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.]



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Earn Your Doughnuts!

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"For every reason you can come with why doughnuts -- yes, fritters count -- could be useful to a team of any kind, you get to pick one out. You can also grab one if you can tell us why being the dude sent to fetch them actually makes you the lucky one.

There's empty boxes here for you to put 'em in, because you don't get to chow down yet."

Sing out, argue with each other, grab your rightfully-earned treats and pack 'em away. Though you can probably get away with nibbling if Xander's back is turned...

Random Chatter at J,GoB

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Talk amongst yourselves. As you do.

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Now that you've got your box of doughnuts and you know why they -- and you -- are so important? You have to get 'em home to your team. But it's not so easy, because only half of you get to be brave doughnut defenders. The other half are going to be trying to stop you, as you run back to camp holding your booty treasure aloft.

Doughnut Dudes (Dude is totally a gender-neutral word, okay?) Whatever you make it back to camp with? You get to keep. As long as you don't come home empty-handed, you're the hero of the day. Zack Addy Bridge Carson Z Delgado Hermione Granger Lana Lang Cindy MacKenzie Draco Malfoy Nadia Santos

Evil Pastry Thieves You get to keep the ones you earned (but you have to carry 'em while you try to steal more, so if you drop them down a gully, oops) plus anything you can steal from the brave defenders as you chase them back to camp. If you can't see yourself as a criminal? It's totally okay to tell yourself you're liberating them from the pastry oppressors to take back to your own starving team. D'anna Biers Cordelia Chase Rory Gilmore James Jude Lizowski Jamie Madrox Blair Sandburg Shiro {Yup, I know he's not around, but Xander doesn't. Is cool.}

Grab your boxes, make sure your shoes are laced tight, and run! Steal, defend, avoid, make your way home. No beating each other up, though. In real life, doughnuts might be that important, but this is just a simulation.

Back at Camp

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In front of the dining hall, there just might be a table set up with more boxes of doughnuts, for anybody who got all theirs stolinated or eaten by bears.

Talk to Xander (In-character)

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*collapsinates, much like the sign-in threads. In theory.*