theafflicted | 01.50 - week one, saturday

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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It'd be pretty useful if it could [ magically ] dispense food. Or maybe change into a weapon.

[ #priorities. or both features would be great. ]

Why dispense food?

[ OF ALL THINGS? ]

Wouldn't it be handy to carry around something that size that had a food supply?

[ FOOD IS IMPORTANT, OKAY? really, though, maybe he didn't get enough to eat this morning and that's on his mind. ]

It would have to depend on what size it could dispense.

[ because you could carry like. rations the size of a flashlight?? also if the latter is true then who's fault is that? ]

Maybe that's why it's a big hit. It gives out a surprising amount of food.

[ listen, he thought it'd be a good idea. leave him along. and clearly it's sabo's fault because he didn't make enough food for ace this morning. or something. ]

[ ......

is it though? he's not here to baby ace. ]

I'm still not sure.

[ how mean. :c ]

Fine, fine. We can ditch the food part, but what about making a weapon out of it? That'd be useful.

[ hmmm... ]

A weapon made with light?

[ ew, lightman. ]

Maybe. Or it could, I don't know, transform into some thing else?

[ extend or something?? maybe hidden knife in there. who knows. ]

[ how dare you shy away from the opportunity for a lightsaber. ]

Would that be helpful? Wouldn't we want to make sure it can still perform its original purpose?

[ that's sabo's job to suggest it. he's got the real brains here. besides, i didn't even think of that option. head empty, go. ]

Hm. Maybe you're right. Then what kind of light weapon would you make?

[ well.

on the assumption that idia explains to sabo what a medi-gun is— ]

Why not make it a weapon that could also heal? A beam of light that can damage or heal depending on how it is configured.

[ this sounds dangerous and like you could kill you friends accidentally.

sign him up!!! ]

That'd be really handy. I like it!

[ that's actually not the intent but.... ]

And much more useful than something that can dispense food.

I still like my food idea.

[ meanie. but it is practical. ]

That's probably because you're thinking with your stomach and not your head.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

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[A l*ghtsaber!!!]

[ IF ONLY HE KNEW THE TERMINOLOGY. ]

"Not even magic can do something like that. It could produce a holographic image of food but that's not going to fill you up."

Are you some kind of magic expert?

[ boooo, what a downer, dude. ]

[I mean, looking at him, it would be weirder if he wasn't a downer, right???]

"Cater and I are students at a magic school. You can use magic to automate cooking something but you can't just create food out of nothing."

[ okay, fair point. ]

Are you sure all magic's like that?

"Well there's not magic here anyhow so why bother."

[Pessimist...!]

"Anyways they keep putting new snacks in the convenience store so that's enough for me."

[idia will never realize that the fresh food is starting to dwindle because he only eats processed garbage]

Then what about that fog?

[ isn't that some kind of magic, probably?

but he has a fair point about the convenience store. ]

At least they're not starving us.