Practical Weaponry [Wednesday, Period Four]

[doubleohblonde]

Today the world inside the Danger Shop was monochrome and grainy, a vast gravel quarry lay before the students, train tracks lay in the near distance, and if they listened carefully, the class might have heard the strains of ominous piano music. Bond stood at the edge of the quarry, looking down into it.

"Good afternoon class," he began cheerfully, which was never a good sign. "Given that we're rapidly coming up on the end of our time together, today's exercise is going to incorporate three different elements."

"To begin with, no matter how well-trained you are, there are times that not only does your enemy have more advantages than you, whether in personnel, intel, or weapons, but for whatever reason you are also constrained from taking the path of least resistance and just killing them. To make matters worse, you may even have allies who are a greater hindrance than help.

"Which brings me to my second point. There are also occasions where you can't fight at all. This might be because of injury, you might have have a gun to your head, or you might simply be outclassed. When taken to an extreme, you can be a liability to the very people you are trying to help.

"Finally, there times you can have every advantage in the world, and somehow still manage to make a complete hash of things."

Bond gestured to a list tacked up on a nearby rock-cropping. "For this exercise, you have been randomly placed in one of three groups, the Heroic Saviours, the Damsels in Distress, and the Villainous Scoundrels, each with a different role to play."

He started listing them off on his fingers. "For the Heroic Saviours, your job is to protect a Damsel for the length of the class from a Villain, however you may not do anything which would cause permanent harm to them.

"Damsels, you must try to stay out of the Villain's clutches, however you've sadly contracted a case of terminal incompetence, you have no fighting skills, you can't run particularly fast, and you have a tendency to twist your ankle at the worst possible moment, you're relying on your hero, and not making their job easy." Anyone thinking that Bond had had perhaps a bit too much fun devising this class would be right.

"Villains, you see those railway tracks over there? Your aim is to have a Damsel tied to them at the end of the class. Moustache twirling is optional."

"You can pick your own partners, and your time starts as soon as you have."

[ooc: wait for ocd up.]

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Sign In - PW [Week 6]

[doubleohblonde]

In black and white!

Re: Sign In - PW [Week 6]

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

Hannibal King

Re: Sign In - PW [Week 6]

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

Kyle Reese

Listen to the Lecture - PW [Week 6]

[doubleohblonde]

You should probably start worrying about your final about now...

Re: Listen to the Lecture - PW [Week 6]

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

This didn't sound too difficult depending on which group he got dropped into. Of course, he didn't think he'd make a very good damsel even though he could whine with the best of them.

Re: Listen to the Lecture - PW [Week 6]

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

Triela had a feeling that she was going to be very, very frustrated by the end of class today.

Re: Listen to the Lecture - PW [Week 6]

[glacial_queen]

Karla dashed into class a few minutes late and nearly collapsed on her desk. Once it had gotten signal again, her phone had beeped to let her know what day and time it was in Fandom, causing her to run all the way from the Causeway to the school.

At least she could vanish stuff, so she didn't have to try to fit lugguage under her desk.

She'll totally pay attention in a minute. Just let her catch her breath and convince her heart not to explode.

Get into Groups! - PW [Week 6]

[doubleohblonde]

Heroic Saviours	Damsels in Distress	Villainous Scoundrels
Rose Hathaway Anemone Kyle Reese Jaina Solo	Elle Bishop Arthur Pendragon Hannibal King Hinata Hyuuga Leda	Tybalt Capulet Tabitha-Ruth Wexler Triela Dinah Lance

One Hero, one Villain, and one Damsel to a group.

[If the numbers don't work out, Bond'll send some holograms to even things out.]

Re: Get into Groups! - PW [Week 6]

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

...of course he was a damsel. Hannibal facepalmed and hoped he had a damn good hero because, if he had to a damsel, he was damn sure going to be an annoying one.

Re: Get into Groups! - PW [Week 6]

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"Don't worry," Kyle said, seeing the facepalm. "I've saved a damsel in distress with much bigger muscles than you before." He missed Marcus sometimes.

Re: Get into Groups! - PW [Week 6]

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

Hinata was... both a bit amused and a bit embarrassed.

Damsel in distress, right? She could... do that.

Re: Get into Groups! - PW [Week 6]

[glacial_queen]

Still a bit out of breath, Karla saw Hinata and grinned.

Wickedly, of course. It was almost a trademark.

"Looking for a villain?" she asked.

Re: Get into Groups! - PW [Week 6]

[anarchist-queen.livejournal.com]

Leda was partly annoyed at having to be the damsel in distress, partly amused at getting to pretend to be a complete idiot, and partly reminding herself not to slug anyone who tried to tie her to anything.

Mixed emotions can be fun.

Do the Excercise! - PW [Week 6]

[doubleohblonde]

Beyond the train tracks and the general quarry-ness, the landscape is completely moddable.

Talk to Bond - PW [Week 6]

[doubleohblonde]

He considers this a valuable learning exercise. Nothing you say will change this.

Re: Talk to Bond - PW [Week 6]

[thatsamilkshake]

This class was probably not called the Professor Bond Is Hot class, Francine tried to remind herself. (Conveniently forgetting that the one she'd taken with him hadn't been either. Except in her head.) Dinah would take that class. Arthur wouldn't.

Those two being her reason for ducking into the Danger Shop before the class properly began, she just blinked at the gravel quarry and looked about for the teacher. "Mister Bond?"

Re: Talk to Bond - PW [Week 6]

[doubleohblonde]

That was unexpected. "Miss Peters?" Bond asked, turning to face her. "What do I owe this surprise visit to?"

Re: Talk to Bond - PW [Week 6]

[glacial_queen]

"Mr. Bond?" Karla said, coming to see him as class was ending. "I wanted to apologize for my absence last week and my tardiness today."

Re: Talk to Bond - PW [Week 6]

[doubleohblonde]

"Apology accepted," Bond said pleasantly. "I hope your business back home was resolved."

Talk to the TAs - PW [Week 6]

[doubleohblonde]

Because they're not at all busy heroing. Really.

Re: Talk to the TAs - PW [Week 6]

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose is planning on making a kick ass hero. A freakin' superhero even.

Re: Talk to the TAs - PW [Week 6]

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

Kyle was a hero, damn it, even if Hannibal didn't think so. So naturally, he was busy. You know, heroing.

OOC - PW [Week 6]

[doubleohblonde]

Because my brain sometimes makes little sense here is an icon of wet, shirtless Bond.

Re: OOC - PW [Week 6]

[glacial_queen]

*sadfaces* Karla gets no love?

Also, I would have paid good money to see Arthur damselling it up.

Re: OOC - PW [Week 6]

[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

Jen would like to agree with the cut tag's assessment of gravel quarries.