deadly arts and crafts day

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Who: anyone with knowledge of or interest in making weapons from scratch
What: characters meeting up to exchange knowledge and make stuff
When: Some time soon after the town meeting about the forest talkers
Where: the Community Hall

Content Warnings: discussion of weapons designed to kill people and the best ways to do that

Other Notes: So! I'm not going to be replying to the comments here like a normal in-character post, because if I did that would be too many threads for me at once and I'd get overwhelmed pretty quickly. But there was enough interest in Raju's proposal at the town meeting that it seemed useful to have a central post for people to go to know what their character might learn, so this is that! This post can work as either an in-character place to thread things out, or as an out of character place to summarize what they're getting up to here, or both.

After the meeting, Raju writes his first notice on the message board in determinedly neat cursive, pinned in the middle of the board on top of whatever obviously less important message is already hanging there, helpfully titled:

Defensive Measures for Possible Attack

In light of the threat the forest talkers present, it's imperative we be able to construct weapons ourselves to supplement the limited amount of ammunition available. If you can make anything from the materials available in Milton and are willing to teach others, come to the Community Hall at noon for one of the next two days. Bring your own raw materials.

Any character who can't be out in the sunlight or wouldn't be around at that time, feel free to connect with any other character who'd be there and say your character scribbled a reply on Raju's note asking to meet someone separately, or whatever.

Feel free to either write an in-character top level for others to tag into, or to write an OOC comment summarising what other characters might learn from yours. I'll put a general outline for OOC comments for anyone who wants one below:


<b>First Impressions:</b> For any characters meeting yours here for the first time. How would they introduce themselves? What general impression might other characters meeting yours here come away with? <b>Weapon(s):</b> What kind of thing is your character teaching others to make? <b>Teaching Weapon Use</b>: Is your character willing to teach others, either here or at some later point, to use the weapon effectively? <b>Raw Materials:</b> What is your character bringing to arts and crafts day? What will other characters need to hunt/scavenge for/etc in order to construct the weapon on their own in the future? <b>Construction:</b> What time setting and time period (if applicable) are their methods from? If other people want to play out their character making these weapons later, what's a basic outline of what they'll be doing? <b>Anything else:</b> Anything else you want other people to know about your character's involvement in Arts And Crafts Day? Any notable topics they might talk about? Etc.

Comments

Levi Ackerman // OOC

[wingbound]

First Impressions: He usually only ever introduces himself as "Levi". Immediately noticeable short stature (~5'2''-5'3''), but if you look at him more closely he's clearly in his 30s. He's generally pretty calm and business-like, but has a crass way of speaking. You can find more details in the game's first impressions sheet or the first impressions section of his permissions.

Weapon(s): He's here to learn, he's not exactly a craftsman. However he knows some things about blade maintenance and using environment/everyday objects as weapons. He could probably craft a lockpick if anyone's interested in that.

Teaching Weapon Use: He's willing! He's got like twenty years of experience brawling on the street and is especially skilled with a knife. Other than that he's good at hand to hand combat (especially persevering against bigger/stronger opponents since lol everyone's bigger than him but this could be useful for some characters!) and at using longer blades (from his ODM gear but nobody else has access to those so 🥲) and he also has some basics of firearms use and maintenance as well as (non-modern) explosives handling.

Raw Materials: Probably whatever he can scavenge around town or from hunting -- some wooden planks and sticks, strings, leather strips and bone fragments, feathers, scrap pieces that can be sharpened.

Construction: His technology is from the rough equivalent of late 1800s - early 1900s with some exceptions (like the Flying Around gear), but since he's mainly there to learn about bows and offer knife lessons it probably won't apply.

Anything else: N/A