Creative Weaponry; Monday, Second Period [12/14].

[special_rabbit]

Well, the trip into the school for her class that morning had certainly made Amaya a bit...distracted, already thinking of getting the Crumbler all set up for snow-plowing and (apparently!) candy-crumbling, and she'd considered that maybe this was a good opportunity to get her students to thinking creatively on how to actually handle these aggressive peppermint treats, but, well, they didn't quite know enough about them yet, and she'd hate for it to turn out to be a bit more they they could handle, so she was sticking with her original lesson plan for their final class.

Which meant out of the snow and back to nice sunny, temperate Daventry, and into the large pavilion where the Tournament of Knights would finally come to an end, with several tables set up on a stage that looked quite a bit like chessboards but with little tiny clockwork figures of each of the students and little armed soldiers on them instead, one for each of them.

"At last," she said, "we've come to our final class and our final event of the Tournmanet of Knights, which is usually a Duel of Wits, but we're modifying it a little bit today because," her hands danced in the air a little, "blah blah blah, context of the class, yadda yadda yadda. Hop up on the stage and find the board with your little avatar on it--" and they were all very distinct representations of each of them, so that shouldn't be too hard to find! "--and consider that your little mechanical self has about four mechanical knights to combat! The only thing is, you've got no weapon! In comes..."

And here she gestured at a table with plenty of little tiny clockwork pieces, as well as pieces of Lego and other building toys, bits of plastic, screws and nails and thumbtacks, and basically a wide variety of moddable but miniature parts and pieces.

"...your assignment! Today, you'll be using anything you can find on this table to create little weapons for your little selves, which your little selves will then use to fight off the little knights! Take a moment to consider how our mechanical fighters move, then consider what sort of weapon you might be able to make so that you can clear the board of your competition! And, if you survive, well...these little figures aren't the danger shop, I actually whipped them up a little, so if you'd like to keep them as a symbol of your hard work and inginuity in this class, well, please do."

She was a little proud of her little clockwork class, really, and it was the sort of thing she'd have loved at their age.

Especially to take and start tinkering with all on her own.

Fuck Yeah Science - Monday - Period 1

[badassprodigy]

When the students arrived in the Danger Shop for class they would not see a drop of snow. Nope. It was sunny and beautiful. In fact the entire Danger Shop was a beautiful green field with mountains in the distance.

The other thing they would notice is several wooden structures lined up in a row. On the other end of the field were several fake castles

And then the next thing they might notice is a large pile of fruit cake near each wooden structure.

"In case you don't know what these things are, they are called trebuchets," Barry said pointing at the wooden structures. "And despite the French name for it, they are ancient siege engines that had their origins in China. We're looking at them today because it's going to be a study in physics. A Trebuchet is a siege engine that transfers gravitational energy into kinetic energy. It takes the force of gravity and uses it to fling an object. It does this by the use of a counterweight that falls.

You can think of a trebuchet as a fucking see saw. Yes, a see saw is really all that a fucking trebuchet is. On one end of the seesaw is a projectile you want to fire and on the other end is a counterweight. Raising the counterweight above the ground causes a build up of potential energy. When you release this counterweight and allow it to fall the seesaw pivots on the fulcrum and the projectile receives the energy. This force of energy can be quite substantial and it is enough to send a projectile flying through the air. And today we're going to be flinging the most dangerous substance in the world at those castles down there. Also known as the humble fruitcake."

He gestured towards the pile of fruitcake and smiled. "Go fucking nuts. And don't eat that shit. It's nasty."

Superheroing 101- Monday- 3rd period

[throughaphase]

Listen, it had been A Morning, Kitty was very glad she could phase, and she didn't know what the candy canes were doing but she did not approve and was happy to be here already.

Which was to say there wasn't a lot of work put into what the Danger Shop looked like today. It was kind of a generic metal hallway, where they would gather once everyone got suited up.

"Through this semester, you've been fighting various baddies and doing a good job it, even when they've been getting more difficult," Kitty told them. "I'm really proud of you guys. So today, I want to see what you've learned individually when you take turns going up against one big bad."

With that, the door at the far end of the hall opened and out came a tough-looking guy who looked vaguely like Magneto but with a different skill set.

"That's right , kids, you've got a boss fight today. Good luck."