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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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"What β what is this?! Misa!!"
Howl shakes his leg. Really, like it's on fire, except it isn't.
"Stop this! Stop it! What are you doing to me??"
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Misa looks smug from where she's standing, arms crossed and eyes not leaving him - so the stone affliction only continues to creep up his leg, steadily and numbingly. Clearly, she doesn't take using such a power seriously at all— she takes his pleading as playful.
"How about you forfeit, and I'll think about it?"
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Narrowing his dim blue eyes at the girl, he waves a hand at her and mentally grabs at her clothing, using magic to lift her upwards into the air. Even if he can't influence her body directly, he can grab the inanimate objects wrapped around that body.
"I advise you stop this," Howl growls, "this instant."
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Right, she can't be frightened by things like this— they're going to happen all the time on the battlefield, right? It's certainly not her style to back down from a direct threat, either. She pins her gaze on him, letting the stone grow up past his thigh and up his hip, it's path leading up his waist rather than to his other leg, in attempt to weigh down one side more than the other.
"No way, I'm supposed to be practicing." She huffs, childishly trying to kick her legs and influence her movement in the air, to try to get away from him. "You won't scare me off that easily!"
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So this β whatever exactly this is that she's doing to him β it is something she is not particularly well-versed in yet, suggesting that this is a new power to her. Very interesting. He certainly would not have teased her if had any idea she could do something like this, but Howl won't back down so easily either.
The frown on his face widens into a strained, humorless grin as Misa rises even higher into the air, reaching the same altitude Howl is floating at. The wizard pulls her closer, glaring with eyes that look distinctly lifeless and empty when viewed so close.
"What a curious trick this is," he murmurs. "Can you work it on yourself, to toughen your own body? What would happen if I dropped you, I wonder? Shall we find out?"
Howl would never actually hurt her, of course β not in this context β but considering how very uncomfortable and heavy his leg is feeling, the present context is rapidly evolving.
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"Woah— geez, what's with the serious look all of the sudden? No, let's not find out! Don't drop me!"
Her words are playfully pleading, and, perhaps to her detriment, faintly worried under the comedy she tries to play this off as— it's that somewhat empty look in his eye, which only pushes her to act more lively, more playful, like this is all simply fun and games. Not that she thinks he'd take a silly game like this that seriously... though the possibility that he may try it just to spook her does cross her mind, momentarily. To her credit, she does stop the growth of stone on his body, slowly coming to a halt near his ribcage. Having been pulled closer to him as she has, she selfishly, and with absolutely zero shame or stealth tries to lean as close to him as possible, in the event she can latch onto him before potentially plummeting to the earth.
"That'd be too mean of a prank, don't you think? I know Howl is a nice, fun guy who wouldn't do something so rude..."
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"Oh? Is that what you think of me? I can be quite a monster when I want to be. And when I don't."
Howl narrows his marble-like blue eyes at Misa and presses his fingertips into her side. He seems to be signaling that he isn't going to drop her just yet β the fact that the petrification has stopped certainly helps Misa's case.
The wizard jabs a pointed finger at his fossilized leg and abdomen. "Undo this and I'll put you back down."
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"Okay, but only if you do it gently.... or else. I got what I wanted, anyway..."
Though the note of mischief that should go along with such a phrase is certainly lacking. Obediently, and half out of a genuine desire to hold on to him to feel some sense of secure, she reaches over with a hand to run her palm down his waist where the stretch of stone ends, and, as promised, the enchantment begins to recede, more slowly than it had come on.
"Tag, you're it. Ahaha....?"
She glances up at him with a questioning gaze, clearly trying to gauge how seriously he's taking this all, whether she should try to get away from him, or continue holding on.
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"That you did," Howl murmurs. The threat in his tone of voice is receding too. Really, he's thankful she knows how to make it go away at all β he doesn't know how to undo some of his own spells, so the possibility was not so far-fetched to him β and his anxious anger is subsiding as the stone does.
As the stone fades from his hip, leaving only the one heavy leg left, he feels reassured enough to look back up at Misa. The smile he gives her is still a little strained and annoyed, but it isn't completely humorless and cold anymore.
"When did you learn to do that? And how?"
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She keeps that bit vague, carefully watching his expression as she maintains the dispelling of the enchantment. At the very least, he doesn't seem seriously aggrieved anymore, which is something she can work with. For a moment there, she'd felt a bolt of genuine intimidation, but with the immediate threat of a joking(?) altercation gone, she feels a bit more in control.
"I've just been practicing here and there by myself. I didn't think you'd get so mad, since we're all just playing. I'm sorry..."
And she's definitely not above knitting her brows and putting on as innocent as an expression as she can manage — vying for his forgiveness in every way she can.
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"...And I imagine it would startle just about anyone else, as well." Finally, he lets go of her, taking a half-step away. "I'd wager it will prove to be quite a useful trick."
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"See? I think so too. I think the other side will be really surprised..."
She was already quite self-confident about the matter,but hearing Howl's appraisal only grows her ego. Still, she finds herself wondering about his reaction. When she speaks again, her words are gently curious.
"Is a spell like that really that scary to you? I thought you'd know about all kinds of magic and know how to deal with anything. Since you're a wizard and all."
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"And yes, while I do know about all sorts of magic... that's all knowledge from my world. Much of it is irrelevant in this place, unfortunately."