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Dec. 27th, 2013 03:56 pmMeeting going all right?
Sitting on my damn no that wasn't
Anyways. Thought I'd take the time to catch everyone up. Fu and me have been making the rounds to Bedford and Aldrich, setting up some workshops for crank radios, Fu's armour, and some of the less advanced weaponry we've been working up. Aldrich's better suited for radios, and Bedford's in a good place for helping us make the armour as they've got a supply of leather and they can get a forge up and running quicker. Fu's decided to keep making the more dangerous things like his nonlethals on his own at Moddey because of safety protocols. It's easier to make a bolt for a crossbow than a timed explosive, because if you get the bolt wrong, it doesn't blow up in your face.
We've also scheduled trainings twice a month at Alrich and Bedford to brush up on Defence. Sherwood's designated some folks to come and help, too. We've been sorting through different fighting strategies depending on whether the person who's fighting has a wand, doesn't have one yet but has wandless magic, doesn't have any magic at all, and how it all changes up in a null field. Not to mention differences in fighting in a city versus an open area. We'll have our work cut out for us. Most of the magical people in Aldrich have wands now, and we're getting there with Bedford, and each site has some people who went through at least a few years of schooling who can teach the basics, but they've got a lot of work to do.
Making it into Saltash is difficult. Kingsley managed to get me over there for the day, seemed like they were getting on pretty well. Can't risk Colin taking me just yet -- he doesn't have the secret, which would take time to sort out, and there's always a risk someone would be waiting to take potshots at us because we can't Apparate right in. They're still working on their underground access, though, and once they've got that done, it'll be easier to get there, and their people will be better able to take things outside of the field for quick fixes. It was good to go there, see it for myself. Once they sort out their access tunnel, I think we'll make it out there more often so we can set up defence training there too. They gave us some wands they'd confiscated from the wizards who were stuck in the field, and we got them to Melli, who'll strip them down and use their cores.
There's also the notion of trying to get our hands on some guns that we can modify. Fu doesn't want to risk building his own. From what we've seen, they did a fairly thorough job of cleaning out the guns from sporting stores after that assassination attempt, but they might not have looked in all the abandoned farmhouses, or thought to take them out of museums. Fu says some of the older ones that just fire shot might be dead useful, because we can make our own ammunition with scrap metal, and see if we can't experiment with iron shards or other modifications to cause a bit more damage.
That's all for now. Keeping busy. Colin's been a real help.
Anyways. Thought I'd take the time to catch everyone up. Fu and me have been making the rounds to Bedford and Aldrich, setting up some workshops for crank radios, Fu's armour, and some of the less advanced weaponry we've been working up. Aldrich's better suited for radios, and Bedford's in a good place for helping us make the armour as they've got a supply of leather and they can get a forge up and running quicker. Fu's decided to keep making the more dangerous things like his nonlethals on his own at Moddey because of safety protocols. It's easier to make a bolt for a crossbow than a timed explosive, because if you get the bolt wrong, it doesn't blow up in your face.
We've also scheduled trainings twice a month at Alrich and Bedford to brush up on Defence. Sherwood's designated some folks to come and help, too. We've been sorting through different fighting strategies depending on whether the person who's fighting has a wand, doesn't have one yet but has wandless magic, doesn't have any magic at all, and how it all changes up in a null field. Not to mention differences in fighting in a city versus an open area. We'll have our work cut out for us. Most of the magical people in Aldrich have wands now, and we're getting there with Bedford, and each site has some people who went through at least a few years of schooling who can teach the basics, but they've got a lot of work to do.
Making it into Saltash is difficult. Kingsley managed to get me over there for the day, seemed like they were getting on pretty well. Can't risk Colin taking me just yet -- he doesn't have the secret, which would take time to sort out, and there's always a risk someone would be waiting to take potshots at us because we can't Apparate right in. They're still working on their underground access, though, and once they've got that done, it'll be easier to get there, and their people will be better able to take things outside of the field for quick fixes. It was good to go there, see it for myself. Once they sort out their access tunnel, I think we'll make it out there more often so we can set up defence training there too. They gave us some wands they'd confiscated from the wizards who were stuck in the field, and we got them to Melli, who'll strip them down and use their cores.
There's also the notion of trying to get our hands on some guns that we can modify. Fu doesn't want to risk building his own. From what we've seen, they did a fairly thorough job of cleaning out the guns from sporting stores after that assassination attempt, but they might not have looked in all the abandoned farmhouses, or thought to take them out of museums. Fu says some of the older ones that just fire shot might be dead useful, because we can make our own ammunition with scrap metal, and see if we can't experiment with iron shards or other modifications to cause a bit more damage.
That's all for now. Keeping busy. Colin's been a real help.
