pawnstorm | Training: The Gammon edition

Who: Caren and you!
When: Gladia 10th (aka August 10th)
Where: Kickdton, Gammon
What: Caren organized a mass training session. This can only go well.
Rating: PG-13 for possible language and certainly violence. Train on!

It's not a difficult place to find, considering the directions: all heroes had to do was find Kickin' Kiwi park, and head straight for the river. There would be all sorts of helpful signs which hero worshippers may have helped set up. Watch out for the kiwi birds though, they're everywhere! In the distance, there's the Royal Foccer Fellowship Stadium. So in case one wishes to go watch some foccer practice instead, that's always an option.

But that's not what you heroes are here for, is it? You're here in the middle of a truly beautiful park for some training! There's a notice (and possibly a fan or two hovering around) stuck to a clean pile of rocks, saying for trainnees must tie a ribbon (which are in buckets, and also somehow stuck to the rocks?) to their arm, corresponding to the training they wish to take. The categories are as follow:

Healing (BLUE) Weapons (RED) Magic (PURPLE) Endurance (GREEN) Sparring (ORANGE)

Trainers are instructed to take the armbands (also found in the buckets!) of the corresponding colours of their course so not to confuse the students. However, if it turns out you are a terrible trainer, Caren will happily take away your armband and give you your own special lesson. (What that lesson is, no one wants to find out).

Don't forget to bring your heroic weapons, because training weapons are not provided. Though maybe you'll get lucky, and someone will want to teach hand to hand combat!

It's also highlighted in BOLD RED LETTERS THAT KILLING IS FORBIDDEN. Try to break this rule, and Caren will break you. Slowly.

Have your ribbon on? It's time to start that training montage!

((OOC: EVERYONE IS WELCOME! Make friends, learn a few things, and have fun!

Also please incidate in your top level if you are a trainee or a trainer!

eg The Doctor | Trainer -Magic
Donna Noble | Trainee - EVERYTHING PLEASE
Jack Harkness | Trainer - Endurance + trainee -magic))

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Perish the thought. She's a good person.]

I'm... not usually one to eat when I'm on the job. The food here sort of gives me a... distracting reaction. [She's looking away as she says that--are you familiar with mana sickness, Caren?]

I'll just rest for a bit and then come up with gestures and words on the fly for whatever I happen to see. I might be able to move some small stuff now, or something.

[Good...person...]

Distracting reaction? In what way?

[She's not used to sickness, she's used to addition.]

It's a start. You've got what some may call penny ante spells. But even those can do damage if you do it right. Or at least cause a distraction.

Don't think of it as a main source for now, just as a last resort.

It makes me queasy. Hard to focus on spellcasting when you're focusing on keeping dinner down.

Still, the more last resorts I can pile up, the better. Options, options, and more options. I need those options to not be dead.

...You might be not used to having mana in your body. You might want to focus on a meat diet until it gets better. Vegetarian might do you more harm then good.

[Just as a thought.]

To ease into it. But options are always good in battle, are they not? Just see about holding hands with someone or hugging them if that doesn't make you queasy.

Oh... meat. [She'll have to get used to that--Thinking about it, she hasn't really done meat very often since she'd arrived--Well, she'll have to get used to it.]

Alright, I'll give it a try, and the hand-holding too, since hand-holding... well, it seems to normalize stuff so far.

I haven't gotten to really test the whole exchange thing that much. You know how it is, I'm sure.

Mmhmm, meat.

It has less mana then vegetation as a rule.

[She slowly blinks at Mel.]

Though I'm not entirely sure what you mean. There's a reason unicorns love me.

...Um... what's a unicorn, and what does it have to do with mana exchanging. Is their meat somehow better for it or something?

Is this another weird animal that exists here or something?

Horse with a horn, mystic properties. Usually known for their fascination with virgins in other mythos, the unicorns in this world seems to be more attracted to those who frequently engage in mana exchange instead.

Hence why it's supposed to be a joke.

So if I want a unicorn mount to gore my opponents, I gotta purify the mana that I have going on, and for that I'd have to get all kinds of intimate with people to exchange mana.

[Welp, cross that cool idea off the list.]

I get it now. Bet they can't get enough of you, huh?

Basically.

And yes. You'd be surprised at how they react towards me.

[Ah, mana addiction. It has its bonuses.]

I'll have to look into that later, then.

Please, at least tell me that I'm not the first one to want to make a 'horny' joke. It's just too obvious here, right?

Of course.

[She just sighs.]

Everyone makes that joke.

Praise be the Lady. I just knew it had to be overplayed.

--are there any other animals around with that quirk? Or nasty ones that prefer people who don't exchange much?

With horns? Not that I'm aware of.

Dragons don't seem to care either way, and the other creatures are more or less easy to deal with, once you know their modus operandi.

So they all have their own patterns, and we have to figure out the patterns and we'll be fine to deal with them after that.

--Oh, like the dungeon? I noticed the monsters had tendencies and preferences in who they targeted and how, and when you fought with those in mind stuff got a lot easier.

Everyone, every thing has a weakness. But not all of them are obvious. This can be in the dungeon, on a job, in war...

It's why bishops are valuable. I'm not certain if all of them have it, but they can take in information quickly; scanning so to speak.

Rooks can not, Queens can not, neither can Kings. I don't know much of what Knights can do though.

[Not that she doesn't have people who are knights, but she rarely gets to talk about it. They're mostly physical but they might have interesting quirks.]

Well... the one Magic Knight I knew back home had a magic eye that'd let her read mana trails. Don't think that'd really apply around here, though.

[She's trying to help--really.]

It's possible? Or it might be a possible spell.

[She muses this.]

But it's uncertain until it's tried, and even that would have to be filtered to what you wanted. Otherwise, it would be distracting and blinding.

Tell me about it. [In that way that implies she's got experience with it herself.]

It's one of those powers that sounds cool, but then you get it? And then it's like.

Wow.

What a pain in the ass.

Something like that.

[Anyway:]

Do you feel comfortable enough to practice by yourself, or do you need me to break another finger?

Hmm, tough one.

Y'know what? I think my fingers are juuust fine as they are, thanks. I should be able to take care of things on my own. Thanks for the tips and the headstart, Caren.

Least I can do. Just let me know if you run into any trouble.

[Least she sounds gracious?]

[She breaks into a smile.]

Of course. You'll probably hear the complaining from at least a mile out.

Heh. Of course.

[It's one of her favourite things isn't it.]

[It is her rason d'etre. Also being a loser, but she can have two rason d'etres.]

Training: The Gammon edition

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