08/24/09 [AS2#66] - Paging Mr. Abel…

[M]

Considering that most Cubi don't need to sleep, there would most likely be classes at all times of the day and night.

I know about that, but the previous scenes have shown it to be light out. Just kind of threw me off guard, is all.

[Arapaima]

I would imagine that the wards protecting the school could do funny things to the day/night cycle. I wouldn't find it unreasonable for day and night as we know them to not exist there. What is perceived is a result of magic of some kind due to the real thing being unavailable.

[AmigaDragon]

I think this is one of those classic "It was not a demand, just a statement of fact" moments. Fa'Lina doesn't wish, want, try or need to speak to people. Fa'Lina just does.

Even so, it looks like she is polite enough to send notice ahead instead of just doing it first.

[Baal Hadad]

how do we know the teacher is female? Looks like a gender change after the morph into the snake. Who knows what gender ?he/she? is.

My sentiments exactly--is it a female who morphed into a male?  A male who had previously morphed into a female morphing back?  Something else entirely?   

[Janus Whitefurr]

how do we know the teacher is female? Looks like a gender change after the morph into the snake. Who knows what gender ?he/she? is.

My sentiments exactly--is it a female who morphed into a male?  A male who had previously morphed into a female morphing back?  Something else entirely?   

A naturally genderless being that exists solely to screw with your mind.

[Naldru]

how do we know the teacher is female? Looks like a gender change after the morph into the snake. Who knows what gender ?he/she? is.

My sentiments exactly--is it a female who morphed into a male?  A male who had previously morphed into a female morphing back?  Something else entirely?  

A naturally genderless being that exists solely to screw with your mind.

Maybe part of the final exam is determining whether their teacher is male or female.   Or there are two teachers, one male and one female, and part of the coursework is to work out which was teaching on which day.

Edit:

What I was thinking is that they would not only be trained to deceive others, but to detect deception in others.  The reason for figuring out who was who and what was what would be to prove that they can resist deception by others.

Or to quote Burns:

Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive

[Lucheek]

how do we know the teacher is female? Looks like a gender change after the morph into the snake. Who knows what gender ?he/she? is.

My sentiments exactly--is it a female who morphed into a male?  A male who had previously morphed into a female morphing back?  Something else entirely?   

A naturally genderless being that exists solely to screw with your mind.

Maybe part of the final exam is determining whether their teacher is male or female.   Or there are two teachers, one male and one female, and part of the coursework is to work out which was teaching on which day.

As we have seen in the DMFA world gender isn't really a big deal so i doubt they would waste time teaching studnets to find the true gender of a sphapeshifter (but then again they do teach an entire grass-growing class....) I don't know why the gender of characters comes up so much on this fourm..... (I want to know if I'm gay if I make porn of it! !)

[Tapewolf]

(but then again they do teach an entire grass-growing class....)

I don't know quite how they handle it, but it seems to me that 'Cubi tend to go out there and either (1) replace an existing person or (2) suddenly move into a town saying they're "from the North" or something to deflect questions about their past.

In either case they will have to take a job in order to avoid suspicion.  In (1) they will have to exactly match their victim's job but in (2) where it's someone they've made up, they can be a bit more picky.  Either way, 'Cubi are realistically going to need to be reasonably skilled at at least one job in order to blend in.  The lawncare module might perhaps be for 'Cubi gardeners...

[Lego3400]

I was under the impression she names her Warp Aci F(Vowel) for all we know this could be Fa.

[ishidan]

I was under the impression she names her Warp Aci F(Vowel) for all we know this could be Fa.

Heh.  Do they have specialties?

Fa:  Specializes in long distance teleports
Fe:  The humorously unexpected happens with him.
Fi:  Our favorite Aci, always in the middle of everything
Fo:  This guy doesn't have many friends.
Fu:  We try not to use him.  When something goes wrong, his name is always the first thing on people's lips.
Fy:  Undependable, sometimes he's there and sometimes he's not.

[M]

Heh.  Do they have specialties?

Fa:  Specializes in long distance teleports
Fe:  The humorously unexpected happens with him.
Fi:  Our favorite Aci, always in the middle of everything
Fo:  This guy doesn't have many friends.
Fu:  We try not to use him.  When something goes wrong, his name is always the first thing on people's lips.
Fy:  Undependable, sometimes he's there and sometimes he's not.

My God. It's like a sitcom. This would be hilarious to see.