Summer Session 2, Scoobying Workshop #1, Afternoon 7/11/2006 (Held at Jeff, God of Biscuits today)

[soldtoarmenians]

[Roster]

A note was handwavily left at each cabin door this morning along with an e-mail, to cover all bases, 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 bavarian creme. "This is Scoobying 101; for anybody who doesn't know me by now, I'm Xander Harris." He waves the doughnut, because by all means reduce, re-use and recycle, even or maybe especially when it comes to jokes. "Actually, this is a doughnut and I'm Xander; Scoobying would be the thing you're in besides a bakery."

"Scooby is... well, it's a word we used to describe the gang of mostly normal people who ended up helping out one of our friends who's---" If it looks like he's staring somewhat bemusedly towards the area where Buffy's sitting, it's only because he is. "--kind of a superhero."

"The thing is, the girl in question's megastrong and martial-artsy--" Yeah, he'll skip using 'bendy' as an adjective this time... "--but she still ended up needing help from her friends, and we all found things we were good at that we could help with.

"So 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."

"It makes sense to start out small, though - 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."

[OPEN LIKE A BOX OF DOUGHNUTS. Posted early because work is going to be wacky this week and next, so I have no idea when I'll be able to ping in.]

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Doughnut Run!

[soldtoarmenians]

"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 "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." JC Broots Angela Chase Hamlet Dane Jr. M. Parker Buffy Summers River Tam

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." Veruca Cally Marie D'Ancanto Isabel Evans Setsuna Sakurazaki Dawn Summers "And since evil's a little shorthanded today, if we happen to have any people NOT IN THIS WORKSHOP who are thus TOTALLY NOT HERE, they might consider jumping in to play on this side. Just sayin'."

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. Or yourselves, and you can all thank Nadia Santos for that addition to the rules. In real life, doughnuts might be that important, but this is just a simulation.

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[chasingangela]

Angela gripped her donuts tightly and walked quickly and steadily towards the camp.

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel caught up to Angela and casually fell in step with her. "Angela! Welcome back! Sorry I didn't get a chance to say hi in Cooking yesterday but you and Greg looked busy."

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[chasingangela]

"Isabel, hey!," Angela said. "Greg seemed really cute. Congratulations."

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Thanks," Isabel smiled, blushing slightly. "He's really sweet. I got lucky. So how was your trip?"

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[chasingangela]

"Good," Angela said. "I mean, mostly. Tahiti is gorgrous, and it was actually nice to see my folks. I hear things here have been insane as usual?"

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[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy gathered her donuts and ran towards the camp. She paused briefly though, because, yum! Donuts.

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[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

A moment of hesitation is a moment of defeat.

Sakurazaki drops silently from a tree in which she'd lept into, straightening to tap Buffy on one shoulder while quickly shifting to the other side in attempts to slip the box of donuts from Buffy's arms. As a ninja does.

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[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Sakurazaki nearly made it! But Buffy held on tightly to the box as she turned her head, so it didn't slip out out of her hands.

"You!" said Buffy. "Evil ninja girl!"

And then the mighty donut box struggle began?

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[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Evil! Sakurazaki takes a moment of offence at that until she remembers, oh, yeah, she was supposed to play evil right now. So she lets out a very fake evil laugh and declared, "That's right! So give me the doughnuts and no one gets hurt."

Of course, she had no intention of even trying to hurt Buffy, but it sounded like an evil thing to say. For the most part, she just grapples the box as best she can, pulling slightly and trying to figure out how exactly she could come out victorious in such a struggle without causing too many doughnut casualties.

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[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy giggled, then quickly sobered, because this was serious business! There was one jelly donut that was looking to be a casualty of war.

"No! Never! I shall do my duty!" Buffy exclaimed, in a confused idea of it being proper hero talk.

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[dorky-broots.livejournal.com]

Broots grabbed his box and then took out some wire from his pockets. He used the wire to make sure the box wouldn't randomly open up and then added a handle. His plan for getting to the destination? Trying to sneak by unnoticed.

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[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Marie walked over to the boy and wondered if she could distract him by playing the helpless female.

"Excuse me," she said. "I'm lost. Can you help me find my way?"

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[dorky-broots.livejournal.com]

Broots tightend his grip on the wires. "Er, the school is that way?" He pointed in the direction of the building.

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[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

"Would you mind escorting me?" Marie asked plaintively. "I've heard there are sometimes weird and scary things in this town and I'd feel safer if I didn't have to walk alone."

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[dorky-broots.livejournal.com]

"Um..." Broots glanced at his watch. "Well, see, I'm kind of in class right now. If you could wait like an hour and a half, I'll be more than happy to. But really, it's daylight so I doubt anything that scary is out."

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[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker's got her box of doughnuts, fritters, and cupcakes. Plus she has wicked looking boots and an evil glare. She left J,GoB looking right, left and behind her for trouble.

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[swerval_zero]

Zero stepped in front of Parker, wielding her mallet and wearing her kicking boots. "Right, give me the doughnuts."

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[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Right." Parker held out the box-- the quickly put it on top of her head, grasping it tightly and added, "Not a chance."

Then she turned to ruuuuuun down the stereet, jumping off the curb, yelling, "You'll never catch me! Never ever ever ever!" She zig-zagged around a rickshaw, stifling giggles as she headed toward the park. Hopefully she could lose Zero somewhere around the pond or in the trees. ever

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[swerval_zero]

"No fair being tall!" Zero yelled, then took off after Parker at full speed.

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[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker's balance was off with the pastries on her head, plus, not the easiest thing to run with, really. She managed not to fall down on the gravel path into the park, but had to slow down as she got closer to the duck pond, because the pastries were sliding around. "My team needs these, evildoer! You won't get them, not even with a menacing mallet!"

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[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River picked up a box of donuts. She wondered if Berthold would like them. Carrying the box under her arm she headed back to the camp. She chose the strategy of taking a detour.

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[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn sneaked like a sneaky thing after River. She wasn't sure whether that approach was necessary.

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[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

Someone was sneaking after her. River didn't know the girl. She pretended not to notice.

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[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

She continued following River. A few twigs snapped as she walked.