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Improving Your Skills [Friday, 3rd Period]

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.

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Armed and dangerous! Or just dangerous!

He just wants you all to be safe!

Edited 2013-01-25 12:50 (UTC)

There was a row of targets set up at varying distances along one of the walls, for anyone who preferred to fight from afar.

There was also a row of training dummies to hack at from up close. Don't worry, they're probably used to it.

For anyone who's comfortable enough with that!

If anyone needed Clint, he'd be off to the side, observing and playing with his bow.

Cleaning and restringing it, not anything bad!

Have I mentioned how ready I am for this week to be over? SO READY.

Sparkle

... Hey, weapons. Sparkle was actually kind of thankful that Alec had been teaching him how to use a bow, now.

Yes, that was because he could actually use one today in class without looking like a total idiot. It seemed like a good reason to him.

Lex Luthor

Kate Bishop

Sparkle really wouldn't call his performance with a bow here today 'showing off.' Not by a long shot. He was still more or less a beginner, and that showed, if not in his form exactly, then by how anal he was about making sure that his form was right.

There were people. They could see him.

Eventually he'd even actually shoot. Honest.

This was a class - real class, not a summer camp thing. Where they got to use bows. Kate was incredibly pleased.

Also slightly peeved that she had to use a random bow instead of her own. At least they were nice ones since Hawkeye picked them out.

Well. Kate had already been training today, but that didn't mean she wasn't ready to shoot some more.

First she spent a stupid long time choosing a bow - eventually going with one of the least awesome because, hey, she could still shoot it, but it'd suck to have someone else get frustrated.

Then she shot a quiverfull of arrows into the bullseye of the farthest target. Cause why not.

"You look great," Kate said quietly so as not to startle him. "But you have to actually release the arrow." Her tone - and her words - were meant to be encouraging.

Kate could train with her bow on her own, but sparring was a different matter. And even if she wasn't doing the superhero thing anymore, she wanted to keep in shape.

So she was there to give it a go if anyone wanted a partner.

"I'm... working my way up to that," Sparkle replied, glancing sideways at the girl before looking back at the target. "You know... making sure the conditions are right, that sort of thing."

It... wasn't like there was wind in here or anything, Sparks.

[ooc: SP and I are best of friends! I'll be grabbing pings around work today, myself.]

Stephanie Brown

Emily Thorne

Emily really didn't have neither be training nor the patience to use a bow. It was a good thing there were a couple of handguns on the pile. The bow/gun ratio was noticed though; apparently there was a bias going. Or something.

She didn't really care though; soon after Emily was putting some bullets into human-shaped targets, and while she wasn't being extremely deadly she was pretty sure she had put all the shots into parts that had points so far.

Edited 2013-01-25 13:43 (UTC)

Hitting things up though, Emily was more comfortable doing that.

Again, she wasn't precisely the best fighter; but she had a lot of energy she had been bottling up ready to go. Those dummies wouldn't know what hit them.

Gertrude Yorkes

Great. Gert could do exactly none of this. She was just going to scowl and sulk for a minute or two, thanks.

Or... the entire class period. Probably that.

Maddie Berry

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Improving Your Skills [Friday, 3rd Period]

Sign In [01/25]

Listen to the Lecture [01/25]

Show Off Your Weapon Skills! [01/25]

Shoot at the Targets [01/25]

Whack the Training Dummies [01/25]

Spar With Each Other [01/25]

Talk to Clint or Kate! [01/25]

OOC [01/25]

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