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As the students enter into the Danger ~~Room~~ Shop, they'll see that it has been transformed into a scrapyard, filled with various mechanical machines, scrap metal etc.

A section of the Junkyard has been put aside for the typical tools you would find in a metal/wood shop.

"Morning Kids. Before we do anything else, we will go over The Rules of the Danger Shop."

After the rules have been gone over, Mac then does Roll Call to make sure everyone is there. Then Mac walks everyone through the safety percautions and techniques to use any of the shop tools.

When that is complete, Mac rolls out a cart that has ground coffee and various types of coffee filters.

Today we are going to build a coffee machine.

To do this you must:
1. Fashion a container and device to boil water
2. Fashion a device to filter water through the coffee grounds
3. Fashion a device to receive the coffee

Notes: There are no Coffee Brewers or Percolators in the Junk Yard. I know. I fixed them. If you find a device that will heat the coffee (hotplate etc), chances are it is broken and you must take the time to fix it. Shop equipment cannot be used as functioning part of the coffee maker. Only to build it.

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“Okay…coffee maker…I can do this…” he muttered, not-so-confidently. He saw that one of his classmates had already started on making a heating device, and was amazed by how…natural building seemed to come to him. Victor hadn’t really taken a shop class before, so he wasn’t sure if he was good at building or not. With a sigh he advanced toward the junk piles. “I guess it’s time to find out…”

The other guy had used a light bulb, so Victor started there. However, most of the bulbs had been broken, and he couldn’t find a decent lamp or anything to put in the ones he did find. How am I gonna heat the water? he wondered aimlessly. Then, suddenly, the answer came to him in a burst of light. Literally. He had walked into a sunbeam coming from one of the somewhat-shaded windows, and had to pause a few minutes to blink the spots out of his eyes. Of course! he thought. I can use the sun to heat the water! If it worked on ants, it’ll probably make coffee...

He looked around some more until he found an old camping flashlight, a small metal rod, and some wire. He removed the lens cap from the flashlight and, using the wire, attached it to the rod, creating a makeshift, slightly bent magnifying glass.

But now that he had that, where would the water go? He didn’t have to look far, though: next to him was a medium-sized pot with two handles on the top and one handle on the bottom. After staring at it a bit, he remembered a special he had watched on some food station about machines used mass production of cakes. When he had come back from a snack break (since watching food somehow always makes people hungry), one of the workers was showing a conveyor belt where a precise amount of powdered sugar was added to the top of each cake. The pot in his hands looked like the one the machine had been using, and Victor absently wondered when the school had needed to mass-produce cakes.

It wasn’t important, though; he had his container. Using more wire, he attached the “heating lens”, as he figured he should call it, to one of the handles of the pot. He tried to angle it so that the sun would hit around the middle of the container, though even when he was satisfied it still looked like the lens was a little off. Now, for the coffee...

He had seen a large, yellow funnel earlier, so he went back to go get it. On his way, though, he tripped over something and went head-first into a cabinet. “Ow!” he cried, and tried to stand up to rub his carapace, but realized he couldn’t move his head. Confused, he tugged and pulled, and twisted, then moaned for help.

[ooc: one of his head-horns is kinda sorta lodged into the metal. Anyone wanna help? *is embarrassed*]

Sam ran over when she heard the yelp. "Are you okay? What happened?"

"I'm stuck!" he moaned.

Mac came over looked at horn stuck in the metal. "Hmmm.... Looks like we have to amputate," he joked.

"What?" Victor blanched, his skin becoming an even lighter shade of green.

[ooc: whee! new icon!]

"I'm kidding Victor, hold on here a second."

Mac pulled out his SAK and used it to pry back some of the metal surrounding Victor's horn.

"Try pulling back gently."

Victor did as he was told, and was happy to discover that he could slide his horn out. "Thanks..." he said, his cheeks crimson with embarrassment. "Bet that's enver happened before here..."

Mac gave Victor an encouraging grin. "Well class isn't over yet..."

~~No... Mac isn't looking for Death's entry into class. Not at all~~

"I'm sorry about your cabinet. I can pay for it," he said, trying to remember exactly how much money Xavier had sent with him.

"No worries. It'll just give me something to tinker with. Go ahead and wrap up your assignment."

"Okay, thanks," he said, walking bak tot he junk pile. As he moved, though, he saw what he had tripped over: a rectangular metal frame that looked like it used to belong to a footstool. What's this doing away from the junk? he wondered. He brought it back to his workstation and played with it a little, trying to figure ot if he could use it. If I turn it this way, the legs look like they're far apart enough for... he looked at the sifter he had hooked up, and got an idea. Some careful placement and some wire later, the heating device for his coffee maker was attached. Unfortunately, it was a little top-heavy, and kept falling over. Maybe I can counter the weight with something, Victor thought, and got up to search through the piles again.

This time, he had no accidents, and came back with the funnel he had been looking for, plus a grated cookie sheet-looking piece of metal and a metal cup from a milkshake machine. After a few tries, Victor was able to tie the grated sheet to the frame in a way that counterbalanced the weight. The funnel was bigger than the heating device, though, so Victor just used wire to "hammock" it from the frame as best as he could. Finally, he placed the cup below the funnel, completing the final piece he needed for the project.

"Now to test it," Victor sighed. He picked out a filter, put some coffee grounds in it, and gently set it into the funnel and pressed it down. Then, he turned the frame so that the sun was shining as directly as possible on the lens, and, making sure that the bottom was closed, poured water into the pot.

After a while, the water began to boil, and, using some tongs, Victor opened the bottom, sending a shower of water into the funnel. The water passed through the grounds and filter, and soon, hot coffee was pouring into the cup.

"I think I did it!" Victor called to his teacher.

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