Killing a Dragon in the modern day without using modern firearms.

[Alfir]

Just how would you kill a dragon without the aid of modern firearms?
Definition of Modern firearms: “any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive; the frame or receiver of any such weapon; any firearm muffler or firearm silencer; or any destructive device. Such term does not include an antique firearm.”

Weapons available: Anything you can see in a school, except any kind of firearms.
Choose your team, folks! Setting: School Campus.
Team 1: Cheerleaders (Number limit: 6)
Team 2: Geeks (Number limit: 6)
Team 3: Nerds (Number limit: 7)
Team 4: Sporties (Number limit: 4)
Team 5: Teachers (Number limit: 5)

No supernatural elements and heavy sci-fi elements. Basic earthly physics works... if that's anything new.
Dragon is a size of a school bus, can breathe fire two times a day, can fly, and have sensitive hearing and eyesight.
It's a western dragon like the one in the lord of the rings.
Anything modernly lethal is a no.

 

[SakeVision]

Depends. What is dragon weak to?


Is it a water dragon, so we can fry it with electricity?
Is it an overgrown lizard, so we can unleash mustard gas on it?
Perhaps the dragon is weak to radiation, then we feed it uranium. If feeding it uranium doesn't work, we drop uranium on it. If it doesn't work, we lure it near nuclear power plant and cause a meltdown.
We lure it to underground mine and then cave it in.
We ram unmanned aircraft into it. Or manned, if you wanna be edgy.
We tie it up to a rocket in sleep and launch it into orbit.
Or we tie it up to industrial equipment and just tear it apart like in certain guro porn videos.
We build huge chainsaw and equip a tank with it.
We pour a lot of oil on it, or better, drop/lure the dragon to oil mine and then ignite it. What a waste of oil tho.
We study its anatomy and develop a dragon-killing virus.

 

[paradigmfriday]

Let's say my school is in construction/renovation and the foundation for the fairly spacious basement/underground tunnels (for snow days) aren't quite finished.

Cheerleaders are used as lures. The strongest of the cheerleaders, and the more agile Jocks, use flasks of acid to help melt its wings. Geeks harry the beast throwing bricks to draw its aggro anytime its about to finish off the cheerleaders and jokes below. The nerds brew flash grenades using flower from the school's kitchens. Some of the nerds work with the teachers to slowly fill the basement with water, flour, and cement. Other teachers are quietly running around the school turning the gas in the kitchen and the labs. Two teachers drive through the school's hallways and classes, purposefully ramming into support beams.

No clue how many of the group survives but the dragon is eventually buried under a fair amount of rubble. Potentially most of the group can survive if we're able to ruin the dragon's wings, and blind it with the acids and bases from the school's labs, and hammer its movement by trapping it in the pool of slowly hardening goop.

 

[Daitengu]

So, your telling me to McGyver a Gauss gun or a catapult to launch propane tanks.

 

[Lloyd]

Just inject it with the covid vaccine.

 

[atgongumerki]

Why would I murder the school's pet dragon?

 

[TotallyHuman]

Just how would you kill a dragon without the aid of modern firearms?
Definition of Modern firearms: “any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive; the frame or receiver of any such weapon; any firearm muffler or firearm silencer; or any destructive device. Such term does not include an antique firearm.”

Weapons available: Anything you can see in a school, except any kind of firearms.
Choose your team, folks! Setting: School Campus.
Team 1: Cheerleaders (Number limit: 6)
Team 2: Geeks (Number limit: 6)
Team 3: Nerds (Number limit: 7)
Team 4: Sporties (Number limit: 4)
Team 5: Teachers (Number limit: 5)

No supernatural elements and heavy sci-fi elements. Basic earthly physics works... if that's anything new.
Dragon is a size of a school bus, can breathe fire two times a day, can fly and have sensitive hearing and eye sight.

Your definition of a firearm is too broad, like I thought making an explosive out of the chemical ingredients from the school but it won't fit.
Your dragon is also pretty vaguely defined. How much does it need to eat? Is it a Dragon or just a fancy dinosaur? How tough is it? How high is it endurance? How intelligent is it?

 

[MyukiMruieast]

*bathe in odorless poison and let the dragon eat you.†

 

[vaurwyn]

Poison. It would take a lot to kill a bus-size creature, but it if far from impossible. Depending on the school, it may have all of the required materials in the science lab. The problem is how to administer it, if it's preferred diet is living classmates, and the fact that it would probably take a while.
Another method would be to wait for it to sleep, then explode it. Explosive are not that hard to make, and I will look down on any science teacher that does not know how to make :), but with limited materials, it may not be that powerful. In that case, forget about going through its hard scales, and burn its wings so that it cannot fly.
After that, you should at least be able to outrun a huge lumbering creature that is not designed to run on land. Knowing that, lure it towards one of the big buildings of your school, one with a back entrance. If it is strong enough to break through the wall, lead it around until it makes the building collapse upon him, always making sure to be ready to escape to safety before being crushed.
Otherwise, electricity is your best bet. Even if the current in your electric outlet is not enough, most campuses have a central power room that should deliver a huge current. Now you have to prepare a trap that electrocutes the dragon, and lure it in it.
As for the team I would choose, Teachers, nerds and geeks all the way. Physical strength, flexibility or popularity is not going to make a difference in front of a dragon, this is an issue that requires a lot of knowledge and careful planning. Well, maybe one sport guy to lead the dragon around to the traps you have prepared?

 

[Alfir]

Depends. What is dragon weak to?


Is it a water dragon, so we can fry it with electricity?
Is it an overgrown lizard, so we can unleash mustard gas on it?
Perhaps the dragon is weak to radiation, then we feed it uranium. If feeding it uranium doesn't work, we drop uranium on it. If it doesn't work, we lure it near nuclear power plant and cause a meltdown.
We lure it to underground mine and then cave it in.
We ram unmanned aircraft into it. Or manned, if you wanna be edgy.
We tie it up to a rocket in sleep and launch it into orbit.
Or we tie it up to industrial equipment and just tear it apart like in certain guro porn videos.
We build huge chainsaw and equip a tank with it.
We pour a lot of oil on it, or better, drop/lure the dragon to oil mine and then ignite it. What a waste of oil tho.
We study its anatomy and develop a dragon-killing virus.

It's a western dragon like the one in the lord of the rings.

So, your telling me to McGyver a Gauss gun or a catapult to launch propane tanks.

Nah, anything that is modernly lethal is a no.

Your definition of a firearm is too broad, like I thought making an explosive out of the chemical ingredients from the school but it won't fit.
Your dragon is also pretty vaguely defined. How much does it need to eat? Is it a Dragon or just a fancy dinosaur? How tough is it? How high is it endurance? How intelligent is it?

Anything that is modernly lethal is a no, and heavy sci-fi is a no. The dragon is carnivorous, the stereotypical type in western fantasies that eat sheep, goats, and men alike. It sometimes leaves the campus to hunt food within a 50km range. Expect no rescue, and you are in hiding. The dragon is dragonian tough, like in the legends, how their scales are impervious to steel weapons. The same goes for endurance, like what we would expect from a bigger dinousair. Like in the legends and stereotypes, they are aloof, egotistical, greedy, and chaotic. Expect the one from the lord of the rings.

 

[SakeVision]

Ok, so like from lotr?

Easy. The dragon breaths in the polluted air once chokes and dies.

 

[Daitengu]

So what you mean is cold weapons only? No Anarchist Cookbook stuff like knockoff napalm or bleach& ammonia poison gas?

Well, then we be truly fucked. Can't exactly give it coin minted from Uranium and have it die of radiation either.

 

[MyukiMruieast]

Are there any pesticides for lizards? If there is, we better let this dragon eat it. And, we can also go get some mercury.

 

[CarburetorThompson]

Weapons available: Anything you can see in a school, except any kind of firearms.

You’ve clearly never been to an American high school

 

[T.K._Paradox]

I am sorry to say this but all those people are fucked, you would need to disable its wings and restrain it from attacking, and then wail on its soft parts with everything you got.

Chances are those people are going to be screwed.

The people with the best chance are going to be the nerds or teachers. They would need to lure the creature to the ground somehow and get it into the school. Restrain it with climbing ropes and weights from the gym. And use cleaning supplies and other chemicals as an alternative (i.e. mustard gas) way of dealing with the monster if bludgeoning it in the eyes with weights doesn't work.

If your school has a metal shop like mine did you could break out the oxyacetylene torch and try to cut through the dragon when it is restrained. Or you know, turn the oxygen tank into a rocket.

 

[Alfir]

You’ve clearly never been to an American high school

Truly.

 

[Bartun]

Just how would you kill a dragon without the aid of modern firearms?
Definition of Modern firearms: “any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive; the frame or receiver of any such weapon; any firearm muffler or firearm silencer; or any destructive device. Such term does not include an antique firearm.”

Weapons available: Anything you can see in a school, except any kind of firearms.
Choose your team, folks! Setting: School Campus.
Team 1: Cheerleaders (Number limit: 6)
Team 2: Geeks (Number limit: 6)
Team 3: Nerds (Number limit: 7)
Team 4: Sporties (Number limit: 4)
Team 5: Teachers (Number limit: 5)

No supernatural elements and heavy sci-fi elements. Basic earthly physics works... if that's anything new.
Dragon is a size of a school bus, can breathe fire two times a day, can fly, and have sensitive hearing and eyesight.
It's a western dragon like the one in the lord of the rings.
Anything modernly lethal is a no.

Why kill it when you could negotiate with it? You said he is like the one of TLOTR.

If it's not the negotiating type, then you can lure it to an ambush with some cows as bait, and run it through with a car at full speed with a giant, pointed pole attached to its roof. You didn't forbid cars am I right?

 

[lnv]

Just how would you kill a dragon without the aid of modern firearms?
Definition of Modern firearms: “any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive; the frame or receiver of any such weapon; any firearm muffler or firearm silencer; or any destructive device. Such term does not include an antique firearm.”

Weapons available: Anything you can see in a school, except any kind of firearms.
Choose your team, folks! Setting: School Campus.
Team 1: Cheerleaders (Number limit: 6)
Team 2: Geeks (Number limit: 6)
Team 3: Nerds (Number limit: 7)
Team 4: Sporties (Number limit: 4)
Team 5: Teachers (Number limit: 5)

No supernatural elements and heavy sci-fi elements. Basic earthly physics works... if that's anything new.
Dragon is a size of a school bus, can breathe fire two times a day, can fly, and have sensitive hearing and eyesight.
It's a western dragon like the one in the lord of the rings.
Anything modernly lethal is a no.

Does it have a reverse scale?

Also, the limit is modern firearms by definition of ejecting projectiles by an explosion. So that means nuclear weapons are a go, chemical weapons are a go, and electromagnetic weapons are also a go?

 

[Alfir]

Why kill it when you could negotiate with it? You said he is like the one of TLOTR.

If it's not the negotiating type, then you can lure it to an ambush with some cows as bait, and run it through with a car at full speed with a giant, pointed pole attached to its roof. You didn't forbid cars am I right?

Possible... Just a question. Do we have cows on school campuses?

Does it have a reverse scale?

Also, the limit is modern firearms by definition of ejecting projectiles by an explosion. So that means nuclear weapons are a go, chemical weapons are a go, and electromagnetic weapons are also a go?

Yes, it has a reverse scale. Cars are good to go, but nukes are a no-go. We could use chemical weapons though, like a poop bomb.

 

[Bartun]

Possible... Just a question. Do we have cows on school campuses?

Yes, it has a reverse scale. Cars are good to go, but nukes are a no-go. We could use chemical weapons though, like a poop bomb.

Oh, it's limited only to campus items? I guess if it isn't some sort of rural campus then you won't find cows nearby. Then someone will have to act as bait for the dragon.