fandomhigh | Applied Ethics A & B: Friday [Fourth Period]

Harriet was looking solemn as the students arrived. Once everyone was seated, she stood up from behind her desk and smiled, though an astute observer might notice it was a little strained. "Welcome to the final class. When we started - and my, doesn't that seem like a long time ago? - I said that sometimes you have to make hard choices to try and do what's right. Hopefully some of what we've looked at might make that a bit easier. Today you get to put it into practice. It's really very simple." Harriet paused and looked at each student in turn, her hands clasped lightly together. "Survive," she said seriously.

After a long pause, she smiled brightly. "Only it's not quite so dire as that. All you have to do is make it safely to the end of the Oregon Trail." She gestured at the computers. "Weigh the options, balance the possible outcomes, decide what's most important and choose accordingly. You may work alone, or together, or even pair up and compete if you'd prefer. Most of all, think about what we've talked about, and have fun."

Harriet leaned back against her desk slightly as she looked around the room. "Thank you for being a wonderful class - two wonderful classes, in fact - of students. Wherever your futures take you, I'm certain you'll all be amazing, and I'll remember every one of you." She hesitated, then added, "And whatever happens here and now, I urge you to be patient and above all careful."

[ooc:

Please wait for OCD then

play the Oregon Trail! I promise and aver that the site is completely free of adware, spyware, viruses, and that your computer should take no harm from the game. (I make no such promises regarding your sanity - the thing can be bloody frustrating!) I've played it on all three of mine, and they're happy as can be. And seriously, thank you all for being a great couple of classes.]

[ETA: Anyone who's at cheer camp, consider Harriet having handwavily cleared their absence (mmm, alliteration).]

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Ah, Oregon Trail (http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html). I loved this so much when I was a kid, and I still do.

Jenny started playing the game.

A few minutes later she could be heard swearing frantically as a fire destroyed all of her wagon's clothes.

A few minutes later the swearing got more colorful when all of their oxen were stolen, leaving her party stranded and naked.

((No, really, this once happened to me in a game of Oregon Trail.))

Marco was totally not cackling as he set off on the trail with a large amount of amunition and not much else.

Naomi began playing the game.

Ami got bitten by the snake and died.
Then she failed to cross the river correctly.
Eventually she succeeded.

~~i had to do this for my 8th grade social studies final~~

Jaina set herself up pretty well, figuring she'd covered all bases.

Till a part on the wagon broke. If this were real life, Jaina could get out and fix it and be on her merry way. Instead she had to trade some clothing at the next stop because she'd prepared too well at the start and she didn't have much money left.

And then she died of cholera, leaving Jaina to play out everyone in her party except her, which just sucked.

Isabel took a seat and started playing. A few minutes later she realized she could never, ever show the game to Anders.

Ronan spent the class period trying to get the damned game to work. Even sweet-talking the computer itself didn't help him.

Perhaps this was a way to examine the ethics of dissolving a computer into its component atoms?

[OOC: Seriously, cannot get this thing to work. And I'm supposed to be good with computers, argh.]

(OOC: have you tried IE? It was glitchy as all hell for me in Firefox, but it played nicely with IE.)

(OOC: I don't know. I couldn't get it to work for me in IE at all.)

Naminé sat down and made herself a lovely party: herself, Valentine, Michelangelo (whose name abbreviated sadly to "Michelang"), Raphael, and Anemone.

She left in April, having taken a number of supplies from the very helpful seller, and every time someone got sick, she pulled the wagon over for three days' rest.

The second time Valentine got measles - following exhaustion and a broken leg - she laughed, and murmured under her breath, "I'm starting to think you're just doing this for attention, you know."

He promptly came down with typhoid, thus confirming her suspicions.

She arrived in October with all five members of her party in good health, and clapped her hands excitedly. "Oh, look! I've made the high scores list. This game wasn't so hard."

(OOC: no, seriously, I played as Naminé and somehow got all five people to Oregon alive, and in good health. I have never, ever managed that before in all my time playing. *fears her voodoo powers wtf*

The first time Will played through the game, everyone in her party slowly died of dysentery.

The second time, two of her wheels broke, a thief stole her oxen, and she lost all her ammunition.

After the third time, when her whole party died when the river flooded, she decided to play Oregon Trail: Death Style instead, and see how fast she could kill off everyone in her party. She bought nothing but one team of oxen, and left in the middle of March and tried to see how fast everyone in the party would die off.

By the end of class, she'd gotten it down to two and a half weeks.

~~The mun used to do that when her class played the game.~~

Gwynn kind of stared. That wasn't how you outfitted a team for a long trip.

Turtle's wagon broke an axle!

It was a good thing she, unlike everyone else on the planet, remembered to buy a spare axle.

No one ever bought a spare axle.

Except Turtle.

Charlie had a terrific time, even though everyone died. Very, very sad.

Wyatt started the game. It wasn't long before Piper broke a leg. Then Prue. Then Chris got a fever. And then he got the measels. "Oh, come on," he muttered. "I'd just heal them all."

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