How To Get By In A Hostile World, Thursday

[suitably_heroic]

"Last year, when I ran this class, I stretched out introductions over two classes," Atton said. "At the time, it was a practical decision--" because he was pissed over getting water randomly dumped on his head, "--but I don't see a reason not to continue the tradition. See, there's a difference between what we say, and what we can actually do. One that most of you are probably familiar with, unless one of you has reality warping powers I don't know about."

He gave the class a quick once-over, because actually, that was entirely possible.

"...Okay," he said. "Anyway, we have a flight sim, and we have an on the ground kind of deal. Pick whichever you're more comfortable with, and go."

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Rolling With The Punches - Door A

[suitably_heroic]

You're on the street. You're hungry. The five bucks in your pocket is all you have for the next two days, as per a note on the wall in the opening area of the sim.

Then a guy pickpockets your wallet.

What do you do? Do you try to catch the guy? Go to the incredibly apathetic and unhelpful police officers watching from afar? Beg the store clerk at the nearby 7-11 for store credit? If you do get your five bucks back, what do you get that'll stretch you two days?

Re: Rolling With The Punches - Door A

[giveherahand]

Well, what Mara would really do was dramatically different from the persona she was playing here in Fandom. In actual life, the pickpocket would have a broken hand and intense feeling of regret for messing with the Emperor's Hand.

In the simulation, Mara let the pickpocket go and employed big eyes and tears to get the 7-11 clerk to give her the food that was going to be thrown out at the end of the shift. Hot dogs that had been rotating for fifteen hours weren't amazing, but it was better than starving.

Re: Rolling With The Punches - Door A

[good_for_six]

Isabela probably wasn't supposed to break the guy's nose before he finished getting his hand out, kick him in the balls, then take back her own money and lift his wallet while he was lying curled up on the ground, but you didn't try to pick a pickpocket's pocket without consequences. Especially when what pockets Isabela's clothes had meant the guy pretty much had to grope her in the process.

At least she didn't pull a knife on him?