A SAVAGE LAND FOR A SAVAGE NIGHT

[professorlionface]

WHO: EVERYONE OF ALL AGES
WHERE: The Xavier Institute
WHEN: June 15th, early evening to all night long!
WARNINGS: Who knows! Language is likely, violence is possible, dancing is mandatory.
SUMMARY: prom night prom night gotta get down on prom night
FORMAT: MINGLE

As you enter through the doors of the Danger Room, the sound of cicadas chirping clues you into your arrival to a tropical paradise. Red and orange lights show a room transformed, vines all along the walls and trees that seem to reach the beyond the ceiling. There's no doubt now, you're deep in the heart of the jungle. You can almost feel the heat of a distant volcano, the humidity wafting in from a river just outside, but that's only your imagination. Luckily, someone had the foresight to bring an exterminator into this jungle beforehand, as there isn't a bug in sight.

Fierce papier mache dinosaurs look down on your throughout the room, some perhaps planning their next meal, others regarding the intruders to their home with something not unlike fear. From the stage, the gleaming jaws of a downed Tyrannosaurus look on at the partiers, hungry even in its taxidermied stated.

But there's one ornament that stands above them all: the mirrored surface of what appears to be a pterodactyl man, reflecting the lights all across the room in ways most disco balls only wish they could.

Welcome to the Savage Land. Hope you survive the experience!

quick links!
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REFRESHMENTS
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Comments

[shipper]

They were eifur made out of grubs or blood, so you could only get certain colors with them. Anything else I had to mix up myself or just do without.

[professorlionface]

[He really should have seen that coming.]

Well, I'm sure you must really enjoy the variety our local methods provide, then.

[shipper]

It's purretty great! Although I'd purrobably have been drawing just as much even if you didn't have so many diffurent kinds.

[professorlionface]

It's still better this way, I think. Your options are open, and your output has a more expanded potential because of it.

[shipper]

And there's way more people I can show them to!

[professorlionface]

That's also true!

As a matter of fact, I think I could be interested in seeing some of your work, if you'd ever like to make an exhibition of it.

[shipper]

I don't think they're really good enough fur an exhibition or anything, but I'd be really happy to draw you stuff!

[professorlionface]

Perhaps after you have, I'll be in a better position to determine just how displayable it would be! You know, we do offer art classes here.

[shipper]

Oh, that's purretty neat! I don't go to school or anything but it's nice to know there's ofur people learning; purrhaps I'll get to collaborate with them sometime!

[professorlionface]

You'd always be welcome to join them! Even if it's your only class, you wouldn't be the first student we've made such an arrangement for.

[shipper]

That might be fun, but I don't know. I've nefur really liked schoolfeeding, and it's not like I efur really needed much of it back home.

[professorlionface]

[Kids, always thinking they know everything. He does not shake his head, not externally. He remembers being a teenage know-it-all once upon a time.]

Think of it this way. If you only take art classes, it won't necessarily be for any kind of instruction to revise your technique, but that it gives you an opportunity to socialize with other developing artists, and perhaps to discuss each others' work. I think one's peers can often teach you a lot more about art than sometimes the teacher will.

[shipper]

I can't really show them a lot of my best stuff in a class, though! It's on walls.

[although talking shop with other people who like art is pretty tempting, even if it cuts into her exploring time]

[professorlionface]

Do you mean it's hanging there, or...something more literal?

[Okay, so maybe she's a street artist?]

[shipper]

It's actually on the walls. I do paper and stuff when I want to give the picture to somebody, but most of the time I just use a wall.

[it is the best canvas in her opinion ok ok]

[professorlionface]

Well, maybe if you had something stretched out over the wall to paint on. But I suppose you would need to make new pieces to share. An art class usually does encourage you to continue creating, after all.

[shipper]

I'd hope so! And I guess if we got really furiendly they could always come and see the stuff I've already done.

[professorlionface]

I think that could work, absolutely! After all, though learning is generally the main purpose of it, I like to think our students enjoy it better when they befriend their classmates.

Where is you, uh, [He pauses, what's the most flattering way to phrase this?] ...gallery located?

[shipper]

Most of it's in my hive, but I started a biiig mural ofur by the Purrter building.

[she beams] That one's going to be my best.

[professorlionface]

You'll have to take a picture of it for everyone, then. At least until they have the opportunity to see it for themselves.

But it's still in progress?

[shipper]

That should be purretty interesting to see. I've nefur worked a camera befur in my life!

[she giggles]

Yeah, it is! A furiend came by and we went off to do some ofur stuff, so I got a little distracted.

[professorlionface]

[He reaches in his pocket and pulls out his communicator.]

Not even a video camera? They work on much the same principles, only one captures just a single moment. Framing becomes more important, composition.

[shipper]

Yeah, and that's a purretty big diffurence! [she holds her fingers up like a camera, framing Hank in them] Nobody minds if you film your feet by accident fur a while, but it'd suck if that's all that your picture was!

[professorlionface]

[He points the phone at her, one eye closing for emphasis.]

You just have to be careful when you make the click. [And as he says it, he does, then he leans down and turns the phone around to show her the results.]

[shipper]

[she sidles up to inspect the results, laughing a bit at what she sees]

My mouth's open!