ORIENTATION ♔ others have excuses, but I have my reasons why

[sirstickuphisass]

♬ Reasons Why - Nickel Creek

WHO || Eric, Lila, open if people want to bang into them, just threadjack wherever.
WHAT || Eric meets with his new squire
WHERE || Knight's HQ, Training Room; Firing Range
WHEN || Thursday evening, March 7th
HOW || Actionspam

[ So remember how Lila was skulking around the firing range since it ~felt like home~? Well, guess who comes up behind her while she's pointing at a target today, sounding annoyed as hell? ]

What do you think you're doing?

Comments

[bittersweeter]

So... Magic.

[sirstickuphisass]

Some of it.

There's not much magical about facing down a horde of marauding orcs.

[bittersweeter]

Sorry, I didn't play World of Warcraft, a what?

[sirstickuphisass]

Orcs. You don't know what orcs are?

[bittersweeter]

[She makes a face. She spoke pretty clearly right there.]

Yeah, I'm just asking for the fun of it. No, I don't. What is an orc?

[sirstickuphisass]

Savage green humanoids, with boar tusks, who live in barbaric tribes and are notoriously ornery.

[bittersweeter]

[Did he just use ornery in a sentence? Okay, grandpa.]

Ew.

[sirstickuphisass]

You might want to reign in the disgust reaction. Not all of them are bad, and we might end up working with some. In fact, there are some who are Knights.

[bittersweeter]

Well, when you set them up to be disgusting I can't exactly help what I'm being given. Really. Hoards of marauding orcs who live in barbaric tribes? Maybe if you didn't generalize them all into one thing I would be less disgusted.

[sirstickuphisass]

[ ... :| ] Fine. Point taken. Anyways, that's the kind of thing we deal with. Wynn assigns us missions based on intel gathered from around the world, and packs us off to take care of things.

[bittersweeter]

[So basically it works the same way as The Family, but you know, they're the good guys. And actually Good, not fake good like Cassel's stupid FBI shtick.

Whouda thunk.]

Sounds peachy.

[sirstickuphisass]

Wynn evaluates the likely skill sets needed on each mission and assigns us to them based on our sects, once you've become a full Knight. For example, a mission likely to see a lot of combat would get more members of the Dragon's Hide, Light, and Fire. An investigative mission or one about an artifact might see more members of the Hoard.

[bittersweeter]

[As he talks, Lila translates it into Zacharov terms. Which works until the sects and then it's just dbgdkhgls. Which is not a language she speaks.]

And you are?

[sirstickuphisass]

Part of the Dragon's Hide. The combat oriented sect.

[bittersweeter]

[Disbelieving eyebrows.]

You, really? No offense, you just kind of struck me as Hoard, who I assume are the intellectual ones.

[sirstickuphisass]

I wanted to be a soldier most of my life.

[bittersweeter]

Why?

[sirstickuphisass]

Because that's what my father was. I looked up to him since I was a kid for it.

[bittersweeter]

He was a knight? [Obviously, but for some reason she's surprised, that it ran in families. Or that Eric had a dad and wasn't sprung fully formed from a pit of grump.]

[sirstickuphisass]

Military, actually.

[bittersweeter]

[Like father, like son. How many times had that been said about Lila? She can't remember but it was probably a lot. And it's annoyingly close to home, that he wanted to be like his dad.]

Didn't you ever want to do anything else?

[sirstickuphisass]

Maybe when I was still a kid. But with what happened to him...

Someone had to pick up where he left off.

[bittersweeter]

Oh.

[That's all she says. Oh.]

[sirstickuphisass]

We're not here to talk about me anyway.

[bittersweeter]

When do I get to go on a mission?

[Subtle subject change, yes.]