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06.50 - week six, saturday
W6 SATURDAY
It’s Saturday…and things seem a little more standard, this time, when Lorelei makes a quick announcement on the tablets again at 8am:
”Good morning, students. It’s time for your sixth…and final official lesson. Yes. What this means is that this is the final detected orb located here, and while this does not indicate the end of the course just yet, it is the final day for your evaluation. Florence will meet you in front of the grocery store at 8pm tonight. Please do not be late. You are also free to bring a self-defense weapon with you, and any pain-alleviating items you have received. Nothing else will be allowed.”
She seems to be her usual self this time, and this certainly seems a lot kinder than the "trust exercise" from last week.
—
With the memories of last week’s lesson still lingering, a bit of wariness would be understandable. Still, Florence did say that this week shouldn’t be nearly so bad - whether you believe them or not is up to you - and they’re there at the grocery store, ready for another lesson.
They do seem a bit distracted, as it takes them a moment before they address everyone.
“Hello. Today’s lesson will be focused purely on cooperation. It is another journey into an orb, so things may be unpredictable, but nothing so severe…”
They trail off, before nodding at nothing.
“There is a storm. You must prepare to survive it, and prepare for any other eventualities. As I said, it may be unpredictable. I will be around to help in any way I possibly can.”
With that, it’s off into another orb - and the lush island on the other side. Surely this won’t be too hard, right?
”Good morning, students. It’s time for your sixth…and final official lesson. Yes. What this means is that this is the final detected orb located here, and while this does not indicate the end of the course just yet, it is the final day for your evaluation. Florence will meet you in front of the grocery store at 8pm tonight. Please do not be late. You are also free to bring a self-defense weapon with you, and any pain-alleviating items you have received. Nothing else will be allowed.”
She seems to be her usual self this time, and this certainly seems a lot kinder than the "trust exercise" from last week.
—
With the memories of last week’s lesson still lingering, a bit of wariness would be understandable. Still, Florence did say that this week shouldn’t be nearly so bad - whether you believe them or not is up to you - and they’re there at the grocery store, ready for another lesson.
They do seem a bit distracted, as it takes them a moment before they address everyone.
“Hello. Today’s lesson will be focused purely on cooperation. It is another journey into an orb, so things may be unpredictable, but nothing so severe…”
They trail off, before nodding at nothing.
“There is a storm. You must prepare to survive it, and prepare for any other eventualities. As I said, it may be unpredictable. I will be around to help in any way I possibly can.”
With that, it’s off into another orb - and the lush island on the other side. Surely this won’t be too hard, right?
OOC NOTE
Welcome to Week 6 Saturday's event. As Lorelei stated above, this is the final orb lesson for the game. Characters will have to work together to survive on a deserted island through an oncoming storm. How this will work OOCly is simple:
There will be three phases. Planning, gathering, and constructing. Planning will be short and mostly designed to have everyone gather their bearings and figure out who's doing what. Gathering will be collecting materials to help with their survival. Constructing will involve fortifying your "home base" so to speak.
Gathering and Constructing will run for 2 hours each. At the 1 hour mark for both phases, however, random events will happen that may throw characters off-kilter. There may be other things in between depending on character actions, but you can expect them at the hour mark at the very least. Planning will only last for 30 minutes, unless an extension is needed.
These instructions are not IC. This is for OOC organizational purposes.
We also have a section for people to submit threads so we can track progress and determine the outcome of the event. Qualifying threads must have at least 5 comments from you; more details can be found on the top level below.
The storm will happen at 5pm EST.
There will be three phases. Planning, gathering, and constructing. Planning will be short and mostly designed to have everyone gather their bearings and figure out who's doing what. Gathering will be collecting materials to help with their survival. Constructing will involve fortifying your "home base" so to speak.
Gathering and Constructing will run for 2 hours each. At the 1 hour mark for both phases, however, random events will happen that may throw characters off-kilter. There may be other things in between depending on character actions, but you can expect them at the hour mark at the very least. Planning will only last for 30 minutes, unless an extension is needed.
These instructions are not IC. This is for OOC organizational purposes.
We also have a section for people to submit threads so we can track progress and determine the outcome of the event. Qualifying threads must have at least 5 comments from you; more details can be found on the top level below.
The storm will happen at 5pm EST.
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[Or, in some cases, it was just "doing this thing people can do but WAY better." The lottery was pretty wild out there. Sigh... it'd be nice to have a cool unique magic to brag about...]
If everyone was at full power it would be okay, probably. I think, [he glances up at the sky, thinking about the previous weeks,] if everyone had their powers, M'lord Static would be able to stop either of us.
[but, like, yeah, they could also just die]
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[It'd be nice to have a unique magic that wasn't taken advantage of by everyone else every other day...!]
Yeah, but, like... what about after...?
[They could still just die. Who knows what the process is like, what with everyone except Leona and Idia being yeeted to the infirmary immediately.]
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... well, it's not possible. D- Don't worry about things that can't happen t- too much.
[They don't have magic, instead the two of them are going to have to crowd around Madara and cry and hope he can get a fire started the stone-age way. He reaches over and sort of noncommitally pats Cater's shoulder to reinforce the "don't worry about it" vibes.]
It's still really weird, whatever they're doing that stops our magic...
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[Well. Hopefully it can't happen, with them not having their magic. It'd be pretty bad if even just trying to use it caused bad things, but... well, in that case, they probably would have found out week one.
He does smile at Idia at the shoulder pat, though! "Don't worry about it" vibes taken and appreciated!]
It's way weird... hopefully we're okay when we go home...!
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[When he talks about omitting the details, he's not even thinking about the confrontation they had in the first week. He's just thinking about how if they tried to explain everything that happened they'd probably get called crazy. Well, okay, the Ramshackle duo was some evidence they'd be okay no matter how crazy it was.]
He owes me a certain amount.
[He can say that confidently. He owns the school network.]
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[By now, he trusts that Idia won't spill any secrets that the school body doesn't need to know - there's no need to threaten him over that again... really there wasn't a need to in the first place, but...
Yeah, not admitting or apologizing for that one, unless Idia does, too. It's fine. They can ignore when they fucked up.]
...How does he owe you? What do you have on him?
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I'm not blackmailing him...
[not that he's above it, just, you know,]
I manage a lot of the school's digital systems. Like, cybersecurity.
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...You totally could, though. Azul is, probably.
[Are any of them really above it? Truly?]
Oooh, what are they gonna do when you graduate?
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[as normal as a student managing to deal with the headmaster on equal terms is]
I've got a few programs that should automatically work that I plan to leave with him. Otherwise I guess I should start looking for a successor...