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[theweakhavepurpose]

[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.]

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[nonscriptum]

[Nate isn't completely titillated by the prospect of a few targets when he knows he could just go set up some bottles on a rock somewhere, but it's the jury-rigged clay pigeon machine that catches his attention. Moving targets are few and far between and he knows he's getting rusty even if it is theoretically better to not get involved in so many gunfights.

Theoretically.

Nate grabs his coat.]

Gettin' bored, huh? [He says with a grin, stepping around one of the many stumps.] Looks pretty good.

[theweakhavepurpose]

This is strapped to a chair, starving to death levels of boredom.

[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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[fogsong]

Eh, I bet there will be people to tidy up after the occasional asshole. [ She'll be cool like that just because Pratt has throwing knives for her to practice with (and bows that she can use unsupervised). ]

[theweakhavepurpose]

Hope so. Most people are decent and know we don't have a lot of shit to waste. But then there's those few people who want to ruin it for everyone else.

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[coyoteking]

That's all fine n dandy for gettin' back knives and arrows and shit, but what about bullets? How're we supposed to replace those?

[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?

[theweakhavepurpose]

Right now we don't. That's why I've got bows and knives. Personally I'm not gonna waste my ammo, but someone might want to. Or might have some secret stash of it.

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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[dedikated]

( Well, this is the kind of thing she's been wanting for a while. It might just become a new favourite haunt, now. )

Good work.

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[theweakhavepurpose]

[Aw, lookit him grin.]

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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[am_i_a_monster]

[Abigail watches the video intently, really wishing she had her rifle. At least she has her bow.]

Can anyone use the range?

[theweakhavepurpose]

Sure!

Unless you have a flamethrower. No flamethrowers allowed. I've had to say that to three people now.

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[requiemshark]

[ Ephemera is not having a good time right now, but this is as good a distraction as any. ]

Pretty good setup you've got. Anything I can do to change your mind about the flamethrower thing?

[theweakhavepurpose]

C'mon man. It took me weeks to scrounge all this stuff, don't light it on fire an hour after I made it.

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[completelycrazy]

Holy crap, dude. This is awesome.

[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?

[theweakhavepurpose]

Yeah. That's why it sucks.

[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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[itsnotaonesie]

Oh cool, you got it done! I am so coming over there to throw knives at all your stuff.

[He's probably joking.]

And don't worry, I haven't had a chance to work on that flamethrower yet.

[theweakhavepurpose]

So long as you aren't throwing them at people that's fine. That's what a range is for.

[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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[knifecollecting]

Better than flying badgers, right?

[theweakhavepurpose]

[He half smiles. Look at that.]

I guess that's the one thing this place has going for it. No flying badgers.

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[storyseeker]

Wow. Nice setup. How long did that take to put together?

[theweakhavepurpose]

Couple of weeks of gathering stuff, mostly before we moved. And then a few days to get it all set up.

[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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[uptightness]

I assume you have no issues with anyone bringing their own knives for practice.

[theweakhavepurpose]

So long as it won't completely destroy my range you can bring whatever knives you want. The practice dummies aren't designed for anything much more than that though. So don't go wailing on them with a broadsword or anything.

[ the fact he needs to say that is still odd to wrap his mind around.]

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[standformyself]

[A clipped bark.]

The Dog, reporting in for duty.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Excellent! I've got it all set up. Even got a cushion for you to sit on.

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[mysophobic]

If anything gets damaged I can help fix it! My powers let me...rebuild things into what they once were. So if you need any help with broken weapons or even training supplies I can definitely come over to fix them.

[theweakhavepurpose]

whaaaat? thats awesome. i could definitely use that. some of these things are in real rough shape. its all crap i found in the colosseum.

[Action] somewhat late but!!!

[missiondeterminant]

[Connor shows up at the range not long after he sees the announcement, because he definitely has to check this out. He also wants to offer some help with the measurement thing, and just generally check in on how the one human he likes in this place is doing.]

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.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Morning!

[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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[redwinekindofgirl]

So, uh...

[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?

[theweakhavepurpose]

Vaguely. I can teach you how to not shoot yourself or snap the bowstring. But not much more than that.

Bowhunting was never really my thing, and that's compound bows anyway.

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[braveoff]

[ It took Drake a little while to catch up on everything... he was shocked to learn he was on ice for an entire month, and all that had happened in the city. Sorrow and Confusion returning, Sorrow leaving followed by Confusion's antics, the strange new creatures setting off a stampede and attempting to kill (and indeed killing, in one instance) the people they came across.... it's enough that Drake's reeling a little from disorientation, especially walking through the city seeing the ruin the stampede caused. He's also rebuilding his strength, not on patrols at the moment just in case, so he's got some time on his hands. But if he just hid in the apartment backreading the network he'd go stir crazy so as soon as he feels well enough there is one place he wanted to help out. Pratt had posted about a range?

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.

[theweakhavepurpose]

[Pratt has spent far too much time out at the range trying to chase the mammoths off and force them to stampede around the perimeter rather than straight through. He hasn't been entirely successful and half his range is in shambles.

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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[often_impaled]

[Dante is surprisingly excited. He's usually a play alone, solo battle, what's the point of training kind of dude. But this looks like fun, and he's interested in having some place to hang out that somewhat suits him.]

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.

[theweakhavepurpose]

I tried.

[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.