Shop Class [2/6]

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

As the students enter the Danger Shop, they'll see that Mac has set up what appears to be a long hallway. On a table there by the hallway are an assortment of cleaning products and other goods that you could pick up at your local Kwik Stop.

Yes. There are Twinkies.

"Your assignment today is to come up a way to walk down this hallway. The only trick to this is that there are several security lasers scattered about the hallway at different heights and angles. Your job is to come up with a way to detect the lasers and navigate the hallway without tripping the alarm."

The following Students will have detention this week for missing class more than three times in a row:
Yuffie
Sydney Bristow
DEATH

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Assignment: [2/6]

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John spends a long time thinking about this assignment. Easy way, if the movies are correct, would be to spray in front of him and look for the beam of red.

Deciding to get a little creative, John grabs a lot of Twinkies, some tongs, and duct tape.

Then he steps up to the hallway, puts one Twinkie at the end of his tongs and slowly runs the Twinkie up and down, looking for the beam of red. Upon finding it, he slowly walks over to one side of the doorway and tapes the Twinkie just under where the beam hit the Twinkie so he's got a marker of sorts.

He continues doing that slowly as he goes up the hallway. Soon, there are Twinkies taped all over the walls and John's succesfully made it to the end.

Re: Assignment: [2/6]

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

"Nice technique, Crichton," Mac said with an approving tone. "I never thought of the Twinkie technique."

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Thank you, sir." John smiles. "Just don't tell Xander I wasted Twinkies."

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[soldtoarmenians]

*totally SAW you*

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam, still trying to figure out what she was going to do, had an idea. "Hey, Crichton? Mind if I use the cardboard from your Twinkies for my assignment?"

Re: Assignment: [2/6]

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Go for it, Sam." John pushes the cardboard towards her.

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Thanks, John," Sam said, making a little pile out of the cardboard, then lowering her voice and asking, "So, is everyone in your room recovering from the study session?"

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[nadiathesaint]

Nadia wondered tiredly if Mac expected them to build a mirror out of duct tape.

Which was silly; duct tape wasn't that reflective.

Some candy wrappers were, though. She grabbed a handful of Nestle crunch bars, unwrapped, and started munching as she flattened the wrappers as much as possible. She had chocolate on her hands and a stomach ache by the time she was done, but she also had several small, very flexible, mirrored surfaces.

So she grabbed a can of aerosal deodorant and stood next to the wall, spraying up and down until she spotted the first laser. She had to respray several times before she was sure of the position, since the deordorant settled much too quickly, but soon enough she was able to tape the first foil wrapper in the right spot to reflect the laser back on itself, and walked through.

The second laser went much the same way.

With the third laser, she got a little lazy, and tried to save resources by not spraying to deordorant that much, and she put the foil wrapper in the wrong place and set the alarm off.

She sighed and sat down on the floor. You couldn't win them all.

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[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

"Good technique Santos," Mac said with a grin. "You'll do better next time."

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[nadiathesaint]

Nadia shoots Mac a quick salute and curls up to take a nap.

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Working slowly, but finally back on both feet, Sam went over to the safety supplies and pulled out a fire extinguisher, just in case. Then, she took out a small metal pie plate and placed the used Twinkie cardboard she'd gotten from Crichton into it.

She arranged the cardboard pieces in a pile that allowed for a great deal of air circulation, then used matches to set them on fire. The cardboard lit immediately, but the plastic covering and Twinkie grease on it made the fire smoke a lot, which made the lasers visible.

Once she was sure the fire wouldn't go out while she was walking, that it wouldn't leap into something else, and that she could actually see the laser beams, Sam made her way slowly and awkwardly across the room, coughing the entire time.

She should have made an air filter.

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[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

"Good job, Carter. How's the leg doing?"

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

She pulled up her pant leg. "Bruised, and it hurts to touch it, but the stitches are gone. Plus, no crutches. Thanks for asking."

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[soldtoarmenians]

Xander was not above cannibalism, as has been previously demonstrated - of his own or other people's assigments. He was, however, above cannibalism with Twinkies.

Shooting a disapproving frown in Crichton's direction, he sorted through the supplies until he found a tin of Nestle Chocolate Quik. Or as the heathens were calling these days, Nesquik.

Folding a piece of paper into a tight cone, he poured powder into the base, then blew it out into the hallway, watching the laser light bounce momentarily off the tiny sugar crystals.

The he did the exact same thing John had done. Only, you know. Without abusing the Twinkies. Since taping a piece of duct tape to the wall where the beam started and ended worked just fine, without the involvement of cream-filled, spongey tubes of Love.

Somewhere, someone was apologizing for that last metaphor, but not in this dimension.

Then he walked to the end of the hall, avoiding the beams.

Until he turned around to stare glare smugly at Crichton, totally tripped over his own shoelace, and broke the last beam, setting off the alarm.

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John eats a Twinkie in order not to laugh.

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[soldtoarmenians]

Xander very pointedly did not stare at John eating the Twinkie. Except for that one quick glance to make sure he knew where John and the Twinkie were so he could not stare there.

It's possible that he was sulking while he unwrapped a Twinkie of his own and sat against the wall not staring at John.

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[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

"Nice Try, Harris. Good Technique though."

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[soldtoarmenians]

"Yeah, I usually get a 9 or higher in the artistic portion of the falling on my ass olympics. Sometimes the Belgian judge gives eights, but eh, you know Belgians." Xander made a gesture with his hands that possibly implied drinking heavily, swatting away dragonflies, or worshipping Cthulu, it was that weird and simultaneously vague.

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[death-n-binky.livejournal.com]

*DEATH, still striving for creative expression, uses a shower of double-sided reflective glitter to identify where the beams are. Since the glitter relfects back the laser beams, the alarm does not sound.

DEATH, now aware of where every laser is, walks calmly straight down the hall, the beams passing through his form. The alarm does not sound.

After completing his assignment, he examines the twinkies carefully, eating one and, after some thought, creating a duct-tape/packaged snackfood necklace.*

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[02maxwell.livejournal.com]

Duo, used to being able to simply disarm the lasers from the control panel, is a bit stumped for a minute. He suddenly remembers the aerosol spray can method, and opts to go for that. Jumping over the beams and crawling under them is pretty easy, though, since OZ fences and air ducts make for good training. Since he's not on a mission, however, he becomes a bit forgetful; tripping one of the last high beams because, while he cleared the beam, his braid, sadly, did not.

He shakes his head and says sheepishly, "Man, I'm gettin' outta practice or somethin'!"

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[stykera]

Stark picked up two bottles of an off-brand all purpose cleaner and looked at the hallway. If he didn't make it all the way down, at least the hallway would be clean. And if it wasn't clean, at least it would smell like it was.

Spraying the two bottles in front of him made the beams show up for long enough to avoid them, at least at first. But being impatient and only having one eye led to misjudging the angle on a beam about a third of the way down the hallway and running right into it.

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[ex-izziebell894.livejournal.com]

Izzie completes the assignment and does the handwavey thing.

{{OOC: I'm sorry this sucks so much. I'm sick, and just blah...}}

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[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Kawalsky's first instinct was to retreat and find the location of the power source for the security system. But as Mac explained that they had to detect the lasers and navigate, that idea went out the window.

The first thing he did was take off his shoes and socks and pants. Thankfully, he was still wearing his PT shorts underneath his khakis. He took off his necklace and put it with the rest of his gear off to the side.

Kawalsky grabbed some baby powder and opened the squeeze container. He emptied some of it into his hand and tossed it in front of him. Some of it scattered across a red beam. He got a little closer and scattered more powder across so he could see the whole laser. Kawalsky stepped over it.

He used the same technique on the next laser. This time he lowered himself carefully onto the ground. He blew some baby powder underneath to make sure it wasn't a trick. When he was sure he could fit, he slid the powder squeeze bottle through first and then army crawled down low under the laser. He came close to tripping the laser with his foot, but managed to get through.

The last one was tricky. He couldn't get over or under it the way he'd been trying.

Kawalsky sighed and used the powder to get back all the way to the beginning.

He grabbed a CD off the pile and made his way all the way back to the last laser. He used the CD to try to deflect the beam away, but all he ended up doing was deflecting the laser into his own eye.

Kawalsky swore loudly and dropped the CD.

The alarm went off.

He scowled and rubbed at his eye. He blinked a few times, but everything in that eye was a bit blurry. Thankfully the laser wasn't too strong.

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[iwasawesome.livejournal.com]

Lilly completes the assignment with things found in her purse. And I handwave, because would hair spray set off the lasers? I don't know. I'm so not stealthy! *sigh*