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Tweak says, "Viva la revolution!"

Princess Merida (meridadunbroch) wrote in madisonvalley,
@ 2017-05-21 20:57:00

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!log, !open, ~2017 may, ~40 points, ~~merida (meridadunbroch), ~~sam goode (begoode)

WHO: Merida and OPEN
WHAT: Shopping for a new bow
WHEN: Sunday
WHERE: Neil's Creek Guns and Ammo
WARNINGS Merida
STATUS: Open/Ongoing

The events of the past few weeks had totally exhausted Merida. She'd worried about Duncan, and Methos, and the ones who had been kidnapped without knowing what in the world she could do about it. As good as she was with a bow and an arrow, and as tough as she often thought she was, she was entirely incapable of taking care of something like that. It had made her feel weak, and useless, and entirely out of place here.

But she absolutely refused to get mopey. It wasn't going to happen. She liked this place, and she wasn't going to get homesick just because things didn't go her way. That would make her every bit the spoiled princess she'd been before the life-changing time she'd had with her mom being a bear. She liked to think she'd learned from that, and learned a lot.

So instead of burying her head in the sand, she was looking for a new bow. The one she'd bought when she'd arrived here had been cheap and had acted as such. The aim was off, the balance was wrong, and she was afraid that the string was going to snap each time that she pulled it back. It had just seemed so expensive at the time, before she'd gotten used to inflation.

Now she realized that to get a decent bow, she was giong to have to pay for it. And she was willing to. So she was standing at the glass counter, looking at the more expensive bows hanging on the wall behind the cash register. She was examining each one carefully, asking the clerk to take one down so she could hold it and see how it felt, and then another one, and then another one.

She sighed. She couldn't find the exact one she wanted. They didn't have one just like the one she had back home. So she turned to another customer in the store.

"Which one of these do you think fits me best?"

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begoode
2017-05-22 05:13 pm UTC (link)

"Hmmm?" Sam was examining a compound bow, seeing how it felt, seeing if it felt okay to use. His arms showed recently the work he had been putting in to become stronger, better. And part of that was archery. He worked at it every day and his cheap bow was showing the strain.

So here he was, and he glanced at her as she spoke.

"I, ah, am not sure. Do you have a preferred use for it? Are you looking for distance or for power?" He had slowly begun learning the difference himself and just barely knew, really knew, what those meant.

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	meridadunbroch 2017-05-25 05:47 pm UTC (link)
	"I'd prefer both," she said, frowning a little as she looked at them. Distance wasn't much use without power, and power wasn't much use without distance. Although if she had to choose, she'd rather it be strong and do the job than go a long way. "Power, I guess," she said. "Ah, but I miss my own! It was better than any of these." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

begoode
2017-05-25 05:54 pm UTC (link)

He knelt in front of the display, examining each and the way it felt, the way the little descriptions spoke of them and sighed. "I'm not sure. This one feels harder to pull, which could speak of more power, or just of a stiffer wood. I'm still new to archery, I mean, compared to anyone who would be expert at it."

He nodded to her.

"Have you considered putting a call out for someone to make you one? Surely one of those here in the town could do so." Now that he thought of it, that might be the way he could go, too.

He took a gentle careful draw, pushing himself into stance, then frowned. No, that one didn't feel right either.

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	meridadunbroch 2017-05-25 06:05 pm UTC (link)
	"I could," she said slowly. "But is there anyone here in Madison Valley who knows archery well enough to make a decent one?" Her tone suggested that she really didn't believe there could be. "I had one back home that was perfect. Sad thing that it didn't come with me." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	begoode 2017-05-25 06:06 pm UTC (link)
	He tested another as she spoke. "I don't know, but you won't find out for sure until you ask." He rubbed his chin, and settled the bow he had been holding down. "Maybe it will eventually show up. Who made the one back home?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	meridadunbroch 2017-05-25 06:28 pm UTC (link)
	"An expert," she said. "Someone that my father commissioned just for the job." Was she spoiled? Why yes, yes she was. "But the techniques for making bows seem so different now..." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	begoode 2017-05-25 06:32 pm UTC (link)
	Sam nodded. "There are many people from many places here. One might be such." "Yeah. A lot of these are also made for people just sporting. Like just shooting at targets for fun. So, they may not be what you are looking for." He wasn't happy with what he saw either. (Reply to this) (Parent)