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[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

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[Jill's got the medal in her hand, tucking it in her pocket as she looks up at the Vine.]

Guns don't work here, correct?

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[has-a-cult.livejournal.com]

Sure they do.

[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

Huh. Guess I got misinformed.

[has-a-cult.livejournal.com]

Mine does, at least. Of course, I still haven't found somewhere to get more bullets, so eventually I'll probably run out.

[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

Wonder if you could make more like you can make other things.

[has-a-cult.livejournal.com]

I can what?

[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

Make things. Out of the earth. It's how people've built houses, gotten things they remember, and suchlike.

[has-a-cult.livejournal.com]

No one told me this!

[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should try it.

Seems to be only things from the wild places that work, though.

[has-a-cult.livejournal.com]

I'll have to try this.

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[livetoavenge.livejournal.com]

... "Guns"?

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[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

A type of weapon.

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[livetoavenge.livejournal.com]

What do they do?

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[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

They fire small pieces of metal, called "bullets" through the air and into a target.

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

Guns created whole cloth from Earth do not work.

Guns you had when you came, or made the hard way, do.

[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the clarification. Is there anyone who could make a gun around?

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

Talk to Larry Vincent. One of the first thing she did was make a gunshop and a firing range.

She made this, for one.

(She holds up a 22 caliber semiautomatic pistol. Ordinary-looking. With her finger on the BARREL, not the trigger.) Damn good job, too.

Rally's not going to hand it to you unless you prove you know how to use it, which is a count in her favor as far as I'm concerned.

[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

I'll keep an eye out for her.

...That's a fine piece of work. I can prove I know how to use it, but that's a pretty good policy.

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

It is. I get the idea she's seen what an idiot with a Kalashnikov* can do firsthand.

[* The 'K' in AK-47.]

[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

Kalashnikov...Never heard of that type, but any gun's a disaster when put into the hands of someone without a clue.

[hotshot-momma.livejournal.com]

Exactly. So she enforces having a clue. Makes sense to me.

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[mellifluently.livejournal.com]

I'd hope you wouldn't need one.

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[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

So would I, but with events like those plants? I'm thinking it's a good precaution.

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[mellifluently.livejournal.com]

But guns wouldn't have worked on the plants. Only fire did.

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[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

True. It still could have disabled them long enough to escape.

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[mellifluently.livejournal.com]

Maybe.

[She looks incredibly disheartened, doesn't want Jill to be right but knows that she is.]

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[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

...You going to be alright?

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[mellifluently.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[She nods, gathers herself a little, determined not to be too naive.]

I just don't like violence. But people need to be able to protect themselves.

[howaverage.livejournal.com]

[ Normally, Em isn't very keen on violence, much less on guns, but the still bandaged wound on her shoulder still stings and that makes her less judgemental of them. ]

Why wouldn't they work here? How else are we supposed to defend ourselves?

[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

Some guns don't work, apparently. Have to build them, or bring them here.

[mnementomori]

[time for awkward question of the day.]

What's a gun?

[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

[She isn't the first.]

A type of weapon. Fires small metal projectiles, known as bullets, through the air and towards a target.

[mnementomori]

Oh. I think...I know someone that uses one. [in reality they're not actual guns, but close enough.] Why wouldn't they work here? All the other weapons I've seen do.

[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

Some of the weapons-turns out it's the ones made completely-don't work quite right here.

[mnementomori]

Oh. I guess I'm lucky, then. Mine's just fine.

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[hicanistabyou.livejournal.com]

Why would you need a gun?

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[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

Self-defense.

[hicanistabyou.livejournal.com]

... Right.

[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

Why else do people get guns?

[hicanistabyou.livejournal.com]

To shoot things.

[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

And why do they shoot things?

[hicanistabyou.livejournal.com]

Boredom. Issues. Paranoia...

[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

Or if they're threatened.

[hicanistabyou.livejournal.com]

They're the exception.

[freemade-grace.livejournal.com]

And giant flowers out for my blood makes me feel threatened. So.

[hicanistabyou.livejournal.com]

Guns make me feel threatened. Should I get one too?