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fandomhigh2010-08-09 08:31 am
raspberryturk) wrote in fandomhigh2010-08-09 08:31 am
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The Day After Doomsday: Getting By In a Post-Apocalyptic World - Period 2
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."
[OCDon the waaaaay up!]
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