fandomhigh | Macro-Tactics, Monday

"Today, we're back to a little hands-on work," Kerrigan said. The Danger Shop had been set up as... a hallway with four identical doors, this time. "I want you to form up as pairs. One of you takes a black box, the other a white," and she waved two small, also identical boxes around. "Pressing the right side will put down a pawn. That's your footsoldiers. Pressing the left puts down a tower-- archers, riflemen, snipers, whatever you want to call it."

She tossed one of the two to the first student she laid her eyes on.

"Behind these doors are four different kinds of terrain. You will pick a door without knowing which. You will then both walk into opposite directions for five minutes, while assessing your environment. Then you will deploy your 'troops'."

Her lips widened in a not entirely genuine smile.

"The computer will determine which one of you would 'win' by most fortuitous troop placement alone," she said, "Though it's not going to tell you. I want you to come back out, fire up one of the computers over there, and look over what you did in birds' eye-- figure out what you did, what your opponent did, and how fucked you are. Now, go."

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Like a chess piece.

James of Krondor

Cally

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Or stare at the doors.

James groaned, trying to remember all of the battle planning he'd overheard and been forced to look over as part of his 'training' the past few years.

Well now, no teacher instruction not to use natural advantages.

Who was going to use her telepathy against her classmates? EMMA. Of course.

Well, then, this was certainly intriguing. Alexander listened carefully, to make sure that he had maintained all the rules and nuances of the game they were about to pursue.

Karla was thoughtful, sketching out ideas for fortification and troops. Nothing concrete until she saw her terrain, of course, but some basic ideas from the second handout might be useful to note down.

Oh look, that was a balled-up note being aimed at the back of Karla's head.

You went to Glacia. Without me. And you didn't bring me anyone to 'play' with as a souvenir.. No, Emma was NOT talking to Karla, as evidenced by the lack of telepathy. She also wasn't sulking. Shut up. I'm beginning to think you don't love me anymore.

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There wasn't much in the way of notes to take, but Cally could look back at the maps from last week on her datapad, imagining where she might place troops in those terrains, at least, while she listened.

Granted, those were pretty neat doors.

But yeah, strategic troop placement, Cloud could do that, surely. Fort Condor had taught him enough strategy, or so he hoped.

There's four of them. They all look completely identical.

James was leaning towards door number four, and waited for someone to partner against.

Alexander considered the choices of boxes and the choices of doors and then the choices of partners; the instructions had built him up to be strategic about even that.

Door number one.

There was no point on building stress when there was no clear indication one door would be any better choice than the other.

Behind this door lies a lush rainforest that seems to stretch out for miles and miles. It's hard to navigate.

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Behind this door lies a desert. Visibility is high, but it's easy to lose sight of what's where in the endless sandy hills.

This is a very mountainous region indeed. Treacherous passes abound, and the places that aren't passes are very hard to climb. Nevermind the cliffs...

Unlike the others, this area doesn't look desolate. In fact, it's an urban area, though if there are any people there at all, they seem to have hidden away in their houses.

It looks like an old European city, all winding roads and random alleyways that don't seem to be in places they should be.

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When you're done placing pawns and towers (or just chatting with your partner and wandering around and calling it a day; Kerrigan wouldn't put it past you) you can check out what the two of you did on topdown view.

Discuss.

As they ping in!

Emma was there, and available for those afraid to ask the teacher questions.

She was in the hallway the whole time-- keeping an eye on the students via a console.

You know, normal people's parents are the ones that keep you from getting really drunk and getting hit on by Floridans who look like Ben Stiller. But not my dad, oh no.

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