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

[partymagician]

Green, puppy.

[selfconcept]

Okay... Do the puzzles in this order: Simons says, symbols, and wires. If you don't understand the lingo, you can ask for clarification.

[partymagician]

What is Simon says?

[ Fai is sure he's not the only one over at this side who doesn't know... ]

[exofractured]

It should be buttons that light up. Tell us the sequence.

[Yeah he's not familiar either.]

[partymagician]

[ Good thing this is voice to text, because that makes it so much easier for Fai to call it out: ]

Blue.
Blue yellow.
Blue yellow red.
Blue yellow red green.

[selfconcept]

Yellow.
Yellow, green.
Yellow, green, blue.
Yellow, green, blue, red.

Hit them in those colors.

[partymagician]

[ He does exactly as he's told, hitting them in the right sequence. ]

Now what?

[selfconcept]

Does it tell you that you got it right somehow?

[partymagician]

It made some happy noises.

[exofractured]

[To Hien, still looking a little twitchy:]

I suppose we didn't receive the shock they threatened. Are you familiar with these symbols?

[selfconcept]

[ ... ]

Okay. Time to move over to the symbols. Hold on...

[ He looks at Phantom. ]

Mostly. Does the first symbol look like a mountain? The fuck is that?

[exofractured]

A mountain, and then... the thing those miscreants were using at the rally yesterday?

[HE'S NOT LOVING THESE.]

[selfconcept]

Yeah. So that should be mountain, megaphone, uh...

[ ... ]

Factory? Boat? What is that? Speaker should be last though. Can you relay that to them?

[exofractured]

Very well.

[Megaphone vs speaker is nebulous to him but here's hoping the defuser side is familiar.]

Press the four symbols in this order. Mountain. Megaphone. Factory-boat-saw object. Speaker.

[sicklysweet]

[Sorry, we drew lots and Owen is in charge of symbols.]

None of these things look like a factory.

[The only factories he's seen had a lot more gears and steam.

He also doesn't know what a speaker is.

Or a megaphone. Sure, he saw Miach with one, but that doesn't mean he knows what it's called.]

[goodfaiths]

Okay, got it!

[ Doot, doot, doot, doot.

...Ding ding ding! Winner winner! ]

Phew!

[selfconcept]

[ He's so glad Riku is there. ]

Name color of the wires from top to bottom.

[mirrite]

Blue, red, green, and yellow.

[exofractured]

And the serial number? In full, with any symbols.

[mirrite]

[WTF kind of serial number is this]

*(&572

[selfconcept]

Could you specify if the numbers are on red or yellow wires?

[mirrite]

What do you mean, on wires? They aren't near the wires.

[selfconcept]

[ He definitely read that wrong. He takes a moment to think. ]

Give us a moment.

[ He turns to Phantom. ]

Alright, let's figure this out.

[mirrite]

[No, he is definitely not the only one.]

[selfconcept]

"Simons says" is a game that you follow what the leader does, but only if they say "simon says". Since that's moot here, just do what we say, because you're definitely not gonna hit the same colors.