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fandomhigh2019-05-13 08:51 am
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Working Together: How Not to be an A-Hole - Monday - Third Period
Class is in the Danger Shop again. Once again, the confidence course is down the center. Tires, hoops, walls, ropes, mud pit, etc.
One whole wall has been set up as a display. Multiple console controllers are in front of it, scattered among beanbags. There's sodas and snacks available over there, also.
At the top of the display, a whole host of pixellated Reapers marched through Dark Space.
At the bottom were a whole host of pixellated warships. One color per controller.
"So last week," Jack began as the students filed in, "Lana volunteered to be team captain and you avoided the confidence course altogether at Norman's suggestion. That was clever and it was some good thinking outside the box. This week, Lana's off the table for captain because she's had a turn, and 'go around it' is also off the table for a solution. Someone else will take a turn being in charge and getting the group through it. If you get the impression that I don't care how you do it, that'd be the correct impression to have: I do not care how you do it, just that you figure it out and do it as a group."
"You'll notice the game set up." Jack gestured toward it. She turned it on for the demo and the Reapers began spawning and marching toward the bottom very quickly. The spaceships took flight and began working together to blast them out of the sky. No one ship was strong enough to take on one Reaper. The demo was rigged so the Reapers won by getting all the way to the bottom, destroying all the ships along the way.
"Today, you run the confidence course and then you get to work the game. Object's simple: Don't let the Reapers land. Problem is, you don't get to start playing until every member of your team has completed the confidence course. The game starts when you start. They'll move slower than they did in the demo but they'll still be moving. If you take too long to do the course, you'll be at a serious disadvantage - if not outright lose - the game," she commented.
Hauling one of the beanbags over to the side, she plopped down and raised a stopwatch. Clicking the clicky thing, she said, "And.. go."
[OCD is UP! Class is OPEN!
Credit to SteelJoe at DA for the pixel Reaper.]
One whole wall has been set up as a display. Multiple console controllers are in front of it, scattered among beanbags. There's sodas and snacks available over there, also.
At the top of the display, a whole host of pixellated Reapers marched through Dark Space.
At the bottom were a whole host of pixellated warships. One color per controller.
"So last week," Jack began as the students filed in, "Lana volunteered to be team captain and you avoided the confidence course altogether at Norman's suggestion. That was clever and it was some good thinking outside the box. This week, Lana's off the table for captain because she's had a turn, and 'go around it' is also off the table for a solution. Someone else will take a turn being in charge and getting the group through it. If you get the impression that I don't care how you do it, that'd be the correct impression to have: I do not care how you do it, just that you figure it out and do it as a group."
"You'll notice the game set up." Jack gestured toward it. She turned it on for the demo and the Reapers began spawning and marching toward the bottom very quickly. The spaceships took flight and began working together to blast them out of the sky. No one ship was strong enough to take on one Reaper. The demo was rigged so the Reapers won by getting all the way to the bottom, destroying all the ships along the way.
"Today, you run the confidence course and then you get to work the game. Object's simple: Don't let the Reapers land. Problem is, you don't get to start playing until every member of your team has completed the confidence course. The game starts when you start. They'll move slower than they did in the demo but they'll still be moving. If you take too long to do the course, you'll be at a serious disadvantage - if not outright lose - the game," she commented.
Hauling one of the beanbags over to the side, she plopped down and raised a stopwatch. Clicking the clicky thing, she said, "And.. go."
[OCD is UP! Class is OPEN!
Credit to SteelJoe at DA for the pixel Reaper.]
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Even if some people thought that meant being nerdy...
...whatever. He'll own it. It wasn't untrue.
So he grinned a little, lopsidedly, not entirely feeling like he'd necessarily earned the privledge, but cocked his hand up in the air as a sort of volunteer wave-salute. "I can be captain," he offered. "This sort of thing is totally in my wheelhouse."
Sooooo....clearly not nerdy, Okuyasu.
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Probably.
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"I could try just pushing it all out of the way instead. Tearing it down."
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"...you can blast things with lightning?"
Look, he still was behind on a lot of Fandom things.
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She raised her hands, centered herself, and pushed. What hit the course was less like wind and more like a solid wall of...well, Force, pushing it to the other side of the room.
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