( march event ) mad skillz

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Hey there, Pinecones! It's slightly past time for March's first event write-up. This one's pretty simple, but we think you'll have fun with it.

( ! ) An important heads-up! Based on the feedback we've gotten, we'll be doing a single catch-all log for this event, as well as the storm on the 16th and the St. Patty's Day festival on the 17th. Players looking to participate in any of these happenings are welcomed to utilize the catch-alls for their threading needs.

Now, on to the event!




MAD SKILLZ


CR EVENT: Skills Fair
EVENT DATE: March 11th

If pressed, the first murmurings of some kind of "skills fair" can be traced as far back as Monday, mid-day. Those visiting Main Street on that chilly afternoon might have heard it in passing, on the lips of long-term residents in a chipper tone. It's much more likely, however, that you learned of it first thing Thursday morning, when bright yellow flyers graced mailboxes and shop windows alike.

Come to the park off Alder and 3rd, it said, for Wayward Pines's seasonal Skills Fair. Share your skills! Teach what you know to others, and let others teach you new skills in return. What better way to foster a sense of community than to teach one another? According to the flyer, the Skills Fair spans from 11 AM to 5 PM. Booths and tents will be available to teach from, free of charge.

Those who head to the specified park on March 11th get just what it says on the box: A genuine opportunity to teach others the skills you know and to learn the skills others are teaching. Even such things as combat training or target practice are allowed, though it's requested that those looking to teach how to shoot please escort their pupils to a designated makeshift shooting range two blocks north on the edge of town.

And keep in mind, above all else, that the bylaws on the Official Notice still apply. Do not talk about the past. Do not talk about where you're from. Do not tell anyone where you learned these skills.

Someone might be listening.

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[overfivethousand]

first comment woo

WHAT UP, FELLOW...Pineans? Pineists? Whatever we call ourselves. 10K here, your resident slightly paranoid but good-hearted teenager, will be either offering lessons on marksmanship or identifying plants (poison ivy vs. box elder saplings, Can I Eat That Mushroom and/or Will It Make Me Trip Balls 101), depending on if any of the other gun-savvy residents would prefer to teach the shootings. Otherwise he'll be wandering around looking at all the other fun and interesting things people are teaching!

[smuttywitch]

Rachel will be offering up self-defense lessons, both to help people and to hopefully snag a job as security (she is trying to avoid going into retail work like her life depends on it okay). While she doesn't have her spaltgun yet, she does have a black belt in martial arts and has done more on the job training in self defense. So anyone looking to protect themselves, or hire someone else to protect their butts, hit a girl up.

[sirnyxalot]

Nyx has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in his wheelhouse to share (that he remembers) but he'll visit anyway hoping that going will spark some more random pieces of memory like everything else he's encountered so far.

If there's anyone offering up something that'll trigger any muscle reflex I would absolutely enjoy toying with a round of 'where the hell did I learn how to do THAT' for him, but otherwise he'll probably just poke about until he finds something interesting or somewhere to help out.

[dragoness]

eliza will teach people how to sing.

someone should not let her do this.


if they do, eliza will move on to things like finding a great manager, or how to be a great pop idol, or how to make everyone love you. (she doesn't know how to do any of those)

[inventor]

in the interest of keeping on the right side of johnny law and not driving away customers, howard will not demonstrate how to build a bomb or teach the kiddos how to smoke or how to fix a radio (anything involving electrical engineering p much). basically, he won't teach anything too crazy

rn, howard's problem is that only his useless skills have resurfaced so far. hence why he won't be teaching how to build a flying car or how to send civilization back to the middle ages. anyways i've narrowed potential skill lessons down to:

• "how to fold and throw the perfect paper airplane"
• "infinitesimal calculus"*
• "how to solve a rubik's cube in under 5 seconds while hanging upside down and drinking vodka through a straw"
• "the art of violin playing: how to play three octaves across four strings in a hand span"
• "how to cheat at poker"
• "follow up lesson: how to talk your way out of having your thumbs broken after being caught cheating at poker"

*useless only in that in this time and setting it has no useful application

in the end, if i can't decide on a lesson, i may just smash all these together into one giant skill booth. a frankenskill's monster, if you will