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101 Ways To Survive In The Field, Tuesday

Upon entering the Danger Shop, students found themselves facing a large, overgrown ruin. It was completely desolate; the only movement was the grass, swaying in the wind.

"Welcome to Dantooine," Atton said, his foot perched on a chunk of rubble. "This place used to be something - at least, that's what I'm told - but this guy called Malak came in and torched the place to hell and back a while ago. Now this place is mostly grass and giant, deadly animals. Real charming, right?"

He turned around, motioning for the class to follow. Straight into the ruin, through a few corridors, until he reached a small clearing with a large broken tree sitting at the center. "Now, not far from here, you'll find an entrance into the lower levels. Today, I'm going to give you a quick instruction on how to open electronic locks - that'll come in handy down there. After that? Well, there's this guy stuck in a room somewhere down below who won't come out."

He shrugged. "Honestly, it's probably better if you just leave him to rot down there. The guy's a coward. But, say, you want to break him out. There's a bunch of nasty laigreks down there, a bunch of locked doors, maybe some booby traps. You have to be on your guard. Now, what you want above all is this key the guy has on him, but getting him out of there alive probably scores you points or something. How do you handle that?"

He shot the class a curious look. "Well, I'm interested in finding that out this week."

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Ancient and rubble.

Stare at the rubble, try to figure out what happened, worry about what's going to happen...

"Okay, this is the entrance to the lower levels," Atton said, squatting down by a door. "It's locked, but that doesn't need to stop us. Most digital locks are actually kind of shoddy - they depend on you not knowing what's going on inside to work. There's a couple of ways to get around that..."

He went through a few possible solutions, ranging from attaching a bypass device and trying several combinations at once, to much simpler techniques-- like hitting a latch while punching in two numbers at once.

"All right, that should do it," he said, as the door slid open. "You're up."

Somewhere on this level (in room 9), an old man hides out. You need to get him, or at least his key.

The inside of these subterranean ruins look super welcoming.

The southern hallways are quiet. The northern hallways, not so much: you'll find angry, large-dog-sized laigreks everywhere, and those forelegs hurt.

Of course, it's the Danger Shop, so the safeties are on and you won't actually get hurt, but it will register like getting slapped on the arm if you get hurt.

About half of them are digitally locked.

About a quarter of them are booby-trapped, but the mines are at least willing to let off a 15 second ticking warning before exploding and covering you in paint.

It'll come off when you leave the sim.

The old man has locked himself in room 9 and refuses to open the door.

"I'm not letting anyone in here until all of those creatures are gone!" he yells.

Well. Deal with that. You can clear out the laigreks and set him free, or you can lie to the old man and run the risk of getting him killed.

Or you can kill him, if you really want to.

Atton was hanging out in the main open area upstairs. He was trying not to look at the patch of grass where Mical had tried to put in a waterfall in the real Dantooine enclave ruins.

Going by the repressed snickering, he was failing.

One can always tell apart Obsidian games from Bioware games by the way Obsidian approaches romance.

Isabela

Why were you teaching Isabela to pick even more locks, Atton? This would hardly end well.

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At least these weren't giant spiders, they were almost as ugly though. And they were a nice big target for Isabela's daggers.

What, didn't the rest of you bring knives to this class?

There where usually traps and treasure in ruins so Isabela keep her eyes open for both, yelling "Trap!" whenever she caught sight of one.

Because she was a helper.

Isabela put her new found skills towards breaking the door instead.

"Oops. Give me whatever loot you've got and I'll make sure nothing kills you on the way out."

Isabela, no.

Anders

It took a special kind of horror to make giant spiders look almost cute, Anders thought. He found a nice pillar to give him partial cover as he froze the laigreks, then used his staff to beat down any that he hadn't been able to reach.

Anders got covered in paint early on, but after that learned his lesson and ~~made like in canon~~ stuck close behind Isabela.

While Isabela, er, "negotiated," Anders killed some more laigreks.

Or at least he did for a while. Watching Isabela work was the more entertaining option.

Four

Four watched carefully--electronics were always fritzing out at home due to generators and power fluctuations--and memorized how Atton had opened the lock.

"What the hell," Four muttered to himself as he hid from the things. "This guy better be worth bugs that big."

Four got the locks open and moved fast enough that the paint only decorated his boots when he leaped out of the way of the booby traps.

Ugh, non-black something.

Four snickered. "That's one approach," he commented a little dryly.

Isabela grinned back without a hint of shame. So nothing unusual there. "I like to be direct, sweet thing," she said. "Cuts down on confusion."

Tali'Zorah

Just because Tali had done a lot of the lock-breaking on missions before didn't mean that she wasn't going to pay attention now; you never knew when you'd need to try something new and different.

Besides, by the time she got home she'd discover you couldn't just slap omni-gel on everything any more. A lot of people wouldn't be happy with that upgrade, but at least she'd be prepared.

. . . wow, those things were almost cute compared to rachni, and it probably helped that they weren't nearly as big.

"Go get 'em, Chatika," she told her combat drone. She hadn't brought her shotgun to class with her, and the drone was designed more for combat with synthetics than organics, but Chatika could at least distract and maybe zap the things so she could get in close with her boot knife.

Was it cheating to send Chatika ahead to check the rooms? No, Tali would argue that it was just practical.

So far, at least these ruins were 100% Thorian-creeper free.

Hey, Tali certainly wasn't going to opt for killing the guy, and she didn't want to interfere in Isabela's . . . persuasion attempt, so she decided to take him at his word and take care of a few more laigreks instead.

Frank Doyle

Frank wasn't sure why they couldn't just knock politely and wait for whatever horrifying monsters were inside to open the door, but he wasn't one to encourage others to try such things with his door. And so he just did the thing with the latch and the numbers between drinks.

"Down. Sit! Heel. Good monsters," Frank said while strolling past, completely unconcerned. They were still swatting at him and he had to duck a couple times, but he made it seem effortless.

"I thank you all for doing the hard work," Frank said from behind the others. "Drinks are on me once class is over. Or before then!"

"We have alcohol!" Frank said encouragingly after Isabela opened the door. It was possibly he was playing good cop bad cop. Or violent cop drunk cop. Or criminal and drunk. It was hard to tell.

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Kathy Li

You know, for someone who was a goody-goody crimefighter, Kathy sure was eager to learn another way to pick a new kind of lock.

Whatever these critters were, they were slower than she was. Better yet? These hallways were perfect for bouncing in. So Kathy Superballed it up a bit, punching at the laigreks whenever she passed by them at full speed.

Next week, she was bringing her bokken. She had her knife, of course, but that seemed like overkill to use on these guys.

15 seconds came out to about 600 yards in the mental math that defined Kathy's life now. Which meant plenty of time for Kathy to dart in, see if she could figure out how to disarm the traps and then dart away out of paint range once the countdown got closer to zero.

She cut it too close a time or two, and ended up with paint spatter on her heels, but it was worth it to get a better idea of how to figure out how these things worked.

Laura Kinney

Fortunately for Laura, she already knew how to disable electronic locks.

Lo and behold how she jams a metallic claw and toys with the circuitry until the door opens.

Laura killed them, of course.

Maybe now was a good time to mention she also had claws on her foot. The things were too slow to even defend themselves, so she went for easy, clean kills... and tried not to yawn.

Laura thought it was going to actually explode, so she didn't move. Because that made perfect sense to her.

Good thing the paint was going to wear off, because that mane of hers was a pain to wash as it was already.

Laura waited in the back. Maybe it was for the best she didn't go and offer scaring the guy more already.

Vider Bearskin

Vider had very little experience with electronic locks, so she paid close attention to this and wished she'd brought something to take notes with.

Aw, they were kind of cute. And Vider had an axe, so that was one problem dealt with.

Vider seemed to have a natural talent for avoiding the rooms with the booby traps, and when she did find one she usually managed to clear out before the explosion. When she did get splattered, she just shrugged and went on with things.

Pay Vider no mind, she was just waiting for an opening to steal the key they needed.

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