+ Too Cool for School +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: Everyone!
Where: Yasogami High School
When: 6/28-7/1
Rating: Warn if you go higher than PG-13
Summary: Open log for the Persona 4 event! Everyone is spending some time as students and instructors at Yasogami High School in Inaba, Japan.
The Story:
For the weekend, everyone is either a teacher or a student at a Japanese high school. Enjoy Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and look forward to exams on Monday.

The full event description is located here and the plot post is here, with a Q&A thread where you can ask questions.

Comments

[choosetruth]

Have you ever known me to lie, Mr. Pines?

[But she plugs the USB into her computer and clicks on a file. She has it queued up to a particularly bad lesson: one about how to smuggle goods across the border. It includes Stan cackling about how dumb cops are and an itemized list of things he's smuggled.

Georgia raises an eyebrow.]

I don't want to know how you got into pug smuggling, but I suspect the authorities might.

[charlastan]

[Stan is uncharacteristically silent as this incredibly damning evidence is brought up against him. He could probably fight it - he says a lot of things, and that's exactly what he'd tell the school board. It's not like they can trace his off-color comments to his actual committed crimes. ...Probably. Hopefully.

However, he also isn't willing to risk it at this point. Especially when George is willing to go this far in the first place. So, he lifts up the megaphone again.]

$500. [A pause.] ...PER COPY.

[choosetruth]

[She almost allows herself a smile. Almost.]

Oh, you misunderstand me. [She tugs the USB out of the computer and slides it back into her pocket.] I told you I wasn't going to participate in your games. I am not for sale, Mr. Pines, and neither is my evidence. I am going to publish.

[She takes her recorder out and very deliberately turns it on.]

The only question is: are you really going to let my story end with you failing a student for refusing to be corrupt? Or do you have any words to defend yourself?

[charlastan]

[At first, Stan doesn't say anything. But then, he does something worse. He laughs.]

You really think this isn't corrupt? You might not be asking for money, but you're still trying to buy your way out of summer school, just like everyone else here. What part of blackmail is less corrupt than actually coming up with a product to try and sell?

[No one said she had to lie about what she was selling, after all. She could have done a more moral take on the final, and if her result was that capitalism itself is corrupt then maybe she picked the wrong class.]

So y'know what? Yeah. You're going to summer school. You already decided you're gonna publish, so there's no point in going easy on you, right? And even if I did, it'd be "more corrupt" to pass you without you actually doing the assignment.

[choosetruth]

Didn't I? [She raises an eyebrow.] I convinced you to buy. Your stupid exam said nothing about me having to accept the sale.

[charlastan]

[For a moment, Stan looks absolutely dumbstruck...and then furious she caught him in an actual loophole.]

FINE! Fine, no summer school! But don't think you're gonna take me down that easily with the school board.

[If they kept him on staff after he had to spend a semester hiding from the FBI in Guam then nothing's going to get him fired. ...Hopefully.]

[choosetruth]

[There's only the slightest trace of satisfaction in her expression as she shuts her laptop.]

We'll see. It's been... educational. Here's hoping we don't see too much of each other in the future.