"Yo, Rookies!" Hello, Reno was on cloud nine today. Seeing most of the adults on the island turned into kids was fun enough when it happened, but being turned into teenagers? Moody little overdramatic teenagers? His life was like fifty percent better this week than it had been even the week before. "I think by now you all noticed the bit of sustained crazy goin' on out there, which is just rife with possibilities for my favorite hobby, so today we're gonna talk about gossip."

Reno did this more often than you'd think. Sadly.

"Even just a simple, 'Hey, who do you like?' can be a goldmine. See, there's more to that question than just findin' somethin' out about the person you're talkin' to, yo. There ain't no better icebreaker when you're diggin' for gossip like askin' somebody about themselves. And then, when that somebody says they like Tifa, like you knew they were gonna say, that's where you turn around and go, 'Man, poor so-an-so. I thought he was hot over her, yo.' Don't be afraid to stir shit up a little. Never know what kinda interestin' things you can find out when someone jumps to correct you."

Okay, granted, the 'who do you like' conversation that Reno was referencing at the moment had been with Rude, and he was pretty sure that Rude had just been playing along at the time once he'd managed to drag a name out of the guy. But the point still stood.

"Information is power, kiddos. An' the information you can get by askin' around for gossip ain't any less important than some of the other shit they teach you in school these days. What you pick up from word of mouth is real life the way the people around you see it, an' you'd be surprised how handy it can be, just knowin' whatever it is you can dig around for."

Life lessons from Reno, kids.

"So, today, we're gonna all pair off an' practice just that. One of you asks a question, one of you answers, both of you spend the class tryin' to find the advantage in the conversation that follows, yo. You don't gotta talk about people you even know, if you ain't comfortable about that. There are plenty of people on TV that exist just for gossipin' about, if you don't wanna drag your buddies into it. Point is to find out just how much you can find out, and see, by the end of it, if you can pick out the bullshit from the diamonds you just got handed."

So, today was a gossip free-for-all. Just the way that Reno liked it. And with this many new teens on the island? Shit, Fandom was a gossip goldmine.

[OOC: Open!]