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Shop Class; Wednesday, Third Period [01/02].

Was Amaya more than just a little pleased that her class got moved away from Monday mornings into a more reasonable time of the day and week for teenagers to be working with heavy-duty equipment and fiery stuff? You bet she was! Not that they’d be needing much of that today on the first class, but it would make her feel a little more comfortable when they really got to the heavy-duty stuff...especially now that she was learning a bit more of it herself.

...and don't worry. There was still caffeine available let like time, should anyone need it.

"'Hello, everyone!" she said, nodding when it was about that time and everyone seemed there, "Welcome to Shop Class! My name’s Amaya Blackstone, and in this class, we’ll be making things. I’m a blacksmith by trade, myself, so I’ll admit, we’ll be leaning a little heavily toward the metalworking stuff, but I’ll try in incorporate other materials as well and feel free to share any ideas you might have of things you’d like to learn, and we can work that in, too. Some of this stuff is going to involve some heavy-duty and dangerous machines, so one thing I want to make crystal clear is that safety is always going to come first. No one even goes near any of these machines or the majority of those tools unless you’ve got your proper safety equipment: gloves and eye gear at the very least, maybe a little more depending on what we’re working on.

"Since this is our first class of the week, I’m sorry to report that we’re not digging into anything too deep today. Gonna make you work up to the good stuff. Hopefully, you’re not too burnt out on introductions quite yet, as we’ll be doing a little bit of that. But we're gonna be doing 'em shop class style, with these," she gestured to the table beside here, where boxes of long metal sticks sat around a collection of hammers and a variety of small metal discs and squares. "Metal stamps! As I mentioned, I’m a blacksmith, and these are very common with any sort of metal work as a way to brand pieces so people know when they're getting a bonafide Blackstone piece. It's also popular with jewelry, it's used to mark metal tags, and all sorts of other stuff. Today, we're going to be using them to introduce ourselves.I did this last semester for introductions, and I think it worked out pretty well, so we’ll try it again. Something a little simple, but a little fun, especially since, in a place like this, we’re all going to be coming from a wide variety of knowledge and experience, and this here’s something everyone can get something out of.

"Pick out a base and take a second to think about what you might want to stamp onto your tag. It can be your name, a nickname, something important to you, whatever you think might be a good way to ease into an introduction, then pick out the stamps you'll need. Grab a stamping block," and Amaya did just that, holding it up to show the class before she demonstrated as she talked, "tape your piece down on your tag to help you keep it all aligned. Now, this next part's important: start in the middle and work outward, so you'll have to do a little planning, but that'll help it be nice and centered and even. Unless you want it otherwise, I suppose. Start with your middle letter, place the stamp straight and firm on the piece, and then give it three firm hits," smack, smack, smack!, "on the top. And there you go!" She held up the block and brought it close so they could see the firmly stamped A, then returned to the table. "Then just go from there," and she went through the other letters, place the stamp, grab the hammer, smack, smack, smack! Until she finished up, peeled off the tape, and then sent the small disc with "AMAYA" neatly printed on it around.

"And there you have it, that's my name, Amaya. I'd have probably preferred to put BLACK STONE on there, BLACK on top, STONE on the bottom, but I’m not making you wait around for all that! Let’s let you all get to work, though, if there’s any questions, go ahead and ask. And if it you finish your first piece well before the time, feel free to make one or two more of your choice. Just pick out a base or two, find the stamps you’d like to use, grab a hammer, and get to work. When you’re finished, show us what you’ve stamped and explain why you stamped what you did as a way of introducing yourself to the rest of the class.”

"Alright, then!" Amaya grinned, lifting up one hand and pounding her fist into it. "Let's get to it!"

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Leaving an impression!

Norman Babcock

Nina

It might be a little tricky to see exactly what Amaya's doing as she's doing it, as it's pretty small work, but it's pretty straight forward, and if there are any questions, she'd be more than happy to answer them.

Oh, this! Norman remembered this! Kind of fondly, actually, and he was already reminding himself to be a little bit more careful about his spacing this time around as he watched Amaya work.

Oh, this sounded pretty fun!

And also possibly a new avenue for mischief but she'd save that for when she had a better idea of what she was doing.

Grab your stamps, grab your metal, and get to work making a tag that you can use as a base for your introduction.

There's a variety of letters available, but also some ~~moddable~~ little designs, punctuation, and other little things you can add if you wanted to do something a little less straight-forward. There might even be some letters from different alphabets; the stamps are mostly from Amaya's own collection, but also from an old box she found in one of the cabinets that seems to have been there forever.

Mostly because it was part of the introduction thing too, Norman opted to stamp out a 'BABCOCK' on one of the pieces of metal. This time he'd actually taken care to make sure he had enough metal, and he was reasonably pleased that it had worked out far better than his attempt at 'NORMAN' the last time around.

And then, finding he had time to spare, he cast around for a bigger piece of metal and started playing around with it. If the end result was a stamped sign that said, "THE ZOMBIES ARE COMING" with the words sitting at odd angles to one another to create a kind of rushed, uncomfortable feeling to it... well. It was very on-brand for Norman, okay?

"Why are the zombies coming??????????????????"

Nina was, yes, leaning over to squint at his sign.

"I dunno," Norman replied easily. "Maybe they're bored. Maybe the ones at the bar decided they want to get new instruments or something."

Maybe they'd been cursed by an angry eleven-year-old three centuries ago.

There were plenty of reasons the zombies might come.

"Does that mean Groovy Tunes ought to, like, be boarding up and hunkering down????????????" she asked, looking amused. "That's the only place on the island with instruments, right?"

"Unless Turtle & Canary has something," Norman mused. "They have pretty much everything there, right?"

Except duct tape?

"But then again, the zombies at Caritas are actually pretty okay people, I think. They're probably really polite customers."

She... hadn't actually met the zombies at Caritas, though she'd seen them, of course, but now she was maybe going to have to actually meet them.

"Oh my gosh," Nina said, eyes wide, "imagine it, though?????????? Like, a load of zombies all crowding the cashier like a hoard of very polite, very pushy grandmothers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

It would be terrifying.

"That cashier would be so confused," Norman laughed.

... And would probably also have to have a shower later, because the smell was not insignificant.

"I think, like, they'd be more likely to fight between each other," Nina mused. "Like, 'oh no, dearie, that one is mine, remember, since you left the ketchup behind the couch that one time' and then 'don't be ridiculous Agnes, we all know you're the only one that eats flesh with ketchup, the rest of us use catsup'."

"I mean, that is a really important distinction," Norman mused. "Nobody wants behind-the-couch ketchup anyway."

There was maybe a squeal of delight when Nina found the punctuation. Maybe. Or totally.

One of those.

Her first tag wasn't centered at all, since it had her name crammed over to one side and then all the exclamation marks. All of them.

She was still pretty happy about it.

The second one she didn't really have time for was, actually, perfectly centered. And just a wheel. She had plans for it.

"Alright, everyone, that's time!" Amaya called out when she glanced at the clock and saw they were closing in on the last half of the class. "Let's take turns to come on up, tell everyone your name, show of what you stamped and explain why you chose what you did.”

Norman considered bringing his manic zombie sign up to show off to the class, but shrugged and decided against it at the last moment, because hey, he was reasonably brave, but still felt way too awkward in social situations to just up and do something like that.

So, BABCOCK it was.

"Hey," he said, smiling crookedly. "I'm Norman Babcock..." He held up the plate with his name on it. "So... Babcock happened, here. Partly because I already did 'Norman' last time around," and he'd kind of hecked it, "and partly because this way I can... I don't know, send this one back home for Dad to put on the front door or something."

It was functional, see? And he could pretend that this was the Christmas present for the family that he'd totally planned all along, to make up for how he'd missed the holiday due to being in Hyrule this year.

Amaya grinned a little, nodding in approval for both the job well done and the practical intention behind it. "Good to see you again, Norman," she said, noting that, between last semester and the summer, this would be, what? The fourth time he'd graced one of her classes? "Decided to come on back for more, did you?"

"I've been enjoying them," Norman admitted, a little sheepishly. "It's nice to be getting some practical skills, you know? I still haven't exactly figured out what I want to do after school, but this seems like a pretty good start."

Since he couldn't exactly make a living by telling people to check the expiry date on the milk in their dead parent's fridge.

"I do try to make sure they're skills you can take with you," Amaya agreed with a nod. "Lot of this semester might be a bit familiar for you, though. Gonna be some new stuff, of course, always some new stuff, but a lot of the same as last time around, too. Don't think you'll get too bored?"

"I don't think I will," Norman replied, and then nodded to the larger plate he'd made, announcing the zombocalypse. "This just means I'll be able to do the same thing better this time around, you know?"

And Amaya had to laugh a little at that. "I like the way you think, Norman," she told him. "Either that, or you've taken my classes more than enough to think the way I like. Either way, since you'll be familiar with some of it, maybe you can help out a little, too, when the time calls for it. I don't really have a TA; I think you'd be more than equipped for the job if you're interested."

Norman blinked and pointed at himself for a couple of seconds. And then he smiled a little bit and shrugged his shoulders. He wasn't back home. People didn't think he was a freak, here. Stuff like this was going to happen.

"You know, that actually sounds like it'd be fun," he replied. "I'd love to, thank you."

Well, now, that was just adorable.

"Welcome aboard, then, TA," Amaya gave a little pump of her fist in the air. "You can start by making sure all the stamps get put back where they need to be after class."

What? You think she'd go pick up a TA and not immediately put him to task on it? Why, that'd just be a pure dereliction of her own duties, really!

Norman laughed a little and ducked his head. Hey, he had nothing better to do anyway.

With great responsibility came great after-class chores. Or something.

"Will do," he replied. "I'm pretty sure I used the most of them anyway."

Because, you know, the zombies were coming.

See, this was more Nina's speed when it came to making things up. Did she have a solid reason for her off-center NINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... ?

The answer was no, but that was fine.

She held up her sign. "It couldn't be centered," she explained cheerfully, "or else the punctuation wouldn't have fitted right!!!!!!!!!! I'm Nina, and I guess this sign is to show off my enthusiasm?????????? I could, like, hang it on my dorm door and people would know I'm likely to be pretty friendly just from reading it, right??????????"

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"Or that perhaps you like shouting," Amaya pointed out, faintly amused. "I like it, though. It's certainly a bold statement, Nina, there's no denying that."

And Amaya would always approve of bold.

"What would you think," she offered thoughtfully, "if you'd have placed your name at the center and surrounded it with the punctuation? Or would that be too different from your original intent?"

Before, after, or during, Amaya's definitely available, should anyone need her!

I swear, not every class will just rehash a class for last time. Only when my schedule screws me oooovveeeerrr~~

which will likely be way too often. blergh.

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