Steath and Deception #4, Wednesday Morning, Dangershop

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

The students had received a handwaved e-mail to come to the Dangershop in the morning as opposed to Cafe Fina.

When the students arrived, they found themselves in the most varied landscape they had ever seen. Three kinds of forests, two kinds of swamps, a desert, two plains, a snowfield, and an urban environment.

A noticeably clean and shiny urban environment. Complete with a newspaper vending machine with a headline that read "Superman saves Metropolis from Giant Spinning Top!"


Then the students heard some cursing from the side. "How does Barbra deal with these things... wait, here we go."

The clean urban environment shimmered and was replaced by a dark, dilapidated cityscape. The newspaper headline was replaced with "Who is the Batman?"

A man stood up from the console and ran a hand through his hair. "Hi kids. I'm James Gordon, commissioner of the GCPD. I was also in the Special Forces when I was younger, so Alfred asked me to come talk to you guys about cameoflage."

He shrugged off his coat and walked over to the center of the danger room, where a table with a selection of military camouflage options in various sizes was sitting.

"The important thing to remember about camouflage," Gordon said, pushing up his glasses, "is that despite what television may tell you, there is nothing to make you disappear completely. Not even the Batman," he continued, nodding towards the newspaper vending machine, "can pull that off. All it can do is conceal you, force someone to actually look harder to find you. Ideally, you want to be harder to find than they are willing to put into looking."

Gordon looked down into his notes, pushed up his glasses again, and launched into a lecture on millitary camouflage.

"Alright then," he said. "I've got a bunch of environments up to practice on and a selection of uniforms here. Try to match the right camo to the right environment and see if you can find the best place to hide to make maximum use of the camouflage. I should have sizes for everyone here, but if you can't find something in your size, just tell me and I'll see what I can do."

He pulled out a small jar. "I also have camoflage face paint. See if you can figure out how to best use it in conjunction with your camouflage."

_{[[Wait for le OCD! Have fun kids! Don't break Gordon!]]}

Comments

Sign in

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

All nice and collapse-like

Re: Sign in

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia signed in

Re: Sign in

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter signed in.

Chat

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

During or after the lecture. Gordon probably won't mind. He's just glad you aren't suddenly disappearing during his long speeches.

Re: Chat

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia had heard all of this before, camouflage having been part of her training in Argentina.

She was considering just kind of slinking out, but decided that would be rude.

Re: Chat

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Apparently she hadn't learned how to camouflage looking bored during the lecture. Walter might have poked her gently in the ribs, while looking eminently engaged in Gordon's lecture.

Re: Chat

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

Seras sat and took notes.

She wasn't particularly fascinated with camoflage, though, she did figure that it was something she ought to know about.

What held her attention was that here was a Real Life Police Officer, in the flesh. Seras scrabbled her pen across her notebook and tried not to look too impatient for the lecture on camoflage to be over with.

Re: Chat

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Camoflague. Perfect. Because disappears was precisely what Sakurazaki wanted to do this morning.

Just a dream, just a dream, just a really fucked up dream...

Maybe Jude would be absent today. Pity Alfred wasn't conducting class today, because he might have let her off to go do more training if he understood about her mission this weekend...

Ugh.

Re: Chat

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi listens to the nice man with the funny mustache and takes notes.

Uniforms and Paint

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

Time to play dress up and make up!

Re: Uniforms and Paint

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana tried her best, but was really pretty useless with this sort of thing.

Re: Uniforms and Paint

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

The only camoflague Sakurazaki ever used was the cover of shadow, so she wasn't exactly experienced in things like this, but it's a pretty simple task, and she sets to it rather rigeriously and straight-faced. She'd thrown herself back into heavy training mode first thing when she woke up this morning.

Re: Uniforms and Paint

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter couldn't leave, so instead he pulled a set of urban camouflage BDUs on over his butler camouflage uniform and looked dubiously at the make-up.

Re: Uniforms and Paint

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Nobody ever looked at homeless people.

Re: Uniforms and Paint

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack had done this sort of thing before, dressing so as not to stand out, to not be noticed, but it had never involved actual camouflage. He was kind of having fun with the face paint.

Hide

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

And now it's time to use that dress up and make up to hide out of sight and suddenly spring out at people and destroy them.

Re: Hide

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

After cleaning off any non-cammo markings from her paint fight with Walter...

Pippi grabs a newspaper from the vending machene and sits down against a wall next to a trash can. She covers most of herself with the newspaper and pretends to be asleep. But she keeps her eyes cracked ever so slightly.

Talk to Gordon

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

If you're lucky, he might complain about procedural red tape!
Just don't jump out of the shadows at him. He doesn't appreciate that.

Re: Talk to Gordon

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

Having handwavily at this point experimented with camoflage, Seras decided to come up and talk to the Commissioner for a bit.

She was still decked out in camoflage fatigues and had her face painted. But, surely the Mr. Gordon would not be startled, having been in the special forces and everything

Re: Talk to Gordon

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia wasn't going to jump out of the shadows at Gordon. No, she intended to continue keeping low to the ground and move silently past him during his lecture to get out of class.

As you do.

OOC

[badassbutler.livejournal.com]

To show that I am done

For some reason, I decided that the Batman icon was appropriate for the OOC today.

Re: OOC

[nadiathesaint]

Awwww, but I WANNA break Commissioner Gordon!

Re: OOC

[sensethevisions]

Someone will be calling Alfred to let him know that Phoebe won't be in class on account of the whole being a mermaid thing. :)

Re: OOC

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

*jumps out of the shadows at Gordon?*

Re: OOC

[nadiathesaint]

. . . So, which environment is closest to the door?

And just what will Commissioner Gordon do if one of his students disappears in the midst of a long lecture?