The Art of Battle Tactics; Monday, First Period [09/20].

[sake_shinigami]

"Good morning, ducklings ♥." It was yet another far-too-early Monday morning in the classroom with all the desks shoved aside to make way for pillows and tea, and Shunsui doing his sleepy best, pouring his own tea as he waited for the students to get settled and comfortable as they were hopefully now quite used to for this class, and then passing the pot along to whichever student might be looking to indulge themselves next. "So far in this class, we've dabbled briefly in a particular scenario where one might attempt to avoid a confrontation on a smaller scale, and we will, slowly but surely, march our way to exploring tactics in bigger conflicts, and, more particularly, how to reduce or even avoid the damage done in such situations. But before we can know how to be more efficient in knowing how to approach our battles, we must consider why we fight them in the first place.

"There are, of course, many reasons why some may choose to fight. When it comes to war, it is most often a matter of power or territory. Some fight for freedom; others fight to oppress. A great many wars have been fought for hatred; some have even been fought for love ♥." He took a thoughtful sip of his tea. "Whether or not any of these are good reasons to fight is a matter I'm sure could spark much debate; perhaps that in itself could lead to quite the battle....a battle we may or may not be having today in this very class, because that is what I would like to discuss with you all today, ducklings ♥. Before we can start looking at what tactics we can use in battle, we must first know why the battle is being fought in the first place ♥.

"Tell me, then: what is it that you find worth fighting for? What is something you find absurd to fight for? Why? And why not? Has there been anything you've encountered that you find to be particularly noble, or have you exampeles of a battle you can only consider pointless? Let us explore all the different angles and approaches one may have, so that when it comes time to determine why our enemies fight for what they fight for, we may better understand them, because with that understanding may be the exact tactic you need."

Another sip of his tea, and he passed his lazy smile around the circle. "Who's got something to get us started ♥?"

Badass Bitch Survival Guide: Multiverse Edition; Monday, Second Period [09/20].

[somethingwithturquoise]

Guess what, everybody! The class was meeting in the Danger Shop this weekend, but it was not set up like a classroom this time! In fact, it was set up to be almost exactly like a certain planet destroying spaceship that Summer had been in recently, with all its glowingly illuminated dark hallways, dramatic glowing chambers, and glowing terminal rooms staffed by ubiquitous bug aliens, because someone was using her teaching gig as a way to work through some issues again!

"Alright, guys," Summer started, "I don't know how many of you had had to deal with something like this personally, but it's kind of startling how much it comes up that an evil galactic space empire...or, if you're not really used to the whole space thing, just a regular evil empire taking over various lands and subjugating people with, like, swords and on horseback and shit...shows up trying to mess things up, even after you pretty much thought you already kicked their ass to oblivious, but, nope, apparently, they've been building themselves back up in secret to be even bigger and stronger and in a lot of cases stupider than before, which, you know, is just annoying. It's like when there's a fly in your house and you chase it out the window, only to have it come flying right back again, and you're like fine, okay, I guess we're going to need a bigger flyswatter this time, huh? Maybe one with lasers, see how you like that.

"Anyway," she continued, "hopefully, you won't ever actually have to deal with this sort of thing, but, really, one of the most badass things you can do as a Badass Bitch of the Multiverse is take down evil galactic empires...or just regular evil empires, whatever your situation may be...whenever they decide to pop up like a gross pimple right on prom night, right? Right. So that's what we're working on today. Resourcefulness and figuring out exactly how to go about doing that.

"So this here," she gestured at the ship around them, "is a planet destroying ship called, oh, gee, I don't know, let's just go with the NX-6. We've just infiltrated it, and not a moment too soon, because it's got its planet destroying laser set on Earth, with Fandom Island as its first target, as we speak. Luckily," she dramatically revealed a metal trunk that she opened to reveal a small stock-pile of laser and plasma weapons, "we are armed, but we are also severely outnumbered. What we need to do is figure out how to a) stop the laser from blowing up Earth and/or b) find the guy in charge and see what we can do to make sure that we're not doing the same thing with another planet destroying ship next week.

"Obviously, you have your own natural skills and resources available to you, but also these weapons, some comm gear, and these data watches," she started tossing them out to the students, "with some of the data our research has collected which mostly includes maps of the ship. From here on in, it's on you guys. Are you going to work together? Partner up, split up, divide and conquer? Do you want to go out on your own? Any questions you want answered before you move forward? We have until the end of the class period before our simulated Earth goes bye-bye; if you die or something sets the explosion off before then, you start back here at square one. Kind of like...respawning in a video game, I think. I don't know, I'm not a nerd, I don't really play video games.

"But enough talk!" She reached into the trunk to pull out a gun about half her size and cocked it, charging it up with a satisfying whrrr, for dramatic effect. "We've got a multiverse to save. What'll you do?"

Summer had meant it as an actual question to the students to get the class started, of course, but there was definitely a part of her that took it for herself and wryly informed her that it definitely didn't involve teaching a class on some small island in a different dimension...

Cupcake Skirmishes- Monday

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Back in the Home Ec room, and oh no Kitty was maybe starting to get into this class.

"Hello!" she greeted them. "We're going to be making cupcakes with one specific ingredient today: soda. Which might sound weird, but given the number of recipes I found, apparently it's not! I've got a few different flavors, so try to make what sounds most interesting to you.

"Oh, also take the remainder of the soda back to the dorms, my fridge is not big enough for all that."

Strawberry with Leominster Cream Cheese Frosting
Orange Soda Cupcakes
Dr. Pepper Cupcakes