fandomhigh | Tracking: Urban v. Wilderness; Thursday, Period Three [ 09/30 ].

In a much better mood than last week and blissfully free of unicorns here in the Danger Shop where they were meeting (don't even get her started), Angua gave a faint grin to her class in the simulation of their usual classroom, flanked by a large handful of borrowed Troopers.

"Hope you all had a chance to think about those shortcut routes for chasing people down that we brought up last week," she said, "because this week, we're going to put them to use. We'll take a few moments to go over what you came up with, to see if anyone has any suggestions for improvements, and then we're going to give them a try. To save the citizens of the town from worrying about students chasing Troopers, we're using a replica of the village and the preserve through the Danger Shop, as you can see. The Troopers are our bad guys who are trying to escape; you get to try to catch them, either using one of your routes or, if that's not working, through the power of improvisation. Start in whichever environment you'd like, but, after you've caught a Trooper, please switch to the other so you get practise in both."

"Who knows, they might come in handy escaping unexpected relatives this weekend. If there aren't any questions, let's get to briefing and then into action."

[[ OCD is ~~on the way~~ ready to run! ]]

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Like a Trooper.

It's fairly short and to the point, but listening is usually good.

Take some time to go over your routes, discuss them with others, and make edits that might be applicable. Maybe pair up and go from there as well.

For whatever reason you feel motivates you best, the Trooper is trying to escape, but you must not allow it! Ping into the appropriate environment and either mod your Trooper at will or, if you'd like, make mention that you'd like a live Trooper to interact with. Good luck!

Through the trees and brush and watch out for those teal deer!

Angua might not have wanted to disturb actual citizens, but there are fake ones littered around to create obstacles and distractions.

When they ping in!

Who won't even think of eating your face today!

...most likely, anyway.

Why haven't I had coffee yet? I need coffee...

Roy Harper

Maladicta

Dana Scully

Maladicta was there! Really.

With coffee, so nyah.

Scully had miiiiissed this. Tracking the trooper through town, and using the route behind Caritas, she stopped to listen, hoping to corner him.

Roy was bouncing on the balls of his feet. Chase down and catch the bad guys? Awesome. He loved this class. So much more relevant than chemistry.

Roy tore off after his bad guy, pounding through a back alley and going up and over a building before he finally ran him down.

Sorry about those bruises, guy. At least he didn't have a spare bowstring to tie you up with?

Tahiri Veila

Tahiri's routes had all involved a lot of rooftops and didn't appear to take into account that most of the buildings and objects on said routes would count as obstacles to most ~~not endowed with ridiculous Jedi abilities~~ beings.

She was going over them with a bemused grin on her face, courtesy of the unicorn that had complimented her feet on her way to class.

Cara

Andrew Wiggin

Zack Fair

Cara set off after the trooper like a sighthound coursing prey. The only pity was that she didn't have her agiels handy.

For her, not the trooper, who instead got to discover she had a tackle that'd do a rugby player proud.

Jacob Black

So was Jake, without coffee. He wouldn't have minded a muffin or cookies, but if he had any, he had eaten them a while ago.

Makita

Kurt Wagner

Well, the Danger Shop meant that Kurt didn't feel secure enough to 'port very far, which in turn mean that he didn't get to cheat. Bummer.

It was a good thing he'd ~~handwavily~~ marked down those routes on a map.

Kurt scrambled up onto the nearest building without losing much ground, and kept to the high ground as the trooper ran through alleys and down the street. When he had caught up, Kurt leapt from the rooftop and landed on the guy's shoulders, taking him down hard.

"Score one for the fuzzy blue dude!!!"

Firekeeper decided to try the village scenario first. She and Blind Seer had plenty of experience in forest tracking, after all. It would be good to practice the more unfamiliar scenario.

At least she had something of an advantage in that she and Blind Seer could work as a team. After the Trooper took off, Firekeeper chased after him while Blind Seer darted ahead, herding him back towards her.

Katniss Everdeen

Jason Todd

Bruce Wayne

Andros

Bruce used both his shortcut through Caritas to the alley that he investigated last week and his parkour practice from the club this week to end up on a rooftop parallel to his trooper.

The trooper really didn't see it coming when Bruce dropped on him from two stories up. "You're armored. You'll be fine."

Dru Anderson

Bruce did the wilderness tracking second. He had to leap across a stream, climb a tree, and make an impressive leap off a branch to catch the trooper this time, but it mostly went according to plan. It would have been much smoother, but he overestimated one of the branches he stepped on and it broke.

Still, not bad for his weaker terrain.

George Cooper

Ben Skywalker

Tracking: Urban v. Wilderness; Thursday, Period Three [ 09/30 ].

Sign In -- Tracking, 09/30.

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Village -- Tracking, 09/30.

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Talk to Angua -- Tracking, 9/30.

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