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NAME OF CLASS: Arts and Crafts 101
PROFESSOR NAME: Professor Zixil Braxton

General information:
The Arts and Crafts room is tucked away in the corner - one way in and out, which is just how the teacher likes it. The classroom looks normal enough from the outside, with its standard door and numberplate (with an added addendum by the teacher, his name and the class title added on a piece of Muck Tape). The inside, however, looks like someone found all of the weird, eclectic stuff within a five mile radius, ate it, and then vomited it all up. The teacher has either completely lost his mind, or is trying way, way too hard. The cabinets that line the walls are partially filled with beginner art supplies: slime-based paints, earwax crayons, and...glitter, a thing so evil that it can be known by no other name.

Mechanics:
Your Most Excellent Professor isn't going to fill your head with crazy ideas. That's all up to you!

Upon entering the class, roll 1d100 to determine your Muse Level (ML).









If you roll 1-50, you will need to make another attempt. A roll of 51-100 allows you to proceed. The above information correlating to your ML gives you a good idea of how your student will be approaching this assignment.

If you succeeded in developing a passable Muse Level, you will then need to roll a 1d10 to determine to overall success of your drawing/painting/sculpture etc. Feel free to pick whatever medium you'd like!

1-3 You really poured yourself into this one, but the Professor isn't quite feeling it. Take it home and pin it on your wall, because that's all you're getting. (Fail. You'll have to make another attempt!)
4-9 You paid careful attention to details, color schemes, and - most importantly - marketability. Professor Braxton smashes a sickly note to your body with a sloppy "A" written on it, because ruining the art would be a travesty. As far as you can tell, you've done a good thing. (Pass!)
10 You are a prodigy! This thing belongs in a museum! Or the home of the highest bidder! Your artwork will be displayed in front of the entire class. Hope you're not shy. (SUPER-PASS!)

You must RP your student creating their...well, whatever they make.

Bonus Mechanics:
•If you include a DRAWN representation of the piece of art that your student creates, you can automatically add 2 to your success roll, ultimately bringing up their final score. These drawings do not have to be anything fantastic, and can be as detailed or non-detailed as you want.

•Any student who is able to use magic to create illusions can roll 1d4 to determine how amazing their artwork appears. Which is what matters. If you roll even, you can add 1 point. If you roll odd, no points can be added. This can not be combined with the 2 points you can add when including an image.

•Any student who lacks dexterity (lookin' at you, claw-handed monsters) can roll 1d4 to determine their ability to talk Professor Braxton into believing that the piece of art's concept is going over his head and is, in fact, a true masterpiece. If you roll even, you can add 1 point. If you roll odd, no points can be added. This can not be combined with the 2 points you can add when including an image.

Each visit to the classroom has the potential to span multiple posts due to the amount of dice rolls. You can interact with other students, try to steal their concepts - whatever you'd like to play out!

It was always a welcome sound, the chime of his phone that indicated a message from Tess (what? Of course she had her own tone on his phone, oi). Retrieving his phone, Sheridan smiled as he read the text, quickly typing out a response before returning it to its current perch on the desk in his room.

From there it was a scramble, rushing to feed his cat, dress in clean clothes, neaten his hair, and all those other rituals a boil does to make himself presentable before going off to meet his ghoul.

In five minutes flat, the dragon was dressed and stuffing his phone in his pocket, telling his cat to behave, and then out the door (or in this case window), gliding to the ground and then striding across the campus toward the undead dorms where Tess would be waiting.

Sheridan smiled as he saw Tess, reading out to her with one hand, a flick in his tail. Wait, why was she giving him that look? She only ever gave him that look when she wanted something that she wasn't sure he would agree with. It was completely unnecessary, he would have done as she asked without it (usually), but shhh, don't tell, he kind of liked that look, even if it did catch him off guard at times.

"O..okay."

Art class? Well he could do that, it couldn't be any worse than Professor Malcom's class with those stupid bears. Why not, an art class could be relaxing.

Sheridan may have purred, that is he would have if dragons purred. However thee was a happy twitch in his tail and he now wore a very broad smile. He would have had absolutely no objections to helping Tess with whatever tickling issues she may have that involved beards and kissing, NO OBJECTIONS AT ALL.

Inspiration? Why yes, yes he was feeling quite inspired, very much so in fact. Looking over the provided supplies, his tail twitched thoughtfully. Hmm, what to do with all that inspiration..

(( success ))

Sheridan looked over the various art supplies, his tail flicking thoughtfully. What should he make? He had felt inspired only a moment ago, but now he did not know what to do with it. Should he draw something, make a star chart, try to sculpt something? Hmm..

It seemed several long moments that he stood there debating. At one point her turned toward Tess with a slightly uncertain smile. He had made the pendant she wore, but he hand known exactly what he wished to create then, and though it took him several tries, he knew how to create it.

Finally he settled on small pieces of colored paper. First he creased two pieces of paper then cut them in half. Several folds and perhaps a curse later (it was not so easy to fold such small pieces of paper) and he had created an origami star. The next star was easier, and by the third it seemed he had the method down and it was not long before he had collection of small colorful stars.



He looked toward Tess.

"What do you think?"

(( score: 3
bonus: drawn art ( +2 )
total score: 5 - pass! ))

"You think so?"

He reached up to scratch behind one ear, pausing in the folding of the paper he held in his hands.

His head titled as he looked at her nails. Had she just done those? In such a short time? He couldn't help but smile as his gaze shifted to meet hers.

"I like them."

A nod, he was willing to stay longer if she wished. He looked down to the paper at his hands again, making another fold, then another. However it seemed he had not cut this piece of paper evenly, or perhaps the paper was thicker than the last, or...hmph. Growing frustrated he pushed the paper aside and instead turned his attention toward Tess.

Hmm, maybe he'd take her out to lunch afterward, he liked that idea.