Laying Low for Beginners, Thursday, Period 1

[uncertain_dume]

Okay, so Kanan looked a little bit tired today as he leaned against the Danger Shop controls. At least his hair was back to more-or-less normal, and his brain felt rather less like it was full of scrambled eggs than it had on Monday evening.

"So, last class for this workshop," he said, nodding at the students here. "Last time I taught this thing, I felt like I had something to prove with a couple of students," Dante, "who didn't lay low so much as they decided they'd punch their way out of every possible scenario, so I set them loose in the woods with a giant man-eating animal on the loose."

And they'd killed it instead of avoiding it, and Kanan had despaired forever.

"I'm feeling nicer this week."

The whole room darkened, and a long city street appeared around them, mostly a long corridor with a few alleyways, the buildings only a single storey tall. Good for ducking and hiding. Good for parkour if anybody saw a mighty need. Sure, all the vehicles seemed to be speeder bikes and hoverbuses. And the extras that the danger shop had populated were the same folks that had been in the cantina in class one. Kanan's patience for programming had run out about ten minutes into building the scenario, so he'd cut a few corners.

"There's a bar down there somewhere," he said, waving down the length of the road. "You don't know which building it is, but it's got a safe room in the back. There's pizza there. Make it there before the end of class and you can help yourself. But these guys-" And the room constructed another squad of white-armored stormtroopers, "are on patrol and looking out for you again. And this time, they actually know what you look like."

Hey, look. There were wanted posters appearing on the street walls and lampposts between here and the bar!

"If you get shot, you won't get hurt, but you will get to put on one of those bucket helmets, pick up a blaster rifle, and join the hunt for your classmates. The longer you're out here instead of in that bar, the harder it's going to get to make it there. Better not get caught."

He smirked a little and hit one more button, and suddenly he was wearing Trooper armor too, an orange pauldron on his right shoulder denoting some measure of rank.

"Better get going," he said, his voice sounding almost robotic through the helmet's processing. "I'll give you five minutes and I'll be coming after you, too."

[Open!]

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Sign In!

[uncertain_dume]

On the run!

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[in_sidon_we_trust]

Prince Sidon

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine Wren

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[intotheout]

Gratuity Tucci

Lecture!

[uncertain_dume]

Your teacher has given you a big city street populated by flying vehicles and drunken aliens, mostly. And you're going to be getting shot at!

It's basically laser tag. Just pretend he's making you play laser tag, without giving you any lasers.

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine was not going to look too excited, but this also sounded really fun.

...she did want lasers, though. And her full armor. Maybe she should just bring it all next session.

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[in_sidon_we_trust]

Alright. Sidon honed in his attention to the instruction, sparing a few glances around to sort of get a feel for their location. He absolutely had to be better at this than he had the first lesson, and, for once, he was feeling perhaps it was a good thing he'd have to depend on something other than his charm (since that had gone over so well and everything).

If one was paying any attention to the Zora in particular at that moment, they would be able to pinpoint the precise moment his plan solidified, a sharp smirk brightening up his face, his feet slightly bouncing now in anticipation to get to it.

Run!

[uncertain_dume]

Long city street, one of those buildings is the bar with the saferoom and the pizza. If you haven't been caught, get there safely and you get some pizza.

If you have been caught, now you're armed and helmeted, and it's your job to catch your classmates as they try to get that pizza. Hell, try to find the pizza yourself. Pizza wars. Kanan has faith that food is an effective driving factor in most activities.

And he'll be out there shooting at you, too. Careful. He's a very good shot.

[OOC: Mod your progress, mod your rando NPCs and troopers, don't be afraid to tag against one another to form a plan, tag me in the OOC thread below if you would like a run-in with an NPC to play against or your teacher who is now a stormtrooper unit leader.]

Re: Run!

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine didn't have a lot of practice at this, but it was really her sort of thing. The hardest part was locating the right building, but when it came to running and dodging and finding random things to use as shields, she was good at that. And maybe she took a little joy in smacking stormtroopers when needed.

She'd help if you needed but if you didn't, she had this.

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[in_sidon_we_trust]

With his almost comically proportionally short legs, Sidon knew that running on land was hardly his strong point. Swimming, however...

One would think that didn't do him much good in a city like this, though...unless one had lived in more 'modern' societies long enough to know that even cities as small as Fandom had a sewage system. The problem was finding a manhole large enough for him to fit through, but another thing about Kanan's worlds and their multitude of other non-humans such as himself was that they had to accommodate service workers of different sizes, too. He found one fairly easily, and down he slipped, as quietly and under the cover of shadows as he could.

His plan was to stay on the walkways and drier paths as long as he could, and then jump into the murky sewage at the first sign of white armor or a blaster bolt. Good luck shooting him then! Ha!

...but, yeah, even Sidon was going to stay out of that water unless it was absolutely necessary.

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[uncertain_dume]

It was pretty nasty water, wasn't it? The pair of troopers who had been ordered into the sewers seemed to agree, walking side by side along the pathway, complaining about this particular assignment. Sure, at least one of the aliens they'd been told to apprehend was aquatic, but who in their right mind would even think about getting into that--

"Hey! You're not supposed to be down here!"

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[in_sidon_we_trust]

Clearly, these stormstroopers had never met Sidon, the Zora Prince!

Splash! As soon as they called out, into the rancid water he dove, reminding himself that as disgusting and smelly as it was, could it really be any worse than the inside of an octorok?

It was...honestly a little hard to say, so it was a good thing that when Sidon swam, he swam fast! His one true regret was that he'd been trained and honed to dive so smoothly that he made nary even a splash. So he had to put a little effort into it when he made sure to send a little wave of the filth toward the stormtroopers before charging forth toward bar.

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[justice_undone]

Breq decided to make this easy. She did her best to look suspicious enough to get two troopers to follow her into a dark alley, then knocked them unconscious and stole the armour from one of them. She had been significantly more efficient as soldiers when she had been a ship, but that wasn't saying much.

Trying to impersonate these poor excuses for troops, she headed down to the safe house.

Pizza!

[uncertain_dume]

There is, in fact, enough pizza in the saferoom for everybody to basically take a whole box home. Because Kanan has faith in you guys, or at least figures he might as well reward you all for not outright trying to kill anything in his sims for this entire class run. Whether you all make it here as yourselves or as troopers is going to be up to you.

Re: Pizza!

[justice_undone]

Breq wasn't going to admit how much she liked pizza. She suspected that any Radchaai above the age of five would find it disgusting, but perhaps that added to it. She picked up a large piece though, not sure if the small effort she had put in actually warranted it.

"That armour is both uncomfortable and useless," she said.

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[in_sidon_we_trust]

"I do hope this place has a washroom," said Sidon, coming from out of the sewers.

Very much looking and smelling the part, too.

Sorry, everyone.

Talk to Kanan!

[uncertain_dume]

This might be easier to do after you've been shot, this week. Or after class. One of those.

Re: Talk to Kanan!

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"If you still need class ideas," Sabine said, "more of this."

Just FYI.

Re: Talk to Kanan!

[uncertain_dume]

"More being shot at, less planning ahead?" Kanan was taking his helmet off entirely so that he could grin at Sabine for that one. "Someone likes flying by the seat of her pants, I see."

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

"We've all got our talents," she said easily. "And it's not like there's much opportunity to do that here."

Talk to the TA!

[uncertain_dume]

Honestly, the troopers don't stand much of a chance.

Re: Talk to the TA!

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Maaaaybe Sabine missed being a tiny badass more.

Maybe.

OOC!

[uncertain_dume]

So this morning I woke up and I said, 'what scenario could I put together that would make this final class explode into mass chaos? GOOD.'

Tag me here if you need an NPC trooper, or if you want a throw-down with trooper Kanan. The NPCs are awful shots. Kanan is very much not, which is why he's giving you a head start from him, but not from them.

Re: OOC!

[in_sidon_we_trust]

I would not at all be opposed to some stormtrooper shenanigans in the shamelessly modded sewer, with a caveat that I might drop off unexpectedly due to complete brain failure.

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[uncertain_dume]

*leans in for a fistbump* I woke up to a dead finch and cat piss in my shoes, so we'll see how far we get between us!