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

[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.

[cloudalike]

Huh? My claymore does it just fine. I agree with - [ A confused look at Tama. What's his name again??? ] - him in that we shouldn't limit ourselves.

[undertakings]

[A blink.]

Your claymore? [Why does this seem like something from one of those cartoons he's seen in passing... Well whatever.] I don't think it's a bad idea to get something that has multiple uses, but if they have limitations to what they're able to implement, then we might end up with something useless if it's beyond what they can do.

[unsinksyourship]

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

[This is totally going places fam.]

[undertakings]

It's small enough to fit in your hand, so it wouldn't be able to hold that many rounds, but it could be useful as a last resort.

[last resort for what? don't ask.]

[unsinksyourship]

I said it already, but there's no reason it has to be small enough to fit in your hand! A screwdriver the size of our teacher's assistant, a screwdriver the size of that tree yonder -- if it must have a bolt, the bolt can be just as big.

It can be a gods' screwdriver.

[What.]

[cloudalike]

[ BUT WHICH GOD ]

[unsinksyourship]

[ALL OF THEM, OBVIOUSLY?? IT'S A MULT-FUNCTIONAL, MULTI-DENOMINATIONAL SCREWDRIVER]

[undertakings]

It wouldn't be practical to hold something of those sizes. [...] Well, if it was the size of a rifle, it would be fine.

[unsinksyourship]

This is a marketing scheme, is it not? Part of the appeal is to sell accessories to go with your screwdriver, of course. A vehicle to hold the screwdriver. A beautiful coat of paint to personalize the screwdriver. Extra bullets for the screwdriver.

Maybe even a smaller screwdriver to go with the bigger screwdriver.

Oh, but it could also change sizes.

[This keeps getting weirder.]

[undertakings]

You wouldn't need to sell a smaller screwdriver if it could change sizes.

[Unless you just wanted a second screwdriver...?]

[unsinksyourship]

It doesn't matter? As long as there's a bonus, I'll take a smaller screwdriver, or a screwdriver-shaped charm, or a picture of a screwdriver.

[


He just wanted a second screwdriver. And a third. And a fourth......]

[undertakings]

[what man needs so many screwdrivers--

no, well. honestly, the question is less about needing more screwdrivers and why you'd want a picture of one. or the charm.]

Are we asking them for bonus items too, then...?

[unsinksyourship]

[What man doesn't at least need enough screwdrivers to counterscrew all that tries to screw him over in life. The true philosophical question of the modern age. (He's modern. Don't question it.)

You gotta shoot your shot while you can, musketeer.]

Did they say we couldn't? They just said they might not deliver on everything, so I'm going with what would get our product to sell and anything extra it might get us.

[--is it the fog-licking philosophy, maybe. But Whatever Works, Okay.]

[undertakings]

[If Tamamori is modern, then what does that make Shin? The real mystery of this game.

In any case, he holds very few expectations for this gambit (does it even qualify as that) to succeed, but it's not like he has a reason to strongly object either. It's a pretty harmless thing in the end. But still.]

What would you do with a picture or a charm?

[seems useless tbh]

[unsinksyourship]

Carry it around or put it up on my wall as a trophy of victory, of course. Don't tell me you've never commemorated such things.

[........ most people wouldn't put weird screwdrivers on their walls or person but Tamamori probably isn't most people. To be perfectly fair.]

[undertakings]

[He shakes his head. There were a few old squadmates who had taken small pieces of wreckage or salvage from the battlefield to serve a similar purpose, but he'd never done any such thing himself.

...Of course, it also goes without saying that said items were not random screwdrivers or screwdriver-related paraphernalia.]

I've never felt the need. [And especially not for something this petty.]

[unsinksyourship]

It's not about need! It's about want, it's about piercing through the world with the screwdriver of your discontent!!

[Fyre stop making oblique and stupid Gurren Lagann references, you say, but I categorically refuse. This is not a drill.]

Don't become a Buddhist monk at your age, kid, it's bad for your hair.

[herlocksholmes]

We would need to ask for overly-sized screws to exist as well, to ensure it will continue being a screwdriver.

[He shrugs]

That's the only objection.

[and apparently sholmes solution is to think of gigantic screws]

[unsinksyourship]

Now who's the one thinking too small? They never said we couldn't market things outside the screwdriver, I've said this.

[He said it to Shin. Close enough. He has probably been semi-yelling everything he's saying in this thread as I furiously slap my keyboard for utterly nonsensical tags.]