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Nina ([personal profile] bookbeltof_love) wrote in [community profile] fandomtownies2021-01-04 06:11 am
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Community Center Class: Castletopia: A Castle For You! For You? For You!!! | Monday

Despite this being a construction class, today they were in one of the community center rooms, with tables set up with plenty of graph paper, white boards, and pencils and pens (in all sorts of colours). There was also coffee, tea, and hot chocolate available to drink, should anyone want it, since it was an evening class and people had to come down to the community center for it.

Actually, the hot drinks were going to be a thing all semester because… well. They'd be building. Outside. At night.

Nina herself had an apple cider. Teacher's privilege.

An entire year ago, Nina had been anxiously staring down the barrel of her very first class and, like, now she all but bounced with anticipation. She didn't bounce too much though because she didn't want her crown to bounce right off her head. In her hand she held a wand (though she was going to call it a scepter should anyone comment on it).

She waited patiently until it looked like there wouldn't be anyone showing up and then, with a wave of her wand, shut the door. (You'd have to look super closely at the wand, but she'd added tiny silver lettering in an ancient tongue to be able to manage that feat.)

"Good evening," she said brightly. "Welcome to Castletopia!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm Queen Nina and, like, we know all of you," this was probably true, even if just from squirrels, "and we're so glad you could attend this session!!!!!!!!!!!"

Yes, yes that was the royal 'we'.

"The school board, like, was super unkeen on the idea of a coup d'état to reclaim our castle," Nina informed them all with a heavy sigh that disappeared almost the moment it showed up. "So, upon reflection, as pursuing that would lead to needless bloodshed," would it really?, "we've decided upon a new way to go forward!!!!!!!!!!!! Building our own castle!!!!!!!!!!!!

"And, of course, to build a castle we absolutely must know who will be assisting our royal person with the work!!!!!!!!!!!! Please, introduce yourselves with your proper titles------are you a Baron? An Earl?? A Marquis??? Or perchance are you a merchant???? A peasant????? Royalty from a neighbouring country??????"

What? You'd thought there wouldn't be some level of role-playing in this class? Well that was just a silly thing to expect when castles were involved.

"Once we've been informed as to who everyone is this semester, we'll begin with the very first step of the process of building our new home: designing it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[Wait for the OCD is up, up, and away!]
howareyanow: (*ladywayne 3)

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Wayne
firstofitskind: (w - girl - eyebrow)

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Liam Kincaid-Price
firstofitskind: (grin)

Re: Who Are You?

[personal profile] firstofitskind 2021-01-04 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Liam Kincaid-Price," he said, grinning at the sight of Nina with her crown and w- errr, scepter. "And I'm a knight." Since she'd gone and knighted him all of two days ago!
firstofitskind: (excuse me?)

Re: Who Are You?

[personal profile] firstofitskind 2021-01-04 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Um," did he look momentarily startled by the idea of being asked for a preference?

Well, yes. It was no longer as rare as it had been once upon a time but occasionally it still caught him off guard, even after three years.

"Sir Kincaid-Price," he settled on, finally. "I think it flows better?"
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Duke Crocker
betterthanaplan: (sure thing)

Re: Listen to the... Lecture?

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-01-04 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Duke was . . . not listening as closely as he could have. He was too busy looking at that wand and crown with amusement.

See, this is why he had to come back from vacation. To he didn't miss Nina's latest absurdity.
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[personal profile] firstofitskind 2021-01-04 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I have been awake for all of an hour and I would enjoy a nap, please.
betterthanaplan: (you know how it is)

Re: Who Are You?

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-01-04 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"Name's Duke Crocker," Duke said with a wave. "Which can get a bit confusing since my title is actually Captain. We don't really go in for lordships on the high seas, but on the ocean you don't usually have time to vote on every decision, so we do still have to go in for the occasional rank."
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Re: Design a Castle!

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-01-04 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Couple questions," Duke said. "Where is this castle going to be? We gotta make it suit its surroundings, right? And, uh. What's it going to be for, other than a jewel in our highness's crown?"
betterthanaplan: ((:-|)

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[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-01-04 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, but they tend to be self-appointed by assholes that the rest of us pirates make fun of," Duke said with a shrug. Then realized he was talking to someone who had self-appointed themselves for fun and quickly added: "Unlike yourself, whose queendom was clearly ordained from on high."
betterthanaplan: (pleased)

Re: Design a Castle!

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-01-04 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"So sort of . . . general public amusement purposes." Duke nodded. "Well. I'm thinking what this thing really needs is some secret passages. And . . . possibly a slide."
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[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-01-04 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"I can't just be a pirate captain?" Duke asked. "What about . . . a privateer? I could pillage your enemies in your name."

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