Trust in Teamwork - Wednesday, 1st Period

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"So we've talked about what it's like to work with beings who are annoying," Anakin said. "Today we're going to wade into the problems that occur when your teammates cause you to form crushes on them."

Don't make him bring out the horrifying safe sex presentation, gang. He'd do it. He doesn't care if some of you are adults.

Especially since it was bad enough even when Anakin wasn't trying to mortify you. Possibly even worse then.

"It's a situation we're both far too familiar with," Ahsoka added. Then after a beat. "Not with each other. Obviously." That was obvious, right?

Super obvious. "We're both from an Order that advised us to ignore those feelings until they go away," Anakin said, which was just a super healthy approach and explained so much about their current interactions, "but I've been told that other places get different advice."

"There's a difference between not letting personal feelings interfere with the task at hand and ignoring them." Only if you actually dealt with them like you were supposed to, Ahsoka.

"I can do both," Anakin said breezily.

That silence on Ahsoka's part was very much not agreement, Anakin.

Necromancers Guide to the Undead, Thursday, Period 1

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Prompto had been kind enough to go digging through the Danger Shop's files for her last week to see if he could find any of the Ravnican simulation she had programmed into the wretched machine. Most of her program had been corrupted, but he managed to salvage what he could and she'd managed to salvage some measure of grace to thank him for his assistance.

As such, the class once more met in the Danger Shop, Liliana having arrived several minutes early to whisper the most viciously creative threats she could to the stupid machine if it dared play anything other than the simulation she'd programmed. Either Prompto's skill or her own threats had worked and rather than a suburban yard filled with giant, bobbing plants, they were in a circular tunnel, the walls overgrown with lichens, mosses, and various fungi. Above them, lights streamed through holes in the ceiling, from where it looked like cobblestones had fallen in and not been replaced. With those holes, the air was surprisingly fresh, smelling like green growth with only a faint scent of decay.

Once class had arrived and put on their protective gear - Liliana had eschewed such things, but that's because she was skipping out on the 'full experience' she was gifting to her students, you're welcome class - she gestured to the tunnel. "So, due to last week's...difficulties...we are regrettably left with only a small percentage of the simulation - though a very interesting one, which is fortunate. However, this section of the simulation will deal with the treatment and disposal of the dead. If you think this will be too distressing for you, or if you have some kind or moral or religious taboo against such things, you're free to go to the library and begin writing a ten page paper about funerary traditions of a culture other than your own, due by next week."

She waited for anyone to leave who was so inclined, and then turned back to the matter at hand. Or, specifically, the tunnel. "As you remember from last week, the Golgari Swarm is in charge of both widespread food and also sanitation. The first part of our simulation had intended to be following a chapter of the Street Swarm as they cleaned up a neighborhood. That part of the simulation didn't survive, so instead, we're beginning here, on their trek down to the Undercity. Much of the trash that is either inorganic or still salvageable is taken to other parts of the sewer to be separated and catalogued. Down this way is where they bring much of the organic filth, and any dead bodies they have collected. The plant-life - not that fungus is specifically a plant, but we're categorizing it that way for ease - is a general marker that we are using a Golgari sewer tunnel, as is the relative cleanliness. Most people would see a dry, overgrown sewer and assume that this had been abandoned, but they would be wrong. The holes in the ceiling were placed deliberately, to allow for water and light to enter the tunnel to encourage growth, and if you had time to examine the plant life, you would find bioluminescent plants to allow for travel in the dark; different colors and species of lichen to act as signposts for various areas and warnings for Guild defenses; and several species of fungus that reinforce the walls and ceiling against decay not sanctioned by the Guild, and others with vast mycelial networks to provide information to Golgari shamans, fungus-binders, and other fungal constructions who are capable of interpreting the signals the mycelia provide."

She began to move forward, leading the class further into the tunnel. Keep up, class. This was only a simulation, but you probably didn't want to be left behind.

"The outer tunnels are mostly for surveillance," she explained as they walked. "Any number of non-Golgari folk can end up in the sewers - explorers, looters, criminals, people seeking shelter from the elements, et cetera - and most surface Golgari tunnels have forks and junctions built in leading back to the surface." She stopped at one such, the right side with more of those semi-evenly spaced holes for light and a gentle slope upwards. The left one had fewer light-holes and quickly descended into shadows, the plants thicker and darker. "The assumption is, of course, that most innocent people will take the right-hand path and either take shelter there or leave the sewers entirely." So, of course, they were heading down the left past, into the gloom.

Battle Tactics and Strategy; Thursday, Fourth Period [03/21],

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Class that week was held again in a boring old classroom, because, quite frankly, the logistics of setting up elaborate sims when you couldn't even see how they turned out was a little bit exhausting and Ignis, personally, found these sort of mental theater of the mind exercises personally more enriching, anyway.

And so he was at the front of the classroom, leaning on the desk with his arms folded in front of him as the class come in, and, when the little alarm on phone chimed to let him know the top of the period, he began without much preamble or waiting to ensure everyone was present, especially not this late in the semester.

"So far in this class," he said, "we've gone over various aspects of warfare, everything from typical units and how they function, to various methods of combat, both physical as well as intellectual. Today's class will involve two aspects: one, for you to consider what we've covered thus far and see if you feel there are any inherent gaps in knowledge or approaches that have not been covered yet, and two, to consider a few scenarios and use the knowledge you've obtained so far to discuss with the class as a whole what strategies are best applied to those scenarios. I'd also like to encourage you all to submit your own scenarios, should you think of them, to add a little more challenge and perspective.

"Just that." He nodded. "Our last classes were a bit more directly engaging, but having the time to analyze and consider a situation with like-minded individuals is quite often a rare luxury in a war, and getting the chance to take advantage of it now is one that should not be ignored. And so, if anyone has any thoughts on combat or strategy we've not explored to the extent as you would like, we'll start with that, and then we'll get into a few scenarios."

Photography Through the Ages; Thursday, Third Period [03/21].

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"I hope you guys managed to have a good time with those Polaroids from last week," said Prompto, grinning at the front of the classroom. "If you managed to snag some good shots that you wanna share, I'd love to see them! Today, though, we're going to be watching a film. We've been coming a lot of interesting different types of cameras from across the history of photography here on this world, some pretty popular, some more obscure, and today, I want to introduce you all to the the lomography movement, which is what kept analog film relevant and popular even as the world started to make the exciting shift into digital, thanks to one particular brand.

"I'll let the documentary do most of the talking from here on in, and if you guys have any questions or anything after it's done, we can dive into that."

And, with that, he hit the lights, and let the movie play.

Dice and Danger! [Thurs, 2nd Period]

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The Danger Shop looked like some kind of training ground today.

"Given the hobby is supposed to be based around you doing anything you can imagine, sometimes, the game doesn't let you do everything you want to be able to do." That's what you got for playing a class based system rather than a skills based one, guys.

Look, they weren't ready to branch out to different systems yet, okay?

"Which is where you get multiclassing," Jane said like it made perfect sense. It was fine. Everything was fine. "Which is picking a new class to add to what you already have."

Usually with some kind of statistical prerequisites, but did the teachers know? No. No they did not.

"So you get to do more things without any downside." Actually, Cara, the downside was you couldn't become ridiculously OP in either of your classes, but then you didn't care about leveling did you?

"So, let's figure out what you'd like to multiclass into," Jane said with an encouraging nod.