A New You, Tuesday, Period Two

[built_fjord_tough]

"Morning class," Fjord said as the students stepped into the danger shop to find that, yes, they were still in the sewers. Lucky class! "So, last time we met here, y'all fought a giant spider that can blink, and then you came across the kobolds building something in the cavern underneath the farmer's field. Turns out, what they were building had a purpose. And not a terribly nefarious one, either."

He lifted hs chin a little.

"Apparently, a bunch of gnolls have been using the sewer system to get into the kobolds' tunnels making their way to their rookery, and have been running off with their eggs, hatchlings, and anybody who has the misfortune of being watching them at the time. The sewers connect to cave systems, which connect in turn to mine shafts and other natural underground caverns further inland, and the kobolds spent a lot of time figuring out which places would be most effective for setting up traps and barriers to prevent the raids as much as they possibly can. Turns out, that metal construct they had been building under the field was supposed to be their first line of defense." Fjord spread his hands. "Turns out, your old buddy Shovels the Kobold knows Common. And the little guy is willing to negotiate peace between the kobolds and the town above... if you do something to stop the gnolls. So, what do you say? Protect some kobold kids? Go find the gnolls and deal with them yourselves? The attacks happen in the late hours of the night, so you've got some time to come up with a plan.

"What do you do?"

[Open! Have some (youtube link) regular gnolls, regular gnolls!]

Problem Solving through Science! | Tuesday, 3rd period

[what_the_shock]

Miguel eyed the setup today a little dubiously, but still waved everybody in.

"Okay, so this one's a classic - build a better mousetrap. For our purposes, the mouse is normal Earth-sized," he demonstrated a size of a couple inches. "Your trap can be deadly or not. Just find a way to catch or kill a mouse that works better than one of these."

On the desk were a number of standard-issue mousetraps.

"Hey, if you make a good one, maybe you can patent it. Oh, and try to make sure it doesn't damage anything but the mouse."