Outside 141

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

Tick is waiting outside his room - which is still barricaded by his mattress - for Major K!

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[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"The Tick!" Kawalsky held out some goldish-yellow paper and looked flustered from jumping straight into action. "I couldn't find goldenrod. I only had dandelion. I hope that's close enough."

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"It'll have to do, chum!" Tick took the paper, shoved the mattress out of the way, and ran into the room. He flung a few sheets of the dandelion paper to the other side of the room, grabbed one test while the others were distracted by the new, pretty paper, and rushed back out. He quickly closed the door-- err, mattress behind him.

"Thanks, Major K! If Professor Maclay is right (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhighdorms/183063.html?thread=6596375), I should be able to grade the tests by doing that another six times!"

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"Another six times? We're gonna need more paper. Ooor.. I can help you hold them down and distract them with the dandelion paper while you attack them with the red pen? I'm up for the challenge."

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"No, Major K! It's too dangerous! See this?" Tick asked, pointing at the red marks all over his face. "They did this! It's hit and run, man, otherwise we'll lose this battle!"

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"Uh, okay. Have you tried using a different colored pen? Maybe it's like bull-fighting. Red makes them go mad. If they like dandelion paper, maybe they'll like a dandelion colored pen?"

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"But it's grading. It has to be a red pen!"

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"Who says grading has to have a red pen? I had two teachers who used to use all different kinds of pens. Green, purple, yellow, pink. It made kids feel better about getting their tests back.. and the tests the teachers were grading never attacked them."

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"I don't know, Major K! Different colored pens? Sounds a little crazy to me.

Professor Maclay suggested that I just explain to the tests that I'm trying to grade them fairly and tell them why I'm giving the grades I'm giving. Maybe they'll tell the next generation of tests that I'm a conscientious grader and I won't have this problem again."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"Professor Maclay does like to talk things out. Have you tried talking to them yet? If it doesn't work, you might have to resort to strange colored pens or interpretive dance to get your message across."

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"I was planning on talking to them one-on-one. Maybe after I get a couple done, they'll get the others settled down a bit.

Failing that, interpretive dance could work..."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"Maybe if you show them you're BAD, they'll respect your authoritah."

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

Upon hearing the word "bad," Tick had a strange urge to scream and grab his crotch. It was easily ignored, but that urge would probably haunt him after he got this whole test thing sorted out.

"No, no, Major K! This looks like a job for diplomacy, not that kind of dancing."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"Okay, well, we've got some more dandelion paper here, so if you want to go for it again, I'll watch your back. It's what superheroes do for each other."

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"Thank you, Major K!"

[OOC: Do you mind if we just stop here and assume the distracting, lecturing, and grading plan goes well and all of the tests get graded with little trouble?]

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

[OOC: Fine with me! Thank goodness the dandelion paper was close enough to goldenrod to be sufficiently distracting!]

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

[OOC: From what I understand, in the paper world dandelion is more of a hussy than goldenrod, so it probably worked even better!

Thanks for helping guide this insanity to an ending. :)]

[can_be_more]

OOC: Omg *dies*!

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

[OOC: Yeah, I'm kinda proud of that one. :)]