Deputy Pratt (
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hadriel2018-12-10 08:25 pm
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[The video turns on to show the outskirts of town, nearby is a fence of sorts made of junk Pratt collected from the Colosseum and some baling wire. It's encircling a fancy new shooting range complete with training dummies and targets and some other items that aren't immediately identifiable.
Okay fancy isn't the right word, everything is made of remnants he found and some of the targets are empty soup cans on sticks but it looks serviceable.]
This is Deputy Pratt. I know we're all busy freezing to death, but if you'd like to take your mind off that, I've finally got this all together. Range is up and running!
It's set up by the orchard, or well.. where the orchard should be anyway.
[He pans the camera towards the orchard to show where it is and then starts walking towards the range. The camera is surprisingly steady, this is someone who has filmed hundreds of Vine videos of him and other deputies doing stupid stuff on slow days. He's a pro at this shit.]
I've got training dummies up front for anyone who wants to get their melee fighting on. But uh.. try not to completely destroy them because I don't have a ton of wood to fix them up.
For the range itself I've got targets at 10 meters, 25 meters, 50 and 100. It's not perfect because I'm measuring this with my feet, but it's close enough. Spinner targets are for guns, and the bigger baled ones are dirt and wood so they shouldn't chew up your arrows too bad.
This thing is a work in progress.
[He sets a can onto a contraption off to the side of the range, stomping his foot on a pedal and sending it shooting down the lane and a little to the left. The camera gets unsteady here as he launches a knife that's far too big for this at the can and it tumbles to the ground.]
Keeps shooting them off to the side, but it's better than throwing something and then trying to hit it.
As for weapons... [He walks over to a large but very battered chest and opens the lid.]
I've got some throwing knives that aren't stupid like the hunting knife I have. A few bows. And some arrows in here. Keep them in this crate because the weather is not kind to bowstrings and you don't want these things snapping when you're shooting.
It's on the honor system because I'm not going to freeze my ass off monitoring this twenty-four seven. So try not to burn it down in the next two days.
[Please guys. He worked hard on this. Don't set it on fire.]
Okay fancy isn't the right word, everything is made of remnants he found and some of the targets are empty soup cans on sticks but it looks serviceable.]
This is Deputy Pratt. I know we're all busy freezing to death, but if you'd like to take your mind off that, I've finally got this all together. Range is up and running!
It's set up by the orchard, or well.. where the orchard should be anyway.
[He pans the camera towards the orchard to show where it is and then starts walking towards the range. The camera is surprisingly steady, this is someone who has filmed hundreds of Vine videos of him and other deputies doing stupid stuff on slow days. He's a pro at this shit.]
I've got training dummies up front for anyone who wants to get their melee fighting on. But uh.. try not to completely destroy them because I don't have a ton of wood to fix them up.
For the range itself I've got targets at 10 meters, 25 meters, 50 and 100. It's not perfect because I'm measuring this with my feet, but it's close enough. Spinner targets are for guns, and the bigger baled ones are dirt and wood so they shouldn't chew up your arrows too bad.
This thing is a work in progress.
[He sets a can onto a contraption off to the side of the range, stomping his foot on a pedal and sending it shooting down the lane and a little to the left. The camera gets unsteady here as he launches a knife that's far too big for this at the can and it tumbles to the ground.]
Keeps shooting them off to the side, but it's better than throwing something and then trying to hit it.
As for weapons... [He walks over to a large but very battered chest and opens the lid.]
I've got some throwing knives that aren't stupid like the hunting knife I have. A few bows. And some arrows in here. Keep them in this crate because the weather is not kind to bowstrings and you don't want these things snapping when you're shooting.
It's on the honor system because I'm not going to freeze my ass off monitoring this twenty-four seven. So try not to burn it down in the next two days.
[Please guys. He worked hard on this. Don't set it on fire.]

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Theoretically.
Nate grabs his coat.]
Gettin' bored, huh? [He says with a grin, stepping around one of the many stumps.] Looks pretty good.
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[That's highly specific. Moving on.]
Thanks. I'm still working on the whole no guns thing, since no one wants to waste bullets on tin cans when we can't replenish them. But this'll do for now.
I expect it to last 24 hours before someone shoots themselves or someone else.
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[He's interested in this thing, but not if it's going to waste all his ammo.]
And deputy, huh? We got police around here?
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There's the Guard, but I'm not a part of it. Just .. sorta used to introducing myself that way.
[It impresses some people, and he used to be a cocky lil douchebag.]
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Good work.
Re: video;
Thanks!
I'm hoping I can find a way to get us more bullets soon, or we're all gonna have to get real good at archery and throwing rocks.
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Can anyone use the range?
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Unless you have a flamethrower. No flamethrowers allowed. I've had to say that to three people now.
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Pretty good setup you've got. Anything I can do to change your mind about the flamethrower thing?
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[Newt is far from the combat-ready type, but this sounds like a neat way to pass the time. Plus that knife throw was pretty damned impressive.]
You build that launcher yourself?
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[He's a little frustrated with it honestly. It seems so simple. But it's really not as easy as it looked.]
I'd love to have some sort of skeet shooter but I'd need a bunch of mechanical parts I don't think I can find here.
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[He's probably joking.]
And don't worry, I haven't had a chance to work on that flamethrower yet.
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[Pls Peter, he's concerned about you. You are too innocent.]
If you desperately want to do something with fire, we could use one of those big tall heating things. You know the ones that they use at restaurants to heat the outdoor patios when it's cold?
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I guess that's the one thing this place has going for it. No flying badgers.
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[And another few hours of him trying to figure out how many feet are in a meter and how big his feet are and doing math that he really didn't want to do.]
Hoping it works out alright. I know we don't have a lot of ammo so some of it's pointless but... gave me something to do.
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[ the fact he needs to say that is still odd to wrap his mind around.]
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The Dog, reporting in for duty.
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[Action] somewhat late but!!!
Hello.
[He has his beanie on as usual and the hood on his coat pulled up over it, coat zipped up as well and his hands in his pockets; sure, he can't feel the cold exactly the way a human can, but he can still register it and still doesn't like it. It's probably a placebo effect that dressing for the weather helps, but he'll take what he can get.]
This is very elaborate, especially for the supplies available. I'm impressed.
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[Pratt actually seems marginally cheerful, which is different. Having a goal and something to do is good for him. The more he dwells on his situation the further he falls into a spiral of despair. So this has been a real nice uplift to his mental state.]
Thanks! It's still a work in progress, and if anyone on the force back home saw this I'd be laughed out of the precinct. But I think it'll work for us.
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video; | /slides in late
[Julie tucks her hair behind her ear as she trails off. This all looks great, but she's never touched a bow in her life.]
I know how to shoot a gun, but bullets aren't something they give us a lot of here. You know how to use a bow, or are they just for stock?
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Bowhunting was never really my thing, and that's compound bows anyway.
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action; 1/1 after the stampede
When Drake gets out to the spot by the orchard, it's in all kind of disarray. A lot of it will need considerable repair, but he's good for that. He brought his tools, and he's handy. He lifts a broken target off the ground and examines the trampled wood, decides it'll need to be reinforced, and gets to work.
Pratt will find him hammering away, reinforcing stands and rebuilding dummies. He's being helpful! And though he's absorbed in his work, he isn't oblivious because of it -- the second he hears footsteps his head snaps up. ]
Oh. Hey.
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Pratt isn't looking so great himself staying out far too long into exhaustion. He had to sleep sometimes, even he couldn't push himself forever.
weak. ]Morning. Are you.. fixing those?
[Obviously he is, but Pratt hadn't expected to see anyone else out there, let alone someone helping him. ]
Thanks.
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[Video] THE LATEST OF THE LATE
Nice, you've got all the bells and whistles. As far as Hadriel goes, anyway. Gotta say, I'm impressed. Not sure it can handle me, but still I'm impressed.
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[He grins in spite of himself, he's pretty proud of what he's done here.]
You're not going to set it on fire are you? It seems every other person I talk to wants to use a flamethrower on it.
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