fandomhigh | Driver's Education, Thursday, Period 1

The students should be getting used to the Danger Shop setup by now. "I feel like you guys have pretty much got the hang of going in a straight line," Brian said, "so this week we're going to integrate corners." Yes, that was right. You were going to have to turn. "Let's go over how the steering wheel works again." Once he'd done that, he said, "So, you're going to go around the block and back to here, which means our quarter mile is now a mile. Right turns only this week, and there are two things enforcing that: One, all the other intersections are blocked off with traffic barrels, and two, if you manage to go through the traffic barrels, same as a crash, you'll be taken back to the starting line to start over." The barrels were progammed to be full of water, with a brief delay between hitting them and being transported back to the beginning, because Brian thought exploding them was kind of fun.

"Any questions?" After a brief pause, Brian nodded and said, "Then let's get started. Drivers, to your cars."

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It's almost as though they took ideas from classic high fantasy! Damn you, Dragon Age. Damn you.

Go pay Tolkien's heirs!

"How strange that so much is the same."

"Maybe it's the same place but you're from the distant past or the far future," Anders speculated. "How would we know?"

The elves would be a big hint. But luckily they hadn't discussed them.

"I hope my home does not end as yours is. The free peoples should never stand by and allow any sort of enslavement."

He had your back, bro.

Well, there is elven mythology that they used to be immortal, so that's something?

"I hope not too," Anders agreed. "You really don't have slaves at all? Not even in other countries?"

Tevinter. Sigh.

"They do in Mordor," Thorin replied, a sneer in his voice. "The stronghold of a long defeated enemy that sits to the south of my homeland. Foul creatures still live there in the hope that their master will return."

Things were super black and white for a lot of Tolkien.

Anders tensed at what seemed to be yet another ~~rip-off~~ parallel until Thorin said the word "south."

"We have it in Tevinter to the North," he said. "Another defeated enemy, but I suppose I shouldn't call the magisters 'foul creatures.' So really it's completely different."

The sarcasm was heavy on his last sentence.

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Thorin had to snort at that. "We have Angband to the north as well. Though it has been dead far longer than Mordor. They called it the Hells of Iron in the histories."

Which were pretty expansive. Because written by elves that lived it.

"What are these magisters then?"

"Mages who abuse their gifts to oppress everyone else," Anders explained. "They play with demons and keep slaves and -- if it's bad, they probably do it."

"Yes. That sounds so."

If they had rings, Thorin was calling shenanigans. Just sayin'.

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