[h3]Dust Applications - Lecture Hall I707[/h3]
Lesson number one of working with Dust, above all else, is and always will 'safety first'. It can be pretty volatile stuff if you don't know what you're doing, so a healthy, tekul respect for its dangers is a [i]must[/i] if you don't wanna get a real hard wallapin' from what should be pointed at hordes of Grimm rather than you or your mates. So lucky for me, I didn't need to look like a right daft git who wanted to do a Toontown impression to grab all the kids' attentions. Not that I'd have forgotten safety regs for my own course or anything. You're definitely not that big of a dunderhead yet, Teàrlag! 

Still, lighting a hand on fire bloody hurts, you know? Pulling off a trick like that with Dust means you need to hide it [i]somewhere[/i] on your body, and when it goes off, the fleshy human bits aren't going to be out of range. 'Tis just a scratch though; nothing that I haven't suffered the horrible ravages of (exaggeration) before, and it looks like none of the students seem to have gotten the scoobie on what I just did. But they're all looking at me; they're concentrating; they're [i]paying attention[/i]. Oi oi, was a bit of fancy Dustplay that exciting to you folks? It's not that I'm not unhappy or anything that the demonstration was a success, but that was a lotta bang for its buck, wasn't it?

I guess kids like their explosions more than blethering about.

Most of them do, at least.

One of the brats - [b]that same luchadora lass who ran away with my jacket on family day[/b] ([@Ryonara])- is already doing her own thing and playing around with Dust. I'm contractually obligated to bump my gums before you can get started on anything, you know? It's sorta rude to already go ahead before I get on with the rest of the script. All those fees you're paying are going to waste right now!

So it's my job as a teacher to save her from the crushing despair of high-interest loans (they're bloody awful unless you're an Atlesian and can afford a pet Faunus) by calling out to her. "[color=d8bfd8]Miss - [/color]" I pause for the slightest of seconds as I recall that quine's name. Not because I'd forgotten or anything. I'm proud of the work I put into memorising their names and photos when I got their class list. "[color=d8bfd8]- Guan Yue. You can work with the Dust tags later.[/color]"

That's some stuff she can play around with in her personal time. The time all my students will have at Beacon is limited, only a pucklie of one's lifespan, so they needed to make the most of it. Not just take it easy and think this is time to bludge. Not when every wee bit counts to their life expectancy. It's a memo they should all be getting.

"[color=d8bfd8]Moving along, does anybody know what I just did?[/color]"

I'd expected some of them to be having a chaynage day, but surprisingly, [b]a bubbly bonnie[/b] ([@Plank Sinatra]) popped up immediately from the back, waving a hand around enthusiastically. Except -

"[color=8882be]Scuse me! 'Ello! You used a powder form of fire Dust to create a reaction first, and then a hidden score of ice Dust as a reaction to cool 'er down! It coulda been powder up your sleeve, [i]in[/i] your sleeve, or even a henna tat. Any woulda worked, yeah? So fire, water, and air, all in one chimera![/color]"

- You might be a cannie eager lass, but oi, what's that accent supposed to be doing? I'm from Vacuo, you know? I can hear that accent being jammed into the facsimile of a twit's pretty clearly like creme between Oreo biscuits. Is that the persona you're trying to throw up for this class, because it already sounds very squint!

Her fake accent aside though, she was pretty right on the money. I don't have a henna tattoo and I've never even thought about getting one, but it's definitely one way to keep Dust stored on/inside the body. My method's a wee bit more straightforward than that (no clypin' about with infusing the elements into the skin), and I hold up my arm, that ozone smell intensifying a bit more as a tiny bottle is pulled out of my sleeve by electrostatic forces.

"[color=d8bfd8]That's right, Negasi,[/color]" I say, directing a congratulatory smile at her as the bottle of blue and red power drops down into my hand. It's hard for them to see anything special about it, so a camera rotates around to point at my hands, showing off what's going on - the tiny hole in the top of the bottle - on that big projector behind me. "[color=d8bfd8]I pulled a mixture of Dust out of this container and initially activated [i]just[/i] the 'Fire' for that big spurt you all saw.[/color]"

I hold back the urge to do it again. It's not like I want to show off or anything. I just want to emphasise some points, yeah, that's it.

No other reason.

"[color=d8bfd8]And when that reached its zenith, the remaining 'Ice' that got pushed up got to work themselves.[/color]"

I debate mentioning the versatility of even just a single type of Dust like Ice and its heat transfer properties, but I decided to shuffle it into a later time. I don't want to confuse the brats too much. Even if they're cannie folks, there's no guarantee for how quickly they can get their noggins around this.

"[color=d8bfd8]Just because they're mixed together doesn't mean they need to be activated at the same time,[/color]" my lesson continues. "[color=d8bfd8]Crystallising the 'Fire' inside some frozen gas and 'Ice' isn't the only thing you can do with this combination either. It's just the one thing I thought would be cool to show you.[/color]"

Aaargh Teàrlag no, don't accidentally make a pun!

Don't let the brats see. Don't crack a smile.

"[color=d8bfd8]Which brings us to the main point of this intro class.[/color]"

Most people make use of Dust through their Aura or Semblance, but others just straight up make use of stuff in the physical realm to ensure that their weapons are working properly. Trying to go into huge detail on the metaphysical concepts underlying it would have heads in a tizzy this early, so I sum it up neatly.

"[color=d8bfd8]Dust acts because [b][i]you[/i][/b] will it to act.[/color]"

"[color=d8bfd8]I made use of the 'Ice' Dust's ability to 'freeze' for that tower of crystal, delaying its activation to after the 'Fire' already was in motion. It's the same way any of you might incorporate Dust into your Semblance usage; you can just [i]think[/i], and it becomes part of you, right?[/color]"

Once they get this basic idea down-pat, a lot more concepts open up.

"[color=d8bfd8]That part of 'you' conveys what you want the Dust to do, so it does it. Request in, result out.[/color]"

I pause for a moment, scanning the seats to see their faces. I could push that part of the script up a few minutes early, just so it gets cemented better into them.

"[color=d8bfd8]I think it'll be easier for you to understand with another demonstration. Does anyone want to volunteer?[/color]"
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