Fandom High School

"Welcome back, ladies and gentleman!" Jane smiled at her class as usual in their little Danger Shop jungle classroom, chalk on the ready for another informative and helpful lecture on jungle survival. "I hope you're all as relieved as I am to have had a nice, quiet weekend this time around, but now it's time to get back into the jungle and learn another useful skill. Today, our discussion will be on firecraft. Let's begin, shall we?"

( Fire, to destroy all you've done. )

"And there we have it. Hopefully everything you'll need for your fire, and, if not, let's get any questions you may have out in the open. If not, well, then, grab your hats, pull up those boot straps, and let's go find a good site for our fires."

[[ the ocd, it is coming burning nicely and ready for s'mores! ]]

Since it often rained in the jungle, Jane had decided that, today, their clearing classroom in the Danger Shop should also be afflicted with the downpour that plagued the island lately due to their new move. She'd put up great big tarps, so that the rain pounded over them as they worked by torchlight, and it made her terribly miss being out there for real.

"As you can see," she said to the class with a laugh, "our helmets and boots will come in handy today, but you'll also be quite pleasantly surprised to find out, once we get out in the jungle today, that the cover of trees and the different levels of the jungle canopy is so thick that you'll barely feel a trickle of rain inside! Yet another fascinating feature about the African jungles! So far, we've talked about our three basic essentials and we've talked about some of the dangers of the jungle. Today, we're going to talk about shelter.

And so it was that Jane took to the blackboards. There would be many, many diagrams as she went over the basic steps to building a shelter.

It wasn't all going to be lecture, though. Jane had two conveniently located trees and all of her supplies so that she could actually give a more visual direction of how to construct your shelter, or at least a variation on one.

"And, ta-da, that's all there is to it, ladies and gentleman! So let's all grab these packs here, which will have everything we need, grab our hats, and we'll be off into the jungle. We'll trek for a bit; I much prefer you to at least trek in pairs, and, when you notice it's about time to start getting ready to make our shelter, you'll have the rest of class to put together one that will keep you dry, protected, and safe!"

A beat.

"Well, relatively speaking, of course. Any questions before we begin?"

[[ OCD is on the way all safe and sound! ]]

"Good afternoon, ladies and gentleman!" Jane might have been all too pleased with the female-leaning tendency of this semester's roster, mixed in delicately with her already exuberant thrill of the subject in general. "And welcome to Your African Expedition Adventure! My name is Miss Porter, and I have been into the jungles of Africa many times in my life, for which I am extremely grateful. I'm a Primatologist, or rather one that studies apes and monkeys and gorillas and human beings, and so of course the best way to learn about that sort of thing is to try to witness it for yourself. I certainly hope you're excited to learn all about how to travel into the jungles of Africa, appreciate the beautiful world that it presents, and learn so much about the flora and fauna of that marvelous part of the world!

( And the woman just keeps talking.... )

"Also, every class after this will from now on be meeting in the Danger Shop. If you are not sure where that may be, by all means, come and talk to me and I will ensure you have good directions! Does everyone have their boots, canteens, and hats? Who wants to start? The sooner we get through these introductions, the sooner we can get out to the Preserve!"


[[ OCD is on its way ready for adventure! ]]