doughnutmodders I know you all are.]



[OPEN! Welcome; plz find dork within.]

[identity profile] lovechildblair.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Blair took his box and tried to image the doughnut dudes as minions of The Man.

"I can totally do this."

[identity profile] dude-its-jude.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Jude stopped his skateboard, doughnut box firmly taped to the front for safe keeping, and held up a fist. "Ready to rock, bro?"

[identity profile] lovechildblair.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Blair shook his head sadly. "Man, Draco (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/875729.html?thread=41400017#t41400017) already made off with my donuts."

[identity profile] dude-its-jude.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Dude, you're supposed to be the one stealing the doughnuts," Jude chuckled.

[identity profile] lovechildblair.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"I know, man!" Blair huffed. "He totally tricked me with the whole 'your shoelace is untied' bit."

"And I'm wearing sandals!"

[identity profile] dude-its-jude.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"You can totally have some of my doughnuts when we get back," Jude offered, still chuckling a little over Blair's bad luck. "I plan to strike quickly and like a ninja and hopefully not end up on my face."

[identity profile] lovechildblair.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good for you, man." Blair nodded. "Besides, I think that it's probably bad karma for me to even pretend to steal."

[identity profile] dude-its-jude.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Jude blinked. "Doughnuts aren't meant to be owned by any one man, dude," he said mellowly. "They are meant to be common property. We're liberating doughnuts for the good of all."

[identity profile] lovechildblair.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Dude, it's a good argument, but I've gotten in trouble over that before. The Man doesn't really go for the common property excuse very often."

[identity profile] dude-its-jude.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Jude shrugged. "Don't let the Man get you down, bro." He patted him on the shoulder before stepping on the board behind his box. "I'm goin' for it." It was kinda scary how focused Jude could be on doughnut-thievery . . .

[identity profile] lovechildblair.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Go get 'em, man!" Blair cheered him on.

[identity profile] dude-its-jude.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Jude gave him a thumbs up and he was off, picking up speed probably far faster than was entirely safe.