101 Ways To Survive In The Field, Tuesday

[suitably_heroic]

Upon entering the Danger Shop, students found themselves facing a large, overgrown ruin. It was completely desolate; the only movement was the grass, swaying in the wind.

"Welcome to Dantooine," Atton said, his foot perched on a chunk of rubble. "This place used to be something - at least, that's what I'm told - but this guy called Malak came in and torched the place to hell and back a while ago. Now this place is mostly grass and giant, deadly animals. Real charming, right?"

He turned around, motioning for the class to follow. Straight into the ruin, through a few corridors, until he reached a small clearing with a large broken tree sitting at the center. "Now, not far from here, you'll find an entrance into the lower levels. Today, I'm going to give you a quick instruction on how to open electronic locks - that'll come in handy down there. After that? Well, there's this guy stuck in a room somewhere down below who won't come out."

He shrugged. "Honestly, it's probably better if you just leave him to rot down there. The guy's a coward. But, say, you want to break him out. There's a bunch of nasty laigreks down there, a bunch of locked doors, maybe some booby traps. You have to be on your guard. Now, what you want above all is this key the guy has on him, but getting him out of there alive probably scores you points or something. How do you handle that?"

He shot the class a curious look. "Well, I'm interested in finding that out this week."

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The Ruins - Hallways

[suitably_heroic]

The southern hallways are quiet. The northern hallways, not so much: you'll find angry, large-dog-sized laigreks everywhere, and those forelegs hurt.

Of course, it's the Danger Shop, so the safeties are on and you won't actually get hurt, but it will register like getting slapped on the arm if you get hurt.

Re: The Ruins - Hallways

[good_for_six]

At least these weren't giant spiders, they were almost as ugly though. And they were a nice big target for Isabela's daggers.

What, didn't the rest of you bring knives to this class?

Re: The Ruins - Hallways

[not_every_mage]

It took a special kind of horror to make giant spiders look almost cute, Anders thought. He found a nice pillar to give him partial cover as he froze the laigreks, then used his staff to beat down any that he hadn't been able to reach.

Re: The Ruins - Hallways

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

"What the hell," Four muttered to himself as he hid from the things. "This guy better be worth bugs that big."

Re: The Ruins - Hallways

[goforthe_optics]

. . . wow, those things were almost cute compared to rachni, and it probably helped that they weren't nearly as big.

"Go get 'em, Chatika," she told her combat drone. She hadn't brought her shotgun to class with her, and the drone was designed more for combat with synthetics than organics, but Chatika could at least distract and maybe zap the things so she could get in close with her boot knife.

RE: The Ruins - Hallways

[halfaclink.livejournal.com]

"Down. Sit! Heel. Good monsters," Frank said while strolling past, completely unconcerned. They were still swatting at him and he had to duck a couple times, but he made it seem effortless.

Re: The Ruins - Hallways

[spin_kick_snap]

Whatever these critters were, they were slower than she was. Better yet? These hallways were perfect for bouncing in. So Kathy Superballed it up a bit, punching at the laigreks whenever she passed by them at full speed.

Next week, she was bringing her bokken. She had her knife, of course, but that seemed like overkill to use on these guys.

Re: The Ruins - Hallways

[ungue.livejournal.com]

Laura killed them, of course.

Maybe now was a good time to mention she also had claws on her foot. The things were too slow to even defend themselves, so she went for easy, clean kills... and tried not to yawn.

Re: The Ruins - Hallways

[bearmaidenfair]

Aw, they were kind of cute. And Vider had an axe, so that was one problem dealt with.