School Assembly, Wednesday, September 2, 2020 [afternoon]

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Anakin had opened up the auditorium for the first time in a while and was trying very hard to suppress memories of a holiday pageant gone horribly, horribly wrong. Remembering being a young, stupid high school student was made easier with his best friend back on the island for the first time in a while, but she, at least, had brought a smile to his face as he made final adjustments to the targets they'd set up on stage, and then glanced over to the elaborate obstacle course they'd made behind the area cleared behind the students, and extended to basically all of the space around the school that wasn't a building--while they waited as everyone arrived.

"It's a good thing we've checked out every paintball course on the East Coast over the last ten years." Anakin began when everyone was settled down. He had Aeryn had then gotten thrown out of every paintball course on the East Coast by making small children cry, but details! "It's helped to make this, the greatest paintball course, to properly teach weapons safety." He gestured to the obstacle course set up behind the students' chairs. "You, of course, also passed some of it in the grassy area on your way in."

Because everything doing was worth overdoing by an order of magnitude: the unofficial Skywalker motto.

"Now, most of you probably have some experience with weapons by now," said Aeryn, who still made those kinds of assumptions about Fandom, even the first week of school. "And hopefully you haven't shot a hole in anything you will need later. There's more to it than that."

Anakin nodded. "Now you've all checked your lethal weapons in so that you don't shoot people, no matter how annoying, in the dorms." He grinned at Aeryn. "Meet Aeryn Sun, the reason we have that rule."

"It was one time," Aeryn protested.

"It's how I knew we'd be friends," Anakin said. "But! Weapons should be used safely. You need to be able to aim and fire at the butt you are intending and not kill someone instead. There's paperwork."

Also, it was wrong.

"And it's wrong," he added belatedly.

"And, usually messy," Aeryn said. They were so helpful! "Avoid the face. Keep your weapon pointed down unless you are prepared to fire it. That will also keep the situation less stressful for everyone unless you intend to make it stressful..."

Then they proceeded to give an extremely detailed and competent (probably too competent for any high schoolers not used to being armed all the time) run-through of a series of gun-adjacent weapons.

"But you don't really learn by watching," Anakin admitted, picking up the last of their samples. "Let's get some volunteers up here for demonstrating."

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Arrive and Mingle

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Get a bad feeling about this, if that's your thing. Students, find a cool person to sit next to! Teacher, find the problem kids and sit far away so they aren't your problem!

Rubberneck at the frankly insane course Anakin and Aeryn have spent the entire summer planning.

Voluntolds, Come on Down!

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Anakin scanned the room, landing on a few unfamiliar faces: "Adora, Wei Wuxian," he said. "Thank you for volunteering."

Though they hadn't, really.

"Mae, Illyana, you may join them." And now they needed slightly more supervision. "Kitty and Rosa, come on up here, too."

Anakin and Aeryn then handed each volunteer a paintball gun and gave them a brief rundown of how it worked, then pointed them towards the gremlin-shaped targets on the stage. "You get three shots each. Tightest formation wins."

[OOC: No one wins. Tell us how it goes, voluntolds!]

Surprise, you all get to play!

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"And now that you've all learned how the guns work--" you have not, Anakin, "--please find one under your chair. Students, line up with Adora, Mae, Illyana, and Wei Wuxian."

Anakin cocked his own, custom, paintball gun because he took this far too seriously for a man with four children. "Teachers, you're with me, Aeryn Kitty, and Rosa."

He grinned. "Last one unpainted wins."

[OOC: There will be no one unpainted, probably. Mod the course to your hearts' content! There's stuff inside the building, like the picture up top shows. There's also a huge course out in front of the dorm with high ground, things to cower behind, trees to snipe from, etc., etc. You can also spill into town where there will be more posts in the morning!]

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Posted early for time zone friendliness!