Extreme Like Soup Exploding! [LAB SAFETY DAY]

[morphitudinous]

This was it, the day that Instructors Callahan and Cranston had been anticipating (and perhaps, on Mr. Cranston's part, dreading). This afternoon, in a Sensorium-created laboratory, their students would be learning laboratory safety protocol and putting it into practice.

As students enter and receive greetings from Billy, they'll notice the main features of the laboratory if they choose to look around. A desk sits in the front of the room with boxes of supplies piled on it. In the middle sits a mysterious boiling pot. One one side of the room sits an eye wash station that shouldn't be needed today. Long work tables stretch from the front of the room to the rear, surrounded by simple stools, and a white cabinet sits to the side of the room, opened to reveal hair ties, gloves, and goggles.

Behind the desk sits a chalkboard, where Billy has written a list of paired names. Feel free to react in dismay or horror at your lab partners, students, but your instructors won't be budging. They have their reasons. When everyone arrives and is seated, they'll begin.

After processing all this, there might be another question on their minds---where's Wyn disappeared to? Students unfortunate enough to fail to arrive on time will soon find out...

((And the nightmare begins! Start tagging in the first few subthreads, team. If you're not already on the lab partner list but would still like to participate, feel free to contact Kuroi or Zoki on AIM or comment to this post, and we'll set you up. Have fun!))

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Arrivals/Meeting Up With Partners!

[morphitudinous]

As students start to trickle in, some of them will probably have questions for Billy. He'll do his best to answer them.

The pairs of partners will also find each other---and in most cases, they won't like it.

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[obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com]

Vega slouches his way into the lab, looks up at the chalk board, and finds a place to plunk himself down on a stool. He swings his legs as he waits on the others to show up. He can work with Sherry, but he still has to clobber Yuri and Roxie somehow later.

He's never had a chemistry lesson before. Granted, he's a tetch young, but school classes for Backdraft children aren't quite the same.

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[in-venting.livejournal.com]

Sherry left Roxie behind with Billy, and scurried over to join Vega. "You came!" Well, color her impressed, she didn't even have to hunt him down and drag him in or anything. Good job, Vega!

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[obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, well, I had to," says Vega, shrugging a little bit.

"Do you know what we're doing today?" he asks. Vega's not too sure about anything schooling. Schooling is usually boring. It's part of how life works.

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[in-venting.livejournal.com]

Sherry was nice and on-time. Even with Stacy messing around with the time (she really needed to be let know that it was confusing and made sleeping hard), the little girl hurried along into the sensoriums, practically vibrating with anticipation.

Truly, she was a child after Luis's heart. In fact, because she was learning something, it made Sherry that much more pleasant to be around. "Good afternoon," she greeted Billy with a shy smile.

[morphitudinous]

"Good afternoon", he returned, smiling as well. He glanced at the list on the board briefly, scanning his brain for a name to match. "You're Sherry, am I correct?"

[toariversodeep.livejournal.com]

And there's another girl with her. Roxie isn't nearly so vibrant as Sherry, though, having only come because she was guilted into it. She gives Billy a dull look, not even so much as a nod.

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[bonnypiperlad]

Jamie's already regretting agreeing to come to the class. He hasn't done anything resembling regular schooling in a long, long time, after all. But he let his curiosity get the better of him - again - and he also finds it a bit hard to say 'No' to Wyn.

So here he is. He's old enough that the school part isn't mandatory, so he's hoping he'll be able to get away with just watching. But he's still utterly convinced something will go horribly wrong.

He's looking a bit grumpy as he comes in, however - especially as he's not seeing anywhere to sit that doesn't look like a work table.

Spotting Billy, he makes his way over to him, and nods a greeting. "So - where do ye sit if ye are just going to watch?" It's worth a try, anyway.

[morphitudinous]

"Hey Jamie," he greets with a grin---it dies when he sees the other's unhappy look. Time to figure out what's up. "Um...hm. Wyn told me that you would be participating. There are spare stools at the ends of the tables if you'd like to sit there, but it's really not a difficult lesson. You shouldn't have trouble with it."

[bonnypiperlad]

"Wyn told ye..." Well, that figures. He knows they didn't discuss any actual participation, but he had an idea that something like this might happen - it's his pessimistic side coming out again.

With a sigh, he says, "Och, all right." He doesn't feel like arguing the point, after all. And, oddly, he looks less irritated. Now that he knows he's stuck, he'll go along with it. Billy even gets a somewhat wry smile.

"So if I'm going to do this, is there somewhere else I should sit, then?"

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[enter-aeneas.livejournal.com]

Oh Spode, Aeneas was so happy that he wasn’t late.

It was fortunate that this class was being held in the Sensoriums, because that was one of the few places that Aeneas could reliably find his way to. Otherwise he might not have ever made it.

Walking inside, looking lost regardless of if he actually was or not (he wasn’t), the creature first saw the board. And there were those mysterious human runes again…Although Stacy was nice enough to translate them for him.

Aeneas walked closer, more interested in the board than the boiling pot of mysterious substance in the middle of the simulated room. He proceeded to memorize the symbols that represented his name. “A”…”E”…”N”…

Oh? But there was another name next to his, wasn’t there? He would have to locate this “Kelly” person, if she was already here. Of course Aeneas wouldn’t know, so he turned to the human male standing nearby that he assumed would.

“Hello,” blinked the alien, looking a little awkward squeezed behind that tiny desk, “Do you know if ‘Kelly’ is here yet?”

[morphitudinous]

"Hello, Aeneas." He hoped he'd pronounced that name correctly. "It's nice to meet you. I haven't seen Kelly yet, but feel free to sit wherever you like until she arrives."

[enter-aeneas.livejournal.com]

He felt rude now, having not introduced himself formally first. Of course his name was up on the board, so it wasn’t really necessary, but still.

Aeneas tried to make up for it with a slight bow of the head and a pleasant, “It was nice to meet you as well” translated trill. And then he took the human’s advice and looked for an empty table.

One was soon found, but there were these…odd pieces of furniture again. Humans seemed to have no trouble balancing their bipedal behinds on these flimsy stands. Aeneas was not so lucky, and again, had a feeling that he would get enough adventure from the presentation, so he had no reason to create extra. Instead he adapted a sitting position, resting partially on his tail, partially on his back legs, and a little bit on the heels of his front feet. His hands still comfortably rested on the surface of the table; plus it gave Aeneas an excuse to stretch out his forelegs.

The stool was not entirely useless—the supporting bars made a convenient resting place for his fuisti.

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[notastaffchick.livejournal.com]

Hunter was neither the first nor the last person in the room, which was exactly the way he liked it. The list of partner names would probably have gotten more of a reaction if he actually knew who Dani was, but Billy got a tiny smile and a half-hearted wave. "Hey."

[morphitudinous]

"Hey, are you Hunter?" Billy's going to try very hard to remember everyone's names. They don't have a large class, so it should be doable. "Sit wherever you'd like. We'll be starting soon."

[notastaffchick.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, that's me." Hunter says with a nod, grabbing a stool near the far wall and taking a seat. "Sorry, but Dani isn't here yet, is she?"

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[thethirdhalfa.livejournal.com]

Dani had arrived a few minutes later, looking at the list of partners and looking around. She took away people she knew the names of and then started to ask those she didn't know.

"Are you Hunter?"

And there's your floating thirteen year old partner, Hunter.

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[notastaffchick.livejournal.com]

"You must be Dani." Hunter says, managing to take the whole floating thing in stride. "Nice to meet you."

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[staturity]

Cassie stared at the list. "I- Nate?" Really?

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[morphitudinous]

Billy turned back to the list. 'Nate/Cassie'---so she's Cassie, he confirmed. "Yes. Will that cause a problem for you?"

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[staturity]

"Oh, no, no problem for me." Maybe one for Jonas but that was something else entirely.

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[wheresmysuit.livejournal.com]

Nate wandered into the lab, his datapad in the crook of his arm and his goggles already on top of his head. He only looked up from the pad when he stepped inside, eyes catching the partner list on the chalkboard first. They were having partners? Well...that was to be expected. Who was he paired wi- Cassie? Pausing a moment he wondered who it was that had set up the lab partners. Not that he was complaining.

Spotting Cassie over near Billy, he stepped up to the pair. "Hey guys."

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[staturity]

"Hey." Whenever Nate walked in the room Cassie couldn't help but smile. "You know we're together, right? I mean- for the lab." Cue mental facepalm. "Uh, let's get ready."

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[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

And sitting in the back, watching, is Allen. He has popcorn.



He better have brought enough for the whole class, right?

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[morphitudinous]

Billy's somewhat surprised to see his partner. But he supposes it makes sense for the principal to evaluate new instructors. Making sure that everyone is settled and not touching anything they shouldn't, he makes his way to the back of the room.

"We haven't had the opportunity to review the rules yet, but we don't allow eating in the laboratory." He doesn't sound particularly stern about it.