01.50 - week one, saturday

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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

[ignihidden]

"Well, I'll leave marketing to the people who have A++ social skills. In terms of improvement there are quite a few things that can be done, right?

Colored filters to change the beam of light, or cut-outs to make a pattern.

Or some way to display a secret message through the beam of light!"

[There is a little smile on his lips, even though he's letting the tablet do the talking for him. Research and development was one of his strengths. It's just a bit strange to consider low-level stuff without magic.]

[festiverogue]

I like the secret message idea! That's thinking outside the box. Like Morse code!

[ignihidden]

"Or maybe have the beam of light do revealing! It looks like a flashlight but the beam lets you see through people's doors,

wall,

clothe"

[HEY SORRY IDIA TYPED FASTER THAN HIS BRAIN THOUGHT, he's quickly slamming both hoodie-covered arms over the tablet to try and muffle the lewd suggestion. He looks mortified. So much for the good start.]

[festiverogue]

[LAUGHING.]

I like the seeing through things idea, too. You're full of ideas! Maybe seeing what's in boxes...

[A pause to think, and then:]

...or acting like the translation app on the tablets? Then again, if we're thinking useful, maybe it could be something that makes you feel nice if it's shined on you?

[cheerfuldays]

( shizuku sure did doubletake at that suggestion but she's recovering quickly. an idea though... it surely wouldn't do to let everyone else handle that. )

Maybe... something like a pocket projector? If you shined it against the wall it could display images or even videos.

[ignihidden]

[He is very CAREFULLY deleting everything that was on his tablet before, typing VERY carefully, and double-checking it before hitting TTS:]

"It could help make a stage or background stuff for Milady Shizuku's performances. Since we have high idol-density."

[cheerfuldays]

That's very true! And it could be used for all sorts of things- story telling, or star projections... those help people sleep sometimes, don't they? Not to mention they're just so lovely!

[festiverogue]

That's a good expansion on Idia's idea... So a projector. What'll it project, just stuff from the tablet, or anything you want it to?

[cheerfuldays]

Oh... hmmm, I'm not sure... it's supposed to be a wonder product, right? So anything would be more fantastical!

Also, the less I have to connect things to other things, the better.

( tech is not her strong point. )

[vivens]

[ sir.

madara might be taking this in great strides and sabo is, too, admittedly but it's one thing to slip up with your mouth. but your hands?? ]

[magicam]

[Gonna very casually pinch himself hard under the table, because that's somehow better than whapping Idia and getting the reverb.]

[ignihidden]

Ow, ow!

[still adamantly smothering the tablet with his body, though. He can't even glare at Cater because like... y- yeah...]

[looking up at Madara,]

... Feel nice? M- maybe like a medi-gun... in an FPS?...

[festiverogue]

Right! Makes you feel better! You knoooow? In case your partner gets hurt.

[vivens]

[ because he definitely has no idea what an fps is and would be best to double check what a "medi-gun" is. ]

"Medi-gun"?

[magicam]

You just want a light stick.

[Yes this icon was necessary for the doxxing of Idia Shroud.]

[ignihidden]

"And I'm cooperating with my team to make it happen. I'm participating!"

[magicam]

Right, right, but we have to win over everyone else, too, yanno?

[On the one hand, can't fault him for wanting something familiar. On the other...]

[ignihidden]

"Well we can just feature bloat this thing anyways"

[Although that's probably not the best way to, like, win. Still, what Idia's focused on is,]

"They don't seem to actually care about how hard it would be to execute, so we can just go ham."

[magicam]

Sounds like we're gonna.

[Cater has faith in Shizuku and Madara turning on the Idol Charm and winning over at least some people. That... might be their best chance.]

Cay knows it doesn't have to make sense, but why don't you draw some totally cool schematics for the presentation?

[vivens]

[ well. this is an idea.....

unsure if it's a good idea. ]

[iubar]

Sounds pretty boring.

[ hard pass, thanks. ]

[festiverogue]

Hey, who says it can't have a ton of features? It's like a nice car!

[iubar]

[ DON'T MENTION TECHNOLOGY AROUND THE ONE PIECES, SOBBING.

but he just. shrugs it off. ]

I guess if people want it, we could add it to the list.

[ what list?? ]

[festiverogue]

[I sure hope someone is writing all the ideas down...]

We can come up with a list and narrow it down eeeeasy. And then we name it, and maybe those of us with the advertising experience can present it. Step by step!

[iubar]

[ honestly. but also, this whole thing seems kind of pointless. ]

Count me out for the advertising part of it.