Shop Class: [1/11]

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

Upon entering the classroom the students will find that it has been transformed into a laboratory, filled with various types of chemicals and electronic equipment.

What's strange is that there appears to be a locked door for each student.

"Today's assignment is situational. You have been locked inside this lab by an electronic lock on the door. The door lock itself cannot be picked by any means and you cannot removed the door by its hinges or any other physical means. There is a keypad by the door that controls the lock."

"Today your goal is to find a way to open the door using only what's in the lab and the standard shop student tool kit: A virtual swiss army knife and a roll of duct tape."

[OOC: Feel free to mod whatever you might find in the lab as long as it is not a code to the door or a set of keys. Hints for some possible solutions will be provided in one of the OCD tags below for those students who don't have a background in lockpicking or electronics.]

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Re: Assignment: [1/11]

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

Mac smiles. "First? It's Mac. Not Sir, Mister or Professor. I don't believe in titles. And yes, we have safety locks in place to protect students from any kind of explosions if you feel the need to use them."

Re: Assignment: [1/11]

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"Okay.. Mac. You just look a lot like a guy I know, so if I screw up with the name thing, lemme know." He cracked his knuckles and got to work.

Kawalsky's first movement was towards the lock. He examined it thoroughly and pried the cover off with the Swiss army knife. The wiring and circuitry was too complex and there was no telling what kind of reaction tampering with it with a knife would have. He had to treat this like a normal, real-life situation - one where he could get electrocuted if he tried something really stupid.

But really stupid was his specialty. He left the lock alone for a good twenty minutes while he examined the chemicals in the lab. He returned with several test tubes in a test tube rack (the contents of which the mun is so not mentioning on an open forum because she's not that stupid), making sure that none of the chemicals interacted until he was ready for them to be mixed.

He needed a delivery system.

Kawalsky set the chemicals down out of the way and looked around again. He grabbed several stools/chairs from near the lab benches and spaced them out in a row leading away from the lock to just around behind a bench with an enclosed bottom. He then pulled out several retort stands with bossheads and clamps and set them up on top of the chairs in increasing increments so that anything kept in them would go from up to down onto the lock.

He retrieved several long, hollow glass tubes and used the duct tape to tape them together firmly at the ends. Kawalsky fixed them, one by one, into place in the retort stand/clamp set-ups all the way back to his hiding place.

The final addition to the far too complicated set up was to tape up the bottom of the lock so there was a catchment for a small amount of liquid and powder to settle there. He took one of the test tubes and emptied the powdery substance onto the catchment.

Kawalsky then retrieved the other chemicals and took up position in his hiding place. He used a pipette to feed the remaining chemicals into the tubes. The first chemical trickled onto the powder, but there was no reaction. After Kawalsky finished feeding the second chemical into the tube, he ducked and waited for it to reach its destination.

Right on cue, the combination of chemicals interacted and a small explosion - nothing earth-shattering, but still loud and big enough to do the job - echoed out. When the smoke cleared and Kawalsky dared to come out from his cover position, the lock was charred and no longer functional.

Re: Assignment: [1/11]

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

Mac gives Kawalsky a thumbs up. "Good Job."