Everything's A Weapon, Wednesday, Period One

[raspberryturk]

"Alright, rookies," Reno said, leaning back against what was, perhaps disappointingly, a classroom desk instead of anything fancy in the Danger Shop today, "while I understand that a lot of you probably want to hit things today, this class we're gonna be havin' a discussion, doing some critical thinking, yo. See, improvisation is kickass, but it requires a little more finesse than just 'grab the closest thing and swing' if you're lookin' to actually do some real damage, yo. There's the thing - if you're gonna be picking something up and using it to do something it wasn't intended to do, you're probably gonna hit a few snags. Some of you have already made an art form out of usin' strategy out there - I saw some firebombs, red-hot grill accessories, some creative use of a net, temporary weapons until you could pick up the ones bein' used against you, rock throwin'... and about five hundred umbrellas bein' swung about."

Reno spread his hands a little, wearing an 'eeeh?' face.

"What made the umbrellas so attractive? Was it the reach on 'em? You were all lucky last week I programmed in some quality ones. Most beach umbrellas are cheap plastic or thin metal and are flimsy as shit. The firebombs I can get behind, but you better know damn well what you're doin' when rigging up explosives, or if you're lucky you'll wake up in the ER missin' half your face. The net, I liked. And the rocks? Tried and goddamn true, yo. People have been hittin' each other with rocks since the dawn of friggin' time. Gotta admit, I'm surprised with a whole beach full of sand, nobody went for throwin' it in their eyes, but who the hell's to say that'll even work on an unfamiliar species, anyway?"

He made a gesture around the room.

"Today, no fighting, but we're still gonna do some hands-on, anyhow. Some show-and-tell, yo. You got ten minutes to find something around this classroom, or wherever in the school you can get in ten minutes, I don't friggin' care, that you'd use as a weapon in a pinch. I want you to bring it back here - obviously if you're takin' somethin' from another room you're gonna have to put it back where you found it, and stay the hell outta the teachers' offices for this one - and tell the class what you picked, why you picked it, and two ways that the object you picked up might lead to you gettin' your ass kicked anyhow if you play your cards wrong." A beat. "Oh, and the minions of the workshop are gonna be Kaylin and Kathy from now on, yo. Would'a announced that last class, but I had burgers to flip."

Or he'd forgotten. One of those.

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[raspberryturk]

Like it's a lecture day.

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[notacokeperson.livejournal.com]

Karina Lyle

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[pasunereveuse.livejournal.com]

Celia Bowen

Lecture!

[raspberryturk]

Wherein Reno wonders what the hell is so appealing about beach umbrellas anyway?

Scramble!

[raspberryturk]

You have ten minutes to find something in the open rooms of the school to be used as a weapon. Teachers' offices are off limits, and bear in mind if you go wandering, a lot of classrooms are kept locked when not in use, especially ones with expensive equipment, like the music room and the gym.

... Please don't pick any locks. Mod your school supplies at will.

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[pasunereveuse.livejournal.com]

Celia had spent the lecture sitting on her hands, quite literally. While her magic was, of course, tied to her brain and not really to her hands, it was a helpful reminder to not use it.

Not that she was going to need to, today. She hurried out of the classroom, dipping into a few open doorways to look for anything she might be able to bring back.

Eventually, she spotted something useful, and though she had to stand on top of a chair to retrieve it from atop the whiteboard in a room, she was still quite pleased to be able to bring back something she'd found using just her eyes and hands.

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[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

Barry smirked and took off like a bat out of hell.

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[beautifulsenshi.livejournal.com]

Minako looked around, considering. After last week, she didn't trust Reno-sensei enough to leave the room; it was probably an ambush.

Her hand shot up in the air, waving frantically to be acknowledged.

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[raspberryturk]

"Yeah, Minako?" Reno raised an eyebrow at the frantic waving. "You got my attention, go on."

Really, it was hard to miss.

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[spin_kick_snap]

Normally Kathy would have taken off at a run (or, a brisk walk because Reno had said no powers) but after the weekend, she was a little soured on violence and makeshift weapons.

Using liquid opium to blind someone could do that to someone, apparently.

She didn't even move from her shiny, shiny TA's desk, just looked around for something that would work in a pinch and called it good.

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[kenselvren.livejournal.com]

Jalian spent some time searching the desks and bins in the room for things she could use.

Show and Tell!

[raspberryturk]

Okay, rookies. Time to share with the class. Tell everyone what you picked, why you picked it - and how you intend to use it - and two things that could possibly go horribly wrong with the object you picked up.

Hell, if you toss in how you're going to work out how to prevent those things from going horribly wrong, Reno might give you a cookie.

Probably not. But the thought is there.

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[pasunereveuse.livejournal.com]

"I found a yardstick," Celia said proudly, holding up her three-foot-long prize. "Obviously, you could hit someone with it, similar to a club or a lance, but it's also a bit bendy." She demonstrated, pulling the end of the wood back with one hand and letting it sway back and forth. "So not only could you strike someone with it as a stick, but you could whip it at them, too, to cause injury."

It would probably sting! At least a bit!

"Now, in terms of it going poorly, it's so bendy as to be breakable, if your enemy got ahold of it or struck in the middle, which would just leave you with two one-and-a-half-foot sticks that I suppose could be useful but probably not. Maybe you could throw them. And it's not exactly easy to grip, being this funny flat shape, so it would probably be quite easy to take away from someone, and that of course would go badly." She tilted her head at the yardstick, and added, "But if you tied cloth or something around one end, you could make a sort of handle, couldn't you? That'd add stability so it'd be harder to take away."

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[notaweenie.livejournal.com]

Barry was back about five minutes later with an armful of commercial cleaning products.

"What I have here is a couple of options," Barry said gleefully and pointed to a set of bottles. "If I use the right combination in this set of bottles it creates what I call a memory roach bomb. It's an invisible gas that will knock out anyone who sniffs it and wipes their memory. Bad side of this is that it'll wipe out anyone's memory who hasn't been inoculated against it."

...

"And if it's mixed slightly wrong I could blow up the school."

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[beautifulsenshi.livejournal.com]

Minako totally wasn't sulking that she wasn't allowed to break the chair and have a decent (immediate) makeshift tonfa (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Tonfas.jpg). Nope. Not at all.

Instead, hers was made out of newspaper from the recycling bin.

"Millwall brick (http://www.thespoof.com/news/magazine/3304/a-millwall-brick-how-to-make-one)-style tonfa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonfa)!" she cheered, holding up her pair of tonfa in Gyakute-Mochi (http://www.rkagb.com/weapons_tonfa.htm). "We, like, totally watched documentaries about football in my gym class once? Never underestimate the creativity of a football delinquent!"

Somewhere, back in the recesses of time, Jupiter was SO PROUD of her.

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[spin_kick_snap]

When it was Kathy's turn, she pointed at the shades in the windows. "I didn't take them because I didn't want to break anything," she said quietly, "but the metal cords on the blinds work as a garrote. The problem is that garrotes are close weapons which can put you in danger and that's assuming that whatever you're fighting breathes like we do. You probably also don't want to do it if you're outnumbered. Either get the drop on whatever you're using it against, or have someone who can cover you and distract them before you make your move."

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[kenselvren.livejournal.com]

Jalian showed her choice - a couple boxes of thumbtacks and a tube she'd made from intricately rolled paper.

"I can throw these on the ground; they'll slow down and hurt anyone with thin or no shoes. Others, they'll make them easier to hear coming." She held up the tube. "I can also use this as a blowgun for them.

"The disadvantage is that they're small; they won't do a lot of harm in themselves, unless I aim for the eyes or other sensitive organs. They would be more for warning and getting an advantage. Also, they're poorly weighted for the gun. I could wrap them in tape as you suggested for Celia, which would help the shape."

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[justwantedfriends]

Kira held up a pair of scissors she'd found on one of the desks in another room. "I could stab somebody with these, or hold them open and slice at them," she said. "But if the scissors are a little dull they might not do too much damage, and I'd probably have to cut myself up holding them open. Also, I'd have to get really close to get my stabbing on, and I don't know if I could actually do that unless I was in serious trouble."

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[not_a_moonie]

Alana held up a fistful of CDs she'd borrowed from an abandoned office. "I got these disks," she said. "If you have good aim, you can throw 'em at someone like a discus and do some damage with the edge. Or you can break them and you got something almost as good as a piece of glass. Or you can use htem like a mirror to blind whoever you're fighting."

"The big problems are, first, if they don't hit your target hard enough they aren't going to do any good, and second, if you want to use it like a knife you have to get close. But it'd work in a pinch."

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[notamascot]

Kaylin had a handful of sharpened pencils. "They can be used a lot like daggers," Kaylin said. "You can do a lot of damage with them - even kill someone if you know where to strike with them."

And Kaylin did.

"Of course, you have to get up close and they can break and someone can always take them away from you if you don't know what you're doing. And even then, sometimes."

Talk to the TAs!

[raspberryturk]

They get their own shiny desk at the back of the room. Reno might actually come up with something for them to do before the summer is through, too!

Re: Talk to the TAs!

[spin_kick_snap]

Normally, Kathy would be thrilled to have been named TA and even more thrilled to hear her weapons held up as an example of good improvisation. Today, however, she was most definitely not in the frame of mind where her ability to make things to hurt people was being praised.

Re: Talk to the TAs!

[notamascot]

Kaylin wasn't sure what she'd do with her nice shiny desk, but it was nice to have she supposed.

Talk to Reno!

[raspberryturk]

He's already figured out ten ways to kill a man using any one object in the classroom. Easy to do with the desk, a bit more of a challenge using the box of Kleenex sitting on top of it.

OOC!

[raspberryturk]

The downside to using a recycled class that was taught during a Muppet invasion BDE is that I'm gonna have to actually pad this thing with new classes to make up for the ones where the school was surrounded by a Bog of Eternal Stench.

Oh no, effort!