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Ghanima Atreides ([personal profile] atreideslioness) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2016-09-14 11:32 am
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What NOT To Do In A Fight / Wednesday, Period III / Week 3

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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Rhys
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[personal profile] snipsnspecks 2016-09-14 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahsoka

Re: During the Lecture

[identity profile] got-hijacked.livejournal.com 2016-09-14 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
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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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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[personal profile] snipsnspecks 2016-09-14 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
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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[personal profile] intotheout 2016-09-14 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Gratuity Tucci
intotheout: (huh)

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[personal profile] intotheout 2016-09-14 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
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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[personal profile] intotheout 2016-09-14 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
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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[personal profile] intotheout 2016-09-14 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"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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"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.
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[personal profile] intotheout 2016-09-14 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"They have offices in war zones," Tip pointed out. "And in my experience fighting kind of just tends to happen around you, even if you're not looking for it." Her experience involved violent colonialism and a culture's first attempt at a democratic election, so it might not be as universal as she thought it was. She smiled ruefully. "Of course, I only found you because I'm hiding, too, so I can't really talk."

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Rhys gave her a moderately suspicious look, trying not to think of Sasha for a moment before hunching his shoulders and keeping an eye out for anyone else who might shoot at them.

"Isn't that the truth," he muttered. "I'm Rhys."

It was knly polite. Since he'd never actually talked to her.
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[personal profile] intotheout 2016-09-14 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Gratuity." Tip offered him the hand not holding a paintball gun. The gun she kept pointed up at the sky. "Nice to meet you."

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Rhys offered the creepy ass Terminator looking hand in response. He really needed to do a less low rent looking version and soon.

"So, um. What aliens were you talking about?" he asked, trying to play it cool. So cool. Ice cold.
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[personal profile] intotheout 2016-09-14 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
That -- was a hell of a hand. Tip blinked once, but shook it smoothly otherwise. Her best friend looked like a reinflated frog and one of her pets was a tiny robot that communicated via bubble, after all.

"The Gorg?" she said, not expecting him to recognize them. "Pretty much no one around here has ever heard of them, but they tried to take over my earth, wipe out all the cats, abduct humans as slaves, and then literally eat the planet."

And they were eight feet tall and built like they communicated via punching.

Because they did.

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[identity profile] got-hijacked.livejournal.com 2016-09-14 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
He had a tiny robot too! It sounded like demonic nails on an evil chalkboard. It was adorable.

"Oh!" He looked way too relieved about that. "That's horrible."

And yet he was so glad she wasn't a vault hunter who might shoot him in the face.
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[personal profile] intotheout 2016-09-14 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe their robots could be friends! Could Rhys's robot understand written Boov? Bill didn't have a voicebox.

"You know it's the weirdest thing," Tip said, eyebrow raised. "You almost look happy about it."
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Hyacinthe
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[personal profile] vrajna_kralis 2016-09-14 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
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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