First-Aid and Basic Medicine | Tuesday | Period Two

[justonecondition]

Today, class was meeting in the Danger Shop, and instead of desks with first-aid kits, there were a few different stations, each with different materials on them. Also, there were simulation people -- children, really -- already sitting at each station. They looked whiny.

"Today we're going to work on a few basic things," Bruce said once everyone had arrived. "Big techniques like bandaging and identifying burns are really useful, but first-aid is sometimes about removing splinters, icing a bruise, or making sure a cut is disinfected. They're... really not hard to do, but today we're just going to take some time to practice. With an extra human component, which can make things a little more difficult."

See those Danger Shop-supplied people sitting at each station? The whiny-looking ones? Bruce meant those.

He gestured to the clusters of desks. "There are three stations and you'll have fifteen minutes at each of them. At the first one, your patient has a splinter in her foot. There are instructions on the desk on how to remove it, so try your best to do that without, uh, hurting her too much or getting discouraged. At the second station, a boy sprained his ankle and you just need to ice it with one of the ice packs provided for the full fifteen minutes, but he's... going to complain, so be ready for that. And at the third station, you need to disinfect all the cuts on your patient's face and shoulders and put regular band-aids on them, but be ready to be told that it hurts... maybe seven or eight times. Minimum."

He cleared his throat. "Ready? Go."

Try Not to Die!!! [Tuesday, June 11, 2013]

[sith_happened]

Ben and Anakin were waiting in their usual spot for their students to arrive. "Welcome to Kaz-" Ben frowned, then tried again. "Kazik--"

"Kazakhstan," Anakin finished for him. "It's a country in central Asia."

Rory had told him. Shhh.

"It's cooler there than our last destination, so you will not be getting wet," he continued. "I'm not guaranteeing anything about not getting messy, though."

Isn't he reassuring, class?

Ben shook his head. "Race hard, be safe, don't tick anyone off, and we'll see you at the end of the class."

Combat Tech, Tuesday Morning (1st Period)

[not_a_whiner]

"This," Kaidan said, "Is an YMIR mech."

It was large, was what it was.

"It possesses twin mass accelerator canons and a rocket launcher. It possesses extremely sophisticated kinetic barriers and armor. In case it wasn't obvious, it was built with only one purpose in mind: to provide overpowering force against the enemy."

He banged his hand on the metal; the sound carried across the Danger Shop. "Similar mechs have been engineered to contain a pilot," he said. "All the firepower of a mech combined with the versatility and the flexibility of a human mind. Of course, they also get used elsewhere. Because a mech like this can provide a great deal of lift, it's excellent for work in construction and anything else that involves moving heavy objects."

He stepped away from it. "It can be used offensively or defensively," he added, "Especially if someone's inside-- well, it's going to take a lot of bullets to get in there. But that means different building priorities, obviously. Mechs are often slow, and they're slowed down more by the weight of the weapons and the armor. Using it to, say, evacuate somebody is ideally going to involve a lighter mech."

"That's the practical side," he added. "Then there's the moral one. This thing? It can do a lot of damage. And the damage it does is usually going to be lethal. So when is it okay to use one in an assault?"

He pointed the class towards a couple of desks that had just materialized. "I want you to think long and hard about where and how you'd want to deploy a mech if you had the chance," he said. "Then I want you to go and design one. It doesn't have to be specific if you haven't got the specifics in mind, but draw something. And motivate your choices."