How to Make a Radchaai Entertainment, Friday

[1000yearstoolate]

Between the handful of projects that Amaya had taken on recently, when exactly did she find the time to make a tiny armada's worth of tiny Radchaai ships? Don't worry about it. Where there's a will, there's a way. For all anyone knew, she'd actually made them months ago just for funsies and now finally had a good use for them. There were also some surprisingly accurate model Radchaai guns.

And here everyone thought Amaya only watched Radchaai entertainments for the explosions! Although this lesson would definitely cover that, too.

"Today," she announced to the class, as they met in the workshop classroom again, "we work on special effects! Today we're going to work on things like how to make it look convincing to have these ships fly without anyone noticing the strings, how to rig up these guns to shoot convincing lasers, and how to properly explode something," as if there was a way to improperly explode something, "once those lasers hit!"

Which meant that this was going to be a classic Amaya Instructional Ramble class today, because this was a woman who go way too into technical details and explosions, all of which was going to be incredibly handwavey so that the player didn't wind up on some kind of list for excessively googling 'how to make explosions.'

Seivarden could have added her own knowledge of explosives, but she was going to let Amaya shine here. "Let's not forget that there's a story behind the excitement of ships blowing up," she said. "Try to make some time for practicing your scenes too." That was her plan for today, to leave the special effects to Amaya and to make sure the students did an acceptable job as actors, if that was at all possible.

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Re: Talk to the Teachers

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

"Well," said Tisarwat, knowing it barely needed to be said to Seivarden, of all people, "you can never go wrong with tea."

But Tisarwat did like to make her gifts a little more than just the obvious, even if she didn't really know Summer at all, and it was still a little confusing why she would have wanted someone she didn't even know at her party.

Maybe something with a bucket? It would be a good call-back, for the apparent event that seemed to have sparked some sort of interest...

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[1000yearstoolate]

"No, you can't," Seivarden said. "And I'm sure Summer can figure out that it's a very appropriate gift."

Having spent enough time around Seivarden.

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

"If she doesn't," said Tisarwat with a small smile, "then I can only assume it's a failing on your part, Seivarden. She is your friend, after all."

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[1000yearstoolate]

"Oh, you can't blame it all on me," Seivarden said. "You know what people here are like. Summer will understand though. And by the way, I think I was mostly invited so that I could invite you, as I'm a boring old person."