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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.]

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Set snares. That's what I was doing. Not that I'm going to eat any mice, but if you're starving...

Not quite there. Was debating going to look at the water anyway. See if it's worthwhile to fish.

Are you going to have to punch through the ice to do it?

I'm thinking so. Can't say that I've ever gone ice fishing though.

I have once, but the payoff wasn't worth the effort.

Though I also wasn't starving and eating canned peas for every meal, so maybe it would be a lot better now. You're going to have to cook it over an actual fire, and we're gonna run out of shit to burn pretty soon.

[She had stock piled paper, most in the form of wanted posters, and she even had cards. A lighter, matches. She had been a little paranoid.]

Depends. Has to be something on this planet, given what we'd been told about it before.

We probably should organize some sort of scouting party to go look around. There might be things we can't see beyond the horizon.

[Though the tundra is pretty flat, he feels like they should see something..]

Need a few resources first, in case.

[Not the whole kitchen fridge, but enough to keep them going a few days just in case they don't find anything.]

Of course. I'm thinking we've got a few people who can fly, so they might be the best to send out. Could probably avoid any enemies should they get attacked.

But yeah, it'd be nice if we had the resources to spare for something like that.

How far can they fly?

I have no idea. I don't know if it takes the same energy as walking. It might not and then they could potentially fly forever.

Sleep flying, huh?

[But she gets what he means.]

I don't know how it works. One woman I know has a ring that lets her fly so that sounds like it shouldn't take any energy at all right?

I've never missed my helicopter more.