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Shop Class #8: Pumpkin Madness

As the students enter into the Danger ~~Room~~ Shop, they find that it has been transformed into a large field. On one side of a field is a barn with a large bullseye painted on it. On the other side of the field a series of markers, much like you would see at a golf driving range.

Everyone's flinger is setup where they left it and a large pile of pumpkins sits next to each one.

Mac tosses a pumpkin in the air with a grin.

"Okay kids... Let's have some fun."

((OOC: Read the following posts for what to do.))

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((OOC: If the Dean makes a facial expression, you get an A+ for the course))

"This is pretty much a giant potato gun. The base is a 55-gallon drum, with an electric girll lighter inside. It narrows into this PVC pipe, which is where the pumpkin will go. Once the pumpkin is in place, I'll fill a pie plate with kerosene, plug the fill hole, and light it." Rogue smiles, nervously. She really wants this to work.

Rogue shoves the pumpkin into the barrel of the gun, making sure it fits snugly. She pours a bit of kerosene inside, and plugs the hole. Waiting a few minutes for the fumes to fill the drum, she then lights the electric starter.

Rogue carefully adjusts her gun, tipping it and aiming toward the barn. She follows the same procedure as before.

Sam reclaimed the sling, pulled another cotter pin from her pocket and reset it. The sling itself seemed to have sustained a little damage and was a little slippery from the first dead pumpkin, but was still sturdy.

She reset the sling, adjusted the pumpkin, did some quick calculations in her head, turned the flinger forty-five degrees to the left, and pulled the starter.

*DEATH, noting his lack of machine at this point, picks up a pumpkin, tossing it lighting in one hand. He takes aim and hits a random student in the back of the head.*

Anders puts the pumpkin into the launching bucket and heads over to start cranking up the winch, since this is of course his greatest contribution to the project besides tightening all the lugnuts. The physical exertion is clearly making him happy, since his smile gets wider as the winch pulls back the cable. Once it's cranked back as far as he thinks it can safely go, he stands with his hand over the release pin, looking at Cally for a cue.

Sam jolted forward slightly as she felt a quick, light pressure on the back of her head. She whirled around, hearing a soft thump, only to find a cracked pumpkin on the ground at her feet behind her.

She looked around quickly and glanced up at the ceiling, just in case.

*DEATH notes with disappointment that throwing the pumpkin is neither fashionable nor effiecient. Sitting down with another pumpkin and what remains of his project - left over t-shirt, his lighter and some gasoline, he considers the problem carefully.

Removing one of his ribs to use as drill bit, DEATH begins boring a hole in the pumpkin, filling it slightly with gasoline, stuffs some of the t-shirt into the hole and lights it.

The pumpkin explodes, splattering pumpkin remains in all directions.*

Sam calmly wiped pumpkin out of her eyes and spit a seed out of her mouth. She had a suspicion that there were also pumpkin guts in her hair.

She grabbed a handful of pumpkin guts off of her left shoulder and threw it.

*Boom*

The pumpkin flies out of the barrel and goes 300 feet before hitting the ground with a nice splatting noise.

*DEATH, who had been grinning at his accomplishment (not much of a feat, since he is always grinning), is suddenly greeted by a skull-full of pumpkin mush.

He arranges it on top of his skull, much like a pumpkin-mush hat, thinking it quite festive.*

*Boom*

The pumpkin hits the target just to the right of the bullseye

"Nice Job Rogue!"

[ooc: *so very, very ded*]

Hope you don't mind the slowplay on the Callynanders Chucker 4000, since it's pretty much a tag-team effort and mun-schedules do not always jive well enough to make things run quickly during the day.

The machine spins round and round until the pumpkin is released. It flies into the target making a considerable dent into the wall, but it is not a perfect bullseye.

"Good Job Carter!"

_{[[*laughing at the lotion, plus the specs bit below*]]}

Edward clambers up onto one side of his flinger, it looks rather plain in comparision to everyone's motorized works. "I took four sawhorses," he said, standing on one of them, "and stacked two to a side a shored up everything with various metal odds-and-ends I found around the place. I took an axel from some old mining car, cut off the wheels and set it into the top two sawhorses. For the arm, I used a laundry pole and welded a basketball hoop to one end with the net tied up to hold the pumpkin. The counterweight," he points to a dark bag on the other end of the laundry pole, "is a bowling ball on a ceiling hook."

"Thank you, Mac." Sam frowned and tried to figure out where she messed up the calculations.

Edward frowns at the size of the pumpkin. He gets another bowling ball to add to the other end, then loads up the pumpkin into the net.

He releases the trigger.

"What are you frowning for? So far you've got the furthest distance and you almost had a bullseye! That was a good job."

Mac pats Carter on the back.

Sam smiled. "Just ~~obsessive~~ a perfectionist, I guess."

Because his trebuchet does not fall apart on the first fling, Edward resets it to load up a second pumpkin for the accuracy test.

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