Archery Workshop #2, 5/30, Danger Shop, Afternoon

[deadly_little]

The Danger Shop is set up like an outdoor archery field this week, with fifteen targets, fifteen bows, and fifteen quivers of arrows. The arrows, the students will find, are tipped with suction cups. Off to one side is Miho, lounging in a lawn chair with an umbrella. On the table next to it is the sign-in sheet. An incongruous freestanding blackboard is set up next to her, with the words Beginning Archery. Shoot the targets. Leave when you are done. written on it.

Miho gets up, takes up her own bow and a suction cup arrow, and demonstrates for the class by shooting at the first target in the line. Bullseye. Then she returns to her seat, picks up her glass of lemonade, and watches for any errors in form she'll need to correct.

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Talk Amongst Yourselves

[deadly_little]

Well, you're finally getting to shoot things.

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[demonbelthazor]

Bel scowled at the suction cup arrows. "When do we get to use the real thing?" he muttered.

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[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn looked at him. "Perhaps they are afraid that we will shoot other people?"

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[demonbelthazor]

Bel made a face. "There'd be some people I'd be tempted to shoot, but that's not in the plan for today."

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[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"I'm having stickiness issues," Dawn complained as her arrow bounced off the target for the third time.

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[demonbelthazor]

"Maybe if you lick it first it will stick," Bel said with a grin.

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[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

She looked skeptically at the arrow, then at her tongue, which she'd stuck out. "I don't know where it's been."

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[likethegun]

"Try pulling the bowstring back a little more," Sam suggested. "If you put more force into the shooting, the arrow will hit harder and probably stick better."

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[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"See, now that sounds useful," Dawn said, doing as instructed, "as opposed to my licking it, which also makes sense, but adds that 'ew' factor which I'm trying to avoid."

She pulled the bowstring back to her shoulder, then let the arrow fly. "It stuck!" She bounced, then grinned at Sam. "Thanks!"

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[demonbelthazor]

Bel nodded in greeting to Sam, suddenly a little glad that since Sam and his brother were in the class, suction cups instead of real arrows might not be such a bad idea after all.

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[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, Sammy's right," Dean said, his brain just slow enough that his brother got the advice in before he did. Stupid hangover.

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[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Hee. Dean. Buffy gave him a big smile.

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[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"You okay?" Dawn lowered the arrow she'd been aiming.

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[likethegun]

Sam snickered as he watched Dean. "Dude, exactly how much did you drink last night?" he asked quietly.

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel had heard the radio. "Rough night?" she asked with a grin.

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[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Even if they were just suction cup arrows, Molly was having fun.

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[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy was having lots of fun too, and had not yet broken the bow! Yay!

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[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Slowly, Molly was increasing how much she pulled in the bowstring without even realizing it. Eventually, she pulled just too hard and the bow broke. Oops.

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[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna was kind of glaring at the bow.

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[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"What?" Parker asked, looking from the bow to Alanna. "Too light, too heavy, too long, too short...?"

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[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

"Too long. Wrong weight. And not pointy enough."

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[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Sakurazaki is failing miserably when she tries to see if she can draw the arrows and shoot them quickly like she's seen Mana-san do with her rounds of bullets, but the rare smile on her face shows that she doesn't really care because, yes, she is having fun. Good Lord, there's even a laugh in there, and the occational grin at her fellow shooters.

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Having fun?" Isabel asked with a grin. She's reasonably pleased with herself because she's been able to hit the target most of the time. Now she's working on improving her accuracy.

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[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Sakurazaki chuckles lightly. "Surprisingly, yes. I almost feel cheated by only training with a sword. These bows are incredible." She takes a moment to focus, shooting out another arrow, which falls short of target. But she grins. "If a bit difficult. How about you, Isabel-san?"

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[sakuracchyan.livejournal.com]

She wasn't talking to anyone in particular, but Sakura was most definately talking.

"Kero would kill me for this," she muttered, shaking her head and taking aim with her third, or was it fourth? arrow. "Kill me as dead as a tiny flying teddy bear could manage." After she'd shot the arrow and gotten considerably closer to what she might consider 'doing well' -- still four rings away from the bullseye, but better -- she waved her next arrow about in the air as she talked to herself. "'You should pull out your cards, Sakura' he'd say," Her next comment came with a grand sweep of the suction-cupped arrow. "'Show your teacher what you can do!' Yeah well that's cheating, Kero..."

No, she wasn't talking to herself. Much less was she talking to her 'pet' who wasn't even present.