Fight Club Open Log! (Catch-All For the Month of Grasshopper)

[rieper]

This is an OPEN LOG for anyone to join. Make toplevels to your heart's content and tag around to each other freely. Whether your character is offering to teach or wanders in looking for someone to get them involved (or just to watch), this is a post for you! You may use this for any sort of open or even private threads if you so wish.

This log is for anyone who wants to participate in exercising, training, sparring, and teaching lessons. Some of the "classes" also involve things like yoga, meditation, and easier self defense mechanisms for anyone to learn. Magic users are also extremely encouraged to use the practice dummies and other facilities as well! After all, they also need to practice and also get used to having physical fighters near them as they spellcast. And vice versa. Plus, some people use both abilities in battle!

Basically, if you want to learn new skills that could be useful on missions, come take a peek!

For a basic set-up consider this: the new training gym has all sorts of useful equipment for physical fitness such as mats, soft hand held pads for training with, training dummies, some balancing beams and even a springboard. There are large blocks for making obstacle courses or creating a unique battlefield, and two climbing apparatus next to the wall. Many people are found here daily training, maintaining physical fitness, and teaching others how to handle combat in one fashion or another. Others come and go more sporadically but all are welcome and everyone (typically) shares everything with relative ease. Many of the usual suspects will help accommodate whoever asks for help. Generally, there is just a lot of activity and a busy but fluid schedule around all the equipment and space provided.

Various characters will be around to help answer questions icly if you like (I have 47 on offer for starters) and if you have any ooc questions or comments drop a line over here! An ic announcement was also made by 47 if your character needs an impetus for heading towards the gym. c:

And remember: you do you and have fun!!!

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Re: Glimmer | OTA for baby-level sparring, training, magic! please help her

[laurefindil]

A bottle of water appears near her after one such fury of blows on the poor dummy. "I see what you are trying to do there. Would you mind a little creative input, however?" Glorfindel asked.

[She may wonder how someone as glowy as he managed to sneak up on her, but 5000 years of practice does that....]

[queenofsparkles]

She doesn't wonder - she just yelps in surprise when there's suddenly someone there, and her hand swings back briefly like she's going to try and deck him; but she quickly pulls herself together.

"Glorfindel! Hi! Um." She lifts a hand and delicately clears her throat. "Yes, please, I would... I'd appreciate some advice."

[laurefindil]

"Have some water?" he asked, offering her the bottle again.

"First, let me ask you what your intentions are." Glorfindel nodded at the poor training dummy. "Are you trying to kill it, disarm it, capture it, or something else?" Once he knew her aim, he could advise on method, he figured.

[queenofsparkles]

"Okay, uh..." She's still a little wired and off-kilter, but she does take the bottle - and a few moments to work out how it opens. "I'm used to, um. Hitting people until they go unconscious. I was never formally trained as a soldier or anything," she admits a little sheepishly. "I'm pretty much entirely self-taught."

[laurefindil]

"Which...your enthusiasm and the element of surprise will get you a long way, but up against a skilled foe, you may find yourself at a disadvantage. So, hitting them until they go unconscious, huh?"

Glorfindel silently walked around the training dummy and then looked at her. "Permanently down or just incapacitate? There are ways to do either, but they shouldn't be mixed. Which is your intention?"

[queenofsparkles]

"I try to only incapacitate, but... I don't know how good I am at it. Most of the time we fought bots, and that usually just means hitting them until they stop." And she demonstrates as much while she's talking by taking her staff in both hands and swinging it gently but firmly around. "Bright Moon... my kingdom was protected by an enchanted forest, so we didn't really have to fight people as much, until we started taking back territory."

[laurefindil]

"Bots, that is a robot, similar to WebMind, but not self-aware, not a real person, correct?" Glorfindel asked.

"Enchanted forests are nice," he agreed, thinking of Fanghorn Forest and the Ents that lived there, and of Lothlorien with the golden trees. "But sometimes, you have to take matters into your own hands, yes."

"Would you mind if I gave you some pointers?" he asked. "I cannot teleport like you do, but I think what I have in mind will work well incorporated into your style. It's just...adding some finesse and, well, aim," he said with a grin.

[queenofsparkles]

"I'm... not sure who Webmind is" - and she might well be imagining some kind of spider-themed prince - "but, uh. Yeah, basically. We fought human-shaped ones sometimes, but for the most part it was giant three-legged spheres. Definitely not real people, any of them."

She gives Glorfindel a relieved smile at his offer. "I would greatly appreciate some advice."