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The Photo Hut - Thursday

Liz was still feeling rather restless from last week, even though she wanted to try and get as much work as she could done while she was able to come downstairs and work from there.

She was taking it as easy as she could, she was hoping to have everything finished by lunchtime so she could go back upstairs for the rest of the day but she was seeing what she could get done in that time.

[the Photo Hut is open!]

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Fandom Island Museum, Thursday Daytime

The blob of... whatever that had been in the display on the lower floor was gone. Which was good as frankly neither Blathers nor Steven had wanted to touch it. They both agreed that it was best not to wonder where it had gotten to and to simply be glad it wasn't around anymore.

The tomato plant upstairs was also... gone? Sort of? Last week it had been tall and fruiting (tomatoing?) Now in its place a tiny sprout remained. Steven had no idea what to make of it and wondered if he should give Nell a call to see if it was all right. But for now it neither seemed hurt nor was hurting anybody, so once again Steven and Blathers left it be.

Otherwise Steven was downstairs at his usual spot behind the Welcome Desk. After making sure the brochure rack was properly filled up, of course.

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$gulch,
sabine wren

Wellspring Arms- Wednesday

Sabine was trying to get back into a routine again. This was both harder and easier to do when things were pretty consistently quiet, and since it was, she decided she might as well get some shooting practice in. She put the "IN BACK- YELL" sign out and brought a blaster she hadn't used before to test out.

And she was trying to figure out how to keep a cat out of the area. This was not the place. Not the place.

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The Perk, Wednesday Afternoon

"Okay but how 'bout ya put more pumpkin in it?"

"Okay but even more?"

"But even more more?"

"More more mo--"

Hi, yes, Harley was holding at least one barista hostage with the order she was attempting to make. Sometimes you just had to! While leaning way too far over the counter while she did it, too.

Someone come save the barista. Or possibly Harley, depending on how (much more) annoying she got before her latte would be deemed complete.

(open with some slow)

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$over easy,
gray

Over Easy, Wednesday

Gray had asked the kitchen staff if they could make the special for today sweet tea waffles, for Arden, and also so they wouldn't use coffee again. You had to use so much sugar and flavoring to make coffee even drinkable, why would you want your food to taste like that?

What they'd come up with was not exactly what he'd asked for, but you know what? It was pretty good, and he'd contributed to the special! Maybe this 'working' thing was gonna work out after all?

Will It Waffle? Wednesday Special
Earl Grey Waffles with Mixed Berries

Over Easy is open!

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health

Health Education, Wednesday, Second Period

"Last week we talked about vaccines," Don told his students. "This week, we're going to talk about why they work, and what causes most forms of disease, which is germs. For centuries, the prevailing theory, in the West, at least, was that miasma, or something bad in the air, caused disease, although in different times and places you saw people starting to see the holes in that theory via observation and logic--noticing how disease could pass directly from person to person, usually. Or maybe they would figure out that hey, wait a minute, it's the water that's causing this particular disease, but they still didn't know why. That's because the human eye can't see viruses or bacteria, aka 'germs.' They're too tiny.

"In 1674 a Dutchman named Anton van Leeuwenhoek designed and built his own microscope, a device capable of magnifying our vision of something by many, many times, and observed the first single-celled organisms in a drop of water from a pond. Over the next couple of centuries, scientists learned more and more about microbiology, and by the late eighteen hundreds what they had learned solidified into germ theory: transmissible diseases are caused by 'germs,' these microscopic organisms that invade the human body and have to be fought off by the immune system. Most germs are either bacteria or viruses, and for practical purposes what you need to know is that you can fight a bacterial infection with antibiotics, but not a viral one.

"This week we have a microscope with a slide featuring a droplet of pond water, just like the one Anton van Leeuwenhoek would have observed back in the day." Although this one was from Fandom's pond, so Don had taken a quick peek through the viewfinder before class to make sure there wasn't anything really weird in there. "I'd like everyone to come up and take a look, and see just how much is going on under the surface."

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Space Pirates! (Pirates in Space!) [Wednesday, 1st Period]

They were still on the completely-impossible-to -actually-be-a-space-pirate ship for a third class in a row, this time bobbing along through an entirely scientifically inaccurate nebula.

"Today we're going to be talking about the main reason anyone becomes a pirate, space or otherwise," Aphra told them by way of greeting. "People will tell many reasons why they might become a pirate, and some of them are even true."

"Freedom of the open sea, issues with authority, the fashion," Isabela listed off on her fingers. "But when it all comes down to it, it's the loot. Everyone wants a piece of that booty." Which probably explained why she was perched on top of a treasure chest.

"Today we're going to talk about the kind of things that a space pirate might consider loot," Aphra said. "And the friends we made along the way don't count, unless you literally made them and not just metaphorically."

"After that, we'll leave it to you to figure out how to divvy up your loot," Isabela said, standing and opening the chest to reveal it was full of chocolate coins.

Fandom Radio, Wednesday 9/17

Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Time for me to tell you about the news from yesterday. What there is.

3 classes at the school as usual. Things started with Ghanima taking her Reclaiming Your Childhood students to a waterpark and spa. That does sound like a good way to spend a day. Spas are good…I miss…nevermind.
Diplomacy with Anakin and Ahsoka watched a movie and learned about terrible translations. And my Dealing with Other People’s Trauma class discussed the importance of apologies.

I’ve nothing from the dorms but the porg seems to have taken this morning off so at least there’s not his terribly sad face to have to deal with.

From the town I have just a few notes. Erasmus had trouble getting tea at the Perk. Jon was able to get the tea he wanted, perhaps because it was a different kind, and they realized they’re both in Liliana’s class. As am I.

And now the final note of today about yesterday. Kitty made Tino attempt to clean up the glitter in Caritas. It doesn’t sound like he had much luck. Or much fun. Good.

That’s all from yesterday for today.

Reclaiming Your Childhood, Tuesday, Period 1 [9/9]

Students had been ~~handwavily~~ told today to pack their towels and swimsuits, and they would find Ghanima and Trebor waiting at the door to the school with a large tote filled with extra towels.

"Today, we're going to the phenomena known as a 'water park,'" Ghanima informed everyone cheerfully. "As a creature from a desert planet, I loathe the idea of a precious resource being used this way, but I am told it is something many children do, so we are going to give it a try!"

"In this case, we are going to a state called Wisconsin, to the Kalahari Water Park. Don't worry, for those of you whom discover you despise the experience, the Kalahari also offers an adventure park, or even spa services." Which is exactly where Ghanima would be, once Trebor tired of the experience.

She held-up gift-cards as the portal appeared next to her. "I have covered a meal for everyone," she continued, "--and again, the portal is time-locked so you can spend as long as you like at the park, and still make it back in time for second-period." Ghanima smiled brightly. "I'll be doing that for most of the semester, so you can make the most of your time."

"Now, let's play!"

Dealing With Other People's Trauma, Tuesday 9/16

“Apologies,” Stark said once everyone had arrived. “Not from me. I don’t think I need to apologize to any of you yet…but we’re going to talk about apologies today. It’s a very important subject. A difficult one, sometimes, but important.”

Was Ignis twitching slightly somewhere else on the island?

“Sometimes…sometimes you need to apologize. Sometimes it’s the only thing you can> do. Even if you don’t want to, or if you’ve done it wrong before, or if you think it might not be useful. You still should try.”

He was talking to himself here, too. Definitely.

“There are lots of reasons to apologize. Countless reasons. You may have done something purposefully that hurt someone else, you may have done something unintentionally, you may have not done something…big things, small things…so many things that are deserving of apologies and yet so many things are never apologized for.”

Stark's voice trailed off for a moment then he shook his head and continued.

“It helps though, apologizing. It might not fix everything but it helps and sometimes a little improvement can be everything. Sometimes an apology means the world to someone. Sometimes it means very little. But you should still try. It's better for everyone if you do, usually.”

Oh no, he was looking extra sincere right now. Followed by looking concerned.

“of course, if you never know that someone was hurt you'll never know to apologize. Sometimes you may just need to pay close attention to reactions to things, from people. If you can tell someone that they've hurt you then they'll hopefully know not to do the same thing again. Hopefully. So…let's talk about apologies?”

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The Perk, Tuesday Afternoon

Erasmus had received a slip letting him know he had a package to pick up at the post office that morning, so he'd gone to get it after his class. Sadly, it didn't include even a prototype 'try this and tell me what happens' charm to try to block the Chain Veil (his father was working on it; Erasmus really hoped he was sleeping at some point), but it did contain a full restock and then some on pain charms, which was great considering he had another date with a migraine scheduled for Thursday.

He wasn't worrying about that until Thursday.

After the post office, he'd decided to stop by the coffee shop, where he had continued to fail in obtaining sweet tea. Instead, after a very confusing conversation with the worker at the register, he'd ended up with an iced pumpkin spice latte, which was...well, he had been trying to get something iced. He'd give them that.

"I'm just gonna have to make my own tea, ain't I?" he muttered, and took a sip of his coffee. It wasn't bad.

(Open Perk is open!)

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Diplomacy, Tuesday, September 16, 2025 [2nd period]

"Well, I couldn't very well ask to borrow Threepio from Luke, could I?" Anakin muttered to Ahsoka as the students came in. "Threepio would never stop talking. Ever."

"I guess whoever programmed him forgot a sense of discretion," Ahsoka replied, in a similarly low, but innocent and angelic tone.

"You're hilarious," Anakin said in a tone that said otherwise.

"I like to think so," Ahsoka said cheerfully.

Anakin finally remembered they had a class to teach. "Right. An important part of diplomacy is making sure everyone understands everyone else. In our galaxy, we use droids, but we couldn't bring one here to show you."

Mostly because Anakin didn't want to.

"So instead we'll be exploring the importance of well-trained or programmed translators by closely examining the work of bad ones." Yes, it was a movie day.

"We'll be using an instructional video." Sure, Anakin.

"There may be a quiz later."

There would definitely be a quiz later. Probably next week. "Don't drool too obviously on the desks if you do take a nap," Anakin concluded.

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Meme: More Than Meets the Eye

I don't wanna deal with coworkers or work or life today, so here's a meme we haven't done since August 2024. We've had new characters in the last year, we might as well update.

There are certain characteristics about the people we play that *we* know, but we get tired of repeating in every introductory ping. There's also stuff that players wouldn't really be able to figure out just looking at an icon--how tall someone is, if they have an accent, what kind of clothes they are wearing...and in some cases, if their eyes/hair/whatever are different than the PB we've picked.

So wax poetic about what your characters look/sound like, if they have tics or scars, how they dress, if they have a distinct singing voice, etc!

Have at it!

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Caritas- Tuesday

If you heard a vacuum going during any downtime today, it was because Kitty was making Tino clean up all the glitter he'd brought back into the bar on Saturday. There was no way he'd get all of it, that was impossible. But he was damn well going to try now that he was good and ready and forced to.

Don't mind the noise.

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Fandom Radio, Tuesday, September 16th

Hey there Fandom. It's ya girl, Arden Finch, hitting you up this lovely Tuesday morning with everything you missed - or didn't - from yesterday!

School started with Flight and Flying where we flew X-Wings and tried to shoot down other ships and we don't need to keep track of who crashed how many times, thanks squirrels ANYWAY MOVING ON. Cryptozoology learned about Bigfoot which somehow led to Charlie - hi, Charlie! - talking about fae playing basketball.

*long pause*

Yeah, we're just gonna move on to How Not To Drown, where people practiced treading water in the deep end of the pool and Rey and Dean Skywalker discussed...eggbeaters. Eggbeaters? Yeah, okay, the squirrels insist eggbeaters.

No Dorms, except for the pool kinda pulling double duty, so to Town we go! Professor Vess had...an angry bear trap at the Infinite Consortium and I'm really starting to think the squirrels are [BLEEP]ing with me. Dr. Blake dropped by to talk to her about a favor she wanted to ask of him, swapping classes at some point. Pizza Planet got extra avocados, which Ray had to turn into a bunch of pizza toppings because you've got maybe three days to use an avocado before it's gross. Stabby was missing from the Clinic, but the nurses assured Professor James Stark that he was probably on vacation. The Trooper Station got a call about a body that turned up in the hotel--what???! Somebody found a body?!

...Oh. In Hawaii. Way to BURY THE [BLEEP]ING LEDE, Jimothy! Body found on the literal other side of the country, all is well. Well, not for the body. But the island.

Vi somehow got all the glitter in the Magpie Emporium contained to specific places and I'm assuming magic was involved somehow. And Mr. Northman was practicing making various True Blood cocktails at The Devil's Nest. Professor James Stark was surprised to see Mr. Northman bartending, but felt better when he explained he was experimenting and not serving. Ms. Solo-Fel started texting and there's something scribbled out here. Something about, hang on lemme see if I can make it out...vampire emo--

*panicked squeaking and tearing paper*

Ooookaaaaaaaaay. Apparently the squirrels are afraid that Mr. Northman might eat them if whatever was written was announced on air, so I'm just gonna take this opportunity to head out.

Have a great rest of your day, Fandom, and this is ya girl, Arden Finch, signing off, and leaving you with Ellise's Bubblegum Brain. Bye!

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Flight and Flying- Monday, 1st period

The class was in the flight shed today, where Jaina was waiting.

"Today we're using a ship from my galaxy," she began. "This is the E-wing starfighter. It's used by the military about as much as the X-wings that I know a couple of you have experience with. It's flown with the help of an astromech droid that plugs into a socket on the ship to help with navigation and repairs when things get dicey. It's got heavy armor shielding, laser cannons, and proton torpedoes, so it's well-equipped to survive a firefight. It's just not as cool as the X-wing."

It was true.

"I'm going to give you a demonstration and get you used to things a bit, and then you're going to get some target practice in."

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The Devil's Nest, Monday Night

Eric was still looking a bit smirky from his time at Three Minute Dates and Tiny was not asking.

Taking several bottles of True Blood from behind the bar, Eric busied himself coming up with new drinks for beings with special dietary needs. Tiny would still have to serve them, of course, but Eric was enjoying the creative process.

True Blood and elderflower liqueur was disgusting, for the record.

The Devil's Nest was open!

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The Magpie Emporium, Monday [15/09]

It had taken the better part of a week, but most of the glitter was finally either gone or at least corralled to around the painting tables.

Which meant that the group preparing minis for their all-ranger game were going to end up with some very sparkly animal familiars...

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Trooper Station, Monday, Sept 15, 2025

Steve was feeling a little more settled in his own skin after a class period spent swimming, and then Troopers were relieved that they were missing out on another run around the island (especially since a few were nursing bruises from banana-related falls and none of them wanted to explain that. They suspected Steve would not be sympathetic).

He picked up his cell phone as it rang with Chin's ringtone. "McGarrett," he said with a smile in his voice. He quickly sobered as Chin relayed what was happening back in Honolulu. "A body?" he repeated. "Left in the lobby? How'd they even get access?"

He listened as Chin told him what they knew so far.

"Okay, let me know what forensics tells you about this. Danny and I will catch the next available portal back."

The Trooper Station actually had a case!

Fandom Clinic, Monday

Stabby's tank was dark and empty when Stark arrived. Well, empty in that it was currently unoccupied not empty in that everything had been removed.

"He went on vacation," a nurse said. "With all those sequined costumes. I'm guessing visiting the lobsters but you just never know with that one."

Stark just nodded and then shrugged. "All right. I'm sure he'll be back soon enough."

The clinic was open, the crab was on walkabout, and the alien was in.

And there was still glitter.