+ Too Cool for School +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: Everyone!
Where: Yasogami High School
When: 6/28-7/1
Rating: Warn if you go higher than PG-13
Summary: Open log for the Persona 4 event! Everyone is spending some time as students and instructors at Yasogami High School in Inaba, Japan.
The Story:
For the weekend, everyone is either a teacher or a student at a Japanese high school. Enjoy Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and look forward to exams on Monday.

The full event description is located here and the plot post is here, with a Q&A thread where you can ask questions.

Comments

C 1/2

[shslliar]

[This has got to be the dumbest class in the whole school. Kokichi's surprised this hack hasn't been fired for teaching kids how to be scam artists.

However, he also isn't planning on going to summer school. Besides, he could use money, and he's a bit of a liar himself. Which is why he's pausing to mock the students who refuse to take the test.]

Sheesh, you guys are a bunch of literal losers. [He grabs the backpack he hid his fantastic mystery item in and slips out of his seat.] Watch this.

2/2

[shslliar]

[He walks up to the front of the class and clears his throat.]

Hey folks! Are you tired of wasting your money on useless trinkets that end up sitting around, collecting dust? Need something to help you with the more important things in life, like finances and paying the bills? Well, say hello to DICE Corp.'s latest invention!

[Oh, dear lord. He's bringing his imaginary evil organization into this... The actual "product" he fishes out of the backpack and proudly displays is a purple USB drive with a small six sided die keychain dangling off one end.]

The MoneyMaker 9000! Inside this flash drive is a powerful program that is able to transfer funds to and from your bank account via proxies with the press of a button. Perfect for conducting Nigerian Prince scams and selling items on the black market with complete security and privacy. No more fiddling with complicated hacking just to get on the deep web! Bypass government trackers with ease!

[If you're one of the smart people wondering how the hell a high schooler could program something like that, you can put your mind at ease. The actual program on the USB is a link to a joke website about hackers, which is not obvious at all.]

This power could be yours for the meager price of $14.99! Order now, and I'll throw in this bitcoin miner absolutely free!

[He pulls out another USB. This one is yellow and has Minesweeper on it.]

[charlastan]

[Finally, someone who's playing along.

Stan mentally checks off a number of good things about this pitch - the kid's got a fake company, and through theming he's made it look more legitimate (DICE Corp having a product with Dice branding makes sense, and a sucker might by into that). Plus, he's clearly paid attention and knows his market (which is Stan, in this case) and the price is alarmingly low for what it is (so it was probably cheap to produce and easy to mass distribute before anyone gets wind of it being too good to be true). On top of that, he's thrown in a time-sensitive freebie, to try and make him want to buy sooner!

So Stan grins and shouts into the megaphone.]

NOW THIS! THIS IS A PRODUCT! WHO DOESN'T LIKE MAKING MONEY, AM I RIGHT?

[It's an excellent example, but he's not going to just buy without putting Kokichi through the wringer first. That wouldn't be fun for either of them! Kokichi's basically already won, but it's Stan's part to play the sucker now.]

I DO LIKE POWER...I DUNNO THOUGH, THAT'S ALMOST FIFTEEN DOLLARS. SO, IT'S REAL EASY TO USE, EVEN FOR AN OLD, COMPUTER-ILLITERATE MAN?

[shslliar]

[Kokichi can't help but grin back. He figures Stan wouldn't want to part with more than twenty dollars because of one student, so fifteen on top of avoiding summer school? He's gonna have him some fun on the first days of summer while everyone else gets stuck with Pines Sensei!

With that in the back of his mind, he keeps his bold grin as he prepares his counterattack.]

I'm glad you asked! Most programs like these are hard to come by, and the ones you do find on the market can cost you over two hundred bucks! Plus, they're incredibly hard to master for the average joe.

But the MoneyMaker 9000 is clearly much more affordable and is designed with the average consumer in mind! We've even included an easy to read tutorial, so even someone who has never seen a computer before can use it!

[charlastan]

[He's damn right Stan doesn't wanna part with that much cash at once (or at all!).]

WOW! IT'S REALLY A FOOLPROOF MONEY MAKER!

[He winks obnoxiously. Get it?? He name-dropped it!]

BUT THERE'S MONEY AND THEN THERE'S MONEY. SO ARE YOU SAYING THAT WITH THIS LITTLE GADGET, I COULD BECOME SOME KINDA SELF-MADE MILLIONAIRE?