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[Aseaheru]

 +1 to both of the above.

[Jack A T]

Build a paperwork mech with the powers of calculus! We don't want to walk the entire way to work, considering we left our car there!

Go to work.

You come up with a brilliant idea: make a mathematical mech to move you to work.  You decide to make a paperwork Angry Cat (from your favourite moderately popular mech gaming franchise), mathematize the problem of designing and building it, and solve the equation.  Through several minutes of calculator-tapping, you eventually build a towering, unarmed, clockwork, paper version of the mech to ride to work.  You even have all the required approval forms done.

It's an intimidating sight, at first.  After a few minutes of walking down roads, though, you start to see the problem with paper vehicles.  It's falling apart.  The gears inside are bending over time, the feet are losing layers with every step, and sheets are constantly coming off.  Eventually, the mech collapses and you eject.  The paper parachute at least works just long enough to get you to the roof of your office building.  You're on the roof of a 20 story building, your cubicle is on the first floor, and the roof door is locked.

You can't even walk to your office from here.

Spoiler: Mathemagic (click to show/hide)

Mathemagician in Training
Mathemagic: Extend/Retract Staff, Repair Coffee Maker, Light, Elemental Bolt, Justify Policy, Do Paperwork, Create Paperwork, Search Archives, Force High Five, Set Timer, Timed Explosion, Build Paper Mech

[Demonic Spoon]

Use elemental bolt to break open the door. If that doesn't work use timed explosion to break open the door.

Make another paper parachute and jump down to the entrance of the building. EDIT: After having equipped the parachute first.

[Aseaheru]

 Use Mathmagic to work out how to compress paper into material hard and durable enough for use in a new mech.

[Generally me]

Use elemental bolt to break open the door. If that doesn't work use timed explosion to break open the door.

Make another paper parachute and jump down to the entrance of the building. EDIT: After having equipped the parachute first.

+1

Use Mathmagic to work out how to compress paper into material hard and durable enough for use in a new mech.

+1

[FArgHalfnr]

Use elemental bolt to break open the door. If that doesn't work use timed explosion to break open the door.

Make another paper parachute and jump down to the entrance of the building. EDIT: After having equipped the parachute first.

+1

Use Mathmagic to work out how to compress paper into material hard and durable enough for use in a new mech.

+1

+1. Detonating the lock might have been more practical but coming down in parachute is just awesome.

[endlessblaze]

Use elemental bolt to break open the door. If that doesn't work use timed explosion to break open the door.

Make another paper parachute and jump down to the entrance of the building. EDIT: After having equipped the parachute first.

+1

Use Mathmagic to work out how to compress paper into material hard and durable enough for use in a new mech.

+1

+1. Detonating the lock might have been more practical but coming down in parachute is just awesome.

i am also infavor.

[Ozarck]

Once on ground, call for Chinese carry-out. Fill out a form to get authorization to look for car keys.

[Jack A T]

Use Mathmagic to work out how to compress paper into material hard and durable enough for use in a new mech.

Make another paper parachute and jump down to the entrance of the building. EDIT: After having equipped the parachute first.

Once on ground, call for Chinese carry-out. Fill out a form to get authorization to look for car keys.

Well, that was a waste of paper.  Surely there's something harder you could use...that's it!  Harder.  Harder paperwork.  The most difficult, confusing, and overly long paperwork out there is surely harder than easy paperwork, right?  The equation is easy when you figure that out.

However, hard paperwork isn't going to help parachute you down.  The easy stuff will be better.  You build a new paperwork parachute and jump.  The fall is long, and the parachute starts falling apart over time.  As you reach the ground in front of the front door, the parachute breaks down completely, dramatically blowing away behind you.  You call for some Chinese carry-out, walk into the office, and hand in one of the hardest forms you know of: the request for authorization for a car key search.  Might be approved within a few days.

You walk over to your cubicle and take your seat.  Most seems to be as you left it, though one of your CafiPens is missing and someone's replaced the draft of the now-finished gambling regulation report with "buttz" copied and pasted over and over again for a few pages.  You have several new emails to go through, too.

Spoiler: Mathemagic (click to show/hide)

Mathemagician in Training
Mathemagic: Extend/Retract Staff, Repair Coffee Maker, Light, Elemental Bolt, Justify Policy, Do Paperwork, Create Paperwork, Search Archives, Force High Five, Set Timer, Timed Explosion, Build Paper Mech, Harden Paperwork

[Demonic Spoon]

Read email.

Make our screensave password protected. (That is to say, when you deactivate the screensaver you have to enter a password)

[FallacyofUrist]

Read emails, study calculus.

[SaberToothTiger]

Sing a sea shanty.

[Generally me]

Go around high fiving the coolest people in the office to show how cool we are.

[Ozarck]

Go around high fiving the coolest people in the office to show how cool we are.

That would be us. We are now going around the office high fiving ourself.
Requisition forms. Delegate menial tasks. Fill out a requisition for replacement Cafipens. Send an angry e-mail to the coffee shop asking why we haven't received our Blanket and Pillows yet.

[FArgHalfnr]

Go around high fiving the coolest people in the office to show how cool we are.

That would be us. We are now going around the office high fiving ourself.
Requisition forms. Delegate menial tasks. Fill out a requisition for replacement Cafipens. Send an angry e-mail to the coffee shop asking why we haven't received our Blanket and Pillows yet.

+1 only because I want the blanket and pillow