training ♔ friday morning

[twinfucker]

WHO || Jaime, Fred Jr., new squires, knights, entirely open to anyone who wants to gawk at the noobs.
WHAT || weapons training
WHERE || Knights HQ, Training Room / Armory / Firing Range / Gym, Dragon's Hide wing, 2nd floor
WHEN || Friday Oct 4
HOW || actionspam

It's that time again. New squires would have heard the word come 'round that there would be open weapons orientation this Friday - which is also open to anyone who just wants to come spar with the newbies as well. As before, at the top of the main staircase is the entrance to an incredibly spacious room, that has gym and weight training equipment on the wall near the door, and then lots of old school training dummies and more at the far end. A glass door enters into a firing range, and another pair of large doors on the farthest wall lead to the armory.

Ser Jaime stands in front of the armory doors, looking rather disinterested in all the squires amassing. He polishes his sword, standing in his shiny white and gold armor and, as he waits more or less patiently for people to show up.

Some of the squires' mentor Knights will have accompanied them - others will have left them to their own devices. Everyone's welcome to tag into threads or make their own!

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[Once everyone's gathered, or at least as close to everyone as Jaime's willing to wait for, he puts his sword in his scabbard and steps up, raising a hand for silence.] All right, quiet you lot. I've been tasked with showing you how training works here. For some reason we do it inside as opposed to outside, where you can clean up the blood much more easily. [Modern knights are strange.

He holds up his plastic key card.] This square is actually a key, as you've probably learned by now. [It is still weird to Jaime, okay, he's working on it.] It can be used to open the doors behind me and get to the armory whenever you'd like. And the archery range is through those other doors [He gestures with the key card] though many knights use explosive ranged weapons known as guns. [He rolls his eyes at the idea.] A real knight should know how to use a sword. [Guess who... can't use guns at all.]

You can find arms and armor in the armory. Take what you'd like when you need it. You all can get some sort of gun, but talk to Ser Fredrick about it first. You need some sort of permission. [That Jaime doesn't have....]

This room is always open, and considering the Dragon's Hide is the biggest sect in the castle, there's almost always someone up here willing to spar or teach. If you have any serious questions, seek Ser Dovan Ironsides, the section leader, in the Hide wing, which is down the back hall to the right when you get up the steps.

When you get injured, as you should if your teachers are good enough, go find a cleric straight across the hallway.

Questions?

[beseeched]

[So, when he heard about the training session he had mixed feelings. Fear, in large part. He didn't want to fail. Then there was the budding excitement. If he could get his hands on something anything and make it work he'd lose the nervousness about seeing battle.

He makes sure he's wearing his most comfortable clothes to allow room for movement. It's not much. Just a pair of basketball shorts and an old t-shirt, but it does the job. It might make him look a little sloppy but he doesn't really have a lot to work with.

He stands awkwardly to the right of the crowd trying to blend in. He's not the best at subtlety.]

Yeah, what about the Knights without any real athletic experience? I mean- not all of us have seen battle. A lot of us did work behind the scenes.

[twinfucker]

[Jaime shoots him a scornful look. As far as he was concerned, those with no athletic experience had no business being knights. But he knew around here they accepted all sorts. Even women.]

I suggest getting athletic experience quickly, or you'll most likely die when you do see battle.

[opprobrium]

[ The square keys were still strange to Sebastian as well. It made little sense but who was he to judge it? He agreed with Jaime however, why train inside? Blood comes out of carpet harder then grass.

Yes, he liked this knight. He seemed to have a proper sense of how things should work. This place had not been what he expected until now, well outside of Bo. Bo was pretty damn cool.]

Only one question, when do we start?

[twinfucker]

As soon as we've seen if the others have any real questions. [PATIENCE BRO. WE'LL GET THERE.]

[opprobrium]

Right.

[ What was that man? Who needs that! He was ready to GO! ]

[lastdragomir]

["As you should"... OMG Jaime, lets not propose people getting hurt, okay? Lissa doesn't want to be here. She isn't any good at weapons. She only learned how to use a stake for the specific purpose of turning Dimitri back to Dhampir. She isn't aggressive, she doesn't want to hurt people! This is why she is a cleric.

Which is why this cleric will be hanging back and only half listening to Jaime's spiel because she sure won't be learning how to use a weapon kthnx.]

[superswank]

[ someone's all folded arms and bitch face in the back ] I hope you're not actually suggesting it's good training technique for instructors to hospitalize their squires. [ she don't even sound skurred. just unimpressed with that level of bullshit. ]

[twinfucker]

Of course not. I'm suggesting squires hospitalize other squires. [It's entirely different!] It's not like injuries matter much at all with all this magic around.

[superswank]

Magic shouldn't be anyone's excuse for sloppy training procedures.

[twinfucker]

[He shrugs.] My suggestions wouldn't change without it. But if you're not getting bruised and scraped, you're not learning very much.

[superswank]

Fine. Then how about you try to give me a bruising?