Training: The Gammon edition

[showsnopiety]

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))

Comments

[femmefailtale]

So, what, copping a feel is even better than kissing?

This seems like an incredibly arbitrary system. Not that I'm complaining, of course, but--well, you'd think you'd see more smooches around.

[showsnopiety]

It's contact and intimacy. People still have their modesty, no matter what the need is.

[Even if it's dumb to her.]

[femmefailtale]

Ahh... right.

Well! If it ever comes up it just so happens that I lack any sort of modesty at all, so we're welcome to do whatever needs doing to recover.

[showsnopiety]

If I thought you could actually perform, I would do all sorts of things to you.

[femmefailtale]

Wow. That was right in the pride.

Not that I'm usually the sort to have things done to them, but. Come on. I've done... things.

[No she hasn't.]

[showsnopiety]

Ah. So you're a virgin then?

[And right in the pride again.]

[femmefailtale]

[From the way her eye darts to look away, yep. bullseye.]

...y'know what how about I just go lie facedown in that river over there and work on my water breathing.

That sounds like a good idea right about now.

[showsnopiety]

Go right ahead. I'll be right here.

Teaching.

[A pause and then:]

Maybe one day you'll be some action and not some words.

[femmefailtale]

[She bristles again, hand finding its way to her hip.]

I've done action. I've done plenty of action. I could words about the action I've gotten, I've had so much action. Just... not... That type of action.

Yet.

[UGH, why is she even bothering to talk about this stuff?!]

Moving on! Healing. Teach me about that, because I'm feeling like I could use a little of it right about now.

[showsnopiety]

Hitting people in the face doesn't count.

[Just so you know.]

The same idea is behind healing as it is behind other spells. You have to know what you want, focus, and recite your spell.

And as a word of warning-you can't move around while you're doing this. I can, but I'm also a different rank.

[femmefailtale]

[She scowls, but sets it aside because she needs to learn healing.]

So I have to stay in one place, and focus on how I want to heal someone. Then, when I've focused, I recite the spell, and my mana goes through them and does the healing thing... [She remembers a little bit of being healed by a King earlier.]

Alright, do we have anyone who's injured? Physically, I mean.

[showsnopiety]

You'd need to stay in place for all your spells.

But that's the basic idea.

[She glances around. She doesn't see anyone that's injured...all right.]

Hold out your hand.

[femmefailtale]

[She stares flatly for a moment, trying to figure out if she wants to trust what is so obviously a trap. After a few moments she holds it out.]

Alright, let's get this over with.

[showsnopiety]

It's not the worst thing.

[She doesn't have a knife, could use her wire, but...hey this'll show her limits and how to work under pressure.

Pinkie to be broken in three....two...one...]

[femmefailtale]

[NOT THE WORST THING HER ASS. OR, PINKIE. AS THE CASE MAY BE.]

[Her face pauses in shock, and she shrinks back and just stares at her finger for a split second before the pain properly hits her. Then, she looks back up as her other hand cradles her finger.]

What the fuck?! I need my hands to cast spells, remember?! Have you been drinking ocean water or something?!

[She's a little bit too hurt to realize her expressions from home might not carry over to here so well.]

[showsnopiety]

[If she was another person, she would have flinched. Instead, she watches Meloria calmly, folding her hands calmly against herself. It's kind of a given with how she's all in pain and such.]

Not both of them. Besides, if I had forgotten that, I could have just broken your arm.

[Not that she drinks ocean water. What, did you want her to puke?]

If you calm down, I can take away your pain.

[femmefailtale]

Oh, yeah, that'll totally get me to calm down, 'don't worry, was totally this worse thing over here that I could do to you if I really wanted to'--You are really bad at this, you know?!

[Even as she complains, her hand is gingerly around her pinkie, feeling the fracture to see how bad it is. Once she's got a good idea of where it all is, she grits her teeth and squeezes it back into place.] Shi-hi-hiiit!! [She blinks back her tears--in real life you don't get to cry.]

Just. Do it. Okay?!

[showsnopiety]

[It's ok Mel get all your feelings out.]

I didn't have anything to cut you with, and you're likely going to have this happen when you punch someone.

[Just saying. She sighs, and makes a flicking motion towards Mel's hand. She could heal it but that'd nullify the point.]

Auxilio.

[And just like that, her finger has been numbed. And Caren's expression doesn't change a wit.]

Better?

[femmefailtale]

[She scowls, looking at her swollen finger. Still broken, sure, but she can't feel it anymore.]

Better. [But she's certainly not about to say thank you.] Maybe do that first next time? Just saying?

[showsnopiety]

Mm.

[No manners? How rude.]

I could, but now you have extra motivation to learn, don't you?

That is, unless you want to go into battle with a broken finger?

[femmefailtale]

Gotta say, I'm really getting tired of this sort of thing. First I get attacked by a bird, now this..?

[She hovers her fingers of her other hand around her broken finger.]

So. What, I just focus my mana into the wound and wish for it to get healed, right?

[showsnopiety]

Oh, that's nothing. You didn't get to star in your own porn story.

[Which is true. Just look on the network if you don't believe her. Anyway.]

Basically, with the trigger word. You might have to do multiple casts, but then again-you are practising.

[femmefailtale]

--you're telling me this story later.

[For now she's focusing her mama on her finger. She can feel it again, slithering within her, as she guides it towards her wound.]

[Give the wish form by saying something... A trigger word for the healing magic. Well, there's one phrase she can think of that summarizes her feelings towards pain, death, and injury in general:]

Screw this!

[Its a much easier wish to visualize for her, the bones starting to knit.]

[showsnopiety]

[She doesn't promise, but she does smile-and laugh at the choice of words. Not loudly, but it's still a laugh.]

Ah, the swelling is going down.

[Check it out, it's working.]

[femmefailtale]

Yeah... It is. [Normally she'd be having to work with a finger in a splint for a week or two after an injury like that. It still feels off when she touches it, so she wraps her hand around the finger and squeezes gently again, focusing on channeling more mana as she casts the spell again... and again.]

This is... this is a lot easier. [It turns out when you're focused entirely on survival for most of your life, it means you're pretty damn good at wishing you weren't hurt.]