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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 canโt 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 itโs 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 ofโฆdubious worth.
Now get running!
III. SURVIVAL
Thereโs 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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It's true that we were up against a powerful being, and none of us could have prepared for the influence it had over us. But if we work on our ability to coordinate as a team, we can still offer a more unified response against whatever enemies we face in future.
[That kind of trust won't get built up over cocktail parties, helpful as those might be for networking and morale; practical measures are really the best way to develop a rapport for a team that intends to wage a war together.]
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That's something we've had difficulties with since the beginning. We were...fussed at, for lack of a better phrase, by the Regent shortly after our arrival. For difficulties like that.
[Though he is, in hindsight, not entirely certain what the Regent thought was going to happen after a couple of weeks of starvation and suffering. It isn't enough to make him question the Regent's displeasure, exactly, because the whole thing was a shitshow; besides, his own admonishment had been exceptionally light. But there's still a vague sense of "I don't know what you expected" around the whole thing.]
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If I'm understanding correctly, the Regent always issues orders, but doesn't assume some kind of position of central command. We're simply meant to come up with our own strategies or solutions to how to engage with a given situation.
[And then berated after the fact. It's a weirdly passive style of leadership, at least compared to what Barnaby's used to.]
Still, that kind of teamwork requires trust. It's the kind of thing that will take a long time to build, if it happens at all.
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[He knows he did. Amos. Matt. A few others. And then there was whatever the hell Emet-Selch thought he was doing.]
Physical difficulties and mental hurdles are one thing. Morality itself is a more difficult thing to consciously fix. I do think that most of us know better by now, at least with regards to being outspoken in our objections, but it's a difficulty we should be aware of in one another either way.
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[He'd heard of Emet-Selch's stunt, but he was unaware the rest of them had many qualms with what they were doing. Whatever their true thoughts were, they'd learned remarkably quickly how to appear completely loyal to the Regent by the time Barnaby and the other new arrivals showed up, he thinks.]
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[...Sorry if that's awkward, Barnaby, given your everything here. But yeah, the first wave here were kind of a collective mess when it came to ideals, largely because they'd just spent weeks suffering and also because their orders were an extremely brief "Welp, these people hate you now, either impede or destroy them."]
I won't lie, I was also reprimanded - for the, uh, pacifism thing, and because I believed that it would be better for us overall to focus on conversion rather than force. I still believe that.
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[Barnaby is proof of that, not that he's willing to admit it to anyone who doesn't know already. Though he does look distinctly uncomfortable and turns his gaze away to look across the training grounds.]
Are you willing to be reprimanded again for what you believe in?
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[And it does, in its own weird way; he isn't sure that he likes that answer, but it's the way it has to be here, he's fairly sure.]
I was told to act in accordance with our missions, and not interfere with our goals. That includes making exceptions.
Though... I don't know if I have it in me to kill one of the other Aions. They feel too much like our own, even if they're on the opposing side. If I'm disciplined for that, so be it.