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.]

Comments

Talk to Xander

[soldtoarmenians]

Questions? Comments? Cream horns?

Re: Sign in!

[swerval_zero]

"I thought I was in this class. Workshop. Thing. So should I just be evil?"

Re: Sign in!

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander blinked,flipped his laptop open and checked his roster. Nope. Then checked the student schedules. Yep. Buh? Then he checked the roster again, and lo, Zero's name had magically appeared.

"...Apparently you are. In the workshop, not evil. Except yeah, you should totally be evil. Because then we'll be even!"

It's the little things in life that please Xander.

Re: Sign in!

[swerval_zero]

Zero nodded and went off to be evil.

Re: Talk to Xander

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge bounces and waves, thus pretty much blowing any sneakiness whatsoever involved in crashing the workshop.

Re: Talk to Xander

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander snerks. "Very subtle there, complete stranger who is not here."

Re: Talk to Xander

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge sloooowly puts his hand down. And possibly looks a little sheepish.

"Yes. Hello."

Re: Talk to Xander

[soldtoarmenians]

"Want a completely non-existant eclair?"

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[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow would've been happy to help, except Zero was there and help was apparently not needed.

So she sat back with her sandwiches and waved if Xander happened to look in her direction.

Re: Talk to Xander

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Marie spotted her roommate and gave her a wave.

Re: Talk to Xander

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow waved back.

Re: Talk to Xander

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Fellow workshop-crasher!" Bridge says with a grin. "Hi!"

Re: Talk to Xander

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Bridge!" Willow said with a wave. "How's it going?"

Re: Talk to Xander

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Pretty good," Bridge bounces. "Got no workshops of my own today, so I'm following your example and being toooootally not here."

Re: Talk to Xander

[soldtoarmenians]

Sometime after she'd finished talking with Bridge, the last of the students had taken off on their doughnut runs, and Xander had the chance to wander back and talk to Willow.

"What were you and Bridge looking so plotty about," he asked with a grin, bringing a box of assorted filled doughnuts over.

Re: Talk to Xander

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Secret government conspiracies," Willow replied, taking a donut. Then, because to her there was a segue here, "Can you show Peter the Snoopy dance?"

Re: Talk to Xander

[soldtoarmenians]

"I dunno - that's highly classified material. Even Bridge hasn't seen my snoopy dance yet. Is Peter cleared for it?"

Re: Talk to Xander

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River threw a doughnut at Xander and grinned.

Re: Talk to Xander

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander almost caught it before it bounced off his head. Almost. "Yup, the projectile weapon thing actually works," he said, wiping chocolate icing off the side of his nose.

Re: Talk to Xander

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"Yes, and distracts as the target is inclined to catch and eat the doughnut."

Re: Talk to Xander

[soldtoarmenians]

"Whahah wasf thafh you wuh sahyingf?" *munch*

Re: Talk to Xander

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Hi. Where's my handbook?" Dawn asked.

Re: Talk to Xander

[soldtoarmenians]

"Your handbook?" Xander asked, puzzled, but grinning.

Re: Talk to Xander

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"My official Scooby handbook," she explained, as if that made things clearer.

Re: Talk to Xander

[soldtoarmenians]

"Ohhhhhhhh." Xander nodded. "That. It's highly classified. You don't get one of those until you pass Scoobying Level Two."