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Getting Out of Tight Situations- Period 5- Class #5

When the students got to class today, they'd find themselves in the middle of a hilly forest area. At least it wasn't too humid or too cold this week?

"Hey, guys," Jaina greeted them. "Today you're going hiking. You can pick up a few essentials to take with you, the trail is marked, and you even get a companion on your hike." As she spoke, a nondescript teenage boy appeared next to her, waving at the students. "This is Bob. Something's going to happen on your hike, and I'm not going to tell you what. But once it happens, you're going to have to figure out what tools you have available to you and what you're going to do about it. Good luck, and I hope you all wore study shoes."

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Like you have a bad feeling about this.

Talk to your friends, try to figure out what's going to happen, pick up the moddable essentials (think water, small first aid kid...), curse your shoe choice...

Hike with Bob! You can talk with him and everything, he is fully moddable. And once you got to a little ravine about half a mile from the nearest ranger station, Bob is going to take a spill down it and break his ankle.

The only gear you have is what you chose to bring with you, so you get to figure out what to do about your hurt hiking partner. Luckily he does have a cell phone, though the signal might be intermittent.

Who's actually pretty relaxed today.

When he pings in, of course.

I WANT THIS HEADACHE GONE. DAMN YOU, $4 WINE.

Bobby Drake

Bobby snagged a first aid kit and some matches, along with a carabiner and a length of rope.

And tried not to make faces at the simulated hiking companion. Bob, really?

Okay, so. The hike had been going pretty well, except for that whole "something was going to happen" thing that Bobby knew was on the horizon.

So when it did... well, at least he had rope to rappel down there and splint Bob's ankle.

Now the only problem was how to get back up to the trail. He didn't have the kind of supplies that would make climbing back up with an injured companion very easy, so he had to settle for trying to use the phone. It took some time with the way the phone kept cutting out, but eventually he got ahold of help.

This would've been so much easier if he'd used his powers, sure, but the whole point of taking this class was to learn how to deal with situations without them, so.

Cara

Andrew Wiggin

James of Krondor

"Jaina?" Ender said, once the class had ended. He had no intention of disturbing anything, after all - his request wasn't class-related. "Have you got a minute?"

James selected a container of water and a folding camp knife (out of curiosity). He did not change out of his modern boots.

James was not paying attention to "Bob" or Bob's lack of walking skill as he was busy with the folding knife. Out of the corner of his eye he caught the movement as Bob fell into the ravine. He slipped the knife into his pocket and climbed down to see Bob holding his ankle, writhing on the ground in pain. James, who wrongly fancied himself a healer as all those who lived on the streets did, quickly determined the ankle was broken or sprained, and used the folding knife to cut strips of Bob's shirt. He tied a nearby branch to Bob's ankle to hold it, and wrapped the rest of the strips around the ankle.

"Now we make it back up the ravine," James said to Bob, whose face paled. Bob went even paler as James told the story of Roald and his broken legs, and his death, as he helped the teen to his foot.

"Sure, Ender," she said. It wasn't like she needed to be anywhere. "What's up?"

"I've been talking to Ben about a species from your home universe that's a lot like an extinct one back home," Ender started, because this was kind of a complicated one to explain. "He's got his issues with them, and I don't want to push him into talking about it, but he said you've had experience with them. I'm wondering if you'd be willing to sit down and talk to me about the Killiks. It doesn't have to be now, of course."

She raised her eyebrows, definitely interested to hear about what he had like the Killiks back home. Even months later she missed the Colony juuust a little. "Of course. I'm pretty much able to talk whenever. I'm free now, or I hold office hours on Friday, whatever works for you."

"Then I think now is fine," Ender said, easily. "The reason I'm bringing it up is because we've recently started colonising the worlds the Formics left behind, and we're only barely starting to make sense of all the data that's coming in."

Well. One of many reasons, and probably the one least important to Ender, but also the least problematic.

"Hopefully I can help somehow," Jaina said. "Is there anything specific you wanted to know?"

Cara sighed before picking up a pack and putting water, rope, and bandages in it and attaching a knife to her belt. Oh, yes, she had been missing walking all over the countryside, really she had.

By the time Bob took his tumble, Cara was grateful for it shutting him up. At least until he started on about his leg. Probably broken, sprains never got that kind of volume.

Then he passed out while she was splinting it. Great, now she was going to have to wait for him to come around or carry him out of here.

Ben Skywalker

"A lot of things," Ender admitted. "Of course, I have no idea how comparable the species really are, but they were both bugs and hive minds. Communication, I guess, is a big one."

Ben picked up what normally went into his emergency pack anyway--rope, bacta patches, emergency rations, tiny collapsible tent (shhh, he got stuck in the woods a lot), and gave Bob an appraising look.

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