[OPEN] It's Exam Season

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WHO: Dr. Ratio, Itadori Yuji, Fushiguro Megumi, any other student taking the exams + anyone who enters the cafeteria
WHAT: A bunch of teenagers willfully subjecting themselves to exams, with Dr. Ratio as the proctor.
WHERE: Main Base Cafeteria
WHEN: May 13 + 14
WARNINGS: None unless you think high school exams deserve a warning

[ Ratio had not expected to be proctoring exams so soon after arriving to an isolated, ruined planet, but life always had its ways to surprise you. It is a development he welcomes, however, as it means there are students interested in learning.

Unfortunate then that the base has little to no locations suitable for education. The library's overhead lights were broken, and there were far too few seats. The only option at such a short notice was the cafeteria. But Ratio is adaptable, for adaptability is sign of an open mind and excellent problem-solving skills, both of which he has in spades.

Over the two days of May 13 and May 14, Outsiders will find a corner of the cafeteria cordoned off for the exams, blocked by bristol panels that separate the space from the rest of the cafeteria. A man with a plaster bust over his head will be standing near by, apparently proctoring the exams. ]


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[ Ratio is well aware that Aventurine would not excel in the structured format of academia. All that he has learned has been out of necessity and experience. But the gambler is a clever man—he picks up far more than others in each moment, and learns to apply them deftly and appropriately. He is a man of practice, whereas Ratio is a man of theory. They are complementary, and that is why they are an excellent team. ]

I did not say it must pertain to academia. Only that it falls under my expertise.

[ And, as both of them know, Ratio is quite the eclectic bin of knowledge. The scholar has briefly shown that hand to Aventurine a few times, from sleights of hand to eccentric hobbies and even playing strange instruments (the theremin had delighted the gambler, for it was a unique, antique instrument mostly lost to time, and the question of how Ratio learned to play this rare instrument must have plagued his mind for a good while).

(The answer is, unfortunately, quite mundane. Early in his career, he made acquaintance with a researcher who had a passion for rare instruments. That researcher had been one of the smarter ones—they'd figured out that they could bargain for favours by teaching him something that piqued his curiosity. He'd only expressed his interest in the complex technicality of music just once and they'd made use of that information instantly.) ]

I do not, but the offer remains open, as always.