Spy Tech, Class four (01/31)

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Wednesday, January 31, Period 1

Back in the regular classroom, M was standing as usual by her desk, ready to begin the lecture once everyone was seated. A slide was projected on the screen behind her.

CLASS THREE: ABSENCES
JIM ELLISON

"I want to first congratulate all of you on making it through last week's exercise without killing yourselves. Although a couple of you --" She looked at Annette and Jake. "Came close. Today we'll be discussing the concealment of weapons, specifically their concealment within other, less suspicious items. I'll ask Blank and Santos to demonstrate the items I have here."

On the desk were two seemingly innocuous-looking items -- a black bowler hat and a black umbrella. However, as Nadia and Marty soon demonstrated, the bowler was actually lined with metal and contained a sharp cutting edge in the brim, and the handle of the umbrella contained a slender but wicked sword.

"Today for our discussion, I want you to come up with suggestions on how you could take one of the everyday items you are carrying with you right now, and conceal a convenient and servicable weapon within it. Think carefully about this, because it will lead into your homework assignment.

Before you leave class today, come up to my desk and pick up your developed photographs from the infrared camera assignment. Some of them were very good, a few of them were odd, and one or two of you may now be on my 'watch list'. No, I'm not going to tell you who you are."

HOMEWORK: Write a description of your own design for a concealed weapon, with the stipulation that it is not an explosive. Explain how the concealment operates, and how the weapon is utilized.

[ooc: Please wait for OCD is ready and class is in session.]

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SIGN IN

[mi6-m.livejournal.com]

In your best collapsey manner.

Re: SIGN IN

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna Sakurazaki

HAND IN LAST WEEK'S HOMEWORK

[mi6-m.livejournal.com]

Blank and Santos will collect it from you.

Re: HAND IN LAST WEEK'S HOMEWORK

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna's essay was short consise, extouting the fact that water and technology rarely mixed effectively, with a small section discussing how water clouds both sound and sight.

Re: HAND IN LAST WEEK'S HOMEWORK

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette handed over her essay; it was a couple pages typed, well written, mitigating on her ideals about underwater technology.

Then she sort of hid behind her hand. I did not almost kill myself! Those explosives had to be rigged! Blink. Blink.

Re: HAND IN LAST WEEK'S HOMEWORK

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

Dick handed in a so-so essay about how water and eletronic devices rarely mix.

Re: HAND IN LAST WEEK'S HOMEWORK

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders's essay was, quite frankly, lousy. From the expression on his face as he handed it in, though, it was pretty clear that wasn't exactly a major concern for him at the moment.

Re: HAND IN LAST WEEK'S HOMEWORK

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac handed in her essay, she actually did quite a lot of reseach for this one and it's a good, detailed piece of work. Hopefully it'll make up for the fact her practical espionage skills leave something to be desired.

Re: HAND IN LAST WEEK'S HOMEWORK

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

D'anna turned in a well done essay printed on octagonal paper.

Re: HAND IN LAST WEEK'S HOMEWORK

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker turned in a concise summary of how electrical technology and water weren't the best match-up, and suggested a few ways around the problems, mostly to do with cases around the technology.

Re: HAND IN LAST WEEK'S HOMEWORK

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack's essay was surprisingly good, containing the expected summary of the problems of putting water and technology that involves flame, electricity, and/or moving parts. It also contained a couple of suggestions for getting around those, including taking small tech, like a camera, and implanting it under the skin, or generating a small bubble of air around it, which would keep it dry while it was used.

(Hey, he's from the fifty-first century. To him, these are perfectly reasonable suggestions.)

Re: HAND IN LAST WEEK'S HOMEWORK

[dorky-broots.livejournal.com]

Broots handed in a neatly typed up essay that he probably spent way too much time on.

Re: HAND IN LAST WEEK'S HOMEWORK

[sound-loyalty.livejournal.com]

Kabuto handed in an essay that basically explained that people here depend far too much on technology and not nearly enough on their own abilities.

Re: HAND IN LAST WEEK'S HOMEWORK

[2-twin-devils-2.livejournal.com]

Hikaru wrote his essay about the dangers of electric things placed in water without the proper heavy-duty protection it needed, using the analogy of a toaster in a bathtub once.

Re: HAND IN LAST WEEK'S HOMEWORK

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John wrote a paper on how to build and conceal a degausser or an EMP out of MP3 players for destroying electronics and hard drives of cyborgs a sensitive nature.

DEMONSTRATION

[mi6-m.livejournal.com]

Watch Blank and Santos try to kill one another with a hat and an umbrella.

Re: DEMONSTRATION

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty grabbed the hat and put it on his head. "First: Item of outdated apparel or deadly weapon? You decide."

DISCUSSION

[mi6-m.livejournal.com]

I want you to come up with suggestions on how you could take one of the everyday items you are carrying with you right now, and conceal a convenient and servicable weapon within it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna smirked a little; who really needed a sword in their umbrella if they knew Iron Umbrella technique? Which she did.

And then she considered what she was carrying today. Notebook, pen; she tended to travel light. She held up the pen and ruminated on it. "I suppose you could conceil a poisoning agent in the cartridge of a pen," she suggested, "so long as you don't forget that it's in there and try to use it or something like that. Also, notebooks could be good for hiding ninja stars, but you have to be quick in getting them out. Leafing through a notebook for your missiles would probably raise a bit of suspicsion, I imagine."

Re: DISCUSSION

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders shrugged and pulled his heavy metal yo-yo from his pocket. "If I could weight this sucker down inside more, I could maybe do some real damage with it. And otherwise it just looks like a toy."

Re: DISCUSSION

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker looked thoughtfully at the make-up in her purse, and bypassed the blade-in-the lipstick for the eyeliner and ink pens. "Easy to put stilettos in these, or sharpen the reverse end and concealing it, so it's a weapon."

TALK TO M

[mi6-m.livejournal.com]

Ask questions, or collect your photographs at the end of class.

Re: TALK TO M

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

At the end of class Dick came up to end to get his photographs. He wanted to show Beaver the one of The Doctor playing chess with squirrels.

TALK TO THE TAs

[mi6-m.livejournal.com]

But wait for them to get here first.

Re: TALK TO THE TAs

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty's here. He's looking a little tired but here.

TALK TO EACH OTHER

[mi6-m.livejournal.com]

But not while M is talking, or there will be detention.

OOC

[mi6-m.livejournal.com]

I have nothing clever today. :(