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daybreakacademy2019-03-24 09:50 am
ohgoodgrief) wrote in daybreakacademy2019-03-24 09:50 am
letting kids fire artillery and calling it work
Who: Yang, OTA!
What: An artillery exercise -- with a looooot of supervision, sorry kids -- for the student body!
Where: A big field outside of the Academy and the town.
When: Shortly before finals!
Warnings: Big cannons.
[Wen-li Yang was "convinced" (some might say manipulated) into a practical operation for the students: letting them fire huge cannons.
Originally, he was going to let them build their own. Then he did the research and realized one cannot simply construct artillery pieces with no experience. So he instead made a few phone calls back to the Navy, and got a set of lighter artillery pieces sent out. They're still bigger than most civilians have ever seen, which Yang thinks will pass muster.
Besides, they don't need to destroy fortifications at Verdun, they're blowing up wooden Potemkin village houses today.
Students are divided into teams of three. Each is given an artillery piece -- fixed on a turret, which can only cover the area away from the school and the town -- and has to hit targets that pop up. The wooden targets include wooden cut-outs of huge daemons, of demonic castles, and other scary, Nightfall-themed things. They also include buildings made to look like normal village houses and shops, which should not be fired on.
Yang, for his part, is standing back and watching. He's easy to approach in the command tent, where he has binoculars -- and a radio. And, of course, staff are on hand to help show people how to load the cannons, aim them, and fire them... but they have to do it themselves.]
What: An artillery exercise -- with a looooot of supervision, sorry kids -- for the student body!
Where: A big field outside of the Academy and the town.
When: Shortly before finals!
Warnings: Big cannons.
[Wen-li Yang was "convinced" (some might say manipulated) into a practical operation for the students: letting them fire huge cannons.
Originally, he was going to let them build their own. Then he did the research and realized one cannot simply construct artillery pieces with no experience. So he instead made a few phone calls back to the Navy, and got a set of lighter artillery pieces sent out. They're still bigger than most civilians have ever seen, which Yang thinks will pass muster.
Besides, they don't need to destroy fortifications at Verdun, they're blowing up wooden Potemkin village houses today.
Students are divided into teams of three. Each is given an artillery piece -- fixed on a turret, which can only cover the area away from the school and the town -- and has to hit targets that pop up. The wooden targets include wooden cut-outs of huge daemons, of demonic castles, and other scary, Nightfall-themed things. They also include buildings made to look like normal village houses and shops, which should not be fired on.
Yang, for his part, is standing back and watching. He's easy to approach in the command tent, where he has binoculars -- and a radio. And, of course, staff are on hand to help show people how to load the cannons, aim them, and fire them... but they have to do it themselves.]