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Defending Yourself [Monday, Period 1]
Welcome, students, to the great outdoors.
As simulated by the Danger Shop.
"We're still talking about preparing terrain this week, but with a change of scenery." Max grinned. "Hopefully you remember that last week we talked about preparing terrain inside a familiar building. This week is much the same, except that you're outdoors, and in an unfamiliar place." Because he'd picked a geographic location at random. "Now, while some of you are going to have at least some amount of training at survival out in the woods," and Max had a couple of students in mind, "I suspect most of you haven't spent a lot of time in these sorts of situations."
"But that means you're all a bit lucky: I'm not going to just abandon you to your own devices. So find somewhere comfortable to sit, or lean, or whatever, and listen up while I go over a few basics."
"First: while there are exceptions, as a general rule, anything you do to set up advantageous terrain in an outdoor area works better if you can do it without being obvious about it. Camouflage is half of your protection. And sometimes the best thing you can do is to create a place that you can hide in."
"Second: TV and movies are actually surprisingly good sources of ideas for preparing outdoor terrain. As ridiculous as cartoons where people dig pit traps or rig dead-falls may be, the actual ideas behind them are sound. Just often not to the extremes you usually see. So a pit trap big enough to hold an entire person takes forever to dig, but a pit trap a couple of feet deep that's designed just to catch someone's leg and hopefully sprain their ankle or something? That's not so hard. You can do a dozen of the things. And while dropping an entire tree on someone is pretty impractical most of the time, a big tree branch isn't nearly so hard, and can do just as much good."
"One of the other advantages of preparing terrain, knowing ahead of time that you're going to need to defend yourself, is that it often means that you have a chance to bring in any tools you might need." Max waved at a pile ofmoddable tools off to one side. "So grab what you think you might need, group up if you want, and go prepare some terrain. I'll be walking around and seeing how you're doing."
And if you just happen to catch Max in something? That's probably worth some bonus points.
As simulated by the Danger Shop.
"We're still talking about preparing terrain this week, but with a change of scenery." Max grinned. "Hopefully you remember that last week we talked about preparing terrain inside a familiar building. This week is much the same, except that you're outdoors, and in an unfamiliar place." Because he'd picked a geographic location at random. "Now, while some of you are going to have at least some amount of training at survival out in the woods," and Max had a couple of students in mind, "I suspect most of you haven't spent a lot of time in these sorts of situations."
"But that means you're all a bit lucky: I'm not going to just abandon you to your own devices. So find somewhere comfortable to sit, or lean, or whatever, and listen up while I go over a few basics."
"First: while there are exceptions, as a general rule, anything you do to set up advantageous terrain in an outdoor area works better if you can do it without being obvious about it. Camouflage is half of your protection. And sometimes the best thing you can do is to create a place that you can hide in."
"Second: TV and movies are actually surprisingly good sources of ideas for preparing outdoor terrain. As ridiculous as cartoons where people dig pit traps or rig dead-falls may be, the actual ideas behind them are sound. Just often not to the extremes you usually see. So a pit trap big enough to hold an entire person takes forever to dig, but a pit trap a couple of feet deep that's designed just to catch someone's leg and hopefully sprain their ankle or something? That's not so hard. You can do a dozen of the things. And while dropping an entire tree on someone is pretty impractical most of the time, a big tree branch isn't nearly so hard, and can do just as much good."
"One of the other advantages of preparing terrain, knowing ahead of time that you're going to need to defend yourself, is that it often means that you have a chance to bring in any tools you might need." Max waved at a pile of
And if you just happen to catch Max in something? That's probably worth some bonus points.
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