What NOT To Do In A Fight / Wednesday, Period III / Week 3

[atreideslioness]

After handwavily informing class to dress in clothing they didn’t mind getting dirty and to meet up in the danger shop, they were greeted by the most awesome of all things:

Paintball. Enough paintball guns of different sizes and shapes for everyone to have two, even.

"Now, we have a couple things to cover, since most people seem to learn how to use firearms from television and not actual instruction," Ghanima said. "Such as there is no such thing as a bottomless magazine - you always need to reload - and it's nearly impossible to walk, let alone run and fire a weapon with any accuracy. Learn poison instead," Ghanima suggested. "...Which is not this class."

Yet. Sadly.

"Holding your gun sideways does nothing but throw off your aim unless you’ve spent all your time practicing it just like that. If you have been practicing that, there are better things you should be spending your time on." Not that Ghanima was biased or anything, except that she was. "And unless you’re not firing real guns or have the right amount of upper body strength to deal with the Mexican stand off that will come from it, don’t use two guns at once. It merely doubles your chances of missing entirely or causing collateral damage."

"Not to mention the sheer number of movies that teach you people how to use firearms fails gun safety forever," she continued. "And you cannot just 'aim to wound' or blast a gun out of someone's hand without injuring them. There's also no such thing as a flesh wound in real life. There's no 'safe' place to shoot a person, not even in a seemingly non-vital extremity like a leg or arm. So don't try it, you'll just feel guilty when you fail."

"So today, you get to have fun and not worry about any of that, or you can try and practice proper firing techniques." With one smooth motion, Ghanima pulled a small paintgun from the sleeve of her tunic and fired a pink, glittery round at a student. "All guns are already loaded, because you should always assume a weapon is loaded. Begin."

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[atreideslioness]

Ready to rumble!

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Rhys

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Ahsoka

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Gratuity Tucci

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Hyacinthe

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Jalian d'Arsennette

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During the Lecture

[atreideslioness]

Take notes, try to stuff extra paintball weapons in your pants, start planning all-out warfare...

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[got-hijacked.livejournal.com]

Rhys was from a QTE game based off a first person shooter. He was preeeertty sure this lecture was wrong. Pretty sure.

And wishing he'd managed to find a shield while on Pandora. Because this was going to hurt.

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[snipsnspecks]

Ahsoka didn't look particularly enthused by today's class, but she was examining the paintball gun to see how it differed from a blaster.

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[intotheout]

Hey look, another gun that could turn you blue! Assuming blue pellets were loaded. Paintball guns worked pretty differently from Boov guns -- what with having been developed by a completely different culture with a completely different body structure and all -- but Tip figured she could still apply what she knew about Boov guns to paintball.

Since that was mostly how to run away from someone holding a gun.

And, hey, paintball guns weren't completely silent with invisible ammo that you didn't know was firing at you until it hit you. So it should be even easier to dodge!

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[vrajna_kralis]

Hyacinthe...had no idea what a gun was. Or how it worked. Or even what it was supposed to do. So he was staring at his in confusion--it looked very unwieldy to hit someone with and he didn't see a blade anywhere...

Was this a bludgeoning weapon, then?

Hya, stop looking down the barrel.

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[intotheout]

Tip quietly reached over and directed that gun barrel away from anyone with a heart beat or vulnerable spots.

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[vrajna_kralis]

Bless you, Tip.

Not that Hyacinthe understood why she was pushing at his gun. He tilted his head at her and raised his eyebrows in question, though he kept the barrel directed where she had moved it. "This does not even look like a weapon to me," he admitted quietly. "Other than perhaps some kind of unwieldy club?"

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[intotheout]

"Well. Not that people don't hit other people with them, sometimes," Tip said, because that was useful and necessary information. "But no. Does you culture have crossbows?"

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[vrajna_kralis]

"Yes, though I've never seen one up close," Hyacinthe admitted. "They're expensive and difficult to maintain, or so I hear." He peered at the gun again. "Is this some kind of advanced crossbow?" Because he'd checked for strings...

He was from long before even the crudest of muskets. Chin had gunpowder, but they were keeping its existence very, very secret and that would in fact be a plotpoint in a later book.

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Shiemi was taking notes... and wondering how on earth she was supposed to use a gun; she'd never even held Yuki's.

She was a Tamer, not a Dragoon.

Play the Game!

[atreideslioness]

Go forth, into the Danger Shop generated abandoned warehouses, and have a gunslinging battle for the ages!

Re: Play the Game!

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You want to know where Rhys was? Rhys was clutching his paintball gun (not even a known brand, ugh) to his chest and hoping people would forget he was there.

And hiding. Mostly hiding. Look, he knew his odds in a firefight were slim. Let's not pretend otherwise.

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[intotheout]

Tip found him, but only because she was also focused on hiding instead of attacking.

"Oh. Hey." She held up her hands, paintball gun aimed firmly away from anything sentient. "Um. . . . You okay?"

He did not look okay. But most of that was stuff that didn't look okay on a regular basis, so it was hard to tell.

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"Have you seen our classmates?" Rhys asked. He was really glad he had his arm back for this.

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[intotheout]

"Well yeah." Be nice, Tip. "They're not eight feet tall killer aliens, though, so." She shrugged. "Not a fan of paintball, huh?"

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[got-hijacked.livejournal.com]

"Aha ha. Ha, not really no. I'm not a fan of getting shot at with anything. Or stabbed. Or getting a concussion," Rhys replied, trying to decide if she looked like a vault hunter there. Because that also described Eridians. "I worked in an office. Not a warzone."

Sort of debatable with Hyperion.

Talk to the Teacher

[atreideslioness]

She's around, before and after class.

OOC

[atreideslioness]

*thud*