Industrial Arts, Tuesday

[not_a_whiner]

Second day back, and Kaidan was still feeling jittery and antsy and he'd had several awkward conversations already. Not only that, but there was this thudding pain centered right behind his eye that didn't seem to know whether it wanted to turn into a full-blown migraine or not. It wasn't... exactly putting him in a sporting mood.

"So today we're going to do two things," he announced to the class. "First, you can show off what you built last week. Then..."

He gestured at the rest of the Danger Shop behind them, which was set up with a variety of targets, some made of cardboard, some made of wood. A track had been drawn on the ground as well - a couple of targets on there, all cardboard, but not a lot.

"We're taking the battlebots for a test drive."

No better way to channel frustration than that, right?

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Cade

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Topher Brink

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Bay Kennish

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Ace McShane

Listen to the Instructions

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If you can really pay attention.

Show Off Your Projects!

[not_a_whiner]

If you built something last week, this is your chance to try and get the class to pay attention...

Re: Show Off Your Projects!

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade hadn't meant for that giant drill thing on the front of his battlebot to look so phallic, but maybe that would get people's attention today?

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[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy was not staring at it. Or Cade.

Really.

Absolutely not.

Except where she totally was. Especially at Cade. And fairly obviously, too.

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Cade grinned at her.

"Hey."

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[walkswithcoyote]

"Hey," Mercy responded, ducking her head and blushing a little. But she couldn't help herself. She was back staring again in a minute.

"Sorry," she said, not looking terribly apologetic. "I just can't seem to, well..."

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"Focus?" Cade guessed.

Test Drive your Battlebots!

[not_a_whiner]

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Test Drive your Battlebots! - Targets

[not_a_whiner]

There are cardboard targets and there are wooden targets. There are targets shaped like robots and there are targets that are just plain squares.

How many of them can your battlebot wreck?

All targets regenerate after a minute or two.

Re: Test Drive your Battlebots! - Targets

[justbeingbay]

Smashing things up suited Bay just fine today. She tweaked her battlebot a bit, darkening some of the feather pattern with a marker, and waited for Anakin so they could smash things.

She miiiight have been scoping out the teacher while she waited. So he was practically as old as her dad, so what? That hadn't stopped Daphne from her little thing with Jeff for.

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[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

Anakin was checking up on the latest version of the battlebot code on his datapad as he came over, and if he was at all more distracted than usual he was just chalking it up to being worried the code wasn't completely up to (his unreasonably high) expectations. Conveniently, smashing things would alleviate that just fine, too.

"I guess now we get to see if the targeting system needs to be fine-tuned any more, huh?"

He'd only been working on that for two weeks. It could stand to be better!

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[justbeingbay]

"I guess," Bay agreed, and if she sounded faintly distracted, it was only because somehow she had never noticed Anakin was cute before. Funny how that worked. "How do you think it is? I know I wasn't much use on the non-artsy pieces."

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[nonelikemesince.livejournal.com]

Well, Anakin had never noticed. Every now and then he'd have young Jedi and random bystanders back home following him around with dreamy expressions, and he always just assumed it was because his family was famous. If he felt compelled to actually pay attention to her while he spoke, though, he had no explanation for why. (Sorry about any teeth-grinding you might be doing right about now, Tahiri-on-Yavin-Four.)

"I think it'll do for a test run," he replied, running a hand through his hair in a futile attempt to keep it from falling into his eyes. "I can work out the snags later. But," he added, because being complimentary seemed like a thing to do, "you made the bot look a lot better than I would have, that's for sure."

Test Drive your Battlebots! - Race Track

[not_a_whiner]

Will your battlebot have the fastest time around this track? You'll have to test it.

Just don't get it stuck on those targets along the way.

Re: Test Drive your Battlebots! - Race Track

[upmysleeve.livejournal.com]

...Fastest? Well, no. A battlebot shaped like a crawling baby was not going to make very good time around a track.

On the other hand, making it crawl right over the targets was vaguely distracting Ace from her itchy mood.

For the first three minutes or so, until she started thinking about where little robot babies would even come from, which got her picturing... things. Shiny things. Shiny humanoid things. Shiny adult-shaped humanoid things.

And wondering if they had enough left-over parts to try building one.

...for science.

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[dollpocalypse]

"You look like you're having a thought," Topher commented to his partner. "Is it a destructive one?"

Said eagerly, like he was asking her if she was thinking of buying him cake.

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[upmysleeve.livejournal.com]

"No, which is unusual for me. More like ...constructive?" No, more like reproductive.

Talk to the Teacher

[not_a_whiner]

He's restless. And rubbing at his forehead a lot.

OOC

[not_a_whiner]

Friendly reminder that this is a thing that happens in canon. Oh, Kaidan's butt. Why don't I have an icon of you?