Adventuring for Idiots, Because Clearly You Need It [Thursday, 2nd Period]

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara had led her students over the causeway again this week, though today the bar they'd ended up in was considerably less shady.

"So last wekk you tried to figure out if people were trustworthy enough to listen to when they askd you to go on some kind of quest," she said, once they were seated. "Now today we're going too assume that you were actually concinced to do something, which brings us to whether you actually have the skills to acomplish your task, since there's very little point in storming the castle if you've never even picked up a weapon.

"Ideally you'd be able to find a well-balanced team whose skills compliment each other, but since that never happens, you're going to have to work with what you've got." Cara gestured at them. "Talk with the person next to you, work out what skills you have that might help accomplish the quest I'm about to give you, one way or another."

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Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[intotheout]

"That's too bad," Tip said. "But it doesn't do well for our cover as guests if neither of us know them. Maybe we'd be better off posing as caterers or wedding planners or something." She brightened. "I have a friend we could use as a spy!" She reached up and picked a small silver bug-looking thing out of her hair, where it'd been posing as a barrette. "Bill here can fly in and see what kind of ceremony they're planning, so we can sound more like we belong there."

Admittedly, the intel Bill gave her would be in written Boov, which she was not awesome at, yet. But this was an imaginary assignment, so she could imaginarily be better at reading Bill's bubble messages, right?

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[boneyard_girl]

"Works for me," Ada decided, leaning over to look at Bill. "...is Bill a pet or a robot or a what?"

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[intotheout]

"Kind of both," Tip said. "He's an alien billboard." Because that was an explanation.

Bill floated up from Tip's hand and spouted a stream of bubbles from the little horn on his base, forming an elaborate, self-contained, floating bubble pattern in the air.

"He says 'hi'."

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[boneyard_girl]

"Hiya, Bill," Ada said, clearly fascinated by the Shiny. "...do you like pets, or scratches, or are you a hands-off type of alien?"

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[intotheout]

Bill flew in a circle, dispersing the previous bubble formation, and formed another one.

". . . He mostly likes people talking to him," Tip said. She actually had no idea what he'd written this time. "Back on New Boovworld, where he's from, everyone ignored him."

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[boneyard_girl]

"Aw, but he's so cute. Who'd do that?" Ada asked, wriggling her fingers at Bill. "Ain't no one should ever be ignored, no matter how little."

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[intotheout]

"He was used for advertising," Tip said. "Programmed to get up in your face if you were ever looking in one spot for too long."

Bill deflated his latest bout of bubbles and bobbled in the air. Tip smiled.

"He's gotten over that, now."