Weaponry in Film; Friday, First Period [07/24].

[special_rabbit]

"Welcome back, everyone," Amaya, who was feeling much better now, thank you!, greeted the class with a nod of her, a pound of her fist into her palm to get things started. "I hope you're ready to get started on the attempts to recreate another unique and interesting weapon from film. This week, we'll be focusing again on a hand-specific weapon, though with a slightly different bent. This week is going to be all about augmentation, taking something and enhancing it, making it bigger and more powerful. Now, the main character of the series I'm going to show you clips from persues his augmented weapon out of necessity: when you lose a hand, what better way to make up for it than creating a weaponized one, am I right? You'll see in the film that he augments his missing hand with a chainsaw," in case you were wondering about the small pile of chainsaws on one of the worktables, "but our main focus is actually going to be in creating a coupling device for the hand that will allow an interchangable port for augmentation of a variety of different machines and weapons, because sometimes you might not want a chainsaw, sometimes just a little jigsaw or circle saw will do best. Or just knives! Or a harpoon launcher! Basically, there are options, and I encourage you to explore those options, but the films provide a blueprint around a chainsaw, so that's where we'll start.

"Chainsaw? Both an effective weapon and tool for every day use. Chainsaw hand? Now that is what I believe the kids these days would call 'next level.'"

Stop hanging out with Summer, Amaya.

"So," she concluded, "without further ado, we'll watch a few relevant parts of the movie trilogy where this idea comes from for inspiration, and then we'll get to work!"

Crafts & Arts, Friday

[imafuturist]

There was a surprisingly large amount of cocktail umbrellas waiting for the class thanks to Caritas and Kitty. And now your teachers had the task of turning those into crafting materials. Weren't you glad you picked this class?

"So, today we'll be making door wreaths. No work bench to speed things up this week, though," Tony said with a grin.

"And these things are surprisingly pointy," Steve said, glaring slightly at the umbrellas as he stuck his thumb into his mouth.

"Be careful with them," Tony suggested with a little wince. "Wreaths are just one of many things you can make with these, so let's see who can be the most creative, shall we?"

"There's glue and glitter and wreaths and giant balls and glasses," Steve added. "But no cocktail mixers because this is still class."

Continue Trying Not to Die, Friday, July 24, 2020

[sith_happened]

"Today we're going to Malawi," Anakin said, "which is a country I've never heard of, so we'll all be learning something new today!"

Wasn't that not at all terrifying, class?

"It's a country in Africa," he said, pointing to it on the map, "but we will probably not be eaten by lions!"

Way to sell this, Anakin.

"Through the portal, everyone!"