Training at Sunrise

[buildyourworld]

Who: Tieria and YOU
When: May 9th, a day AFTER Intro Log
Where: Caissa, Coastal District
What: Tieria organized a mass training session, hideous ensues?
Rating: Violence, language, more violence




If you made your way to the location, you're already one step closer upon completing your training because this part of the beach is the furthest away from any settlement or port and also the hardest to find. You probably found it by following other heroes' trail, or you're those who stumbles around until you found it or you're actually one of those who went scouting before the actual day.

Either way, congratulation for making it this far ( puns completely intended ). Surrounding the rocky beach is an even rockier cliff. Be careful not to stumble or you will find yourself in need of healing. Thankfully, there are Kings ready to make a guinea pig out of your healing needs around. Your training will be held on the round rock-carved deck overlooking the beautiful sea or on the less rocky stretch of the beach, depending on your Trainer's choice. If you're lucky, your Trainer might even have you hike up that rocky cliff. You may even treat yourself to Caissa's fantastic sunset if you made it up there in time!

In any case, once you've arrived at sunrise ( or rather when the sun has risen sufficiently over the horizon because you're that bad with direction or has no sense of time ) and is done catching your breath, you will come to a notice pinned on the tall fences that tells you to tie a ribbon ( in the buckets, also tied to the fence ) corresponding to the training you wish to partake in on your arm.

Stamina ( GREEN ) ✽ Endurance ( ORANGE ) ✽ Weapons ( BLUE ) ✽ Magic ( PURPLE )

The notice will also instructs those who volunteers to be Trainers to tie a different set of ribbons, with black stripe over the four corresponding colors, on their arm to help differentiate them and the course(s) they're instructing. Of course, if you turn out to be a terrible Trainer, Tieria will rip that ribbon off you and very possibly shoves you into the sea.

There are no training weapon available because you're supposed to bring your own magic weapon.
If you forgot, you can either run back for it or pick a different course.

There's also a clause in very bold red letters that forbid killing. Break it and you will be broken in return.

Are you done tying those ribbons? Then what are you waiting? Get moving!





(( OOC: Please indicate in your top level if your character is a Trainer (which course are they instructing?) or Trainee.
eg.: Harry Potter | TRAINER - MAGIC
eg.: Severus Potter | TRAINEE - EVERYTHING PLEASE

Feel free to mingle around! Make friends, frenemies and even better, rivals! ))

Comments

[topkong]

Hm. You okay?

[ Concern is probably the last thing that Wukong would normally express. After all, the belief that one should be emotionally guarded during times of combat has always seemed prevalent, in his eyes. Even in training, to not go one hundred percent could mean not doing it in a real situation--- to have empathy can be a weakness. But when he turns around, the genuine reality that he may have landed a hit, even if it's the most glancing of blows... well, that deserves the question. He could feel a trace of Setsuna's mana linger on his staff, a flicker of it remaining after his attack. ]

Actually, I'd say it was bad. [ A hand on his waist as he turns to face Setsuna. Not yet a frown, but definitely not a smile. If anything, neutral, even if a smirk forms slowly as he does his best to explain himself--- why he feels the need is odd, but perhaps it'd help him out in the future. ] You were faster than I thought, but it wasn't your body I was hoping to hit, if that makes any sense.

[ And then he laughs, shaking his head at himself. ]

I was trying to incapacitate you, in some way, without injuring you. But I guess that's a little difficult against someone who's equally as skilled as I am.

[quaria]

[ There's no judgement from Setsuna's side. In fact, it's the opposite. Empathy in battle is a wonderful thing, he would agree. A battle doesn't have to be thoroughly brutal and senseless... Through a fight, people could also connect their feelings. To someone like Setsuna, who mostly lived through the battlefield, it matters to him that he could extend the meaning of his fighting through them. That's why if anything, his fellow Hero could only earn his respect for the sentiments.

He nods as a response, indicating that he's fine. He's sure that a talented Hero like his training partner could relate that something like a minor scratch is nothing at all. Besides, everyone present in this event already knows that they will end up injured here today. It's really fine though, this is nothing compared to the real thing. ]

Who knows. Perhaps you still will be able to.

[ It's a motivational cheer up. Maybe it's difficult, but it's not impossible after all. Not that he has any intention of being incapacitated, of course. So he'll continue to present a proper challenge. ]

[topkong]

... Maybe. Maybe not, but I hope what I do next will be a refreshing pace from what others may have shown you.

[ Respect above all else--- Setsuna's earned that. Wukong's got one more trick, something up his sleeve, something he hasn't done before. Against someone with fluidity to their movements and keen wits about them, Wukong can embrace the challenge of knocking Setsuna down with even more enthusiasm. He turns, widening the space between them again, watching the ground carefully to measure the distance specifically... or give the illusion that he cares about the space he'll be covering.

And then he stops, turns on his toes with the finesse of a dancer, and pulls out the banana again. This time, he balances it on the upper portion of his staff, letting it dangle before starting to swing it around and around. Almost hypnotic, the motion of the yellow banana against the red wood. Twirling, twirling. Spinning. More and more speed, though it's not nearly a blur.

That is, until he swings his staff out and the ranged weapon is sent flying at Setsuna, with a lunging Wukong behind it.

He's going for the home run. ]