Morning Training

[heavenly_earth]

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 April 24th.

Official areas:

FAQ: In need of help or answers? Come here! Staffed by Tenten and Neji.
Breakfast: The incentive for coming to Morning Training for those who actually don't care about Death City. All food providers are given funds to buy/prepare the food and are then paid for the time they spent cooking/preparing. Provided by Saya and Fabiola
Combat Instruction: One can learn and improve on fighting techniques! Staffed by Cloud and Genesis
Sparring: A bunch of people are there. You show up and pick one to fight. Staffed by Hanabi (beginners), Fabiola (intermediate), Amaterasu and Cloud (advanced), and Overseen by Neji
Weapon Transformation: New Weapon? Unsure on how to transform into a weapon (or how to transform back)? Go here! Staffed by Bakura, Aqua, and Gray
Soul Perception: Find out more about your soul, what they are, and what they potentially may do.
Partner Training: Learn how to work as a partner!
Weapons Handling Training: Learn how to handle sharp things and not so sharp things! Staffed by Tenten and Auron
Shooting Range: Learn to shoot a gun, not at quail though, so expect your face to come out of this just fine. Staffed by Sarah Kerrigan, Naoto, Giroro
Meister Ability Helpers: Learn about your Meister ability and how to use it. Staffed by Edgeworth
Finding a Partner: Unpartnered Weapons and Meisters meet each other here!
Medics: A place for medics to hang out, recruit and aid the injured - especially if they get shot in the face by accident. Staffed by Rosalia and CR-S01
Watch: This is where members of the watch meet up, chill, recruit and train! People interested in the watch welcome!
SEES: This is where SEES members hang out, and recruit!
Hug Brigade: A begrudgingly still opened squad dedicated to hugs of encouragement. Thank Lee for this! Staffed by Lee
Evacuation Briefing/Process: Learn what to do in case the city is invaded. Will most likely come in handy for the future! Staffed by Tenten and Neji


Feel free to make your own threads!

Comments

[obimycommands]

He is~

[That question though makes her pause, and likely she can feel her mind starting to shut her out. Those memories were...]

...I did. To the previous exorcist of the city.

[vintage_magic]

[It was strange. Clothes were normally an easy read for Lily but she felt like she was starting to come up against a wall. And was it just her imagination or did the fabric feel a bit heavier in her hands?]

[Her eyes opened and she blinked in surprise.] An exorcist? ...As in some kind of priest who casts out spirits and demons? [Lily had found herself doing a bit of that back in San Francisco.]

[obimycommands]

Mm, more or less. It be the job Kazuya and I have now. Mostly it be facing off amasogi - those evil tsukumogami I mentioned before.

[Her emotions lighten as the conversation heads in a more general direction]

[vintage_magic]

[She gave up on trying to sense the obi's vibrations for the moment and noticed it seemed lighter now. Was the heaviness before only in her mind?]

So, you regularly work exorcising these amasogi things? But isn't your owner a bit young for that? [Kiriha called him a boy so presumably he was a teenager at most.]

And how does that work exactly? [Fighting demons with an obi?]

[obimycommands]

Mm, it not be a burden I would have chosen to thrust upon him at such an age, but there was little choice. And he has risen to the cause admirably. [Not that she'd ever admit it to his face]

Hmm, well first we have to find irregularities in the world caused by them. Sometimes they be obvious incidents, like disappearing people, but other times they art more subtle, so tracking down things like rumors or urban legends can lead to such oddities. Then it be a matter of finding out what sort of amasogi it be, its powers, and its true form.

Ideally, the amasogi's owner shouldst be the one to put an end to it, but if it cometh down to it, we may have to destroy it ourselves. In that case though, the owner suffereth the curse backlash of the broken item.

[vintage_magic]

But wasn't there anyone else who could do it? You said your previous owner was an exorcist, too.

So, you're kind of like paranormal detectives? [In a way, it didn't sound too different from investigating demons back home.]

[And she grimaced at the end of Kiriha's explanation.] That doesn't sound pleasant. But you mean that regular folks can destroy these amasogi too? Then, do they just not realize that those things have come come to life?

[obimycommands]

She passed away.

[A surprisingly short answer.]

Something to that effect, yes.

Hmm, it be a bit harder for normal folk to fight them, though the owner usually hath a special connection to it and control over it, and thus the ability to put an end to it. Incidents art rare in this day and age, or at least they should be, so most people never hear about them.

[vintage_magic]

Oh. I'm sorry. [Now she felt a bit insensitive for asking.]

I see. Do they take on human forms like you do? I take it that there are more of these critters around than you'd like. Do most people not believe in amasogi then, think that they're just fairy tales?

[obimycommands]

Mm, it was years ago. [Though if she tries to probe Kiriha's feelings on the matter, she will encounter a brick wall]

Hmm, amasogi art more liken unto animals, taking bestial or monstrous form if they manifest beyond their actual body at all. Often they art not more than the item, given special powers, with little intelligence. Tsugumomo however, take human form like I.

For the most part, they do regard them to be but fairy tales.

[vintage_magic]

[Lily supposed she should leave the topic of Kiriha's previous owner for now.]

I see. [It sounded like how most people thought of supernatural creatures in her own world.]

But how exactly would you fight these creatures? With chants and things like that? [That was basically what she did for exorcisms—well, that and brewing and magic circles—but she couldn't really picture how an obi would help in the situation.]

[obimycommands]

Chants? I suppose there might be some who practice onmyoudo but...

We just beat them up. [to put it bluntly]

[vintage_magic]

Onmyoudo? What's that? [Her memory was usually good but she was starting to think she wasn't going to remember all of these foreign terms.]

You physically fight them? In human form or as an obi? [Short of strangling demons with the obi, she wasn't sure how the latter would work.]

[obimycommands]

Oh, ancient magic rites and such associated with the Shinto. I can't say I personally know any practitioners though.

As an obi, I be wielded by my partner - though I can fight hand-to-hand as well, and wield mineself to an extent.

[Deciding this was as good a reason as any, she slid out of Lily's hands an resumed her human form, executing a little flip before landing on her feet. As she did, two lengths of obi came from behind her back, like arms, hovering over her shoulders]

[vintage_magic]

[Lily leaned back a bit and blinked in surprise at this bit of acrobatics and the new form Kiriha took. A partial transformation by a Weapon was something she hadn't previously seen and she studied the lengths of obi with curiosity.]

Huh. I never knew some Weapons could wield themselves. But exactly how would your partner wield you? Are there magical properties to your fabric that help? [Because she can't really imagine beating a demon into submission with a normal piece of fabric, even if it was the heaviest denim.]

[obimycommands]

Well, by mine partner's will, I can be moved much like this, but with far greater power and accuracy - well, once we've practiced. [She waved about her obi lengths in example, moving them around, balling up the ends, or scrunching them up.] 'tis much stronger than normal fabric, of course. And I can be used in a variety of weaves.

[Maneuvering the two branches, she demonstrated by twisting them together into a large conical drill shape, then changing that into a perpendicular weave forming a decent-sized barrier.]

[vintage_magic]

Whoa! [Lily scooted back as the obi portions twisted into the drill shape and then the barrier.]

And you can do all of this just by concentrating? Is it difficult? [She watched, fascinated by the moving fabric and wondered if she would be able to wield the obi. She had been able to animate the inanimate back home but usually not in such a controlled manner...]

[obimycommands]

It be second nature to me by now, but it certainly taketh a bit of practice for those who wield me. And I can't do some of the more complex form by mine own power. A trusted partner is important for that!

[vintage_magic]

You can make even more complicated shapes with a partner? Do you think I could learn? [Maybe, if she could find someone else to work with, she could get away from that annoying sorcerer...]

[obimycommands]

Thou couldst certainly try. Thou said thou wert familiar with cloth, but dost thou have any experience fighting?

[vintage_magic]

...Um, not really. I try to avoid that kind of thing.

[In a way, it was true. She was no physical fighter. And while she had been out on a few missions, she wasn't sure if she wanted to explain the whole fire magic thing.]

[obimycommands]

But thou art interested in learning?

[vintage_magic]

Um, maybe? Although if it takes a lot of physical strength, I don't know if I'll have much luck.

[obimycommands]

Not as much in terms of lifting and hitting, though it doth not hurt, but mobility and stamina still be ideal.

[vintage_magic]

Well, I'm not exactly athletic but I suppose I've gotten better here. Lots of walking because there aren't many cars here.
[Back home, her main exercise was hauling bags of old clothes to and from the shop van and doing laundry.]

[obimycommands]

[This does not sound promising]

So basically thou art not particularly suited to combat at all.