Morning Training

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Characters: Everyone!
Location: Training Ground, Shibusen
Rating: PG-13 for violence
Time: 6am to 9am
Description: Training takes place every morning in the park to prepare the guests of the city for the ongoing war. It's handwaved most days, but approximately once a month this gets played out in a log. This log takes place on March 29th.

Official areas:

FAQ: For people who have questions and need answers. Staffed by Maito Gai.
Breakfast: Providing food for those who come. All food-providers are given funds with which to buy the food and paid for the prep/cook time. Provided by Saya Tagaki.
Combat instruction: To learn or improve upon fighting techniques. Taught by Cloud Strife, Mickey Mouse, Auron.
Sparring: Show up, pick an opponent, and spar. Overseen by Amateresu, Spirit Albarn.
Weapon Transformation: Guiding new Weapons through the sometimes difficult process of finding a form and then re-finding their original one. Taught by Bakura Ryou, Yami Bakura, Aqua.
Soul Perception: If someone wants to find out more about their soul, what they are, and what they may potentially do. Overseen by Hades.
Partner Training: Guidance on how to work as partners. Taught by Spirit Albarn; Eve and Keroro
Weapons Handling Training: How to handle weapons and Weapons. Taught by Death the Kid with Liz and Patty.
Shooting Range: How to shoot. Taught by Naoto Shirogane, Maes Hughes.
Meister Ability Helpers: Learning what your meister ability is and how to use it. Taught by Kanji Tatsumi, Miles Edgeworth.
Finding a Partner: An area for unpartnered Weapons and Meisters to mingle in. Overseen by
Meditation: This month's novelty class is on focus and meditating. Taught by Hyuuga Neji.
Medics: A place for the medics to linger, recruit, and help anyone that's gotten hurt. Helping out are CR-S01, Rosalia Rossellini.
Watch: A place for the watch members to linger, recruit, and train. Interested observers welcome!
SEES: A place for the SEES members linger, recruit, and relax.
Hug Brigade: Offering encouragement through hugs. Staffed by Maes Hughes, Maito Gai.

Feel free to make your own threads!

Comments

Zero -- Weapon

[divide_by_zero]

*Now having a better lay of the land and been on a special mission or two, he realizes he really needs a Meister if he's going to be able to fight.*

[scatterflower]

*Chika blinked, grinning a bit as she saw someone that she recognized from the SEES table a few arrivals back.*

Hey there. How've you been?

[divide_by_zero]

Oh hey! Doing as well as I can and adapting to being here.

[scatterflower]

Yeah, I know what you mean by that. It still takes a while to get used to being here. I'm not even sure if I'm fully used to it yet.

[divide_by_zero]

The decorations are a bit...much sometimes.

[scatterflower]

*That gets a giggle from her.*

Yeah, definitely takes a good long time to get use to those.

[divide_by_zero]

Do they ever change them at all?

[scatterflower]

Nope. No one gave them the memo that this type of stuff was really only for Halloween.

*She smiles a bit.*

Anyway, I guess you've figured out what your weapon form is if you're over here, right?

[divide_by_zero]

Right. I'm a beam saber. It's a kind of sword with a blade of energy.

[scatterflower]

Wow. That sounds pretty cool. Was it a weapon you used often back home? That seems to happen sometimes here.

[divide_by_zero]

Yeah, actually. I used my beam saber all the time in my unit.

[scatterflower]

*Chika nods. That was kinda expected, based on what she knew.*

And how is a beam saber different from a regular sword? I mean, other than the whole 'not having a physical blade' part. I mean more in how you handle it. I'd imagine that the weight's different because of the lack of a physical blade, right?

[divide_by_zero]

*A human with intelligent questions. Zero can appreciate that.*

There is less weight behind it, true. But the advantage is it does a lot better slicing through metal. It's not really a guarding weapon. Just complete attack all the time.

[scatterflower]

*Chika nods.*

I see. So it can't really be used to block attacks... that makes a lot of sense. It's not something most sci-fi stories where this type of thing usually comes up think about. I guess even if you use it to block a physical sword you're still going to get melted metal splashing against you.

[divide_by_zero]

True. So you'd have to be able to dodge if you use me as a Weapon.

[scatterflower]

*She nods.*

Well, I am pretty good at dodging. At least, I haven't done too badly at it so far.

*So says the girl who's been training for months to dodge senbon.*

But is there anything that a beam saber can block?

[divide_by_zero]

Projectiles, mostly. Since they'd burn away.

[scatterflower]

*She nods.*

That makes sense. Even with a bullet, it's not like there's a lot of metal there for it to get on you if you block it with one...

... Of course, that's assuming you fast enouh to block bullets, which is usually not something that people can do.

[divide_by_zero]

I was when I had all my acceleration systems. *He's still sore about that*

[scatterflower]

... Ouch. Yeah, not being able to do something like that anymore sucks. I'm just glad the 'power' I did have back home wasn't really all that useful. Made being brought here a bit easier, at least as far as getting used to everything was anyway.

Still, if we had our powers here, they wouldn't exactly work on the Witches or Kishin Eggs, so it'd be kinda pointless.

[divide_by_zero]

I guess not. I still would like to have all my systems back even if they didn't work.

But we're stuck here so we have to work with what we have.

[scatterflower]

Yeah, exactly. Wishing we still had everything from back home isn't going to help us at all right now.

So... you want to try resonating?

[divide_by_zero]

We can try that, sure. Just give me a second. I can never seem to transform all the way the first time. *What he means is, first he transforms just his right arm into a beam saber and after a few seconds, the rest of him follows. Just pick up the handle and prepare to make pretty blue colored slashes in the air!*

[scatterflower]

Okay. That's no problem!

*She smiles, waiting as she watches him transform. It's a bit weird that he can't do it all the way, but that should be able to come in time. She moves over, grabbing the handle of the saber in her hand and activating it, smiling as she looks down at the blade as she reaches out with her soul towards Zero, in the same familiar way that she's always done with everyone.*

[divide_by_zero]

*Hope Chika doesn't mind trying to figure out a robot's mechanical soul. Zero's is about as fierce as his personality can be at times but there's a driving force to protect those he deems worthy of protection.*