Woodworking (and Vehicle Proficiency), Thursday - 1st Period

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Class was in the Danger Shop because Magnus had thought it sounded pretty cool, but then had no idea how to program it, so class was in a big, empty room.

Well, mostly empty room. There were pieces of furniture in various stages of construction along with tools waiting for the kids. All three of 'am.

"Welcome to Woodworking... And other skills I can come up with," he said just a touch anxiously before barreling on ahead as was his wont. "My name is Magnus Burnsides and I'll be your teacher."

That sounded all official, right?

"So... first time teaching. Well, teaching teenagers. I taught a friend to carve a sweet puzzle box for her girlfriend once." Carey's blade skills did not translate over to woodcrafting. "Hopefully you guys have more talent there!"

Roll for an awkward laugh. What? Wrong medium for that? Damn.

Magnus cleared his throat. "So, let's get to introducing ourselves while sanding down some of these pieces."

And it wasn't even fantasy sandpaper!

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Re: Introduce Yourself

[magnusrushesin]

"You rub the wood to make it smooth," Magnus replied, barely pausing before going onto, "Quick question, are you a crystal golem, possessed by Death here to drag me to the astral plane? Because that'd kinda suck."

Re: Introduce Yourself

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"... No," Peridot replied, after a brief pause to parse all of that. "I'm just a Peridot."

Re: Introduce Yourself

[magnusrushesin]

"Cool," Magnus said slowly, processing that. "Cool, cool, cool. Nice to meet you, Peridot!"

Re: Introduce Yourself

[era_two_triangle]

"Nice... to meet you... too?" She was still getting the hang of this. "What is the point of rubbing the wood to make it smooth, exactly?"

Re: Introduce Yourself

[magnusrushesin]

She got a thumbs up for that! Just in case she ended up talking with a stupid Cockney accent and went for someone else's arm.

"Well. See. Look at the wood. It has a grain to it, see?"

Re: Introduce Yourself

[era_two_triangle]

Peridot squinted a little, but leaned in all the same to take a better look at the wood.

"So it does," she agreed. "Do humans not find a grain to be acceptable?"

Re: Introduce Yourself

[magnusrushesin]

"We do!" Well, Magnus did. "It's what makes each piece special. But that grain can catch on things, so we smooth it down."

Re: Introduce Yourself

[era_two_triangle]

"On things," Peridot echoed, looking thoughtful. And then she reached out with the abrasive sheet and scrubbed it against the arm of a chair a few times, experimentally. "Like this?"

Re: Introduce Yourself

[magnusrushesin]

"Like that," Magnus said as encouraging as he could. "And after we get it smooth, we'll finish it with some oil or wax to make it shine and keep it from getting damaged."

Re: Introduce Yourself

[era_two_triangle]

"Damaged? By what? Do you use these items as weapons?"

That would kind of defeat the purpose of sanding the rough parts off, though.

Re: Introduce Yourself

[magnusrushesin]

"...you can," Magnus replied slowly. Because he was also proficient in hitting people with chairs. "But mostly things bumping into them. Not, like, fireballs or angelic Della Reeses."

Re: Introduce Yourself

[era_two_triangle]

Peridot didn't know what 'angelic' meant, never mind Della Reese. But she was used to that around here, so she just sort of nodded sagely.

"I am familiar with chairs," she noted, "we just don't tend to use organic materials like wood in order to make them, back on Homeworld. And Earth is weird."

So weird. Their ships weren't even shaped like body parts or anything.

Re: Introduce Yourself

[magnusrushesin]

...dick ships? They had dick ships? Because a case could be made that many ships were weiner shaped.

"Homeworld?"

Re: Introduce Yourself

[era_two_triangle]

Probably not, if only because Gems were primarily considered a 'female' race. Even though they were all technically genderless and they reproduced by stuffing rocks into the ground.

Missed opportunities, Cartoon Network.

"Where I'm from," Peridot confirmed. "My home... world."

Re: Introduce Yourself

[magnusrushesin]

...vagina ships? Hey, maybe yonic symbols were the new thing.

"...cool. I lived on a fake moon before here."

Re: Introduce Yourself

[era_two_triangle]

Take that, patriarchy!

"How can a moon be fake?" Peridot squinted a little at that. "Does it orbit a planet?"

Re: Introduce Yourself

[magnusrushesin]

Hell yeah! Damn the man, save the empire!

"Kind of, but it was a moon base that could move on its own."

Like a Death Star!

Re: Introduce Yourself

[era_two_triangle]

"So... more like a spaceship that was shaped like a moon," Peridot mused. "Or a space station, I suppose."

Her definition of 'moon base' was generally just 'a base that is located on a moon.'

Re: Introduce Yourself

[magnusrushesin]

"I guess. I didn't really pay attention after they said no dogs on the moon."

Bastards.

Re: Introduce Yourself

[era_two_triangle]

"Well, it makes sense if they're going to go running around stealing people's fingers all the time."

Peridot's exposure to dogs was a very limited thing.

Re: Introduce Yourself

[magnusrushesin]

"Wait, what?"

You leave his doggos alone!

Re: Introduce Yourself

[era_two_triangle]

Look, what Peridot really needed here was to be introduced to a doggo that didn't try to make off with her body parts at every possible opportunity!

"It's hardly an issue anymore," she muttered, frowning. "I no longer have those fingers."

She missed them. Come back, touch-stumps!