How's my driving? How can I improve with Nami and Plotmon? Nami is taken from two years after canon. Yes, Plotmon is an original character, but is she consistent, believable, etc?

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[Mistletoe chatter with interest about some trashy romance novels.]

"A successful text must affect the heart as well as the head." Analyze some of the methods the authors used to affect both feelings and thoughts. This can be language features such as metaphors or similes, or narrative point of view, or the structure, the diction, anything. But make sure you always include examples to back up your statement and always link back to the question.

Now, since not all of you have taught yourselves how to type or write and I don't have the time to teach you all, I'm not going to ask you to write essays, but rather, I want you to deliver seminars on your chosen texts and techniques to the rest of the mistletoe in three days. Any questions?

Miss! When do you plan on hooking up with--

[Teacher does not sound amused.] I don't. Any more questions like this and you'll have to write me a ten minute apology speech as well as standing out on the deck for an hour.

[Deathly silence.]

Mistletoe, dismissed!

[The scurrying of sentient plants and more discussion of the novels, fading out.]

...are there any support positions open on the Halberd? I feel it's time for a change in career never mind that I haven't worked since I got pulled here from camp, and I Plotmon misses Boota.

(OOC: Strikes are hackable.)

...How did we get into...the Royal Base? Plotmon and I were just walking up through the fields with Boota...

Where is Boota, anyway?

[At least a minute of screaming, and, just faintly, a certain molepig's squeals. The volume varies.]

...Satoshi-kun? Shigeru-kun? Sugimori-san? Mori-sensei?! Whoever's idea of a practical joke this is, STOP IT RIGHT NOW! You can STOP hiding and come RIGHT BACK HERE to put all the tents back up WHERE THEY WERE. And whoever was the ringleader of this juvenile little prank can PUT UP THE QM'S TENT AND THE TOILETS! IF YOU CONTINUE ON IN LIFE LIKE THIS, YOU'RE GOING TO END UP AS A THUG OR A ZOOKEEPER!

I don't know WHY I even sign up for this trip any more, you'd think I'd have learnt by now... What with Mori-sensei scaring himself with that ghost story two years ago, and the ill-advised karaoke contest last year, this camp has just been going downhill ever since I made that stupid decision to chaperone!

...And whoever left this stuffed dog next to my pillow, I appreciate the effort unless you're Mori-sensei but I'm more of a cat person!

(OOC: Lara Jill Miller is go!)