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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021

"Hey, kids, you know what's fun? Nature." Nature was not actually fun in Aphra's opinion, but she was a morally ambiguous (at best) lesbian, so she'd had a weekend. "More specifically mimicry, which since this school rarely teaches biology, means looking like something you're not, usually so you don't get eaten."

Truly, no matter how many lies Aphra told, she'd never match nature in the deception stakes.

"So, I've provided a bunch of random junk, and your job is to make it look like something else entirely. A real something else, because that's the point of mimicry."

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Summer was wearing a cape that day. Don't worry, it'll all make sense in just a moment! But as class got started, she and her cape (okay, it was actually much more of a cloak, but details, details) were leaned against the desk at the front of the classroom, this week's portal glowing invitingly behind her.

"So that was an interesting weeked, huh?" she asked. "Granted, I missed most of it, myself, but I've been asking around and I've caught up on radio, so I got the general gist of it. Let's do a show of hands: who all got hit by this weekend's weirdness?"

She gave them all a moment to do just that, taking note with a faint grin.

"Okay, cool," she said, nodding a little. "Let's talk about it. But not, like, here, obviously." She pushed herself up from the desk and made her way over to the portal with a gesture of her arm for them to follow, which they should be pretty used to by now. "In here."

'In here', it seemed, would be through a portal into a dark but cheery medieval-fantasy style tavern, complete with elves, dwarves, orcs, you name it, many of them clustered around tables or the bar throwing back large flagons of ale and swapping stories. And near the roaring fire in the big stone fireplace was a large table with a "RESERVED" placard on it in fancy Olde Englishe style writing, and Summer gestured for the bar wench to bring over some drinks (cider, non-alcoholic; sorry, kids, this was a school trip), and invited everyone to sit down.

"I figured," she explained with a grin, "this setting was a little more appropriate. Sometimes, one of the best ways to get used to different worlds is to just immersion, you know? So let's enjoy a drink and talk a little bit about the last weekend, who you were, what differences there were, what was really weird about it and what you may have actually liked about it, and consider the fact that there are infinite dimensions out there, so odds are, there probably is a version of you exactly like that in an alternate unvierse somewhere, so that's some nice, light food for thought, right? And if you weren't effected by this last weekend, are you glad about that? What would you have liked if you were effected? And, most importantly, did you get any pictures?

"We're just here to talk today, so just have at it. You know, before someone inevitably comes up and tries to foist some kind of quest on us."

They wouldn't, but there was a rather rough looking group of bandits over in the dark shadowy corners of the tavern that were certainly giving the group a few suspicious, considering glances...

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Back in the classroom today, where Kitty had to start with, "God, this is going to sound terrible on radio."

So that was a start.

"Last week brought up a good question. What do you do when you're time displaced, or your physical age and your actual age don't match up? When applying for jobs or apartments or whatever, you're going to have to be able to at least put certain information down, and you'll probably have to provide actual documentation at some point. So today we're going to talk about fake IDs."

Yep.

"If you really need one I have a contact on the mainland. I don't want anyone thinking this is an excuse to go do something stupid. There's a bar that serves minors here, you don't need to do that. This is for actual documentation to help you get through life. Which means the first rule is you're going to want the information to be as close to true as possible. Use your real name unless there's some very good reason you can't. Use your real birthday, but adjust your birth year so it matches the age you present. If your state has markings on their drivers licenses for people under 21 and you look 16, if your ID doesn't have those markings it'll be a red flag for anyone checking. If you're bopping around between years and you really need ID in both, you might need to get two IDs and you'll just be careful about which one you're using. The same goes if you need a forged birth certificate. It should be close enough that you'll be able to remember the information on it, and you want everything between your documents to be consistent. Mainly you just want it all to fly under the radar so no one checks into it.

"So, any questions? Today's mainly going to be a discussion class, so now's your time."

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"Today, we're covering menstruation," Kathy announced, gesturing at the plastic model of the uterine-based reproductive system that was currently sitting on the desk. Was it placed in the exact spot Dante liked to lounge? Maaaybe. "Menstruation is a monthly process that most individuals with a uterus experience for about forty or so years of their lives. And yet, though 51% of the population experience this completely natural event, somehow it is still stigmatized and seen as something shameful, embarrassing, and dirty. Which," she said firmly, looking at every student, "is ridiculous."

Don't worry, Kathy. Dante was leaning back against the wall instead! "So no snickering or making ew-noises, kids," he called lazily.

What? This was not his field of expertise.

Which was why she'd sent you reference materials ahead of time, Dante! Reference materials!

"So, the uterus," Kathy continued. "We'll talk more about its intended purpose when we cover pregnancy and the parts of the reproductive systems, but it's where fertilized eggs go to develop into a fetus. For that to happen, the lining of the uterus, the endometrium, has to be thick enough for the egg to latch onto and implant itself. But if the endometrium only began to thicken when fertilization happened, it wouldn't be thick enough by the time the egg reached the uterus for the uterus to latch onto. So, instead, the lining thickens naturally throughout the month and then, due to hormone changes in the Fallopian tubes--" She gestures to those on the model as well, "--the lining begins to break down and shed, exiting through the vagina primarily in the form of blood and tissue over a span of about two to seven days. Once that old lining is gone, a new lining begins to form, and the cycle continues."

It was Dante, Kathy. Why the hell did you think he was going to read reference materials?

"And there's, like, hormones and shit happening," Dante said sagely, "So if you don't have a uterus but you wind up seeing someone who does, keep like, pain pills, blankets and food handy."

BECAUSE HE WAS A TEACHER NOW, REMEMBER? A TEACHER! TEACHERS READ AND LEARNED THINGS.

"And now we have a special activity for you," Kathy said, looking excited. "Dante found this educational board game that will help explain and familiarize you with certain concepts, including sanitary products, common myths and beliefs surrounding menstruation, and even common mood and physical changes people undergo around their cycle."

Which was why Dante was excused from reading the reference materials. Because he was trying, see?

Dante had not expected her to go along with it. He definitely hadn't expected her not to get it was a joke. But you know what? He was in this now. He was going to have to sell this. "Yeah, so, uh," he said, "Have fun with that."

...How were you so bad at this, Dante?

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Ghanima was sitting on her desk as the students arrived, her text placed neatly in her lap. Exactly like any other day of class.

The moment the last student was seated, she flipped her book open. "Good morning, class, and welcome. Today with the Third P'ien," she said, holding up the book. "'Attack by Stratagem.' Or as one of my former co-teachers once called it, 'Avoiding Attack by Stratagem from my side of the fence: Make Love, Not War and Drink Sake and Keep Calm ♥.'"

"Or, in the words of Tzu, 'Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.'"

"Sun Tzu also said that 'He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.' And, of course, there's the phrase everyone knows, but rarely do they know the source. 'If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.' Know thy enemy and know thyself."

"So, how do you formulate a plan of attack, if are forced to fight? Resorting immediately to violent means is not always the best option. 'Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans;'" Ghanima recited, watching all of them carefully. "'The next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces; the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field; and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.' So speaks Tzu. I'm curious as to how you feel this reflects the every day world, and if you have seen this applied at all in Fandom."

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