savetheearth | 1st Howl [Text]

[Not all of the new forays onto the network are as exciting as the old man with his fax machine. This one, in fact, is really pretty boring. Randall Lyall is on his lunch break, sitting in his classroom with his laptop open, editing his notes for tomorrow's classes between bites of lunch. And, because it keeps getting stuck in his head, he idly types out those numbers that had been cycling around in there again, in the hopes of maybe this time getting them out.

Instead, anyone else who happened to be connected gets a screen-full (or paper-full, depending on how they're connecting) of notes about photosynthesis. The page is complete with page numbers in the textbook (most of chapter 8), notations on what slide numbers to use where (slide number 82 is apparently a picture of a plant with a high chlorophyll leaf compared to one with low chlorophyll), a list of questions to ask the class at various points (difference in chlorophyll function between pine and deciduous? anyone?), and the following line:]

~~Chloro-fill joke~~ stop using this, never gets a laugh

[Enjoy the inner workings of a high school teacher's class, network. For those who have actually had his class, this should look somewhat familiar.]

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It's just the embarrassment of it, really. Only one current student seems to have seen them, and he is rather more excited about the possibility that we are all now in the start of a video game.

[He pauses, chuckles a bit, and adds,]

Though I am glad I missed out on the shouting... I am still at work, after all.

It doesn't feel anything like a video game to me. [Says the guy whose experience with video games is limited to Super Mario Bros. For the NES.]

It was...interesting, to say the least.

It feels like a very elaborate prank, to me.

[And maybe it's more the opening to a sci fi novel or tv show, than a video game, in Lyall's personal experience... but he's refusing to really think about that. It's ridiculous, and obviously not true in the least.]

And that's what I'm sure it is. Tomorrow this will go away and I don't have to deal with a very excited young man who thinks this means we have to save the world.

It doesn't feel like a prank, either. It's just too complicated.

[And anyway, who'd set up a joke this elaborate, even on April Fools'?]

We'd be terrible at it, I think.

We would. Or I would, and poor Bakura has absolutely no business involved in something that intense. The saving of worlds is not meant for teenaged boys, no matter what the movies say.

[He almost sounds more annoyed by the idea of putting his student(s) in danger than by the idea that he, himself, might be called on for such a thing. He doesn't believe it, anyway, after all.]

I'm pretty sure the world doesn't really need saving, anyway, so no worries there.

[Ah, Mr. Lyall. Never change.]

[Busted. Lyall sounds a bit sheepish, now, when he says:]

Well, yes. But that doesn't mean it isn't cruel to toy with the boy. And anyone else with heroic or adventurous inclinations.

[Don't worry, that part of him will never change. It will, in fact, only get worse.]

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