Oyster Ray

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6/27/2017 3:26pm

I have been producing my Pearls of Wisdom at such a prodigious rate that I am ready to begin my much anticipated worldwide tour! I will be an ambassador for not only Psychic High School, but for flying oysters everywhere.

As you know, I pop out my pearls to create a stream of POWER, which allows me to putter about through the air. But my pearl production has become SO prodigious, I feel I may soon no longer be able to control it! I need to LET LOOSE and allow my pearls to explode across the heavens!

I will certainly miss my close friends from Psyhigh, like for instance my number one pearl polisher @Whiny Betty. But! My clairvoyance tells me there are wonderful times ahead for us all. Well, until my inevitable showdown with the Psychic National Guard, that is. Which I have also foreseen.

Till then: So long! Farewell! Auf wiedersehen! Adieu!

See you on my world tour.

Oyster Ray
Psyhigh's Favorite Mollusk 2017
Psyhigh Student of the Month June 2017

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Balloons
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6/19/2017 5:30pm

Many students are attracted to Psyhigh because of its beautiful campus. Its exquisite and varied gardens, its unique architecture from many different timelines and dimensions, all nestled in a healthy chunk of forest separating it from the town, the railroad tracks, the secret military installation, and so on.

Given my newly realized power of levitation, vis-à-vis my perpetually bubbling Pearls of Wisdom, I have had the good fortune to view these sights from an aerial perspective. And while I do enjoy riding the thermals during the day, I have also found it uniquely inspiring after the sun goes down.

For instance, I have discovered that balloons have a secret life at night. Not the giant hot air balloons enslaved by mankind to do its bidding, but the seemingly innocuous helium balloons one might receive at a birthday party, or used car lot, or bank grand opening. Now there is a gaggle left over from The Arrival of the Father celebration just yesterday.

While their lives are short, there is far more to balloon life than most people realize. Congregating above the roofs and telephone lines in the darkness, they gather and share tales of their singularly ephemeral and existential exisitence.

They also know of paths and gates unknown to non-balloon, with their own liminal gods and goddesses to guide them through their short time here among us, and beyond.

I like to watch them flitter through the night, in and out of holes we can not see, their bright colors and festive ribbon strings muted in the darkness.

Oyster Ray
Psyhigh's Favorite Mollusk 2017
Psyhigh Student of the Month June 2017





6/12/2017 9:09pm

Excellent question, @Amos Ortiz III!

As Psychic High School students, we should all be thinking about The Future, all of the time, compulsively. This is because The Future is the most valuable asset we have, and hence, has the highest resale value on the black market.

Don't let your future be stolen from you! There is an industry built on siphoning off the future of youth and using it to power the mighty cybernetic mega-corporations, which feed on the dreams of the young and turn them into putrid, toxic waste.

That is why I have been concentrating energy into building my calcium carbonate shell into a superdense nano-structure--in order to withstand the impact of their destabilizing fear weapons, and, if necessary, to hibernate for eons through the Glowering Age.

I encourage all Psychic High School students to do the same.

And remember: Stay Positive!

Oyster Ray
Psyhigh's Favorite Mollusk 2017
Psyhigh Student of the Month June 2017

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6/4/2017 8:43pm

You may have noticed the very respectable blue sash I've been wearing over my calcium carbonate shell--that is the ritual adornment for my newest title: Psychic High School's Student of the Month!

It is indeed an honor to wear the blue sash, and I have allowed it to replace my green "Psyhigh's Favorite Mollusk" sash, which was in tatters and had frankly become too small, following my exposure to the "Living Waters" (as I like to call them) of the bioswale near the science building. You may have also noticed my picture in the trophy case in the hall near the office, which I feel is especially flattering.

To celebrate my month of celebration, I'll be bubbling out my Pearls of Wisdom and floating around campus all month, available to take your questions AND provide a little bit of insight into the BEST psychic high school in the world: Psychic High School!

Thank you for your support,

Oyster Ray
Psyhigh's Favorite Mollusk 2017
Psyhigh Student of the Month June 2017

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Psychic Menagerie
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5/27/2017 4:50pm

I have learned to control my pearl production to such an extent that I am successfully using them as a means of locomotion! I shoot them from my body in an effervescent stream, like blowing bubbles, propelling myself above the houses and the treetops.

This means I can get around campus on my own just fine now. And a big thank you to everybody who helped out with the wheelbarrow.

Now I am no rocket scientist, but I feel I've attained the perfect size for flying around on my bubbles of pearl--the size of a very large dog! If I allow myself to drift quite slowly, I find I can remain aloft by merely popping out a pearl now and then, and this size lets me navigate closed spaces like the school halls and classrooms.

Oh but here comes that wind they were predicting, and me out on the practice field with no hands to grab onto the grass with. Yes, I'm afraid there's no flying against this wind, I'm going to just need to let it take me away, just like I saw in my clairvoyant visions. Oh drat.

Oyster Ray
Psyhigh's Favorite Mollusk 2017





Psychic Menagerie
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5/5/2017 5:39pm

Ah! My pearls of WISDOM! Yes they are growing larger too! They just come right out of me and I share their goodness with the world. But sometimes they do plug up the cloakholes.

Thanks for turning it in @Whiny Betty, but if you find another feel free to keep it. If you lick it it will give you visions.

Ever since I've been feeding in the bracken near the science building I've been producing those pearls at a furious speed. Soon they will be shooting out of me at a constant rate and velocity strong enough to support interplanetary travel and propel me through the stars! I have seen this through my increased clairvoyance.

Oyster Ray
Psyhigh's Favorite Mollusk 2017





Psychic Menagerie
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5/1/2017 2:12pm

I think it's well known to students that I'm a bivalve, and that I spend a lot of time feeding in the bio-swale near the science building. Many of you have been very kind carrying me between my tank in the Aqua Dorm and classes, and dropping me off in that beautiful little stormwater drainage area at the science lab. Since I have no legs.

You may have noticed that I've recently grown a great deal, and a big thank you to @Janitor Pete for lending the wheelbarrow to help cart me around in. But what you may not have noticed is that I've also become increasingly clairvoyant! For instance, I know exactly who will be picking me up today (looks like you forgot your notebook in the science lab, @Daniel), and that eventually the Psychic National Guard will need to be called in to prevent my rampage, once I reach the size of a small house.

But there's a lot of good times between now and then. See you at the science lab!

Oyster Ray
Psyhigh's Favorite Mollusk 2017