Survival skills class -- desert edition -- open

[nofarplaneyet]

Characters: Auron and anyone else who wants to make sand angels

Location: Desert right outside Death City

Rating: S for sandy

Time: Feb. 17 around 2 p.m.

Description: Auron teaches a few students how survive in a giant sandbox. With an assist from his partner





Yesterday's mission had tired out Auron, but not enough that he couldn't teach. He waited at the gates of Death City for the few students who seemed interested for a short field trip outside the walls.

((OOC: Comment on Auron's parts of the lecture and also have your own threads wherever. Threadjack!)

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[topgun_textiles]

Now he remembered: Cacti store water, and some of them even bear fruit. He kind of wonder what they tasted like... but maybe they were poisonous or something, he didn't know.

When Auron set the items down he turned his attention to them. He would personally pick the quicker alternatives in case times got desperate - man, he didn't think he'd actually show any interest in a lesson, but this was actually helpful - but maybe this longer method would be good to know.

[nofarplaneyet]

Auron had a hole all set up. It was covered in clear plastic and dipped in the middle with one rock on it. Everything else was anchored in sand. At the bottom of the hole was a plastic container and a tube snaked from the container to the outside.

"You let this go overnight if it's cold enough and dew will form. It'll run on the underside of the plastic and into the container. Then you drink out of it with the tube."

[topgun_textiles]

What the... was he serious!? As some of the other students moved closer to have a look, so did he. The set-up looked so simple, but the process sounded complicated. Dew actually forms out here?

"Like when soda bottles 'sweat', right? You're just usin' it to your advantage." He didn't know the exact word for it, but this looked like that weird shit that happens when you pull something out of the fridge.

[nofarplaneyet]

(OOC: I have a survival guide that Auron made me purchase. It is a thing you can do provided you have all these tools. I think it's pretty neat!)

Auron nodded. "Good, Kanji. That's the idea. Except that you're trying to create a surface to capture moisture when it condenses onto things. You'd probably need a few of these pits if you had to stay put in the desert for a while but at least you wouldn't die of thirst if you just had one."

[topgun_textiles]

"How many's a few?" His attention was focused on the set-up. Now that he was really looking at it, how much water did one night's collection even provide?

Still, he never thought he'd find himself actually being attentive for a class. Typically he spaced out or slept through most of his, much to the chagrin of his teachers. How the boy managed to get into a japanese high school was anybody's guess.


[ooc: Oh yeah, I remember watching Survivorman and he talked about this exact thing once.]

uh... I guess I'm still here..... orz

[tauborn]

[Takuto just kind of... edged away, for once not liking the attention at all. It had been a little unnerving for Kanji to turn around and glare at him like that, especially when he'd already invited the boy over....

He's just watching from a distance, because he can see fine from the back and Kanji is doing well to answer the questions and ask other ones, too.]

[nofarplaneyet]

"Maybe around four? When you're in the desert, you need a lot more water than you normally would because you're busy sweating it off."

Auron was honestly surprised how eager Kanji was to learn. Maybe the kid just needed something he thought was interesting in order to pay attention.