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SPOILER!!: Madison! <3 Quote:
Originally Posted by WhittyBitty  Yeeeees, they got to play games for the rest of the lesson!
Professor Stewart was the BEST, and Madison was sure that the Headmaster would absolutely LOVE this. In her opinion the man needed to learn how to loosen up and have some fun; he was always so grumpy and unpleasant.
Just as she was about to plug in 'free online games' into the search bar, a boy had decided to YELL and give her a heart attack. It took a few moments for Madison's heart to calm down because she had certainly not been expecting that and he was seated not too far away from her.
Anyway... on to the search!
Madison began trying the words into the search bar, when her computer froze and the screen went weird. Everything was looking whiter and she didn't know how to get it to work again. "Professor Stewart, my computer is being all wonky and I can't get it to fix." Because she couldn't get the mouse to move the pointer across the screen at all.
SIGH.
Kay sighed softly as she strode to Madison. She offered the same advice that she had offered Jessa. “Please press and hold the power button to shut the system off then repeat to turn it back on. If you continue to have issues, try another system. Ms. Valentine? I’m sorry this is cutting into your game time.’’
SPOILER!!: Benji! <3 Quote:
Originally Posted by awakemysoul Benji had excitedly navigated to the site that the older boy had yelled out when he ran into a SCARY SCREEN that had a puzzle piece looking thing and told him to click to make it flash???? Or something like that?????? He was about to panic when he heard Derf yell out that he was having the same problem. Thankfully, Professor Stewart was right there to tell him that it was okay and to click it.
So. Problem solved, and Benji didn't even have to ask for help. Everyone had yelled out the help unsolicitedly. He clicked the puzzle piece and said that flashing was okay (oi, well that didn't sound quite right, but he didn't make up the terms, ya know), then set about trying to find something interesting... Except if the mouse had been cool while twirling about before, THIS WAS A MILLION TIMES COOLER. He couldn't resist the urge to draw giant, swirly circles all over the page with the giant mouse pointer that GLOWED. This was AMAZING. Who needed a game?!
However, a game had been the instruction, and Benji was a rule-follower, after all, so he finally tore himself away from the beautiful, wonderful swirls he was making and clicked at random on a picture that looked interesting. It had a big yellow face that looked friendly. Pac Xon Deluxe? He watched as it loaded and offered him instructions, but he figured with something low-stakes like this, he would rather figure it out through trial-and-error, so he clicked "play" and started poking at buttons and trying to figure out what to do. Hey, this was pretty fun!
Kay grinned when she saw that Benji had moved along to a game. “You know, the computers are here all year round. I encourage you to come here more often.’’
SPOILER!!: Dictator <_< Quote:
Originally Posted by Julian Scrimgeour Did Scrimgeour care that most of the students in the room paid no attention to him being there? Not one bit. In fact, he actually commended those that remained focused. He wasn't really there to watch them, and their priority was learning. Mind you, the topic of the lesson was ... not even worthy of even being considered mediocre. The old man was tempted to grunt whenever the Muggle Studies professor spoke, but refrained from doing so.
Besides, he had students to berate since it appeared that the woman was incapable of doing so. Another note was marked mentally about her incompetence.
"Excuse me, Kettleburn?" he grunted gruffly at the Ravenclaw girl. His eyes narrowed. At that point he shot a look at Stewart. Not going to do anything about that act of defiance? Typical. His gaze returned to the girl. "You last comment earned you a loss of ten points from Ravenclaw. I recommend you get used to me being here. Your previous headmistress won't be returning any time soon."
Then the instruction continued, which in his opinion was worse than sitting through a History of Magic lecture. And the woman continued to display just how incapable she was at giving consequences out to students who decided that shouting was acceptable in a classroom. So, once again, he had to do the grunt work for her.
"Carden, that'll be ten points from Slytherin for your outburst. Surely a Prefect would know how to control themselves in a classroom."
Then he moved on to the other Slytherin, who was even louder. "Choi, you just earned a twenty point loss from Slytherin. If you want something to shout about, then detention with me can be arranged." The choice was his: he could act like a student was meant to, or they'd be seeing each other very soon outside of the classroom setting.
Icy blue eyes then glared at the woman for a number of reasons. She needed to get a grip on her classroom. Misbehaving students, allowing them to play games, and some of the things they were on failed to function properly... this was a train wreck. Was this how all of the woman's lessons were like after all these years? This was unacceptable.
Kay whirled around to look the Head Dictator in the face. Her eyes narrowed dangerously. How DARE HE? This was HER lesson. “With all due respect,’’ she said in a controlled voice, though it was obvious that she meant none of that. The friendly smile was gone now. “I am the one conducting the lesson. There was no need for anyone to loose House points as long as they do not repeat the offense.’’ While he might have a GIANT STONE for a heart, she did not and believed that the kiddos deserved an opportunity to learn from the mistakes. Kay willed herself not to shake with anger. Regina will not be back. She would have snorted at the absurdity of such an assumption.
SPOILER!!: Natasha! <3 Quote:
Originally Posted by Angel of Music "I wasn't very good when I first started either. It actually took me several years to how to play with any decent strategy." she admitted.
“Well, I think you’re doing wonderfully. All those years have paid off.’’
SPOILER!!: Max! <3 Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterloo “No, I ———" Before he could answer Professor Stewart and explain that he was most definitely NOT okay because this muggle machine had just gone and ruined everything, the Headmaster was deducting points from him.
He hadn’t even realised Headmaster Scrimgeour was here.
“But——" Actually, no. He figured it was probably best not to retort in any way. He doubted the Scrimgeour would understand the absolute significance of what had just happened and what he’d SEEN on that monitor.
Truth be told, he didn’t even care about the points because spoilers were a million billion trillion times worse. Still, he flushed a deep shade of red and slouched in his seat.
He didn’t even want to play games.
Could this lesson be over now? He needed to go and mourn the death of a fictional character.
The Professor mistook the look on Max’s face was because Scrimgeour had docked points from him. “I’m sorry,’’ she whispered so only he could hear. “I know you didn’t intend to speak that loudly.’’
SPOILER!!: Patrick! <3 Quote:
Originally Posted by siriusblackliveson Patrick had heard of some online games in his classes as a young student back in the states. Surprisingly, the one that stayed was cool math for kids. He loved playing lemonade stand. So getting a bit excited he typed in the website and waited painstakingly while it loaded. He was used to slow but this was soooo slow. He just wanted to play his game. After waiting what felt like hours he saw the screen load. “yes.” he clicked away on the screen.
He was starting to buy sugar and lemons and sell lemonade. He was a few rounds in making a good profit when he heard the headmaster start taking points. His eyes got big hearing everyone lose points. He was fairly certain that at this point the only people to win was whoever had the least amount of points left. He had sat quietly for so long because he surely didn’t know where to stand yet. He kept clicking the mouse and trying to play the game and avoid being Singled out by anyone.
Sugar, lemons... that equalled lemonade!
Kaysha watched with interest as Patrick played his choice of game.
SPOILER!!: Rylee! <3 Quote:
Originally Posted by Kolyander Games!
They were going to get to play games the rest of the lesson! Rylee beamed at Professor Stewart before looking over at Dorian and giving him a wide grin as well. There was no need to tell her more than once.
Typing 'Free Online Game' into the search bar at the type of the screen and hitting the Enter key, Rylee waited for the results to start appearing on the screen. Not sure which game to choose she did the only thing a thirteen year old girl would do. She closed her eyes and clicked on a random link.
Opening her eyes again Rylee found herself looking at a game were she was a little frog and the point was to get the frog across the screen to the other side. There was logs and lily pads and things to jump on but they moved across the screen and if you fell it was game over. It sounded much easier than it looked.
Catching Rylee’s smile, Kay smiled back before making her way over to the Gryffindor. After the game loaded, she saw it was one that had a frog as its main character.
SPOILER!!: Dorian! <3 Quote:
Originally Posted by DuckyLinJi "Thanks Rylee" Dorian leaned closer to see her notebook when he had asked if he could see hers. He remembered a sentence, wrote it down and then came back to to see what she had written before writing it down as well. This process went on for a minute or so because the Professor had used some very big computer words but when he was done he nodded to show that he was done.
Back to the task at hand, the Ravenclaw became less bored when they were told to PLAY GAMES. BEST LESSON EVER. Dorian grabbed the mouse and moved the arrow to the search balk and clicked on it until he could type. With two fingers, he typed in the letters of the website they were supposed to visit and when he was finally done searching for the letters he pressed enter.
The computer was slow. Slower than he had thought and he had almost given up and moved his mouse to refresh the page when the page finally loaded. He scrolled through the options until he saw a title that looked interesting enough. Farm Days. No idea what it was about but Dorian double clicked on it anyway.
As the game started, the Ravenclaw got distracted by a voice that was definitely not one of the students. If it were, that person should definitely see a Healer for that... He turned around to look and when he saw that it was the Headmaster, he quickly sat up straight. The man seemed to be too busy taking away points though. If he hadn't been the Headmaster, he would have concidered it rude for him to come in to another Professor's lesson and take away points. But he was the Headmaster so he ...basically had that right now?
Choosing to ignore it all because HE was a GOOD student, Dorian began to play the game. But not before looking at his Head of House and see what would happen. Those two obviously could not stand each other. It didn't take a genius to figure that out. Body language was everything.
Kay was still fuming inwardly when she turned back to the kiddos. She was staring at Dorian’s screen now but really was not seeing it.
SPOILER!!: Septimus! <3 Quote:
Originally Posted by Holmesian Feline Google and emails and headmasters oh my.
Septimus had been jotting down the last of the information shared, including a note about the upcoming permission slips when reactions to the man’s presence had caught his attention. The third year caught himself before he turned fully around, settling for trying to see him and confirm him in the reflection of the computer screen before an ever so quick glance over his shoulder. No wonder he’d had that eerie being watched feeling.
At least Scrimgeour was remaining silent and Professor Stewart was pushing forward with the lesson seemingly as planned. And trying out games was as good a thing as any to try and ignore the man’s presence. It took him a few tries to get back to the main Google page so he could go on a new search, this time for games. The list of results from Free Online Games were extensive and he had just clicked on the first choice to see what was available and wait for it to load when said headmaster decided to break his silence by taking away points.
Septimus bit back a groan. Granted Slytherin had taken the brunt of the damage but there was those 10 points from Ravenclaw. Battles with the man had to be picked and giving attitude hadn’t worked well. Plus, judging by the look Scrimgeour was giving Professor Stewart, it seemed to the third year that it was speaking against their head of house. It was dejectedly that he looked over the list of games, debating on something to try out.
There were some that continued to work in silence and Septimus was one of them. At least he was not having any issues.
SPOILER!!: Big Lucas! <3 Quote:
Originally Posted by kayquilz YAY DERF WANTED TO PLAY. He was hoping the Hufflepuff prefect would take him up on the offer. DERF IS THE REAL PREFECT ALWAYS ahem. "Okay, I'll need to start up a game and give you the code. Let's start with a simple racing game." He clicked the one, one with little stick guys riding bicycles, and clicked on the two player option. "Okay, here's the code---" he pointed at his screen for Derf to come copy it. It was only 6 digits long, numbers.
He blushed when Stewart fussed at him and nodded. "Yes ma'am, of course, I'm sorry---"
And THAT was when the HM ATTACKED. Lucas winced under the man's tone and felt a crushing sense of fear. He had lost POINTS? He had never lost points before..he started last term, in his fifth year, and it...he....he felt awful. WHY had he spoken so loudly?! WHY? He had just gotten excited! But he nodded at the Headmaster. "Yes, sir." He bit his lip and wondered if he still had this race in the bag. Because no doubt about it, he would beat Derfael, but...now? His spirits were KILLED.
He shot his roommate a look. Maxton had lost points too. "It's okay, mate. We can earn them back sometime." He was trying to be reassuring.
“Indeed you’ll earn them back, Mr. Choi. And not to worry. I know you didn’t mean to shout.’’
SPOILER!!: Abra! <3 Quote:
Originally Posted by Felixir Okay. Games. Abra could do this. He could have fun. He could totally ignore the Headmaster's presence and focus on playing a game for this class. Except for the occasional glances he kept sort of shooting the man uhhhh.
At the say-so from Professor Stewart, Abra clicked into the rectangle at the top of the screen where 'cutecats' was still displayed, and typed 'F-R-E-E-O-N-L-I-N-G-A-M-E-S', getting the spelling just a little bit wrong. Thing was, his words from before were still in the rectangle, so when he clicked 'search' thingy, he actually searched for 'cutecatsfreeonlingames' which... wasn't what he had been told to do.
UhhhhHHHHHH.
Abra didn't know what to do. He didn't know how to get rid of the words he'd already typed in, and now they were all piling up. To make matters worse, his anxiety levels got even higher when Scrimgeour spoke up from not too far away, making Abra jolt almost violently in alarm.
Uh oh. Unhappy Headmaster, points being taken, and here was Abra hugely failing at what he was being told to do. Feeling certain the spotlight would be on him next - for no real reason other than that was what his anxiety was telling him - Abra tried to make himself as small and unnoticeable as possible and did his best to look busy. With no idea of how to get out of his predicament, and not wanting to call attention to himself, Abra just began clicking madly on the words in the search rectangle in the hope that it would make them go away. There was probably a better way to do it but... well... he obviously didn't know it.
Oh. It was blue. The words were covered in blue. WHY were they covered in blue? Abra froze and stared at his screen for a moment, not... quite... knowing what to do. When nothing else happened, he cautiously pressed the F button, and watched as the words disappeared, replaced by the letter 'f'. Breathing a huge sigh of relief, Abra tried again, typing in 'F-R-E-E-O-N-L-I-N-G-A-M-E-S', and clicking 'search'.
This was a lot more stressful than it needed to be.
Clicking the mouse makes a soft noise but imagine rapid clicking. It certainly attracts attention. Kay’s head turned this way and that as she tried and succeeded in determining that it was Abraham who was doing the clicks. By the time she got to him, he was hitting ‘search’. “It’s okay, Mr. Botros,’’ she said, attempting to reassure him of all the things since she was unsure of the exact problem.
SPOILER!!: Lil Lucas! <3 Quote:
Originally Posted by hermionesclone Lucas brightened up considerably when he heard what the next part of the lesson was going to be. Because GAMES. They were going to be spending the next bit of the lesson just sitting there and playing games and, well, that sounded like the best way to spend a lesson.
So, he placed his hand on the mouse and dragged it up to the rectangle under the Google sign. It was a little weird, if he was completely honest with himself. Because he kept wanting to look at the mouse but he had to keep his eyes on the screen as well. But soon enough, he clicked on the rectangle and started typing out the letters for 'free online games'.
There! Search!
...........
Uh, so, which one was he meant to click? There were a lot of options here. TOO many options. What if he clicked on the wrong one? He looked up and then around to see what everyone else was doing but it looked like a lot of people had already gotten started so..... maybe he should as well? There were only twenty minutes to this part.
Oh, but the second one said 'free online games' as well in the link so he was going to go with that one. CLICK!
The page that popped up was..... weird. And colourful. But mostly weird. Lucas leant closer to have a look at all the little pictures of..... the games? Yeah, they had to be previews of the games. Like that one was clearly about a grandma that's on the run from the police, that other one was about a piņata and.... oh! Hey, this one had a lot of colourful little bubbles on it. Maybe that would be a good one to go with. Yeah.
CLICK!
Oh, that was a wonderful idea! Previewing before selecting was actually to a good way to decide on one game.
SPOILER!!: Stella! <3 Quote:
Originally Posted by Granger Danger Stella felt a bit uneasy at the Headmaster being around, she could feel herself shaking in fear at the presence of him. Biting her lip she started googling for games to play to get her mind off the Headmaster that was in the room staring down at them watching their every move. It wasn't helping her asthma seeing how it made her have panic attacks. Then again she was doing everything she could not to lose points, she was afraid she was going to lose them.
Hm...what kind of games did she want to play? She seen there was quite a bit to choose from. " Ooh... yay there's bookworm my favorite!" she said happily. Although as she said that her eyes widened in fear and horror. Uh...oh, she said that while the Headmaster was in the room! Oh...no, panic mode panic mode! She started panicking afraid she was going to lose points. Having a slight panic attack she closed her eyes taking a deep breath trying to calm herself down.
“I’m glad you found your favourite game!’’ Being among the kiddos once more, Kay had forgotten about her earlier anger.
SPOILER!!: Juni! <3 Quote:
Originally Posted by SarcasticStrawberry Sure Juniper didn’t answer the question but she knew answer but yeah, why put everyone through having to hear the answer over and over again. She was taking notes and stuff. And listening of course she was listening.
So the first thing they had to do was to push the button. That was easy enough. Pushing the button, she waited for the button to light up. Then the monitor started to boot up. So everything was working right. She waited for the computer to fully boot up.
Once the computer was ready to go, she looked around on the desktop at all of the icons, even though she knew most of the information that professor Steward was giving but she still took a few notes.
Back to listening to watch her head of house was trying to explain with what to do next. Chrome. She knew what that one was. She pointed the arrow at the chrome icon and double clicked it. Now she was on the interwebs.
Now what?
She was ready to just move on.
So they were going to do a search. But Juni wasn’t quite sure what to search for. She had no idea what. Cute cats, or puppies? Maybe… Or maybe a place to vacation for christmas? If she could talk her dad into that. That would be great. She was totally going to search for vacation spots. She typed ‘places to go on christmas vacation’ into the box and hit enter.
Oh! What a nice thing to search for. “I hope you find that perfect place.’’
SPOILER!!: Chloe! <3 Quote:
Originally Posted by Cassirin Huh. Apparently the Headmaster person didn't appreciate a genuine offer for help via the Google. Chloe wrinkled her nose in his direction without comment, but her feelings were injured, sir. Very injured.
She actually flipped her plait in his direction and turned her attention back to the computer and her card game. Not to be rude or anything, but if you didn't have something nice to say... unless he felt he was owed an apology? She laid digital cards on top of digital cards and pondered that.
Chloe was so... sassy.
Yes, Kay saw you, Chloe. At least the girl was not paying the Head Dictator any more attention and was back with her game.
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There were five minutes left to the lesson. Kay was disappointed. She loved to see her kiddos have so much fun. "We have a few more minutes, everyone. As you continue to play, can you give me your opinions thus far on the internet? Are there any aspects of this broad topic that you would want us to explore later on?'' OOC: Hey, guys! Just some more replies here! The main activity ends tomorrow  |