Practical Diplomacy, Friday, January 18, 2018

[sith_happened]

"While much of a diplomat's life depends on their way with words, it's a simple fact that the words we are saying might not be what the other side of the negotiating table wants to hear," Anakin said, "and their reaction might get very ugly and dangerous." He gestured around the Danger Shop, which had been set up with a series of obstacles.

"Therefore, all diplomats must be able to have at least rudimentary knowledge in self-defense," he continued. "Today we'll practice racing through a crowded market place to evade a tail, driving a vehicle out of a roadblock ambush, and firing a weapon."

Comments

Get out of the ambush!

[sith_happened]

Another day, another traffic jam, but this time as you drive along a road (or lurch, or strip the gears, depending on your level of ability to drive already. Anakin doesn't have time to teach you that part), the cars around you seem to be herding you in a particular direction--stopping in an intersection so you can't turn, slowing down so you miss lights and drifting just a liiiittle too close for comfort into your lane.

There are pedestrians along the side of the road--no sidewalks here--and open sewage ditches that are channels at least six feet deep along where a road's easement should be keep you very effectively penned in.

And then you seen the men at the end of the road with guns. Get out, get out, get out!

Re: Get out of the ambush!

[unusual_sith]

Lana turned and leapt out of her vehicle and ran in the opposite direction. If they hadn't shot at her yet, hopefully they wouldn't start.

Re: Get out of the ambush!

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Well, this was certainly not going to be Sidon's best activity, considering he'd never really been in a car, much less driven one, so he very much had no idea what he was doing, combined with the chaos of the activity itself.

So in his desperate attempts to avoid hitting people or hitting other cars, Sidon was finding out that the sewage option was not always a good one, as he crashed into one of those channels, and, well...he tried, it was the very least he could do, and he suspected he was going to fare much better on foot anyway.

Re: Get out of the ambush!

[justice_undone]

Breq instinctively activated her armour, creating a metallic shimmer around her body, then leapt off the vehicle and ran. The armour deflected the bullets, but she didn't want to get caught, and looked for a place to hide.

Re: Get out of the ambush!

[mylandmyrules]

Nell didn't have any idea how to drive, so there wasn't much herding going on with her non-moving car. She did flee out the passenger side door when she saw the gunmen, though.