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[theweakhavepurpose]

[Pratt is sitting on the lower bunk of his tiny-house, part of his machine gun visible to the side and a wood plank wall behind him. He's wearing his deputy outfit again, his hair in neat braids thanks to Kettara.]

Before this whole talk of moving I was starting to set up a target range because I'm getting rusty. Figured since we have a lot of people who are experienced with firearms, arrows, knives, whatever, that I'd set it up so anyone can use it.

I've made a few spinner targets and I found a few wooden target dummies near the Colosseum but they're in rough shape so they need some clean up. I was working on a skeet shooter, but my plan to use a motor from a moped didn't work since they're electric and full of pointless plastic crap instead of useful gearbelts.

[He shakes his head, frowning at broadcasting his failure to everyone. He hadn't meant to say that.]

That's not the point.

Since we're apparently being shuffled to the next livestock pasture for us, I'm going to hold off setting it up until we're there.

What else would you guys like? Anyone need something to stand up to a crossbow? Or more intricate for throwing stars? And this shouldn't be a problem here, but I'm preemptively letting you know that there's no flamethrowers allowed at my range.

[He narrows his eyes at the screen before shutting off the feed. He definitely looks like he's adding that caveat because he's encountered that problem before.]

Comments

[itsnotaonesie]

[what if we attach jets to the boats]

It's no fun any time, but it's a necessary evil I guess.

[theweakhavepurpose]

[he likes the way you think!]

Yeah. Bummer.

At least the range will give us something to do when we're wishing we could fly around and shoot laser beams out of our hands or whatever other cool things people can do here. When I get it all set up come test your aim. Maybe learn how to throw knives so you can skewer a fish from 100 yards away.

[itsnotaonesie]

[EXCELLENT]

I guess learning some crazy knife tricks could be cool? I'm not really much of a gun person, though.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Impress all the girls back home.

[Assuming they get back home. And Peter doesn't drop a knife on his foot in the process.]

We don't really have bullets to waste right now. But you could try archery.

[itsnotaonesie]

Hah, right. Knowing my luck, I'd probably just end up stabbing myself in the hand trying to do something cool.

[It's okay though, he'd heal fast.]

Archery could be cool, maybe I'll give that a shot.

[theweakhavepurpose]

You can try playing the pity angle. It's worked for Sharky back home.

[And Peter is 10,000x more personable than a guy who stores his own piss in bottles because he's too lazy to get up when he's binge watching Game of Thrones.]

Probably the best option we have for long distance.

[itsnotaonesie]

Hey now, I'm not a complete loser. And yeah, it might be safer to pick some of the monsters that pop in off with arrows that to get all up on them.

[He totally had a girlfriend once! It lasted maybe like. A day. But it still counts.]

[theweakhavepurpose]

What are you fighting them with now?

[Whatever it is pls stop. He's worried about you.]

The monsters. Not the girls which I'm sure you're beating off with a stick.

[itsnotaonesie]

I just smack 'em around a bit, and I'm not beating anyone off.

[A pause.]

...With a stick. That didn't come out quite right.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Wow. All of that was bad.

You want to try again?

[itsnotaonesie]

No. No, can't recover from this one. I think I'm done talking for the rest of my life.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Alright.

[He's actually grinning, look at that. You're good for his emotional state.]

Come to the range when it's up. I promise to not bring it up.

[Probably.]

[itsnotaonesie]

[Peter's actual super power is cheering people up by just being a goober]

Sure, I'll pop in when I've got some free time. And I'm absolutely holding you to that.