training ♔ thursday morning

[nepotism]

WHO || Fredrick Jr., Dovan Ironsides, Luthir Reedhym, entirely open
WHAT || Weapons training
WHERE || Knights HQ, Training Room / Armory / Firing Range / Gym, Dragnon's Hide wing, 2nd floor
WHEN || Thursday, Feb. 16th, from 10am onwards
HOW || Actionspam

Just like Fred said, 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.

The room's full of the clanging of metal, as Dovan and Luthir fight, sword to axe, across the room, and Fred gathers everyone up on the gym side to explain things.

Comments

Ranged;

[luthir]

Those who wish to practice ranged weaponry, guns included, come with me. [The elf glides to the doors of the firing range, unlocking those as well, and moving inside, after picking up a bow from by the wall.]

[slays]

[ Buffy grabs one of the compound crossbows and heads off after him, glancing around inside the firing range and marveling a little. ] You know, I don't know why I bother being surprised by this stuff anymore. Big honkin' castle, kinda fits that everything else would be big and honkin' too.

[luthir]

[Luthir looks at her questioningly for a moment, because wtf does she mean by honking but then he apparently decides he doesn't care enough to start a pointless conversation over it. He instead focuses on her choice of bow.]

An archer, or aspiring?

[slay]

Hunch, actually. [ She makes a gesture back to the other bows. ] Everything else was either two-hands on the weapon at all times, or a gun. Neither of which I'm really lovin'. [ She shrugs. ] Seemed like the best choice.

[luthir]

Hmm. [He looks at her with what seems like judgment but is more like the elf default stare. And nods] Let's see if you can knock it properly.

[slay]

[ She gives a blank look for a moment, kind of sheepish and childlike in the face of his judgy stare, and then she reaches up to pull on of the arrows from the carrier on the bottom. She slides it in, using it to pull the string back and knock it with a certain amount of fumbled proficiency. It goes pretty well until she ... lets the string go too soon and the arrow shoots off into a wall. ]

[luthir]

[He watches this display dispassionately. So very unimpressed.

Finally he reaches out to place a hand gently but firmly over hers and... lower the crossbow.]

Allow me. [And he'll take it from her and load it up slowly so she can watch, then raise it towards the target. He waits until he has her attention to release the arrow. It whizzes out straight and true, slamming into the board down there with ease.

He then holds it out to her again.] Try it like that.

[asap]

[Andie doesn't really want to use ranged weapons. She's faster than most of them. But Kat had got her thinking. So she bounces over to him and gives him a hopeful look.]

Can I race bullets?

[luthir]

[r u srs rn why is this his life]

No.

[asap]

[Andie give him a pouty look.]

Please? I would totally win. And it would be so awesome.

[luthir]

It's an unnecessary danger when there are others around who are untrained.

[asap]

I'm not saying to shoot at them.

[luthir]

... That wasn't what I meant.

[militarized]

[ Well, this was an easy decision. Ethan follows the elf back to the range, bringing his Excalibur with him. Better to get some practice in now. ]

[witchwoman]

[Oh look, another area to walk into without any idea what she's doing. Though, now that she's worked off some of her nerves and excess energy, Myri appears to be content to observe. Her gaze stops on Ethan who seems eager to get started.]

I take it you've done this before? [She pipes up]

[militarized]

Firearms training comes standard in basic training for the military. [ He loads ammunition into his weapon, then glances over at her. ] Guessing you can't say the same. [ It's not suggested in a judgy way. He's more than happy to give her pointers if she needs them. ]

[witchwoman]

[Almost none of that sentence made sense.

She just watches him with fascination before shaking her head.]

No. I'm afraid so much of this world is new to me.

[militarized]

[ He holds up the gun to indicate it, not in a firing position but rather in one similar to a gesture of surrender to make sure she doesn't get spooked. So, it's pointing at the ceiling rn so she can get a good look at it. ] You get one of these from the armory?

[witchwoman]

[She nods] I left it- [She glances over to her right, then turns back to Ethan.] Just a moment.

[And she's off to grab the strange case that her weapon came in. She knew to bring it with her, but carrying it around from place to place seemed silly to her. A few moments later, she returns, holding the case in front of her with both arms wrapped around it.]

[piratitude]

[After she's finished sparring, a probably slightly sweaty Andrea walks in. She feels less comfortable here that she did around bare steel, though she wasn't a stranger a bow. No, what she really needed to learn was these guns everyone talked so much about.]

Okay...who can teach me not to shoot myself in the foot with this thing?

[shootfirst]

[Have a happy blonde teenager ready to assist! \o/ ] First time?

[piratitude]

[She grinned crookedly at the other girl] Been awhile since someone asked me that question.

[shootfirst]

Deeeefinitely not where I was going with that.

[piratitude]

[She chuckled] I know what ya meant.

Kiddin' aside, you can teach me to shoot this?

[shootfirst]

Sure can! I mean, it doesn't get much easier. You just have to be careful because of how powerful they are.