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 Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 9:45 am
Dawson's experience of women who claimed they were fragile or looked delicate and then proceeded to kick his a** dated back to even before he saw Maebe in action, so he took Melody's caveat with a grain of salt. Put a weapon in anyone's hands and they could be more deadly than you thought. But at least he could seemingly trust her to be more diplomatic about it than Maebe's sassiness.
< Or it is all a ruse, and you will fall flat on your face once more. > Despite the comment, Syn was amused and pleased. Training recruits was a better use of time than rebuilding what was broken.
The training field was one of the first areas cleared of snow after paths had been carved about headquarters, though there were still pockets of half-melted slush about. It made for a wet, muddy, and cold area for practice, but there wasn't much they could do aside from be careful--although careful and sparring were hard to put together.
"Welcome to the trainin' fields!" he said grandly. "No better way t'keep yerself warm than t'work out, yeah?"
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 6:36 pm
"I could think of better ways," Melody eyeballed a patch of nearby slush with an evident edge of concern. "Are you sure there isn't some place... dryer... for this?" Still she complied and meandered around on the field curiously checking for a nice mostly dry and sturdy spot.
"How do we start?... Do we just... um, summon and start swinging?"
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medigel rolled 1 20-sided dice:
20
Total: 20 (1-20)
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 9:56 pm
"Nope!" he said cheerfully. "C'mon, s'not so bad, Mel! Mosta this place is salted up." Still wet for the most part, unfortunately, but they were making due with the sudden appearance of so much snow.
Spotting a decent looking place, he gestured for Melody to follow. "Yeah, we start by summoning." The shield appeared in on his arm, as snarly as ever. "Since we're both close combat, least we won' hafta get fancy about it. Think we should start with you gettin' used to movin' n' attackin' with yer shoulder. N' you can hit me hard," he promised with a grin. "I'm a pretty sturdy guy under all this blubber, don'tch worry."
Saliru throwing up initiative real quick .......or he could do that sure
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Saliru rolled 1 20-sided dice:
6
Total: 6 (1-20)
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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 6:01 pm
"Salt isn't good for clothes though," she sounded concerned but really wasn't all that worried. She was particular and careful enough. She found herself a decently sized dry patch with stable feeling ground in no time. She stomped the hard dirt testingly. Then suddenly realized with a flash of runes and a curiously large bit of metal, that it was apparently go-time.
She felt sick. She really really didn't like the concept but still grudgingly summoned Whisper to her shoulder. Jagged feather like spikes clacked as she rolled her shoulders and awkwardly tried to form some sort of battle stance.
She hardly looked the least bit intimidating.
Sort of like a puffy pink teddy bear pretending it was a grizzly mount.
Medigel He wanted to hit her sooooooo bad is what
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medigel rolled 1 8-sided dice:
3
Total: 3 (1-8)
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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 8:50 pm
He chuckled. "Ain' gonna toss turf atcha, promise." Well, unless Melody's charge ended up being something that would dislodge a chunk of the field at him... "All I wantcha t'do is t'hit my shield square on her nose." The shield was large, but the target wasn't so much. Syn's snarling open maw seemed to dare Melody to even approach. HP: 50 Defense: 3
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Saliru rolled 2 8-sided dice:
7, 6
Total: 13 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2016 4:31 pm
Melody approached uncertainly before turning her body and walking sideways at him. Leading with Whisper and once she got close enough, lifting herself up on her toes and then sort of- falling into Dawson's shield with a loud clatter and scrape of metal on metal. She flinched and backed off far more quickly than it took her to attack in the first place. "L-like that?!"
HP- 40
DMG- 4
CHG- 1/3
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medigel rolled 1 8-sided dice:
7
Total: 7 (1-8)
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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 10:35 am
The sound was unpleasant, and Syn snorted at her lack of technique, but it did do the trick. "Like that, sorta!" Dawson told her as he pulled his shield back up. "Same idea, but less...fallin' on me. F'I was an enemy, I'd've grabbed you or letcha fall or somethin'. Try shovin' me this time!" HP: 46 Defense: 7 Charge: 1/3
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Saliru rolled 2 8-sided dice:
7, 8
Total: 15 (2-16)
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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 4:28 pm
"That is so rude though. Can I at least say 'excuse me'?" Without even waiting for an answer, she hunkered down again and pushed her shoulder at the shield. The clattering was louder than before and just as abrasive as each feather shaped tine jabbed against Dawson's shield.
She backed up and dusted herself off a bit, "Excuse my rudeness Mr. Dawson."
HP - 40
DMG - 2
CHG - 2/3
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medigel rolled 1 8-sided dice:
5
Total: 5 (1-8)
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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 7:18 am
He couldn't help but snort a laugh. "Girl, we sparrin'! You don' gotta excuse yerself fer nothin' at all. People way ruder 'an me might face ya someday who won' give two licks watcha think." At least she seemed capable of hitting him. Man, these newbies seemed better at it than he did... Dawson rapped his knuckles against the shield. "One more time fer me, honey!" HP: 44 Defense: 5 Charge: 2/3
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Saliru rolled 2 8-sided dice:
7, 7
Total: 14 (2-16)
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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 5:54 pm
"Still, it's not in me to...," she rolled her shoulder and then went in for a third go - jabbing her shoulder against his shield and then backing up again. "...be so callous as to ignore the fact I just pushed you and your lovely weapon there. For that, I am sorry." She cleared her throat and looked at him, "dear, you are just full of pet names today, aren't you?" She couldn't help smirking with amusement.
HP - 40
DMG - 3
CHG - 3/3
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medigel rolled 1 4-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-4)
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Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 8:43 am
He grinned back. "S'just my way, sugar," he joked. "F'they get offendin', lemme know." It wouldn't be the first time a woman gave him a look for calling them something like sweetheart. "But c'mon now--you think the opposin' team's tackles go apologizin' t'who they stop? You do whatcha gotta do." They had to find a way to make her stop that... "Now, y'see the way our weapons're lighting up? Tha' means they got enough Fear stocked up t'do a special attack. Sometimes it's real powerful, sometimes it's subtle, sometimes it's fer defense 'r healin'. Yer a Moon, so I'd figure...Whisper, right? I'd figure he'd be more on the defensive part, but, well, Micah had a real asskicker of a charge, so who knows! Now s'far as activatin' it, you gotta work with yer partner on that." Kind of hard to explain mental stuff. "But I'll show ya mine." The chimera's eyes glinted as the orange runes on Dawson's shield darkened, sliding up his arm in the form of translucent fire until it laid over his entire body like an extra layer of glowing warmth. "Syn's is some extra pertection for a bit," he explained. "You don' gotta use yours now, but if ya do, don' worry about me; this stuff's harder to get through than ya think!" T2 Barrier in effect!: 10/10HP: 41 Defense: Charge: 3/3 T2 Barrier used
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Saliru rolled 2 4-sided dice:
1, 2
Total: 3 (2-8)
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 5:39 pm
"They are fine," Melody assured. "Somewhat endearing." She shook her head and frowned at his critique of her apologies, "you are not the opposition, Dawson."
Her protests stifled quickly as violet runes flickered across the pauldron's surface. The glowing seemed to increase. "For you my lady," Whisper's voice sounded in her head, there was a subtle warning to his tone but she completely misunderstood. A violet light suddenly shoot out in the direction of her face and she quickly pulled her head back, causing it to miss. "You almost hit me!" she scolded the weapon out loud. Whisper merely grunted a small reply, "It was meant to."
She stood there, staring at the pauldron as the runes returned to a dull barely tangible presence. "What?"
HP - 40
DMG - Missed!
CHG - 3/3 Using T2 The Eye
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medigel rolled 2 10-sided dice:
6, 6
Total: 12 (2-20)
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Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2016 7:51 am
"Huh...Probably was a positive effect," Dawson deduced. "Next time, let him do his thing, yeah? Gotta trust yer partner." Supposing that the only way to really illustrate the need to get past her politeness was to, well, get a little bit more active than just playing defense, he changed his stance. "So now, we're gonna do a different exercise. I'll call it, uh...inverse tug-o-war!" < Genius. >"It's real simple. I'm gonna push on yer shoulder. Yer job is t'try n' shove me off any way you can, alright?" Since it was a first time, Dawson didn't immediately charge her, but rather telegraphed his move so Melody would have time to react before their weapons locked. T2 Barrier in effect!: 10/10 1/3 turnsHP: 41 Attack: 6 Charge: 1/3
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Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2016 6:35 pm
Melody immediately began stumbling backwards until she felt the pressure let up and frowned at Dawson. "That hurt," her frown deepened into something bordering on genuine upset. "Did it feel like that when I was pushing you?"
HP - 34
medigel She's driving me crazy, just set her on fire Daws
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Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 8:51 am
Syn snorted, but Dawson remained patient. "Supposed t'hurt, honey," he told her. "We're fightin', not ticklin'. Yer barrier--that thing you ya seen flashin' a bit any time ya hit me--that stops ya from gettin' actually hurt. Worst you'll do t'me out here's bruises." He pointed out the dampeners around the edges of the training field. "'Specially with those stabilizin' us." Maybe a different tactic would work. "You said you wnted t'be an adventurer, yeah? Well ya ain' gonna get anythin' done if ya keep frettin' like that!"
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