Racing to find a place for my soul ... Or at least a place that&#39;s less familiar

Good morning, everyone! It is I, Miss Lydia Bennet, here to bring you the news of the day, although it seems to be a light day. Either the squirrels have begun their Easter celebrations early, or everyone was busy with Good Friday observations; who can say?

It seems that all my notes from yesterday are from the school, where Overcoming Obstacles had an Easter egg hunt for the dogs and Cupcakes of the World(s) learned of the cupcakes of Brazil, and then Miss and Dean Skywalker utilized the Danger Shop. And with that, I shall bid you farewell and a happy Easter.

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“This weekend is Easter,” Stark said. “Which has eggs and rabbits and resurrection.” He knew there was more to it than that. “And chocolate.” He also knew there was more than that.
“And it’s spring now. Hopefully this means no more very cold weather. So the cupcakes for today are not Easter themed but they do have carrots and rabbits like carrots so I think it works. And they have chocolate, of course. The cupcakes for today are from Brazil! Where I haven’t been. Maybe someday.”

“So Brazil is here, on the map,” he said, pointing and then adding a cupcake sticker. “And here are today’s cupcakes.”

Those were not on the map. The cupcakes were on the counter in front of him under the cloche he’d just removed. “Bolo de Cenoura is the name for the carrot cakes in Brazil which aren’t the same as carrot cake here. These are much more orange.” In case you all couldn’t tell by looking at them. “And they have chocolate frosting. Which is the best sort of frosting. This is called brigadeiro frosting and that’s a type of chocolate candy, like fudge, only here it’s frosting.”

“So, we can try and make the cupcakes as usual or you can just eat some of these as usual. Or talk about Brazil. Or talk about other things. Or…I don’t know. Does anyone have anything they want to say before we begin?”

thatwaslucky

A couple weeks ago, Rey had brought up maybe using the Danger Shop for training, and she had no idea how she'd never thought of it before. If she felt like she might be getting rusty/too used to the usual training methods, why not create a whole new challenge?

After classes had finished, Rey made her way there, scrolling on her phone as she waited for Anakin.

[For that guy mentioned!]

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Steve was completely outnumbered by dogs today. "Hello!" he said while Patriot, Libby, and Fee did their best to trip him through Strategic Leash Choices. "Tony's in New York for a last minute board meeting. Today I've set up an egg hunt for the dogs in this field. The trick for you is to not let them run wild. They have to walk calmly to each egg that they sniff out. If they don't, Fee, they don't get the treat inside the egg.

He nodded, satisfied with the challenge before them. "Team up and pick a dog!"

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Good morning, everyone! It's Steve Rogers with the news of yesterday.

In classes, Cara traumatized her class with a mutant rabbit movie, Don taught us about Thor in Norse mythology, Liliana taught her class about the mix of blue and black mana, and Belle was starting to clean the library after the April Fool's Day shenanigans of the day before.

In town, Thor made the drinks at the Devil's Nest goat themed, and Vi was a very welcome interruption of Steph's clean-up of the unauthorized gremlin party in the Magpie Emporium.

And that's everything! Enjoy your weekend, everyone.

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The library looked better than it did yesterday but it was still in something of a state of disarray after yesterday's excessive gremlin nonsense that poor Arden had to deal with.

At least the scissors had been freed from their plastic prisons.

Some of the shelves remained a shambles though so Belle was going to tackle that. Try to tackle that. It might be a multi-day project. That remained to be seen.

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I was teaching honestly from the recorded myth!

"Mm-hmm," Thor agreed as he organized the glasses behind the bar. "You will apologize to the goats."

I didn't say anything bad about Toothgrinder and Toothgnasher, Don lied through his teeth. I love Toothgrinder and Toothgnasher. He didn't bother pointing out that the goats weren't alive to need his apologies at the moment. Maybe by the time they were alive again Thor would have forgotten.

Specials
Tequila Mocking Goat
The GOAT
Espresso Goatini

The Devil's Nest is open! And...goat-themed...

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They were finally done talking about white mana pairings; as the first color discussed, it would, of course, have the most pairings available to talk about. Honestly, she should have gone with black color pairings, because then she could have spent all that time talking about black and how great it was, but for some reason, the order of colors in her head was white, blue, black, red, green and there was no changing it. Probably a holdover from her childhood or something. yes this is another Magic joke, I am hilarious.

Today, for their first discussion of blue, the students found themselves in a beautiful bower, next to a brook of sparkling waters. Golden sunlight fell down to warm patches of fragrant flowers, while in other places, cooler, darker shadows loomed. Flitting hither and yon across the glade were tiny winged figures, ranging in size from pinkies to an entire hand: faeries. Don't be surprised, class, if you ended up with your hair pulled or supplies filched or other small mischiefs enacted upon your person. That's just what faeries were like.

( People would sooner savor sweet lies than chew plain truths.--House Dimir ) While blue/black can very easily be one of the strongest, most dynamic, and powerful pairing, it is also one of the easiest to fall to its own infighting, to be intractable and unyielding to its own opposing viewpoints, and has been known to become its own worst enemy."

And, having lived through a breakup of just this type, Liliana was inclined to put the blame squarely on ~~Jace~~ blue's own shoulders.

No reason.

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"Thor!" Don exclaimed brightly. "God of thunder! Probably the most familiar of the Norse pantheon to you on this island, since we have not one but two manifestations of Thor in residence." Ha. "Wielder of the hammer Mjolnir, husband--husband?--of the...golden-haired...goddess Sif." Excuse Don while he stared into the void for a moment. No, not that void. Okay, maybe also that void. "Did I mention god of thunder? And that he travels in a chariot pulled by two goats, surely the most noble of animals? Or that one time he cross-dressed and almost married a giant? It's true, and part of the Þrymskviða, which we will be studying today." Don passed around handouts of the story. "You will have to read it yourselves, I am afraid," because Don could not get through it without laughing and he didn't want Thor too mad at him. "And then we can discuss what we think of the story." And Don would continue trying not to laugh.

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The gremlins had thrown an April Fool's party in here last night after closing, or at least that was how Steph chose to interpret the abundance of very tiny confetti (tiny for confetti at least but still too big to qualify as glitter, in her totally expert opinion) and streamers all over the store.

Plus the spring snakes that kept popping out of the shelves whenever she pulled a book out to relocate it. And the very small whoopee cushion on her office chair.

At least they were classic goofy pranks and not shitty mean ones?

Little Bot trundled by with yet another dustpan full of confetti as Steph picked up another snake and deposited it with all the others in a big utility tote bin. That had a lid that latched shut. Around here, she figured, assuming those snakes wouldn't just turn real was probably a bad idea.

[OOC: Open, but guaranteed slow as I herd cats today.]

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There was only one teacher at the front of class this week, and it was not the friendly one.

"Jane is...indisposed," Cara said, gesturing at the empty space next to her. "In case you somehow missed that."

She sighed and gestured to the screen. "Today's movie is apparently seasonally appropriate."

It wasn't. It really, really wasn't.

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Leroy, even you're not stupid enough to think you can get away with a second day of pranks are you?

*innocent chittering*

Thought so.

Up at the School, Creative Writing had another movie day, or rather the same movie day, while Glitter made glitter bath bombs, and this was apparently not a prank. Unfortunately for Arden in the Library the gremlins had more than made up for any lack of pranks elsewhere, though Cal was very sympathetic when he showed up with drinks.

The Dorms seemed to avoided any foolishness, while in Town, Stark showed up for a make-up shift at the Clinic to much suspicion, while at Pick Your Poison, Adrian wasn't nearly suspicious enough, at least until Rey came by to explain the odd phone calls.

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The phone was ringing off the hook today, but the conversations were more and more confusing.

"Is my refrigerator running?" he repeated. "What fridge? Do you mean the one in my Grove or the one here in the shop? Hello?"

"Do I have Prince Albert in a can? What's that? Is that some kind of body wash? Hello? Hello?"

"You're looking for...you said his first name was Ollie? Last name Tabooger? Excuse me, is there a Mr. Tabooger in the store? Mr. Tabooger? No, I don't think that there's anyone here by this name. Have you tried--hello?"

This is what happens when you were raised in a forest with a coven that pretty universally hated April Fools. You spent the whole day bewildered.

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fandom_clinic

"It's Wednesday," one of the nurses said flatly. "It's not Monday."

"Yes, I know that," Stark said with a roll of his eye. "I had glitter class after I did the radio notes so of course I know what day it is but Monday I was just...I wasn't here. So I'm here today instead."

"This some sort of April Fool's thing?" another nurse asked suspiciously, opening the lid to one of the coffees and peering at it like the liquid might hold the answer.

"No! I'm just here today because I wasn't here the other day and I thought I might be useful but I can just go if you'd rather."

One of the nurses sighed. "We're just not used company on other days. It's fine. Stay. Drink your coffee. Don't open the cabinets on the left there, things keep falling out, and watch out for Stabby."

"Why?" Stark asked, looking at the tank.

"He's playing hide and seek and he's usually got a knife when he does that."

"...of course."

The clinic was open, the crab was lurking, and the alien was in even though it wasn't Monday.

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Arden glared at the gremlins who were having a hilarious time. Today she'd come in to find: googly eyes stuck everywhere; all the office equipment vacuum-sealed, especially anything with an edge; not only were books moved around but they were also put back backwards, their pages showing instead of their spines; Vaseline had been smeared on various door handles, and all the clocks had been changed to random times.

"I hate this day and I hate you," she muttered, trying to force open the vacuum-sealed scissors so she could get the pens free.

stykera posting in

No, I didn’t find any of it funny. Not even a little. You’re terrible.

*tiny squirrel snickers*

All of you.

*trilling*

Not you.

Right. It’s Wednesday, the squirrels are being absolutely ridiculous today and the first set of notes didn’t even make sense. Neither did the second. I think I have the real notes from yesterday now. I hope.

At the school we had Feeding Yourself 101 making food from…whatever was in the fridge. That seems fair. Though I hope they had a better selection than I do sometimes. And then in Ethics there was talk of artificial intelligence and robots.

And, oh, I have something from the dorms?
*excited trilling*
*snickering*
*sad Porg noises*
Leroy, that was mean.

I do have a couple of things from the town. Sairis was in Liliana’s shop with the door open. I hope the chair didn’t escape and eat anyone. It didn’t eat Leroy. Unfortunately.

*offended chittering*

You started it. Hush.

Right. And Kitty was at Caritas without Tino again. The squirrels have come up with a very long list of explanations where he might have gone. I don’t think any of them could be true. Well. Maybe. It’s hard to say.

*chittering*

No, I do not believe he’s a hero in his homeland and had to go save the world. No one would believe that.

It’s best to be suspicious today, I think.

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They were in the classroom again, where the desks were pushed together with a bunch of supplies in the middle for people to use.

"Today we're making bath bombs," Kitty announced. "Which are different than glitter bombs in that they're contained, and not weaponry. You just put them in the tub and relax. I have a recipe here, you can use whatever supplies but maybe don't go too heavy on fragrance."

How were you supposed to get the glitter of your skin and tub? Details.

good_for_six posting in

Your teachers were here this week. Twice in a row, even.

"They say that writers should focus on the three 'r's." Well, that was an interesting moment of deja vu. "But given that when we looked them up, only one of them starts with that letter, that's arguably dubious advice."

"In any case, you could probably all do with a movie," Aphra, who seemed exceedingly pleased with herself, said. "I know I could."

Were certain people taking advantage of the date to get out of coming up with a different lesson? Quite possibly.

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