Arts & Crafts, Friday

[imafuturist]

There were a number of glass containers and buckets of very colorful sand waiting for the class when they arrived today. And, of course, the glitter was there too. They couldn't escape it.

"Today we'll be doing sand art," Tony said. "Which is slightly less messy than chalk." In his mind.

Steve gave him a "you adorable dumbass" smile. "Maybe," he hedged. "Sometimes it spills." He gestured at a bunch of samples he'd worked on over the week. "You can get as simple or as complex as you'd like. You can just make stripes, or you can try out some patterns."

"We have brooms," Tony muttered, not seeing the problem. Because he tended to end up covered in engine grease and soldering flux. "Try not to shake them once you get it done."

Someone learned the hard waaaay.

Steve was Very Good and didn't laugh at that advice. Because, yes, Tony had learned the hard way. "Have fun," he said, waving his hands at the containers, the funnels, and the sand. "I found this whole thing very soothing."

Magical Theory and Practice, Friday, Period 3

[tellmehowstuffworks]

"Being new to teaching, I asked around and learned that it was traditional in this reality to show an educational film," Yennefer informed the class. "This isn't an option where I come from, so I hope my selection is as on-topic as it seemed from the description."

After some fumbling with the unfamiliar equipment, Yennefer managed to hit 'play' and the movie started.

How to Make a Radchaai Entertainment, Friday

[1000yearstoolate]

Between the handful of projects that Amaya had taken on recently, when exactly did she find the time to make a tiny armada's worth of tiny Radchaai ships? Don't worry about it. Where there's a will, there's a way. For all anyone knew, she'd actually made them months ago just for funsies and now finally had a good use for them. There were also some surprisingly accurate model Radchaai guns.

And here everyone thought Amaya only watched Radchaai entertainments for the explosions! Although this lesson would definitely cover that, too.

"Today," she announced to the class, as they met in the workshop classroom again, "we work on special effects! Today we're going to work on things like how to make it look convincing to have these ships fly without anyone noticing the strings, how to rig up these guns to shoot convincing lasers, and how to properly explode something," as if there was a way to improperly explode something, "once those lasers hit!"

Which meant that this was going to be a classic Amaya Instructional Ramble class today, because this was a woman who go way too into technical details and explosions, all of which was going to be incredibly handwavey so that the player didn't wind up on some kind of list for excessively googling 'how to make explosions.'

Seivarden could have added her own knowledge of explosives, but she was going to let Amaya shine here. "Let's not forget that there's a story behind the excitement of ships blowing up," she said. "Try to make some time for practicing your scenes too." That was her plan for today, to leave the special effects to Amaya and to make sure the students did an acceptable job as actors, if that was at all possible.