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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Comments

[unsinksyourship]

Did they say magical properties and extravagant features?

Doesn't that mean we can do whatever we want? A screwdriver that can open any door! A screwdriver that can drill through wallets! A screwdriver that can tame any beast by turning into a whip? The sky is our limit at this point, hmm?

[Suddenly, somehow, he seems quite awake.]

[fabulation]

Oooh! That sounds like a good idea. But, we'd have to narrow down the abilities, right? Just so it doesn't sound like too much and no one would know where to start...

[unsinksyourship]

Why start narrowing things down before you've even started? Throw in anything and everything! Make it a screwdriver as big as Florence, make it a screwdriver that can sing. Give it a pair of wheels that it can transport itself.

I, for one, want a screwdriver that can open any bottle.

[Isn't that just a bottle opener.]

[cloudalike]

What is so hard about opening bottles??

[unsinksyourship]

Kid! Have you ever tried to open a bottle without a specialized tool? You could drop the bottle, cut yourself, or worse, lose the drink!

[fabulation]

How big is Florence?

[ HONESTLY CURIOUS... ]

Well, a screwdriver that can open any bottle is thinking a little small then, right? What about a screwdriver that can open any locked door?

1/2

[unsinksyourship]

[...]

[......]

Bigger than both of us! But smaller than Kawase. [he thinks about this for a moment] Florel! A question for you. Can you change sizes at will?

2/2

[unsinksyourship]

Of course, a screwdriver that can open multiple things is a screwdriver with a lot of screwing to do. Isn't that what we're after? The greatest functioning screwdriver in the world?

[You might as well leave the jingles or the slogans or whatever to him, he's here spouting nonsense anyways.]

[herlocksholmes]

You're thinking too narrow. Why, I could make any of that myself given the right tools. Think bigger!

[Yeah this is a man who does things like a compound to add into a cup of tea to find out if tea is authentic or not, with the side effect of making the tea undrinkable and smell awful if it's authentic. You can be sure if he felt like it he would make a screwdriver that can sing]

[cloudalike]

If this is something we'll be given, I think we should start with what we're lacking. What do you think we need?

[teidaisei]

Don't tell him that.

[ Just sighs heavily while smoking his first cigarette of probably, many. ]

[teidaisei]

[ ...what is this luck. Kawase's response is to simply light a cigarette, walk over to Tamamori, take a drag, and then blow the smoke right in his face. His job here is done. ]

[undertakings]

[This is absolutely the worst exercise possible considering his skillset but.]

You could make it fire bullets.

[isn't that just a gun.]

[cloudalike]

That freeze people?

[undertakings]

[...?]

No, they're metal... They wouldn't be capable of that.

[unsinksyourship]

A screwdriver is round, so it could be like gun chambers...

[This is totally going places fam.]

[cloudalike]

[ He might not recognize it as a proper screwdriver, but he's catching on - ]

One that can bring us home? Or direct us in the fog?

[herlocksholmes]

They may not consent to the first one, but I see no reason not to try to gain something that could guide us through the fog.

[fabulation]

Yes, maybe when activated wind can expel from it, pushing aside the fog...

[fabulation]

Ooh, creative!

[cloudalike]

[undertakings]

[Hm.]

The second one seems like it'd be useful.

[herlocksholmes]

Indeed. We have given full liberty to get anything we want, as long as it keeps functioning as a screwdriver.

[He almost wants to see how the instructor and assistant pull off anything they come up with today. This should be interesting!]

[fabulation]

Then let's go wild!

[herlocksholmes]

Now listen here. A screwdriver...

[He makes a grandiose gesture, spreading his hands sideways in a wide arch]

...that can teleport you from one place to another.

[Suggestion transparently inspired in his show from the day before, apparently]