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

[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?

[tosa]

Nah, but roosters definitely smell like roosters.

(So he just assumes they make everything smell like roosters.)

[kaientai]

Oh.

[ it seems so obvious now. ]

Well, anyway, you also can't tell a rooster exactly what time to wake you up. So it's like a mechanical rooster that also keeps time. Roosters won't tell you the regular time either!

[ innovation!! ]

[tosa]

Yeah! In modern times, you can use a lot of technology to improve lives.

(Nods fastly,)

... Still love a good hotpot, though so let's keep some roosters around.

[kaientai]

If you have more clocks that leaves more roosters for hotpot...

[ it's possible that a pack of tiny cookies did not solve hunger why are they talking about this. ]

[tosa]

And then you can feed more people!

(AMAZING)

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 ]

[tosa]

If ya can't eat it then ya don't gotta worry about replacing it!

(IT'S ALREADY A PERFECT PRODUCT)

[unenvying]

It's also not our property anyway~

[ sooooooooo. ]

[tosa]

Eh?

(So what? Wait.)

[unenvying]

[ stage whispering: ] It's also not our job to replace it~

[ haha, genius. ]

[tosa]

Yeah, but ya shouldn't eat other people's cocks without permission either.

[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???)

[unenvying]

[ are they playing catch with the clock now because wei wuxian absolutely catches it while it's still ringing and tosses it to the next person????? ]

DOES IT NOT STOP RINGING?

[totaltrashfire]

Smack it real hard!!

[She means the button in the middle specifically but feel free to interpret this as you will.]

[tosa]

Yeah! That's how ya turn it off!

(Not clarifying at all.)

[kaientai]

Oh, that's right! I've seen that in movies!

[ see: any movie where anyone's responded to an alarm by flinging their clock against the wall. no one ever revisits that skit to check on the state of the clock but ryouma has some Theories. because he's thinking ahead here!!! rip

this thing feels like it's made of metal?? something like that. and he's pretty used to things made of metal! sturdy craftsmanship by sturdy, knowledgeable craftsmen. surely this metal clock will be able to hold up to the same stress as anything else? also maybe that will turn it off??? guess we'll find out when he throws it down on the table. ]

[tosa]

(happy bappy to the table.)

[tosa]

(Offers out more cookies to his group......)

So...

Time for a break?

(Get it because the clock is broke.....)

[totaltrashfire]

Holy crap. A fatal blow.

[She’s just poking the remains of the clock now.]

[unenvying]

... A moment of silence for the clock?

[ because it just... also stopped ringing and went silent... ]