spark's school for circuits

School projects suck. But you know that, right?

"As long as you've done your reading, it'll be easy," Miss Cogg states, letting us know that it's all in the reading. Unfortunately, I don't learn like that. Learning isn't really a specialty of mine anyway. I think I'm kinda dumb - mom says it's bad to talk about myself like that, but she just can't handle that I've given up so easily. Sparks are so damn boring. I'd kill to get a chance to be a train director, though - free train rides throughout the country? That sounded cool, dude. It gives me a chance to get out of here for a little bit, too, which sounds relieving. I don't know if my mom would ever really like that as a career choice, but who is she to tell me what to do? I'm my own... yeah, boy, but I can make my own decisions!

We haven't had our expansion of transportation inside of the schools yet. Teachers have been trying to figure out how to integrate it into the curriculum. Do they teach us transportation mechanics on top of electric currents? Do they create separate schools, and if they do, how does that affect the economic classes in three? How do we decide who goes to which?

There's a lot of questions about that stuff, but hell, all I know is the first sign-up sheet I see for learning how to direct a train is that I'll be writing my name. Just Surge, though, I don't need my legacy to carry my freedom. For now, all I've got is this stupid circuit assignment. But at least I'm not alone. That makes it a bit easier. I've been partnered up with a girl named Soleil. If I remember correctly, rumors have come by me about her obsession with making things explode. While it does sound fun, it also sounds like she knows how to make a thing or two connect up which is a lot better than me.

Because of that, I offered my parents' home for our working base for the project. While my brain can't nearly be enough to light the bulbs by myself, the comfort of the kitchen's lovely bearing of foods can surely make up for the squashed intelligence. That's what I can hope. "Okay. Um, where do you suggest we get started?" My feet dangle off of a high chair as I pick at a bowl of crackers and peanut butter I set up for myself. I hope she's not allergic. Popping a peanut-butter-dalloped saltine into my mouth, I cover my mouth because I'm no barbarian as I try to continue my speech. "Like, I, ah," smack, smack as the peanut butter on the roof of my mouth causes my words to dry up. I gulp a glass of water before continuing. "I've read the textbook, but that's not really helped me, like, ever?"

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School project time! Surge and Soleil have to work together to get five lightbulbs, increasing in complexity for each lightbulb. In order to light each lightbulb, they must land on a specified number. This will get wider in range as they get to more complex circuits, but it gets easier with each roll.

LIGHTBULB ONE: Roll 1-5!
- First rotation of posts, they must roll a 3.
- Second rotation, 3 or 5.
- Third: 1, 3, or 5.
- Fourth: 1, 3, 4, or 5.
- Fifth: damn ho, you bad.