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Who: Maya Matlin, and you!
What: Learning new skills, and practicing old skills.
When: Across the back half of October, possibly early November.
Where:Various places, each prompt marked.

Various Places - Open to anyone that wanted to help Maya with guns

((Anyone who offered to help Maya with firearms safety & training can toss a prompt here for her if you want.))

Shooting Range

Maya isn't cleared for a real gun yet. But while she's getting more comfortable with the real thing, she has a forge-made airsoft gun to practice with. The enchantments are nothing to do with improving the gun's function, its a glorified airsoft gun.

They make it weigh like a real weapon, with proper kick. Little more accuracy just to be a better. Which makes it a good weapon for Maya to practice marksmanship and safety with. It's even got enchantments to make it as loud as a real gun.

Not that anyone would be able to tell that, it's a little silly she's wearing all the proper protective gear (goggles, headphones) but it isn't like the gun is making noise in her hand. That's in case anyone else is in here to fire a weapon.

Campus Grounds

Maya had her strange stone harp out again, no book for notes this time. That went badly. So now she just has the harp, plucking the strings and filling the air with music... and wind.

A lot of wind. This time it's taking a path, fluttering a series of flags she's set in the lawn. One after another. Everything seems to be going fine, following. Maya's not watching the wind she's playing move.

Which is why she's very surprised a bolt of lightning strikes one of the trees near her. "Shit!"

Maya quickly changes her tune to bring a raincloud to prevent any, you know, fire. Unlike last time, her rain is controlled to just the tree, "So... I guess that's what makes lightning."

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((For all your random thing needs. Maya avoids the really loud parts of campus when she can.))

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He felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up, much like before a storm rolls in, and the crack of the lightning hitting the tree told him which way it came from, hurrying over just in time to see the rain cloud putting out the fire.

"Ah... you're practicing with that thing?" He asks softly, sighing quietly with relief.

"I was going for wind... but I accidentally did that." She softly plays a few more notes on the the rain clouds breaking up and wind sweeping them away.

"I warned people I was practicing and kept the area clear... but this was suppose to just be wind, not... that."

He watches as the clouds broke up and they scattered. "Aside from that little accident, you seem to have gotten quick control over it - and that does explain why this area's more barren than usual."

"I had to figure out what it wanted, but with that it was just a matter of playing it well. And it's got strings so..." Maya's always had a knack for picking up stringed instruments. She's not entirely sure how she got lightning, but she's never gotten it to make lightning before.

"I got yelled at for rain, figured it was better to let everyone know what could happen." Now that she knew it could just- bring the thunder, she'll be extra sure to warn people about that possibility.

Vivi is absolutely not cleared for a real gun of any kind. Still, he's become more interested in guns lately, and he has a safe one to practice with, after asking the Forge very nicely and saying he'll return it as soon as he's done and use the proper gear and everything.

Of course, he's just going by what his friends use, so it's a pistol, or does a good job at acting like one. From the way he juggles the gun with every shot - not out of shock, but because the recoil goes through him far more than it would with a normal human being - he's...

Well, the marks on the target in front of him are improving in their aim. Still, he seems to be finding it difficult.

"This is really hard..." he mumbles, giving it a rest for a moment. "I dunno how Gunvolt does it."

He peeks his head out to watch someone else shoot for a while, instead. He feels sore, and that's not the best feeling he's ever had. Maya will feel his curious gaze easily; he's not attempting to hide his interest.

*Maya is aware when she's not alone, more to the point she's aware she's not hearing any other shooting. Even with the ear protection she should get a sense of something, not words or anything. She stops firing, her grouping is bad but all almost all her rounds hit the target, and walks through the safety procedures before putting her gun down. Mumbling the steps to herself as she does it.*

*With that done, headgear off, and she can give her attention to whoever is watching her.*

...Hi.

*Now to figure out what this kid is, his sound is weird. It isn't bad, just... weird.*

Hi.

*He stares back, clearly curious.

His sound is...strange. He sounds like a lot of different, disparate things mixed together, in a way that doesn't quite fit. But there's something struggling to be heard in there, too, a note all his own. Trying to push its way out.*

Oh, um. I didn't interrupt you, right? *He looks (and sounds) anxious.* Sorry, you're better at it than me, so I just wanted to see if I could pick up anything...

I'm not really the right person to learn from...

*She knows how to put in practice, and is a fairly fast learner. Her only real edge working on this. Hand-eye coordination she can do. It also didn't really translate to her accuracy. Yet, she'll get there.*

This is all new for me, too.

I think you've been doing it longer than me, though! You can hit the target more times, anyway...

*Which he's still struggling with. The few times his bullets do hit, they're more than a little scattershot.*

How come you use a gun? Is it part of your powers? *Gunvolt and Lia both had special guns that linked to their powers, he knows that much.*

Not that long. There are some things I'm good at. Controlling my breathing, focus, and regular practice. I'm used to trying to block out distractions, and this place is fairly quiet.

*Maya you are the only person who could call a shooting range 'quiet.'*

No, until- if I figure out how to use my radiance then I'll have a power that's combat oriented. I've been trying to figure out what the best way to fight is for me, this is just my latest idea.

Why are you trying to learn to shoot?

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