rakuen | Poisons class.

Characters: Day and all of Conquest Students!
Format: prose, action, anything goes
This log is: Party post, tag Day, tag each other. Feel free to tag any part of the class or all of them!
Location: The poisons classroom, which is really a science lab.
Summary: Lesson one: Herb identification. Day's poison lessons begin
Warnings: Poisons, frank talking about killing and death

[Beginning] When students arrive they will find an apricot on the table in front of their stool. Day is stood at the front smiling faintly. Santana is near her, obviously the prefect had passed this class last time she was here and was now Day's assistant. She was a very skilled poisoner after all. Once everyone was settled Day stepped forward, taking a bite out of her own apricot.

"Welcome to Poisons class. As you know I am Day your headmistress and Santana here will be assisting me. In this class, it will come of no surprise to you," hopefully, some of this lot seemed a little dense, "that we will be learning the art of poison. Believe me it is an art, it's not just about killing. Though that is important, it is about how you kill. A quick working poison that hits in the night, making it look like they have died in their sleep, naturally; or a slow working poison that paralyses first, to strike fear into all that sees."

Day had never thought she would be a good teacher, but she had had a lot of practice and mainly repeated things that Morveer had told her over the years.

"I am not interested in arguments about how what I do is morally reprehensible; save it for ethics class. For this hour you are poisoners, outside the class you can cry about your morals and honour to your hearts content. If anyone has a problem with my class and wishes to withdraw we can settle it the old fashioned way, bring your weapons, or your player and challenge us to a Rakuen battle. If you win you get permission to skip." She grinned, moving her hand to tuck her hair behind her ear, to show off her upgrade rings.

"Today we will be learning about the raw materials and how to find them."

On the tables there were jars with a selection of herbs and fungi, there were also cards with simple descriptions, there were pictures on the other side, to check.

[Middle] The task was to pair up the correct jar with each card. Day was wandering round the class room checking on each students progress.

[End] Once everything was tidied away Day stood at the front again. "You each were given an apricot, eat it, it's delicious," she smiles, "Held inside the kernel is a poison called cyanide. Keep the kernel, keep it close. Get used to holding death in your hand. It's perfectly safe unless you are stupid enough to heat it until it bursts, or eat it. Bring them to class next week, do not forget.

Your homework is to search the campus, or the woods if you are a player or an owned weapon and find at least one herb or fungi we have learnt about today. Don't pick it," though if they did and poisoned themselves, well it would teach them to be careful. "Record what it is and where you found it."

With that she grinned again. "Dismissed." She's sticking around for a while though, in case anyone has questions.

OOC: Herb list
Fungi list
More fungi

That last link is on wikipedia, which will be blacked out soon for 24 hours, so the first two are probably more useful. Also if you know any herbs/fungi yourself feel free to have them be in the class as well!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

The longer you stick around, the more horrible things happen to you.

Maybe whatever human or other being designed this setup wasn't aware, but being beaten down to the point where a human would die, without ever actually getting out of anything, because you have a job to do? That's incredibly difficult.

[Day shrugged] Guess that's right, but horrible things happen anyways, so many die without ever fulfilling their potential, here, you always get another chance.

Too many chances and people stop valuing things...

[Estonia shakes her head, though, moving on to the other point of interest to her.] Are there even any side effects? Aside from the obvious major psychological ones?

"There is an upgrade, a ring like the others that your weapons have. If you die here you receive it when you wake up and are classed as undead. It has consequences within the battle system, but because it is an upgrade it can be activated by wearing the ring or deactivated by taking it off."

She shrugged, "For those who died before they arrived here, that is their permanent status."

With a slow nod, Estonia did her best to process that, trying to avoid harsh judgement and finding it difficult. It was unnatural, moreso than anything she had ever seen invented, and that was a little disorienting.

"I see. So it's just another trick of things here."

Day nodded, "Perhaps not a trick, but it is definitely something here that does not seem to exist in any other world I have heard of."

"At least it's a comfort to know the laws of nature are still in effect in the places everyone else comes from," Estonia commented, her voice dry enough that feelings were probably hard to determine from the statement.

Day nodded. "I guess." She took another bite of apricot and shrugged, "Rules are made to be broken though." She finished off the apricot and grinned.

"Ah," as if that explained anything. "You're one of those."

It's not a judgement, not really, just Estonia realizing who the teacher was and how to deal with her. The more you know!

"Well, thank you for the conversation. I'll leave you be now."

Day nodded and pretended she knew what the woman was talking about. "See you around Estonia," she smiled again before going to begin clearing up the classroom.

Poisons class.

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