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There Eternal Senshi of Danger wandered in, late, as per usual. He looked around, then over his shoulder at the knight following after him. Chaonis had happened to find the guy quite literally while on his way over to this little meeting, since he was friends with Maia and at least wanted to show her he was interested in the things she asked him to join in on.

But not too interested, thus being late. He had a reputation to maintain, after all.

The knight looked wholly baffled, a page that must have only just powered up for the first time recently, blinking and looking around at all the other powered beings. They all had auras that he could feel, all different in ways but all the same. It was overwhelming, and he couldn't point out which one belonged where.

He felt a little under dressed, as well.

"Hey guys!" Chaonis called leisurely, walking toward the group, looking for faces he knew that didn't also hate him. It actually looked like a really good crowd, for which he was glad. He didn't go to these kind of things very often, but at the moment he wasn't regretting showing up yet. He even felt a little excited. He liked this job of his, helping his fellow senshi.

The page, however, was forgotten.

Luxor was left to his own devices, so he followed Chaonis, who he did not even know by name, and tried not to look as timid as he felt. He was 29 years old, after all. But he was also half naked. That sort of cancelled everything else out.

Oh! There was a face she knew. The senshi of danger was a figure she seemed to keep running into, usually because he was saving her life when she bit off more than she could chew. His presence went a long way towards banishing her fears, and while she still had misgivings, she was a lot more comfortable than she had been.

She blinked when the purple-haired girl joined her, wincing as she was poked right in her stitches. Another reminder of what had happened and why she was so nervous.

"Y-yeah, I was there on Pi day. You're Lily's friend, right? Um... Zia? Its nice to see you again, I'm a little surprised. But, I guess everyone here is a civilian too, so I guess maybe its not all that surprising. I'm... kind of glad I wasn't the only one who didn't power up right away... I was starting to feel stupid."

Speaking of... things were wrapping up and it was about time she did something about that. At least there were some high level senshi here... it should be safe...

"I'm sorry, give me just a moment." She said as she sidled back, turning away shyly as she pulled out her pen and called out for her power. When the light faded, she was in her familiar fuku, feeling the new strength that came with it. It also came with more nerves, unfortunately... she felt exposed, like a mouse out in the open with a cat hiding somewhere nearby.... which was, maybe, not a terribly good thought right now, since the cats were on her side. Snake maybe...?

Shaking her head, she turned back to Zia and offered her a little smile, her gloved fingers twisting together.




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Maia looked around at the amount of people that had showed up and decided that it was probably a good number to start with. She just needed to make sure she got everyone names in order so the pairs could be called out. She made her way around the crowd to find Zia whom she could have sworn was off by Orah and once she spotted her, she said. "Since you're here, you get to help. Come on let's go. You're good at this sort of thing anyway."

She moved back toward the crowd fully expecting Zia to follow. "All right everyone," she called out. "Thank you all for coming. Really it's amazing to see so many new faces for this rather impromptu training session. Gather round and if you haven't powered up and can please, do so now." She looked to Ian who she knew to still be in corner, though she thought he was being prodded by Sheena.

"Everyone who hasn't given your name or at least gotten a name tag, has a few minutes to do so now, so that sparring pairs maybe assigned so we can get this underway."

[OOC: This rp in now officially closed to new people joining in. I will give 5 minutes in case someone was working on a post, but after the five minutes passes, no more new characters please. The sparring will begin shortly.]

With how quickly people were finding one another, it seemed Pandora didn't need to utilize her new-found powers in greeting people, so learned at Kesslan Reever's most recent birthday party.

What she was not prepared for were children. They weren't being watched, they weren't even civilians. The first one, Pandora had let pass as a sort of folly. Perhaps she was mistaking size and voice for age.

After the second, and after the introduction of Chibi, it seemed it was a different matter entirely. There was a lump in her throat.

Quieting, she joined Maia as she gave her announcement. The back of her neck was beginning to itch, and Pandora's eyes kept glancing over to the children. At least there were two, and Pandora was sure Maia would have the sense to pair them together.

"Can I talk to you when we're finished?" With making the pairs and giving a practice example, she meant.

When she glanced up, she realized she was quite wrong. There were three. Pandora cast a desperate look at Maia, and then parted quitetly from the Eternal.

After squeezing her way by a few people talking, Pandora was in comfortable speaking distance with a newly arrived page. "Are you here for the training session? Please, come on in and join us. We're about to get started."

When the labels had come round Athene had hesitated before picking one up. The dark-haired senshi hadn’t realised that labels was part of the whole practice sparring thing and it felt a little too much like kindergarten or one of those awkward get to meet each other things.

He’d written ‘Sailor Athene’ on the label in his somewhat on the messy side handwriting before pinning it awkwardly on the front of his senshi outfit, threading it between the two ‘wings’ on his brooch.

After thinking it over for a moment or two he had taken the label off and added ‘Beads’ in the bottom right-hand corner before re-threading it back, turning his focus to the eternal senshi at the front once she addressed the room.

Pharos quickly skittered into the room at being invited in and joined the bunch, giving her name and getting a name tag. She had a little trouble finding the place and just barely made it, but she was there. He waved to Alfheim and then to Zia, not thinking about how the girl couldn't recognize her.

Sheena grinned at Ian when he gave into her prodding, ignoring the not like crowds comment and resuming her signature masking mission.

Maia was use to chibis, but even she was slightly unbalanced by the tiny Chibi Euphrosyne. She fully understood the reason, but he was simple so tiny. Still she also new chibi senshi weren't to be underestimated, so she smiled at him and when Pandora asked if they could talk later she simply nodded. It was a conservation that had been had by many.

"Chaonis," she called out, "up front if you please. I could use your help directing this training session and helping everyone out."

She turned looking the bunch over, reading name tag and recalling names that had been given earlier or that were being given now. "First we will pair everyone up. Remember you partners names as we won't pair up right away."

"Right then," she pointed, "Alfheim (odd) and Chaldene (even) ," continuing to point, "Shangri-La (odd) and Ida (even) , Sessrumnir (odd) and Irene (even), Palantine (odd) and Lassell (even), Pomona (odd) and Athene (even), Columba (odd) and Euphrosyne (even), Pharos (odd) and Phact (even), and lastly Pompeii (odd) and Luxor (even)."

[OOC: Here are the pairs for the first spar. Winner are being rolled for time sake. Second Round it won't matter, so the winners won't be rolled.

EDIT: -___- ... <.< ... most fail roll ever ...
If you won and really believe your player would not win, you can discuss with the other player to override the dice roll.]

“You don’t know how to spell your name?” Palatine speared Sessrumnir with a look which was clearly meant to impart her absolute disgust in him. “I have so much confidence in your ability to educate future generations,” she added sarcastically.

Name tags weren’t really her thing. She never wore them at work. Didn’t have to. The plaque on her desk tended to do the job rather well, as did the sign on her office door, and generally the people who came to see her were already aware of her name to begin with, whether or not they’d ever met her before. Regardless, she took one of the nametags for herself with an eyeroll in response to the unwanted nickname Sess had labeled her with.

It was demeaning and she did not appreciate it, but she didn’t say anything about it because hell if he would actually listen to her.

“And I thought you were the genius of the family,” she mocked her squire companion as he was summarily corrected by Chaldene, glancing at the kid with about as much interest as she glanced at everyone else.

Ugh, he looked so young.

Well, at least he didn’t look five.

“One of Zeus’s many lovers, isn’t it?” she wondered, catching the pen Sessrumnir had tossed at her so that she could scribble ‘Palatine’ onto her nametag and slap it onto her chest, where it remained lopsided.