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]

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo grinned back. That actually was a pretty good way to start the conversation, honestly. "I'm really good at AirTrek."

She sort of suspected that Velma wasn't going to know what that meant, though.

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[fckedupx5000.livejournal.com]

Nope!

"I have no idea what that is," she admitted. "Would it be handy here? I'm an, uhh, animus."

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"And I have no idea what that is." Ringo giggled.

"Trade explanations?"

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[fckedupx5000.livejournal.com]

"Sounds good," Velma said, giving Ringo a tentative smile. "Maybe you should go first? My explanation might go a little long."

[Fleeing for the evening but will ping back when I can]

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"I can do that." And, fortunately, Ringo basically never went anywhere without her backpack these days, so she could even demonstrate. "A friend of mine once described it as rocket-powered rollerblades. Which isn't really accurate, but kind of gets the point across?"

She unzipped her bag and pulled out something that did look rather like rollerblade if there were only two wheels and they were bigger.

"They have really powerful electric motors built into them, so you can go incredibly fast." Ringo had totally raced a motorcyle with them before. She'd lost, but it hadn't been the sort of blow-out most people would expect.


[ooc: No worries, SP is love! Have fun!]

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[fckedupx5000.livejournal.com]

"And I, well, I animate things." With a self-conscious laugh, she explained, "The official definition is 'semi-autonomous animation of totemic images of persons and animals, most specifically cloth figures, including minor transformation to grant access to species-appropriate weaponry.' Which basically means I can bring toys to life. Sorta."

Close enough for government work, as the saying went. As Ringo had put it, 'not really accurate, but it got the point across.'

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Like, they move around and stuff?" Ringo's eyes were kind of wide because that sounded pretty awesome.

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[fckedupx5000.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, exactly," Velma said. "They're completely animate. They can move, fight, perform tasks, all that kind of stuff."

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"And do they do what you tell them, or, um, have minds of their own, or?" Ringo was totally getting side-tracked from the assignment because that sounded neat!

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[fckedupx5000.livejournal.com]

"They're semi-autonomous," Velma said. "So, they do what I say, but they're capable of their own interpretations of that? Like, if I gave a vague order like 'take care of my room,' they could figure out how to clean it or whatever. More the difference between sentience and true sapience, I guess."

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Um, right." Those were not really words Ringo knew, but she thought she followed along.

It made her grin. "Um, I bet that's resulted in some, er, unexpected situations?"

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[fckedupx5000.livejournal.com]

Velma frowned. "Like what?" she asked. "I have to make them move, at least at first."

Re: Class Discussion - AfI [02]

[soniaroadsqueen]

"I mean, there's all those movies and things where vague orders and requests get misinterpreted, or, you know, come out not like you expect. Does that not happen to you?"