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Weapons 101; Thursday, Third Period [05/14].

All the proper emails, texts, carrier pigeons, whatever, had been sent out to let everyone in the class know that this workshop was definitely going to be a Danger Shop workshop unless otherwise noted, because, as much as both of the instructors felt it was more fun with live steel and everything, it could also get a lot messier, and none of them wanted to deal with that kind of paperwork, plus Amaya liked keeping her 'no body parts lost yet!' credentials as a teacher.

Rosa, meanwhile, was not saying anything about her own current status on that front.

Anyway! When they made it to the Danger Shop, they'd find themselves on a nice grassy knoll outside of a forest, with probably some Ren Faire bullshit going on just beyond the hills, pennants flapping in a faint breeze that sectioned off their training areas, with targets and practice dummies set up, and the two instructors standing by some tables...covered in rocks.

They'll get to that.

Amaya got things going once everyone seemed there and it was getting close to time, anyway. "Welcome to Weapons 101, everyone," she said with a nod. "For those of you a bit new to the class, this will be a very basic overview of a variety of different weapons, how they're used, how they're made, and pretty much anything else about them we find interesting. Which, fair warning, is a lot. I'm your expert in making weapons, Amaya Blackstone, and this here is our expert in using them, Rosa Diaz."

It would seem like a good spot for Rosa to either say hello or wave or even nod, but they weren't getting any of that. Maybe an inclination of her chin. That counted as a greeting, right?

"Today, since this is our first time together, what we'd like to do,"--well, what Amaya would like to do; Rosa, clearly, didn't care--"is go around and get to know who you are, what weapons you might be currently familiar or have some knowledge of using, and if there's any weapon in particular you'd like us to cover. In a sense, you'd be helping us with that, because there are a lot of different weapons we could go over, and just picking a handful for the course is not an easy task.

"So we'll go ahead and get started with you," she gestured to whoever might be standing nearby, "and we'll work our way around, and then we'll get started in on today's weapon!"

[[ ocd ~~on the waaaaay!~~ is up! huzzah ]]

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Weapon of choice.

Well, it's more of an introduction itself than a proper lecture, but here you can listen to it! And ask questions if you'd got 'em before they get to introductions of everyone else and...rocks.

Keep it simple, keep it short, or else Rosa might jump the gun and start throwing those rocks. Name, weapon experience, and weapons you might be curious about. GO.

"Now that we've gotten that out of the way," Amaya continued with the class after all the introductions had been made and, presumably, survived, "let's move onto today's lesson. Since there's a good number of you and we figured introductions might take a bit, we kept it really simple. As a matter of fact, keeping it simple was a great place to start because one of the most basic and rudimentary weapons out there was more than likely the first weapon most civilizations every had, and it's something that's incredibly easy to find and can be pretty easy to use, and that?" She picked up a particularly big rock from the table. "Is a stone."

With that, she turned, and hefted it toward one of the practice dummies, knicking it on the shoulder and making it turn on its post a little.

"Stones," said Rosa, picking one up herself, probably with an air that she was likely to throw it at the class rather than the prescribed targets, "can typically be used as a weapon three different ways: hitting," she smashed the rock down on another one, "throwing," and she, too, threw the rock, hitting the mark of the head of a practice dummy much more accurately than Amaya had...and on a dummy further away, "and with a sling. We have two different kinds here: slingshots, which uses a frame and elastic bands to increase power, distance, and accuracy like you'd have with a bow, and a basic sling, in which you hurl the rock by placing it in the cradle of the sling, swinging it in an arch, and releasing it in a timely manner. The basic sling is much more difficult to use well, but we're in the Danger Shop, so now's a good time to figure it out without knocking someone else out or giving yourself a concussion. Slingshot's fairly easy..."

And here she went into a breakdown of how to use both the basic sling and the slingshot, which was definitely handwavey because blarg.

"Any questions? If not, go ahead and give it a try yourself. Blackstone's pretty good at the hitting stuff with rocks part, so if you want some help with that...knowing angles, force, arcs, all that stuff, that's her today. For throwing and the slings, though, I'll be here to help you with technique if you need it. Please don't hit each other," she sort of sounded like she shouldn't have to say that, but she was still definitely going to say that. "The only dummies you should be hitting are the ones on the practice field. Got it? Alright. Let's fling some rocks."

One of them is for more likely to hate you for it, though. Guess which one!

Probably not the one who seemed to be holding three slingshots in a way that was definitely suggesting she was thinking of merging them and figuring out the logistics of a potentially steam-powered three-shot slingshot.

Probably definitely the one who looked like she didn't need rocks to kill you, but would still maybe use one anyway because it would be more fun.

I will never not love these two together, and I don't even care how shameless it is~

Freya Crescent, spear

Shunsui Kyōraku, sake

Alara Kitan, plasma model

Edited 2020-05-14 14:18 (UTC)

Cait Sith, megaphone

"I'm Alara Kitan," Alara introduced herself, "I don't actually have any weapons experience so I guess I'm interested in learning about as many as I can,"

"Ah 'm Cait Sith," he said, looking around with interest at the Danger Shop's set up. "And, tae tell ye rightly, ah haven't ony experience at a' 'n' na preference fur whit we're shown?"

He'd be equally terrible at all of them.

… It wasn't his fault he was a sentient stuffed toy.

"A nice, clean slate, then!" said Amaya, who was far more excited about that than her coteacher seemed to be, since Amaya only really had to talk about the weapons instead of showing how to use the weapons. "You'll definitely be learning a lot in this class, then, and hopefully you'll find it useful, too. Good to have you here, Alara."

So, the problems started right from the beginning!

Cait's aim wasn't terrible but he, er, did not have the upper body strength to toss a rock from where he stood to hit one of the dummies.

That wasn't going to stop him from trying.

But... er...

Yeah, this was going to be interesting, but at least Rosa knew that if she needed to pair anyone up, she could just stick the sentient stuffed toy with the sentient accident waiting to happen.

"Oh, good," she said, and she meant it, really, couldn't you tell by how thrilled she sounded. "More people who don't know what they're doing."

Well, yeah, Rosa, that's what classes were for, so they could learn...

Maybe she was just a little sore since she'd managed to avoid having to talk to the cat thus far, but it would be kind of hard now.

When Cait and Beaker took over the world it would be your fault, Rosa!

"Ah, weel, a'd ower trauchle ye than trauchle masell while an invasion," Cait said easily. "You signed up fur this trauchle!"

Grog Strongjaw, greataxe

Well at least this was an activity in which her elevated strength would come in handy, so Alara had no problem in picking up one of the rocks and throwing it at one of the dummies.

Alara just hoped that the dummies were built to withstand a lot of punishment because the rock she threw ended up hitting it with a considerable amount of force.

Beaker, things that have no business exploding and yet--

"Meep meep meep meep," Beaker began, pointing to himself, "Meep meep meep meep meep--" his hand imitated an explosion, "--mee. Meep MEEP meep meep mee--"

This could go on for a while.

Did Amaya have money down on Beaker smacking himself with a rock from the slingshot? Because somehow he managed that!

Edited 2020-05-14 18:01 (UTC)

Shuri, her brain

"Och, goat buddy! Ye keek better whin ye'r nae bein' chased by goats!"

For that matter, Cait felt he looked better when goats weren't eating him too!

"Meep!" Beaker said excitedly, pointing out the door and vaguely towards his last class. "Meep meepmeep meeeeeeeeep!"

Yes, it was very traumatizing to be a puppy chew toy in the last class, too, Beaker, but I don't think Cait caught most of that.

He really didn't.

"Dinnae tell me," he said, looking towards the door. "There's mair goats outside?!"

Julius, fire breath

"I'm Julius H--Quezt," he said, only stumbling over his fake name a little this time. He really needed to practice it. "Um. I've trained with weapons for most of my life? But I'm not very good with them."

What with the hating every minute of it and all.

"I guess I'm best with the sword? But I'd really rather something distant."

"Meep," Beaker said, shaking his head. "Meep meep...woof-woof?"

Julius had rocks, decent aim, and body strength. Most of his rocks at least landed in the general vicinity of the dummy?

"Dogs?!"

He said this like most people might say cockroaches.

"Ye'r jammy ye survived, mah mukker! 'N' cheers fur th' warning, tae, in trial they're aye thare efter this class!"

"Meep meep meep!" Beaker agreed, wiping his forehead dramatically.

Puppies were terrifying when you were made of felt.

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