Choose Your Own Adventure: Tuesday, 3rd Period (5/17)

[drumsticksandd20s]

Everybody was back at the Community Center today, and this time there were spiral notebooks laid out at the tables for everyone along with an assortment of pencils, pens, and colored pencils. Steph was once again sitting on the front table and kicking her feet back and forth, this week in a sleeveless black t-shirt that said "Roll for Panic Attack" on it.

"Soooooooooooo, it looks like the high fantasy setting just edged out the nautical one," she said, looking slightly apologetic. She'd kind of wanted to bust out that pirate costume again. "But it is a classic choice for reasons. We're talking unicorns, giants, and dragons here, people. Swords and magic and epic adventure, courtly intrigue, the works."

She had a feeling at least a couple of people on the roster would feel right at home there, too.

"With that in mind, everybody grab a notebook because we're going to get into character creation this week," she went on, clapping her hands once for emphasis and grinning her infectious, not-quite-maniacal grin of excitement. "For starters, what's your character's name? What's their background -- a simple farmer, maybe, or a knight, or the village healer? What kinds of skills have they learned from their life experience? What's their social status? Then start thinking about what really drives them. Revenge? Riches? Doesn't have to be anything huge. Maybe they just want to make it to this one shop in the kingdom's capital to get their grandmother the perfect birthday present. Not everybody has to be a hero, but if that's what's gonna make you happy here? Go for it, dude. We're here to have fun."

She held her hands out in a reassuring gesture. "I know that might seem like a lot, but that's just for starters. We can dig deeper into character details over the next couple of weeks, as we build out the world and get a sense of what kind of adventure we're going on. Bounce ideas off each other if you want to here, or ask me for help if that's more comfortable. And once I have a better sense of what kind of characters you all are going to give me to work with, we can start planning out the kind of adventure we're gonna go on."

Underwater Basket Weaving and Other Aquatic Arts!; Tuesday, Fourth Period [05/17].

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Since the weather appeared to be cooperating, the class would be meeting once again at the beach, and when they did, they would find their instructor as eager and excited as ever, warming up with some squats and arm stretches and encouraging exclamations beside the bonfire for a different kind of warm-up later. And once everyone was there and ready to go, he did one final stretch up high over his head, rolled his neck a little, and laughed before opening his arms to the class in greeting.

"Hello!" he said. "And welcome back! Are you all ready for another thrilling day of learning aquatic arts? I know I am! And since this particular aquatic art will require a lot of physical activity, let's all take a moment to stretch and warm up so that our bodies are limber and ready to go! Because today, we are tackling that most important Aquatic Art, the one for which mostly all other Aquatic Arts stem from, and that, of course, is swimming!

"Now," he continued, after waving a hand to encourage them all to keep stretching while he talked, something that he, himself, was also going to do, "last week, it sounded as though most of you are already familiar with swimming, but there's still a good chance that we all possess a very diverse range of swimming skills! Some of you, such as myself, may have been swimming since you were practically a tadpole, freshly hatched into a world of water and wonder! Some of you may have learned a little later, but due to your exposure to watery depths, may have a wide range of experience and skills. Some of you may not know how to swim barely at all! And that is fine, because we're going to go over many different techniques, we shall help each other, those who already know the basics will receive an excellent refresher, and by the end of the class, hopefully we'll all be confident enough in our swimming abilities to pursue a...bit of a challenge!"

His grin was particularly excited and shiny over that.

And he gave them a little more time to stretch and get warmed up before calling out, "Alright, my intrepid aquatic artistes! Everybody in the water! Let's get swimming!"

Flight and Flying- Tuesday- 2nd period

[solo_sword]

It was back to the flight shed today, where Jaina greeted them with, "Welcome back. We're covering an Earth craft today, a T-38 Talon. It's a trainer, meaning it's used to train pilots to fly, so I figured it'd be a good choice for a new class. It's also the first supersonic trainer, which means you can actually go faster than the speed of sound. So of course I want you to try that if you can."

Jaina had, of course. Like a bunch of times before class.

A Beginner's Guide to Mechanical Engineering - Tuesday, 1st Period

[notagoose]

“Good morning,” Goose said when it was time for class to start, “this week we’re going to start looking at the practical component of this class and I thought to get a good feel for mechanical engineering and the process of building mechanical projects, we’d start by looking at machine drawing,”

“So we’ll start this week by getting a feel for the techniques used” and what’s involved before we move on to the building process,”