[Monday, September 6, 2004.] [It's a nice day! Shock. Last Friday, Luke was sick and you all had a substitute teacher that tried to teach you Spanish... and FAILED. But that's okay; it's not like subs are supposed to actually teach, anyway.] [The weekend passed without comment, and now you're back at school, which is exactly where you want to be! It's a quiz day! Isn't that exciting?] [So, get going to English class, kids. The passing period right before fourth is starting.] [Session Start.] * Ivy gets out of third period! She moves over to set her back against a couple lockers as she waits for Jeremy to grab her for their usual walk to English. [Uh, camera is focused on the classroom?] [Jeremy comes walking down the hall, as usual. Given this is a usual walk. He smiles at Ivy. "How was class?" Yeah, like she's going to tell him.] * Luke is not in the classroom. Maybe he's sick again! Anyone arriving right now can hope... * Charlotte arrives! Today she's wearing a red sleeveless T-shirt and grey jogging pants with black stripes down the side. She slides into her usual seat. Very exciting * Krista is wearing one of her sedate blouse and skirt outfits and is currently writing something into her notebook, in das room. * Ivy shrugs in answer and follows in step with him down the hall. * Luke is also heading down the hall. He's got his briefcase in his left hand and a bundle of papers in his right. He's wearing beige slacks and a white shirt. ( He's not here yet. Something could still happen to him! ) (Quick! Put thumbtacks on his chair!) (Particularly if you arranged it.) [Other people are arriving in class, too! Steve slips into his own chair, at the edge of the class.] ( Tragically, Luke was killed in a motorcycle accident. Yes, while heading down the hall. ) (He'd been depressed.) [Jeremy goes down the hall! He takes a shrug as "Ivy probably went to class".] * Veronica enters into the classroom, looking a little subdued. She carries her books in and slips into her seat, her ponytail really loosely held today. She's got on a typical T and jeans combo. * Luke enters the class. He's not hurrying, even though it must almost be the end of the passing period, because that is the perk of being a teacher. It's what makes his job worth it, really. * Ivy hall walks! Whoo! The classroom looms about two seconds away. She has her backpack over one shoulder. It even looks like there's books in it! Here's hoping that's not just a whole bunch of heavy food instead. (Or trained chipmunks.) (Oooh, good point.) [Jeremy also has a bookbag, but it doesn't look like it has many books in it at all. But he has his copy of Hamlet in his hand! Maybe he's been studying? He goes with Ivy to their desks.] ( Studying is for n00bs ) * Ivy takes a seat! She doesn't have the Hamlet book in hand, but that doesn't necessarily mean she didn't read it. We hope. * Luke glances over at the clock on the wall. [Christy and Matt also enter the class. "So anyway, I don't think those stupid jocks are going to do that again," he's telling Christy, who laughs. Jeremy looks up at the word 'jock', then realizes it's not about him.] [Christy notices Luke. "Hi Mr. M!" she calls, waving. Like he can't see.] (Actually it is, he just hasn't seen his locker yet.) "Good morning, Christy." (Shh.) ["Did you really get sick?"] [Matt takes sits at his desk, looking very pleased with himself. Christy... uh, stands there.] "No, but my real work is classified. Anyone without security clearance gets the 'flu' cover story." * Krista continues drawing in her book. Draw draw draw. * Veronica doesn't look up at the word "jock." She actually seems to be idly scribbling in her notebook. But she's not looking at it. ["Oh. How do you get clearance?"] [A few more students trickle in, one of which is Creaky Desk Guy, and the bell rings!] "I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. And I'm pretty sure I'd get fired for that." ["That sucks. Must be a hard life, being an English teacher and all."] [Christy still stands there. She also pops gum.] (Stupid Christy.) (Ooh, resentment.) * Luke nods, then raises his voice to address the class. "Good morning, people. Since I was sick on Friday and your quiz was delayed, I'm sure that you've all spent the entire weekend doing nothing but studying for it." * Krista looks up from her drawing and flips a page in her notebook. [Christy goes to sit at her desk! Zip and sit by Veronica.] (Is there anyone in this class who doesn't doodle?) ( / ) [There's some muttering around the classroom about studying. Or not. Steve looks attentive. Matt doodles. Jeremy seems vaguely worried, and Pia spaces out.] * Ivy idly pulls out a pencil. She's ready! ... Okay, she's also pulling out a drawing pad. Krista's a bad example. (Veronica doesn't normally.) (EVERYONE DOODLES.) (Matt's the only consistent NPC doodler.) (Even Christy doesn't, that much. She doesn't bother with notes at all!) (Really, Luke, you should teach art class.) "Are there any last minute questions before I pass it out?" [Matt looks up and raises his hand.] "Yes, Matt?" (I'm not doodling!) ["Yeah, do we have to take this? The time has come and gone, or something."] * Veronica doesn't even look up at Luke. Either she hasn't noticed him or she doesn't care or she doesn't have any. * Luke nods. "If you prefer, I can mark the quiz you handed in on Friday." [Matt puts his hand down. "Nah, that's cool. I wasn't that good at Spanish." Some of the class snickers.] "Any other questions?" * Charlotte asks none! * Krista doesn't have one. She does adjust her glasses, but hey, it's Krista. * Ivy starts drawing a bat. "Okay. Good luck, everyone." Luke walks up and down the aisles, distributing papers face down on the desks. "And if you get stumped, remember that the beauty of English class is you can be right with almost any answer, so long as you write it in a convincing manner." ( So long as you write what the teacher wants to hear. ) (That depends on the teacher.) [It's... quiz time! Students pull out pens and pencils and get to it. Some look more worried than others. Pia takes a good ten seconds before she even realizes there's a quiz.] (Who is Pia again?) (Pia Carrot?) * Charlotte gets to work! She might even know what she's doing. * Luke stands at the front of the class, in front of his desk. His hands are clasped in front of him, holding his briefcase. He's invigilating. (* humms a few bars of The Internet is for Porn*) (Why that song?) * Veronica doesn't even notice there's a test for a bit either, but then looks at the paper, then looks at Luke, then at the paper again and frowns. She slowly pulls it towards her. (Pia is Camila's friend. She's got a high voice and big eyes. And she's a gossip. Though she's been more spacey than gossipy lately.) [THE PAPER EATS VERONICA. Not really.] (Ahh, and that song was because Pia Carrot is a H game) * Krista looks unbothered by the exam and brushes her hair behind her back before she starts taking the quiz. * Ivy writes her name in the blank at the top. You get credit for that, right? She then brings her eyes down to the questions, reads them over... and then draws a ghost in the space provided for question number one. (Q1) How was Hamlet's father first introduced?) * Luke's quiz is exactly what he said it would be. There are a number of passages and the students are asked to identify them, explain what they mean, and comment on them. There are six choices and the students have to pick one. [Steve's writing furiously. He might be composing an entire freaking essay.] [Jeremy's still figuring out which passage to pick. He's crossing out some of them.] [Matt looks like he might be doodling in the margins, but you're not watching him, are you?] (Ivy might want to revise her statement based on the fact that there isn't exactly a "question number one") (Option one then, I bet.) * Luke looks for cheaters. Because you're all rotten to the core. [Doesn't *look* like anyone's cheating...] * Veronica doesn't cheat. However, it doesn't look like she's much up to writing either, so that's not good. * Ivy , uh, draws the ghost next to passage number one! Yeah! * Charlotte takes a while to pick one, but once she does she writes at a modest rate. * Charlotte writes like she intends to WIN! [After about twenty minutes, the first quizzes start to trickle in. Christy turns hers in at the twenty-five minute mark. She doesn't look worried. Steve's still writing.] [Right about NOW, Jeremy picks one out and starts writing. Go Jeremy!] * Ivy draws a few more pictures, though they seem to be indicating a story of some kind. It might even make sense to the quiz! * Krista waits a bit before she turns hers in too, a little after Christy's. She also doesn't look worried. "Those of you who are finished can do whatever you want, so long as it's quiet and doesn't distract the students still taking the quiz," Luke announces. [This results in more noise, as kids start looking for paper and books and calculators and cell phones to play games on.] * Ivy also writes small explanations to some of her drawings. Some examples include, ' - ghost' and ' - dead'. * Veronica started writing. She's probably got about half a page now. She looks irritatedly at the closest noise-maker. * Krista chooses a book, but manages to keep it quiet. So she's not glared at! * Charlotte finishes eventually. [Soon, the quiz is over! Jeremy's one of the last to turn his in, right after Steve. Matt *did* doodle in the margins, but they're Hamlet- related. Seriously.] [There are about ten minutes left to class.] * Veronica turns in her quiz a little before Jeremy. She still looks subdued. (Everyone's handed their paper in before the end of class?) (Huh. That's unusual, in my experience, if there's no time limit set.) ( <.< ) (They learned the valuable skill of 'giving up'.) * Ivy finishes her last drawing with explanation and then gets up to place her quiz on top of the pile. (Valuable valuable skill.) (Actually, Veronica would be still working on it. Scratch that.) (I thought end of class was already called.) (I don't know! Luke wasn't going to end the quiz before the end of class.) (Arwen has confused me.) * Charlotte hands in her quiz and returns to her seat to get a head start on homework. * Disconnected Session Close: Tue Apr 11 23:20:36 2006 Session Start: Tue Apr 11 23:20:48 2006 Session Ident: #secondstring * Now talking in #secondstring * Ardle is now known as Ardweden ( :o ) (She's back!) (OMG it's the hall troll!) (* Demands to see Ardweden's hall pass.) (*makes up an excuse about going to the bathroom*) (* Doesn't buy it.) (*Offers trip back to class or to admins) (Soo...) (I like pie!) (So, I don't know what's going on?) (Nobody updated you? o_0) ( Me neither o.o ) (Right. Ivy goes to a principal's office here, given she and the hall troll have hijacked the channel. ^^) (Everyone else, into #secondstring2! ) (Ha. KIDNAPPING.) * Ivy heads to the principal office! [Ivy and the hall troll take a nice little stroll together to the principal's office! At a desk by the door is a secretary, writing something that no doubt spells some student's doom. There are chairs and a potted plant. Ooh, and a window. But no principal, since you're not really in his office yet.] [She looks up and removes her glasses. "Can I help you?"] * Ivy points to her Dr. Pepper. That's the catalyst, after all. Yeah. Gotta Ditcher. [She raises an eyebrow and looks at Ivy, then at the potted plant. "I see. Let me tell Mr. Sheldon." With that, she gets up and walks over to his door, knocking on it. It opens after a few seconds, and she has some quiet words.] (potted plant -> Dr Pepper) (WOW, that was random.) (I was wondering...) (I thought she was just idly looking at a plant for a second. It happens.) (The plant is watching her.) * Ivy casually walks to the secretary's desk, grabs a pen and jots down on a piece of paper - 'Hall Pass'. She tears the sheet off, puts the pen back and waits patiently to show the paper that will obviously get her her pass. * Hall_Troll looms near the door to make sure she doesn't run away. [After this long and tedious process that really isn't either, she goes back to her desk. The door opens wider, and there's the principal, a heavyset, balding man in his early fifties with gray hair, blue eyes, and a grayish suit. He nods to the hall troll and Ivy. "Come on in."] * Ivy comes on in! * Hall_Troll goes in too. [The principal closes the door behind the two of you. He has a pretty nice office, with a potted cactus and a computer and way too many papers. There are two chairs before his desk and one behind it.] [Mr. Sheldon walks behind his desk and has a seat. "Well, what's the problem?" He looks to the hall troll.] * Ivy places the note on his desk before taking a seat. * Hall_Troll points at Ivy. "No hall pass, didn't go back to class." [He nods and looks to Ivy. "Do you have anything to say about that?"] * Ivy frowns and then pulls out her drawing pad and a pen. She jots down next to a fuzzy werewolf doodle, 'He said I needed a hall pass or to see you. I do no know where these hall passes are, so I went to see you.' Ooh, even semi grammar usage! She should've saved that up for the quiz. [He waits until she's done.] * Ivy hands him the notepad! [The principal takes it and reads. "She says you told her to get a hall pass or see me, but she doesn't know what hall passes are." He looks at the hall troll. "Is this true?"] * Hall_Troll looks a Ivy like this is her fault, which it is. "How can she not know what a hall pass is?" [He shrugs and looks to Ivy for the answer, handing the pad back.] * Ivy looks from principal to troll to principal, not really sure what she should be doing. Finally, she goes with writing down, 'I have a identification card. It has my picture and address on it. Want?' (And that grammar bad was on purpose, btw. La la.) (IVY SPEEK GUUD ENGLUSH) (Yup!) [The principal reads that and then says, "Certainly."] (IVY SPEEK NOH ENGUSH) (She's good at spelling, though.) (/cry) (That might be so I don't crazy more than anything. Ahem.) * Disconnected Session Close: Tue Apr 11 23:57:07 2006 Session Start: Tue Apr 11 23:57:21 2006 Session Ident: #secondstring * Now talking in #secondstring (Catch me up, please?) * Ardweden has quit IRC (Ping timeout ) Session Close: Wed Apr 12 00:00:00 2006 [The bell rings! OMG. But the principal gives no indication the pair should go.] * Hall_Troll sure looks like he'd rather be out there making sure everybody gets to class, but he's in here and knows better than to just randomly walk out of places when he feels like it. (... How she got her drawing pad when she left that in the classroom is beyond me... Umm, she took it with her to get soda! Sure!) (It's secretly the principals memopad) (That works!) * Ivy sets the pen down, grabs her soda, and heads for the door. * Hall_Troll gets between her and the door. "Oh no you don't." [Mr. Sheldon frowns. "Sit down, young lady."] * Ivy turns to look at the principal, looking confused. She points at the door, which so happens, to be in the direction of Mr. Mendel's class. You stay here till he's done. ["Yes, I know you want to go. Most students do. Was your ID left in class?"] * Ivy walks over and points to her last message on the *cough* principal's memopad. Left in class, that's what it says. (See, I wasn't here for it, and nobody caught me up. :P) (I did too!) (Did not!) (I so did) (I c/ped!) (I must've missed it. :() (Both of them? >_>) (Unless you sent it to Ardweden?) (Ah, good point. That's probably what I did.) [The principal reads that, then hms. "All right. Sit down."] (.... maaaybe.) (Brilliant, guys.) (^_~) * Ivy looks puzzled once more, but does as she's told. (The window was righ there!) (It was!) [He slides the pad back over to Ivy. "Now, you are?"] * Ivy blinks. She writes her first and last name on the memopad. Her second quiz for the day! [Mr. Sheldon takes the pad back and looks at that. "Ah, Ms. Thorne." He pauses, collecting his thoughts, then hands the pad back. "If you didn't know what a hall pass is, that can't be helped. This time."] * Hall_Troll blinks. "Whut?" [Then principal notices the troll. "It was a legitimate mistake. You go now." He fixes his eyes on Ivy. "Not you."] Kay. (+can) * Hall_Troll turns around, opens the door and goes. * Ivy writes, 'You will give me a hall pass?' [He reads. "Yes, but you must understand that they're only good once."] * Ivy nods. [Mr. Sheldon folds his hands on the desk. "I'm letting you off this time because you didn't know that you needed a pass, but from now on, you need one to be in the halls during school hours and when it's not a passing period. Only teachers can give them out. Do you understand?"] * Ivy frowns in though and then writes, 'Why?' (Er, thought.) [He reads that, then says, "Because if we didn't have this policy, then students wouldn't go to class as often as they should. And you are here to learn, so that means being in class."] * Ivy looks like she's going to protest, but then just nods. (Gotta go in five.) [He nods back. "Very well. Like I said, I'm letting you off this time." He opens a drawer and pulls out a green slip, writing on it. "Next time, it'll be detention. That's when you're stuck in a room for two hours and can't go home." He hands the pass over.] * Ivy takes the slip and nods a third time. And then she turns to head to the door! ["Did I say you could go yet?"] * Ivy 's whole body tenses. She turns back around, her shoulders hunched, her face lowered. [Mr. Sheldon smiles. "It's fine. You can go, Ms. Thorne."] * Ivy nods once, still not giving him eye contact, turns around yet again, and moves for the door. [The door opens! Freedom! On the other side, Jeremy stands; he was sitting on one of the waiting room chairs. "Ivy!"] * Ivy brightens as she sees Jeremy, her muscles unclenching as she walks toward him. She holds up her hall pass. Oooh, green. [Jeremy laughs and holds up one of his own. It's also green. "You don't have detention, do you?"] * Ivy shakes her head. (Okay, I need to head to bed. We pretty much done?) ["Cool. Let's go get our stuff before someone else does." Jeremy leaves. Probably with Ivy!] (Leave and we end.) * Ivy nods and follows Jeremy! She offers him a sip of her Dr. Pepper along the way! [Mmm, Dr Pepper.] [Session End.]