Basic Weaponry; Friday, Third Period [09/29].

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"Welcome back, everyone," Amaya greeted the class with her usual nod, as she stood in front of a slightly different training set up today, with the far end of the field lines up with round bulls-eye targets instead of the usual practice dummies. "This is a unit we usually do a bit later in the semester, but since this weekend is Parents Weekend, Detective Diaz wanted to move it up a little and cover it today, so we'll be talking about bows."

"Because there's no better way to drive someone off," Rosa offered helpfully, "then to have a weapon you can shoot at them with without ever even needing to get close to them."

Was your teacher advocating for shooting your friends and family with bows and arrows? It definitely seemed so!

Look, Rosa was a pragmatist, okay?

And Amaya was...well, she appreciated the sentiment, but that's not what she was here for. "Anyway!" she said. "Let's get started, shall we?"

( Shot through the heart. )

"That just about covers the basics," Amaya grinned faintly. "If there's any questions, though, let's have 'em, and then we're going to get to work. First, before we get to the fun part, I'm going to teach you all how to actually string a bow, because a bow's not much good if you've gone and snapped a string or worn it down and can't replace it with a new one. Then it's off to Detective Diaz, where she'll go over nocking, aiming, and shooting at the targets we've got set up over there, and I'm sure, by the end of the class, if you're not an expert already, you will be!

"Or," she added, chuckling faintly, "at the very least, since we're in the Danger Shop, if you're not an expert by the end of class, at least you'll not have lost an eye."

The Renaissance: Art & Science, Friday, 2nd period

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"Since frescos were so much fun last week," Steve said, "this week we decided to give engineering a try."

They were in the Danger Shop and it had been programmed to look like the interior of Florence's Duomo. "This magnificent dome is a miracle of modern engineering of the time, and is still kinda heartstopping to look up into, isn't it?" Steve added.

"It is the largest masonry built dome in the world to this day," Tony added. "It helps that it was also a bit of a mystery as to how the architect, Filippo Brunelleschi, was able to do it as he kept the plans close to his chest, upsetting the others working on it with him."

Steve grinned at him. "Have you figured it out yet?" he asked Tony.

"Luckily I don't have to, they did a analysis on the dome and how the bricks are laid in a very specific pattern to properly distribute the weight without needing any buttresses to hold it up," Tony replied with a grin, bringing up a holographic image for the class to see.

It was very shiny. "We'll play on a slightly less...grandiose...scale," Steve said.