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{{a|opcoboone|}}The Armourer is the principle munitions expert at the settlement. No one knows her name. Legend has it that she was a key protagonist in the battle for Bretton Woods, and is a dead eye sniper who could put 3 bullet swaps in a [[TARGET]]. She fits out all Opco’s bump stock GMSLAs.
{{a|opcoboone|}}The Armourer is the principle munitions expert at the settlement. No one knows her name. Legend has it that she was a key protagonist in the battle for Bretton Woods, and is a dead eye sniper who could put 3 bullet swaps in a [[TARGET]]. She fits out all Opco’s bump stock GMSLAs.
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Hare looked the kid up and down. His eyes were wide. He had a hunger to learn. It aggrieved him to see this undirected, crackling energy. He was working on a handheld device of some kind. The boy looked up. “Finished. I done this one.”
{{smallcaps|Hare looked the}} kid up and down. He was working on a handheld device of some kind. His eyes were wide. He had a hunger to learn. It aggrieved him to see this undirected, crackling energy.
 
{{indent|The boy looked up. “Finished. I done this one.”


“What? Give that here.”
“What? Give that here.”


Barberazza tossed over the piece. Hare inspected it. Turned it over in his hands. The workmanship was rough, but sound. Put together with a young man’s vigour. The structure was sturdy The defs were right. The cross refs dovetailed. Hare lined up the counterparts and took a sighter. Straight. Clean.  
Barberazza tossed over the piece. Hare inspected it. The workmanship was rough, but sound. Put together with a young man’s vigour. The structure was sturdy: defs were clean — zilch redundancies. Cross-refs dovetailed — field-embedded, auto-updating. The multi-level numbering was rudimentary but true. Hare lined up the counterpart assembly and took a sighter. Straight. Clean.  


“Yeah, that’s not bad, but there’s not a lot that could go wrong on a calc agent appointment side letter. You got a bit to learn yet, lad.”
“Yeah, that’s not bad, but there’s not a lot that can go wrong on a [[Calculation agent|calc agent]] appointment [[side letter]]. You got a bit to learn yet, lad.”


The boy looked at him with blazing, fierce excitement. “It’s all I want, sir — to learn. Whatever you got, I’m buying.”
Hare tossed it back.


The kids had it bad. Hare thought it was time to have some fun. He chuckled to himself, rustled in the the hopper and pulled out a lightweight chro-moly aluminium engager with a non-disclosure mechanic.
The boy looked at him with blazing, fierce excitement. “That’s all I ''want'', sir — to learn. Whatever you got, I’m buying!”


He tossed it to the boy. “What do you make of this one then, lad?”
The kid had it bad. Hare thought it was time to have some fun. He chuckled to himself, dug into the the hopper and pulled out a lightweight chro-moly [[engagement letter|engagement iron]] with a [[silencer]].  


Barberazza took it low, with his left hand. Reflex catch — he moved with graceful economy. Hare could tell he was a natural.
He tossed it over.  “What do you make of this one then, lad?”


The boy weighed the piece in his hands, flipped it over, locked his elbows, splayed and took a sighter.
The boy took it low, with his left hand. Reflex catch — he moved with graceful economy. You could already see he was a natural. He weighed the piece in his hands, flipped it over, locked his elbows, splayed and peered down the boilerplate.


“Well?”
“Well?”


The boy nodded  “Nice pick-up. Handles smoothly, though a touch front-heavy — I guess on account of that front load definitions module.”
The boy nodded  “Nice pick-up. Handles smoothly, though a touch front-heavy — I guess on account of that front-loaded defs module.”


“Go on?”
“Go on?”
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“Oh, he knows all right. You’re one of our bright young things. Now, listen to me: as long as you don't touch anything, you can go inside. I know you respect it, but this is a sacred space, understand? There is much vital wisdom here. Catalogued and arranged carefully. Some of the scripts are extremely fragile.”
“Oh, he knows all right. You’re one of our bright young things. Now, listen to me: as long as you don't touch anything, you can go inside. I know you respect it, but this is a sacred space, understand? There is much vital wisdom here. Catalogued and arranged carefully. Some of the scripts are extremely fragile.”


“Oh yes sir, yes, yes of course I understand it.”
“Oh yes sir, yes! Yes, of course I understand it.”


“All right, lad. In you go. Head down to row five, column eight. I’ll be down presently. And don't touch anything.”
“All right, lad. In you go. Head down to row five, column eight. I’ll be down presently. And don't touch anything.”
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Barberazza ran his hand along the the mahogany shelves, in awestruck wonder at the ancient wisdom they contained. A record of every conflict, every situation, every skirmish, every desperate last stand that the heroes of eagles quad head ever va taken part in. Here work manuals to deal with every situation. Punishments dating back decades carefully manuscript of, marked up, adjusted, rider inserts, side letters, variations, accessions. Everything was here: the sum total of eagles squad learning.
Barberazza ran his hand along the the mahogany shelves, in awestruck wonder at the ancient wisdom they contained. A record of every conflict, every situation, every skirmish, every desperate last stand that the heroes of eagles quad head ever va taken part in. Here work manuals to deal with every situation. Punishments dating back decades carefully manuscript of, marked up, adjusted, rider inserts, side letters, variations, accessions. Everything was here: the sum total of eagles squad learning.
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