Diplomacy, Relationships, & Tactics: The Art of War, Week 15 [Wednesday, Period 2]

[weetuskenraider]

Class wasn't meeting in the Danger Shop today, just in the normal classroom; there were moddable pastries and drinks laid out on a table along the back wall for the students, though. A lot of them.

"Congratulations on making it through the semester," Tahiri said with a wry grin, and nodded toward the table. "You deserved a bit of a reward for that . . . and finals week fuel."

Especially given the past weekend and all.

"Once you've filled your plates, we'll discuss your assignment from last week," Ghanima said. "I asked you to uncover some tidbit of information to which you would not normally be privy, either via another spy or by doing the information gathering yourself. You need not share exactly what you learned, if it makes you uncomfortable or if you do not have OOC permission to share it, merely the methods used to discover the information. I am curious to find out how your foray into intelligence gathering went. How do you feel about it? Is this information you could use to your benefit? Would you?"

"There isn't really a right or wrong answer to these questions," Tahiri added. "It's a pretty complicated subject, so feel free to disagree . . . civilly, of course. So, let's hear it." She leaned back against the edge of the desk and gestured toward the class.

Once students were done possibly handwavily sharing what they'd done with the assignment she pushed away from the desk and tucked her hands behind her back. (She could have tucked her hands into the sleeves of her robes, but that seemed like an older-and-wiser Jedi thing to do, and she still felt weird about it.) "Complicated, right?"

Ghanima didn't particularly care if the disagreements stayed civil or not; they would, however, be well reasoned with supporting textual evidence (and without personal attacks) or she was going to fail you automatically out of this class because you'd clearly spent the last fourteen weeks asleep.

"Now we are going to ask you to indulge us one last time," Ghanima continued, eyes crinkling with mirth. "We'd like each of you to tell us one thing that you learned this semester. It can be something about class, something about yourself, your ethical outlook... it doesn't matter, so long as you have learned something."

"In return, you may ask us any question you like. We do, of course, reserve the right to decline to answer if it is of too sensitive a nature for the safety of our home universes. All's fair in war, after all."

Comments

Sign In [AoW 4/20]

[weetuskenraider]

One last tiiiiiiiime.

Re: Sign In [AoW 4/20]

[crimson_sister]

Lucille Sharpe

Re: Sign In [AoW 4/20]

[good_for_six]

Isabela

Re: Sign In [AoW 4/20]

[seeks_truth]

Cassandra Pentaghast

Re: Sign In [AoW 4/20]

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo Noyamano

Re: Sign In [AoW 4/20]

[giveherahand]

Mara Jade

Lecture [AoW 4/20]

[weetuskenraider]

During which there are treats to enjoy.

Discussion [AoW 4/20]

[weetuskenraider]

So, how did last week's spying assignment go?

Re: Discussion [AoW 4/20]

[giveherahand]

Probably not at all to Tahiri's surprise, Mara gave a succinct breakdown of all of her temporary daughter's activities she'd done while allegedly unsupervised on the island over the weekend.

"I don't know what I'll do with that information," she admitted, "but it's always better to know than not."

Share [AoW 4/20]

[weetuskenraider]

One thing you've learned this semester. Please say you've learned something.

Re: Share [AoW 4/20]

[crimson_sister]

"This class has widened my horizons," Lucille said, "as to what diplomacy can be and its uses." She hesitated, then added: "I now find it can be useful in situations that I might find myself in."

Talk to the Teachers [AoW 4/20]

[weetuskenraider]

Who are willing to field your questions . . . though they do reserve the right not to answer them.

Re: Talk to the Teachers [AoW 4/20]

[atreideslioness]

Ghanima was there, and would, really, answer just about anything, so long as it did not infringe on the privacy of Leto, Alice, or Hania.

OOC [AoW 4/20]

[weetuskenraider]

I earwormed myself, oops.

Re: OOC [AoW 4/20]

[seeks_truth]

YOU EARWORMED ME BY THE SIGN-UP THREAD AND THEN YOU MADE IT WORSE.

RE: Re: OOC [AoW 4/20]

[geniuswithasmartphone]

HOW MUCH DO I LAUGH AT YOU EVERY TIME? EVERY TIME?

RE: Re: OOC [AoW 4/20]

[filleauloup]

I was thiiiiiiiiiiiiis close to actually turning the next several lines into the rest of the OCD threads, I'll have you know, so IT COULD HAVE BEEN EVEN WORSE.