Shop Class: [3/29]

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

Mac allows an hour for all the students to put the final touches on their Pumpkin flinging devices.

Then he points at the virtual target and measuring range.

"Load up your devices and let 'er rip folks. See how you do with it. Just so you know? We're using real pumpkins here. So if you happen to hit someone with a pumpkin? It'll be a big mess. I'm just saying..."

"Also I'll be gone the next couple of weeks to get some physical therapy for my leg. In the mean time Sam Carter will be teaching the classes. Please give her the same respect that you do for me. On second thought, just give her respect."

[ooc: limited interaction today most likely. Respond with how well your device hits the bullseye target and how far your a pumpkin is flung from your device.

After that... I have no problems with a pumpkin war. :D]

Comments

[nadiathesaint]

the pumpkins! They start out very much not on target, but after a few flings, Nadia gets them on track.

As for distance? Yeah, she's got mad distance. We're talking, like, more than a football field.

fling! smoosh Woot!

Pumpkins!

[02maxwell.livejournal.com]

Duo gleefully sets up his modified Buster Rifle and Beam Saber mutation and starts firing pumpkins off with unbridled joy. He starts yelling commentary on the pumpkin flings and making sound effects.

His contraption, like Nadia's, has got football-field-length distance capabilities, but accuracy is a slight problem since pumpkins have totally different physical consequences than Energy Beams. Duo manages to get the pumpkins a bit closer to target after a few tries and sets about making modifications for next time for better accuracy. Because even if he never needs a pumpkin flinger at Fandom again, he's definitely sharing this back home.

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander? Not so much with the football field. Small pumpkins make it about 250 feet, the larger ones not quite that far.

On the other hand, accuracy kind of rocks. Mostly because once the thing is in place, it doesn't exactly need re-aiming.

If you're thinking this results in Xander amusing himself by rapid-firing splatty wee gourds to his heart's content, you're not wrong.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam aimed her cannon at the target, adjusted for wind, and loaded her pumpkin. When she discharged it, it went a whole foot and a half, practically tipping out the end of the cannon and sploofing at her feet. "Damn it!"

Thoroughly disgusted with herself and kicking the dead pumpkin as she walked, she did a thorough check of the system and pulled the bolt out of the pneumatic hose. "Stupid. Just...stupid."

She loaded another pumpkin, and this one went far, missing the target by quite a few feet. Her accuracy wasn't fantastic, being too far to the right, but as soon as she turned the cannon to the left, and loaded another pumpkin, this one went the distance. Still went beyond the target, but it was straight. Just like with a rocket launcher.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John missed class on Monday. Whoops. So, he spends class period cleaning up all the pumpkin droppings to make up for it.

[stykera]

Stark loaded up his catapult with what he hoped was an extra squishy pumpkin and flung it. It smashed in a satisfyingly gooey way.

Accuracy wasn't bad, but it didn't go terribly far. So he tried again with a bigger, hopefully messier pumpkin. That one still stayed fairly accurate and went farther, but still didn't quite make it to the target.

But hey, pumpkins did make a nice satisfying mess and that was what mattered...right?