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 Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:15 pm
Aim, it would be an interesting class to set up that was for sure. Mostly cause he couldn't help but try it out himself a couple of times. He reached down to pick up a slingshot that he'd gotten specifically for this class and one of the ball bearings that was the ammo. He lifted his up, took aim... and fired. There was a 'PSH' sound as ball bearing met bottle, shattering it, "Alright. Now we just wait for our student to come and try this out." He said allowed to himself.
Ter and Geia were both out today, neither having a reason to help out in this class. Maybe a good thing that he really didn't want Ter getting the hang of the use of a sling shot if he could avoid it...
He set the slingshot back down on the table with the ammo and moved back to set up more bottles.
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 3:04 am
Still sore from his shots, Cody clopped his way down the hallway. First shots... now he had to do something else. Another appointment, Winter promised him that this one would be 'right up his ally', and if a needle came within sight he'd get five dollars. Not bad, enough to get something decent from the toystore.
His ears snapped up as the sound of something shattering echoed. Cody glanced down to the wrinkled up paper in his hands, it was a door number along with the rest of the note sent to his place. "Hmph..."
The echo came from the same door he was going to. He smirked a bit and rapped his knuckles on the door, "'ey! This th' place?"
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:51 am
Orpheus looked over towards the door hearing a knock and a voice, oops. Thought he had opened that up he thought as he walked over to the door to open it up revealing a classroom that didn't look so much like a room as it looked like the outdoors instead, "Welcome Cody." He said, stepping back so the bullchild could come in.
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:55 am
Cody tipped his hat as the door opened, "Howdy. I'm a'pposed tah come 'ere for some kinda lesson 'bout bein' more badass?" He looked up shortly, both eyes wideneing at the color of the man's hair... red... not pure red- more of an orange red but it did earn a nervious twitch out of the boy's eyes. "Urngm.....y...yeah..." He stepped into the room, firmly averting his eyes.
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:44 pm
Orpheus' eyes widened before he gave a laugh, "To be more badass, huh?" He asked, leading the way over to where he had things set up, "Thats an interesting way to put it but yes, I can see this as a good skill for becoming just that."
When he reached the table he turned to Cody, smiling, "Today we are working on your aim with the help of this." He picked up the slingshot, holding it out to Cody, "Do you know the workings of one of these?" It was rather simple mechanics but he figured that he would ask none the less.
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:28 pm
"Mmm hmmm..." Cody was still keeping his eyes firmly to his feet. He looked up again to the slingshot as it was presented at him...what kind of a weak a** training thing was that? He knew full well what a slingshot was. A rubber band and sticks, that's what it was. Threw rocks or bits of metal. "Yeah, I know how tah use it. Ya put a rawk in th' little pouch thin' an' then pull it back, let 'er rip, an' put a nice bruise on someone."
He snorted around his nose ring, "Ain'cha got somethin' more... useful. I mean aimin' with one o' those is gonna be all off 'cause it 'aint got no sight on it."
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:57 am
Orpheus lifted an eyebrow, "Something more useful, huh?" He'd never had a kid before ask him for a new set up for their class. This was surely different, "Well while I would offer you something more interesting I really... can't. Your a bit young to be using anything more dangerous then this at least in my classes. This class is for working on your aim which given practice can carry over to other weapons. Those of which are more the specialty of the Battle Class Teachers though." He said, "And for this you gotta use the slingshot itself to sight it in, between the two 'arms'."
He fetched a ballbearing and lifted it up, demonstrating the aiming process and released it, shattering another of the bottles, "If you get nothing else out of the class at least you get the satisfaction of breaking something." He said, shrugging.
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:27 am
"I can break stuff without no twig an' rubber band." He snorted back but gave a defeated shrug. Might as well get it over with. Maybe he would learn how to aim better, then he could practice in the back yard shooting at old soda cans. Surely Keanu would be impressed with that much and have to admit that guns weren't all that bad.
"Alright grandpa lemme take a crack at it." He offered a hand out, his eyes still firmly on the ground however.
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:47 pm
"Grandpa? Hey! I'm not that..." He blinked and thought on his age, ok supposing he had a kid early in life and then said kid in turn did the same he COULD be a grandpa. Not that he wanted to think about it that was as that would be the same as admiting he was old. Well not old so much as older, "I am not so old as that." He finished then put the slingshot in the boy's hand.
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:43 pm
Cody chucked a bit to himself. Of course he knew this guy wasn't a grandpa. Then again he'd only seen old people on TV. Normally old people had white hair but he supposed here it was different. Keanu and Legia both had white hair, he was sure there were other kids around with the same thing going for them. "Yer Legia's pop aren'tcha? I remember you. Don't like yer hair though. Makes me feel all jittery weird."
He looked through the two arms of the slingshot, squinting an eye closed. He could see how it was aimed and everything, slingshits were hardly complicated devices but it didn't make them anywhere near as cool as guns were. "Hm... ya got th' shot fer this here thing?"
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:07 pm
"Yes, Ligeia is my son, I have another named Ter not sure if you have met him." Ter seemed to drift after girls more often then not, Lucia in particular. Rather it would seem they were good at taming him into a good mood. Males not so much or so he guessed from how the snake child argued with his brother.
Orpheus stepped out of the way so that Cody would have access to the ballbearings that sat in a bowl on the table, "Here you are, use as much as you need to break the bottles over there." There were nine in all now after Orpheus broke the one for demonstration.
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Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:41 am
"Not met no one by that name, sorry, gramps." He reached into the bowl and selected a ball bearing, tossing it up in the air a few times to get a feel for it, "They're a bit heaver'n bullets too. Good clock in th' head 'd knock someone down." He chuckled, setting the orb into the little pouch. "Well 'en. Best get this lil' carnival game over with."
The boy squinted an eye shut and looked through the two 'horns' of the slingshot, letting the ball fly. It rang off the side of a bottle but it was only enough to get it to spin around in place. "Well tootin' tarnation, ain't that the way..."
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Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:23 pm
Part of him was tempted to stick his tongue out at his student, gramps? Honestly he didn't even have any grey in his hair yet! Though his sons were trying to change that. Soon enough and he would look like Thomas...
"Not to bad for a first try." He said to Cody watching the bottle as it wobbled from the impacted but resumed its stance, unbroken.
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:27 am
Cody frowned and snorted sharply around his nosering, "Just gotta get a feel fer this thing." He grabbed another bearing and fit it into the sling, squinting an eye shut once more to fire off yet another. Another close one but again- a miss. The bull boy tried a few more times, every time coming close but just barely missing it.
It was getting to the point where he was loosing his temper. "What am I doin' wrong?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:03 pm
Orpheus watched his student closely each time he tried to hit the bottle, taking note of what he was doing then gave a nod. Ahhh, he noticed now what was going wrong.
"First off I would suggest keeping your calm." He said mostly as he didn't wasn't sure how one dealt with rampaging bulls if they didn't have one of those red flags, "Secondly you don't want to squint your eye closed. Use both eyes when your aiming. Twice as likely to see things and twice as likely to hit them then."
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