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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] upforachase.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Cordy just sped up, because demons are scary and the only weapon she had at hand was a backpack filled with doughnuts. Unfortunately for Cordy, when she glanced over her shoulder just to make double sure that there wasn't a demon, she tripped over a loose rock and went tumbling to the ground.

[identity profile] lovelylana.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Lana snatched up the backpack and took off towards the camp once more. However, she was laughing so hard by this point that she didn't know how far she'd manage to get before she had to stop and catch her breath.

[identity profile] upforachase.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Cordelia quickly got up, cursing in some ways that she was pretty sure would get her detention if a teacher heard.

She forced herself to speed up even more, even though she was now sore and laughing uncontrollably. "Give me the doughnuts and no one gets hurt!" she yelled, gaining on Lana.

[identity profile] lovelylana.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Lana laughed so hard at that that she did need to sit down to catch her breath. "Can we call this a draw?" she asked, wiping the tears from her eyes. "I'll give you half my donuts."

[identity profile] upforachase.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Cordelia sat down beside her, laughing as well. "Thank goodness, because I really didn't want to run anymore. Yay, half the doughnuts!"

[identity profile] lovelylana.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"We'll bring them into camp together and each get half credit. And donuts, of course!" Lana grinned at her. "I wonder if all the Scoobying classes will be this much fun - and this strenuous."

[identity profile] upforachase.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Cordelia laughed. "Knowing Xander, yes, probably. He is a fan of the fun and making people work harder than he has to. But it's good to see that he's bringing his expertise to work for him," she said. "I've eaten many a Xander-fetched doughnut in my day."

[identity profile] lovelylana.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ah, so normally he's the one fetching the donuts!" Lana laughed again. "This is going to be a great class!"

[identity profile] upforachase.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, he kind of cornered that niche back in Sunnydale," Cordy said, more than happy to spread that around.

[identity profile] lovelylana.livejournal.com 2006-05-23 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good to know," Lana replied with a smile. "And something to keep in mind if things get too crazy in the class."