Bailing 101, Monday

[suitably_heroic]

If Atton had suffered anything Fandom-related over the weekend, well, you couldn't read it off his face when he arrived in the classroom that morning. He sat down on his desk and looked at the class, clicking his feet together once or twice.

"Okay," he said, "Still on follow-through. You know what gets people on the run, usually? Habits. You can keep the pretense up pretty well as long as you're still in the early adrenaline stages, but eventually, you'll slip back into old habits, and that's when people will find you."

He nodded at the sheets of paper he'd left on each desk. "So," he said, "Today, I want you to document your habits. Anything you do every day, I want you to write it down. Every tiny thing, no matter how much thought you put into it-- in fact, if you do it every day without really thinking about it, you should write it down double. Make a schedule that way, with rough timeframes, if you can."

He leaned back. "That's step one," he said, "Step two is that I want you to pick a day this week - any day you like - and methodically not do any of those things. Find other ways to do the stuff you actually have to do. Modify every inch of your schedule. Then afterwards, I want you to look back and see how well you succeeded. What was hard? What was easy? What did you forget to think about? This is the stuff you need to know if you want to keep people off your trail."

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With a diary.

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Anders

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Tali'Zorah

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Ada Miller

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Garik Loran

Listen to the Instructions

[suitably_heroic]

As one does.

Write Down Your Schedule

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Point by point, every daily habit you have. Don't forget a single one.

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[not_every_mage]

Anders started the exercise by staring blankly at his paper, unable to think of anything he did without fail. Finally he decided to jot down the things he did more days than not and hope that didn't count as a cheat:

• Shower in the 3rd floor men's room
  
• Spend some time outside
  
• Study or practice magic somehow
  
• Get lunch somewhere in town
  
• Find dinner in the common room

It seemed like a meager list; he hoped more things would come to him if he sat longer.

Re: Write Down Your Schedule

[goforthe_optics]

It wasn't that she didn't enjoy spontaneity, but the thing about being an engineer was that to a point, being methodical and regimented got to be a way of life; even without that, though, when she had to factor in regular envirosuit maintenance, there was a lot of routine.

About which she was extremely methodical, so . . .

Tali might be spending most of the period writing.

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[boneyard_girl]

This was...Ada didn't know what this was. Still, she started writing.
Shower, never bath
Don't like shoes
Get outside whenever I can
NO MEAT

...huh. Ada raised her head from her blocky, careful text. "What if you have a habit of avoiding something because you have an allergy?"

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[suitably_heroic]

Atton tilted his head. "Give the appearance of doing it," he said, "Without doing it. That's a pretty easy way to throw people off, actually."

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[boneyard_girl]

Ada wrinkled her nose. "How do you give the appearance of eating something? Is there fake meat?"

She was going to be thrilled to discover things like tofu and mock duck.

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[suitably_heroic]

"Yep," Atton said, "There is. Not from this time, I'm guessing?"

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Ada shrugged a shoulder and gave a crooked grin since her canon never gives a damn date but it's clearly contemporary-ish. "Unconventional upbringing," she answered with a fake mid-west drawl. "We're on the move every week, so the only food you have is what you can keep in your trailer or what the carnival cooks make. Even when we're parked for the winter, dinner is whatever feeds the most people the cheapest, so I just get by with salads, pasta, and nuts. If there's non-meat stuff available, no one's gonna buy it just for me."

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[suitably_heroic]

"You can get a whole bunch of different kinds of meat substitutes," Atton said. "Some of 'em look and taste like meat, some of them look like meat from the outside but they're actually full of mushroom putty or something, and then there's the definitely not meat stuff."

He got the range of meat substitutes. He just thought it was tragic she couldn't eat them. "Take your pick. Though the first two are probably the most convincing."

Talk to the Teacher

[suitably_heroic]

He's here for that kind of thing.

OOC

[suitably_heroic]

Awww.