The Day After Doomsday: Getting By In a Post-Apocalyptic World - Period 2

[raspberryturk]

Today... Was a pizza day. Or, rather, a pizza with some salads on the side just-in-case day. Call Reno crazy, but he suspected that most of the students in his classroom hadn't been in any state of mind to go and get food yesterday after cleaning up from their respective traumas, and the weekend had been pretty low on eating for the people stuck in that wasteland with him, so...

He was sitting on the top of his desk, mowing down on a slice of pepperoni with extra cheese when the students made their way into the classroom today. He even stopped to chew and swallow before speaking! Be thankful.

"I'm gonna try to take it easy on you today," he said, not even bothering with his ritual 'yo' as an icebreaker. "Don't wanna take it too easy, though. This lecture was supposed to be the important one. Grab some food, it's free and it ain't gonna make you sick. Make yourselves comfortable, yo."

As comfortable as you could in a school desk. Sometimes Reno forgot that what he considered comfortable wasn't what the rest of humanity preferred.

"This week ain't about gettin' over the shock, it ain't about survivin' the day after. Today's about the rest of it. Lookin' ahead and puttin' up the framework to rebuild, either once the worst is gone, or once you find a way to work around it, yo. Food is the obvious one, yeah. We been goin' over that one again and again since the start of the class. But it don't just end there. People need ways to communicate with one another. Sooner or later, you might wanna find other survivors, other pockets of people that you can talk to or trade with or settle with. To do that, you'll need reliable transportation, that's gonna differ from place to place, situation to situation."

He managed, by some miracle, to resist the urge to inform the class that chocobos were still way cooler than horses.

"Roads don't build themselves. Communication networks don't show up overnight with the wave of a hand. You might want to start lookin' into doling out them responsibilities, choosin' the most capable people to sort out the pieces, to put them together in a way that works. The start of government, if you're lucky enough to be in a situation where you get to choose. There are gonna be people no matter how bad it is who just want the power to themselves at the end of the day. Keep your eyes out for them, too. Most of 'em ain't gonna make life easier."

He went quiet for a moment, lost in thought, trying to sort out more helpful things to say. He hadn't let it show all weekend, and he was trying like hell not to let it show now, but he was tired, and the effort of trying to keep an eye out for a handful of lost and scared students was catching up with him, hard.

"Beans are easy to grow, your world's equivalent of a horse is still one of the most reliable forms of transportation you can find, careful what water you drink, careful what food you eat, careful what air you breathe. And don't, no matter what the situation is, ever take anything you got for granted. Now... eat your friggin' pizza."

[OCD on the waaaaay up!]

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Sign In

[raspberryturk]

Getting back on your feet.

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[intraspective]

Yamanaka Ino

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[awakestheghosts]

Chloe Saunders

Listen to the Lecture

[raspberryturk]

Wherein Reno rambles. Are you all terribly surprised?

Eat Your Friggin' Pizza

[raspberryturk]

There's a lot of it in a variety of moddable kinds. And there's just as moddable salad, for those of you who don't do well with tomato sauce or meat or cheese or whatever.

... And juice. And coffee. And tea. And chocolate milk. Don't judge Reno. He's drinking the chocolate milk, today.

Eat. Talk. Stare at walls. Leave early. Reno isn't going to judge any of you if you feel as if you need to.

Re: Eat Your Friggin' Pizza

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn filled her plate with salad and a small piece of cheese pizza, which she picked at thoughtfully.

She wasn't used to thinking of herself as helpless, but between this class and her time in Rivet City, that was about how she felt. Growing beans didn't sound that much easier to her than whipping up a cell phone network from scratch.

Re: Eat Your Friggin' Pizza

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

Pizza. There was pizza. Screw it being too early for pizza, Jake would be over here and eating way, way too much. Yesterday he'd been too tired to even think of it, today he was going to make up for lost meals.

Re: Eat Your Friggin' Pizza

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Scully was carefully making her way through a slice of ham with pineapple, but smiled to see Jake. "Hey. You're okay. I'm glad you're back."

The TAs

[raspberryturk]

If they're up for being here at all. Reno won't fault anyone for missing class today, after all.

Re: The TAs

[intraspective]

Ino was... here.

If pressed she could probably tell you what the lecture was about. Maybe. Mostly she was just... scribbling in a diary notebook and eyeing the pizza dubiously.

Food. Right. She'd get to it at some point.

Re: The TAs

[awakestheghosts]

Chloe was here, but she was a little more on the quiet and withdrawn side than she usually was -- at least in this class.

She spent a lot more time staring into her juice than actually drinking any of it.

Reno

[raspberryturk]

Who is a little more quiet than usual, but that's not because of trauma, really. It's because he's looking out over the classroom, trying to figure out who isn't as okay as they're trying to let on.

... While eating pizza.

It was totally a distraction. Really.

Re: Reno

[glacial_queen]

Hopefully, Reno was prepared for another distraction after class ended. A distraction in the form of Karla with a ferret on a leash, a cat sleeping in a box, and another, closed box that was quacking grumpily. The quacking box was floating along next to her, about a foot away.

Karla and the duck had a mutually-agreed upon hate.

"Special delivery," she said with a smile.

Re: Reno

[raspberryturk]

"Mako!"

Look, Reno had priorities! And there was much joyous honking from the ninja-weasel on the leash while the two had their grand reunion. Which involved a bit of wrestling, because Reno didn't care who out there knew how much he cared for his ferret, damn it.

"And Petey!" This reunion was a little more subdued, because good luck getting Cuban Pete home along with the ferrret and the duck if he ever woke up.

...

"And you even brought the duck."

Joy.

OOC

[raspberryturk]

So. This weekend, I bought Fallout 3 and Bioshock 2. I already owned the first Bioshock and I still got the second even though the first scared the pee out of me before I even got out of my stupid bathysphere.

Fandom High, you're an expensive habit.

Re: OOC

[intraspective]

Hahahaha. I laugh at your spending on games that'll scare you. <3

Re: OOC

[puppy_fair]

I'm not going to get a proper night's sleep for the rest of my life, at this rate. Omg.

Re: OOC

[glacial_queen]

But they're sooooo good!

Re: OOC

[puppy_fair]

My keysmashy terror and I don't doubt that for a second! Really!

Re: OOC

[awakestheghosts]

This would be why I'm glad I don't have any game systems beyond a Nintendo DS. :D

Re: OOC

[puppy_fair]

... Yep. I have one of those, too. It's the only system out there that can play almost every Final Fantasy game before VII.

*hangs head*

Re: OOC

[brat-intraining.livejournal.com]

I hope you appreciated sleep. 'cause you ain't seeing that again.

Re: OOC

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

I'm not touching either. *nods*

Seriously, I got a mod to get the spiders out of Dragon Age because they made me jump and made my veins all itchy. *is a whimp*

Re: OOC

[bitchprince]

Meanwhile, I went out and bought LittleBigPlanet. HAPPY FLUFFY FALLOUT ANTIDOTE FTW.

Re: OOC

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy is too busy being an overdramatic and mentally unstable angstball to come to class. The little skiver. Sigh.

Also, I will admit that I was creeped out just watching over my housemates shoulder when he was playing Bioshock 2. But Fallout 3 weirdly doesn't bother me much at all...