@Xiphonic

Jen pondered that for a moment.
"Who are 'they'?" She asked, "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to, but I'm curious. You've mentioned them a lot."
She noticed that they were drawing closer to the armoury, glancing at one of the useful signs on the wall.

@KatherinWinter

Damien ignored Kiiros and walked straight on, slipping his hands in his pockets. Bastard. Damien entered the armoury. "Woo! That's a lot of hardware!" He commented. Like V, Damien never actually shot a real gun, but when he held one, it was a BB gun, used for Airsoft. Damien did handle a real gun once, one of his friends was showing off an M1911. Damien looked around. AK's, SCARs, pistols, shotguns and then Katherin, sitting by herself again. Damien walked over near the ledge she flew too and looked up to where she sat. "Just ignore him. Kiiros is renowned for being a prick. Why don't you come over?" He called as he swiped his phone. He opened up a music app and went through his songs. Unplugging his headphones, Damien put the phone on the table and started playing KDA- Turn the music louder, popular in Britain. He ushered Katherin over as he started bobbing his head. It was hard for Damien not to start dancing whenever there was music.

@Carlsberg
The walk to the armory was nearing a close and Veronica wondered how the others would react to seeing what was in there. Kiiros would probably be giddy but that was all she could guess. Would they be excited to see weapons or be scared or what? "'They' are whatever vagabonds ended up under my protection. We usually only had 7 or so people, I and two others were the only ones to be around my whole time being involved in that group. One was an elderly woman, my ,main mother figure through much of my life. She is the one who helped me after the 'incident' and told me the thing about the tree and the Scar. The other was a guy who was like the male version of me. He had medical training and helped care for the others while I protected." Veronica almost got teary eyed thinking about old Mama Ernest, being that she was the most wonderful person she ever met. They got to the entrance of the armory and Veronica froze. She had never seen so many weapons in her life and had no idea how to take it all in.

@Xiphonic

Jen let out a whistle at the sight of all the weapons. Her eyes passed over them, noting that she could probably operate the large majority of them, bar maybe some which were at the edge of being artillery as opposed to guns.
"I know what its like to miss a mother," Jen said when she saw Veronica's expression, "We can talk about it later if you want. For now, I believe that those shotguns are calling to me."
She quickly moved over to the shotguns, running her hand along the barrel of a Spas-12, before picking it up, weighing it in her hands.

@KatherinWinter@Xiphonic@GingerBoi123@Carlsberg

'It's.... it's like.... a dream...' he was frozen in the spot as he took everything in, his adrenaline rising beyond what he could control. Without thinking he bolted straight for the rack of knives in his excitement. "HOLD HIM DOWN!" a guard immediately shouted from some where and a few guards instantly tackled Kiiros to the ground. Hitting the cement floor with a grunt. "WAIT I was-" he was struck in the head with the butt of a gun, not enough to knock him out but enough to stun him. He was forced onto his stomach and was held down for the moment. He tried to raise his hands as best he could in surrender. "I wasn't going to do anything!" he yelled out, his face against the floor from one of the guards holding him down. All he heard was silence. "I just got excited! That's all!" the air felt tense for several moments, the guards exchanging looks with each other.

@Varicke

Jen walked over to one of the guards holding Kiiros, ignoring the boy.
"Is there anywhere that we can shoot with these?" She asked him, wondering how her aim was doing after a while without practice.
The guard pointed at a small shooting range, which Jen quickly moved over to.

@Carlsberg
Jen seemed interested in the 'shotguns' and Kiiros was heading towards some knives; but Veronica could only distinguish that some of them were pistols, others shotguns. Then some seemed similar but different in design and apparent use. She walked, in a half daze, over to where Jen was. "That is a shotgun... is it good? Help me understand what some of these are." Her life before she ran away was mostly sheltered, knowing very little about weaponry, all she knew before she left was that guns kill people and only police/military should have them.

@Xiphonic

"This is Franchi SPAS-12 pump action shotgun. It's no longer in production, yet still remains one of the most popular weapons today. It can fire anything from birdshot to frag rounds, and will kill almost anything at close range," She said, reciting from knowledge, "This is the exact same type of shotgun that Dolly had. It's powerful, dangerous, and a damn good gun."
She marveled at it for a second, before glancing back up at Veronica.
"Also probably not the best gun to start off on. It kick like a horse."

@KatherinWinter@Carlsberg

The guard looked back to Kiiros after directing Jen to the shooting range. He stared back and raised an eyebrow. "What?..." the guard frowned, his nostrils flaring in what could be either hate or anger. The look he gave to Kiiros certainly didn't radiate any trust. The guard mouthed the words 'Remember the deal.', Kiiros immediately nodding afterwards. The guard forced Kiiros' head against the floor harder for a moment to make sure he made his point and then stood up. Kiiros got up to sit on his knees, his expression looking like a curious child as if he wasn't just brutally tackled to the ground. "So uh... do we get to pick a weapon to keep?" he was eyeballing a nice shiny red handled switch blade on the rack two metres in front of him.

@KatherinWinter

Damien danced a little as he walked around, looking a bit goofy at the same time, snapping his fingers to the music he put on the table through his phone, which everyone didn't seem to mind as no one said anything. He did find an M1911. Damien took it off the rack and checked through everything. It was exactly like what his friend had, and his friend taught him everything about the gun, except how to shoot it. He then looked at Katherin. "Gonna pick something?" He asked her.

@Carlsberg
Veronica could tell that the other girl was trying to be helpful, but the blank look on Veronica's face as Jen told her this information was telling. "Good to know. In your opinion, what should I start with? I have held some kind of pistol before...but that is all I know. I hardly even know what the 'kick' is. It is the amount the gun bounces when it fires right?" Maybe a small gun would suit her. Small, concealable, light, these were things she could work with. Some of these weapons seemed to be designed for hulking brutes and behemoths.

@Xiphonic

"Yeah, the kick is how much it bounces. It's more commonly called the recoil. You're probably better starting with a handgun of some sort, or maybe a submachine gun if you want a little more power," She said, walking over to the rack before picking out a Glock 17.
She handed it to Veronica carefully.
"Keep the barrel pointed down the range at all times, and don't let your finger rest on the trigger," She said seriously.

@GingerBoi123
Katherin shook her head. "There isn't any point in me picking something. I've never used any of those. I haven't even seen most of these. I'll just sit here and watch. Again. It was going to be a common theme. She couldn't show the others what she knew. She knew nothing. She settled on her ledge ready to watch. Maybe she could learn something. But she had her doubts.

@Carlsberg
The tone of Jen's voice turning more serious seemed to be her going into either teaching mode, or protectiveness, given what happens when you point a gun at someone and have a finger on the trigger. "That is most of what I know so far." Veronica took the weapon over to the shooting range. Found the safety and made sure it was in firing mode and aimed. The gun was fairly light, a candidate for what she would use in the future. Veronica pointed the gun down range with one arm that was almost fully extended and prepared to fire.

@Xiphonic

"Don't tense up too much. Keep your feet steady. Both hands on the gun, hold it tight, but not overly so. And when you're ready, pull the trigger. Don't try to stop the recoil, you'll break your wrist. But try and distribute it along your body. Like this," Jen said, taking aim with another Glock she had picked up.
She fired three shots, her body posture allowing her to absorb the recoil. She had managed to hit one of the shots on the bullseye, and the other two close by.
'Apparently I've not gotten any worse. In fact, I may have improved slightly,' She thought.

@KatherinWinter@Carlsberg

"I haven't used one either. C'mon, let's give it a try." Damien smiled. He really didn't want Katherin to feel left out, and if that's because she was excluded from the modern world, Damien was going to make it his personal mission to re-educate her. Damien noticed Jen teaching V a bit about guns. Maybe she could help him too. "Yo! Jen! Sorry to bother, is this gun any good?" He asked, holding up the gun. He looked back at where Katherin sat above and nodded for her to come over again. If Damien was anything, it was persistent... or stubborn. Whatever way you look at it.

@GingerBoi123

"M1911. It's American, and it's old. Still in service though. It's reliable," she said as she took a look at his weapon, "Good starter gun."
Dolly had drilled her about handguns. A lot. After all, you never know when knowing how to unload a Walther whilst someone else is holding it could be useful.

Ryouko immediately froze at all of the weapons, his smile widening at the sight of the new things he could try and copy. But first, to find two weapons that actually suited him...This would be challenging. Hardly any weapon he held had felt right besides his own blood. He saw Kiiros being tackled and shrugged it off, walking towards what he believed to be a better section.

The handguns.

He located the one nearest to the edge of the rack, before he slowly and carefully plucked it off of the wall. 'HK VP9...Semi-Automatic.' He thought, before Ryouko sat on the floor slowly and began to strip the gun. He took it apart smoothly, part by part, inspecting it. Then he took a deep breath and did what he had done on the streets before.

Speed building.

He snapped on parts quickly, in order, testing how fast he could do it with this new gun. As he did so, he blocked out other noise. When he was finished, he stood, exhaling, and setting the gun back onto the wall. "Fifteen seconds." He then looked towards the guards. "Do you have a section with swords?"

@Carlsberg
Jen's ease at which she used the firearm was impressive. Veronica mimicked what Jen did with her body and aimed again. She aimed towards the center of the target, her unsteady hand was obvious, and pulled the trigger twice. The first shot landed in an outer ring and the other missed the target altogether. Veronica flinched slightly after the shots, the sound coupled with the force was super foreign to her. She turned to her friend who was know helping Damien. "Did I do okay? How do people do this on a regular basis?"

@Xiphonic

Jen turned back to Veronica, before looking at the target. Her eyes widened slightly. She glanced back at Veronica, before staring back at the hole in the outer ring. She blinked.
"That was you?! You hit the target with your first shot?! Thats amazing! It took me a week to do that," she exclaimed, a look of utter shock on her face.