Tactics and Teamwork, Wednesday - Second Period

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Hopefully the class was getting used to the drab environment picked by Agent Washington for their classroom. Because it didn't seem like it would be changing anytime soon.

"You already know the drill. Laps."

Embrace the cardio, kids. Embrace it.

"This weekend was... a thing. That happened. Whether it was good for you or bad, it's over with and time to get back to work. Today is going to be about evasive maneuvers. Learning to avoid getting shot."

Wasn't that fun?

"Two teams against each other with a third party in play." Meaning the teacher. "And I'll even sweeten the deal. If your team manages to hit me, you don't have to run laps next week."

Sadly it would be pretty difficult to accomplish without getting shot first. But the hope was alive!

"Get started."

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Re: Teams - Red

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"Hey," Kathy said, looking ridiculously unwinded for someone who had just seemed to sprint through the laps wearing full armor. "So, any ideas about how to win? I'm not one for tactics, especially not team tactics."

She generally worked alone.

Re: Teams - Red

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If not for the mask, you'd be getting glared at so hard for that unwindedness, Kathy. So hard.

Or maybe you were, but WHO COULD REALLY SAY FOR SURE?

"Don't look at me," Tali said, holding up her hands. "I usually follow someone else's lead on that, and tactics . . . weren't really our strong point."

Shepard usually counted on her squad to cover her while she barrelled right on in and punched things to death, so for at least as long as Tali had been working with them, their tactics weren't overly sophisticated.

Re: Teams - Red

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Awww, but Tali, she just wanted to be your friend! Don't blame her for a quirk of genetics--even a really, really awesome one!

"I usually just fling myself off of something high and let the element of surprise do a lot of the work for me," Kathy admitted. "Oh, and gravity. Let's not forget gravity."

Even if she often ignored it.

"Teams and guns are still pretty new to me."

Re: Teams - Red

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Look, Tali had no objection to friendship! She reserved the right to be envious of -- well, let's face it, anyone who could breathe at all without a filter mask on.

Okay, okay, she'd probably be expected to exhibit some kind of leadership qualities eventually, her father being who he was, so she might as well start trying, right?

"There aren't too many high objects around here," she said, pacing back and forth a bit as she took stock of their surroundings. "At least, nothing high enough that people wouldn't be able to look up and notice you, I think. Unfortunately. I'd say you could maybe climb up and hide in one of those empty crates up top, but they'd still be able to see you on the way, probably."

Re: Teams - Red

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"Could you give me cover fire, maybe?" Kathy asked, drawing on her extensive military vocabulary gleaned from scifi action flicks. "Suppressive fire, maybe?"

Or were they the same thing?

Re: Teams - Red

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Tali tapped a finger against the chin of her mask. "We could stage a distraction for you. Make them concentrate on us while you get into position."

She wasn't really sure what the difference was herself.

Re: Teams - Red

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"And then I could snipe everybody from my perch!"

Whoa there, Kathy. No need to sound that excited.

"Thoughts on the distraction?"

Re: Teams - Red

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Have Cassandra use Taunt?

Somewhere, Garrus was either laughing, facepalming, or both.

"Well," Tali said, wishing she'd finished building that combat drone she had plans to make, "we could try to mount an attack on the other team. But we'd need to figure out where they are first."