Ethics, Wednesday, September 18, 2019

[sith_happened]

Anakin was nowhere to be seen when Ethics class began, but there was an enormous bowl of (real, this time) Halloween candy on his desk.

There was a sign next to it that said, "TAKE ONLY THREE."

Inside the bowl were full-sized candy bars, as well as smaller "fun-sized" ones, Reese's Cups, Starbursts, those weird Bit o' Honeys, and even apples and boxes of raisins.

Was there a trick here today too?

Oh, probably. Pick your treats anyway.

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Sign in 9/18

[sith_happened]

Whee, free snacks!

Take your treats!

[sith_happened]

Do you take the first three you reach in and touch? Do you take the three biggest? All of the Reese's Cups (you monster?!) Do you just take as many as you think you can get away with?

Explain your choice!

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Anakin came through the door just as everyone had finished making their choices.

Almost like he'd been watching them. Weird.

"Right," he said. "Explain what you took or didn't take from the bowl."

Talk to Anakin!

[sith_happened]

If you must.

Re: Sign in 9/18

[mother_forker]

Eleanor Shellstrop

OOC

[sith_happened]

Yay, Wednesday.

Re: Take your treats!

[mother_forker]

Eleanor just grabbed a handful and sat down and started to eat the candy. Any bit of honey got chucked back at the bowl.

All in all she got about five pieces of random candy.

Re: Explain your choice!

[mother_forker]

"I just grabbed a bunch of shirt," Eleanor said with a shrug and chucked another Bit o' Honey back at the bowl

That stuff was nasty.

Re: Sign in 9/18

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine Wren

Re: Sign in 9/18

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Tisarwat

Re: Take your treats!

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine took three pieces of the fun sized candies. And she wasn't eating any of it.

She trusted none of it. Noooone.

Re: Explain your choice!

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"I took three because this was clearly a test," Sabine said.

Re: Take your treats!

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Tisarwat's first impulse was to go for the one that she could easily recognize as actual food, the apples, but here there was a bunch of food in a bowl that everyone's ungloved hands were going ot be going into, and the fruit was the one thing that wasn't wrapped up again such vile impllications. And all of it was incredibly foreign to her, so she didn't really know what was even the better ones to go for.

So she figured she'd try for a variety: one of the bigger ones, one of the smaller ones, and one in a tube that looked like some sort of pills. That seemed like it would serve well as her three choices.

Re: Explain your choice!

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

"I really only recognized the fruit," Tisarwat explained with a shrug, because she knew the Dean understood that she wasn't exactly from around here, "but with everyone's hands being in theh bowl," she was also not at all shy about her aversion to bare hands around here, especially not when so many people had been accomodating, "they really lost their appeal. So I figured I'd go for a variety, since that would give me a better range of experiences. I went with a large package of something called a 3 Muskateers," she held up the large candy bar, "then a smaller one called Mr. Goodbar," and that one next, although these names were ridiculous, "and then this, Smarties?"

Which made her wonder if they were some sort of brain-function enhancing mediation, which was intriguing her far more than she thought it should.

Re: Explain your choice!

[sith_happened]

It really was. Anakin would automatically distrust anyone who wanted a Bit o' Honey.

"Without caring about what the sign said," he said.

Re: Explain your choice!

[sith_happened]

"And if it wasn't clearly a test, would you have behaved differently?" Anakin asked.

Re: Explain your choice!

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"That's an excellent way to approach it," Anakin said. "The Smarties, unfortunately, do not make you smarter."

He'd been super disappointed about that.

Re: Explain your choice!

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Yes, I'd have avoided it altogether because there's still a possibility it was a trap."

This class was really here to put Sabine's trust issues on full display.

Re: Explain your choice!

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

And by the fall of Tisarwat's shoulders, she very clearly was, too.

"Oh," she said, frowning as she looked down at them in her palm. "Then why call them that? Are they named after someone, like...the Mr. Goodbar?"

She could only assume that there was an actual Mr. Goodbar, after all.

Re: Explain your choice!

[sith_happened]

"I looked this up!" Anakin said, looking pleased with himself. "Apparently 'to smart' meant that your face does that puckery thing when something is too tart. So Smarties make you pucker. Or did. I don't think they're all that tart, personally."

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[following_my_fishie]

Del

Re: Take your treats!

[following_my_fishie]

Del took three Bit o Honeys.

Re: Explain your choice!

[mother_forker]

"What sign?"

She might have noticed the sign. Or might not have. Honestly with a person this self-centered and selfish it wouldn't have mattered.

Looking at the aforementioned sign, Eleanor's mouth formed a tiny "o". "Oh. That sign."

Anakin would no doubt notice she was now trying to quickly either eat or lick the candy so no one else would want it.

Re: Explain your choice!

[following_my_fishie]

Del looked at the three candies she'd taken. "Um. The sign said to? So I took three? Nobody seemed to want these, that other girl was throwing them back at the bowl? I don't know. I've never had these before. Maybe they're good? They might be bad. That's okay. I've eaten bad things before. I don't mind. I don't want them to feel bad. They're candy, they're trying their best."

A small shrug. "I didn't take any of the other stuff because other people seemed to want it more and I don't need it."

Re: Explain your choice!

[sith_happened]

Anakin wasn't even a little surprised by that move. He'd seen his kids use it on multiple occasions.

"Do you make a habit of not reading directions?" he asked.