Mad Kings & Queens: Raving Royals and How To Survive Them (Wednesday, 4th Period)

[atreideslioness]

When the class arrived today, they'd find the desks missing. Instead, there were cushions on the floor surrounding a number of low tables, and each table held one of two boxes.

"I'm going to assume that most of you are completely unable to focus on anything remotely academic today," Ghanima stated. "So today we're going to do a practical application."

"There is always a cost to removing a corrupt monarch from power," she continued. "People. Resources. There's not even a guarantee that you'll win."

"Each of you is a revolutionary trying to save their people. The person opposite you is a corrupt or insane ruler, that must be deposed." Ghanima held up one pawn, smiling. "It's up to each of you to decide where to draw the line for acceptable loss. Each army you lose is a point off your grade, unless you win it all."

"Pair up, or make teams, and have fun."

[Last verse, same as the first. OCD up!]

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Re: Class Activity: Risk or Chess!

[life_inshadow]

Tara eyed the board, trying to remember the little she had ever known about chess strategy, and brought out a knight.

"Yeah?" she asked. "Like ... what have you learned?"

[OOC: I have not played in 20 years or something. Handwave power?]

Re: Class Activity: Risk or Chess!

[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

"That I take a lot for granted at home," Anakin said promptly, and a bit abashedly, nudging another piece forward. "And that you can get a really, really different perspective on things from people who've never heard of them before."

Like people who had no idea about his grandfather, for example.

[OOC: Yes please.]

Re: Class Activity: Risk or Chess!

[life_inshadow]

"I can imagine," Tara said. "Just meeting people from so many different worlds, you learn stuff."

A pause as she debated her next move. "I'll miss it when I go home."

Re: Class Activity: Risk or Chess!

[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

"I wish I could go home," Anakin admitted. He propped his chin up on his hands and studied the board intently. "But it's not so bad here."

Re: Class Activity: Risk or Chess!

[life_inshadow]

"You can't?" Tara asked, surprised. "Not -- even after you graduate?"

Re: Class Activity: Risk or Chess!

[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

"Oh, sure, two whole years from now," Anakin said, sulkily. "And maybe for visits every now and then. But Uncle Luke was pretty stern about me staying here."

Re: Class Activity: Risk or Chess!

[life_inshadow]

Tara smiled, suddenly feeling very mature. "It goes fast," she promised. "I came before my sophomore year, and then I blinked, and now ... here I am, ready to get out of here."

Re: Class Activity: Risk or Chess!

[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

"Nobody ever says that at the beginning," Anakin argued halfheartedly, exactly like a kid who thought he had a convincing line of reasoning (because he was). "It's always after the time's passed that it seems like nothing."

Re: Class Activity: Risk or Chess!

[life_inshadow]

"Well, yeah," Tara said. "But ... maybe it's nice to know that at the end, it'll look like nothing? Not that i would have believed that, back then."

Re: Class Activity: Risk or Chess!

[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

That would be assuming he had two years left . . .

"Maybe." Anakin didn't look terribly convinced. "It still makes now feel like forever."