01.50 - week one, saturday

[afflictionmods]

W1 SATURDAY

The first week of the Personal Enrichment Course draws to a close, which means it’s time for the first lesson. Hopefully by now you’ve gotten to know your classmates a bit better - but if you haven’t, that’s okay.

This first lesson is just going to be teamwork exercises, after all.

Bright and early Saturday morning, you wake up. Maybe you had a good night’s rest, or maybe you hardly got any sleep... Either way, the sun is shining, the day is beginning, and Lorelei's voice suddenly comes through everyone's tablets as well as the P.A. system on campus.

”Good morning. All students must report to the lecture hall by 8 o’clock for their first lesson. Lessons are mandatory. Please report to the classroom with its doors open.”

Which gives you about thirty minutes, so it’d be best to hurry. Do you want to be tardy? And if you think about bailing, well… you know what might happen if you fail the course.

When everyone gathers in the same hall they awoke in, Florence is there to greet you. They will gesture for everyone to take a seat, and once seated, the projector in the room turns on. Say hello to Lorelei and her usual cup of coffee.

“Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your first official exercise; today’s activities are designed to emphasize teamwork and cooperation so you are all more prepared for dealing with what’s yet to come. I have already split you into teams for the day, via raffle. There will be two activities total, and you will be completing them in the same teams. Regardless of whether you get along with your teammates or not, you’re going to have to figure out a way to finish each exercise successfully.”

She keeps that same calm, collected smile on her lips as she props up what appears to be a tablet of her own on her desk.

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GROUP FOUR

[affligere]

[totalcatastrophe]

What is this thing?

[ Shake, shake, in his little hands. ]

[kaientai]

It's an alarm clock! It keeps time and then it'll ring those bells when it gets to be whatever time you set the alarm to go off.

[ now that he has a purpose and a direction, he's perking up. ]

[unenvying]

Oh, so it's a signal, or something like that...?

[ he'll wait till luci is done shaking the clock before striking the bells at the top gently so that they produce... sound...? it's definitely not music ]

... The bells don't make music, hmmmmmmmm.

[ he is Thinking. ]

[tosa]

Music'd probably be nicer but... it's s'posed to be real loud to wake ya up.

(Hmmms,)

Probably wake up faster when you're scared or something.

[unenvying]

Wakes you up?

[ blank stare. ]

... What's wrong with roosters?

[tosa]

They make your room smell like roosters.

[kaientai]

How do—... did you keep roosters in your room?

1/2

[unenvying]

[ YOU KNOW WHAT

he can't disagree. ]

2/2

[unenvying]

... But I don't think you can eat this alarm clock.

[ roosters are also important for Other Reasons ]

[totalcatastrophe]

You see any roosters around?

[ But then, back to this alarm clock thing. Everyone cool with him accidentally(?) setting the alarm off?

It's really loud, so no thanks. Time to toss it to whoever wants to respond to this. Go low! ]

[tosa]

I could go for some right now!

(DELICIOUS ROOSTER.....

Also catches the clock and yelps and throws it at someone else???)

CATHERD (PROPOSAL)

[tosa]

(PICKING UP THE PIECES OF CLOCK,)

So what we got here is a broke clock and we gotta pitch it to everyone now--

(Have a picture of the clock for reference because Mutsu is going to twirl the clock by the piece that's holding the bells together and... it flies away.)

So.

(Anyway, picking it up again,)

We tell everyone it was already broke when we got it but look, it still tells time. (It is, in fact, still ticking.) And y'know, that's pretty important!

It's broken but it still works. And if we can get a better version by sugggesting improvements and winning... y'know what make it better? (PAUSES FOR DRAMA,) If it was fixed.

(BECAUSE FIXING IT WOUULD LITERALY MAKE IT BETTER. MUTSU IS SELLING WATER TO FISH RIGHT NOW.)

[unenvying]

[ raises hand to contribute ]

And if the music [ the alarm ringing ] didn't destroy your eardrums. Improvement number 2.

[kaientai]

There should be more than two big bells so it can play you a nice little song!

[tosa]

Everyone gets a clock and they can choose their own music! And change it whenever they wanna!

(You know... like you can do with your smartphone's alarm. Is anyone gonna tell him.)

[vedr]

A different song for different days of the week would keep it from being boring, would it not?

[totaltrashfire]

And it should have an easily accessible snooze function.

[That she will hit 20 times.]

[tosa]

Ya mean it should put ya to sleep?

(What's a snooze function.)

[totaltrashfire]

It shuts it up so you can sleep longer!

[tosa]

But you're s'posed to wake up.

[totaltrashfire]

Yeah but who wants to?

[kaientai]

Won't you end up sleeping too long if you have that option?

[totaltrashfire]

Not if you’re responsible!

[So yes!]

[vedr]

You're supposed to set to ring earlier than you're supposed to wake up! Rouse the beast from its slumber slowly.