fandomhigh | Working Together: How Not to be an A-Hole - Monday

Getting to the school had been an adventure. Jack had slung her boots over her shoulder, rolled up her cargo pants, and stomped through the water. Gondoliers had tried to offer help. One of them got too close and made the mistake of touching her arm and Jack had punched him right out of his own boat. What's the saying? Those that can't do, teach? Right.

She made it to the Danger Shop and got it set up. Once again with the confidence course down the middle. One of the side walls had been covered with paper. There was a pile of drawing material - everything from chalk and charcoal to scented markers - in front of it.

Down one side was a list:
Coatimundi
Giraffe
Alpaca

As the students filed in, Jack began. "Welcome back. So far we've had Lana and Prompto as captains so they're off the list, and you've bypassed the course and thrown it out of the way, so bypassing or destroying the course are also off the list. Good job last week getting your team to kick video game ass, Prompto.

Once your team has figured out the confidence course and all members are accounted for, the next task is drawing the animals on the list. The captain will be the person to draw. However, what the captain draws is what you tell the captain to draw. You may not use devices to look up the animals. You may consult among yourselves. Every member of the team must participate in describing every animal.

There's also a discussion point when you're done: What have you learned about your teammates so far? How will what you've learned help you in the next few classes?"

She waved an idle hand at the confidence course. "Have at."

[OCD is up!]

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Damply.

Norman Babcock

Prompto Argentum

Okuyasu Nijimura

Lana Beniko

doot doot doo whatcha gonna do?

Norman stared at the confidence course, and then at the paper on the wall. And then shook his head. Nope.

"I'm super not an artist, guys," he noted. "Pretty sure someone else is going to have to do this one."

Besides, he knew what giraffes looked like already.

Can't dodge, can't destroy. How do you get through it this time?

"I can float people across it," Lana offered.

Was it going to be her mission to try to never have to do this thing? You bet.

"You can do that?"

Norman was impressed, yes. All he could do was see stuff.

And make glowy lights, and small summoning spells, and have visions, and there was the occasional terrible idea with magical shields, apparently...

In answer, Lana reached out a hand and lifted Norman off his feet. "Where to, not-captain?"

"Whoa!" Aaand now Norman was floating. "Um. I mean, if we can't avoid it entirely, maybe just... right down the middle? Through it but don't do it?"

"Okay, here we go!" Lana started floating Norman through it as fast as she could while giving him time to move things aside.

As a team, describe a coatimundi so your captain can draw it!

"Does anybody have the faintest idea what this thing is?" Lana asked.

"I don't even know what any of these are," Prompto admitted with a laugh.

Eos pretty much had cats and dogs and crows, but after that, it was pretty much bonkers as far as other animals went.

"I know giraffes!" Lana said. "They were in a book. I think I've heard of the other one, but I'm not sure. I've no clue about this one, though."

"I think coatimundi are the ones that look like brontosauruses if they were walking backwards," Norman offered.

Because Neil often sent him links to the weirdest things on his phone.

"Which ones are brontosauruses?" Lana asked.

"The ones with the really long necks," Norman offered. "Just move the face to the other end."

"...they have faces on the opposite end from their necks?"

That sounded odd.

"Um."

Norman frowned a little. That wasn't quite what he was getting at, no.

"I mean, draw a brontosaurus and pretend the tail is the head and the head is the tail...?"

"Oh. So, a short neck and a long tail?" Lana thought about it. "We can probably do that."

Whoever the captain ended up being.

"Yeah, kind of like..."

Norman. Norman you were reaching for the art supplies, bud. Norman, no.

Congratulations, Captain!

Lana hid a smile. "So, a long neck."

"Right, but the long neck is really the tail, see? Like this?"

You just played yourself, Norman.

"The long necked ones that actually have the long necks are the giraffes."

"I remember them," Lana agreed. "They have long legs, too. But these are...short, right?"

"Shorter than giraffes, anyway," Norman agreed. "I think. So..."

Well, it was definitely a shape, with shorter legs and a tail that was a head and a head that was a tail. Norman wasn't kidding when he said he wasn't much of an artist, but at least he could put lines to paper.

As a team, describe a giraffe so your captain can draw it!

As a team, describe an alpaca so your captain can draw it!

Alpaca are serious business, ok?

What have you learned about your teammates so far?
How will what you've learned help you in the next few classes?

She's here. She's amused.

When she signs in.

Peebee was not so amused by all the having to slog through water here this week, no.

Eh. She might as well get used to it, because that was going to be about half the experience of following Ryder around Havarl.

. . . in 700-something years, but details.

Benefit from my years as a camp counselor.
BENEFIT FROM THEM, I SAY!
All that trauma had to be good for something, right? Right? [insert mad laughter here]

Working Together: How Not to be an A-Hole - Monday - Third Period

Sign in!

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Confidence course!

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Coatimundi

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Giraffe!

Alpaca!

Discussion

Talk to Jack

Talk to the TA

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