09-26-2017, 01:21 AM
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 Herbology Lesson I
Paul was feeling silly. He had decided to order a costume in the post, and he supposed he should have specified. There had clearly been some sort of mixup...because….
This was NOT THE CYCLOPS PAUL HAD BEEN TALKING ABOUT.
He had no IDEA who this hooligan was, and why he looked like a robot. But the name on the package had been CYCLOPS and it had been too damn late to order a new one. He had rummaged EVERYWHERE for something to look like a cyclops...he even had a special charm to make his face look like it had one big eyeball. But….he had THIS COSTUME.
...and so he squeezed himself into it, glad it had fake padded abs, and cursed muggle costume companies. CURSED THEM. ABSOLUTELY. Milton had gotten the package (since muggle post didn’t come to Hogwarts, obviously) and had send the package over with a few ?????? scrawled on the note.
Merlin.
But class had started, and students were arriving. “Come on in, guys! Have a seat…” he winked, but remember none of them could see his FACE so it was pointless. The thing about having a seat today, though, was that Paul had been very creative with how to teach about this plant, and so….¾ of the room was taken up by three giant versions of the lotus flower.. Literally, just enlarged. “Have a seat on any of the petals, on the ground, ANYWHERE!” he grinned and gave a thumbs up since his eyes couldn’t be seen for added facial expression.
“The plan for today is to talk about the famous LOTUS FLOWER from Homer’s ODYSSEY. As you can see, I…..well, some of you might know what the heck this is, but I THOUGHT I was ordering a cyclops costume...but they sent me this ROBOT costume instead.” Rude. He was still OUTRAGED by it, okay? “But we will start in just a feeeeeew minutes. You may study the giant lotus flowers up close until then if you like. Sketch ‘em out if you want,” he said, giving ANOTHER thumbs up.
That ¼ of the room not covered by the giant flowers was taken up by a regular sized lotus tree that had the flowers on and the fruits. HMMMMM.
OOC: Hi guys! Your characters are allowed to dress as their favorite characters from Greek Mythology for this lesson, but it isn't a requirement! We'll be moving on in at least 24 hours, but it will honestly probably be more than that! Plenty of time to have your little guys show up!
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