The Streets of Town, Friday

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan had a lightsaber in one hand and a blaster in the other.

Kanan could be back in the Ghost, enjoying a shielded ship with power and heating and hot caf. But no, he was out here, wearing the heaviest coat he had and a smile on his face as he carved through snowmen, using this as his training exercise for the day.

They were attacking the island, he felt very few compunctions about cutting them down with superheated plasma in the name of training, no. A slash of his lightsaber here, a few headshots from his blaster as another contingent of snowmen rounded the corner... reducing these things to slush was actually somewhat cathartic. So, no, Kanan wasn't in the warehouse today. But that didn't mean he wasn't getting his lightsaber work in. Not at all.

And today he'd even left the dog on the ship. Sorry, buddy.

[OOC: Open!]

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[thatwaslucky]

In her defense, Rey didn't know there were monsters. Which was why she was calling. It was Friday.

[uncertain_dume]

Hey, Kanan had said she could call him anytime. It just meant that she was going to be treated to the beautiful sound of lightsaber 'vwoom vwoomp's and blaster 'pew pew pew's as Kanan answered.

"Hey, Rey!"

At least his phone still had a charge? Probably not for long. But it did!

[thatwaslucky]

"Hi," she said, frowning. "Am I interrupting?"

Yep!

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan wasn't using a sword, because he wasn't even trying to make it to the warehouse. He was teaching today, an object lesson in the enthalpy of sublimation.

Namely that if a biotic hit a snowman with Cryo, it would freeze to a solid state. When then hit with an inferno round from an assault rifle, it would go from ice to vapor almost instantly.

When he heard the rather distinct sound of a lightsaber, he headed in that direction. Odds were good it was going to be someone he knew.

He grinned a little when he saw Kanan and called, "Having fun?"

He was. Not as much fun as he'd be having later, when the hockey stick and skates came out, but it'd do for now.

[uncertain_dume]

"Always," Kanan called back, firing a volley of blaster bolts at an incoming squad of snowmen that burned clear through three that happened to have the misfortune of almost all standing in a line for his convenience. "This is way better than the poodoo that happened last year."

He was enjoying it, so sue him.

[spectre_alenko]

"Is this what your creepy feeling was about, or do you still have it?" Kaidan asked, absently firing at another snowman without bothering to freeze it first.

Inferno rounds were fun, ok.

[vdistinctive]

Kanan's student was safely tucked away in the school where it was warm, thank you.

Kanan's boss, on the other hand. . . .

Eliot was perfectly familiar with hiking through and fighting in heavy snow drifts. He had the gear to keep warm and dry despite the freezing temperatures, and a carbon steel walking stick with an ice pick built in to keep himself stable while hiking. And smash snow monster heads.

"You know," he said, when he spotted Kanan. "I think that laser sword might be overkill."

[uncertain_dume]

"Sure," Kanan replied, "but it's effective overkill. They come back if you don't melt them."

He turned a grin Eliot's way.

"The laser sword is rarely not overkill, you know."

Not much stood a chance against a plasma blade.

[vdistinctive]

"Yeah, I've notice that." He eyed the various snow drifts surrounding them. "You know ice can refreeze, right?"

He'd been around the block enough times to figure that melting them might just make them take a little longer to come back.

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Raise your hand if you'd started your day by lobbing low-powered bombs off a warehouse roof at groups of snowmen!

And now Sabine was making her way through town to see what else she could take care of, and she'd missed doing stuff like this. She didn't do it for fun or anything, but it felt good to be good at it.

"This looks much easier without a dog," she noted.

[uncertain_dume]

"It's much easier without a dog," Kanan confirmed with a grin. "But only right now. He's going to sulk at me for a good ten minutes when I go back to the Ghost."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Well you are destroying his friends," she teased.

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden could have stayed at home with Issa in the apartment, which was warm and comfortable thanks to Peter's magic. On the other hand, she had a gun and regular practice meant she was a lot better at using it now than she had been when she arrived. She still had some way to go until she reached the level she had been at, but shooting snow men helped with that.

"That's... useful."

She walked around the corner, having followed the sounds of what she assumed to be shots.

That gun wasn't bad, she had to admit. Or the sword. At least against snow men.

[uncertain_dume]

"Very useful," Kanan agreed, giving his lightsaber a spin as he turned a grin toward Seivarden. "Enjoying some target practice, Seivarden?"

Kanan was. Kanan was enjoying it very much.

[1000yearstoolate]

"There are good targets about," Seivarden said. "And I bought a gun a few weeks ago. Not the kind I'm used to but good enough."

She aimed and shot an approaching snowman through the head.

[onefootoutthedoor]

Peebee had not spent a semester in Rosa's class without learning a thing or two, namely that when you needed fire, you field-rigged a flamethrower.

It wasn't pretty, because she'd only had since yesterday to cobble it together, and it only managed two second bursts of fire at a time, but hey. A well placed shockwave knocked away the half melted snow monsters before they could close in on her too far.

"Gotta say this feels wrong on a few levels, but here we are."

[unusual_sith]

"Why wrong?" Lana met her from a side street with a nod, blasting one snow monster with lightning to blow it apart, then sending another into a whirlwind where it would stay until she could get over there (or until anybody else did it damage and broke the stun effect).

"They are attacking us, after all."

[onefootoutthedoor]

"It's weather gone out of control. Sentient weather that wants to eat us, sure, but well . . ." Peebee ducked a flying protest sign, most likely knocked loose from a snow monster's grip by one of her shockwaves, or whatever Lana was doing. "They have valid concerns. It's just too bad they can't be reasoned with."

[spectre_alenko]

"Peebee," Kaidan greeted her with what was possibly slightly manic glee, "How's it going?"

A snowman got too close. Inferno round to the face.

[onefootoutthedoor]

"Oooh, fancy," Peebee remarked, duly impressed by the Inferno round. "Well, you know, other than annoyed and inconvenienced by all of this? Not bad."

Blue light crackled around a nearby snow monster that found itself hurtling through the air toward her . . . and neatly into the path of her flamethrower.

"You look like you're having way too much fun here, Kaidan. Is that possible?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Funny," Kanan mused, aiming his blaster and shooting a nearby snowman until it faintly resembled swiss cheese, and then gave it a shove with the Force to send it splattering against a nearby wall, "you say it feels wrong, but my bad feeling's gone, now."

False alarm, fighting these things was actually kind of great, thanks for your input, Force.

[onefootoutthedoor]

"Melting things is cathartic?" asked Peebee. "I dunno, I feel like this lacks that certain charm the sharks had."

[unusual_sith]

"Hello again."

Despite the snow, Lana was a bit cheerful today. Getting out her aggression on the snowmen was a wonderful thing, and nobody was telling her not to, either - not even the Jedi!

[uncertain_dume]

Really, considering how much the Jedi was enjoying this?

... Caleb had been mostly trained for war, not peace. Moments like this, it tended to show.

"Hello again," he called, giving her a little nod, since his hands were sort of full. "Enjoying yourself, are you?"

[unusual_sith]

"Definitely!" Lana said. She might not have a blaster, but she did have other options than just her lightsaber.

Two snowmen came around the corner, and she blasted one with lightning, causing it to shudder and then break apart.