Summer Session 2, Scoobying Workshop #7, Afternoon 8/22/2006 (Main Campfire)

[soldtoarmenians]

[Roster]

Xander is...totally not here. There's just his laptop sitting on a log, and Isabel standing next to it. When everybody's assembled, she presses a key, and a recording fills the screen.

Xander (soldtoarmenians)	Xander appeared on the screen alone, and gave a wave to the camera. "Hey, guys. This is the last Scoobying workshop for this session, and well, the last one period, for me. I just wanted to tell you that you all, both sessions, were great, and I hope I made it as fun for you as you did for me. If there's one skill you come away with no matter what you end up doing, I hope it's that, because the rest of it you can fake, but if you can laugh at yourselves, or, y'know, each other, in a pinch, you'll be--"
Xander (soldtoarmenians)	Xander appeared to be yanked offscreen, and a voice said, "Just as screwed, muahaha. Just a little more distracted from it." Moments later, the camera swung right, and Xander was replaced by... A face that might be... slightly familiar behind the glasses, even-bushier-than-usual eyebrows, giant somewhat plasticky looking nose, and fuzzy mustache, looming above Willow, who appeared to be tied to a chair. "Muahahahahaha," laughed the villain again, with a villainous tone. In an artificially-gruff voice, he added, "Xander couldn't stay, sorry, because I, his Evil Alternate Personality TM...um...Xandino, have taken over his body. I've also kidnappinated Willow. Because I'm evil like that."
Willow (willbedone)	Willow came in much more quickly this time than on last session's recording - she'd had practice, after all. "Oh! Yes!" she said, trying to make 'Help me' eyes at the camera. "He's so evil! Extremely! Also? This rope is very scratchy and this is in no way a comfy chair."
Xander (soldtoarmenians)	"And if you meddling kids don't get here in time to rescue her, I'm going to force her to watch..." The Evil Villain lowered his voice to a loud, terrible whisper. "That episode of Wendy the Werewolf Stalker where Wendy and Ryan have the unsexiest sex ever for fifty-five godawful minutes. And I'll tape her eyes open!"
Willow (willbedone)	Willow didn't have to act her look of disgust. Or her attempt to get away. "No! Never! Somehow I will escape from these tight, confining ropes that are holding me down and--" Willow paused, seemingly distracted, then said, "Ahem." There might have been blushing.
Xander (soldtoarmenians)	There was another pause, during which Xand...ino stared at her like he had almost managed to repress her reaction to that line last time, then there was a cough that sounded suspiciously like "line...," and the astute observer might note him poking her gently on the shoulder.
Willow (willbedone)	Willow gave him a Look, and continued. "So yes! Please save me, members of the Scoobying class! It doesn't matter which one of you comes FIRST, or that you may have to search all over town and each FLOOR OF THE DORMS for a ROOM that might, you know, belong to somebody who looks like XANDER...ino."
Xander (soldtoarmenians)	"That's Xandino! And that's enough outta you, missy!" Xand..er..dino reached offscreen for something, and returned holding a piece of duct tape. Or possibly several pieces of masking tape stuck together and cleverly painted to look like duct tape. He placed it lightly viciously over her mouth.
Willow (willbedone)	Willow did her best to try to shout "Help!" while trying to make sure she didn't accidentally dislodge the tape in spite of her oh so vicious and cruel new gag.
Xander (soldtoarmenians)	From behind her, there was a loud, "RIBBIT?" The Evil Xandino turned and put a finger to his lips, right under the bushy mustache. "You shut up too, Jerem...mino, and quit yer whining. No, they won't get here in time to rescue her, 'cause they have to do the in-class exercise first. Plus they're not smart enough to team up to track us down, and the fish that keeps moving around on the door will just confuse them, which means none of them will get any of the delicious--" He coughed. "Twidiginkidigies adigand odigothidider yidigummiddigy snidigacks whidigich Idigi adigam nidigot tidigellidiging thidigem adigabidigout sidigo thidigere."
(*cough*)	From offscreen again, but this time as if it was right behind the camera, came a loud BAA-AAA-AAAAH-ing sound. Xandino blinked. "Uh, yes. Thank you, um. RIC-ino. Exactly. What you said."

And screen goes dark.



[OPEN! Also, what Xander said - thank you guys so much for running with this and consistently cracking me the heck up.]

Comments

Sign-in

[soldtoarmenians]

Reply to the previous person for great muahahah.

Re: Sign-in

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River signed in.

Assignment

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

After the screen faded, Isabel turned to the class. "So Willow needs rescuing. Your job is to come up with a team consisting of yourself and any four people in the school to be the rescuers. Everyone will need a job. Someone can be the hero, or the person in charge of first aid. You can even have a designated doughnut person. It's all up to you."

She pulled out a box filled with brightly colored gift bags in the Fandom High colors. "There's one of these for each of you. In it you'll find paper, pencils, markers, a ruler, some glitter, and a bottle of Tabasco." Isabel grinned, "I'm trying to spread the love of the spicy."

"Using this, you need to create a chart detailing your team and your plan for the rescue," she explained. "Where is each person? What do they do? What problems can they possibily anticipate? Trust me, the more you list out, the more organized you'll be and the less chance you'll have of hitting a snag."

"This is a solo project. But it's a nice day, and it's the last class. So there's no problem if you want to chat."

Re: Assignment

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker is in no way amused as hell that she's having to do classwork that almost exactly replicates what she did this weekend. Nope. Grabbing the glitter, she starts to list it out.

1) Isabel - First Aid, as well as defensive shields and blowing stuff up, and molecular manipulation. Also good with the mental defense, if we need it.

2) Sam Carter - weapons, ass-kicking, lock-picking, alien tech wrangling, blowing up bigger stuff, strategy & sneakiness

3)...

Re: Assignment

[chasingangela]

Still giggling a little at Xandino, Angela grabbed paper and a pencil and started to make the list.

1. M. Parker -- Bossy Leadership skills, good with weapons, never stops.

2. Cam Mitchell -- Determined, funny, could annoy villains into submission.

3. Peter Parker -- Superhero, can stick to walls, really strong, etc.

4. Alanna Trebond -- She's a witch and she can swordfight. Plus, if she brings Faithful, we can freak out the bad guy with a talking cat.

5. Angela Chase -- Um, I ... can cry at the villain? I staked a vampire (one whole time)? I can stay out of the way, how's that?

Re: Assignment

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Gee, it's not like Isabel's given this situation a lot of thought after this weekend. In the end, she came up with this chart (http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/cluland/Scoobying.jpg), appropriately color coded and decorated with glitter. She tried not to think that one team member might not want to help anymore.

Re: Assignment

[dorky-broots.livejournal.com]

Broots starred at his paper and started writing.

1. Miss Parker - She'll either shoot them, threaten them with death, or threaten them with a lawsuit.

2. Someone from the clinic - given.

3. Me or Willow - Computer hacking is also good. Wait...if Willow is kidnapped does that mean we can't use her as someone we want on the team?

4. Someone from the library - research also helps.

5. Do we have any sports teams?

Re: Assignment

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally chewed the end of her pen as she thought. Finally, she started writing.

The (Insert Superlative Here) Five

1. Nadia Santos - Spy girl extraordinaire and stuff. She can also hit things with a mallet. Totally our reconna-however-you-spell-it girl. You know, the fancy word for scouting.

2. Pippi Longstocking - The tank. 'Nuff said, really.

3. Walter Dornez - Finesse. Those wire thingies are really handy, and he's really fast, too.

4. Phoebe Halliwell - Magical support. Very, very neccessary.

5. Veruca Cally - Technical support. Hopefully neccessary. If anything else, I can, erm, lend moral support.

As for plans of rescue, erm... I'd leave that to Walter or Nadia. I'm not so good with the planning.

Re: Assignment

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Marie chewed on her pen cap as she considered her options.

1. Jamie - can duplicate himself and create a whole bunch of other people to help track Willow.

2. Bel - can shimmer anywhere and is kind of mean and scary sometimes.

3. Pippi - is really, really strong.

4. Bridge - can use his powers to track people.

5. Me - um, I can organize people really well?

Re: Assignment

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn laughed a lot as she watched the video and made a mental note to recommend Jeremiahmino for an emmy award. She still thought the punishment was a bit severe, though.

Her list:

Dawn Summers: Research girl. Really good at screaming. Highly kidnappable.

Molly Hayes: Super strength, common sense. Um...vulnerable after she uses her powers. Will need help afterwards.

Sam Winchester: Weapons, fighting, mystic ritual and co-oogly boogly research and ritual guy. Also reaches tops of shelves and doors and things. Gets strangled a lot.

Dean Winchester: Weapons, fighting, lock-picking, attitude, snark, practicality. Stubborn and not big on the ritual and research.

Alec: Super soldier guy. Speed, strength, super senses. Like a vampire without the sunlight issues. Um, no idea if he's got weaknesses.

Re: Assignment

[swerval_zero]

1. Skank-Zero Hopeless-Savage. Heroine. Experienced with tracking kidnapped people especially family members, good at hitting things if needed. Can pick locks. Has a mallet and a tech-type person (Twitch, brother) on speed dial.

2. M. Parker. Best friend. Kinda scary, can shoot things or offer bribes.

3. Peter Parker. Boyfriend. Comic relief, geek, has superpowers.

4. Janet Frasier. Friend/former coworker. Medical support.

5. Rory Gilmore. Friend/former coworker. It seems like she's always involved when something like this happens, so she may be required. Also, she has mad research skills.

After a few moments' thought, she included:

Bonus 1. Angela Chase. Friend/former coworker. Possibly slightly psychic, good research skills.

Bonus 2. Fish. Leadbeater Cockatoo. The team's wacky mascot.

Enough With the Hypothetical - Work With What You've Got

[soldtoarmenians]

Form teams of two or more out of the resources you actually have at your disposal, and use the VERY SUBTLE CLUES to figure out how to rescue Willow. Make your way across camp and back to the HIGHLY SEKRIT LOCATION!

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[The actual thread for busting in THE COMPLETELY UNLOCKED AND IN FACT CRACKED-OPEN HEAVILY BOLTED DOOR and rescuing Willow is below, but everything up to that point can go here, including if you so desire, staring for great WTF at the painted yellow fish that's in a different spot every time you look away.]

Re: Enough With the Hypothetical - Work With What You've Got

[chasingangela]

Angela glanced at her classmates, deadpan. "It looks like he really hid Willow someplace far away and very hard to find."

Re: Enough With the Hypothetical - Work With What You've Got

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally looked around for folks to team up with.

In The Sekrit Evil Lair

[soldtoarmenians]

Yup, there's the Evil Xandino, all right. Still looming over poor helpless Willow. Well, if you can call 'sitting in a chair next to her and feeding her snacks because the tape is half off her mouth while they watch Bitterwoman episodes on her laptop' looming.

Use your crafty teambuilding skills to free her, and claim your reward of tasty goodies, which include Twinkies, Hershey Kisses, and J,GoB doughnouts, laid out on the kitchenette counter.
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[OOC - please wait for Willow to ping in before playing in this thread!]

Re: In The Sekrit Evil Lair

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Yep, there was Willow, all kidnappinated and in TERRIBLE PERIL, WOE!

Or at least that's what she acted like if she remembered to, you know, act before anyone entered the room. Otherwise she was going through those Hershey kisses like they were going out of style.

Talk To Xander About Non-kidnappy Stuffs

[soldtoarmenians]

[Since it belatedly occurred to me after OOC went up that chatty stuff would get messy in a thread that also includes Willow. So kidnappy stuffs should ping off Willow's thread, and just talking to Xander goes here.]

Re: In The Sekrit Evil Lair - after the workshop

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow? Still there.

Just in case somebody felt like showing up after his workshop.

Ahem.

OOC

[soldtoarmenians]

....*sniffles*

... a lot

Re: OOC

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

wwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!

Re: OOC

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

*sobs & clings*

Re: OOC

[chasingangela]

*also sniffles*

*and clings like whoa*

Re: OOC

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

*wibbles*

Re: OOC

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Woe!

Re: OOC

[swerval_zero]

*clings*