rakuen | Poison class week 6 Friday!

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Poison class week 6 Friday!

Characters: Day and Conquest students
Format: Whatever you wish
This log is: Class post! Tag Day or each other!
Location: Poisons classroom, Conquest campus
Summary: Methods of Poisoning: Food and Drink
Warnings: Poisons, mention of death etc

OOC: If your character was here in previous weeks assume they have learned lessons One to Five If they are new they are just thrown in with no explanation. Have fun!

IC: [before class] today the classroom looks different, mainly since there is a table alone one of the side walls with different food. Soup, a plate of cakes, a jug of orange juice, a basket of bread.

Originally this class was done with small sweets, as it was easier but Recette had a tantrum. Now Day had decided she liked the little shopkeeper so in respect for her kept sweets out of the poisons classroom.

"Last week we learned how to poison Weapons, but it is not always on the battlefield that a poisoners touch is needed. Indeed the most likely use of poisons are in situations where direct bloodshed would cause too many problems. Today we will learn how to disguise poisons in food."

[middle] This task is more complicated than previous weeks. Each group is given eight different poisons. Some they have come across before and some they have not. They also have a card explaining the use of the poison, whether it is slow or fast working, the effects and the taste.

They must decide which poison to use in each of the foods, and then practice the poisoning process, how much poison is needed.

Day walked round the groups, watching their progress.

[end] Day gathered all the poisoned items into a box which she went to put on one of the shelves. "For next week I would like everyone to attempt to make this poison," she handed out a basic instruction sheet for a powder based poison. "You may use the lab in your free time, but please inform me or Santana first and we will give you the key. Please bring your attempt to class next week, they can be stored here if you wish, I hope you all remember the lesson on safe storage."

She stayed behind in case of questions.

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"Are you serious?"

What was with these ridiculous classes?

"Deadly serious." Day looked at her and grinned. "Sit down Lemina."

Lemina leveled a glare at Day for a moment, but slid into her seat without protesting. "Why do you think anyone needs to know this?"

[Santana sticks around after class]

If you teach them how to spot poison in food then it's going to make it harder to poison them.

"All knowledge is power, this skill might come in use to you in later life." After all no one knew what the future would hold.

It just means we will have to try harder, and we will know who has been paying attention. [She grins, she likes a challenge.]

Koizumi had been looking forward to this class. He was startled to see 'poisons' on the schedule, as if it actually belonged with subjects like astronomy and history. He'd never heard of a school encouraging homicidal activity-- then again, he'd never heard of a school with mandatory brawling, either. But he was intrigued. Koizumi, while not malicious, was all about practicality and subtlety, so poisons appealed to him in ways that he would never admit to.

Best of all, the instructor was the headmistress, and he'd heard that especially good students might become teaching assistants. It was always a priority to form ties with people with knowledge or power, and that went doubly so in a place where information was so scarce. He was getting ahead of himself, yes, but you never got what you wanted without planning for the future, right?

He was coming in at a disadvantage though. He'd studied as much as he could to prepare, but between the ghost ship and his inexplicable and embarrassing tendency to fall asleep, he hadn't gotten very far. He felt a bit bad for the food and drink, too-- just because they couldn't protest didn't mean they liked being poisoned-- and offered quiet apologies to them as he added the poisons.

After class, he waited for the crowd of students to thin a bit before he approached the headmistress.

"Excuse me-- do we need to schedule lab time ahead, or should we just seek you out when we need the room unlocked?"

That's true, maybe we should have a surprise pop quiz one day.

Indeed, we need to keep them on their toes. Make sure they don't get complacent.

We've been talking about this for an awfully long time, I think it's time we act on it.

Day looked up at the boy, he had been working hard in the class and he had already gone onto her mental list of students who weren't completely hopeless despite the fact she hadn't seen him in class before today. She checked the list for his name.

"Just come to my office for the key Koizumi, though if you wish to have if for a specific time you may request it in advance."

[A smirk] Perhaps. But Dunleavy told me I had to behave myself. To give them a fighting chance at the dungeon.

Did she say you had to behave yourself after the dungeon?

"Understood," he said, offering a slight bow. "I hope to take some time tomorrow afternoon, but I'm afraid I can't make any guarantees. My Player is..." he rifled through a mental filing cabinet of words that applied to Sherlock and could still be used in polite conversation. It was a surprisingly short list. "Enthusiastic, and a little unpredictable. I'll do my best, though. Thank you."

And then he hesitated. It was only for decency's sake-- he had no qualms at all about asking this sort of thing-- but it could be construed impertinent.

"If I may ask-- why is this class offered to students? It's an unusual choice, to be sure. It doesn't seem compatible with the Exaclan system as a whole, and I can only imagine the discord that results from school-children learning such skills in a place where there are no permanent consequences. That's not to say I'm criticizing, of course! I'm only a bit confused."

No. Not exactly.

Day gave him and understanding grin. "Just come when your Player doesn't need you, if you can't find me you can ask Santana."

She paused at the question but gave it decent thought as it didn't seem that he was criticising. "I would not be able to teach this class on this scale in a place where there are permament consequences. There's a reason Poison masters tend to only have one apprentice at a time, mistakes are easy to make. But all classes here come from the skills of the teacher and teachers are informed of their subject when they arrive. It is something that students can take with them when they leave this place."

Then there you go, we can spend this round making the poisons and planning how to get it into the food and next round we can put the plan in motion.

[Day went to close the door, advanced poisons class was about to start!] How angry do you think the Dolorosa will be if we poison Fortitude as well?

[Harder to do, much harder but a challenge. Caution first always but... caution was a little redundant in a world where they held all the power and not even death could stop them.]

[She considers it for a moment, it's true that Dolorosa wouldn't be happy, but it's not like death is final here or as if they're torturing the students]

Yeah, she'd probably be pretty pissed, but if we poison Fortitude's food as well we can blame a contaminated shipment of food rather than an attack. That is, if we don't want to claim our work.

Indeed, if we start small and build it up. It will seem just like bad food poisoning.

Which totally isn't our fault. If we eat out all week then we can say that we didn't notice that the food was poisoned. Totally not our fault.

Not our fault at all. We just didn't know, what a shame that everyone is ill. [She has went over to one of the locked cupboards were the more dangerous herbs are kept.]

When should we start it? [she follows after her, knowing what's inside the cupboard, and points out a few she think will be good]

Koizumi nodded, but he wasn't satisfied.

"I understand that line of reasoning. At the same time, I'm certain that you have knowledge and skills on other matters that would be valuable for your students. So I suppose the question is, while it may be possible to teach it on a large scale here, why did you willingly choose it over the multitude of subjects that are less likely to create discipline problems?"

Unless, of course, the school took no disciplinary action when students tried to kill each other. It wasn't an option he wanted to consider.

[She takes what Santana points to, adding a few of her own though for the most part this will be Santana's project. She will help obviously, especially with getting the poison into the food, but it was a good test of Santana's skills.] Sunday I think, that way it wont look too suspicious if the new students get ill.

"You speak like I had any choice in the matter." She raised an eyebrow, "As I say when those old enough to teach arrive here they are informed which subject they are to teach, I have no say in it and I definitely had no say in my own subject."

Still, she answered the question, "Death isn't permanent and so as long as it doesn't distract from school work or battles I don't see how it would be a discipline problem. Of course there are those who might try and kill me and Santana, but if I am foolish enough to be poisoned by a student then I don't deserve the title of Poison Master."

Not that she had that title officially... but still.

[she nods] Can't let them miss out on the fun either.

Of course not, that would be mean.

"But you're the headmistress. If you aren't in charge of your own classes, then who is?"

He was quick to speak this time, but her answer had taken him by surprise and was frankly irritating. That was all anyone seemed to say around here-- 'there's nothing we can do' or 'we have no choice in the matter.' Santana has said to trust them, but it was hard to faith in such questionable authority. He swallowed the frustration and rushed to soften the hasty question.

"That is, it seems unreasonable. They clearly trust you enough to run a school, so they ought to trust your judgement on what class you teach."

He still had qualms about how little she cared about students killing each other. How could it not distract from school work and battles? He could only imagine what life would be like if schools back home had such a policy; every jealous boyfriend and school yard bully would have a field day. But it seemed pointless to argue the matter further, especially considering his slip-up, so he didn't.

Day sighed irritated. If she knew who was in charge they would be dead by now and she wouldn't be playing this role. Though she truly didn't mind too much, it wasn't like she had anywhere to go back to.

"When I get the names of the new students I get given the class list and that is what I pass on, just as when I arrived the Headmistress was told I was to teach Poisons and so that's what I have been doing."

She didn't think it was trust so much as six sacrifices had been needed, she didn't think the city minded too much who played the roles as long as they were filled.

Koizumi nodded, watching her cautiously. He had all sorts of questions-- no one had explained how the hierarchy of Rakuen City had gotten there, after all-- but he was trying her patience as it was. Still, there was one last question that he just couldn't leave unasked.

"I see. I hope you don't mind my asking, but I can't help but notice the avoidance of a name or title... where these orders come from?"

He didn't expect a particularly clear or helpful answer. If Day was deliberately withholding information, she would continue to do so. If she didn't know herself, he was unlikely to find out. She was clearly intelligent, and she had much more information at her disposal; if she couldn't figure it out, he almost certainly wouldn't. Still, his curiosity wouldn't leave him be if he didn't try.

"From those that brought us here," she gave him a level look. "I know no more than that, except that playing their game is the only way anyone gets to go home."

They had all agreed to coming here after all, she couldn't remember why or how and it didn't make such sense since she had died before arriving here, but she knew she had agreed.

"I suggest you concentrate on that, on winning the game."

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