[OPEN CLASS] Trashology 101 (Sidron)

[Yayoi]

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NAME OF CLASS CHORE: Trashology 101
PROFESSOR NAME: Moira *********, Professor Janitor

General Information: In Trashology 101, students will learn the valuable skills of cleanliness and machine operation. All around campus, trash and waste and other icky things are taken care of by Moira's sorta-patented Trashbot Waste Disposal Units! But they need to be emptied sometimes and there's just too many of them for Moira to handle on her own...


The Course: The Trashbot Waste Disposal Units (or Trashbots) zip around the campus and collect trash, etc. before returning to their home base in Moira's Fortress of Janitorial Solitude. This home base is a massive, warehouse-like room with a cold concrete floor, rusting steel girders, and a rather pervasive smell. The Waste Disposal Chutes are also set into the floor - huge tubes that lead down to a rather foul cavern below, infested with all manner of vermin. Students must deal with the Trashbots... by whatever means necessary.

Did we mention that the Trashbots are ten-foot-tall ramshackle monstrosities of rusting metal, covered in blades and dumpsters and rust? And that they don't particularly like letting go of a thing once they have it? And that their programming as to what counts as 'trash' is spotty at the best of times?



Mechanics - Solo:

Students who attempt Trashology 101 solo are certainly brave, taking on the Trashbots without any other assistance! Upon entering the Trashbot home base, intrepid soloists are faced with five active Trashbots, each of whom would love to scoop you up and drop you down the Waste Disposal Chute.

The Trashbots must be defeated one at a time, in five separate 'waves'.

Wave One: Roll 1d20-
------- If you roll 6-20: you successfully dodge the first Trashbot. It runs into a wall and deactivates.
------- If you roll 1-5: the Trashbot grabs you and dumps you down the Waste Disposal Chute! You'll have to try again...

Wave Two: Roll 1d12-
------- If you roll 6-12: you duck behind a dumpster! Your cunning hiding place confuses the second Trashbot. It toodles away after a few minutes and leaves you alone.
------- If you roll 1-5: the Trashbot grabs you and dumps you down the Waste Disposal Chute! You'll have to try again...

Wave Three: Roll 1d8-
------- If you roll 5-8: using all the resources at your command, you manage to trip the third Trashbot. It flops around feebly for a minute before deactivating.
------- If you roll 1-4: the Trashbot grabs you and dumps you down the Waste Disposal Chute! You'll have to try again...

Wave Four: Roll 1d6-
------- If you roll 4-6: a hapless gnome runs by. You chuck it into the fourth Trashbot's main collector. Thus appeased, the Trashbot leaves you alone.
------- If you roll 1-3: the Trashbot grabs you and dumps you down the Waste Disposal Chute! You'll have to try again...

Wave Five: Roll 1d4-
------- If you roll 3-4: you end up next to a particularly rancid garbage bag, which you can just barely heave at the fifth and final Trashbot. The bag explodes on impact, showering both you and the Trashbot with ick - but the Trashbot flings itself down the Waste Disposal Chute, leaving you the last one standing. In need of a shower, but standing!
------- If you roll 1-2: the Trashbot grabs you and dumps you down the Waste Disposal Chute! You'll have to try again...


If you make it through all five waves, you are deemed a Trashology Hero! Moira will put your name down on her notice board for all to see. You will gain the admiration of your peers! Maybe.

If you get punted down the Waste Disposal Chute, you end up in a huge cavern full of garbage, verminous minipets, and gnomes who got tossed out by mistake. You may leave the cavern dump through a tunnel that lets out near the Creepateria.




Mechanics - Group:

Students that enter in groups of 2 or more must face a different challenge! This challenge may be met by very large groups if desired, so if you want to form a mini-army of Trash Soldiers, feel free!

When the students enter, each of them are snatched up by a Trashbot, and no matter how hard they struggle they can't quite get free... but they can sort of steer the Trashbots around! The goal is to steer the Trashbots into each other in order to free your fellow students and yourself from their stinky grips.

Each Trashbot has 20 HP. To attack another Trashbot, you must roll for two things: your damage and your accuracy.

With each post, roll 2d6. The first dice is your ACCURACY, if you hit or not! Even you hit, odd you miss! The second dice is your DAMAGE. There are no modifiers: whatever the second dice rolls is the damage you deal to your target!

Remember in each post to state both your target (i.e. Character A's Trashbot) and your own Trashbot's HP! Keep in mind you are damaging the Trashbots only - character HP is completely unaffected.

Once your Trashbot hits 0 HP, it deactivates and releases you. At that point, you should move out of the way lest you be stepped on by an active Trashbot! Students cannot attack Trashbots from the sidelines until there is only one active Trashbot left on the field.

When there is only one Trashbot left 'alive', the students on the sidelines may begin attacking by throwing trashbags at it! The dice roll is the same as before: 2d6, first dice for accuracy, second for damage.

When all Trashbots are deactivated, students are kindly asked to dump any loose garbage down the Waste Disposal Chutes before leaving. Moira thanks you!

YOU LOSE/FINISH THIS CLASS WHEN...

- You are at any point in time grabbed and thrown into the waste disposal chute. That means you have to START OVER to try again! You may do so in the same thread or a new one if you decide to attempt again at a later date.

 

[Yayoi]

Sidron figured it was about time that he started putting a little bit of effort into his studies. He could not just lay about in his dorm with the hot flower girl that was his ghoulfriend all day. Well, yes he could. But then what would have been the point of coming here in the first place? Not that it had been his choice. But he most certainly did not regret it in the least.

Plus he was a little bored and looking for something at least a little entertaining.

The dragon made his way towards the warehouse where the janitor seemed to live. Huge, hulking trashbots zipped about. Clinking and clanking. Dumping trash then zipping back out to gather more. The warehouse seemed to have no real organization to it at all. But somehow it ran rather efficiently. At least, it seemed that way. How hard was it to scoop up trash and then dump it down a shoot?

Not very hard in his opinion.

As he entered the warehouse Sidron glanced around, wondering when this little class would start. It looked like a maze inside. And before he knew it there was a trashbot heading his way. It's arms flailing about in an attempt to grab him. Stepping to the side, Sidron quirked an eyebrow as the trashbot smashed into the wall behind him. Falling to the floor. The boil poked at it with the end of his long tail, waiting for it to get up and come at him again but it seemed the dumb thing had fried it's brains or something.

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6-20: you successfully dodge the first Trashbot. It runs into a wall and deactivates

 

[Yayoi]

Moving further into the warehouse Sidron began to feel a bit curious. He had never been here before and while the building seemed to stink from the big hole in the ground that lead below it was rather interesting to watch the trashbots go about doing their collecting and dumping. Moira could really use a few air fresheners here and there. To, if not dispel, cut down on the smell. Its not that he was sensitive to it, it was just a bit too much.

Of course, some creeple liked it that way. And Sidron preferred to keep his distance from most of the smelly students and faculty.

Before he knew it another trashbot was threatening to roll up on him. After a quick look about he ducked behind a nearby dumpster. Pulling his tail and wings in tight so as not to give away his hiding spot. Of course, being a seven foot tall dragon was hard to hide. Luckily the trashbot had not even noticed him and kept on rolling past. Once it seemed clear he continued on his way through the warehouse. Careful to not draw anymore attention.

He really didn't want to be touched by one of those things. They were dirty and rusty. Plus some had blades that looked like they could be rather painful. And Sidron was pretty sure up close they smelled the worst. Did the janitor even wash them?

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6-12: you duck behind a dumpster! Your cunning hiding place confuses the second Trashbot. It toodles away after a few minutes and leaves you alone.

 

[Yayoi]

The third trashbot he encountered seemed a little slow. Not so much in speed but in thought. Sidron stared at it and what he could only assume the trashbot was doing the same. They did not really seem to have any definitive eyes. At least this one anyway.

It felt like minutes had passed as he stared and it in turn probably stared back. Almost like it was contemplating wheither or not he was a person or piece of garbage that had suddenly sprouted arms and legs. Not to mention wings and a tail.

But after the moment of silence the trashbot seemed to have finally made up it's mind and came barreling towards him. In a slight panic Sidron grabbed a twisted up rusty pipe, giving it a swing the robot dodged the swing but somehow managed to trip itself up on something. Falling to the ground it sputtered and flailed it's arms before finally going lifeless.

These robots weren't that well made if just a fall deactivated them. Not that he really knew much about robots but if a simple trip was enough one might want to reconsider the machine's structural integrity. Plus if someone was knowledgable enough they could knock one out then reprogram it for something a bit more devious than trash collecting.

Not that anyone would do that.

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5-8: using all the resources at your command, you manage to trip the third Trashbot. It flops around feebly for a minute before deactivating.

 

[Yayoi]

By now Sidron was feeling pretty good about accomplishing this open class. So far he had dodged every trashbot that he had crossed paths with. He was feeling so confident in fact that he pretty much swaggered his way around the warehouse.

But that confidence was short lived when the feel of metal clamps on his shoulders took hold of him. Stopping the dragon boil in his tracks and surprisingly lifting him off his feet.

Sidron squirmed and thrashed but there was no release from the trashbot's grasp. The last thing he saw was the hulking metal robot before he was sliding down the disposal chute. Landing in something soft and...squishy. Augh it reeked down here! He had to get out as fast as he could. The boil bolted for the door that would lead him back upstairs to the warehouse.

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1-3: the Trashbot grabs you and dumps you down the Waste Disposal Chute! You'll have to try again...

 

[Yayoi]

He had come so close. There was no way he was going to give up after getting so close to the end of this class. When he emerged into the warehouse again a trashbot came flailing at him.

Not wanting to waste any time he quickly dodged it and moved on. The sound of it smacking into a wall and clanking to the ground brought a slight smirk to his lips.  

[Yayoi]

This second run he wouldn't get too far on. He got caught by another trashbot and thrown down the stinky chute. As he landed in the pile of trash Sidron growled lightly under his breath.

He'd have to take several showers to get rid of this stink.  

[Yayoi]

Back up top once again he quickly dodged the next trash bot to cross his path. Moving at an even faster pace than before. He'd grown tired of this place already and at this point just wanted to get through it.  

[Yayoi]

Sidron ducked behind another trash bin to avoid the next bot. So far so good. It hadn't seen him and once it moved on so did he.  

[Yayoi]

The third hadn't seen him but he felt like getting some retribution for the stink he'd have to scrub off later. Sticking out his foot he tripped the next trashbot before sprinting along the path.  

[Yayoi]

The next trashbot seemed hell bent on catching him. But it just so happened a gnome ran past him. His Bruteball training came into play as Sidron picked up the gnome and perfectly spiraled the helpless thing into the trashboth's collector.

That seemed to appease it for now as the trashbot turned around and went the other way.

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4-6: a hapless gnome runs by. You chuck it into the fourth Trashbot's main collector. Thus appeased, the Trashbot leaves you alone.

 

[Yayoi]

So close. So jacking close!

He could see the end but another trashbot was hot on his heels. Sidron raced along the path spying a rather large garbage bag nearby and got an idea. Grabbing the bag which was unnaturally heavy, Sidron chucked it at the trashbot. Unfortunately the trashbot was rather close and the bag exploded against it's metal body. It knocked the trashbot over but in the process exploded which rained down rancid, smelly trash.

Sidron stood there. A deadpan look on his face before he snapped out of it and raced for the end. He's made it. He smelt like something indescribable but he had made it.

Shower time.

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3-4: you end up next to a particularly rancid garbage bag, which you can just barely heave at the fifth and final Trashbot. The bag explodes on impact, showering both

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