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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 canβt 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 itβs 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 ofβ¦dubious worth.
Now get running!
III. SURVIVAL
Thereβs 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.
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Martial prowess? It's just magic, really. Nothing warlike about it.
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Magic prowess, then? [ He said, with a wave of his hand, dismissive. ] Won't it be warlike, when it's used for the purpose we intend to use it for? They're not out there practicing because they enjoy the sunshine, after all.
[ The Sunshine, for some reason, is said with the most derision a person can offer, for it. ]
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[ Howl looks back out at the field, with its sections dedicated to weapons and strength and whatnot. Silco is right about that, of course, and there's really no room to argue. But aside from cheating with the bow, all Howl did was some very simple hovering and telekinesis.
When he looks back at Silco, he peers at him curiously. ]
The exercises set up here are... not suited for the magic I use when it comes to war. [ He takes a sip from his glass. ] But if you're envisioning that we'll win this war with some simple low-altitude flying magic, I'm all ears.
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That's not the most impressive thing you can do?
[ He asked. Beyond Xishen, and what little that he'd seen at Venera, Silco's perception of "magic" is mostly restrained to books, or Hextech -- which really just let people teleport across Runeterra.
Even the small cantrips they were able to do was...astounding, to him. ]
Honestly, in my world, even that would give you an advantage. I'm not certain I have the...imagination to imagine much more.
[ Not true, but... it's more self-depreciating than a lie. ]
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Hm. Not been keeping up with the capabilities of your fellow Aions, then, I'm guessing.
[ That, too, Howl also doubts, but he wants to see how Silco reacts to being told he's behind the curve. ]
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Here though? There was use in being underestimated. Nobody knew, yet, that he'd started to develop his own powers, beyond the times when he could pinch the end of his cigar and light it on fire. ]
I'm afraid it's hard to see everyone in action, prior to a day like today. We were all so...terribly caught up in our own work, in Venera.
That's the advantage of events like this, isn't it? We can learn what we each can do, to better serve the Regent?
[ He rubbed his thumb against his forefinger and middle finger, slowly. Deliberately, like he was considering something. ]
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[ It's such a reasonable excuse that Howl hardly has any room to question it, but at the same time, it's the most obvious. A part of him simply doesn't believe Silco. Unless one assumes he's an idiot β which, the old man certainly does not project β then it still feels implausible for him to be completely clueless. And if his assumption is correct, then there's more to learn from the fact that Silco is feigning ignorance.
Howl may not have suspected anything of Silco specifically following the unknown source of the Regent's knowledge, leading to his painful re-educatation, but... this has more to do with the re-educatation itself preventing him from caring about whoever ratted him out than Howl being too clueless to know such a thing must have happened. He still doesn't suspect Silco in this moment, but he is making note of his odd attitude and statements. ]
Have you been taking advantage of these training exercises, then? [ let's see what you can do, old man. ]
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[ He shrugged. ] I mostly pulled out my own. It's a little more comfortable and familiar, using one's own weapon. Particularly if we're to be fighting an enemy so experienced in combat, such as some of the Pleroma who've done some of our brethren in.
[ Estinien comes to mind, but Silco is -- for once -- thinking more of the recent escapade in Venera, than Howl's own duel with him. ]
I'm afraid I'm not much of a fighter, though. I would only use my knife in self defense. Especially as many of our opponents become more powerful. I'm afraid I started with one disadvantage too many.
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Fair enough. [ He sips his drink, openly looking Silco over during the moment of silence. ] You do know you can learn magic here if you really wanted to, though. You're an Aion.
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[ But...magic was difficult to conceptualize to a man like Silco. He'd been slowly working his abilities on his own, what little he had. It was a bit like learning how to do a new skill, when one had little of the basis to do more than muck about, and make mistakes until they learned something in there. The same way that his daughter had been self-taught with her gadgetry, Silco was now building a foundation for magic. ]
It's a bit like learning a brand new skill, isn't it? We don't have that where I'm from. [ Mostly? It's difficult to explain Hextech, and Silco only profited from its existence, he wasn't exactly going to be able to explain the principles. ] I've got a bit to make up for, before I'm going to be anywhere near competent.
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[ With a cool smile, Howl has comfortably slid back into his charming yet distinctly closed-off default. While the wizard may not know the other man very well, he does get the feeling that Silco has given more thought to some of this than he's letting on, and that inclines him to caution. Of course, what Howl might really be picking up on is the lingering remnants in the air of something else, of his delivery to the Regent at Silco's hands. But, it's such an intangible, vague vibe, and Howl is so far from caring who was responsible for it, much less who it was, that he does not connect the dots. ]
You could always ask one of the magic-users for help figuring it out, too. [ Howl does of course include himself in that group, but he conspicuously does not volunteer. ]
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[ He asked, but his tone, very clearly, is mocking more than serious. He noticed that Howl didn't offer, and Silco isn't about to ask. Asking for "help" is a weakness, in Zaun. To do so means one must rely on someone else. An antithesis, to everything he man is. ]
Don't worry, I fully intend to learn how to use what powers come available to me.
[ Silco lifted his real eyebrow, then, as if to ask: was there any doubt? ]
If it's needed, I'll seek out the appropriate...tutor, to assist with mastering such things.
[ If it's needed, of course. He fully intended to master it on his own. ]
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[ Howl's short, mirthful laugh is genuine, contrasting with his guarded smile β which he reverts back to as soon as the moment is over. What a relief it is when a person gets what he means to say-without-saying, and for it to be an older person that might have been on the brink of asking some boring task of him? Even better. ]
I shall look forward to seeing what you can come up with, Silco. Who knows what sleeping power may lie within us, hm? Within you. I'd love to see it.
[ is this a vaguely passive-aggressive thing to be saying? maybe β it's hard to tell what Howl means when he's wearing that careful visage again. ]
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[ It's a thoughtful sound, in response. The sort that's short, almost a grunt of acknowledgement as much as it is thoughtful. Although he has found some hidden power, it's not nearly enough yet --
Then again, when one was a maw of desire for power, every scrap of it was consumed, and then one looked toward the next offering. ]
We'll see what I can drum up, hm? [ He took a sip from his flask, then. ] Hopefully I'll be able to shock and awe, one of these days.