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 Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:46 pm
Levi heard something like a knock on a wooden door. Blinking around, she spotted a familiar pair of green-tipped ears attached to a head hammering against a desk top. Either he was feeling extremely ill or the details of mating were just as secretive here as they were back home. She figured not as all the other students hadn't asked around the subject already.
Addressing Cricket again, Levi pointed to Demi. Professor, I think he might be sick 'er somethin'...
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:20 pm
Riley had only been half listening, and the topic of mating disillusioned her from her infatuative gaze, because she was not the type to put two and two together. To Riley, mating was something species did to survive. It was a choice, and it was not something she worried about. All that mold nonsense was for someone who was interested in mating. Not her.
As if reading her thoughts, the thought pinged into her mind sharply from Malodore.
Good news! We haven't been fornicating, so we're safe!
She barely stifled a snicker, helplessly amused at the candor with which Malodore expressed itself, and her eyes fell fondly on the plague doctor. Well, I wasn't really worried about that, mia cara. I just don't want any accidental scarelings. But yes, we are quite safe from this mold infection. It's good to know.
Her tentacle reached up to brush against her face, and she mimed out the act of blowing it a kiss, before returning her attention to class.
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:22 pm
Junko wasn't the only one making a face. Calder had been looking at the pumpkin, who he had named Hibertian Jr. The Third, and how cute it would be once it popped out of it's thick skin and be an adorable mess of whines and jerky motions. Of course, he pictured a little kelpie, with little horns of a certain horseman. It was the cutest thing ever, and it would have striped hair, black and white, and wear plaid robes and when it rained hard at night, it would go into his and Invi's bed all shivering and afraid.
Lost in his daydream, eyes half open as he looked at the pumpkin some ghoul was rubbing a bit too hard, before Hibertain Jr The Third EXPLODED INTO TINY BITS ALL OVER THE PLACE!
Calder jerked, and the hands propping up his head slipped out and made him hit the desk with a THWACK!. Holding his nose, he looked up with wide eyes. HIS BABY!
The kelpie's brain slowed to a dead crawl as he sat there, shocked, and then slowly looked down at an oozing bit of pumpkin attached to his hair. Whining, Calder lifted up the lock of his white hair to hold it in front of his face. "Baby...........you okay?" As if to answer, it started to fizzle and then, like that, it was gone.
Calder's eyes started to mist and he looked up to the front of the class where all the other pumpkins sat. He didn't want to go to the pumpkin patch to murder babies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:16 am
Luckily (or unluckily depending on how you looked at it) Astra had been quick to recover from her fainting spell and jumped back into her seat in time to see Bul had been puked back up. Thank Jack...
She was able to listen to Cricket talk about scarelings, being horrified when she mentioned she ate her own young but this time didn't faint. Nor did she faint when the horsewoman managed to blow up a pumpkin.. But she was very freaked out and having second thoughts about signing up for the FEARhealing class. A glance around the class gave her a mixed impression. Lizzy and a few others were hugging each other (Maybe she should go over and give them a hug too? A hug sounded nice...) while looking a Riley she was led to believe she was absolutely loving this class.
The talk about 'screwing' and mold was very confusing as well, and she was reluctant to touch anyone every again ave she could get a FEARinfection from it.
When one of the students (the long tailed cat she saw from the sleevover) had asked about mating, Astra was secretly glad she did, because she was still quite confused.
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:33 am
Amrita had been watching the display from the seat next to Charlie, her gray eye wide. From Bul getting eaten and spit up (THANKJACK) to the destruction of a pumpkin by a Death Heir to...talk about mold?! This class was...completely different from the last one. The last one was informative. This one was just plain gross! Not the good gross, either! Biting fown on what was left of her bottom lip, she wiggled uncomfortably in her seat. The material itself was interesting enough she supposed, and in the name of knowledge she couldn't look away...but still. Couldn't it be less disgusting?!
"H-have you ever heard of this?" She whispered to Charlie, who happened to be the closest to her at the time. Amrita was making quite upset faces in Lizzy's direction, though!
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Mac on the other hand, was starting to wonder what the hell was wrong with this school. The Teachers were crazy, the Teaching Assistants were just as off their rocker, and...ugh his subject! It made even Mac uncomfortable...and of course it made him count his lucky stars. Nothing so bad had happened to him before and, just, thank Jack. He was definitely going to be way more careful from here on out, though!
The Reaper looked over his shoulder at Calder, who had an expression he knew well; the boil was about to cry, or at least thinking about it. Sighing, he leaned over in his chair and stretched out a hand, patting the Kelpie's arm in a hopefully comforting manner.
"Hey man, it's okay...I don't think that was a real pumpkin." Oh god let it be a cruel minipet. Please please please.
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:03 pm
Calder was still looking ahead, eyes wide and not really looking at anything as he thought of the poor little pumpkin that just popped like a gooey balloon.It made him deeply worried that he might wind up going with someone he cared for on that special date in the future when he went down to the pumpkin patch and just wound up exploding each pumpkin he touched. The thought chilled him, and he turned to look with a creased brow when a boil shook his shoulders.
"...but....what if that happens with a real pumpkin when you...go to the pumpkin patch?" The thought alone made him wrap his arms around himself and look down at his desk.
Sex-Ed wasn't a fun class anymore.
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:42 pm
Sepheran didn't know how to react. Everything seemed to happen so fast and he was really just relying on what Liannan was telling him. Something about a student getting swallowed, then spit back out and her relying she should only eat the bugs he gives her. Then an exploding pumpkin baby?
Sepheran could only sit there trying to register everything. What in Jack's name was this class?! He should have known something weird was bound to happen. He was glad that Arachne was next to him...but at the same time this made him worry as well, he didn't want her to get swallowed or involved in some exploding pumpkins incident or something.
Instead he just kept his trap shut.
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:46 pm
Arachne was confused, and thoroughly freaked out. What she wanted to do was cling onto Sepheran as she had done during the trip but she had the feeling that doing so in this class would lead to something bad. Real bad.
Kissing led to diseases? She couldn't quite digest that either - after all, didn't everyone here have parents or had parents at one point? Her mother, and for that matter her Grandmother had never bestowed dire warnings about some awful mold that was spread by physical affection. She couldn't, and wouldn't bring herself to speak up about it though..she didn't want to get swallowed.
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:31 pm
This information was certainly.. disturbing to say in the least. The moldy disease Cricket spoke of sounded incredibly uncomfortable if not painful to deal with. It was a wonder as to why Jericho's parents hadn't mentioned anything of the matter before..
He supposed it was good to know about these sorts of things though. Knowing was half the battle and all.
However, hearing Levi, he stared over at the girl, wondering if she was serious in that question. There really were people who didn't know..
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Grimacing at the thought of mold, Shun shook his head to himself on the matter. He wasn't really sure what was worse.. ending up with some random scareling or getting those diseases. Neither were all too appealing. That was for certain.
Glancing to the side, he caught Mitsu begin to raise her hand but had decided against it or something. Something about the way she was sitting suggested confusion, though perhaps she was just highly disturbed with all of this. Maybe both.
His attention then shifted over to the assistant in the classroom, watching her for a few moments. She was one of the riders, though he did not know which one at the moment.
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:20 pm
Releasing Xiu and Tess from her hug, she pushed her chair backwards until the back of her chair was touching the desk behind her. She then turned, reaching for Amrita over the desk to give her a quick pat on the head, not wanting Nurse Cricket to devour her for any sudden movements, "It's just a minipet, you know... Like the one we were given last time... Like... Sprout..." Her voice faded as she stared at Calder.
That expression. That 'I'm going to cry' expression.
She quickly looked away; crying was infectious and she did not want to cry in class even if the scary horsewoman just exploded what might be Sprout's unborn sibling... Now never able to know what the moon look like...
And then she finally processed Levi's 'How to go about mating' question.
Her face was now stuck between grief, horror and shock.
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:04 am
"The reason why I am speaking of FEARinfections is because there are people who don't worry about going to the pumpkin patch, assuming that the only thing that could happen from such acts is from being near a pumpkin." Cricket grinned sadistically. "No. Even in your rooms safe and far away from the pumpkin patch, you can do horrible damage to yourself."
She seemed to pause at Levi's inquiry, before passing over it entirely. She wasn't going to answer that. Ohhhh hells no. "Ask your parents." she said, "or Gruegle it."
"My point is that you all are spoiled on this idea that just because you can't get pregnant, there is nothing that could go wrong." She again paused, her gaze seeming to linger on particular students. "Don't think I don't know that this conversation was needed."
Cricket clapped her hands together, rubbing her palms.
"Now I'm sure many of you will go 'But don't we have to be infected in the first place'?"
She looked around to watch the faces of the class, before a flourish of one hand signaled she was going to continue talking for a while longer. "The answer is both yes and no. There are FEARinfections that come simply from incompatible partners; something that is nothing to one race can be a problem for another and cause numerous problems because people don't check." Cricket spoke with calm annunciation. However, it was quite possible the nurse was enjoying the entire lecture.
It was the most she had ever spoken about anything.
"Will these things affect children? It is possible. However, a FEAR exchange between a parent and a child tends to yield less disastrous results because of FEAR Compatibility."
Cricket sat on her desk again.
"FEAR compatibility exists between kin, preventing most horrible diseases that could be passed between people... unless it came from an outside source. Then it passes more readily."
She leaned back on her arms, crossing her legs with careless appraisal.
"So you not only put your partner at risk by being careless, you can infect their entire family."
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:13 am
Bul-consumption had terrified Tess. Minipet explosion? Not so much. Still, when Lizzy let go, Tess managed to push back the shock and horror and awe (and a tad bit of regret that the pseudo-scareling was dealt in such a wasteful manner). She found herself raising her hand to ask a question. "N-Nurse Cricket? Um, at times, my kind is known to consume scarelings that are still gestating. Is there a way to be able to tell whether or not a scareling has these... infections?" All of a sudden her family's big, get-together dinners with the rare delicacy being served sounded a lot less appetizing.
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Throughout it all, the tikbalang said nothing. He just watched in silent contemplation as the ghost continued to explain the dangers of attempting to mate carelessly. He did, however, quirk a square-root brow when the manananggal asked her question. He didn't know how applicable the answer would be to the rest of the class but still, it might yield some useful information.
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:18 pm
Bul was now utterly confused in a sequential sense. He looked to be counting things on his fingers and drawing invisible images in his desk before contorting his face some.
"So... wait.." he attempted to articulate a question that wouldn't risk another trip down the Cricket-eats-me express. "How does kin manage to grow then without uh.. without messin with the FEAR compatibility? I know my family goes back a ways so.." Somehow he avoided the question of 'what if one day I actually want a scareling.'
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:53 pm
A grim look of satisfaction crossed Roch's face as she explained the problem about different species. So he'd been right, kinda. With that question answered he leaned back, enjoying the lecture. To put it bluntly, when it wasn't something that would probably affect him (he never wanted a scareling, and didn't have a ghoulfriend or anything) it was pretty fascinating.
Even if the teacher was a ghost (still making him sick to the stomach, that, so he glossed over the fact quickly) she made learning fascinating. He wondered how she knew about the pair back in her school days. Had she been a nurse back then, even? Did they go around showing all the other students?
Well, they sounded pretty idiotic to begin with, so he wouldn't put that past them...
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:34 pm
After a few more traumatic moments of lecture Mitsu realized she should probably take notes....so that she could relive this horrible ordeal over again later. Fun. Reaching for her bag beside her desk Mitsu pulled out her notepad and pencil with a shaky grasp and laying them carefully on the desk top she turned to an unused page and began to write.
Her notes were detailed, or at least as detailed as she could make them. There were still keys points she did not understand but the teacher had told them to look it up on the interweb......the thought made Mitsu leery but she still highlighted a few things to look up. Something told her there would be many tears of regret...many tears.
Casting a cautious glance to the side her vision settled first on Lizzy and then on Shun. While her face couldn't be seen her slouched posture, droopy ears, and her tail curled up under her was enough to tell she was uncomfortable. It was a subject she knew nothing about and needed to educate herself on but this seemed...a bit much in one go. She hadn't even been close enough to someone to do more than hug let alone whatever this snogging was.
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