Wilderness Survival - Week 4 | Thursday Morning, A Clearing in the Woods

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

Callisto had two lock boxes today, rather than just one. She pointed at the first box. "Shoes."

Then she pointed at the second box. "Now your clothes. Everything except your underwear."

After everyone had removed their clothing and placed it in the box, Callisto continued "If you spend a prolonged period of time in the wilderness, then it is more than likely whatever clothing you were wearing at the time will come under a considerable amount of wear and tear, especially if it wasn't designed for the environment you're in. The results can be… unpleasant to say the least.

"Luckily, it is possible to repair, and even make clothing from items found in the wilderness. Animal skins, some kinds of tree barks, vines, sinew. The possibilities, if not endless, are at least more varied than you'd think. Even luckier for you, I'm not making you hunt and forage for the raw materials.

"I think you can guess the rest of today's lesson. Use the materials I've provided to make garments to replace the ones you were wearing before. I know the equipment might be a primitive compared to what some of you may be used to, all bone needles and stone knives, but well, you'll just have to deal.

"Get to it," Callisto said. "And as an extra incentive, you're not getting your clothes back until next week, so make sure that you put a decent effort into the clothes."

[ooc: OCD threads coming are up! Post away.]
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Sign In, Shoes, and Clothes(WS - Wk4)

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

Reply under latest comment so the thread collapses.

Re: Sign In, Shoes, and Clothes(WS - Wk4)

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron stared. "You can't be serious."

Re: Sign In, Shoes, and Clothes(WS - Wk4)

[janet_fraiser]

Janet? Just rolled her eyes and stripped down. "The only reason I'm not bitching is because you actually have a good point," she said. "Also, nearly my entire wardrobe consists of jeans and t-shirts, so it's not like I'm missing out on much if I don't get these back for a week."

Re: Sign In, Shoes, and Clothes(WS - Wk4)

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Thanks to the conversation they'd had in the COmmon Room the night before, at least Parker had warning. And was thus wearing a fairly modest black sports bra and work-out shorts under her clothes.

The glaring was just standard, now.

Re: Sign In, Shoes, and Clothes(WS - Wk4)

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec raised a hand. "What if you're not wearing underwear?"

Re: Sign In, Shoes, and Clothes(WS - Wk4)

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

Alphonse might be joining those who are staring. For a moment, anyway, becase at least he dressed decently, even under his clothes. It didn't lower any level of awkwardness he had, though.

Re: Sign In, Shoes, and Clothes(WS - Wk4)

[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

Joxer blinked. "You know, you'd have to give me my boots back before I could give them up again." He crossed his arms. "No way you're getting my clothes."

Clothes Making (WS - Wk4)

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

It's just like a stitch'n'bitch.

Just very heavy on the bitching.

Re: Clothes Making (WS - Wk4)

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Grabbing some animal skins, sinew, a needle and a knife, Cameron sat down on the grabs. How hard could it be after all?

He had no clue where to start.

Re: Clothes Making (WS - Wk4)

[can_be_more]

Yeah, Aeryn has no idea what to do with this, but she makes an effort. A really bad effort.

Re: Clothes Making (WS - Wk4)

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy gave the animal skins a thoughtful look. Of course it'd never be truly stylish, but perhaps she could do something with it... She'd have to, because no way was she walking back to school in her underwear.

Re: Clothes Making (WS - Wk4)

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge looks over the skins, selects a few, and starts to work sewing them together with a needle and some sinew.

Re: Clothes Making (WS - Wk4)

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"God, this is going to look like a bad version of Monkey Planet," Parker muttered in resignation. Fur bikinis are *not* her thing. But that's what it's going to end up being.

On the other hand? The scenery around her was... not bad at all.

She hid a grin from Sam, Alec, Cam, and the other guys, and tried to fasten the furs together with vines.

Re: Clothes Making (WS - Wk4)

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec took some skins and the tools available and found somewhere to sit that he wouldn't be regretting later. Otherwise, being naked? Still not really a problem, unless he thought about how Dean was going to take hearing about it.

He set to work on making some clothing. It wouldn't be particularly pretty, but as long as they worked, he'd be satisfied.

Re: Clothes Making (WS - Wk4)

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

All the materials he figured he'd need were sitting right in front of him, except Alphonse had no freakin' clue how to put them together. So he might've stared at them for a while before attempting.

Re: Clothes Making (WS - Wk4)

[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

The funny part was, Joxer was actually half decent at this. His armor was self-made, after all.

He was actually enjoying himself, even.

Talk to Callisto (WS - Wk4)

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

But you're not getting your clothes back.

Re: Talk to Callisto (WS - Wk4)

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Having put together a very rudimentary loincloth that at least covered the naughty areas if not much else, Dean finally felt confident enough to stand up and go over to talk to Callisto.

"Hi," he said, trying his best charming smile. "I don't know if you remember me -- we met the week before classes started? Dean Winchester."

End of Class (WS - Wk4)

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

Show off your fashion creations to the rest of the class.

And 'volunteer' to show them at the Art Fair tomorrow and you'll get your shoes back. Just your shoes.

Re: End of Class (WS - Wk4)

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker has made this. (http://eboss2.miginc.com/eboss2/products/productintro.asp?clientid=21&productid=14507) As well as something much rougher but not too far off from this cape. (http://eboss2.miginc.com/eboss2/products/productintro.asp?clientid=21&productid=14113)

"Nice, hunh?" Parker cocked her head. "Clothes are clothes." She held out her hand. "Mine, please."

Re: Talk to Callisto (WS - Wk4)

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Trying to keep his furry potato sack from falling apart around him, Cameron carefully approached Callisto. "Okay. So if this has anything to do with me pissing you off yesterday, maybe you could just keep my clothes and give the others theirs back?"

Re: End of Class (WS - Wk4)

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly ended up with a simple skirt her up by a braided belt made out of strips of one of the skins and a sleeveless top (http://www.spuffyonline.com/cap/displayimage.php?album=22&pos=5).

Re: End of Class (WS - Wk4)

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

Alphonse ended up with some clothes that looked to be a little too good from all the assorted items given. Maybe it wasn't noticeable he'd used his 'alternative methods'?

Re: End of Class (WS - Wk4)

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge ends up in something sort of like this (http://pics.livejournal.com/bridge_carson/pic/0005q4e9/).

OOC (WS - Wk4)

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

Look kids! Callisto joins you in your half-nekkid woe!

Okay, so I just like having an excuse to use the boobies icon.

Re: OOC (WS - Wk4)

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

There isn't a single thing wrong with that.