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This is for anyone wanting to test out their characters in the setting before the applications open, see what clicks. Multiples will be allowed for this post, and you can generally assume any threads are a self-contained continuity unless you feel like getting creative.

Just post a thread with your CHARACTER NAME and CANON NAME in the title with a prompt and others will reply. Prompts and threads can be action spam or prose or whatever. These threads can be used on the sample section of your application, as well. Go out and have fun! Feel free to consult the institute tour and dorm guide for setting info. We also encourage you to check out the "!!event" tag on the IC comms to brush up on the story so far.

Comments

[boywhorunsthroughtime]

Can you give us a practical task instead of a question, too?

[Pop quizzes and such suck, but practical tasks in biology can be fun. Sometimes you even get to go outside for them, or you can do things with potentially acidic or explosive substances... or take apart dead bodies... Or work with technical stuff...]

[globaltaunt]

That would be even better! Of course, more work nets you more points.

[Teemo is the sort of teacher who ruins bell-curves. He doesn't want to be in the classroom just as much as some of his students. Thinking you might get to go outdoors isn't just hitting he nail on the head; it's driving it clean through the board.]

Throughout the year, we'll be running an ongoing ecological survey of local flora and fauna. There will be plenty of chances to collect seed and spore samples, install wildlife cameras and census creekbeds. (See: hunt for mushrooms, climb trees and look at bugs... scientifically of course!!)

[boywhorunsthroughtime]

Do we get to take things apart, too? I want to dissect a fish, that always sounded fun but they stopped doing it because people would just throw them away afterwards at my old school.

[globaltaunt]

Well, maybe. I have a few rules and first of them is that if you can't catch it, you can't eat it. I can show you how to gut and clean a fish, but I don't make any promises. Not that you'll catch one and not that you'll be interested in seeing how it worked at the time. I can tell you that no one is just throwing fish away afterward.

[boywhorunsthroughtime]

"Sounds good to me." If he has to catch the fish before he can dissect it - catch anything, really, before he can: That is just a huge bonus. The hunt will probably be a lot more fun than what comes after that, and it not only being condoned but requested by a teacher...

[globaltaunt]

Fantastic! Er- Just don't go off hunting things without talking to me first. Heck, they could be a student and that's a talk I don't want to have with anyone's parents. I also teach knot tying and whittling, but they won't improve your grades.

[boywhorunsthroughtime]

"Does that mean that we get to hunt more things?" He's always wanted to do that, and it sounds fun, but apparently you need to go to the Southern states for that if he understood what people said right... And you need an adult, or something. Uncool.

But this, this is pretty cool.

[globaltaunt]

I don't know. It's something I'll have to look into. If so, it would be entirely extracurricular and part of a larger program on survivalism. Schools aren't normally fond of these sorts of things and it sounds like a lot of extra work.