Murdock wasn't holding a class per se, more like hanging out in case any students wanted to come by and work something ( Read more... )

It had handwavily taken Murdock a few weeks to get the craft shop cleaned up and in good working order. Looked like the place hadn't been used in years. Most of the tools were still in pretty good shape, they just needed a bit of tuning or maitenance work ( Read more... )

Despite it being the last class, Murdock was in a good mood. Very good. Possibly it had something to do with his activities over the past few days.

He'd brought in moddable drinks, snacks and a TV. "Alright guys, I know there's usually supposed to be some kinda test, but instead I just got a couple of questions for ya. Out of the things we covered ( Read more... )

Murdock paced around the classroom as he spoke. "The Battle of the Crater was part of the Siege of Petersburg Virginia during the Civil War. It actually lasted from June 1864 to March 1865, with a series of both sides digging in trenches, boosting their fortifications, and waiting for the other to attack. But the main brunt of the fighting took ( Read more... )

Murdock had a tape player setup in the classroom and it was cranking out a funny little number

"The Battle of New Orleans, folks, not just a catchy tune. It was one of the larger battles fought during the War of 1812."

Murdock turned off the tape player and flopped down in his chair, feet on the desk. "Though it's known as The War of 1812, it was ( Read more... )

Murdock had no idea that his class had been taken over last week. "Hey guys. Sorry 'bout last week's class, somethin' kinda came up. But I brought moddable breakfast to make up for it ( Read more... )

"Welcome to California, kiddos!" Behind him, the SERF displayed a brick, Spanish-style building. "Sonoma, to be precise. This is where part of the Mexican-American war took place ( Read more... )

The students would find themselves in the SERF today, a landscape of gently rolling green hills and a beautiful stone bridge.

"Anyone guess where we are?" Murdock grinned. "Scotland! Ain't never actually been there myself, but I hear it's pretty."

"Anyway, I thought we'd start off with a bit of older history, the first war of Scottish ( Read more... )

"Hey y'all!" Murdock was very cheery as he jounced into the classroom. "Welcome to class! We'll be discussing various military campaigns and notable battles." He grinned, "Heck, we ain't just gonna be discussin', we'll be doin' 'em! I'll have the SERF setup to recreate some of these. Should be quite an adventure ( Read more... )

Murdock had downed a couple of pain killers in the morning, hoping that they'd at least knock out some of the headache he still had. Concussions sucked, man.

"Okay guys, since today is the last class, I thought we'd really push ourselves. We'll be doing close combat exercises. I want y'all to break off in pairs or groups and try to get a lock on ( Read more... )