DA Meeting #4 [OPEN]

[commentboxtroll]

Who: Everyone! Reference this post for details.
What: Defense Association meeting, the fourth.
Where: Mayfield High School's Gym
When: Thursday, after dark.
Warnings: nope.gif

There isn't a whole lot of set-up to do for the meeting. Beyond a table or two rolled in from the cafeteria in case anyone needs to set something down somewhere and convincing a teacher or a janitor to let them use the indoor bleachers, that's all. There are places to sit, the lights are on, it isn't cold except by the door (which is propped open by a brick). What more could they need?

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DA Business #2 - Books That Don't Suck Project

[commentboxtroll]

Another idea I'd like to present to the DA is a little less defense or info-oriented, but let's face it, the books here really suck. I've been fiddling around with a typewriter over the past few months in my spare time [he has a lot, okay?] and I copied a few books from my own world over onto paper from Mayfield.

So I thought, if stuff made from things native to the town won't vanish into thin air, why not build a better library for the town that way? If I'm not the only one getting too many books back, that is...

[inthebones]

I suggest we begin with what seem to be accepted as 'classics' here. I have a few copies of English literature from the school. And Romeo and Juliet, naturally.

[commentboxtroll]

[Susan, why?]

I disagree. Mayfield already has 'classics' like Romeo and Juliet in print. It'd be a waste of time to retype most of those ones.

[inthebones]

You can never do with enough copies. What if we want to do a play again? ...Or perhaps 'when we do' is more appropriate.

[Susan has little intention of starting the play again, but her life's sole source of joy is teasing Caesar. It is a hard life.]

[commentboxtroll]

I'm sure the Mayfield library will lend you all their extra copies if the school is so shorted!

[Maybe she should consider taking up knitting as a hobby instead.

Also, he's ignoring the 'when we do' bait. Not even biting.]

[inthebones]

I doubt anyone keeps that many copies of a book.

Regardless.

I'll have to read some of yours sometime. Perhaps it will shed some light on the sad state of education in your homeworld.

[commentboxtroll]

Very funny. [Except not.] So did you have any actual useful ideas or...?

[inthebones]

Oh.

No, just that I suppose I know now where your spare time has been going, if not into homework. Also, there is such a thing as a printing press.

[commentboxtroll]

A printing press won't fit into my room, Susan.

[strike_you_out]

[Not Romeo and Juliet again. Slugger groans quietly. He's beginning to think it's her favorite book or something.]

[inthebones]

Why is everyone so opposed to higher learning?

[strike_you_out]

Like learning how to poison someone?

[Derailing, but ...seriously? What else can be learned from Romeo and Juliet? (Evidently, he did read it.)]

[inthebones]

I prefer to think of it as a 'how to' guide. As in 'how to not live your life'.

[commentboxtroll]

[Caesar's thoughts exactly, Slugger, if you add 'for torture' after 'favorite book'!]

[strike_you_out]

[The most he could say is that it provided an interesting way out of said torture through suicide.]

[doudemoe]

Why not write our own books?

[commentboxtroll]

If anyone feels they're creative enough to, that'd be just as good.

[sarcasmandbooks]

That sounds like a good idea.

[commentboxtroll]

That's what I thought. [All his ideas are, though, so...] It's only a matter of rounding up some volunteers to get it going.

[sarcasmandbooks]

I'll help with that.

[commentboxtroll]

You will? Excellent. Though I'm not sure I've seen you at meetings before, so you're...?

[He should at least get her name before he drops a project in her lap.]

[sarcasmandbooks]

Raven. First time here.

[commentboxtroll]

Welcome to the party, then. I'm sorry you're here.

[Referring to Mayfield, of course.]

[sarcasmandbooks]

Same.

How long have you been stuck in this town?

[commentboxtroll]

By next month, it'll be a year.