deadly arts and crafts day

[load_aim_shoot]

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

Ruby Rose | RWBY

[guidemyway]

First Impressions: Ruby's a 5'4" bubbly teenager. Pretty easy to spot out from her attitude, black hair with red highlights, and silver eyes. She's a complete dork when it comes to weapons so something about this would have her bouncing around with excitement.

Weapon(s): So! In Ruby's world a lot of weapons generally have a long range mode, and a close range element. Her own weapon, Crescent Rose is a scythe that doubles as a sniper rifle. However all of the transformable aspects of her weapon, and the rifle function don't work here. So she'd focus on making either plain melee weapons, or regular guns instead.

She designed and forged her weapon herself back where she's from which is fairly common. So she has the experience to do it.

Teaching Weapon Use: Yes! She'd probably be better suited to teaching gun use over melee as her own fighting style was mostly suited to her own abilities back at home, so she is not quite at her peak in that sense here.

Raw Materials: Ruby's taken shop in the scrapyard at lakeside. She'll bring any metals or materials she can dig up from there. She's also tracked down a small amount of gasoline and gun powder.

She can get the forge working in the scrapyard, but keeping it fueled to use will always be the biggest challenge.

Construction: Ruby's weapons are from a world that kind of varies from modern day in some aspects to more future based in some areas. She doesn't have access to a lot of things from her world. But there's not a huge difference between the end product of her world and what's available here.

Anything else: Ruby is likely to gush over all the things other people have brought to arts and craft days. She treats weapons as a representation of who the other person is, and is just a nerd about them in general. Expect her to bother just about everyone here if they'll give her the time of day.