rieper: (stare.)
47 ([personal profile] rieper) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerexpress2020-11-05 10:57 pm

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

Who: Open to anyone! Make your own toplevel style~
Where: Training gym
When: Throughout the month of Imagination
What: Training in the gym. Unofficially known as "Fight Club". 47 absolutely does not call it that. But I do!
Warnings: It's a Fight Club! Sorta. Expect (hopefully friendly) violence, maybe some cursing, and whatever else. Free feel to add cw in your toplevels if needed.

Early in the month of Imagination, 47 makes an announcement on the ICP.

From: Training Gym
To: All Carriages


    [It's the bald man in a suit again and if you've guessed what he's going to say before he starts talking you've been on the train for far too long like the rest of them.]

    Another mission should be coming within the week. Anyone unprepared should consider the efforts ongoing in the training gym to learn new skills for survival, combat, and defensive measures. Those who have such skills already are welcome to participate in sparring and exercise sessions as well if they have not already done so within the group setting. [Or come help train.]

    There are multiple people to chose from for training or sparring needs. Simply make your way to the training gym whenever possible. My name is Tobias Rieper--you'll find me there most days and if you need help with anything I'm available.

    [That's all he has to say this time. Short, sweet, to the point. The end. He'll be in the training gym for Q&A for the rest of the day and probably most of the week or until the next mission comes (at least). This is typical for him anyway.]


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 also use the facilities to practice their spells! Everyone get use to that crazy lightning storm going off around them as they fight the big bad monster of a training dummy! It's going to happen at some point out in the field, guaranteed!

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.


[[ooc note: The typical Fight Club open log post has returned! Now condensed into one post with the ic announcement for convenience of yours truly. Here is the original ooc info post which may or may not one day get an update, and here is a list of training/trainers offered up. Feel free to continue to update either post with new character info! Or ask questions if you have 'em!]]
reluctantjinrou: (Default)

[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2020-11-13 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"I suppose that's a valid point." Natsuno murmured. He just thought that people would have a problem having a vampire around. He certainly would.

"I've been told my eyes are strange anyway. Apparently they glow in the dark."
its_dad_sanzo: (ha ha Ukoku you're awful - no really)

[personal profile] its_dad_sanzo 2020-11-13 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Of course it is, I give extremely good advice!" Which was true, he just didn't usually bother to explain what the advice meant, leaving it up to the listener to figure out if he was trolling them or if there was a deeper meaning... or both. Buddhist.

"Plus, if they go all red and spooky when you take a fight seriously, that's a tip-off, at least if what you're fighting is smart! You don't want them to know you're not just just a plain human until you actually attack, right? Not everything can sense an aura."

The glowing was interesting, too.

"Glowing--? Besides keeping your secret a secret, what if you need to sneak up on something? I think your best bet is to just embrace looking cool and get some 'shades for fighting!"

Or master the perpetual squint, like Koumyou himself, but the kid had plenty of other things to master.
reluctantjinrou: (Sleepy)

[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2020-11-15 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
"I suppose, although until Alice told me, I had no idea they were glowing. I haven't really looked or anything to see if I could see them."

Natsuno was pretty sure that he could see himself in the mirror if he cared to. He hadn't tried. That was a myth...right?
its_dad_sanzo: Burial-era (smiling dork)

[personal profile] its_dad_sanzo 2020-11-15 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
"You're not very curious about your condition, are you?"

Teasing aside, that seemed like a shame to Koumyou. "Your situation is your situation... ignoring it won't change anything, you know!"
reluctantjinrou: (Who's Following Me?)

[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2020-11-15 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Unfortunately. I am supposed to be dead, so no, I haven't really spent much time trying to figure out the minutia of the condition I have." Natsuno grumbled a little bit.

"I'm supposed to be dead."
its_dad_sanzo: (not smiling now)

[personal profile] its_dad_sanzo 2020-11-15 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
"If you would rather be dead than what you are, then I don't see why you're bothering to learn to fight," Koumyou tucked his hands back into his sweater pocket, not so much as smiling for once.
reluctantjinrou: (Default)

[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2020-11-15 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"There is no way to die permanently here, apparently you just come back to life, meaning attempting to do so is a fruitless venture." Natsuno sighed. "So if I must be here, shouldn't I make myself useful?"
its_dad_sanzo: Ibun-era (the moon)

[personal profile] its_dad_sanzo 2020-11-16 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, have you tried?"

Look, the response from any Sanzo priest to someone saying they'd rather be dead, would invariably be 'so die then'. That was just how they were.
reluctantjinrou: (Sleepy)

[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2020-11-16 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not personally, but apparently other people have died one way or another and they come back in the luggage car." Natsuno explained.

That was fine, he could get behind that philosophy after all, he did in fact want to be dead.
its_dad_sanzo: (watching a friend die)

[personal profile] its_dad_sanzo 2020-11-16 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, if you ever decide you want to live, come to me and I'll help," Koumyou turned to go, digging into his pocket as he walked and producing the sutra. He settled it back onto his shoulders with a practiced flick, "I have no time for the dead."
Edited 2020-11-16 22:09 (UTC)
reluctantjinrou: (Sigh)

[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2020-11-17 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
"But-" Natsuno protested, taking half a step towards him, a little alarmed.

That was a most effective way of ending a conversation, pulling out the sutra that made him take two steps back before he stopped himself.

He scoffed lightly and turned his back on Koumyou, frustrated enough that he considered saying something rude.

Fine. It was fine. He'd rely on himself, then, to figure it out.