Fitness and Health, Tuesday, Period 4

[doubleohblonde]

Bond had his class meet him at the edge of the preserve today, where he handed each of them a compass and a map marked with instructions.

"Today you'll be looking at a kind of orienteering," he told them after the usual greetings. "There are several caches located in the preserve, and you'll be using the marked maps to find those caches. You all have different maps and the caches are tagged with your names, but you can choose to work together or alone. Good hunting."

Diplomacy, Relationships, & Tactics: The Art of War, Week 11 [Wednesday, Period 2]

[weetuskenraider]

"Sun Tzu got a little bit complicated on us in this week's chapter," Tahiri noted once class was assembled. "Early in the semester, we talked about the importance of understanding the terrain you're dealing with; in this chapter he goes into more detail about advantage and disadvantage when it comes to the different kinds of terrain."

She moved toward the board, picked up a marker, and wrote down the name of each kind as she ( continued talking. )

Weapon Safety, Wednesday

[likethegun]

When the students arrived to the Danger Shop today, they'd find it looking like an old junkyard, with piles of junk haphazardly balanced against each other behind Sam.

"Hey guys. I know some of you are probably armed most of the time, and after living here for long enough, I certainly can't blame you," he said. "But there might be times when you don't have a weapon on you, or maybe you don't have your weapon of choice. Maybe it's early in the morning, or you're on a mission where you had to dress up and didn't have a good place to stash your typical arms. At times like that, if something goes wrong, you might have to improvise a weapon." Sam motioned to the piles of junk and grinned. "I want you to go through here and find something you could use as a weapon, like an extension cord you could use to choke an opponent, or something that might have been overlooked, but is still sharp. You might have to think a little violently, but... just be creative."

Jack of All Trades, Wednesday, Per 1

[geniuswithasmartphone]

"A'ight, so let's get somethin' clear," Hardison said, standing in front of a portal. "I ain't one for the Great Outdoors. If we'd'a been meant to spend a lot of time outside, we ain't never would have invented video games an' the internet." Somewhere, Eliot was hitting his head against the wall and had no idea why. Okay, that's not true, he probably knew exactly why: somewhere, somehow, Hardison was doing something to annoy him. "But not everyone sees these logically, an' there are whole sports an' activities devoted to bein' outside. Where the bugs are."

Look, you guys were getting an outdoor class, but it was going to come with Opinions whether you liked it or not. "Fortunately, some of 'em at least use enough tech to make it easier to forget you're trampin' around in the woods, where the air smells funny, an' there are probably racist, right-wing militias waitin' around to kidnap you." Because that's what happened when you were outside! "One of those activities is Geochachin', which combines the fun of a treasure hunt with useful skills like orienteerin' an' map-readin' an...I dunno, stuff like that. Trail-blazin', maybe?"

Again, entirely not his bag. "Since this is class an' you're supposed to be learnin' stuff, we're goin' old-school today." Look at his disappointment, class. Look at it. "Rather than downloadin' coordinates to your GPS an' sendin' you out to find the exact location of the cache, we're gonna do this like it's 1986." He started handing out packs. Inside those packs were maps, along with compasses, canteens of water, binoculars, pencils and water-resistant pads, and several other moddable useful items. "There are a list of coordinates on your pad. Each coordinate can be found in the area on your map. It's up to you to figure out how to turn the coordinates into points on the map, then to read the map well enough to figure out how to get to those caches. You do it right, there's be a cache filled with goodies an' stuff for y'all to keep. Ready? Any questions?"

Once he'd answered any questions they had, it was off through the portal, which led them to Rock State Park.