What school kid or former school kid doesn’t know about Fire Drill?

And if you grew up in the 1950s, you had Atom Bomb Drill, in which you learned to duck under a thin wooden desk in the event that a 50 megaton neutron bomb went off a couple hundred feet overhead.

When you’re done laughing, I want to point out that, although no 50 megaton neutron bomb went off anywhere near us, we felt far safer under the desk than exposed standing around the classroom, with all that potential Blast Effect going on.

Fire Drill is where you act out escape from a burning building. Presumably you do it over and over again with eyes closed to perfect your sense of direction and navigation through it — the more complex the path, the more repetitions needed to Master the Path.

Well, so much for theory. In actual practice, you do Fire Drill once per semester or half, and that’s it.

Well, kiddies, kiss those good old days goodbye, because in Prosperity, you’re gonna work yer ass off just to stand still.

Drill, drill and more drill, until you get it right.

Then you’re permitted to grunk around in Uber Space, fiddling with alternate worlds and mysterious higher dimensions.

Fire Drill, indeed. You’ll be wishing for KP duty next!