Practical Diplomacy, Friday, January 18, 2018

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"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."

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Ready to run!

Elude your tail!

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You are in a crowded, hot, busy marketplace. It's full of vendors selling produce and fish, baskets, fabric, household goods, car parts, wigs, jewelry, elaborate and ugly hats, electronics, etc., etc., etc. The streets are a maze, and the cars that get through the cross-streets are slowed to a crawl due to all of the pedestrian (and occasional goat) traffic.

You've noticed someone following you: he stops when you stop, goes where you're going, and even though he's casual about it, is definitely watching you. How will you ditch him?

Get out of the ambush!

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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!

Bang, bang, bang!

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Now that your heart is pounding nice and hard and the adrenaline rush has hit, it's time to take this lovely 9mm handgun and try to shoot a target accurately!

Don't worry, Anakin pretty much expects you to miss. That's why it was at the end of the exerise.

Talk to Anakin

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Afterwards, if you'd like.

OOC

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This is absolutely a real course--it's known colloquially as "crash and bang."