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

For IC reference

[vedr]

[ when he calms down, he'll type this out carefully: ]

If there is a red wire and the serial number has an odd number in it, cut the red wire last.
If there is a red wire and the serial number has either a + or = in it, cut the red wire first.
If there is a red wire and none of the above apply, cut the red wire second.

If there is a blue wire at the very top of the puzzle, cut the blue wire right before the red wire UNLESS the red wire is the first one to be cut. In that instance, or if the blue wire is not at the top, cut the blue wire second.

If there is a yellow wire and the last digit of the serial number is odd, cut the yellow wire second.
If there is a yellow wire and a green wire is directly underneath it, cut the green wire before the yellow wire, and cut the yellow wire immediately after it. Otherwise, cut the yellow wire before the green wire.

[totalcatastrophe]

Eh, just cut 'em all.

[ Luci really isn't that pressed at this point, still distracted picking confetti out of his fur. There's only four so there are only so many combinations, right? ]

[vedr]

[ ...Okay at this point, why not entertain the idea. ]

Do you think you'll get zapped 4 times or just once?

[totalcatastrophe]

It'll feel like one if they snip fast enough.

[ he doesn't know that... ]

[unenvying]

[ wei wuxian, who is playing BOTH sides now because he can when his partner's distress is on the line, after a pause: ]

cut blue first.

[ another long pause later, then ]

blue, red, green, yellow
hopefully we don't get zapped!

[totaltrashfire]

u better be sure or its gonna blow

[unenvying]

about 99.999999999% sure

[ that should be reassuring?! ]

[totalcatastrophe]

[ If no one else is going for it, Luci is bored now (of this whole exercise, since icly it's been what 2minutes?). He'd rather get zapped than keep listening to everyone talk about these puzzles.

Quietly, without checking with anyone else: snip, snip. ]

[kaientai]

[ ryouma finally looks up after a long period of silence, having taken a pen out of his pocket and... started writing on his arm??? ]

Yeah! Keep going. Blue, red, green, yellow looks right to me too.

[totalcatastrophe]

[ Luci snips the rest without breaking his quick (reckless?) pace. He drops everything afterwards, hands in the air for applause. No zaps! ]