Construction 102; Third Period, Friday [07/13].

[special_rabbit]

When the kids got to the site for class that day, they wouldn't find anything there but the table of their gear and a ladder leading up to the roof. So it shouldn't be too difficult to guess where their teacher might be. Amaya confirmed it a moment later when her head poked out from up at the top of the building, and she waved an arm. "Morning, builders!" she called down. "Grab your gear, get it on, and climb on up. We're roofing today. Oh, and, please, no one walk under the ladder if you can help it. At least not today."

Amaya wasn't really superstitious, of course, but there was just enough of it in her to make working on dangerous stuff on Friday the 13th was enough to make her a little jumpier than usual.

Once everyone was up and no one had fallen to their death or disfigurement, Amaya nodded, gesturing toward a big water cooler. "Water," she said. "Drink it, often, while you're working today when you can. But when we're not hydrating, we're gonna be finally tiling up this thing. Tiling's a bit more difficult that it looks, but we're going to work through it together, so get ready, grab your tools, and let's get to work."

If Amaya's voice wasn't already naturally a bit hoarse, it might have been by the time she was done with class, instructing and demonstrating as they went along, having them split up to work on the two sides of the roof separately with her overseeing and moving between the two and helping out.

And there really wasn't much too it than that. Straightforward, simple hard work. Just the kind she liked.

Brooding for Dummies, Friday, Period 2

[furnaceface]

//The moose made me come back,// Jono said by way of explanation as he stepped back into the classroom. //Frankly, I'm surprised any of you did, but at this point I'm about as curious to see what the hell happens with the rest of this workshop as anybody.//

( Brooding Music! )

[OOC: Open!]

Japanese Blades, First Period, Friday [07/13].

[battlewithstyle]

The Danger Shop was in the dojo set-up again, though the little blue-haired child was not present this week. Instead, there was a man about 5' 6" tall in a blue track suit, with long green hair that came over one side of his face to perfectly cover one of his eyes.

"Welcome back," Mitsutada said, smiling at his gathered students. "I am glad to see all of you who were not scared off by last week."

He chuckled, and then gestured at the man next to him. "We are going up in weapon size this week, though my comrade here is a little bigger than most, in no small part because he was once an even bigger weapon. Wakizashi are the weapons of the day."

"I am Nikkari Aoe," the green-haired man introduced. "I'm an Oowakizashi that was once an Ootachi. Yes, yes, you think my name is strange as well, don't you? But well, I wonder if you can still laugh about it when you find out that it originates from killing the ghost of a laughing woman."

"I was forged by Aoe Sadatsugu in 1207. My name comes from when my master at the time, Lord Nakajima Shuuridayuu, grabbed his sharpest Aoe blade and went to the mountains of Hachiman to slay a monster. He came across the ghost of a laughing woman and her infant child, and swung me clean through both. They vanished, seemingly defeated. The next morning when Lord Nakajima returned to where he'd fought the ghosts, there were two stone lanterns, both cut in half. He then named me after the woman's wicked grin."

Ghost murder was so much better than person murder for class stories, certainly? Mitsutada smiled a little nervously. Nikkari chuckled, and raised a finger to pull back the hair in front of his eye slightly, to reveal the hidden eye being a bright red as opposed to the light green of his other. "Though sometimes you keep souveniers from your great deeds."

The lights dimmed in the dojo for a moment, and a faint, feminine voice cackled from... somewhere.

Mitsutada looked very put out as the lights came back up. "Uhhh, are there any questions for our guest or me?"

[ooc: OCD a-comin post is up and going!]