Jazmine walks into the armory, gazing about at her choices. "I don't imagine you have any Elven Curved Blades, do you?" she inquires to the armorer. "I've trained with a long sword too, so I can use one of those if I have to." she carefully moves through her choices, finally settling on one of the appropriate weight and length.
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After picking your weapons of choice, you are lead into a practice arena, where you are met with four other recruits. All of which are Oread's and one whom you recognize as Dell Darkblade, the recruit that showed you around on your first day here.
The captain screams. "Well?! What are you waiting for! Useless Worms."
Jazmine, Rogan, Giacomo, Blood Stone
Recruits
Helgga
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Jazmine hefts her practice sword a few times as she and Giggles moves into the practice arena. This is going to be harder without being able to shift like I always do.. she thinks, planning how differently she and Giggles will have to move and respond. She kneels down next to Giggles, and begins tussling with her. "Play time!" she repeats several times before pointing out the opponents in the ring. Friends! Play time! No blood!!"
Once the order to begin comes, Jazmine gives a cool glance towards the oreads surrounding them and salutes with her sword before charging in. While moving, she gives a sharp pattern of whistles to Giggles. She swings at the red cloaked opponent with both hands, but manages a meager swing.
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Helgga looks around in the armory and spots a heavy flail calling her name. She picks it up and gives it a few swings them heads to the arena.
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Casanova, picking out his weapon of choice, a heavy crossbow with non-lethal arrows, attempts to knock the Oread with the blue garb having a clear line of fire to it.
The pathfinders don't seem to have gone to a good start, Jazmine and Blood Stone both attempt to go into melee but both missed. Rogan on the other hand, makes a single superior blow that knocks the red garbed oread stunned and weak.
The Oreads try to then spread themselves out to cover as much ground as they can, and at the same time try to position with an advantage around Helgga. They all strike with their falchions in hand.
Two of them seem to have gotten lucky, as they both land a hit on Helgga and Casanova. Unfortunately, to your surprise, their weapons are coated with a liquid like substance. When it comes into contact with your skin, you start to feel woozy.
Jazmine, Rogan, Giacomo -9NL , Blood Stone
Recruits B R -16 (disabled) O G
Helgga -6NL, Giggles
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Stepping over slightly, Blood Stone raises his hammer high to try to bring down his opponent again, all the while uncertain. A small bit of him holds back, knowing his foe is not truely an enemy, and that this is not a true battle to the death.
None the less, he does what he can, but his apprehension gets the best of him still.
Giggles swings wide around the opponent facing Jazmine, and sets upon the oread from behind with her teeth.
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While Casanova falls prey to the poison, Helgga is able to withstand it's effects, but fails to make an effective attack.
Giggles tiny bite, although small in size, does just enough pain to cause the Oread wearing the red garbs to give up and pass out due to the pain. Jazmine swipes her
The oreads in turn swing again, one still attempts one on one with Blood Stone while the other two maintain their advantageous position over Helgga. Although they don't prove to be performing well either
Jazmine, Rogan, Giacomo -9NL (unconcious) , Blood Stone
Recruits B R -18NL (unconcious) O -14NL G
Helgga -11NL, Giggles
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As Giggles hamstrings and drops their opponent, Jazmine rushes over to help Bloodstone with his opponent.
Jazmine gives another whistle for Giggles to attack, and Giggles runs south across the arena to charge into the fray there. unforrtunately, the dino misses her attack.
Jazmine continues to fight the Oread with Bloodstone, sidestepping to the side to get a better angle.
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"This is so pathetic!" Blood Stone curses at the string of poor luck his team is enduring. One of ours is already down, another half way towards following him, and I can't hit the broad side of a barn, hanging suspended above it with gravities help!
Thankful for Jasmine's assistance, Bloodstone give his training hammer another swing, his anger at himself for such failure starting to overcome his desire to not hurt others when they are not truly enemies.
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Rogan is consistent in his trainings all round, the exemplary soldier in training puts on a good show by knocking another Oread straight to the ground.
After much perseverance, Jazmine and Blood Stone co-ordinate themselves perfectly, with a precisely timed strike, one knocking the stomach and the other the head. The Oread is still standing, but barely.
The Captain is seemingly furious at the Oread's performances and shouts multiple vulgarities their way. No words can describe what she says.
Both Oread's shift their footing, taking a 5 feet step to get away from the eminent danger of the pathfinder's but not before they try to strike the pathfinders. But once again, their incompetence shows.
Giggles resumes her swath of terror, quickly moving in on the remaining Oread with her teeth flashing.
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Blood Stone, just wanting this mock fight to be over so that he can check on his friend swings recklessly.
Blood Stone will charge, running slowly, but making it all the way towards the last mock foe and attempt to deliver a slamming strike so that this will end and he can heal all warriors on the field.
Blood Stone instead move in closer to the party, "It is done. Now, rise warriors, and allow your wounds to dissipate."
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After Jazmine drops the Oread, Blood Stone charges towards the last one, and does a ton of pain to bring down the last standing oread. The captain, in a somewhat sarcastic manner, claps at your victor. Her eyes clearly shows some sort of disappointment overall. And she approaches you, pauses, takes a good look at the unconscious Oread's, and then congratulates you (although she really does not mean it well). "It is indeed done. Congratulations, tomorrow you are promoted to practical training." She turns, ready to make a leave immediately after.
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Afterward, my initial reaction, even as we are being congratulated, is to begin to call on the healing powers of my faith, allowing it to wash over both the party and the Oreads we had just fought. Even the Captain, should she require it.
"So, that was a little bit pointless. . ." he comments, looking around. "Win or lose, what does this prove? That we can outnumber our foes and happen to get a few lucky hits in. No offense, and yes, we very easily might have lost here, and that might have been a well earned lesson, but you really need to step up your game here if this is how you train your warriors. This was nothing more than rolling the dice. There was no real lesson here, no "sometimes you need to dig deep and find the strength to fight on when things are not fair". No "you need to learn to depend on your brothers and sisters in order to fight through". I'm getting the impression you are new at this, and I'm no expert. But, we have learned a few things about challenging and teach recruits from when we went through our own training. If you want, maybe we could help. In the end, all we have is each other to depend on."
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The captain maintains a stern and quiet silence throughout Blood Stone's inspiring speech. "We shall see how you perform at the practical." She notes emotionlessly, and leaves promptly.
The Oread's dare not look at Blood Stone's face as he speak, as a sense of guilt loom on their faces.
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"That was interesting. . ." as she walks away, knowing now is not the time to discuss it. "But, none of us are ALONE. Perhaps LATER, we can all meditate on this experience, hopefully TONIGHT, and TALK with the other to find a way through what is ultimately all of our failures.", hoping that the other Pathfinders are familiar with the old Pathfinder cant, a small trick agents are taught about incorporating certain body language and specific phrases into a statement to conceal doublespeak and coded messages.
Turning back to the other Oreads, "Don't worry about it, friends. We are all just doing our jobs, and you fought well. As I said, you where out numbered, and we have had the advantage of years of training in adverse conditions. In the end, we all can use this opertunity as an example. It might not have been a life or death situation, but now we can all use this to do better next time for when it very well might be." as he walks over to shake each of their hands and offer further healing if required.
"None of us can do this alone, and I'm not going to lie, you had us on the ropes there for a while. It was only by luck we managed to turn things around, and it could have gone very differently. Besides, you where clearly taking it easy on us for our first time. No shame in wanting to give us a small boost to morale before things get really, really bad." partially suspecting that something else is going on and partially to help them "save face".
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Jazmine keeps her back turned to the theatrics as she ministers to the wounded of the fight.. even the fallen Oreads. She agrees whole heartedly with Blood Eagle, but keeps her tongue as he requests.
Once her ministrations are complete, she calls Giggles over for a very well deserved hug and rubdown before they return to their quarters.
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After the combat, Rogan takes a few more practice swings with the oversized hammer. "Huh, guess I remember how to use this thing after all." He scoffs at Blood Stone's little speech though, "I don't know what luck you're talking about. I've trained many years under Arqueros to practice my skill's at defending the weak. They just need better training and more experience. Glad I could give them a whipping and show that Captain up."
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Jazmine takes a seat in the corner of the bunkroom, idly scratching behind Giggles ears as the dino lays across her legs. She looks around at her team and gathers their attention before asking "Did anyone else notice that the Captain was hiding something? We need to figure out what in the nine hells we have actually gotten ourselves into here.. "
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Once we get a chance to speak freely amongst ourselves, I'll go ahead and bring up my observations, "Indeed, when I offered to help, she seemed, both interested, but was also clearly hiding something. Suspicious. But, do you remember back to when we had to rush and climb the wall. Someone had purposefully placed rocks on the top that where designed to fall on us."
"Did anyone else notice anything out of the ordinary about the other obstacles? Or notice how we keep getting handicapped by not being allowed to use our natural talents. It's almost as if she, or her superiors, believes that magic might reveal something. Or, she knows who is setting things up to make us fail and trying to cover their tracks."
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"If you ask me, this whole place is a piss poor excuse for military training. Nobody is actually teaching anything. Maybe someone wants us, or more specifically the Society, to fail or look bad here. And maybe the Captain knows it but can't, or won't, say anything." Rogan shrugs and goes back to cleaning his armor. "Or maybe they just really suck here."