Sasha works through the pistol safety checks methodically. As she expected from reading the manual, this isn't quite the model she's used to-- a few hundred years will do that-- but invariant tech varies slowly, and the differences are largely cosmetic.
Sasha used to be pretty good at this. She used, if she's being perfectly honest with herself, to be inconsistently good at this. She wonders if she can measure that effect.
Sasha plans out a series of five-round groups, focuses, then deliberately lets herself freak out: Ankat's watching, Kel talk to other Kel, if she tests like an idiot braggart her life will potentially literally be over. Focus back through the stories-- the doe came from the north, the wolf came from the south, east and west and earth and sky make six points to roll the die1-- and fire.
When all is said and done, the spread on that first group is 0.623 of what Sasha manages on the next-best group. Not a statistically reliable measurement, but lucky Sasha is almost twice as good as her everyday self, it seems. She's not sure that was worth subjecting herself to that pitch of self-generated embarrassment, but then again, this isn't life and death, yet.
[1 Sasha's imagined lucky die is an octahedron (d8), not a cube. I know we were all worried about that.]
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Re: Ankat's Academy: Sasha at the range
Date: 2017-07-11 01:38 pm (UTC)Sasha used to be pretty good at this. She used, if she's being perfectly honest with herself, to be inconsistently good at this. She wonders if she can measure that effect.
Sasha plans out a series of five-round groups, focuses, then deliberately lets herself freak out: Ankat's watching, Kel talk to other Kel, if she tests like an idiot braggart her life will potentially literally be over. Focus back through the stories-- the doe came from the north, the wolf came from the south, east and west and earth and sky make six points to roll the die1-- and fire.
When all is said and done, the spread on that first group is 0.623 of what Sasha manages on the next-best group. Not a statistically reliable measurement, but lucky Sasha is almost twice as good as her everyday self, it seems. She's not sure that was worth subjecting herself to that pitch of self-generated embarrassment, but then again, this isn't life and death, yet.
[1 Sasha's imagined lucky die is an octahedron (d8), not a cube. I know we were all worried about that.]