Shooting Range(#23942RC) A long grassy meadow amid the trees is home to the Olympic Shooting Range. At the eastern end of the range are the shooter's stations, little grassy pits with a footpath behind them. A sign by each station bears an identifying number, and red and yellow pennons wave in the breeze between each station. These are both decorative and practical, helping the shooters gauge the wind as they flutter. Along one side of the range is a covered wooden grandstand, with red and yellow bunting decorating the roof and front wall. One end of the grandstand features a large glass to accomodate dolphins, seals, mermaids and other aquatic people. At the far end of the range are the targets, with a tall grassy berm behind them for a backstop. Some wise guy has painted body outlines on the grass with groundskeepers paint. A last-minute mowing has subdued the outlines to some extent, although they remain visible. N.B. Items and places marked with can be looked at. Morning clouds dot the cyan sky. The sun is not clearly visible. It feels like 9 am by the sky. Obvious Exits: [F]ountain Plaza (e), [U]nderwater Tunnel, and practice Contents: GreenKai, Kapu, JasonRDT, Tamara, Niny'ah, Sora, A black-furred wallaby with yellowish eyes (Morticon), a nonanthro white-and-black rabbit (BunnyHugger), A tawny-furred manticore (shapeshifter) (Featherwing), Azure, a nonanthro Eastern gray squirrel (Chitter), Samnang, and Joshua ## There are possible hidden listeners here. Niny'ah boots up the shooting range console. Morticon says, "Are you playing for SED tonight, Jason?" NBC rolls in on his mobile camera. Niny'ah queues up the challenge course and aims at a target down range. The breeze dies down for just a moment, letting the pennants hang limply. Featherwing cheers at his 82! BunnyHugger says, "It starts at 7." JasonRDT arfs, "Hmm." GreenKai says, "And goes to 11!" ( Quietly, as to not disturb. ) JasonRDT arfs, "But if I do poorly, it's shameful for you guys." JasonRDT fires at targets at the range, hitting 1 targets and getting an accurancy score of 2/100. JasonRDT powers down the shooting range console. BunnyHugger says, "Actually, if people would start whispering to me, please, to indicate that they will be competing and for what team, that would be good." Azure yips, "Surely you don't wish to leave Team Extremely Ill Advised?" JasonRDT fires to gun randomly, again. Featherwing boots up the shooting range console. JasonRDT arfs, "I know! I'll flip a coin." Featherwing queues up the challenge course and aims at a target down range. JasonRDT arfs, "Heads is Ill-Advised and Tails is SED." >> JasonRDT rolls 1d2, and gets 2 JasonRDT arfs, "SED it is!" Niny'ah fires at targets at the range, hitting 2 targets and getting an accurancy score of 10/100. Niny'ah powers down the shooting range console. JasonRDT arfs, "Besides, Uncle, I don't think you need help." Tamara watches Niny'ah practice a little, then looks to Kapuott. Azure grins NBC aims his camera and stands to attention on it silently. Sparrows busy themselves beneath the grandstand, looking for dropped popcorn. Azure yips, "I don't know, Sora is the Sniper Par Excellance." Niny'ah headshakes, *not* cut out for this type of range JasonRDT arfs, "The Arithmegun?" JasonRDT arfs, "I've many fond memories of it when I was younger." [OOC] Niny'ah says, "even when I did manage to get it right splitsecond, I had too much network latency to get it" Tamara grins, "I compete. Maybe do good." BunnyHugger says, "You are changing teams, Jason? You can do that, although if you won anything previously it will still count for your old team (I can't remember if you had)." Featherwing fires at targets at the range, hitting 10 targets and getting an accurancy score of 76/100. Featherwing made the leaderboard! Featherwing powers down the shooting range console. JasonRDT arfs, "Nah, just a Bronze." JasonRDT arfs, "er" Morticon gasps at Jason, "You were on another team?" JasonRDT arfs, "Copper." JasonRDT arfs, "I'm on every team!" JasonRDT arfs, "...Am I?" Morticon grins, "That's the spirit!" Niny'ah thinks she's going to sit this one out BunnyHugger says, "He was on Azure's team, I thought." Azure yips, "He's going to be playing for the Ringtails next." JasonRDT wags sort-of-hopefully. Azure yips, "We'll just paint a faux-'coon ring on his tail." Tamara pats Niny'ah. "I try for us, OK?" Featherwing is just outside the medals with his 82 top score. xD Azure yips, "And a little bandit mask to go with his pointy ears." JasonRDT arfs, "Oh! I can settle this the fun way." Kapu nods at Tamara. Niny'ah hugs Tamara and nods JasonRDT hops out. BunnyHugger says, "I have Sora, Azure, Tamara, JasonRDT... Featherwing, are you competing?" JasonRDT has disconnected. A pair of Centaurs discuss whether Trevor Horn can really be as good of a marksman as everyone says, what with those huge glasses and all. Guest1 steps off of the floating disk that carried him up. Guest1 has arrived. Tamara otts and hugs Niny'ah back. Guest1 salutes. Azure grins. BunnyHugger laughs! But... Azure yips, "You're going to play on the Guest Team?" Featherwing 'vees, "I'm just outside the medals with my 82!" Guest1 says, "Yup!" BunnyHugger says, "I thought I turned those off. Sorry." Morticon listens to Trevor Horn. He decides he would be a good marksman! Guest1 says, "For the sake of fun!" [OOC] Morticon says, "The only way, BunnyHugger, is to remove the _listen prop" BunnyHugger says, "I thought turning 'chance' to zero would, uh, give it a zero chance of going off. 9.9" Guest1 hugs BunnyHugger. There, there. BunnyHugger says, "I realize now I had that wrong." Azure approves of this method! Guest1 says, "Hmm." [OOC] Morticon says, "You can see in @sweep it's listening." Guest1 boots up the shooting range console. Guest1 queues up the challenge course and aims at a target down range. BunnyHugger says, "Morticon, Sally was claiming that she removed _listen on a room and it STILL fired." Suri steps off of the floating disk that carried her up. Suri has arrived. Featherwing boots up the shooting range console. BunnyHugger says, "I assume she must be mistaken but that's what she was saying the other night." Suri zoofs. "Zoof." Morticon says, "No. Impossible. @sweep will show you if it's really removed. I should know, I wrote @sweep. :)" Azure bows to Suri. Featherwing queues up the challenge course and aims at a target down range. A pair of Centaurs discuss whether Trevor Horn can really be as good of a marksman as everyone says, what with those huge glasses and all. Morticon says, "Totally unrelated to sweep, of course." BunnyHugger removes _listen then. Azure leans on his railgun, as if it were a quarterstaff. Tamara otts at Kapuott. Guest1 fires at targets at the range, hitting 9 targets and getting an accurancy score of 53/100. Guest1 powers down the shooting range console. Guest1 says, "Oh, dear..." Guest1 says, "I don't think I can help the guests at this rate." Kapu otts! at Tamara and gives her a pat. "This will be interesting to watch." Sora ruffles her wings. GreenKai wonders what the 10th shot hit. Featherwing fires at targets at the range, hitting 10 targets and getting an accurancy score of 90/100. Featherwing made the leaderboard! Featherwing made the ***HIGH SCORE***!!! Featherwing powers down the shooting range console. Guest1 says, "..." Azure yips, "Oh, my." Azure boots up the shooting range console. Guest1 says, "Well, now! We have competition." Azure powers down the shooting range console. Azure yips, "Impressive." Featherwing wows. BunnyHugger says, "I have Sora, Azure, Tamara, JasonRDT, and Guest1 on my list. Who else? Featherwing?" Suri waves a paw. Samnang has left. Featherwing 'vees, "Um, sure!" BunnyHugger scribbles it down. Suri waves the huge gun she's brought. "I want to shoot stuff!" Featherwing is sooo surprised at his 90 o.o; Guest1 says, "Hey, um, BunnyHugger?" Guest1 says, "I'm Jason." Guest1 says, "I'm just playing for a different team today, in the guise of..." Guest1 says, "Guest1!" Guest1 cues the dramatic music. Azure needs to find a nice shooting song. Guest2 steps off of the floating disk that carried Guest2 up. Guest2 has arrived. BunnyHugger says, "So JasonRDT is not competing as himself then?" Guest1 says, "That's correct." Guest1 says, "Hello, Guest2!" Guest2 grins. "hello myself." fluffy ceases to be absent. fluffy has arrived. Azure yips, "AHa! Two guests at once!" Guest2 says, "I'm Jason, too." Azure yips, "They must duel to the death!" Guest1 hugs Guest2! BunnyHugger says, "Are both Guests competing?" fluffy says, "No, I'M Jason!" Featherwing asides, "I'm surprised I shot as well as I did with little 'veepaws. Guest2 huggles. BunnyHugger says, "You don't have to tell us who you are, it spoils the magic. >;)" fluffy ahems to everyone else, and mutters something about Spartacus. Guest1 says, "Which one of us is Jason?" Guest2 is also Austin, and BunnyHugger and... ::lblfkdjbkfdlsjlkerhjl NO CARRIER Guest2 has disconnected. Guest2 is surrounded by Pac-Monsters and chomped! Guest2 has left. Guest1 says, "Oh, dear." fluffy eeps! BunnyHugger's ears fly up. Guest1 says, "So much for that." Azure is secretly the dread villain Tangerine. BunnyHugger . o O ( Do you suppose it might actually have been Trevor Horn? ) Joshua gasps! Suri waves her paw. "I'm secretly a Lemur!" Morticon is Jackie! Guest1 wishes he could spoof so he can make a Heavy Rain joke. ( Press X to JASON ) Guest1 says, "I can't even sp #recent!" Guest1 oh wells. BunnyHugger looks at her list: Sora, Azure, Tamara, Guest1, Featherwing. fluffy says, "I wanna shoot things!" BunnyHugger adds fluffy. fluffy says, "... even though I'm on the same team as Azure." Suri waves her paw (and gun) again. Suri says, "I wanna shoot stuff!" Sora shoots things for a living. And tonight, she will shoot her way to gold! BunnyHugger says, "Not a problem." fluffy says, "Yay!" Azure yips, "You can be on the same team as me and still shoot things!" fluffy says, "Hooray!" BunnyHugger adds Suri. Suri whirrs. BunnyHugger says, "What team are you on if any, Suri?" fluffy looks over at the rifles, and at its mitts. Austin steps off of the floating disk that carried him up. Austin has arrived. Suri says, "Team Ringtail." Austin says, "Chulo, all." fluffy says, "How does one work one of those things?" Guest1 says, "practice" Austin says, "Greetings, gang." Guest1 says, "No, really, just 'practice'" BunnyHugger says, "Austin, you have a non-procyonid on your team! Explain yourself!" Azure offers to let fluffy borrow his railgun. it looks like ana luminum drinking straw. Austin says, "I have?" fluffy oohs. fluffy says, "Shiny." Niny'ah examines one of the rifles, and pulls a screwdriver out of her bag, removing the triggerguard and handing it to fluffy. BunnyHugger says, "Suri just declared membership. n.n" fluffy says, "Thank you, Niny'ah!" Suri demonstrates, waving heer gun cowboy-style as she fires several shots widly into the air. "Like that!" Austin blinks. Azure yips, "You just have to fill it up with rich, chunky volts and it fires." fluffy boots up the shooting range console. Featherwing giggles and peers at Sora. "Not if my 90 has anything to say..." ;) Sora's ears flatten. She reaches for her sidearm instinctivly. fluffy queues up the challenge course and aims at a target down range. Austin says, "I ... uhm ... hm. Well, that is a ringed tail, certainly, except when it's gone spirally." Guest1 puts on headphones. Sora stares at Featherwing. It's not a joke to her! Featherwing wishes Sora the best of luck, though not out loud. Azure yips, "So, it's now 22:00 Eastern/19:00 Pacific." Morticon says, "Careful, Featherwing. SHe's really serious today." Guest1 sings, o/~ Enter key to accelerate / Ignition turned on! o/~ Azure yips, "Shall we all get down to destroying eachother utterly?" Austin says, "I suppose we could transmogrify her some. Or at least stretch her nose out. Hm." fluffy fires at targets at the range, hitting 6 targets and getting an accurancy score of 35/100. fluffy powers down the shooting range console. BunnyHugger shouts "Olympic Shooting is beginning right now in the "park". Spectators are welcome but must be silent during rounds." (Public-shout) Tamara checks her rifle, looking to Kapuott. fluffy sucks at this ;_; Beltrami steps off of the floating disk that carried her up. Beltrami has arrived. Beltrami waves hello! Austin says, "Hi, Emeritus." fluffy polishes Beltrami! Beltrami smiles and waves to Austin and hugs fluffy! Suri waves. Featherwing clawwaves then checks ammo. Beltrami waves to Suri and Featherwing! BunnyHugger says, "OK, last chance to get on the list. Please whisper, it's harder for me to miss." Azure yips, "So, do we use 'practice' for the real rounds?" Azure yips, "or some other command?" Kapu grins and nods to Tamara! "Good luck." BunnyHugger says, "I have Sora, Azure, Tamara, Guest1, Featherwing, fluffy, Suri." Tamara smiles! Suri prunkles. Featherwing peers at Bel. "Thanks for showing your support for my team, sis!" ;) Guest1 puts on music for himself. Beltrami grins to Featherwing. Guest1 says, "Oh, I have a medal." BunnyHugger says, "You use practice, it's the only command, but I think I should have Joshua wipe the leaderboard." Azure is listening to music from The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. Beltrami nods? BunnyHugger says, "Roster is Sora, Azure, Tamara, Guest1, Featherwing, fluffy, Suri, Austin, Beltrami... stand by, I'm going to give rules." Guest1 says, "Why EoSD, Azure?" Beltrami boots up the shooting range console. Aina' steps off of the floating disk that carried her up. Aina' has arrived. Aina' comes just to watch. Azure yips, "It'" Azure yips, "It's a good song for shooting things." Guest1 says, "I suppose!" Niny'ah looks for Aina'72 Aina' 72 sits down next to Sora. Guest1 says, "I'll listen to Touhou music too." Azure yips, "There was a cute little re-spriting someone did where you were fighting Ronald McDonald as the enemy." Azure yips, "His ultimate attack was Colonel Sanders." Suri nods solemnly. "Ronald McDonald is a formidable enemy." Aina' waves to Niny'ah. BunnyHugger says, "OK everyone, here are the rules, please listen, this should actually be pretty simple though we have a LOT of entries." [OOC] fluffy eats quiche. Which came out quite well. including the very-easy-to-make-quickly crust. Ping steps off of the floating disk that carried her up. Ping has arrived. Ping bounces in. Suri greets. Ping waves. RULES: 1. Everyone is going to do the "Challenge Course," meaning you will shoot 10 times in rapid succession. ('practice' and then select challenge course.) Whatever score you get there stands. In the case of ties, we will award multiple of the same medal (but skip those below it, e.g. two golds and a bronze for a first place tie). 2. The RP part is just for color; we will be using the scores alone to award medals. [I am aware that this makes it more a player vs. player than a character vs. character event, but I thought it would be nice to have a few events of this kind as well as the many RP-focused events we've had.] 3. Spectators, please try to stay quiet during each round, to avoid breaking the shooters' concentration. 4. I hope this goes without saying, but just in case: no shooting one's opponents or talkative spectators. Guest1 says, "Talkative spectators..." BunnyHugger says, "I meant to say, if you want to pose an RP performance after your trial that would be entertaining for spectators." GreenKai says, "If you shoot it, you have to eat it!" Sora's gaze alone should shut them up. If looks could kill as well as her rifle. Guest1 crosses his arms and freezes a little. "Oh." BunnyHugger says, "But isn't required." Niny'ah >.> 6.o at GreenKai BunnyHugger says, "I'm going to determine order, please hold on while I do that using a randomizer." Suri brandishes her gun, looking vaguely maniacal. Guest1 is gonna listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy_-7OXophY Joshua thinks the guest is secretly Jason now. Azure yips, "No, I'm the guest. Jason's logged in as me." Azure yips, "Obviously." Suri zoofles to herself... Joshua ahhhs. Of course :) Guest1 nods, "Obviously." Azure yips, "But we're both ghosts of Christmas. I'm the Ghost of Christmas Probable and Jason's the Ghost of Christmas Ideal." Ping hides behind bulletproof, transparent material of some sort. BunnyHugger says, "The order will be: Guest1, Sora, Austin, Tamara, Beltrami, Suri, fluffy, Azure, Featherwing." Guest1 gulps. Featherwing noses a zoofler. :3 "So it's one at a time, yes?" Suri ooos at Azure! "You're the one who showed me that my bulb was going to burn out!" Azure cheers for Guest! Tamara otts! Guest1 says, "Okay... Let's do this." Suri whirrs! Azure yips, "Destroy the targets! Send their families into mourning!" Guest1 tosses his wings out to the side, water splashing everywhere! BunnyHugger says, "Spectators, please stay silent as Guest1 shoots. Guest1, when you're ready." Guest1 shoulders the rifle... Guest1 boots up the shooting range console. Guest1 queues up the challenge course and aims at a target down range. Beltrami queues up the challenge course and aims at a target down range. Nimble hugs Beltrami, from afar! Nimble steps off of the floating disk that carried hir up. Nimble has arrived. [OOC] Nimble waves Guest1 fires at targets at the range, hitting 9 targets and getting an accurancy score of 59/100. Guest1 powers down the shooting range console. [OOC] Guest1 says, "Test." Azure applauds for Guest1. Guest1 bows. Beltrami fires at targets at the range, hitting 9 targets and getting an accurancy score of 55/100. Beltrami powers down the shooting range console. [OOC] fluffy is stuck on the phone right now BunnyHugger says, "Please again, spectators, try to make little noise if possible." BunnyHugger says, "Er, and Beltrami, you're not going until fifth, please." BunnyHugger applauds Guest1. Beltrami nods shyly. Suri applauds. Guest1 folds his wings and perches on a bleacher. Sora waits until she's told to go. Is Guest1 completely done? Guest1 says, "That I am." [OOC] BunnyHugger says, "'Practice' actually runs the program, so don't deploy that until you're in combat. >;)" Beltrami nods...she points to herself and hangs her head. Azure cheers for Sora, "Teach every target the true meanings of futility and oblivion!" Sora steps up. She puts her rifle on the tripod, leaning it on the stand. Wings partly spreading to block out distractions, she peers into the scope and shoots.... Sora boots up the shooting range console. Sora queues up the challenge course and aims at a target down range. Sora fires at targets at the range, hitting 10 targets and getting an accurancy score of 77/100. Sora made the leaderboard! Sora powers down the shooting range console. Joshua applauds the vixen! BunnyHugger applauds. Azure claps for Sora! Guest1 watches Sora take down the targets with nearly peerless accuracy. Sora fires ten shots in a row, pausing a few seconds between each. She stares at the target once done, looking a little disappointed in herself. She sits down quietly. Guest1 says, "I have to stop relying on those homing things on my runicgun... uh. Forget I said anything." BunnyHugger says, "That's 59 for Guest1 and 77 for Sora!" Aina' pats Sora's back and says something quietly to her. BunnyHugger says, "Next will be Austin and after Austin is Tamara." Austin says, "I'm up now?" Azure cheers for Austin, "May your prey be blown to smithereens!" Guest1 cheers! Suri applauds. BunnyHugger says, "Yep Austin, you are." Austin boots up the shooting range console. BunnyHugger looks at him fondly. Austin queues up the challenge course and aims at a target down range. Austin fires at targets at the range, hitting 10 targets and getting an accurancy score of 47/100. Austin powers down the shooting range console. Suri yays! Azure claps for Austin, too. BunnyHugger applauds. [OOC] fluffy has returned, so rejoicing is in order. Or more pragmatically, it can participate now. Austin hrms. Suri rejoices! Guest1 chirps! Featherwing politely applauds, then stretches... Austin says, "Thanks, all." Azure rejoices at fluffy. BunnyHugger says, "That's 47 for Austin and Team Ringtail!" Tamara otts! Suri prunkles. Roofus_roo steps off of the floating disk that carried her up. Roofus_roo has arrived. BunnyHugger says, "If they're going to medal, I'm afraid Suri may have to pick up the slack." Suri says, "Zoofus..." Azure cheers for Tamara, "May the blood of clay pigeons wet the earth." Tamara grins! Tamara boots up the shooting range console. Beltrami smiles to Roofus! Tamara queues up the challenge course and aims at a target down range. Tamara fires at targets at the range, hitting 8 targets and getting an accurancy score of 59/100. Tamara powers down the shooting range console. Azure claps! BunnyHugger applauds. Suri applauds! Guest1 says, "Ooh..." Guest1 hugs Tamara! Tamara fires off the shots in rapid succession with her rifle. She grins, satisfied. BunnyHugger says, "That's 59 for Tamara representing Team Land Swimmers." BunnyHugger says, "All right, let's see here." Austin sniffs. BunnyHugger says, "NExt will be Beltrami followed by Suri. Wow, things are moving pretty quickly actually." Suri zoofles. Beltrami nodnods. Azure cheers for Beltrami, "May you be to the targets as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane is to the malariogenic anopheles!" BunnyHugger says, "I'm sorry Fake Trevor Horn hasn't come to participate." Beltrami blinks? Beltrami stands up properly. Beltrami boots up the shooting range console. Beltrami queues up the challenge course and aims at a target down range. Beltrami fires at targets at the range, hitting 5 targets and getting an accurancy score of 19/100. Beltrami powers down the shooting range console. Beltrami hangs her head again. Azure claps Suri applauds! BunnyHugger applauds. Beltrami touches her chin. Tamara claps! NBC chimes. Nimble awws and hugs hir sister. Featherwing awws and snuggles his sister as she steps down. "S'all good. Sometimes these things happen." BunnyHugger says, "That's 19 for Team Otherwise Other." BunnyHugger says, "Next up is Suri followed by fluffy. Uh, don't blow anything up, please." Azure cheers, "May you be the Lemur of Unerring Destruction!" Suri zoofles. fluffy yay lemur! Suri trundles over to the shooting station. She points her oversized revolver (a 12 shooter) in the general direction of the target, holding it at arm's length, turns her head, shuts her eyes tightly, flattens her ears, and begins to shoot! Suri boots up the shooting range console. Suri queues up the challenge course and aims at a target down range. Room: Shooting Range -Stat-Name----------------Sex---------Species--------------------------------- ... Roofus_roo[4m idle] female Spacey Fairy Princess Kangaroo SQRL Nimble[2m idle] -unknown- Balloon Squirrel Ping female mouse IC >Aina' Female Tiger |Morticon IC Beltrami[2m idle] female Balloon Dragon Ph.D.Austin[5m idle] male Elastic Coati std::fluffy critter (plaid) Suri female Lemur Guest1[2m idle] male Water Gull NBC male peacock NORN GreenKai[20m idle] female Kai norn Kapu[5m idle] Male Otter IC JasonRDT[asleep] male Hybrid: Wolf-Dragon-Kitsune IC Tamara Female Spotted Otter watr Niny'ah female Seirmerine IC Sora[11m idle] Female Black Fox IC Morticon Male Wallaby BunnyHugger female Chroma-keyed in bunny drg Featherwing[2m idle]male silver dragon with black feathered wings e^- Azure Male Chromalopex Eruditovenator Caeruleus IC >Chitter Male Squirrel |BunnyHugger RUFF Joshua Male Augmented Canid ---[ Found 22 characters. ( 19 Awake / 1 Asleep / 2 Zombies ) ]--------------- Suri fires at targets at the range, hitting 6 targets and getting an accurancy score of 45/100. Suri powers down the shooting range console. BunnyHugger applauds. Suri prunkles cheerfully. "I shot stuff!" Azure claps! fluffy says, "Yay!" BunnyHugger looks relieved. Featherwing applauds. Then snugs! fluffy wiggles its mitts again, and looks over at the rifles. Azure cheers fluffy, "To victory, Plaid Destroyer!" Suri blows the smoke from the barrel of her revovler. BunnyHugger says, "That's 45 for Team Ringtail." Guest1 cheers! Suri trundles back to her seat. fluffy says, "So uh I do 'practice' and then the challenge course?" Azure yips, "You do, Plaid Destroyer." Guest1 says, "Yup!" fluffy says, "Okay." fluffy takes deep breaths. fluffy picks up a rifle, not realizing it's not one with the trigger guard removed. It takes a few test shots... from which nothing comes out. fluffy grumbles. BunnyHugger notes, "After fluffy will be Azure." fluffy picks up the modified rifle instead. "Dang these mitts." fluffy boots up the shooting range console. fluffy queues up the challenge course and aims at a target down range. fluffy fires at targets at the range, hitting 10 targets and getting an accurancy score of 82/100. fluffy made the leaderboard! fluffy powers down the shooting range console. Guest1 says, "!!" Beltrami blinkes! BunnyHugger applauds. Azure cheers! Sora stares. Her eyes narrow. fluffy exhales. Suri yays! Guest1 says, "Very nice!" Azure grins at fluffy. Featherwing oohs, then cheers as well! Azure yips, "Congratulations!" Niny'ah applauds fluffy! Austin wows. fluffy says, "Huh." fluffy says, "All that raygun practice growing up must have paid off." Morticon looks at Sora. Tilting his head. "Sora?" BunnyHugger says, "Wow!!" NBC chimes. Sora is just staring at fluffy! fluffy shivers a little bit, and puts the rifle down, trundling back over to the crowd. Niny'ah tugs fluffy onto her lap. BunnyHugger says, "That's an amazing 82 for fluffy and the score to beat for our last contestant, Featherwing!" fluffy oofs! Azure clears his throat. BunnyHugger says, "Wait!" Azure yips, "Professor..." Featherwing offers a snug to fluffy, "Great shooting!" He then points to Azure. BunnyHugger says, "Er, but first fluffy's teammate Azure will shoot. 9.9" BunnyHugger looks embarrassed at her error. fluffy says, "More like captain..." Austin wows. BunnyHugger says, "Both!" Guest1 grins. Austin hehs. Azure pads over to the shooting course and bows to it deeply. Azure then braces one end of his railgun on the ground and pivots it against his side. Azure boots up the shooting range console. Azure queues up the challenge course and aims at a target down range. Azure fires at targets at the range, hitting 10 targets and getting an accurancy score of 80/100. Azure made the leaderboard! Azure powers down the shooting range console. fluffy mrfls. "I wonder if Sam programmed me for something else..." BunnyHugger applauds. fluffy gasps at Azure! "Oh my!" Sora's paws squeeze her rifle. But she stays calm. Suri yays! Austin hms. BunnyHugger says, "An amazing performance!" fluffy says, "Mad science wins again, I guess." Austin says, "I'm feeling somehow surrounded." Azure 'aims' from his knees and back, sort of swaying to shoot. Aina' carefully takes that rifle away from Sora. Guest1 hugs Azure! BunnyHugger says, "I hope this doesn't turn into a mad science augmentation scandal..." Chitter says, "Don't say that out loud, Hugger." Guest1 goes 'oooooooh.' BunnyHugger says, "As things stand, we have fluffy in the gold position, Azure in the silver, and Sora in the bronze. So those are the folks to beat for our last contestant for real this time... Featherwing." fluffy shrinks away from Sora's gaze. Azure cheers for Featherwing! Featherwing takes a deep breath, steps up to the console then thinks, 'Will I do as well as my last practice?' He then spreads his wings and presses the button to begin. BunnyHugger looks nervously at Sora. Suri zoofles. Azure yips, "Destroy the targets with vengeance!" Sora is now staring at Azure. But her gaze breaks to watch the targets. Featherwing boots up the shooting range console. Featherwing queues up the challenge course and aims at a target down range. Featherwing fires at targets at the range, hitting 10 targets and getting an accurancy score of 87/100. Featherwing made the leaderboard! Featherwing powers down the shooting range console. BunnyHugger says, "Oh wow." Suri yays! Featherwing phews and steps down. Austin wows. Beltrami blinks! NBC squawks and looks at Sora, jerking his head... GreenKai yays! Rubbing her amulet for good luck worked. Guest1 whoas. Sora's actually looking angry. A first for her. fluffy gasps! Niny'ah jawdrops fluffy says, "Dang, Featherwing!" BunnyHugger looks nervous. fluffy says, "Remind me never to get in an argument with you." BunnyHugger says, "That's 87 for the Dragon Team." [OOC] GreenKai blinks, "'accurancy'?" Azure cheers for Featherwing! [OOC] fluffy says, "Ironic, isn't it?" [OOC] Guest1 says, "Do not look directly at the bugs." [OOC] Guest1 says, "Or typoes in this case." Austin heehees. Suri says, "It's the quality of being accurant." fluffy eyes a vial of lorazepam, ponders slipping Sora a mickey. BunnyHugger says, "Wow! The action was fast and furious tonight..." She seems to be talking toward NBC's camera. "And with unexpected turns." Featherwing chuckles, then says, "I'd like to dedicate this to Sora of TeamSED, who pushed me to be this good." Sora stands up. Aina firmly has her rifle, luckily. Chitter says, "Nice try." Suri prunkles. BunnyHugger fumbles with medals. BunnyHugger clears her throat nervously and says, "The final rankings are..." Sora walks up to BunnyHugger, calmly, deliberatly. Niny'ah asides quietly to Tamara, "Right now, I'm glad I didn't try..." Niny'ah uhohs Tamara ottnods. Sora says, "The scoring system is flawed. I hit all my targets." Kapu otts and found it all impressive to watch. BunnyHugger says, "1. Featherwing, 2. fluffy, 3. Azure, 4. Sora, 5. (Tie) Tamara/Guest1, 7. Austin, 8. Suri, 9. Beltrami." Guest1 says, "E-excuse me!" Guest1 has disconnected. Guest1 is surrounded by Pac-Monsters and chomped! Guest1 has left. JasonRDT has connected. JasonRDT shakes out. BunnyHugger aws, "Guest1 didn't stay for his... medal... eh?" fluffy says, "Not sure he'd have been able to hold onto it anyway." JasonRDT arfs, "Oh! Pardon me." JasonRDT arfs, "Yeah, the body I have has a medal attached to it." JasonRDT arfs, "Or 'had', rather. Hold on, let me summon it." Sora stands right in front of BunnyHugger, looking a little... intense. JasonRDT is looking nervous, though, because of the enroaching situation. He's got a little more clout as himself than as a guest. BunnyHugger says, "I... I thought you didn't hit all bullseyes, that's what it appeared, Sora. That's what others saw, right?" Morticon nor Aina even approach their comrade. They look a little... scared? fluffy says, "How does the scoring system work anyway? Is it just based on how far away from the mark the guess is, or does it also account for time?" Niny'ah moves fluffy off her lap, and slips over near to Sora, sitting but legs tense. fluffy meep. Austin says, "Yeah, I was wondering." Azure yips, "I think you start out with 100, and you lose five for every non-bullseye hit and 10 for every near-miss." Suri zoofles. Sora stares at BunnyHugger. "My target paper clearly shows I hit all the bullseye." BunnyHugger doesn't actually know, but thinks it's only 'how far.' Azure yips, "And more for every total miss." Featherwing thinks all inquiries and questions should be directed to the program's creator. Niny'ah is holding what looks like a cargo sling in her hands, with wide nylon webstraps. JasonRDT gives a sort of warning growl to Sora. A quiet one, but... Tamara sidles next to Niny'ah. She looks to her friend? BunnyHugger says, "I... uh, I'm just going with what the computer scorer says, I think it's always correct." Guest1 steps off of the floating disk that carried him up. Guest1 has arrived. BunnyHugger rubs her nose nervously. Joshua looks up, "The scoring system does not make that sort of error." Suri bounces cheerfully. "I shot stuff!" fluffy yays! fluffy says, "Me too!" fluffy now appears to be a critter (floral-print). Sora's tailfeathers ruffle. "It is NOT correct." She says very firmly. Guest1 says, "So did I!" Beltrami smiles. Azure yips, "Why not retrieve your target paper and present it, if you believe this to be the case?" BunnyHugger tries, "It's just for fun anyway, right? It's just for friendship and sportsmanship, like I said during the opening ceremony." Nimble has disconnected. Niny'ah quietly asides to Tamara, "If she gets rowdy here... I might be able to wrestle her down till she can calm down. I'm not absolutely sure though.." fluffy mutters, "but ... .. ... we're ... about" to BunnyHugger. BunnyHugger says, "No one thinks you can't shoot. I mean, maybe the wind blew more during your round than during others' -- it's not a perfect measure." Joshua shakes his head, "It is correct. Everyone has off days." He nods to Azure, "That might work. They're stored in the machine, I think. Sora's wings ruffle. "No. This is serious. If I can't hit my shots, I'm not a sniper." Joshua looks at Sora, "No one always hits their shots." fluffy says, "You're a sniper?" Azure yips, "Look at it this way." Azure yips, "You have the potential to be a better sniper." fluffy says, "Remind me to always look out for clock towers." Sora goes to grab her target sheet, and presents it. It 9 shots hit the bullseye, and 1 just outside of it. BunnyHugger says, "Maybe the crowd was noisier during your rounds, or the sun was brighter... there can be all kinds of things... it was very close." fluffy says, "Sun?" Featherwing excuses himself and will be outside for receipt of his medal. Featherwing has left. BunnyHugger looks at it with confusion. Azure yips, "Think what a horrible thing it would be, Ms. Sora, if you were already the best with nowhere to go, no chance of improvement?" Morticon watches Sora curiously. "This is unexpected." Joshua scratches his head, looking at the paper in bewilderment. Tamara nods to Niny'ah. "Let me know if need help." BunnyHugger says, "I didn't think that's what I saw..." Kapu watches quietly! Suri waves her paw. "What if you used a cannon? Or a bomb?" Dragoncat has arrived. Dragoncat waves around! BunnyHugger twitches her whiskers. Sora says, "You will change the rankings." fluffy says, "Or linear-accelerated antimatter?" Dragoncat pants. Niny'ah sets the cargo sling on the bench, and steps up behind Sora, putting a hand heavily on her shoulder and applying a discrete but firm pressure with her fingers. JasonRDT arfs, "Hi, Dragoncat!" Dragoncat says, "Am I late?" fluffy says, "We all will be, apparently." JasonRDT arfs, "For the medal ceremony, no!" Suri says, "or fire!" Azure bows to Dragoncat, "Hello, Alkaryiske." BunnyHugger says, "I can't and won't -- once I've announced them they're official; it wouldn't be fair to the other competitors otherwise." JasonRDT arfs, "Featherwing got 1st." BunnyHugger tries to stand up tall under the withering gaze. Azure . o O ( Why is Morticon the only person who can't make well-adjusted, happyc lones? ) Dragoncat says, "I missed things again, huh?" BunnyHugger picks up the medals defiantly. JasonRDT . o O ( How's Wesson doing? ) Beltrami nods to Dragoncat. Suri says, "I shot stuff!" fluffy says, "Yay!" Guest1 says, "Yay!" JasonRDT arfs, "Yay!" Suri prunkles. Dragoncat chuckles. Azure . o O ( Fine! Since I've been keeping him out of Spengolight. ) Azure . o O ( And Ali doesn't insult him. ) Sora doesn't look to see who has touched her, but she knows the tension. One paw pulls out her sidearm (but not the one she shot with), aiming it at BunnyHugger! "You will change the rankings to be accurate." BunnyHugger hands Silver Medal for Shooting to fluffy. BunnyHugger hands Bronze Medal for Shooting to Azure. fluffy yays, snuggles the medal, and then drapes it around its neck. Morticon stares, "Sora.... this is not very sportsmanlike." Azure bows to BUnnyHugger, "Thank you, Professor." Joshua's eyes widen, "Sora! Goodness gracious, it's a game!" JasonRDT paws at fluffy's medal. BunnyHugger says, "I believe they are accurate to the best of my understanding which is the best I can do." Morticon whispers something to Aina, who nods. She sidles up to the other side of Sora. fluffy pulls it away from JasonRDT. "No, mine!" fluffy says, "My shiny." JasonRDT arfs, "D:" BunnyHugger hands Copper Medal for Shooting to Tamara. Tamara otts! She puts it around her neck. Guest1 takes a bite of A&W rootbeer barrel, finishing it. PatchO'Black has arrived. Patchy pants from running. Dragoncat leaps and pounces Sora! Beltrami waves to PatchO'Black! PatchO'Black mews, "Hello." Azure ties the medal around himself, wearing it like a big, bronze breastplate. fluffy patpats Azure's head. Sora is pounced! She fires a shot before going down, luckily only as accurate as in the competition. The bullet misses BunnyHugger by a foot. Guest1 says, "Oh, this isn't the right one." BunnyHugger hands Copper Medal for Shooting to Austin. Guest1 says, "The right /body/, I mean." fluffy eep. Niny'ah bears down with her hand, tail whipping up to coil around Sora's wrist with the intent to pull it down to aim at the floor. "Put the weapon away, please." Her tone is hovering between friendly and commanding, and the set of her shoulders indicates she's ready to try and put the winged foxen on the floor if she tries anything unwise. Austin says, "Thank you, dear." fluffy says, "I... don't think that's reasonable olympic behavior, Sora." BunnyHugger leaps into the air, high. Dragoncat begins slithering and wrapping himself around Sora's arm, trying to make it difficult to carry the gun. Beltrami blinks! [OOC] Niny'ah woops. too slow typing Joshua jumps at the sound of the blast, blinking a few times. He watches the tigress wrestle down the vixen and frowns. BunnyHugger is startlingly nimble and athletic in the rare occasions she has to be, despite her appearance. Sora's gun is dropped! She tries to get Dragoncat off her! Austin says, "Hey!" JasonRDT slowly pulls his hand away from his pocket. Looks like the situation's under control... Joshua pads over to retrieve the weapon, if he can! Morticon says, "Sora! Go to your quarters. NOW!!!!!" You say, "AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaah!" NBC honks. fluffy eeps, getting all wrky and defensive. fluffy now appears to be a critter (black). JasonRDT uh, chimes? Sora stops struggling. For a moment, it looks like she wants to shoot her commander! But finally, she stands up. And without a word flies off! Dragoncat is a slippery snake, and slithers his way around Sora's chest and onto the back of her eyes, reaching out to cover them. Sora has left. Featherwing has arrived. NBC chimes G, E, Bb. Featherwing peers back in. Garrison has arrived. JasonRDT lets out a deeeep sigh. Dragoncat drops off the fox. JasonRDT catches Dragoncat! Kapu otts, "Oh my." BunnyHugger stands tensely, muscles showing a little under her roly poly layer. Azure peers at Morticon. Morticon walks over to BunnyHugger. "I'm sorry about that. I ... didn't know she was capable of such emotion." Niny'ah slumps down on the bench, rubbing at her temples. "Ugh..." BunnyHugger relaxes a little... Joshua drops the magazine and racks the slide, handing the weapon to the present Aina. Tamara pats Niny'ah. "You OK? Was close." She would have helped, but there were more than enough surrounding Sora by that point. Dragoncat pants some more in Jason's arms. "That...is the value of training!" Aina' calmly takes the weapon, thanking Joshua. BunnyHugger says, "Morticon, please don't punish her harshly. She failed at what she's built to do, of course that is a big crisis for her. I don't hold it against her." BunnyHugger puts her paw to her mouth. BunnyHugger says, "I mean, she didn't fail, but she disappointed herself." Featherwing sits, arms crossed, in the rear of the arena near the exit. Kapu looks for where the round ended up. BunnyHugger continues with giving out medals... BunnyHugger hands Gold Medal for Shooting to Featherwing. Joshua ruffs, "There was once someone who taught her what it meant to have fun." Azure yips, "Though the real question is, does Mr. Featherwing has Secret Sniper Training?" Guest1 says, "Yeah? How's your EV going?" Dragoncat nods. "That's the thing with emotions. They produce the strongest actions, but they fade away just as quickly." Joshua's ears lower, "Though I don't know what has happened to her." BunnyHugger says, "Austin..." Guest1 says, "EV training*." BunnyHugger sounds a little shaky. "Give Guest1 his medal please." Featherwing shrugs, "Not sure... I'm currently not in 'vee form..." Azure yips, "EV?" BunnyHugger hands Copper Medal for Shooting to Suri. Niny'ah sucks air slowly in through her nose, and lets it out through her teeth. "Very... close... BunnyHugger hands Copper Medal for Shooting to Beltrami. Suri prunkles. Austin says, "Oh, yes, love." Suri prunkles cretumbrously, well-pleased with her medal. "I won a medal!" fluffy breathes deep, closing its eyes, and tries to relax. Austin hands Copper Medal for Shooting to Guest1. Austin says, "Should stick to you, now." [OOC] BunnyHugger says, "Please @chown and @link medals to yourself then @set medal=!C." Morticon walks over to Niny'ah. "I uh... apologize for the behavior of my subordinate." [OOC] BunnyHugger says, "Except Guest1, I had Austin do that for you." BunnyHugger hands Copper Medal for Shooting to Austin. Guest1 says, "Thank you!" BunnyHugger kisses Austin anxiously. Joshua looks to Morticon, "Sir, if I may?" Tamara stares at Morticon. "My friend was in danger!" fluffy now appears to be a critter (plaid). Niny'ah wraps one arm around fluffy, the other around Tamara, "She's too uptight... I realise she's linked close with her job but taking it quite that harshly... that was ... unhealthy" Dragoncat chuckles and pounces the Guest! Playfully this time. Morticon looks to Joshua? fluffy nuzzles at Niny'ah. Tamara otts and leans. Dragoncat says, "So, is everyone alright? No one got hurt, right?" Guest1 toppppples! fluffy says, "Maybe she should play more Team Fortress. 'Swhat worked for me." JasonRDT arfs, "No, we're all fine." Morticon says, "Yeah, but she's not like that usually. Something's up." Beltrami pats herself and gives thumbs up. Dragoncat fuzzles the dinoguest! BunnyHugger says, "Everyone is OK, I think." Guest1 roars! NBC chimes G, E, C. Dragoncat smiles to BunnyHugger! Featherwing snuzzles Morti. "I hope she heard me when I said I had dedicated my win to her." JasonRDT frowns. "She might've taken the wrong way." Joshua explains, "Back on Centripedus, during training, occasionally one of the soliders would get particularly heated and absorbed in his work. When this happened, he was often suspended and then given an artistic task. Initially, they would hate it. But when they saw that they had to complete the task with good effort to get back on duty, they'd set straight to work..." Morticon pats Featherwing, "I think she'll recall it later. Somehow I doubt she went home like ordered." Morticon mmms at Joshua. "You think that will help?" Niny'ah eartilts at Morticon, "Also, I question the wisdom of an offduty sidearm." Joshua continues, "Eventually, they'd come to the point where the task itself seemed to matter, and by the time they were done, they were more rounded, and often had a new skill they liked to do as a hobby. It kept them from getting as obsessed." Guest1 has off-duty sidearms because he's usually on-duty. Morticon cringes. "I didn't specify one. I was a little surprised she came in her on duty uniform." Guest1 coughs. JasonRDT has off-duty sidearms because HE'S usually on duty. fluffy presses X to JASON. Joshua ruffs, "We were devoted, of course. But when one's performance starts to become more important to them than the well being of the group as a whole, things got a bit dangerous." Suri goes. "'night, all!" ( JASON! ) Morticon mmms. "Perhaps I know just the thing, Joshua." Joshua earperks. Suri goes home. Suri has left. Tamara otts and looks over at fluffy curiously. BunnyHugger says, "Um, I didn't get a chance to, uh, give her her copper..." Niny'ah also listens to Joshua interestedly, and pulls out a copper link chain, each link looking like a section of seaweed. "Give her this, Morticon, and have her replicate it using copper sheet and only hand tools." Morticon shakes his head, "She should be disqualified. That was awful behavior, even from the SED." fluffy looks back at Tamara. "What?" Joshua pauses at that statement. Niny'ah . o O ( ott (v.) = otter-bark ) GreenKai notes, "If you don't think the result is valid, you shouldn't accept the medal." Morticon tilts his head, looking at Niny'ah. "OK. I have the tools and materials in the lab." He takes it, putting it in his pouch. Joshua also looks to Niny'ah. That does sound interesting. Morticon says, "In fact, if Sora wants it, she needs to apologize to you, BunnyHugger, in order to get it." BunnyHugger hrms, "Someone seems to have dropped their medal." Tamara looks at fluffy. "What you are?" Kapu listens, standing off to the side a bit. BunnyHugger wanders over to retrieve it. fluffy says, "I'm a me. What are you?" Austin says, "Suri's!" Tamara says, "Me ott!" fluffy says, "Yay!" Azure yips, "fluffy is, as Thomas would say, a Human, Deviant because of Everything,." fluffy nods to Azure. "Pretty much." Tamara grins. Doesn't know what to think of fluffy. Azure yips, "it's also a cuttlefish platypus Jobstumor thing." fluffy says, "Canonically I'm basically genetically-human with a couple of genes spliced in, and a whole lot of in-vitro modifications." fluffy says, "I have no platypus." fluffy says, "I just appear as one sometimes." Beltrami nodnods to fluffy? Niny'ah's known fluffy for a while now, and doesn't have an answer to that question, beyond "Friend" Azure yips, "You should meet Dr. Pascal sometime." Tamara grins. "Tamara." She extends her paw to fluffy. NBC checks some things on his camera and begins shutting down his feed.