Practical Marksmanship | Session '6' | 8/13/10

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Price wasn't a man who believed in unlucky days. So teaching a workshop on Friday the 13th didn't seem all that bad of an idea.

The class didn't meet in the Danger Shop, though. He figured most of the students had enough of the practical part and instead decided to have a sit down class. But instead of a classroom set in the traditional way, it was a circle of chairs. The instructors were part of that circle, and sat in their own chairs.

"Today is low-key," he said. "Next week is the final, where you all will be pitted against a team of demolition experts armed to the teeth. But this week, I want us all just to talk. Let's talk about the experiences we had last weekend, and how our skills kept ourselves and others alive. If you want to talk about anything else about the events, in private or with the class, that would be fine with me. Let's just think of this as a time to reflect on things, rather than just simply shooting. We all come from different backgrounds. But we're all comrades, here."

He smirked. Interesting word choice for him, there.

"Anyone is welcome to start."

[ooc: OCD coming up! Post is open.]

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Participation isn't neccessary, but Price will be sharing stories himself.

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"For three hundred years, Nokgorka has strained against the collar slapped upon us by the United Republics of the Red Star," Makita began, her voice taking on an almost musical tone. This was a tale she'd grown up with, part of the tapestry of Nokgorkan history, and she knew it by heart. "But we have never submitted, and so the State continues to try and force us by decimating our lands. If we will not bow, we will die."

"Wherever I was last weekend...it much resembles Bahamut, our capitol. The giant crabs were new, but I found them interesting." Makita shrugged. "I suppose I do not think of what I do as 'skills;' to me it is simply common sense. You do not yell when you do not know the area. Always check the water supply before you drink. If you can barter for food, do so immediately, because you do not know when you will get the chance to do so again."

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Price hadn't even thought that a place like that could remind someone of home. He listened to Makita's story and nodded along with it.

"Living here must seem like an extravagance of luxuries, then," he remarked.

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Price mulled over a few stories in his head before he spoke.

"I'll tell you one thing," he said. "Any decisions can be hard to live with, when you live by the gun. But when you do have to make your own decisions, when you're not just following orders, you have to make sure you can live with them. In my case, I did something drastic to end a war. I did something that probably killed hundreds of people, directly and indirectly. Most of them soldiers. But probably more than a few dozen civilians. The international space station for certain, gone. That was, if you pardon the unfortunate phrase, a bad stroke of luck."

He looked across the room at the students. He didn't look sorry or pained. This wasn't a case of sharing a painful moment of his past. He wasn't out to trump everyone else's dark past.

"Did I have the right to make such a decision? Probably not. But I sleep at night knowing that children are alive because I made that decision. Children American and Russian alike."