"I can't believe they let you teach."

Class was being held in the salle again. Or rather the Danger Shop set up as the salle. Safety first and all. "Since yesterday afternoon got...odd," Anakin said, "we have decided to demonstrate how meditation works in tandem with action."

Stabby, stabby action.

"Moving meditation serves several purposes," Ahsoka explained as she directed various students where to stand and distributed simulated training sabers amongst the class. "First, and most importantly, as you may have noticed over the past few weeks, stillness of body does not automatically translate to stillness of mind. For some," Anakin "- that is easier to achieve through controlled, meaningful movement."

Sitting around was boring, Ahsoka. "We'll begin with the first form of Jedi lightsaber training," Anakin said. "It's meant to let you concentrate on the motions and be present with the blade and the universe around you. It's not flashy and you generally won't cut off your own limbs attempting it."

Very helpful, Anakin.

Anakin would know all about that, given he'd managed to lose more than the number humans actually came with. Ahsoka drew one of her own sabers and ignited it, demonstrating the kata, her moments slow and smooth. "The saber is more than just a laser sword. The kyber within has its own presence in the Force, one you must work with, not against, until the saber becomes an extension of yourself."

Anakin nodded. "Part of creating a lightsaber is forming that relationship, but even with a practice blade, you will be able to sense if you are working in harmony or if it's fighting you."

Just normal Jedi things, forming emotional connections to magic space rocks.

Anakin spun (dramatically, it's a Jedi thing) to face Ahsoka, meeting her motions with his own practice saber. "You can go through the forms alone, or you can work through it with a partner. You may go as quickly as you'd like. Don't lose a hand."

Again, Anakin would know about that.

Anakin didn't look behind him once as he stalked from the classroom, through town, and over to Rey's warehouse that was still undergoing major obstacle course renovation. Not breaking stride, Anakin unlocked the door, hopped over the quicksand trap just beyond it, and used the Force to scoop up all of the squirrels and woodchucks inside and firmly deposit them outside with one sweep of his cloaked arm.

The woodchucks in particular looked a little shocked at how quickly they'd been unilaterally relocated. Anakin didn't care. He had much bigger things on his mind than wayward rodents with strange affection for passing along gossip.

He'd always known his choices would catch up to him, and that he and Ahsoka would have to stop the passive-aggressive digs and avoidance eventually. This flavor of conversation had gone badly with Luke, with Leia, with Jaina, and had turned into...well...actual murder with Obi-Wan.

He was hoping that party wouldn't repeat itself.

Satisfied that they were alone and unmonitored, Anakin finally turned back to face his former apprentice. "You have things to say."

Or yell. Or throw. Possibly all three.

[OOC: For Ahsoka and great SP justice. Soooooooooooooooooo NFB.]

Yep, it's that time.

Do YOU Need This Form?

• If your character is a current teacher and would like to continue teaching, or a current townie who'd like to start or return to teaching, you DO need this form. Just scroll on down and fill it out below.



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• If your character was dropped from the game and you'd like to bring them back as a teacher, also YAY, but you'll need to do that by submitting a character application as described here and including your class plans in that. So congratulations, you DON'T need this form!



• If you are a current teacher wanting to move to townie status, just drop us an e-mail to say so; you also DON'T need this form. If your teacher is running away for good, tell us over here in the dropped character post.

What If I Want To Teach Adults At The Community Center?

Not this time. Instead of having Community Center courses, we're going to have ONLY Summer Camp workshops... which are open to both students and adults!

Who can take your workshop will be up to the teacher, but the idea is that we want the teachers and townies to have the chance to participate in some of the fun, silly stuff that's traditionally a part of FH Summer Camp. So you can choose to run a regular students-only workshop, an adults-only workshop, or one that anyone can join, but they should all be designed with summer fun shenanigans in mind, and even the adults-only workshops will have the use of the FH campgrounds and school facilities.

(Bear in mind that the "adults-only" workshops will be happening near the students, though, and don't plan anything so visibly unsavory that Zoe would chuck the class off the roster and your character off the top of Selkie Peak. Inappropriate shenanigans can happen with proper OOC warnings in the class - we're all adults here even if the characters aren't - but plausible IC deniability is the key.)

What's Needed For A Workshop?

• The ability to come up with 7 weeks worth of classes.
  
• The ability to post each class by noon Pacific or 3pm Eastern the day it's scheduled (you can also post the night before).


• The ability to interact with your students (slow play is fine, you don't need to be around all the time).

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Your adult character's form will need to be in these comments by Sunday, June 25th for great scheduling justice!

There was an itch under Anakin's skin today, a presence he hadn't felt in a long time. His eyes kept drifting towards the water, searching for the person who he was both drawn to and repulsed by. His adversary, his Master, his father.

That last part was going to be a bit of a surprise to the man in black robes currently making his way along the sand.

"Skywalker," he croaked, his voice silken and corrupt.

Anakin turned, hair catching in the wind. "Emperor Palpatine."

This would go well.

Anakin was in his office with nary a skinny jean, obnoxious t-shirt, weirdly complicated coffee or manbun to be seen.

He might never drink a fancy coffee again.

He snuggled happily into his Jedi robes as he went through student paperwork only to have his comm go off.

Hoping that it wasn't Ahsoka (wow had THAT been awkward...), he picked up. "Skywalker."

"MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!"

"Ben, why."

"Because it's funny every year, Granddad."

"It's really not," Anakin said.

"Sure it is," Ben said. "Have a good day."

[OOC: Open!]

Anakin was in his office prepared to talk to any parents or guardians or friends or whatever about their students at this school. Especially any who until now had thought this was a very normal school in Maryland.

So...oops?

Anakin had put his foot down and sent Rory and Christopher off the island for as long as whatever this was continued to last. (His argument of "you can't throw a coffee mug at a hole" to his wife had been met with a passionate "Of course not, that wastes the coffee!" that gave him hope that Rory wasn't too upset with him.)

Now he was in Rey's warehouse, settling down on the ground and just breathing. When you couldn't do anything, he told her just last week, you could always try meditation, and he'd been able to sense Obi-Wan and Padme across planets like this in another lifetime.

He reached into the Force, questing out for any sort of sign of life from her. Rey?

Anyone?

Because it's Monday! All townies, teachers, students and alums are welcome!

So. Anakin's front door was blocked by a marzipan boulder and surrounded by a chocolate lava moat. And he was a Jedi, so this was not a problem, this was an easy fix.

Except.

Except.

Juliet insisted on moving the boulder herself with the Force--something about Jaina and Tenel Ka and good practice and girl power and it had been a very long week already and that was before Vladdie had killed three light strings--and so he said fine.

And Juliet had tried. And tried again. And every time it didn't move, the mistletoe on the side of the house said something rude and now he had a crying kid, mistletoe drowning in a lava moat, and--oh good, his shuttle taking off without him in it.

It was fine. Just fine. This was exactly how he thought December would go.

Good morning sure we'll call it morning because folks, it has been a DAY, Fandom, it's Anakin Skywalker with the news. I taught a fascinating class about shame in Ethics, Summer talked about market data, which sounds less fascinating, and Booker's French class went to visit Monet's home in France. Just the home, though, not back in time to meet Monet.

In town, Yasha was at the flower shop feeding a small gaggle of cats who have realized she will feed them, Rey had a visit from Annie at her warehouse before I arrived. Annie wanted to try out the obstacle course and didn't make it across the quicksand.

*smug pause*

Oops. And then Rey was texting late at night with Silver and that is as much as I want to know about that. Liam was at the Trooper Station reading about the raccoon craft brewery that Williams and McGarrett raided yesterday.

...there's a raccoon craft brewery? Lucifer met Jessica at the Devil's Nest and they compared the narcotics they've tried, so that's...some form of bonding, I suppose. On the beach, Duke managed to yoga and text Lucifer about a date invovling Chinese food and you squirrels are just entirely too close.

*chittering*

Oh, high tech binoculars. That's not better. Over at the Perk, Nina barrelled her way into a job with Jesse as a magical advisor for the town. Jessica met Astrid at T&C and even bought some of Astrid--sorry, local artists--some of the local artists' postcards along with her normal groceries.

And that's it! Have a good weekend, Fandom. Or don't. I'm not invested.