Improving Your Skills [Friday, 3rd Period]

[so_hawkward]

When the students arrived today, they'd find the Danger Shop set up with a bunch of targets, training dummies, and a pile of moddable weapons.

"It seems like a lot of folks at this school, and in town, come from kind of dangerous places," Clint said. "Honing a skill requires time, which requires staying alive, and that isn't always a luxury. Today, I want to see how well you guys can handle weapons to defend yourselves, and don't worry if the answer is 'not all that well' because everyone's got to start somewhere. If you've already had some training in this area, and you want to spar with each other, go right ahead because you won't really hurt anyone. Supposedly." It wasn't that Clint didn't have faith in technology, but that part of the Danger Shop's settings still had him a little worried.

Comments

Re: Shoot at the Targets [01/25]

[myownface]

"Oh, come on now. How are rabid wolves cooler than bears? These could be... I don't know... octobears. And then what would you do?"

Bears with tentacles. Yeah, that could happen.

"You stick around the island long enough, you'll stop worrying about what the school thinks about a bunch of people learning how to shoot arrows. Someone must have said something to you by now about how this place gets, right? It's always the crazy-assed students out there fending that junk off, you know."

Re: Shoot at the Targets [01/25]

[hawkeye-too.livejournal.com]

"Shoot 'em in the eye," Kate retorted. "But octobears would be kind of awesome. Especially if they were giant octobears." How big were normal octobears? Who knew!

"Yeah, I heard stuff. And I know they let teachers teach fighting-" she gestured at this entire class "- but I figured the school trustees were really liberal or something."

Or maybe it was a Montessori school.

She wasn't too upset about fighting things though.

Re: Shoot at the Targets [01/25]

[myownface]

"I dunno. We have, like, classes about being friends. And like half of the students here probably have a body count or something. This place is different."

It was kind of a shame he hadn't been around when the students had their own reserves groups. It would be an excellent example to draw from to help elaborate the school's views on army building.

Re: Shoot at the Targets [01/25]

[hawkeye-too.livejournal.com]

"People with a body count probably could use classes on friendship," Kate said, unable to resist comment. But she nodded. "Yeah. I noticed the different part. I just didn't realise that also meant octobears!"

Forgive her, she was pondering a bit here.

Re: Shoot at the Targets [01/25]

[myownface]

"And creepy psychotic British witches who like kitten plates and capital punishment," Sparkle intoned, matter-of-factly, as he reached for another arrow. "Who I guess was technically not really here as the god-queen of the island, since someone broke the... timey thing. I dunno what was up with that."

... Pretend that made sense, Kate.