You have X3 guesses as to who has been added back!

[grim_heaper]

Who Sho Minamimoto and whoever is stupid brave enough to deal with him.
What "Art", classes, math, insanity.
WhereAll around campus
When Right as everyone arrives
Warnings Violence, death mentions, bad art, bad math puns.



"Art"

All over campus, as if they had never left, people can find huge trash towers. How all that trash is staying upright at that angle... who can tell? Why anyone would do this is a bigger mystery. Though to those who have been here before, they might well know what these trash sculptures mean. Yep, He's baaaaaaaaaaack!

Classes
Doesn't matter if he hasn't been approved yet to teach classes. He is going to set up and teach in his old haunts. He has reclaimed his art room and is painting the walls white so they can start from scratch. If the ceiling has been fixed, he's busted a new hole in it again, and another one of his art sculptures is in there.

In maths class he has filled a chalk board with insanely complex mathematical formulae. Across the top was a written warning "Zeros will be erased."

P.E. He wasn't jumping into just yet, but it was coming, and yes he was going to threaten to murder students who couldn't keep up once again.

Wildcard

Feel free to find him around campus collecting trash, or yelling at people through his bullhorn. He's having fun. Which... is probably terrifying to those who knew him before....

Comments

[ronstadt]

The bullhorn was a touch unnecessary, he thought, wincing and wiggling a finger in one ear.

"Whoa, uh. Studying I can do, but aren't teachers supposed to teach? I don't even know what half those symbols are, and we don't even know what it's for. Am I ... is this a spell, or something? You don't want me messing up spells. Trust me."

[grim_heaper]

"This is not a spell it is mathematical perfection!" He grabbed a pointer and slammed it against one symbol. "SINE!" Another. "COSINE!" Another. "TANGENT!"

He was sort of teaching. Sort of.

[ronstadt]

As far as teachers went, he was no Hattie Honeybutter, but Ronstadt figured that anyone who taught math for magic had to be a little cracked. And Sho hadn't quite reached the level of his dispatch boss, yet.

He got up and shuffled up to the board. "Okay. So ..." He blew out a slow breath. He knew there were memories in his mind that had been locked away, knowledge he wasn't aware of. Maybe complex math was in there somewhere. Okay, HeadVox, he thought, gimme a hand.

"It don't work like dat, mon," his magical shoulder-Rasta chided him - but cheerfully, at least. "But for what it be worth ... maybe look at it from Side B, ya? Tings ain't always what dey look like."

Ronstadt heaved a deep sigh, trying to make sense of what he was supposed to do. The only memories he knew he could count on were - well. Not much. He combed through them all: Nana's ice cream shop. The road to L.A. And then it hit him: taking cash on that janky old register at the occult bookshop. Doing sums on paper bags. Something about-

"KNEW you could figure it out, brudda."

Slowly, Ronstadt picked up the eraser and began using the corner to carefully erase the zeroes from any number near a plus sign, replacing it with a small tally in the bottom corner. He didn't know what half of it was, but he could do what he knew.

[grim_heaper]

Sho stood there, bullhorn back on his hip, arms crossed; watching. At first he started nodding when the student started erasing the zeroes, but then he noticed that he was only erasing some of them. He watched the pattern and the tally. Would the guy figure it out, or would Sho have to erase him?

[ronstadt]

It only got him so far. He kept the chalk in hand, and took another look.

"What happened to Side B?" HeadVox reminded him.

Ronstadt wasn't sure if he could will himself to see anything magical, but he could sure look for something out of place. He stepped back just a little, taking a look at the board as a whole. Usually, when people gave you any sort of puzzle, you got instructions, right? Like that meme: "Solve for X? Here it is." Maybe he could do something like that. Be a little shithead. It might get him in trouble, but ... it might also get a few laughs out of the class, which ... if he tilted his head and squinted, meant keeping the spirit of Valhudor in its own little way. Without hesitation, he made quick work of the rest of the zeroes on the board... then stretched up on his toes, crossed out Sho's "will be" and substituted "have been" in his messy handwriting.

"... Ta dah."

On the outside, he was grinning like a maniac, but internally he was cringing. Pissing off a magic-user? What was he thinking?!

[grim_heaper]

Sho nodded, "Looks like at least one of you factoring hectopascals might wind up a positive integer after all!"

In other words, that was the right answer. Though he disagreed with the "have been" part. "Not half bad, you got a name, Yoctogram?"