[Open] Morning Training! - February 16th

[spandexisyouth]

Characters: Everyone!

Location: Training Grounds, Shibusen

Rating: PG-13 for violence

Time: 5am to 10am

Description: Every morning in the city, Morning Training takes place to prepare the guests of the city for the war. It's handwaved most days, but approximately once a month this gets played out in a log. This log takes place on February 16th.


FAQ: Questions answered by Maito Gai
Breakfast: Run by Cinderella, Katakura Kojurou, Saya Tagaki, Yugo
Batch One: Beginners under the age of 15. Run by Prussia, Auron, Steve Rogers
Batch Two: Adult beginners. Run by Kaoru Kamiya, Maito Gai, Tifa Lockhart
Batch Three: Intermediate fighters. Overseen by Hyuuga Neji and Ling Yao. Please see list of random sparrers.
Batch Four: Experienced fighters, for sparring with each other. Overseen by Haruka.
Weapon Transformation: How to find your form. Run by Yuuri, Ishida Mitsunari, Spirit.
Soul Perception: If someone doesn’t know by now. Run by Luna Lovegood, Azusa
Partner Training: How to work together as partners. Run by Tassadar; Maka and Soul; Shizuo and Motochika; Eve.
Weapons Handling Training: Run by Genesis Rhapsodes, Tenten.
Shooting Range: How to Shoot. Run by Grit, Leon, Naoto.
Meister Ability Helpers: How to find it out. Run by Death the Kid, Edgeworth.
Finding a Partner: Run into others looking for partners and see if you can work together! Run by Sasame.
Fighting Witches: Speak to an actual Witch and learn some of what you're facing. Run by Cybele.
Medics (And First Aid Training): Training run by Naomi Kimishima, also a place for medics to gather and talk. (First Aid Training may need to be handwaved, player is on hiatus.)
Audience: For people to just gather and talk.
Watch: For Watch people (and prospective new members) to gather and talk.

For training via sparring:
Katakura Koujurou
Uchiha Itachi
Hyuuga Neji
Chosokabe Motochika
Steve Rogers
Maito Gai
(Various NPCs available upon request)
Partner vs Partner sparring is also good!

Feel free to start your own threads in the official groupings as well as elsewhere!



Breakfast
Lau [Open]
Clare [Open]
Loki [Open]
Yami Bakura [Open]
Bakura [Open]
Stan [Open]
Dylan [Open]
Yuuichi [Open]
Saya [Open]
Sheena [Open]
Taiyou [Open]
Duo [Open]
Luna [Open]
Utena [Open]
Nagi [Open]

Batch One
Taiyou [Open]
Utena [Open]

Batch Two
Clare [Open]
Yami Bakura [Open]

Batch Three
Sapphire [Open]
Sophie [Open]
Hinata [Open]
Sheena [Open]

Batch Four
Amateresu [Open]
Raidou [Open]

Weapon Transformation
Clare [Open]
Shindou [Open]
Yuuichi [Open]
Lee [Open]
Kariya [Open]

Soul Perception
Naruto [Open]
Stein [Open]
Stan [Open]

Partnership Training
Haruka and Cinderella [Unknown]

Weapons Handling Training
Taiyou [Open]

Shooting Range
Bakura [Open]
Yoichi [Open]
Aion [Open]
Saya [Open]
Re-l [Open]


Meister Ability Helpers
Gamzee [Open]
Loki [Open]
Sophie [Open]
Yugo [Open]
Touma [Open]
Demona [Open]
Chika [Open]
Misa [Open]
Raphael [Open]
X [Open]
Mitsuba [Open]

Finding a Parther
Clare - Weapon [Open]
Sapphire - Meister [Open]
Bakura - Weapon [Open]
Amateresu - Meister [Open]
Yami Bakura - Meister [Open]
Leo - Meister [Open]
Takasugi - Weapon [Open]
Hades - Weapon [Open]
Ryoki - Weapon [Open]
Demona - Meister [Open]
Chika - Meister [Open]
Steve Rogers - Meister [Open]
Nagi - Meister [Open]

Medics and First Aid Training
Yuuichi [Open]
Clovis [Open]
Taiyou [Open]

Audience
Yuuri [Open]
Stan [Open]
Leo [Open]
Rokudo [Open]
Ryoki [Open]
Duo [Open]
Nagi [Open]

Watch
Sasame [Open]
Duke Pantarei [Open]
Roy [Open]
Aion [Open]
Stripp [Open]
Re-l [Open]
Jules [Open]

Other
Gai [Open]
Clare [Open]
Chrono [Open]
Kenshin [Open]
Mithos [Open]
Auron [Open]
Kratos [Open]
Stein [Open]
Takasugi [Open]
Rokudo [Closed]
Dylan [Open]
Hades [Open]
Keroro [Open]
Naoto [Open]
Duke [Open]
Allen [Open]
Demona [Open]
Sendo [Open]
Bumblebee [Open]
Saya [Open]
Tenma [Open]
Chika [Open]
Kanji [Open]
Yugo [Open]
Jules [Open]
Ed Elric [Open]
Hitsugaya [Open]
Lee [Open]
Raidou [Open]
Kaoru [Open]

Comments

Batch Two

[spandexisyouth]

[Maybe you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but here we teach old people new tricks! ...Sort of.]

[Gai, Open]

[spandexisyouth]

[He lingers here to give a hand, ready to instruct anyone who approaches!]

[itsalright]

[Yuuichi notices Gai and wheels over, a determined expression set on his face.]

Are you one of the instructors, Gai-san?

[spandexisyouth]

I am! What can I do for you?

[itsalright]

...do you think you could teach me how to fight?

I know I don't look like I should be fighting, being wheelchair bound but I don't want to be in the way or have everyone protecting me all the time. I want to be able to do something for myself for once.

[spandexisyouth]

[Gai looks him over before bowing his head.]

I will find a way. Especially if you are a Weapon! We can find a way, together!

[itsalright]

[He smiles]

Ah, thank you! I will do my best.

Argh, I'm sorry I took so long to tag this back.

[spandexisyouth]

[Gai nods.]

Do you know what you are yet?

It's okay!

[itsalright]

Mm, no, not yet.

[He laughs a little nervously]

I'm sorry, I'm not very helpful, am I?

[spandexisyouth]

Do not worry! That is all right! Let us go to Soul Perception and see what we can do! Luna should be there!

[Happily he leads the way to here]]

Open

[unfinishedstory]

Clare decided to spend a little while watching some of the instructors and students in the batch she would join... if she weren't afraid she'd fall on her face in the middle of doing anything more complicated than basic fisticuffs and mid combat partial transformations. She was getting better at controlling her form, moving her shield face to whatever part of her body she was blocking with, and decreasing the time to block with any given strike.

But her hand to hand skills were still very amateur because she stopped working on them as regularly as before her trip home. Clare wasn't the most athletic at home, and she wasn't the most coordinated. So her slight loss of training was a big backslide. Her biggest problems were steady footwork, mixing it up with her hands didn't suck, and Clare gave that extra focus given her form, but she couldn't kick very well, or block with her legs (even if she could shift her shield to either leg with ease).

She'll join the beginners... tomorrow, yes. Just watching today is better, ease into things.

Open

[feelsgoodinyou]

[He stands a little off and to the side since he is not really planning of getting involved into any fights - or whatever else this little group meeting is for. Right now the spirit of the sennen ring has no illusions of how far this borrowed body would last him if he were to be careless enough to get involved into a physical struggle, even if it weren't still injured.

If only he could somehow have his 'real' body...

Without noticing it, he keeps shifting his stance as if he wants to approach but keeps deciding against it.]

[heart_rhythm]

[Tifa notices him and just lets him be for a little while, trying to let him decide if he wants to make his way over or not. Finally she crosses the distance between them, offering a smile.]

Are you new here?

[feelsgoodinyou]

[He notices her before she arrives, his head snapping in her direction the moment she has taken three steps towards him. The gaze he directs at her is attentive and sharp.]

I'm new and old. [He dodges the question, giving her a once-over. Nice legs, good muscles... A fighter.] I'm interested in learning how to fight.

[Or rather, re-learning it since he knows very damn well how to take care of his own skin or he wouldn't have survived least become famous as the feared king of thieves back in Ancient Egypt. This body, however, thin, lightweight and untrained as it is, is an entirely different story. One he's not too keen on explaining.]

[heart_rhythm]

[Smiling more, she nods a bit, crossing her arms over her chest as she stands by him.]

Well, you're at the right place then. I'm Tifa Lockheart, one of the instructors here. Have you done any fighting before?

[She's expecting a 'no' but you really could never tell in this place. She'd learned long ago not to judge a book by its cover, since that was something done so often in her case.]

[feelsgoodinyou]

[He gives her a contemplative look, not smiling in return. His eyes are narrowed and he is almost painfully skinny, all protruding hip bones and spiky hair. Despite that he has an air around him that makes he appear everything but weak.

After a short pause the corners of his lips twitch upward after all and he shakes his head.]

Any physical fighting that I have done must have been in another life.

[heart_rhythm]

[She doesn't entirely get it, but that's okay. The concept of another life isn't the strangest thing she's heard here.]

So that's basically a 'no' right? [She won't dwell on it unless he does.] That's not a problem. I primarily train in hand-to-hand combat, is that what you're interested in learning?

[feelsgoodinyou]

It is. [He smiles in a way that he thinks is encouraging and nods.]

I'm willing to take whatever I can. Does it matter than one of my hands is currently in bad shape?

[heart_rhythm]

As a matter of fact, no. [She holds up one of her hands, which is still bandaged from her fight with Kadaj.] You have to be able to fight with injuries, so learning with one can be beneficial as well.

[This guys is certainly strange, but a student is a student.]

[feelsgoodinyou]

Well, that's good to know. [He flashes her a grin before his expression turns into a scowl as he regards his left arm. There is a bandage on its upper arm and both his palm and the back of his hand are marked by a nasty scar that indicates it having been impaled once.]

How do we begin?

[heart_rhythm]

[As she regards his scars, she says nothing about them. It's not her place to inquire--she's learned the people here come from places the same or worse than her world, and the battle wounds people carried were always their own.

Instead, she steps back a bit from him, waving a hand.]

Lemme see what you've got first. Come at me and I'll see what we have to work with.

[Open]

[heart_rhythm]

[Tifa's there as usual for instruction, specializing in hand-to-hand combat, but she's available just to chat as well!]

Kaoru | Open

[shihandai]

[she'll be here with her students, or you, adjusting sword grips, sparring and taking it easy. she's patched up but it takes time to adjust to wounds like the ones she had. ]

Geez, have you slacked off while I was gone?

[rebelwithaclock]

[He's doing his best to not feel TOO guilty about Kaoru's wounds, since he knows that will just bother her. But he does look pretty concerned, and it's also distracting him from his training. His stance is HORRIBLE.]

[shihandai]

..You're doing pretty badly today. [just going to say that now as she adjusts his grip with her tinier hands]

Quit staring at me like I'm going to explode.