ARRIVAL! The Calm Before the Academic Storm! [BBS]

[dragonspooker]

Well, I see I was just a bit too late in getting back to administer finals myself, so my students should count themselves lucky there.

As for those coming into my classes next term, well - I do hope you're ready for the challenge! And to the new recruits - welcome, and a word of advice. Don't believe everything you hear.

[Because half of the stuff about her is filthy, stinking lies. The rest is likely embellished truth.]

So good luck on finals, and enjoy the break - while you can.

--Instructor Inverse

Comments

[rewritethis]

Because it's not true, or because you just don't want us to believe it?

[dragonspooker]

Because it's not true, of course.

[And a little of Column B as well, but shhhhh.]

[rewritethis]

None of it? You can't just assert something like that without backing it up.

[dragonspooker]

Well. I don't know what all is floating around out there, so I can't say that none of it is true. A smart cadet would do some fact-checking before they believe just anything they hear.

[espio]

I love how half the returning instructors seem to be all "watch out, 'cause I'm back and you're not getting off lightly, hahaha." It's like teaching is the new supervillainy.

What are you supposed to be teaching, anyway?

ESPIO

[dragonspooker]

I'm teaching attack magic, both intermediate and advanced - I need to be tough so the students learn to use it responsibly.

[espio]

And I teach martial arts. I don't feel the need to tell all the cadets to beware and stuff.

[dragonspooker]

Eh, you have your way of doing things, I have mine.

[marearcana]

You're one of the Intermediate Attack Magic instructors, yes? I welcome the challenge, and I'm pleased to meet you, Instructor.

~Twilight Sparkle

[dragonspooker]

I am! Good to see that kind of spirit - a great deal of confidence will be helpful. And likewise.

[marearcana]

That's good to hear as well. After all, I chose the specialization for a reason.

[dragonspooker]

Well, with the great Lina Inverse as your teacher, you'll be destined for mastery, should you make it through the class!

[marearcana]

Excellent. I'd want nothing more.

[No, seriously, she wouldn't. She doesn't think she wants the whole "world famous" thing.]

[isnottheworst]

You're the first teacher I've ever met that warned people before... ^_^;

... Well, the first one that wasn't an enormous lion, anyway...

[dragonspooker]

Well, magic like this is a difficult challenge! It's better to be prepared, because screwing things up can end pretty badly when you're throwing around fire and lightning.

[laughafterme]

What SHOULD we believe, then?!

[dragonspooker]

Things you've researched for yourself. Stuff you've seen first-hand. Hearsay isn't anything to ever go by alone.

[laughafterme]

Sometimes hearsay can be pretty accurate!

[dragonspooker]

Sometimes, yes - but that's why you should follow-up on it and not just take it all at face value just because some of it is actually true.

[laughafterme]

OKAY!

So do you REALLY have two heads?!

[dragonspooker]

...what...

Who said THAT?!

[laughafterme]

I think the point of a rumor is to not reveal the source!

[Even if there isn't a source to begin with...??]

[dragonspooker]

I just want to know who needs a good punch upside the head, as I very clearly only have one head.

[laughafterme]

How clear is 'clearly'??

[dragonspooker]

AS CLEAR AS DAY!

[laughafterme]

Even though it's cloudy today?

[dragonspooker]

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[See that? That's the result of Lina bashing her head into the keyboard.]

IT'S A METAPHOR!

[laughafterme]

What's a metaphor? That sentence? What's it say??

[She can't read head smashing.]

[dragonspooker]

[Those near where-ever Lina may be accessing the computer to read this will likely hear an agonized wail and possibly broken sobbing.]

i quit

[laughafterme]

WOOO! I WIN! :D

[Although she isn't sure what she's competing for but OH WELL!]

... pretend this is a day or two later than she posted it

[werepanther]

Scaring the Cadets before you teach them, Lina? :P That's one way to do it.

- Tom

Alright!

[dragonspooker]

Well, better they have some warning so they don't run out of the class on the first day!

[Because more than likely, there will be someone making a crack about how she doesn't look old enough to be a teacher, and set her temper off...]

thanks ;;

[werepanther]

Fair enough. Just don't set them on fire again - or for the first time, if that rumor was false. The infirmary can't handle that many Cadets!

[He might've been roommates with the head doctor who might've complained to Tom about this!]

No worries! o/

[dragonspooker]

That only happened once, and it was an accident!

[Even if she has a tendency towards casual hypocrisy about how to responsibly use magic, and has a terrible temper, she takes this teacher gig seriously, damn it!

Until someone mistakes her for a student on the first day. Which always, inevitably happens...]

[werepanther]

Accidents don't typically repeat themselves right? ;) Lighten up, Lina, I was just giving you a hard time. You'll be fine.