Super Hero High: Prometheus Rising (IC, Open)

[Firstaria]

Due to the last incident, Daniel decided this time to follow the classes in order to make sure none other incident would happen. The school was not going to stand up long if students would start dying inside his walls.

He was actually interested in the theoretical lesson. He had a good knowledge of facts, but he knew you can't always be prepared. Indeed , he was good with Italy but the last question threw him a bit off, what was the professor talking about with that anima/animus thing?

[Camicon]

My opinion of my latest teacher, Chef (Doctor Segura, as he introduced himself), plummeted the moment he opened his mouth. Apparently this class was going to cover advance theoretical physics, biological theory, psychological study, and include a portion on the application of history to the modern day. Wasn't the 'General' in 'General Sciences' supposed to be... well, general? This was a generation that had spent most of their academic career fighting off vampires for chrissake, and he wanted us to study string theory! Most of these kids, I was willing to wager, didn't know anything beyond basic algebra. Who the hell has time to study evolutionary theory when you got bloodsucking serial killers dropping out of the sky? I'd actually finished primary schooling, with good grades too, and half of what he mentioned I didn't recognize. I can only imagine what it was like for those kids that weren't even beyond the ninth comparative grade. And then he starts in with his stupid little quiz thing, which is basically him asking us for pointless, unimportant factoids to satisfy his weird obsession for knowing irrelevant things. Who the hell cares how many people died on Apollo 1! They were unlucky, the engineers fixed the problem, end of. Things like that happened all the time. Yes, it was a tragic accident, but that's all it was. A better question would be: 'What sorts of pressures did the Space Race cause between the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.? How did this shape the national, geopolitical landscape of the time?'

When Daniel Mercury walked into the class, what little bit of attention I had for Chef vanished. I stared at Mr.Mercury, still angered over his ignoring me last night. Notice I'm staring at you. Notice I'm staring at you! I was practically screaming inside my head. Hopefully, he'd ask we what was the matter, and I could leave Chef's class to talk with him. It would kill two birds with one stone: getting me out of an intensely boring (and, so far, useless) class, and hopefully give me some answers to a few important questions.

[Firstaria]

When Daniel Mercury walked into the class, what little bit of attention I had for Chef vanished. I stared at Mr.Mercury, still angered over his ignoring me last night. Notice I'm staring at you. Notice I'm staring at you! I was practically screaming inside my head. Hopefully, he'd ask we what was the matter, and I could leave Chef's class to talk with him. It would kill two birds with one stone: getting me out of an intensely boring (and, so far, useless) class, and hopefully give me some answers to a few important questions.

Daniel noticed one of the student looking at him quite angry, but he couldn't imagine why. However, he didn't want to interrupt the lesson, and so decided to ignore the matter.

Whatever she wanted could totally wait the end of the lession, he wanted to be a presence of control, not disturbance.

[Altruistic Paladins]

Joaquin

"While we wait for Mina to try to answer the questions, Tara, tell me some of the differences in Achaemenid Persian society and general Greek society. For the general sciences question, may I ask you how speed affects time?" Doctor Segura kept his grin and deadpan. He could see the look on her face that she was anxious to get out of class. He ultimately asked Bramwell a more difficult question because he read that Bramwell had performed well in science and history, and thus gave a question more based on understanding the facts and compilling what that meant. Bramwell had succeeded that with flying colors. He actually planned to do something more in-line with how scientists and historians think. Namely, they would be focused on learning what the facts are and how to extrapolate the meaning of them in a greater context.

[Imperial--japan]

"While we wait for Mina to try to answer the questions, Tara, tell me some of the differences in Achaemenid Persian society and general Greek society. For the general sciences question, may I ask you how speed affects time?" Doctor Segura kept his grin and deadpan. He could see the look on her face that she was anxious to get out of class. He ultimately asked Bramwell a more difficult question because he read that Bramwell had performed well in science and history, and thus gave a question more based on understanding the facts and compilling what that meant. Bramwell had succeeded that with flying colors. He actually planned to do something more in-line with how scientists and historians think. Namely, they would be focused on learning what the facts are and how to extrapolate the meaning of them in a greater context.

"Huh wah oh", stuttered Mina. "Oh ahem, The cuisine of Italian American immigrants and their descendents, who have modified Italian cuisine under the influence of American culture and immigration patterns of Italians to the United States. As immigrants from different regions of Italy settled in different regions of the United States and became “Italian Americans,” they brought with them diverse traditions of foods and recipes that were particularly identified with their regional origins in Italy and yet infused with the characteristics of their new home locale in America".
She said.

"As for the second question, The anima and animus, in Carl Jung's school of analytical psychology, are the two primary anthropomorphic archetypes of the unconscious mind, as opposed to both the theriomorphic and inferior-function of the shadow archetypes, as well as the abstract symbol sets that formulate the archetype of the Self. The anima and animus are described by Jung as elements of his theory of the collective unconscious, a domain of the unconscious that transcends the personal psyche. In the unconscious of the male, it finds expression as a feminine inner personality: anima; equivalently, in the unconscious of the female it is expressed as a masculine inner personality: animus. So my Archetype would be Animus". Mina finished that mouthfull.

[Mighty Asgard]

Tyler had walked into class along with the others, after that one weird kid had collapsed in the last class and sent them all a psychic image of a lion or something. Immediately upon entering the classroom he felt uncomfortable, not quite as uncomfortable as he had been when his powers were dampened but still getting a weird vibe from the entire setup. There was something very wrong about that room, something that just put him on edge. Then the teacher said something about jamming and revealed that the fake walls had been hiding a ridiculous amount of posters of various crap, making it seem like the teacher was trying too hard to impress them with his knowledge of youth culture or something. At the same time a song started playing and a note on the board informed them that class would begin as soon as the song ended.

Once the song ended the teacher introduced himself as doctor Segura, but he didn't seem to be a real doctor, probably just someone wearing the title to brag about it. And then he continued to say that he was a geek, and a sergeant. Segura's American accent meant that he was surely a sergeant in the US army, which in Tyler's opinion meant that he deserved to die, painfully. But actually trying to do anything to bring that about would mean that he'd get thrown out of the school, and probably locked up for the rest of his life, which wasn't a very enticing prospect. So he just glared angrily at the teacher while listening to the others as they answered the bullshit questions they had been asked.

[Camicon]

"While we wait for Mina to try to answer the questions, Tara, tell me some of the differences in Achaemenid Persian society and general Greek society. For the general sciences question, may I ask you how speed affects time?" Doctor Segura kept his grin and deadpan. He could see the look on her face that she was anxious to get out of class. He ultimately asked Bramwell a more difficult question because he read that Bramwell had performed well in science and history, and thus gave a question more based on understanding the facts and compilling what that meant. Bramwell had succeeded that with flying colors. He actually planned to do something more in-line with how scientists and historians think. Namely, they would be focused on learning what the facts are and how to extrapolate the meaning of them in a greater context.

Though my attention was all on Mercury (and, I noted with satisfaction, that he'd noticed), I started listening when Chef said my name. I sighed. Really? I knew this stuff back in grade nine.

"The closer an object approaches the speed of light, the slower time passes for said object. This is some of the most compelling evidence for the theory that normal humans actually interact with four dimensions: length, width, height, and time.

And the differences between Ancient Greek culture and Achaemenid Persian culture are staggering. As staggering as it would be to compare the British Empire to the Indian sub-continent.

The biggest difference most people will first see is that the Persians, unlike the Greeks, did not build temples or altars, nor hold ceremonies or create effigies, for their god, until some of those practices were introduced by Artaxerxes II Mnemon. Whereas the Greeks had a pantheon of the Twelve Olympians, for whom they built great monuments and created cult ceremonies for, the Persians subscribed to Zorostrianism.
Also, the Persian culture placed an over-riding emphasis on the truth, whereas the Greeks placed over-riding emphasis on reason and inquiry. Both were ultimately a quest for knowledge, but they had distinctly different methods that evoked distinctly different behaviour in the everyday lives of a Greek and Persian citizen.
The Greeks also had a love of literature and theatre, where the Persians instead had a love of fine drink and fine foods. If you brought an Ancient Greek man together with a Achaemenid Persian, the Greek would say the Persian is a lout, and the Persian would say the Greek has a stick up his ass.
As well, the art and architecture of Ancient Greece was largely uniform, as the entire group was composed of Greeks. The Persian Empire was very multi-cultural, and it reflected most prominently in the palace of Persepolis, which was built in the combined style of the Ionians, Sardians, Medes, Egyptians and Babylonians. The entire palace was a reflection of the diversity of the Persian Empire, which the Greeks took cues from when modelling their own system of government, by the way.

To be quite honest, the Greeks pale in comparison to the Persian Empire. Practically everything the Greeks "discovered' or "developed", the Persians had done before them. It is only because Achaemenid Persia disappeared, so to speak, before the Romans rose up that they aren't more recognized for their contributions to modern day society. Lets face it, the Persian Empire was the first of it's kind in the history of modern man. Every empire after them took notes, copied half of them verbatim and used the other half as inspiration."

[Altruistic Paladins]

Joaquin

"While you took the answer in a different direction than I was expecting, it is still ultimately correct since I did not provide enough specification to gain said answer. For the second, you are correct. If I may ask a follow-up, what is the transformation called whereby the personal and collective unconscious is brought into consciousness to be assimilated into the whole personality?" Joaquin was interested now. She had clearly been smart enough to memorize the terms and have some understanding of it, but now he was going to test to see if she could do something by having enough understanding of a subject to identify it without the usage of terms specific to it. As Doctor Segura looked over the classroom, he was taking mental notes of how and where they were looking.

"Tara, you are correct for the most part. The Greeks still made plenty of discoveries that weren't fully discussed with the Persians due to a severe lack of much significant interaction that did not involve either killing or Greek colonies wilfully joining the Persians. The Greeks did not have a single system of government, and had everything from very corrupt democracies to tyrranical oligarchies. To say every empire took notes from the Persians is sort of like saying that every culture that practices agriculture learned about agriculture from the Mesopotamians or Indus River Valley civilization. It may have inspired plenty of people, but not all learned from it, either because they chose to not do so or developed the same on their own. For example, the Haudenosaunee had agriculture, but were not inspired by the Indus River Valley civilization or Mesopotamia. Sometimes, people will come to the same conclusion on their own because it is a good idea. Thank you for giving an impartial comparison and well-studied comparrison."

[Imperial--japan]

Joaquin

"While you took the answer in a different direction than I was expecting, it is still ultimately correct since I did not provide enough specification to gain said answer. For the second, you are correct. If I may ask a follow-up, what is the transformation called whereby the personal and collective unconscious is brought into consciousness to be assimilated into the whole personality?" Joaquin was interested now. She had clearly been smart enough to memorize the terms and have some understanding of it, but now he was going to test to see if she could do something by having enough understanding of a subject to identify it without the usage of terms specific to it. As Doctor Segura looked over the classroom, he was taking mental notes of how and where they were looking.

"The answer to that is Individuation". Mina said. She held her book down on her lap waiting for when she could return to the basic, but entertaining story. I swear, I don't know what the hell kind of subject were supposed to be focused on because it seems like he's asking numerous random questions. On the Inside Mina was tense. Joaquin obviously seemed like an ok teacher, but she didn't know if the whole sergeant Segura thing still applied. For now she would be a bit more casual.

[Camicon]

"Tara, you are correct for the most part. The Greeks still made plenty of discoveries that weren't fully discussed with the Persians due to a severe lack of much significant interaction that did not involve either killing or Greek colonies wilfully joining the Persians. The Greeks did not have a single system of government, and had everything from very corrupt democracies to tyrranical oligarchies. To say every empire took notes from the Persians is sort of like saying that every culture that practices agriculture learned about agriculture from the Mesopotamians or Indus River Valley civilization. It may have inspired plenty of people, but not all learned from it, either because they chose to not do so or developed the same on their own. For example, the Haudenosaunee had agriculture, but were not inspired by the Indus River Valley civilization or Mesopotamia. Sometimes, people will come to the same conclusion on their own because it is a good idea. Thank you for giving an impartial comparison and well-studied comparrison."

"You almost have a valid point, except that every major empire in the history of modern man, save for the Mongolians, has risen in the Middle east or around the Mediterranean Sea. The Persian Empire was, truly, a never-before-seen entity on the face of the planet. it's influence at the time was unparalleled. Most people make the assumption that humans used to be brow-beating idiots, but nothing could be farther from the truth. What do you do when you want to forge a world-dominating empire? You look to the history of people that have done it before. The Persians were the first, and every empire since has looked to the Persians, or looked to empires that looked to the Persians.

The only original discoveries that came from the Greeks were philosophical or mathematical ones, and only because of the unique emphasis they placed on logic and reason. Their architecture is notable only because it's been preserved so well. Their art is mundane and was modelled after what the Persians did. While Greek contributions to the modern day are significant, I would argue that Persian influence is much farther reaching. Persian influence gave rise to the Macedonian Empire. No Persian Empire, no Macedonian Empire. How do you think Alexander the Great conquered, and then managed, an empire larger then that which the Persian was? He studied the Persians of course, as Aristotle would no doubt have taught him to. Without Alexander, Rome would not have risen into an even more powerful Empire. Without Rome, the numerous European kingdoms would not have risen. Without those European empires, their modern day would not look anything like our own.

The Achaemenid Empire was what gave root and guidance to every major empire since. Without them... well, an accurate prediction isn't even remotely possible."

Idiot, I think to myself. My teacher is a complete idiot.

[Altruistic Paladins]

Bramwell, Makoto, Joaquin

"Would you kindly remove the expression on your countenance that is conveying a message that has the most likely implication of 'This guy is an idiot that has an honorary doctorate', for I guess just I absorbed an honorary doctorate in psychology by way of osmosis alongside honorary doctorates in education, educational psychology, and general psychology which I had gained through bribery while I went there because my dad did. I hope you realize you are going to need a better persona than the one you are using if you intend to hate me." The odd thing was that Doctor Segura had somehow become even more deadpan than he traditionally is. The odd, semi-guttural monotone of his speech was even more droning, and there was that omnipresent ambiance of dread and despair that was in the entire classroom but Joaquin seemed entirely oblivious to.

"Back to the temporary debate. For one, you act as though everybody that has ever established an empire knew who the Persians were, and anybody who did not simply was not an empire. I am sorry, but the Incans would have taken offence to that, and they ultimately used methodology similar to the Persians. They ultimately came to the same conclusion on their own without the need for inspiration. Even so, it is unlikely most nations took inspiration from the Persians or copied notes when it seemed everybody forgot them after the Romans until the 1800's. The Chinese civilization appearently never involved empires through it's history. Sorry China under Qin Shi Huang, but you were appearently just an aggresive nation."

"To say they only made influential steps in philisophical or mathematical areas because they had placed emphasis on logic and reason is sort of like saying that a person is only skinny because they get more exercise and healthier foods. Even so, I must say that the Greeks were not always kind to the subject in the first place as forced suicide of Socrates's showed. It just so happened that their philosophers and scientists were listened to more than others. Appearently, if you are bleeding all over the floor, then ligature is also not important, and neither were steam engines to globalization, the many tropes to storytelling, professional medicine, biological warfare, the Antikythera mechanism, scientific method for any and all sciences, or astronomy, so I guess history had to wait for somebody else to come to the same conclusion on their own. The storytelling, ligature, biological warfare, and professional medicine were appearently the only things people felt were important enough to keep around when the Greeks fell, which really gives a good insight into what they thought was important."

"Of important note is that Alexander conquered land, but never truely established an empire. Alexander himself took some cues for how the Persians handled religion, but didn't bother to learn to actually fix the infrastructure destroyed by conquest and was more focused on razing Persian cities in revenge for a spur of the moment attempted razing of Athens by Xerxes. Alexander never made an empire; he just made a larger map for the Macedonian empire that ceased to exist the moment Alexander died of intoxication spurred by depression of empire management."

"Onto a more pressing matter, may I ask what is the average grade-level of history you are in currently or your nation's equivalent you are in?"

"I am in 10th grade history now," Bramwell said in a telepathic message.

"I am a sophomore," Makoto said.

"Good, that is a start."

[Jormengand]

Pedro still didn't speak, and he got the feeling that the teacher was ignoring him. He didn't much care, he was sure that the Voice of Reason would be able to supply him with any information he needed anyway. He sat back in his chair, aware that the teacher was rambling and using words with lots of syllables in a pathetic attempt to sound cleverer than he was. He was tired, and just hoped the teacher didn't ask him any questions.

[Camicon]

Bramwell, Makato, Joaquin

"Would you kindly remove the expression on your countenance that is conveying a message that has the most likely implication of 'This guy is an idiot that has an honorary doctorate', for I guess just I absorbed an honorary doctorate in psychology by way of osmosis alongside honorary doctorates in education, educational psychology, and general psychology which I had gained through bribery while I went there because my dad did. I hope you realize you are going to need a better persona than the one you are using if you intend to hate me." The odd thing was that Doctor Segura had somehow become even more deadpan than he traditionally is. The odd, semi-guttural monotone of his speech was even more droning, and there was that omnipresent ambiance of dread and despair that was in the entire classroom but Joaquin seemed entirely oblivious to.

"Back to the temporary debate. For one, you act as though everybody that has ever established an empire knew who the Persians were, and anybody who did not simply was not an empire. I am sorry, but the Incans would have taken offence to that, and they ultimately used methodology similar to the Persians. They ultimately came to the same conclusion on their own without the need for inspiration. Even so, it is unlikely most nations took inspiration from the Persians or copied notes when it seemed everybody forgot them after the Romans until the 1800's. The Chinese civilization appearently never involved empires through it's history. Sorry China under Qin Shi Huang, but you were appearently just an aggresive nation."

"To say they only made influential steps in philisophical or mathematical areas because they had placed emphasis on logic and reason is sort of like saying that a person is only skinny because they get more exercise and healthier foods. Even so, I must say that the Greeks were not always kind to the subject in the first place as forced suicide of Socrates's showed. It just so happened that their philosophers and scientists were listened to more than others. Appearently, if you are bleeding all over the floor, then ligature is also not important, and neither were steam engines to globalization, the many tropes to storytelling, professional medicine, biological warfare, the Antikythera mechanism, scientific method for any and all sciences, or astronomy, so I guess history had to wait for somebody else to come to the same conclusion on their own. The storytelling, ligature, biological warfare, and professional medicine were appearently the only things people felt were important enough to keep around when the Greeks fell, which really gives a good insight into what they thought was important."

"Of important note is that Alexander conquered land, but never truely established an empire. Alexander himself took some cues for how the Persians handled religion, but didn't bother to learn to actually fix the infrastructure destroyed by conquest and was more focused on razing Persian cities in revenge for a spur of the moment attempted razing of Athens by Xerxes. Alexander never made an empire; he just made a larger map for the Macedonian empire that ceased to exist the moment Alexander died of intoxication spurred by depression of empire management."

"Onto a more pressing matter, may I ask what is the average grade-level of history completed in this class?"

"The highest I've completed was ninth grade." Bramwell said in a telepathic message.

"The highest I've completed was eighth grade." Makato said.

"Good, that is a start."

Really? I thought to myself. I felt myself getting angrier and angrier with this teacher.

"Psychologists study the mind and it's workings. Not historical civilizations. I'll respect your word on historical subject matter when you've proven to me that you've earned it. I'd no more listen to your teachings on chemistry than I would on mathematics. You've not been trained to teach those subjects, you've been trained to teach psychology. Why the school would hire a psychologist to teach science and history is beyond me. Probably because you're the most qualified, which in itself is rather unfortunate. No mutant history teachers lands us with someone without the qualifications to teach us anything beyond grade 9 level.

Go ahead, rant all you want about how you've got honorary doctorates in three different types of psychology. That means jackshit when it comes to teaching history or science. I've already gone through primary education. I got A's in History, Chemistry, Biology, Pure Mathematics, Language Arts, French, German, and Geography. I don't need to sit here and listen to you patronize me while asking us pointless questions. To be perfectly blunt, everything you just said is either a misinterpretation of what I said, or completely wrong. I came here to learn about my powers; not to repeat highschool. Especially with a jackass like you for a teacher!"

I wasn't even aware that I'd risen up out of my seat. When I let go of the desk to grab my bunny hug, the entire writing surface crumbled apart, my grip having sent fractures through the entire thing. I glanced down at the metal frame, then to the pile of wood rubble underneath, then to my unblemished hands. Without so much as a backwards glance I swept past Segura and left the class, all thoughts of talking with Daniel Mercury having been swept from my mind.

[Altruistic Paladins]

Joaquin

"I'll have to make note of this. Mr. Mercury, would you go see what is going through her mind right now since I have a class to teach and figure out a proper punishment?" The desk soon uncrumpled back into it's original state. He was ultimately dissappointed that a hero stormed off in a tantrum, for he knew the villains would definately use this somehow to justify a superiority over heroes. He was getting the idea that she would not be a good person to have in the class during debates if she couldn't keep herself from showing a lack of emotional maturity in a conversation with a teacher. He had only master's degrees in various sciences and historical studies. He had only mentioned the doctorates because most people focus on honorary doctorates. The doctorate in psychology was something he got so he could understand the students. Now, he felt that he was only understanding the students less the more they acted out-of-character. By this point, he was not sure what to do after something like that.

"Please take note that this type of behavior is typically frowned upon in most places due to it being generally considered rude way a casus belli for shooting should you live in a place where lethal force is allowed in self defense, an act of war, or a rude way to end an arguement. Yet again, this is forcing me to question exactly how the school determines whether a person is a hero, vigilante, or villain. Anyway, who here has a favorite ancient civilization? Be careful, for you will have to debate for why you think was the most innovative. Ancient civilizations shall be those that were around during or before the classical period."

[Nakarisaune]

Well, this lesson was just getting more and more stupid. It had started with some awful music and the walls being ripped away to reveal hundreds of posters. Rachael had understood some of them, but the rest were obscure and idiotic. It seemed that he was trying to impress the class with how obscure his interests were, which was apparently a sign of intelligence. Either that, or he didn't care how idiotic he appeared. Judging by how many faux-inspirational quotes were on the wall, it was the first, and he was attempting to make them feel better about the music.

But it soon got worse. The teacher started rambling on about psychology and history, then started asking random students trivial questions. So obscure that Rachael was surprised that no-one got a single one wrong. They were either all super-intelligent or they'd managed to sneak a smartphone in and googled the answers. She suspected the google one, because she doubted that anyone would know off by heart the differences between Persian and Greek society, or anything about primary anthropomorphic subconscious adjectives, whatever they were.

She found herself agreeing with the kid who'd yelled at the teacher then walked out. The teacher seemed to be only focused on making sure the students knew random trivia, and hadn't said a single thing to prove that he was even qualified apart from facts he'd probably pulled straight out his ass. Especially the part about learning powers. Rachael could easily learn anything from this class by just reading. She was here to learn her powers, not to learn how the seventeenth king of France died or whatever fact the teacher next pretended was worth knowing.

She didn't bother answering either question. Grade-levels were American, and that was all Rachael knew about them. And even if she had a favourite classical civilisation, she couldn't be bothered to debate it with an idiot.

[Altruistic Paladins]

Bramwell, Makoto, Joaquin

Makoto quickly headed to a group of tables where it seemed the case for the Persians was being developed with Bramwell still watching and listening through his telepathic link. Joaquin was writing rules on the board for how the debate would work. Each team would have to be concise due to a two minute time limit on the introduction for each case. After that, there would be a minute long rebutal for each team, followed by the exact same again. For the last portion, there would be a two minute-long closing arguement. Fallicious arguements will contribute as negative factor. There would be a 100 point grade for each teams overall arguement, which would start at zero and build-up over time (or go down into negative numbers should fallicious arguements be used or a general lack of respect and dignity in debate be shown). A different person would have to represent the team for each of the various periods of time unless there are too few people for that, for those teams that are too small can have people go multiple times. So far, Makoto and Bramwell were the only author-controlled characters that had joined the Persian team.

[Rupudska]

Mel's interest in the current class had been fairly low at the beginning and had been dropping precipitously every time the teacher opened his mouth. He didn't really seem to know what he was doing, and he seemed to insist on using words Mel had trouble with in English. She was good, but not that good. However good or bad her English was, she felt she got a general idea of the assignment. And, in her opinion, it was the ancient Greeks and Macedonians that made the most advancements. The Macedonians also helped spread Grecian ideas around.

[Firstaria]

Daniel had to admit that he understand some of the students trying so desperately to mantain attention. This was boring, and if not for his military training he would have lose any kind of posture way moments ago and just put himself on the wall trying to sleep.

He understand that history was important, but the teacher was absolutely doing nothing to attract interest: they were already teens, with an interest rate on learning way down...you add powers, and this was going closely to the negative.

[Altruistic Paladins]

Joaquin

Joaquin was not exactly worrying yet. He already knew that an introductory classes could get really boring as he learned from his years in school. Why exactly, he never understood. It was something about the lack of activity that he thought made it clear what was happening. He already had plans for the week up and ready, specifically focusing on the Big Bang Theory and the move from hunter-gatherer societies to agrarian societies and thus some of the earliest civilizations out there. Since he was only now starting to realize that a severe lack of activity and that little thing he decided to not fix were probably causing the either severe detachment from the class or boredom. He noticed that students were not organizing quickly into groups to support whatever side they were taking. As he decided to put on something for ambience.

"If you here any rumors about ghosts, bhoots, revenants, banshees, preta, Yūrei, or Onryō living in the classroom, let me say that I am sure there are no Native American burial grounds, graveyards of any other type, or Civil War battlegrounds within this room, and neither were there any murders, double suicides, or any other dramatic incidents in this room. If you happen to see a ghost with a striped business suit, tell him that the contract was voided by his death." Joaquin said with his ussual deadpan. It was entirely unclear if this was serious or if Joaquin was just really deadpan.

[Imperial--japan]

Mina wasn't going to move on with any group. Her favorite ancient civilization was the Roman Republic, and she had all the reasons why, and all the reasons how. With any luck maybe class would end before the debate even started. Mina was really intent on reading her book, but maybe someone else would be picked to debate. Then she had a better idea. She could just wait in a bathroom stall until the next class began. In that instant Mina stood up and spoke. "May I use the restroom please"? She asked politely.

[Altruistic Paladins]

"Sure, just say what team you are on." Joaquin started to write down information on a list. It was meant for the obvious task of ensuring nobody leaves the classroom for a smoke break or to chat with other students, for he'd then have an understanding. It seemed the Roman Republic only had one person currently beyond Mina, and would have to hold the line without Mina despite being horrible at public speaking. If a student was taking far too long, he'd just have them run a drug test on that student to be sure it was not an excuse for smoking.

[Nakarisaune]

Rachael had considered that excuse, but seeing as it had barely ever worked in her previous school, she was pretty sure they'd see through it instantly. However, this teacher seemed too much of an idiot to figure it out. "Actually sir, I'm fairly sure she's just looking for a way to get out of here. Not that I blame her, seeing how boring it is and how you seem to be trying to put us in a debate without telling us to do so. So if you let her bunk off, I'm fairly sure half the class won't hesitate to do the same. She smirked at the girl who'd asked.

[Firstaria]

Rachael had considered that excuse, but seeing as it had barely ever worked in her previous school, she was pretty sure they'd see through it instantly. However, this teacher seemed too much of an idiot to figure it out. "Actually sir, I'm fairly sure she's just looking for a way to get out of here. Not that I blame her, seeing how boring it is and how you seem to be trying to put us in a debate without telling us to do so. So if you let her bunk off, I'm fairly sure half the class won't hesitate to do the same. " She smirked at the girl who'd asked.

Daniel had to intervene, what Rachael was doing was wrong no matter on what side of the fence you were. Also, this was another good moment to put her under pressure.

" Well, it seems that Miss Redwood is eager to make us believe her points, professor. May I suggest to put her as a leader of a team and prepare an official evaluation to really check if she has truly mastered her speech skills? "

[Imperial--japan]

"I'm siding with the Roman Republic". She said. With that Mina rushed out of the classroom. In the hall there didn't seem to be a soul besides her. The silence made Mina quite comfortable, but then she entered the restroom. There was another student in there who seemed to be crying, and she had just broken the comfortable silence. As Mina approached she questioned. "Who the hell are you, and why are you crying"? She asked. The student looked up. "I'm Elizabeth......". The sobbing ended to Mina's relief; She thought she would have to knock her out cold to shut her up. "Here come on now just stand up". Mina said and held her hand out. Elizabeth nodded, but then rushed out without saying a word. "That was strange". Mina said. The whole encounter seemed normal to her, but to anyone else....there was nobody there in the first place.

[Firstaria]

I wasn't even aware that I'd risen up out of my seat. When I let go of the desk to grab my bunny hug, the entire writing surface crumbled apart, my grip having sent fractures through the entire thing. I glanced down at the metal frame, then to the pile of wood rubble underneath, then to my unblemished hands. Without so much as a backwards glance I swept past Segura and left the class, all thoughts of talking with Daniel Mercury having been swept from my mind.

Daniel then paid attention to Miss King. So, she broke a desk with sheer power and quit the ro....WAIT WHAT?

" Professor Joaquin, excuse me but I've to speak with Miss King in private. " He quickly said, before leaving the room. His face seemed a little angry, but A LOT serious. Actually, he seemed almost...scary.