broadcast 01

[tothefly]

Who: Natasha Romanoff and various guests
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Post-broadcast, abandoned waystation? Action prompt in comments
When: During bugfest 20XX

[On screen, there's a very calm redhead looking thoughtfully at the camera, one brow slightly cocked.]

It's occurred to me that the fleet has about ten times as many firearms as it does medical professionals. It's also been pretty apparent that a lot of our cast members don't know the basics of gun safety and use. If anyone wants to learn, I'll be at the following coordinates.

[The message ends with a bit of text, the location of one of the abandoned waystations in near orbit.]

Comments

[tothefly]

I take it you're used to energy weapons, then. That's a head start, at least.

I really think you'd want to start by avoiding the shots. Trying to block a projectile is a good way to end up dead, or at least really bruised. You can do it, if you know what you're doing, but it's not exactly recommended procedure.

[tobeajedi]

Oh--yeah, I don't have what I need to block. [Decidedly grouchy SHE'S STILL MAD THAT THEY TOOK HER LIGHTSABER] Dodging, then--I need to work on my reflexes for that.

Energy weapons are standard where I'm from. Do yours have a stun setting? [as long as Natasha's bringing up caution, Vima might as well remember that one.]

[tothefly]

[Natasha could sympathize. When she arrived, they'd taken all her weapons--and she meant all of them. Even the really, really well-hidden ones.]

Or your sense of caution. Seems a lot of people around here don't really have that.

There's no stun setting. The safety's got three settings: locked, standard power, and extra power. The latter is considerably stronger, but overheats your weapon and takes you out of the fight for a pretty long time.

[tobeajedi]

Hey, I'm plenty cautious. [RIGHT SURE] Honestly, the kind of training I'm talking about is standard where I'm from... but we have stun settings and weapons that can deflect energy bolts.

Still, I bet I could learn how to dodge with the kind of blaster you've got here--it'd just be extra incentive to move quick.

[tothefly]

[She may not know you, stranger, but she knows the signs of recklessness when she sees them. Regardless of training, or what you're used to.]

I'd personally try and avoid training with live fire. These aren't what you're used to at home, regardless of similarities. Unless you're feeling a need to acquaint yourself with the fleet's state-of-the-art medical facilities, up close and personal, anyway.

[tobeajedi]

[aw come on she could totally do it.]

You got anything less dramatic, then?

[tothefly]

You could get someone to throw rocks at you until you get the hang of it. Not like there's a lack of ammunition around here.

[Dry sarcasm, breakfast of champions.]

You do that a lot at home, dodging weapons fire?

[tobeajedi]

Har har. I haven't, yet, but it's kind of a hallmark for a Jedi Knight.

[tothefly]

Is that what you are? A knight?

[Her eyebrows arch, but it's not a look of disbelief. Just that kind of cool, slightly disinterested look that is the hallmark of a Natasha fishing for more information.]

[tobeajedi]

Yeah! ...In training. Kind of short on Masters around here, but that's no reason to slack off.

[tothefly]

That the sort of training they encourage, throwing yourself in front of blasters and hoping for the best? Must be a pretty high washout for training that intense.

[Of course, her own hadn't been any nicer. Learning to dodge gunfire was important, and live rounds did provide a nice incentive to get out of the way.]

[tobeajedi]

Well like I said, there's usually a stun setting... a lot of meditation and practice, too. But sometimes you have to do things on the fly.

[never mind the time a Master dropped his students onto some world and said "solve this multigenerational ethnic conflict which I won't say is being fueled by a Sith ghost". and then got mad when they couldn't do it.]

[tothefly]

At least you learn quickly.

I'm not going to fire live rounds at you, but if you want to learn to use the weapons Atroma's provided, feel free to stop by.