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.

[OOC: Open!]

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Re: Show and Tell!

[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."

Re: Show and Tell!

[raspberryturk]

"Maybe tape," Reno noted thoughtfully, "if you had the time, yo. Regular scotch tape would probably suck for that, but masking tape is thicker an' usually pretty easy to find. It'd hold better'n fabric, too, though you could probably use some folded up on one side of the stick and taped around as padding anyway."