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Bad Ass Bitch Survival Guide; Tuesday, Second Period [10/02].

By now, any of the students for Rosa's class would see a sign up on the door to the classroom and be able to take a pretty good guess as to what it meant. Well, there was a 50/50 chance that class was just straight up canceled, but in this instance, it was the other thing, said very distinctly in just a single word:

Gym.

At least this time it came without the threat of any punching, right? And when they arrived for the period, they'd find the gym all decked out for an obstacle course, with some very specific focuses.

"Stealth," Rosa said. "Because there's a point in every girl's life where they're going to need to sneak into or out of something without being noticed. And unless you're some kind of magical ninja from who even knows where and I don't care anyway, that sort of thing takes time, practice, and patience. So take a few minutes, stretch out, get limber, and then we're going to see just how well you can do getting through the courses without making a sound.

"First step: laser course. Only instead of real lasers, we've got ropes, and each rope has bells on it, so if you hit it, we know, I blow the whistle, and you start over. If you manage to make it through that, then we've got some obstacles, made of nice creaky wood ~~contrary to the picture~~, so they're noisy, and if you're too noisy, back to the start. And then there's the window." Yes, she'd rigged up just a freestanding wall with a window in it. "Get this thing open and slip out without too much noise. Out of all this crap, this one's probably the most useful. Be careful, though, because there's some bells on the other side. Wouldn't want to set one off and have to start over again. And finally, if you think you're real bad ass, we have this rope climb. A rope. With a bell on it. If you can manage to get to the top without ringing the bell, what are you even doing in this class? There's probably nothing I can teach you. But if anyone wants to try, I'm all for it. Even minimal ringing on that one's good work.

"A few tips: don't be afraid to take your time. Focus on your breathing and the balls of your feet and keeping low to the ground. Don't let something like clothing or hair trip you up: a buckle scraped at the wrong moment could give you up like that." She snapped her fingers. "And to give you all an idea and prove that I'm not just full of shit...I'll show you what I mean."

She shrugged off her jacket, tossed it aside, rolled her neck a little, and approached the first course. One deep breath, a pause, and then she swept through the tangle of cross-crossing ropes in a fluid motion that she hadn't spent all morning practicing to make sure it was perfect or anything, shut up, but, yeah, flawless, and thank god, because that would have sucked to biff it like that right in front of the class.

"Any questions?" she asked. "Take five, warm up, then we'll get started. You," she quirked her chin at literally anyone, there was no way you could tell if she had a particular person in mind, "you'll go first."

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Stealthily. Duh.

Vette

Sabine Wren

Gratuity Tucci

Lana Beniko

Peebee

Start warming up and take in the instructions. Not much there, really, but it gives you a moment or two to prepare.

Vette wasn't grinning, no.

She was smirking a whole hell of a lot, though. She'd been trained by the most feared pirate crew in the galaxy to do exactly this since she was eight. And they'd put her to good use, too, before ol' Nok had vanished.

She could do all of this with her eyes closed. Well, maybe not that rope with the bell, that one was a little over the top. But the rest? Piece of cake.

Could.

Did Sabine look excited for this? Because she was excited for this.

This...could be interesting. Sith didn't generally do "stealthy" unless they'd specifically prepared for it, which she hadn't. Still, it couldn't hurt to learn a new skill.

In true spy movie fashion, there are ropes strung out across the gauntlet at various angles and heights, each with tiny bells on them at various spots to make it very clear when you hit one. And when you do, Rosa's hot on the whistle to send you back to try again.

Aw, the ropes actually made this easier. Something nice and tangible that wasn't going to set off a firetrap if you tripped it? Vette appreciated that part.

Because Vette was going to trip it. Vette was going to trip it a lot. Because she saw no reason to let everyone in this room know what she was capable of. That was the other side of stealth, wasn't it? It wasn't any good if people knew to expect you coming.

Hope you liked that whistle, Rosa. There were stray lekku and unwatched feet catching on ropes for a good six attempts before she managed to make it through this one.

Tip was definitely in the "trip the ropes a lot" category. Look, give her an abandoned theme park to sneak around in, and she'd be gold, but fighting off aliens on her world hadn't involved a lot of laser trip wires, and she was bookish and fighty, not bendy.

There was some muttered salty language starting by her third time through. By the ninth? It was possibly going to set off that whistle before the bells even do.

Lana eyed the ropes dubiously, but traced them with her eyes and mapped where they were until she could see them with her eyes closed.

Then she nodded, reached out with the Force, and headed in. Every time she started to trip a bell, she paused, then reversed and tried again.

She managed it on the fourth try. That one try took about three times as long as most people's, she went so slow, but she was counting it a win.

Sabine had no idea when she'd ever use this, but she was determined at some point to be able to use this.

She set off the bells twice at some tricky spots. On the third run, knowing where they were, she breezed through with no problem.

[Hello wrong spot.]

Simple enough: hop from one obstacle to the next without touching the ground, right? Well, that wood is not very forgiving towards a hard landing, and Rosa's not very forgiving with that whistle, either.

Halfway through this one, Vette was totally missing her mark and landing on the ground. Little thing like her, nobody could possibly expect her to make all those jumps after so many rounds on the ropes, right?

She was only sorry she was too light to actually break through one of those creaky old crates.

This, Lana could do. With the Force to guide her and lessen her weight, this one was fairly easy.

Sabine knew from experience that she could do this without a problem. She was less happy about this one than the last, though.

The window's a little creaky, and it jams a little when you try to open it, and you've got to watch out for those bells on the other side, but this is arguably the most important thing you could possibly master in this class.

Vette went for that window, pretty sure she could slip through even at the point where it jammed if she wanted to. But once it got to that point, she shook her head, lekku flopping around behind her.

"Nope."

And even crouched a little to try to get some more weight behind her attempt to lift it.

"Yeah. Nope."

But hey, she'd tried. Sort of.

"You're not trying, are you?" Lana murmured to her so the others couldn't hear.

Rosa might not, but Lana knew lekku were prehensile.

Vette just turned to Lana with a big guileless smile on her face.

"What? I can't hear you over the sound of how hard this obstacle course is, Lana."

"Course not," Lana said. "Sorry, carry on."

There were times when going slow was the best option if it meant doing it right. This was one of those times. Sabine took her sweet time getting the window open, making very little noise, which as someone who exploded things all the time, she was kind of proud of.

Anyone who attempts this will immediately be deemed a show-off. Anyone who pulls it off will likely earn Rosa's begrudging and never actually expressed respect.

Lana could do this one, too.

There were always several ways to complete obstacles - by skill, by luck...and by cheating.

She reached out with the Force, steadied the bell so it wouldn't ring, and climbed.

Yeah, Rosa was going to narrow her eyes a little bit at that, but mostly because she was trying to see exactly how Blondie here actually pull that off. Sure, her form was good, but Rosa honestly didn't think it was that good.

But she was a hardened cynic, too.

"Done this one before?" she ventured when the girl made it back down.

"Similar things," Lana said. She wasn't giving up her secret just for the asking.

Rope climbing was easy. Doing it with the bell? Sabine could sit this one out.

"Go on," Lana encouraged her in a low voice. "Guarantee you won't ring it. Let's make her guess."

Sabine's eyes flicked toward her, and apparently this was just going to be a day for her skirting the rules in class a little.

"Sure, why not," she decided, stepping forward to grab the rope.

Lana steadied the bell with the Force as she had when she'd climbed.

Sabine started carefully, just in case, but when she realized the bell wasn't ringing, any slowness was just for show, so it wouldn't be obvious that something was up.

And once she got to the top, she started down just as carefully, giving a little "What can I do?" shrug at the bottom.

She'll fight the temptation to blow the whistle every five seconds into what you're trying to say.

Please feel free to generally mod to your ability skills as you'd like.

I'm still super bummed by the sheer lack of gifs that best represent Rosa's skillz, but I'll always have this:

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Bad Ass Bitch Survival Guide; Tuesday, Second Period [10/02].

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