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Elyessi rolled 6 6-sided dice:
3, 1, 4, 5, 6, 5
Total: 24 (6-36)
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 Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 12:09 pm
Paintball:
Among all of the equipment and sports gear that lie around ready for common use on the playing field, there is a section squared off for another test that the faction has created for new members. It's simple enough - you're given a paintball gun with a silencer on it - this is important, because guns are too noisy to be fired out in the open field, even if it's still protected by the electrified fence. It might attracted too much unwanted attention.
A crudely made mechanical device pops up cardboard cut outs of what looks like were once poster advertisements of various people. There's a busty woman smoking a cigarette and leaning on something that might have been a car. There's a young man in jeans that hang too low, trying to look like James Dean in a black and white photo. There are several of these cardboard people, most of which are only from the midsection up, that pop up at random times like Whack a Moles. Interspersed between them are similar cutouts - except these have been altered. The skin has been colored to green, eyes have been blackened or reddened, and blood seems to have been drawn everywhere. These are the infected. It's your job to shoot them. And only them.
The test isn't necessarily a chance to practice your shooting skills - it's meant to test your ability to make quick decisions, and a crude attempt to lesson friendly fire casualties. The cutouts pop up fast, and at random, making for a hectic challenge; so it's also a stress test.
Step One:
Roll 6d6 in one NON-RP post. Each dice is considered one cutout, in the exact order they are rolled. Even means it was a human, odd means it was a zombie.
Step Two:
In your next post, roll 6d6 again. Each dice is considered the shot for the cutouts in your first roll. The first dice tells you whether you hit the first cutout, and so on. Even means you shot it, odd means you did not shoot.
-You must roleplay each cutout individually, although you may do them all in this one post. Just describing what you hit is enough.
-This post in total must be a minimum of 300 words.
Example:
-I roll 6d6 and get 5, 6, 3, 1, 5. This means I have a zombie, a human, a zombie, a zombie, and a zombie, in that order.
-I roll 6d6 again, and get 6, 3, 5, 1, 2. This means I hit a zombie, I did not fire at a human, I did not fire at a zombie, I did not fire at a zombie, I hit a zombie.
IC Modifiers:
-Your character might be wary about shooting anything (This is your roleplay choice based on your character). If so, you are allowed to choose to change one of your six shots to a no-shot, each time you do this exercise.
-Your character might be trigger happy (This is your roleplay choice based on your character). If so, you are allowed to choose to change one of your six shots to a hit, each time you do this exercise.
-You may not do BOTH of these each time. Just one.
-You may choose to do neither.
-The choices you make do affect your end score.
Rewards:
For every zombie you hit, you get 1 bar. For every human you did not shoot, you get 1 bar. For every human you hit, you lose 1 bar. You cannot get negative numbers, so if your third shot hits a human and you are at 0, you remain at zero. If you get a -1, then a 1, however, you end up with 0. You may do this once a day.
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Elyessi rolled 6 6-sided dice:
5, 1, 5, 1, 1, 1
Total: 14 (6-36)
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Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 12:10 pm
Zombie (No Shot), Zombie (No Shot), Human (No Shot), Zombie (No Shot), Human (No Shot), Zombie (Trigger Happy)
Maria returned to the shooting range the next day, determined to see if her skills the other day were an act of talent or dumb luck. She saw a few familiar faces, both from the range and from around the block. Ruffling her hair, she found her nerves weren't as much of an issue this time around. Everything in the situation seemed to change, and that would either play to her favor or cause a different sort of performance.
As she grabbed the paintball gun and stepped up to the line, Maria felt calm and cool, but her senses also seemed to dull things. The first zombie popped up so quickly that she didn't have time to shoot it. Suddenly, she was scrambling, and she didn't shoot the second one either. The next human she saw and paused, glad for that, but she turned too late for the zombie that popped up.
So far, she had not fired a single shot.
When the last human popped up, Maria got her gull and focused, just in time to shoot the last zombie in the head. All of them popped up and Maria watched with a wary eye as she noticed more no-shots than shots. She hadn't hit any humans, but she had only hit one zombie too.
"Shame." The instructor grumbled as he took the paintball gun, and Maria shook her head before rushing away with red cheeks. So her first round was a fluke. What an absolute disappointment.
It seemed as if she took one step forward and two back. Letting out a frustrated hiss of breath, she knew she would need to come back again and redeem herself and her confidence. There was no way she'd make it out there with such wild results.
As if he noticed, the instructor approached her after he dismissed everyone, patting her shoulder once, "Practice makes perfect. No harm in coming back tomorrow."
Nodding, she agreed before heading back to her cell.
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