[School]: Classes Have Now Begun

[ten_fwd_npcs]

Classes for adults and children are now being held every day on Deck 14. The weekly schedule for September's syllabus is posted below. [Classes are OTA unless otherwise specified.]



[example of a youth class]

Itinerary/Subjects
Archery, Deck 11, Holodeck #3
Ballet, Room #0916 *
Catching up to the 24th Century, Classroom #1
Creative Writing, Classroom #3
Earth History and Archaeology, Classroom #4
Earth Languages, Room #0914 *
English & Poetry (Youth), Classroom #3
English & Poetry (Adult), Classroom #3
Federation Primer, Classroom #1
Geology, Classroom #5
Kenpo, Room #0918
Krav Maga, Room #0918 *
Melee Combat Basics, Room #0918
Mixed Martial Arts, Room #0918
Multiverse Primer, Classroom #1
Physical Education (Youth), Room #0918
Physical Education (Adult), Room #0918
Ranged Combat Basics, Room #0918
Scuba Diving, Deck 11, Holodeck #3
Self Defence, Room #0918
Spoken Languages (Klingon & Vulcan), Classroom #6
Surviving the Wilderness, Classroom #7
Warp Theory & Starship Tech, Classroom #10
Working with Chakra, Classroom #7
Xenoanthropology, Classroom #8
Advanced Xenolinguistics, Classroom #6

* [ One-on-one tutoring is available by request in ballet, krav maga, cooking, and a range of Earth languages. For a complete listing, see the OOC Post. You can request tutoring by replying to the comment offering the relevant subject in that post. ]


Class Schedule

Archery (Deck 11, Holodeck #3)
Sundays at 1500
Instructor: Thea Queen
Students: Alex Rogan, Finnick Odair

Ballet (Room #0916)
By Arrangement
Instructor: Ziva David
Students: Zoey Westen

Catching up to the 24th Century (Classroom #1)
Mondays and Wednesdays, 1300
Instructor: Lt. Hugh Cambridge
Students: Alex Rogan, Annie Cresta, Carson Beckett, Charles Tucker III, DJ, Finnick Odair, H. G. Wells, Jonas Quinn, Luna Lovegood, Natasha Romanoff, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Thea Queen, Will Arrowsmith, Zoey Westen

Creative Writing (Classroom #3)
Fridays, 1500
Instructor: H.G. Wells
Students: Finnick Odair

Earth History & Archaeology (Classroom #4)
Fridays, 1100
Instructor: Jonas Quinn
Students: Alec Troven, Luna Lovegood, Kevin Ford

Earth Languages (French/Italian) (Room #0914)
By Arrangement
Instructor: H.G. Wells/Ziva David
Students: Luna Lovegood

English & Poetry (Youth) (Classroom #3)
Mon-Fri, 0900
Instructor: Miss Kate Barlow
Students: Alec Troven, Kevin Ford

English & Poetry (Adult) (Classroom #3)
Wednesdays and Fridays, 1900
Instructor: Miss Kate Barlow
Students: Alex Rogan, Finnick Odair, DJ, Dylan Hunt

Federation Primer (Classroom #1)
Saturdays, 1100
Instructor: Lt. Cmdr. Terzen T'Karr
Students: Alex Rogan, Annie Cresta, Booker DeWitt, Charles Tucker III, Emma Frost, H. G. Wells, Lorna Dane, Luna Lovegood, Natasha Romanoff, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Steve McGarrett, Thea Queen, Will Arrowsmith

Geology (Classroom #5)
Fridays, 1300
Instructor: Lorna Dane
Students: Annie Cresta, Finnick Odair, Jonas Quinn, Luna Lovegood

Kenpo (Room #0918)
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1600
Instructor: H.G. Wells
Students:

Krav Maga (Room #0918)
By Arrangement
Instructor: Ziva David
Students: Zoey Westen

Melee Combat Basics (Room #0918)
Mondays and Wednesdays, 1500
Instructor: Trever McCallum
Substitute: Sam Bowe
Students: Alex Rogan, Finnick Odair

Mixed Martial Arts (Room #0918)
Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, 0800
Open sparring Sundays from 0800
Instructor: Mack Gerhardt and Sam Bowe
Students: Alex Rogan, Dylan Hunt, Ezri Dax, Finnick Odair, Natasha Romanoff, Thea Queen, Trever McCallum, Zoey Westen

Multiverse Primer (Classroom #1)
Third Monday of the Month, 1900
Instructor: Fatima Merali
Students: Grainne (also for new arrivals)

Physical Education (Youth) (Room #0918)
Tuesdays, 1000
Instructor: Emma Frost
Students:

Physical Education (Adult) (Room #0918)
Fridays, 1000
Instructor: Emma Frost
Students: Annie Cresta, DJ

Ranged Combat Basics (Room #0918)
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1700
Instructor: Kale McCallum
Students: Alex Rogan, Finnick Odair

Scuba Diving (Deck 11, Holodeck #3)
Tuesdays and Fridays, 1500
Instructor: Steve McGarrett
Students: Finnick Odair

Self Defence (Room #0918)
Tuesdays and Fridays, 1000
Instructor: Steve McGarrett
Students: Alex Rogan, DJ, Jonas Quinn, Mary McGarrett

Spoken Languages (Klingon & Vulcan) (Classroom #6)
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1300
Instructor: Lt. Hugh Cambridge
Students: Alex Rogan, H. G. Wells, Jonas Quinn, Kale McCallum, Natasha Romanoff, Trever McCallum, Steve McGarrett, Zoey Westen

Surviving the Wilderness (Classroom #7)
Saturdays, 1300
Instructor: Bob Fraser
Substitute: Sam Bowe
Students: Alex Rogan, Finnick Odair, Jonas Quinn

Warp Theory & Starship Tech (Classroom #10)
Saturdays, 1400
Instructor: Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Substitute: Lt. Cmdr. Terzen T'Karr
Students: Alex Rogan, Charles Tucker III, Fatima Merali, H. G. Wells, Kale McCallum, Jack Harkness, Jim Kirk, Lorna Dane, Natasha Romanoff, Steve McGarrett, Tony Stark, Will Arrowsmith

Working with Chakra (Classroom #7)
Saturdays, 1000
Instructors: Minoru
Students:

Xenoanthropology (Classroom #8)
Saturdays, 1000
Instructors: Lt. Hugh Cambridge
Students: Alex Rogan, Carson Beckett, Jonas Quinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Tony Stark

Advanced Xenolinguistics (Classroom #6)
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, 1900
Instructors: Lt. Cmdr. Terzen T'Karr
Students: Jonas Quinn


Staff
Bob Fraser (Surviving the Wilderness)
Emma Frost (Physical Education (Youth), Physical Education (Adult), Self-Defence (Substitute))
Fatima Merali (Multiverse Primer)
Geordi La Forge, Lt. Cmdr. (Warp Theory & Starship Tech)
H.G. Wells (Creative Writing, Earth Languages (French), Kenpo)
Hugh Cambridge, Lt. (Catching up to the 24th Century, Spoken Languages (Klingon & Vulcan), Xenoanthropology)
Jonas Quinn (Earth History & Archaeology)
Kale McCallum (Ranged Combat Basics)
Kate Barlow (English & Poetry (Youth), English & Poetry (Adult))
Lorna Dane (Geology)
Mack Gerhardt (Mixed Martial Arts)
Minoru (Working With Chakra)
Sam Bowe (Melee Combat Basics (Substitute), Mixed Martial Arts, Surviving the Wilderness (Substitute))
Steve McGarrett (Scuba Diving, Self-Defence)
Terzen T'Karr, Lt. Cmdr. (Federation Primer, Warp Theory & Starship Tech (Substitute), Advanced Xenolinguistics)
Thea Queen (Archery)
Trever McCallum (Melee Combat Basics)
Ziva David (Ballet, Earth Languages (Italian), Krav Maga)


[ooc: Please note, the School is currently a once-a-month post; all times listed are for IC purposes. Teachers will post in with a comment for their class, and students can then tag in to thread at any stage for classes held at any point in the month.

To sign up to teach, or to add your character as a regular student of a class, see the OOC post here. The next School post will be on October 26th.]

Comments

Multiverse Primer

[dust_of_life]

Fatima wasn't entirely sure anyone would be interested in what she had to say, but she'd made a commitment and she intended to keep it. It was Merali honor. And besides, she would have killed for a guide, when she was encountering the multiverse for the first time. She'd had advice from Morgana, true. But it wasn't quite the same as what she wanted to offer.

When she arrived in the classroom, about twenty minutes early, she immediately picked up a black marker and started to draw out a diagram on the board:



When she finished, she frowned thoughtfully at it, then grabbed a red marker to add a few additional details. "Still thinking about you, asshole," she murmured, once she was finished.

With that accomplished, she sighed and started arranging the chairs in a semi-circle. It wasn't a class so much as a conversation. Might even become a support group. Who knew?

Fatima certainly didn't feel like a teacher. More like a soldier who'd just gone through a war. A soldier in awesome boots, admittedly. Still, it was hard to believe anyone would take her seriously.

The eternal battle of a dhampir.

Re: Multiverse Primer

[element_wizard]

"Dean Winchester?" Alec asked, looking at the drawing on the board.

He's just there, sitting somewhat precariously on the back of a chair. It really should tip over but, he's leaned forward enough that it won't. Currently.

It's also kinda hard to say when he came in.

[dust_of_life]

"The multiverse's favorite red-headed stepchild," Fatima said, glancing up in surprise to see that she had a customer.

Oh, and he had a pretty-boy face. Dangerous. Fatima loved pretty boys almost as much as she loved strappy sandals.

Almost...

But a professional attitude won out. For the moment. "This is a multiverse primer course," she said, perching herself on a stool in front of the board and crossing her legs. "Just a discussion group to explain some of the basics. Sadly, Dean Winchester plays a ginormous role in those basics for me."

[element_wizard]

Well strappy sandals are pretty lovable.

But Alec does fit the pretty-boy look fairly well. He's even got pointy ears! Currently he's just wearing jeans and a 'I went to Middle Earth and All I Got Was My Finger Cut Off" t-shirt without his usual long blue coat. (Though the scar across his left eye does kinda damage the look a little bit.)

"I guess that makes me the pissboy," Alec said idly before snapping back to attention.

"Did he really? I have to admit I only know a little bit about him. Only met a version of him once so I don't know much about his role in the multiverse enough to see him as the red-headed stepchild." He waggled a hand about.

[dust_of_life]

Pointed ears and scars no longer fazed Fatima much. Well, scars had never fazed her. As for pointy ears...well. She'd seen enough aliens walking through the corridors with the look to be at least somewhat comfortable with it. Although she had to admit, on first impressions anyway, that none of them seemed as fun as this pretty boy.

Her eyebrows jumped up slightly. "You know a little bit about him from here or..."

She made an absent, prompting gesture.

[element_wizard]

"Oh. No. I met him somewhere else," Alec said. "Multiversal nexus node..." Vague hand wave is vague. "And I lived in the same town as his brother for a few months."

He paused and frowned a bit. "And teenage girls. I've heard stuff about him from teenage girls, but as they're teenage girls, I'm not sure how trustworthy they are."

[dust_of_life]

"You've been to another multiversal hub?" she asked.

It wasn't entirely unheard of. She was pretty sure from the data she and Morgana had collected in Zelien that it had happened before. But this was the first time she'd met anyone besides herself and Beverly who was on their second trip around the merry-go-round.

She reached into her bag, pulling out one of her notebooks. "It doesn't seem like you need this course. But I'd love to hear about your experiences."

[impossibilities]

Grainne entered the classroom and took her seat, unsure if she should even be here and what she could learn about the Multiverse that she hadn't already, and then she took a look at the board and did a doubletake.

Well, that... that was rather on point for the internal crisis she was facing.

"Is this personal experience there? Who is Dean?"

[dust_of_life]

Fatima smiled slightly, looking up from the notebook, where she was scribbling furious notes. "Dean is my cautionary tale and my object lesson, all rolled up into one, you might say," she replied. "An illustration of the many complexities and headaches the multiverse has to offer."

She flipped her notebook shut with a a loud snap and stood up, walking over to take stock of her new customer.

Truth be told, she hadn't been expecting anyone to show.

"But before I make a complete fool of myself, I should probably ask if this is your first multiverse or not. I was getting trolled by a veteran earlier."

[impossibilities]

Drats. There went the fun and possibly learning from a different perspective. At any rate, she seemed like a relatively normal young woman in her twenties, her accent definitely on the posh British side.

Trolls? Grainne hadn't seen any when she walked in, but she wouldn't put it pass anyone on board when they were from different universes.

Still, she didn't really want anyone to know she was an old hand at this. Questions and uncomfortable situations she wanted to avoid. Although, maybe Fatima would understand. "It is not." She admitted reluctantly, clasping her hands together.

"Please, tell me about Dean."

[dust_of_life]

Not for the first time, Fatima found herself wondering why she was even bothering with this course. Not only did everyone already see to be a pro, but everyone seemed to know more than she did.

And Fatima hated feeling like a child.

Still. She'd gathered a lot of valuable data from Alec. Troll or not. The girl, at least, seemed nicer. So she swallowed her irritation and swallowed her pride.

It was a sign of great respect, actually.

"I met Dean Winchester in another multiversal hub," she said slowly and calmly. "Four separate times. Brought in from four separate points in time and possible two different versions of his own reality." She gestured up to the drawing on the board. "I wanted to use this as a demonstration of the way the multiverse functions."

[impossibilities]

Grainne examined the drawing, the dates now making sense, and to a degree the asshole comment.

"I've never had this experience before." Aside from those in her own universe, she hadn't encountered the same person twice in all her travels. "Does this happen often or have I been lucky? What were the differences like? How... different was he each time?" This last question was accompanied by an all too brief pained expression. It was an important question for her, something to put into perspective what she had gone through.

[dust_of_life]

Fatima frowned, trying to tackle all the questions at once. The sad truth was that she didn't know how often it happened. And there were not three words in the English (or Hindi) language that Fatima hated more than 'I don't know.'

So she decided to let it go for the moment.

"How was he different..." Probably an easier place to start.

If the word 'easy' could actually be applied to a Winchester.

She sucked in some air between her teeth. "Different in the way that life changes us and life experiences alter our personalities, I guess. Dean Winchester's life isn't exactly what you'd call normal. So the four years from Dean 1.0 to Dean 3.0 had a profound impact on him. He was less carefree, less joyful. But the months between Dean 3.0 and Dean 4.0 had less of an impact. Less time for things to go wrong, I guess."

Re: Multiverse Primer

[1st_starfighter]

Alex wasn't sure what to expect, but dealing with people from other universes had just reminded him how little he knew, and how much more he had to learn. So, here he was, peering into the class a little uncertainly.

The teacher and the diagram seemed normal enough, so he moved to a seat.

[dust_of_life]

Fatima was writing a few notes in her Zelien book when she heard someone walk in. It was difficult to sneak up on a dhampir. Not because she had super human hearing or anything like that. But she had spent so much of her life on the razor's edge of chaos that she was primed to react to things.

Fortunately, a beardy guy didn't exactly warrant karate kicks.

He looked fairly ordinary, to be honest. Which was oddly refreshing, considering.

"Hey," she said, offering him a polite smile. "Multiverse Primer?"

[1st_starfighter]

Alex was glad to not warrant karate kicks, and smiled at her with enthusiasm.

"Yes, ma'am. Just found out about it and signed up. Hope you don't mind!"

He was half-prepared to leave if she didn't want him there. There were issues, there.

[dust_of_life]

She wrinkled her nose a little bit at 'ma'am.' As much as she always fought to sit at the big kids' table of life--and she fought all the time--she didn't like the idea of actually being old. She was twenty-one.

Maybe.

Fatima had kind of lost track of her age.

But she let it pass, closing her notebook and resting it on her lap. "Just so I don't make an ass of myself" and there was an 'again' implied there, "Is this your first time through the rigmarole of multiversal travel, or have you been around the merry-go-round before?"

[1st_starfighter]

Alex was thirty-ish, in fact, but he tended to address everyone by what his mom had taught him was polite terms. Sorry, Fatima!

"Hm? Oh well, this is the first time." He paused. "And I am not sure. I might not have actually changed universes coming here." He smiled uncertainly at her.

[dust_of_life]

At that, she visibly relaxed. Being trolled by two second-timers had made some of her earlier conversations a bit more complicated. But a newbie? At least she could feel like she knew what the hell she was doing.

"Well, multiverse 101," she said, smiling a little less forcedly. "You've definitely changed universes coming here."

She gestured to a seat on the end of the semi-circle, near her stool. "Plop down. Tell me your name."

[itmeanstruth]

Minoru was looking for his own room when he saw what was being drawn on the board. His eyes lit up. Most people get really really confused, or even offended, when they realize they're not the only them in existence. But here was someone getting ready to teach about it!

"Sweet! You travel between dimensions too?" He walked in excitedly, studying it more closely. The difference in personality based on different experiences was absolutely true. But... "Wouldn't the biggest sign be having two of the same person in the same world at the same time?"

[dust_of_life]

Fatima was close to tears with frustration at this point. The class hadn't exactly turned out the way she'd planned. She found herself both overwhelmed and exhausted. And it stung her pride considerably to learn that not only was she far from an expert on the subject of the multiverse, but that there were more people here who knew more about it that she ever imagined.

She glanced up from her notebook when a strange voice interrupted her little sulk.

Great. Yet another person who obviously didn't need her help in any way, shape, or form.

Her ego was sore.

"There was some overlap," she admitted, her voice a little hoarse. "But I guess you don't need me to tell you about that."

[itmeanstruth]

"My parents were actually different versions of the same person." He shrugged happily. "My mother was the one who crossed over, but then decided to stay in my father's world to raise my brother and I."

That was a long time ago, but it made an impact on Minoru, who did a lot of traveling between worlds and dimensions as a Snake Sage. He certainly wasn't an expert at it, though. He needed the Great Snake Lord Elders to make portals for him or he couldn't cross over. He ran into people every now and then that ended up somewhere completely by accident. His late mother was one of the few he ever heard of that could actually do it, at will, without help.

"How does it normally happen?" He asked, honestly curious. Was his family the rule or the exception to it? "Going between dimensions?"

[dust_of_life]

Fatima blinked once. And then again. She tried to think of a good response to the idea of one's parents being the same person but...no. No. There was really no good response.

She wasn't sure there was a response at all, so she bit back a thousand possible replies and decided to just ignore it.

If you didn't pay attention to something, you didn't have to try to wrap your mind around it.

...right?

"I...can't say there's any kind of 'normal,'" she replied. "But from my personal experience, kidnapping is usually involved."

[itmeanstruth]

To corroborate her diagram and perhaps further break her brain, the differences between the two stemmed from one decision they each made at age 13. From there, it was incredible how different their circumstances had been...

"Kidnapping? Like someone crosses dimensional lines and takes them too? Or..." He thought about the worlds he'd been in that seemed to have a high number of people who arrived 'accidentally.' Could someone have been making it happen? "Someone like this Q everyone keeps talking about?"

[dust_of_life]

She nodded slightly. "Here, it's Q. In my last go around the rosey, it was an organization called COMPASS. The big difference seems to be stated purpose. COMPASS wanted to use as guinea pigs in their grand experiments." She wouldn't elaborate further about the experiments, though. Not everyone could handle it. "Meanwhile," she continued, "Q seems to just be looking for a few yucks. At least, based on what I've heard about him."

And most of that had come from Beverly. Who probably had a bit of a bias.