Life Skills; Monday, First Period [01/30].

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Summer started class that week without much preamble, leaning on the desk in front of the danger shop classroom as usual, but this time, with a big TV screen next to her, so there was a good chance everyone could figure out what today's lesson would entail!

"Personal hygiene," she said. "Not everyone's favorite topic, but an important one, especially when you've got people in your class from all walks of life, some of which didn't always involve the convenience of water being piped directly into your house for hygiene purposes. Now, obviously, personal hygiene is also very much that: personal, so we're going to politely try to keep it that way. I have a few sheets with tips and good practices to follow, and I found a few videos in the archives to watch that'll go over some of it. If there's any questions, we'll go over them after the video, although if you'd rather ask them in private, I'll stick around after class to do so. I'd like for you all to feel comfortable enough to be open in this classroom, but I know it doesn't always work like that.

"I did, however," she added, "bring snacks."

Don't worry, guys. No jello. More like just popcorn and theater candy. And juice boxes. Because Summer's humor was weird.

Practical Wilderness Survival- Second Period- Monday

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"For this class today, we are going to focus on perhaps the most important aspect of wilderness survival," Dwight said as he stood in front of the class. "Unfortunately, it is also something most people do not take seriously enough until it is too late. We have already learned a little about how to find, collect, and sterilize water we find. But what happens when that process takes too long? What happens to the body when there is not enough water in the cells? How do you deal with this potentially dangerous problem known as dehydration? That is what we are going to talk about today."

Sensory Deprivation Combat Training; Monday, Third Period [01/30].

[chef_chocobro]

By now, the students shouldn't be in the least bit surprised to find themselves in the Danger Shop, with the lights turned down incredibly low, and only a few bits of glowing panel lights to guide their way toward anything. Nor should they be surprised that their instructor planned to get right into the matter at hand.

"Today," he said, "will be our last day for a while focusing on a lack of sight before we move on to another sense. As such, consider today a sort of...culmination of everything we've been working on thus far. Ahead of you in the darkness is a bit of an obstacle course, not only with things to clamor over or get in your way, but also a variety of different enclosures or open spaces, pit falls and caverns, to navigate your way around. And since this isn't just finding one's way about without the use of a certain sense and is supposed to, indeed, involve combat, there will be areas where you are likely to be attacked. However, there are signs, subtle as they may be, through audible or physical cues, to let you know when such an attack may be ahead. Because of the complex nature of the course, you will have the low lights available to guide you. You have your choice of weapon preferences and defensive armor as well. Consider this a bit of a unit exam on what you've learned with regards to the sense of sight. You may go about the course individually, or you may assist one another, if you so desire. Taking inspiration from video games, you have a sort of...health bar, as it were, to withstand a few blows and falls in necessary, as well as some health potions and the like throughout the course if you can locate them, and, obviously, the goal is to make it to the end.

"If there are any questions," he added, "I advise you to please ask them. Knowledge is often as good a tool as any weapon. But if you feel you're ready to take on the course, I'll not keep you any longer, and good luck. Remember to employ the senses available to you still to the best of your advantage. I've ensured that you will not be left wanting if you do."