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daybreakacademy2019-05-27 08:53 pm
arcadianvampire) wrote in daybreakacademy2019-05-27 08:53 pm
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School of Hard Knocks and Tough Love
Class Time: May 28
[There was a certain foreboding in the air. Valvatorez had called a special assembly session of his class, taking up a much larger auditorium than his normal class would be seated in. He only wanted to give this lecture once. And boy, was he going to give one. Attendance was mandatory to anyone taking his classes, even unrelated to Daemon Defense, and even students outside of his class were encouraged to come. He'd only made one exception, stating that Toki did not have to come if he did not want to. The ordeal surrounding that was enough, and the lad probably needed time to recover himself. He was harsh and strict, but he did still care.
The auditorium dimmed down when Valvatorez came on stage, to a podium with a microphone. Today he as joined by Professor Atchison on stage as well, who likely was not a comforting sight for the student body. And he wasn't supposed to be.]
I expect all of your undivided attention. Anyone goofing off in this lecture or otherwise not paying attention will regret it. And I will allow Professor Atchison to assign punishments. Expect them to be... unpleasant.
[Just given the chilly tone in the professor's voice starting out, he hoped that would be enough to get everyone on the same page.]
Most of you have doubtlessly heard of the recent incident on campus regarding a certain individual who made a contact with and summoned a Daemon onto campus without authorization. And I am sure many of you have since learned, through rumor or not, that students "died" or were severely hurt in the ensuing chaos caused by those daemons. Fortunately, thanks to some quick working faculty members, the threat has been suitably eliminated. But the consequences of the summoning remain.
[The vampire narrowed his eyes, his voice dropping down to a deeper, more threatening tone.]
This is why I warn you. This is why I teach my class. This is why I am so adamant that you take what I have to say to heart. Why it matters that you know how best to defend yourselves, and that you do not summon daemons under any circumstances without faculty supervision and approval. They are not your friends. Their offers of power are shams, meant to serve their own benefit, not yours. No matter how good of a deal it may seem now, they will inevitably come to collect.
If they do not come for you, they will come for others. Daemons are not toys. They are not here for your amusement, and they definitely do not give a damn about whether or not you think you're cool or powerful for summoning one. I know that many of you already have contracts or contacts with various daemons already, and some of you might be considering it.
To the latter group: Know this. The faculty will be cracking down hard on unauthorized daemon summoning, contact, and contracting going forward. We gave the lot of you some slack, and it ended up with some of your peers dead. We are very fortunate their state of death was only temporary, and unique to the specific type of daemon summoned. Most people do not get second chances with life. Do not expect any of you to luck out if you dare try on your own. If you hear about anyone making preparations to make any unauthorized contact with daemons, you are encouraged and honor-bound to report it to faculty. Knowledge of such an incident and refusing to act on that makes you an accessory to it, should something catastrophic happen, and you can expect discipline to be meted out to you as well.
To those of you who are in the former group: I have brought Professor Atchison here today to give a speech about the importance of how to exploit your contract if you have already made one. Some of you might have already taken his course. If you have, consider this a refresher. If you have not, I highly recommend taking his class to arm yourself with the knowledge you need to fight back. Even if you do not have a contract or do not plan to have one, knowing how to "play the game" will serve to arm you in the event where you may be coerced. Listen to Professor Atchison. What he tells you could save more than your life.
Once he has finished, I will give a lecture about the daemons that were summoned, as well as safety protocols and procedure for how to handle potential daemons on the loose.
I am not so naive to believe that the lot of you will take this warning to heart. I will be watching, and if I catch any of you doing anything dangerous and unauthorized involving daemons, know that I will be very, very disappointed in you. And you do not want that to happen. Unless you are very interested in learning everything there is to know about sardines.
[With that, he'll allow Avery to take the stage and give his lecture, and after which, he will give a briefing about what he said he would, before opening up the room for questions and concerns.]
Office Hours
[After the class, Valvatorez returns to his office, just in time for appointed office hours. Anyone, student, or staff, is welcome to drop by. Despite his unending intensity at the assembly, Valvatorez seemed calmer and more approachable back in his office, and what time he has to himself while there he spends grading papers and enjoying a cup of fresh, black coffee.]
Closed to Puella
[Prior to the assembly, he had sent notice to Puella to meet him at his office after his office hours concluded, as he had something to give her and something to talk about with her.]
[There was a certain foreboding in the air. Valvatorez had called a special assembly session of his class, taking up a much larger auditorium than his normal class would be seated in. He only wanted to give this lecture once. And boy, was he going to give one. Attendance was mandatory to anyone taking his classes, even unrelated to Daemon Defense, and even students outside of his class were encouraged to come. He'd only made one exception, stating that Toki did not have to come if he did not want to. The ordeal surrounding that was enough, and the lad probably needed time to recover himself. He was harsh and strict, but he did still care.
The auditorium dimmed down when Valvatorez came on stage, to a podium with a microphone. Today he as joined by Professor Atchison on stage as well, who likely was not a comforting sight for the student body. And he wasn't supposed to be.]
I expect all of your undivided attention. Anyone goofing off in this lecture or otherwise not paying attention will regret it. And I will allow Professor Atchison to assign punishments. Expect them to be... unpleasant.
[Just given the chilly tone in the professor's voice starting out, he hoped that would be enough to get everyone on the same page.]
Most of you have doubtlessly heard of the recent incident on campus regarding a certain individual who made a contact with and summoned a Daemon onto campus without authorization. And I am sure many of you have since learned, through rumor or not, that students "died" or were severely hurt in the ensuing chaos caused by those daemons. Fortunately, thanks to some quick working faculty members, the threat has been suitably eliminated. But the consequences of the summoning remain.
[The vampire narrowed his eyes, his voice dropping down to a deeper, more threatening tone.]
This is why I warn you. This is why I teach my class. This is why I am so adamant that you take what I have to say to heart. Why it matters that you know how best to defend yourselves, and that you do not summon daemons under any circumstances without faculty supervision and approval. They are not your friends. Their offers of power are shams, meant to serve their own benefit, not yours. No matter how good of a deal it may seem now, they will inevitably come to collect.
If they do not come for you, they will come for others. Daemons are not toys. They are not here for your amusement, and they definitely do not give a damn about whether or not you think you're cool or powerful for summoning one. I know that many of you already have contracts or contacts with various daemons already, and some of you might be considering it.
To the latter group: Know this. The faculty will be cracking down hard on unauthorized daemon summoning, contact, and contracting going forward. We gave the lot of you some slack, and it ended up with some of your peers dead. We are very fortunate their state of death was only temporary, and unique to the specific type of daemon summoned. Most people do not get second chances with life. Do not expect any of you to luck out if you dare try on your own. If you hear about anyone making preparations to make any unauthorized contact with daemons, you are encouraged and honor-bound to report it to faculty. Knowledge of such an incident and refusing to act on that makes you an accessory to it, should something catastrophic happen, and you can expect discipline to be meted out to you as well.
To those of you who are in the former group: I have brought Professor Atchison here today to give a speech about the importance of how to exploit your contract if you have already made one. Some of you might have already taken his course. If you have, consider this a refresher. If you have not, I highly recommend taking his class to arm yourself with the knowledge you need to fight back. Even if you do not have a contract or do not plan to have one, knowing how to "play the game" will serve to arm you in the event where you may be coerced. Listen to Professor Atchison. What he tells you could save more than your life.
Once he has finished, I will give a lecture about the daemons that were summoned, as well as safety protocols and procedure for how to handle potential daemons on the loose.
I am not so naive to believe that the lot of you will take this warning to heart. I will be watching, and if I catch any of you doing anything dangerous and unauthorized involving daemons, know that I will be very, very disappointed in you. And you do not want that to happen. Unless you are very interested in learning everything there is to know about sardines.
[With that, he'll allow Avery to take the stage and give his lecture, and after which, he will give a briefing about what he said he would, before opening up the room for questions and concerns.]
Office Hours
[After the class, Valvatorez returns to his office, just in time for appointed office hours. Anyone, student, or staff, is welcome to drop by. Despite his unending intensity at the assembly, Valvatorez seemed calmer and more approachable back in his office, and what time he has to himself while there he spends grading papers and enjoying a cup of fresh, black coffee.]
Closed to Puella
[Prior to the assembly, he had sent notice to Puella to meet him at his office after his office hours concluded, as he had something to give her and something to talk about with her.]
Classtime
Rex fucking falls asleep in class. He always sits at the back (so he doesn't get in anyone's way) and there's nothing to catch his interest because his paranoid ass has no intention of making any deals with anyone. This is why he makes his own underlings, thank you. A being in your service might change their mind or have a loose definition of service.
So unless someone jabs him (which is a real good way to get decked) Rex is just gonna... stay in his seat, sat up with arms crossed and head dropped. During class it had kinda looked like 'cool anime guy edgelord' but when everyone clears out.
It's clear he's just nodded off. ]
no subject
So when he finds Rex snoozing, he's not inclined to be charitable. He won't lay a hand on him, but he will take a series of heavy, hardcover books and throw them on the desk beside his. The resulting, loud slam echoes through the auditorium and should be enough to wake the dead.
And Valvatorez is standing there. Glowering. He's very not happy. Hope you have something to say for yourself, Rex...]
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Kon da te ebe!
[ Which is Bulgarian for 'get fucked by a horse.' He also hits the ceiling.
Which is not a turn of phrase, but a literal statement. Rex goes from sleep to casting spells immediately and levitates to the ceiling, in a streak of blue, with his coat floating around him like he's underwater with his feet on the roof, hands in a pose that's pretty clearly ready to start throwing fireballs around or something.
Oh.
Well.
He just sort of stays there, looking dumb./i> ]
Uh.
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Get down from there, Mr. Arany.
no subject
[ Rex's heart is pounding rapidly, but his face becomes just as deadpan as ever as he abruptly flips, falls at full speed and slows at the last moment to delicately rest in his seat. His face may be wooden again, but it's redwood, blazing hot flush very obvious on his pale skin tone. ]
...Sorry.
no subject
no subject
Uh. It wasn't... a conscious choice.
[ That pun was unintentional but he is absolutely filing it away for later use. ]
no subject
...I'm not laughing, Mr. Arany. And you won't be either in a moment.
[Not that he really ever did anyway, but...]
What was the last thing you remember hearing in the lecture?
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Rex makes a minor face of confusion at the laughing comment, perhaps illuminating the unintended nature of the pun. He doesn’t verbally rebuke it though. Why bother? The actual question however, he’ll spend a moment on. And, after a throat clearing and in a complete monotone- ]
“This is why I warn you. This is why I teach my class. This is why I am so adamant that you take what I have to say to heart. Why it matters that you know how best to defend yourselves, and that you do not summon daemons under any circumstances without faculty supervision and approval. They are not your friends.” Something... shams, something not your benefit.
1/2
...So you missed almost the entire thing. Which... might as well have been skipping the lesson.
[And that's just causing Valvatorez's already bad mood to sour further.]
That just won't do. Given I stressed the importance of this topic multiple times and you just slept through the whole damnable thing, then I'm going to have to give you a make-up assignment.
2/2
A seven page written paper on the topic we discussed in this lecture today, stressing the important points covered by both myself and Professor Atchison, and why they are important for any student to know, not just those who have made contact with daemons.
I encourage you to talk to your peers, or Professor Atchison, to get the sources you need to complete this work. And make sure you cite them. I want it on my desk by 9:00 on Monday morning! Otherwise you'll be seeing some severe docking on your overall grade.
Any questions?
no subject
One moment, please.
[ It's a quick draft, just a few keywords arranged. A few sources he knows would be relevant written in shorthand. ]
Hm. Something of that length for a topic like this would probably have to be padded extensively and would likely be more anecdotal examples than an actual examination of the subject and it would likely lose a reader's interest quite quickly, causing the educational value to be lost. To meet the requirement I'd have to make it purposefully more difficult to read and set aside conciseness.
I think the optimum length would be closer to four or five. After that, it's a waste of paper.
[ And he's honestly more concerned with the fact he'd have to write a bad paper than a long one. ]
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Just get it done, lad. End of discussion.
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Well, I've studied the topic quite extensively before now. Everything you were saying was matching up with what I've been telling others since I've arrived. Uhm. So. Unless it took a sudden unexpected change of tact that there is some sort of safe and reasonable way to contract to daemons, I'm not sure what I've missed.
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Valvatorez cleared his throat rather rudely, and his eyes narrowed, rather menacingly. And with it, his voice took a greater tone of authority, clearly mixed with the bubbling-up anger. Traditionally good student or not, these were the wrong buttons to be pushing today.]
Mr. Arany.
It sounds to me what you have missed is the point. And I have little time to suffer this right now. So allow me to illuminate it so that it will pierce through that dense skull of yours!
This assignment is a punishment for blithe disregard of the point of this entire lecture. There was a reason why it was put together this way, in this format, in front of so many students. I do not care if you studied it before, because simply put, you were supposed to pay attention to it now. Even if it's something you've heard before, there is value in reinforcement and refreshment.
And considering you're so knowledgeable about it, make it ten pages, with cited sources, by Oh-Nine-Hundred on Monday. Consider the extra length a chance to delve deeper, if you want to make it a more valuable academic experience that's worthy of your time. Show me what you think you really know.
I'm not asking you to do this. It's an order. Do I make myself clear?
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...Well, that's just going to make the paper worse.
[ Honestly, he's just as lost as to how anyone could consider writing a paper a punishment. ]
no subject
[...If Rex wasn't a student, and there weren't rules and regulations about professionalism as an instructor, Valvatorez would've been immediately more drastic. Or even harsher.]
With that, I suggest you keep your mouth shut and just get out of here before I really lose my temper.
no subject
[ The tilted head and scratching pose remains- because he considers it so irrational that he’s being punished in this way (or at all) Rex very rationally concludes, based on Valvatorez‘s ‘challenge’ comment, this is one of those secret tests of ability ancient wise masters do. Nailed it. ]
Okie Dokie.
[ Keeping his eyes on his pad and continuing to draft, it seems Valvatorez has already left Rex’s thoughts as he wanders off, scribbling away. ]