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Entry tags:
- alphys: lover,
- barnaby brooks jr: lover,
- ciel: martyr,
- emet-selch: champion,
- eustace: firebrand,
- father paul hill: martyr,
- gray: innocent,
- howl: celebrant,
- kaeya alberich: lover,
- liem talbott: champion,
- majorita: firebrand,
- minegishi gen: lover,
- misa amane: lover,
- rin yamaoka: firebrand,
- silco: visionary
Kenoma Team Training
WHO: The Kenoma
WHAT: Training Activities
WHERE: Starts at the Citadel, varies per activity
WHEN: Starting on 6/4
WARNINGS: None yet...?
WHAT: Training Activities
WHERE: Starts at the Citadel, varies per activity
WHEN: Starting on 6/4
WARNINGS: None yet...?
After a period of relative quiet, the Kenoma will receive a Communion post of utmost importance:
"Good day, everyone. This is Ciel. We may have received a passing grade from the Regent following the events in Venera, but they have sorely underlined how ill-prepared we were for a proper mission on Horos. Emet-Selch, Eustace, and I are in agreement, thus we have organized a series of training and teambuilding exercises. We ask that you all please attend, there will be... prizes."
OVERVIEW
When trainees arrive in the Courtyard after the Communion, a plethora of training activities await them.
The courtyard itself is sectioned off into areas, one for each training activity for the day. The activities vary from one subject to another, and still manage to be related to their tasks as a Kenoma while still leaving room for "fun". Weapons training, tag, survival training, and strength training are all provided. Kenoma is also welcome to spar on their own if they so choose. (This is not included as a specific prompt to avoid too much PVP, but you can add it in a TL if you like.)
Instructions on each activity will be provided to the participant before they begin. For those who can’t participate or choose to show up for moral support or to dodge the activities, water will be provided so that you may gossip around the proverbial "water cooler".
Each of the three trainers are on hand in some capacity or another to provide instructions on that activity or training on a specific skill.
These exercises can be done at any point and do not necessarily have to be done on a training day with the group. Characters can return after the crowd has dispersed to train on their own or with a chosen individual. The equipment will still be there and trainers (or fellow Kenoma) can be brought here at their leisure.
I. WEAPONS TRAINING
Racks of weapons are lined up on the far side of the courtyard. These range from swords to polearms and rather sizable knives to swords and tonfas. Feel free to grab a weapon of your choosing and have a trainer engage you to show you how to use it. Or, if they have experience, other students may also advise you!
The intent is to train on the proper use of several types of weapons and how to wield them effectively. It may also delve into how to most efficiently disable/neutralize/injure someone in a fight, depending on which teacher you wind up with.
II. AGILITY
There is an open part of the field that has been roped off specifically for...tag! Rope bridges, mud pits, chest-high walls of rock, and even a large wall of ice (?!) dot the field to give people plenty of places to hide and run. (If you would like your own obstacle, feel free to comment to ask so we can make sure it’s within reason of what our characters could do.)
Participants will be provided with a waxy paint to put on their hands which will stain whatever person it comes in contact with with a very luminescent purple glitter. (It washes out, of course!) The last person standing will get a prize of…dubious worth.
Now get running!
III. SURVIVAL
There’s two locations for this: the outdoor courtyard closest to the main citadel kitchen, and the kitchen itself.
For the outdoor location, bundles of tree branches and firewood are provided if needed, students are expected to start their own fire and cook wild game with what they foraged.
A - Foraging
Time for a field trip to the mountains and woods outside Achamoth! Students will be taught basic survival skills including: first aid without the use of magic, how to find and create shelter from natural terrain, how to identify and forage for food that is safe to eat, and how to create traps to catch wild game. Yes, you too can experience the joy of floor meat!
All foraged supplies can subsequently be used for Home Ec cooking lessons.
B - Home Ec
For the kitchen, there's a dedicated area where several Aions at once could attempt cooking with utensils and more elaborate ingredients. There are some servants keeping an eye out just in case and could be flagged down for help or assistance if requested/needed, but otherwise, Aions are free to make use of everything available to their own ends. Is this really useful for "training"? Cooking is a science that shapes and nourishes both body and soul, of course, it's important enough to have a part in the curriculum!
IV. STRENGTH
Step up to the starting line with one partner. One person will carry the other across a small section of the course to the finish line at the opposite end. There are a few minor obstacles such as walls and puddles. Nothing that you have to put too much effort into getting around. The person who can see will guide the person carrying them to the finish line using only their voice. Try not to bump into anything.
If you feel *really* ambitious, extra weights will be provided. Or you can forgo the rules and carry two people (or more?). Your choice, really.
V. REFRESHMENTS
For those who are not athletically inclined - or claim not to be athletically inclined - a large chunk of ice with refreshments dotted throughout awaits you on the sidelines. They will take a little effort to free them. Most will be freed with a little pull while others are completely encased in ice and may not be worth the effort.
Feel free to hand out refreshments, gossip about the participants, or scheme to your hearts' content.
no subject
[It's an interesting announcement that goes out, calling them all for team building and training. More the kind of thing she'd expected before that party, and maybe something she should've put more effort into before they all spread across Venera to investigate in their own ways. Alphys isn't sure that combat abilities were exactly the area the thing they were lacking back there, considering how things went down... But with the rumors that some of the Pleroma will be seeking revenge, she can't really justify ducking out on all of this.
That said, she does shake her head and try to duck out of weapons training.]
N-No way, why would I carry around a sword? I would d-definitely like to be able to, uh, disable people... But I already have magic??
⚡Agility Competition
[This is more her speed, as it were. She's short, she scurries when she puts her mind to it, and she spent ages of clambering around in the piles of trash in Waterfall. As competitions go, it's her best shot. The main problem is...
By habit, she keeps her hands clutched up to her chest, close to where her clothing usually covers her shard. The delay of extending her arms to reach out to her competitors is enough delay for them to usually dodge. And it's even worse when they're people she finds a bit attractive, where the notion of just grabbing at them causes her to blush. It's easier for her to stay in the game by playing defensively, dashing out of others' grasps... but prolonging the game won't go well with her stamina. Maybe it's best to look at it as endurance training as much as agility.]
⚡ Survival Training - hillside outside Achamoth
[This is a new challenge, one that the weeks in the city and time traveling on the water haven't prepared her for. It's obvious from the start that Alphys has never spent a day in the woods in her life, as she stares around at the brush and undergrowth in search of the food they're supposed to forage.]
This looks... so much easier in shows.
[Thankfully they're not just being tossed in the forest to survive a night, the way characters in her show might have... It's proper instructions, explaining things before they start and giving feedback after their various successes and failures. At least building makeshift shelters with the various greenery is clear enough, as is the building of traps for game - once she experiments enough with the different branches and stems, testing for elastic strength and so on.]
⚡ Refreshments
[As much as she's trying to take the need for improvement seriously, the sheer amount of competing at unfamiliar things gets to her eventually. Alphys spends a while ducked down by the ice chunk, movements slower the longer she spends next to it...
But after a while, she grabs one of the weapons from the training she tried to avoid, and takes it to the ice. There's a particular refreshment buried in a couple inches in that seems like it'd hit the spot, and she's putting more effort into chipping at the ice than she ever put into attacking the targets. Incentive matters, huh?]
survival!
Shows...? What kinds of shows?
no subject
[It occurs to Alphys, even as she says it that maybe Gray doesn't know. This world doesn't have film or televisions, maybe Gray's from a similar world. Maybe instead of truth-or-dare parties, they should try holding movie nights... She shakes the idea off.]
Shows with... Camping between adventures, or isekais into videogame worlds, or... th-things like that! They just rub sticks to make fires, and a-all the food is just... standing out. Sparkling.
no subject
[ A spark of recognition lights in Gray's eyes. If there's one piece of modern technology she's at least somewhat familiar with, it's television. She knows that shows make up all kinds of things for entertainment, unlike the only television she can trust, the weather report. ]
What's... um, an "isekai"?
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[The occasional computers with functional hard drives she'd managed to pull info from, over the years, hadn't had a clear consensus on that. She shakes off the question, and with her enthusiasm much of her stammer.]
Anyway! They're 'other world' stories. So... Stories where people wind up in another world! Or, go back and forth, between theirs and another world. Whether that's... another planet, out in space, or, um, another l-layer of reality, or even something that was fictional to them! Exploring things like... who they are, with completely different expectations o-on them, or what a world of their hopes and fears might look like!
no subject
If I'm understanding correctly... that sounds like our current situation.
[ To think people have already envisioned stories like the bizarre one they're in now. The human mind is so powerful. ]
How do those shows compare to what's happening to us...?
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Ehehe, I thought the same thing! But, um...
[Scaled hands wring in front of her, a claw reaching up to press against her chest - where here shirt covers most of her shard.]
In other w-ways... They're not very similar at all. M-More like, I guess, the Pleroma think things are.
[Fighting to preserve the worlds that are, returning to a better past with only bits improved, rather than starting over again. In those stories... They'd really be in the antagonistic shoes, huh?]
no subject
Does that make you feel like maybe we're in the wrong?
[ Alphys sounds a little nervous, so maybe she feels a certain way about it. Gray, for her part, just sounds gently curious; she'll be one of the last to try to play thought police for the Regent around here. ]
refreshments!!
He took a sip from his flask, ]
You know, there are easier ones.
[ He says. Obviously. What's the difference between any of them? He doesn't know, but then again, he's day drinking from a flask -- it's probably not anything with electrolytes -- if he even knew what those were. ]
Or are you hoping...extra credit, if you get one of the hard to reach drinks?
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Ehehe, I wasn't... I wasn't thinking about that. But it wouldn't surprise me if they did!
[It'd be of a piece with a lot of the other Kenoma truths, after all - hard work and discomfort are real and necessary, and comfort... Well, it's been on her mind for some days now, since Binghe offered that cynical perspective on the Innocence's offer. That most of the comforts of her old life were... well, they weren't real. Hopes she wasn't pursuing, stories and drawings that were all fiction...
She shakes off the mood and shrugs.]
But that one looks... It reminds me of, something I used to make, back home. I bet it won't taste anything like the same, but... I'm curious, all the same.
no subject
Seeking comfort in the familiar, are you? [ He asked, his tone not mocking, but it's riding on the surface of that tone, it's close. This man looked... old, and more comfortable than any of them should be, lounging to the side of the refreshments -- it's clear he hasn't bothered participating in any of the actual events. ]
Is it worth the struggle? I would think working smarter is more...efficient.
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...Y-You're not, um, wrong about that. But! But, that's not... It's for the exercise. It seems like... struggle is always part of that? I don't know how to exercise efficiently.
[There's an inkling of pleading, at the end - if he has hints for that, rather than hints of mocking, she'd love to hear it.]
no subject
[ He said, with a soft scoff. He's old, clearly, and looks like he would probably be blown over by a sharp wind. Maybe in a furor, he could kick a few average lugs around, but...
He shifted, slightly. ]
My recommendation? Bring your own drink.
[ He lifted his flask, and shook it. ]
Work smarter, not harder, hm? Don't run when you can sneak, don't attack from the front when there's surprised.
[ Sorry, Alphys. He's just a shitty old crime boss. ]