fandomhigh | Self Confidence the Ares Way, [Thursday, Period 2]

"I'm pleasantly surprised," Ares said, as the class met up in the Dangershop. "Not only many of you recognise the danger your hostage presented, but some of you suggested quite intelligent methods of dealing with his offer. Which brings us to our next role-play scenario. Making alliances."

"Having made enemies of the growing empire your hostage came from, you have decided that, having little ability to stand on your own against the combined forces of an empire, to start making alliances with various powers in and around your area. Warlords, kings, the random tribe of Amazons. However, given that you do only represent a small village, you may find your potential allies attempting to screw you over. Presenting a good show of confidence when dealing with them is one way to prevent this."

"Today I want you first to discuss various negotiating strategies you might use to appear to be coming from a place of strength, then to try them out on various potential allies. Good luck."

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"I dunno," Z said. "I guess he might be. And it sort of depends on what you're going back to--but his scenarios never seem to end well, so I don't know how useful the information would be, anyway."

Naminé shivered. "If I'm the TA, does that mean we can attempt a coup?"

Z thought about that for a moment. "Maybe...that's what we're supposed to do?"

"I hadn't thought of it like that. In that case," she drummed her fingers lightly, looking at Ares and back at Z, "does that mean we shouldn't play along, or should we attempt the coup anyway just to see what he'd do?"

"The coup would be fun," Z pointed out. "Even if it is what he wants us to do."

Naminé laughed. "I do believe you're right, it would be. How would we go about organizing such a thing? Karal and I briefly discussed it a class or two ago, so he might be interested as well."

"I don't know. If Professor Ares really is a god, he might have godly powers he could use to prevent us seizing control of the workshop," Z pointed out. "We need to figure out how to get around them."

"Are we intending this to be a violent coup?" Naminé said hesitantly. "Only I'm not a fighter, and I'm not certain I ... like the concept of that, very much."

"I'm sure Professor Ares would like a violent coup," Z said, "considering the class topics. So we should try to avoid that to annoy him."

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