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The Danger Shop was set to a walled cityscape at nighttime when the students arrived for class. The two teaching assistants stood at the ready position in front of the city gate, each in their official uniforms.

"Good morning," Elena said. "My name is Elena, and this is Anemone. We're not your teacher. We're his teaching assistants. This is Infiltration and Advanced Sneakiness. This class will be all about teaching you how to hide in the shadows, slip past the guards, and get where you're going without attracting attention. Especially if 'where you're going' is exactly where other people don't want you to be."

"As much FUN as causing a ruckus can be, it's not always the best way to achieve your objective." Smiling that was probably not reassuring, Anemone. "So today we're going to start with the basics. Hide-and-Seek and laser tag."

"With a few interesting twists," Elena said. She held up her weapon. "We have guns. You don't, at least, not yet. There are crates scattered around some of the central intersections -- some have guns in them, but some don't. Is it worth going after one? You decide."

"You can either hide all period, which counts as a win, or find a gun and take out others, also a win, but try not to get sniped yourself or you lose," Anemone cheerfully chirped. "This is a class about sneakiness, not killing stuff, and hiding well enough to survive counts. If you're really good, you'll find Professor Skywalker at the end of this class, which counts as the Ultimate Win if you manage to get the drop on him and tag him out," Anemone said. "But if you're that good, you probably wouldn't be here, and he cheats anyway --" which was part of why he was awesome. "-- so you aren't going to win that way."

"It's less of a win if you get either of us," Elena grinned, cocking her weapon, "but that Lesser But Still Impressive Win will earn you cupcakes next week. In five minutes, all the guns will power themselves on, so you'd better not still be standing here. Good luck. You're going to need it."

(co-written with the fabulous

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Hide, go for the crates, stalk your classmates.

(The TAs can and will try to pick you off, so please give an indication of how well you're hiding.)

Edited 2010-07-06 05:07 (UTC)

A gun would be useful, Ino knew that.

Heading for the crates made sense, but the fact that some of them wouldn't have anything in them made her dubious about it. There was no harm in looking though, right?

Ino's hands slid through a familiar set of seals.

She wavered, and then to all eyes, disappeared. That took care of basic visual detection even if keeping it up while moving would be more complicated--but just hiding for an hour didn't suit her much, not in this case, even if it would count for a win--and, to further complicate things, Ino didn't bother with walking along the ground.

She was going to creep her way along the walls instead, mostly silent, but true silence was something that was nearly impossible (for her) so there was sometimes the soft scuff of a sandal or the tiniest scrape of fabric against fabric. She was really good at this, but not perfect no. Ino felt a bit like a spider, but that was alright.

To the crates, first, to see if she could find a gun. If she couldn't well, hiding worked too. If nothing else, she was getting a workout for her chakra.

So, obviously, he didn't see much of interest. This was a game meant for him to go for the bait -the guns- and try his reflexes, and his luck. He didn't have a particularly good luck though, and don't even get him started on his willingness to participate in silly games.

Still, there was a Turk involved. He wasn't letting that challenge just go away.

Cloud decide to head for the crates, then; since he knew he was likely going to be spotted anyway, direct confrontation would serve him; really, Vincent was the sneaky guy. Cloud? He was the one with the big sword cutting monsters in half. He was fairly certain of being able to detect anything suspicious about him though. And if he didn't? It was just a game.

Parker was really not much of a gun person, so she figured her best bet was to just concentrate on being sneaky.

She preferred it when she was being sneaky inside a building, but she could work with outside as well. She went for height, getting on top of the buildings. Then all she needed was a handy ventilation shaft and she'd be set.

She was short and dressed in a dark green jumpsuit as well as gloves she'd pulled out of a handy pouch on her equipment belt, and mostly blended into the shadows pretty well; Tahiri's face, bare feet, and light blonde hair (tied back carefully) were about the most visible things about her.

And when you could use the Force to move almost faster than the normal human eye could see to close the distance between you and that set of crates over there, even that wasn't too much of a concern, so Tahiri made a break for the nearest cluster of them -- no fancy somersaults, just a direct run as much through the shadows as possible, as silent as possible on bare feet.

Katniss didn't know the first thing about guns, aside from the fact that she was afraid of them. So instead, she bolted to the side of a building, keeping flush with it as she swiftly scaled the side, her hands and feet finding holds as easily as branches. She faltered just barely as she slipped over the side, and then pressed herself against the ledge of the roof, hiding between the ledge and a protruding chimney. With her head down, she was nearly invisible, if cramped.

Sometimes, it paid to be small.

It didn't take Alice long to find one of the crates that had a gun in it; she debated passing it up and leaving it for someone else, but where was the fun in that? This was two steps removed from a game -- and really, was only those two steps removed because it was an actual class, how cool was that? -- and when she played a game, she played to win.

Which would be why there was a tiny dark-haired girl with a gun in one hand moving gracefully through the shadows between two buildings.

Tim ignored the crates and guns and headed for a dark alley. He found a spot where the angles of the buildings cut off all ambient light and he slipped quietly into the shadows to hide.

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