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.

FULL NAV

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Comments

[herlocksholmes]

[Sholmes wasted no time in asking to be with the defusers. He wanted to be close to the bomb just in case it turned out to be real.

Upon taking a look at it, though, he nodded to himself. Nothing to worry about, nobody was getting blasted to kingdom come. No way he'll sabotage the glitter mechanisms, though]

We'll follow your every word. Go ahead, what are the instructions?

[Time to follow orders!]

[fabulation]

[ And just like this, the following typing quickly appears. ]

Here they are:

If a large button is RED, do the puzzles in this order: wires, simon says, symbols. If green, do: simon says, symbols, wires.

When you need more information, let us know!

[cloudalike]

[ To the defusers: ]

Uh - I'm not very good at writing on this device. I think it's red, so we should ask them for instructions for wires, right?

[unsinksyourship]

[Heeee gave up on his own tablet so he's just crowding Chongyun's now OK--]

It's red! Obviously! Blue? Red-yellow? Which one comes first?

[herlocksholmes]

Should we press that big button at any point, fellows?

[Yup, asks that to the instruction givers, crowding Chongyun as well]

[undertakings]

The instructions don't say to press the button, so I wouldn't. Before you get started on the wires, we need more information from you.

Tell us the serial number that's written on the device. Next, tell us what order the wires are in, from top to bottom.

[cloudalike]

[ Following what he said about the wires, he adds: ]

The yellow wire is crossed over the red, if that matters. The serial number is: + < & 4 6 8

[fabulation]

Ok! Cut for these wires in the order:

Red, blue, green, yellow. In that order.

[cloudalike]

Just to be clear: & means "amber sand."

[cloudalike]

[ Ok, WELL, he's gonna type as fast as he can to the experts. That is: the speed of a grandmother who has long lost her glasses, pressing each character one finger at a time. Sometimes two fingers! ]

RED BUTTON. Wire order from top to bottom: Blue, Red, Yellow, Green. Instructions?

[unsinksyourship]

Are you sure about the wires, though? There's some crossed ones?!

[cloudalike]

You're saying since the yellow is crossed over the red, it might count first? Hmm, we can let them know. But what's a "serial number"??

[unsinksyourship]

There are numbers, but also some strange symbols. Is this some kind of secret code...?

[What kind of serial number even is this.]

[herlocksholmes]

This.

[Sholmes tapped the symbols all the way to the right, reading one by one]

I would hazard a guess the numbers themselves may be what's different between each version of the bomb, but writing the entire serial number would be prudent.

[herlocksholmes]

Perhaps clarify the red and yellow ones cross one over the other...

[That could be important]

[unsinksyourship]

The yellow one crosses over the red... This sure is complicated for a little kids game. If I were to get zapped by this when I was five, I would have thrown it in the river.

[herlocksholmes]

[Now, let's cut wires...]

Yellow, green, blue, red, green, yellow, blue, blue, red, green, wasn't it?

[Sholmes doesn't hesitate to cut. Coming perilously close to the yellow wire, Sholmes cuts the red one, followed by the blue, green, and yellow. Aha! Wires!]

[undertakings]

[woo]

[unsinksyourship]

Wait?! How many wires are you even cutting--

[Tamamori like. Scrambles literally under the table like that's going to do anything useful for anyone. No idea what he's expecting, possibly wire confetti by the way Sholmes is going.]

[...]

[...?]

Hm?

[herlocksholmes]

Elementary.

[Sholmes steps aside]

The next step is yours, my good fellow.

[cloudalike]

[ HE'S SCARED IS THIS OK -

But apparently, yes, everything is fine because there are either no zaps or Sholmes is just so used to getting zapped that he didn't react at all. He'd believe it. ]

Al - right... Whew. Next: we wait for Simon to say something.

[ He looks around. Who is Simon? ]

[herlocksholmes]

Perhaps this Mr. Simon is with them, giving instructions.

[unsinksyourship]

Wait-- Wait?? Were you just running your mouth there? Get back here--

[What if he just stole Sholmes' hat and smacked him with it. They're still stuck at Chongyun's desk or around it somehow so there is enough reach to do this. Presumably.

This really is going to turn into a grade school tussle at this rate.]

[herlocksholmes]

[You successfully steal his hat and smack him with it. He deserves it, there's no doubt. Sholmes laughs uprariously and covers himself with an arm, as little good as that does when hit with his own hat, haha]

[fabulation]

[ THANK YOU for following the correct wire instructions he gave, Sholmes!! ]