Some people seemed to be in little groups talking, while others seemed to be writing their names on name stickers.
Falias had just come to the decision that the best thing to do was to see if he could find who it was amongst the people here was running the thing when an approaching purple-haired man headed in his direction.
"I'm not sure" he admitted honestly. "I'm pretty new to all this" five power-ups new to this in fact. "A... I think it was a senshi said I should come here and gave me directions." Although now he was here he wasn't particularly sure what he should be doing. Falias noticed that the man who had approached him had the same crossed circle symbols on his outfit as he did. Camelot had them too. "I'm Falias," he said before adding "Are you a Knight of Earth too?"
Carneli
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"We can catch up with Tsui later if she's not able to make it" Athene agreed, head tilting curiously as Ida bent down towards a shape that had been darting around. It was a guardian cat, although not one that Athene recognised from the admitted small list that he'd met.
"Hello there" he said quietly, a slight but friendly smile on his lips as he looked at the fluffy flame point cat that had taken the opportunity to, well zoom was pretty much the best word for it, up Ida and settle on his friend's shoulders. "Nice to meet you Horatio, I'm Sailor Athene but feel free to use Athene and my friend that you're perched on is Super Sailor Ida" noticing as he made the introductions that the guardian cat had racing googles that kind of made him think of candy canes.
He smiled another slight smile at the compliment Horatio gave him "Thank you," he nodded as he added "And sure you can play with them sometime" remembering as he spoke how Pippin had also been interested in the beads braided into his hair. The other guardian cat had called them shinies too.
Bluefire Dragonz
Quicksilver the Archangel
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:28 pm
Fashionably late? Never!
Deneb wasn't really one for training sessions, to be honest; she preferred to work solo, not being much one to work well with others, but she was bored, and thus, when she got the message, the senshi of bubbles had decided she may as well go, if only to have something to do with her time.
Arriving at the gymnasium, Deneb frowned when she realized just how many people were here. It wasn't that she wasn't good with crowds- it just... Deneb preferred opportunities to look good and show off, and this didn't seem like it would be such the opportunity to do either.
Ida was... well a little startled when the ball of fur had run up her arms and draped itself around her neck, nestled into the folds of her scarf. It was hard to see the furry face so close to her own, especially with the edge of the scarf obscuring her vision, but she laughed at the happy voice that sounded near her ear and tentatively reached up to rub under a furry jaw. The behavior and waving paw reminded her of her own cat and she instantly warmed to the guardian on her shoulders as she straightened up.
"Its nice to meet you! There certainly are a lot of people here today... you have your work cut out for you keeping us all hidden." She chuckled, grinning at Athene as he agreed to let the cat play with his hair accessories. Hopefully he would take them out before he did so, and be resigned to the fact they would probably disappear. Anything her kitten got ahold of seemed to poof into thin air.
"Um... I don't know if there is anything else to do right now. Maia would probably be the better one to ask about that, since she's in charge today and organizing all of this. You'll need to be careful when everyone starts running around so you don't accidentally get stepped on."
Quicksilver the Archangel
litian
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:59 pm
He didn't know why he was coming, or rather he had some vague reason for leaving the safety and comfort of home, it was another night of drunken shouting from his father who was by some miracle still conscious. His mother was again working a double shift, seemed the hospital had gotten a flood of people in after some sweet sixteen party had gone to hell and back in a neat little hand basket, bow and all. That aside he had taken advantage of a reason to be out tonight and escape his father, if only because he couldn't deal with the shouting which was loud even from his room on the second floor.
Shaking his head he reached out and caught the door being let go of before he could smack right into it, and hurt himself before things even started. A soft thank you was given to the long dark haired female who had held it, albeit for only a few moments, for him.
The gym didn't look like it had the last time. It wasn't coloring or size but rather everything seemingly haphazardly tossed about the place. Only he was sure everything had a reason behind it's placement and it seemed to resemble some sort of...obstacle course perhaps? This didn't seem good, not for him anyway, as he was already nervous about doing this again.
Glancing around he saw what looked like, from a distance anyway, to be papers and pens, or maybe markers, on a stack of mats placed right behind a green and white clad red haired eternal senshi. She was the one who had run things last time. That must be where the name tags were. Moving around the female dressed in a fluffy, and too hot in his opinion, coat he hurried his way over all the while glancing about like some overly nervous teenager. Grabbing a name tag he wrote down his name Chaldene quickly and slapping the tag onto his uniform he looked around for someone he knew, anyone.
She had missed the first training session, there had been a movie in the theater which she'd gone to see, but this time she had no such plans already made. In fact, Winterlynn was taking the summer off from her studies so she could enjoy the fewer hours she'd be busy. She hadn't done much, at least not as Delphi, in a while due to school and work and finals and the mess that the end of a semester often became. She might be organized, and have a sharp memory, but even for her end of semesters were stressful as she worked on essays and dutifully studied even if it was mostly unnecessary and just going through the motions.
Now though she wasn't as busy and thus she had decided to attend this gathering and try and better herself, and see the few others she knew. Walking, at a hurried pace, in high heels she reached the gym doors just moments before a blue and white clad young male. Holding the door open she didn't hold it open long enough, she was rather intent upon getting inside and seeing who was here and what was going to be taking place, so it was a good thing the male was quick enough to catch the door. She caught his softly spoken 'thank you' and with a quick bob of her head the page of Polaris headed into the room.
After a moment of looking around, not sure where the name tags came from, her gaze found the male again and saw what he was doing. Ah! So that's where they were. Making her way toward him she arrived at the stack of mats just as he was leaving, name tag now on his chest, and took up a pen to fill out her own name tag.
Sleet Tempest Snape
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SpaceSalt
Backwoods Prophet
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Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 5:24 am
"Oh, yeah, well," Columba snorted and rolled her eyes. The carnival had taken it's toll on a little more than her face but she was doing her best not to let that mess her up. It would suck if someone took it as proof she couldn't handle the senshi thing and told on her.
"Yah. I took ah bite outta this negaverser with awesome hair and he hit back, but it's cool, that's what trainings' for. I got in trouble last time Maia did onna these, but this time it'll be fine," She concluded with a nod, tugging on the cuffs of her gloves before she knocked one into Oberon's arm in a friendly punch. "Chill out man, we're here to spar! It's awesome fun."
She turned her attention back to Massalia. "Did your mom let you do that to your hair? Or did you do it anyway?" She pulled off her hat, leaving her short hair spiking up in all directions. Her eyes turned up in a futile attempt to look at it. "Sometimes I think about buzzing off the sides but my dad flipped his lid just 'cause of a little bleach."
NovaCracker
Guine
"Oh," Alfheim took the opportunity to be helpful and pointed out Maia in her group. "She's the one that runs things, or at least starts them."
He cracked an easy smile at the thought of being new. In a lot of ways, the squire still considered himself a newbie. There were a lot of things no one had taught him, or neglected to mention, and the feeling of newness hadn't quite gone away. But seeing the page put things in perspective a little.
"I'm kind of new, less new, I guess," He laughed and held out a hand, "Yeah! I'm Alfheim. I haven't met any other Earth knights besides Camelot."
litian
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 6:07 am
Waiting waiting... talking talking.. What were they waiting on? The Brazilian senshi glanced down at her wrist as if to check a watch, her nose wrinkling a little when she saw nothing there by gloves and what looked like sun shaped braclets. Giving a bit ol' sigh to herself she shifted in her position, arms lifting to cross in front of her chest. Hopefully it wouldn't be that much longer.
Letting her eyes stray from the equipment for a moment she glanced around the room taking in the smattering of mostly unfamiliar cats, senshi, and knights. She did recognize a few.. though it wasn't the good kind of recognize. So she didn't seem particularly inclined to try and mingle.
Maybe she should just start warming up on the equipment... Would anyone say anything? Surely warming up was better for a training session then then chattering and clucking like a flock of frango.
"Oh, no..? I was just made..." He motioned at his fuku. "This. Uh, I think I'm Coyotes." He scratched his head. He wasn't sure about anything-- he was new at this!
"I met a talking ga-kitty over the weekend. She was very cute! But I don't see her here." Massalia looked disappointed.
Then he preened.
"Yes, Mama and Papa let me get my hair cut. But I had to earn the allowance to pay for it so I did some work in the neighborhood. My neighbor's dog likes me now!"
Massalia was proud of walking the neighbor dogs! He was a big boy!...He took what he could get.
Carneli
Guine
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:33 am
As unprepared as he'd been to be approached by the page, Ganymede was equally unprepared for her to walk away without the encouragement of a confrontation.
"Wait, I didn't even say anything this time," he said, and then quickly apologized, "Sorry, hold on, you're not interrupting. It's just that usually when people approach me it's because I've said something rude about them or their princess or their moon queen."
He was fairly certain he'd never seen this page before and therefore likely hasn't had the chance to say something rude enough to turn this into one of the usual fiascos, but he could never be too sure. He could have said something to one of her friends for all he knew, or maybe she's been around for one of his tantrums before and he just hadn't noticed her until now.
The more likely scenario, he now realized, was that she simply didn't know either he or Valhalla and has approached to make the requisite introductions.
"Sorry," Ganymede apologized again. "I'm crap at this, the worst senshi here, probably. I should never leave the house."
Pasiphae's approach helped him calm down somewhat. She was a familiar face and not someone he'd managed to successfully piss off, and the wings were definitely a new addition since the last time he'd seen her powered up.
"I don't know, I kind of like the wings on your head better," he joked, then exaggerated a pout, "I'm jealous. You and Val match."
Maia thought for a moment on just what it would entail, but was slightly distracted by Pompeii coming up to the group and having everyone attention refocused on her. Then Pasiphae joined them as well, and her as well and her attention went back to thinking about how they could help again.
Pompeii went to scurry away, but Maia grabbed her arm, "stay. We're just about ready to start and you're not interrupting. Part of the reason for this is to get to know each other and make allie. Remember that okay, besides you're my teammate, right?"
She looked to Pasiphae, Ganymeutde and Vahalla once more and was about to speak when Sess walked up spouting nicknames and grabbing up a name tag. She gave him a small name tag, but to him she said the same as to Pompeii, "no need we're about to start in a moment anyway," before she gave a laugh, "and beside I don't see any old people here anyway, this isnt a retirement party, right?"
She smirked before looking back to the three eternals, hoping not to interrupted once more. "Congratulation Pasiphae on getting your wings, as for helping. Last time it was just walking around making sure they didn't seriously injure one another or encouraging them to actually fight. This time though I think maybe it would be better encouragement if we fought with them. Still keeping an eye out for things I don't want to see," she dropped her voice slightly, "like biting. Don't ask. And making notes. Like last time I'm pretty sure Zia yelled at Shang for letting Ida trick him. She pretends she hurt herself and he fell for it. So let's do this yes?"
Maia grabbed a white paper bag that looked like a gift bag off the floor and jumped lightly up onto the stack of mats on the floor.
"All right everyone, gather round," she said loudly, "its about time to get started. Shang close the door please."
With that she jumped down and started handing out names tags and sharpie pens to anyone not wearing one. "Names please and stick them to the front of your outfits please. If you really do not want to where them then please at least give me your name so I can know what to call you. Name tags will make your life easier though."
When she finished she hoped back up on the mats. "Welcome to everyone who came to the training session and thank you for coming. It's really great to see so many returning faces as well as new ones. Tonight's training session for those of you who were here last time will be operating differently. As everyone can see this time around there aren't just mats, but the gymnastics equipment has been pulled out as well. If you look around there are also a few bean bags, tennis, dodge, and soccer balls lying about as well as a few pool noodles. All this will represent your landscape and I hope you will try to use it fully to your advantage."
"Tonight we will again practice combat, but we will also work on teamwork and larger battle experience. As many of you know and some of you have experienced there was an attack on the carnival, something none of us really want to think about it, but it happened and I think this exercise might go a long way in helping us feel more confident in that sort of situation and being able to navigate it better and look out for one another." She smiled to Ganymede and Valhalla.
She motioned for Shang to come forward, "can you hand me that," she asked softly pointing to another paper bag on the floor, this time polka dotted, which he handed her quickly.
"Okay so, you will be split into two teams, the red team," she pulled out plain solid red bandanna and tossed it to Valhalla, "and the blue team," pulling out a solid blue bandanna and tossing it to Athene.
With that she jumped down and starting handing out bandannas to the other's.
Blue bandannas went to Shangri-La, Massalia, Sessrumnir, Sisyphus, Lassell, Athene, Falias, Ida, Deneb and she kept one for herself.
Red bandannas went to Aster, Oberon, Columba, Pompeii, Alfheim, Juno, Ganymede, Palantine, Chaldene and Delphi.
"You objective is to defeat the other team and," she waved the polka dotted bag, "the winning team gets a small reward."
How this will go
This training session will be run dice rolling style. Each team has 650HP to start out and you will roll when attacking each other to bring the HP down. The team that reaches zero first will be eliminated and the remaining team will win.
For attacks roll one 10 sided die, if you roll a 1, 5, or 10 you've missed and thing else is a hit and your roll should be subtracted from the other teams HP.
Please roll only once every 4 posts.
I am hoping the decent sized HP and making 10 a miss will help the battle from going to fast but if it doesnt, well then I know for any subsequent time I choose dice rolling. Also not doing indiviual HP so people aren't eliminated to quickly and can play the whole time.
*I didn't put the cats to the team, but I was asked, yes both a free to participate if they will Sheena will not be. If they play: Laoise red, and Horatio, blue please.*
HAVE FUN!!!
Sorry for the double quote! I fail at proofreading sometimes!
Silent Spy
Novacracker
Guine
and be blue
Carneli
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litian
Bluefire Dragonz
Iris_virus
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Quicksilver the Archangel
Merurulince
Sleet Tempest Snape
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 10:10 am
"Blue teams to the rings, Red team to the parallel bars. We start on my mark!"
She waited for them to shuffle off to their prospective areas.
Lassell, grinned and took the blue bandana from Maia, how nice it matched his outfit. He beamed he was either too excited for this or it could be the fact that Maia was on his team, he hid his excitement rather well. He glanced at his teamates, the good news was Shangri-la shared the same team "lets do this!" He said revved up to get going. This way he could practice and keep an eye on Maia as discretely as possible.
When Maia called together the group Juno was happy to oblige, striding over to listen to the rules as they were listed. Working together instead of alone? That was an interesting twist. Her eyes flicked over the rest of her teammates. Three other senshi, two kids, and four knights. She recognized only one or two of them, but that didn't matter so much with the bandanas.
Turning to her opponents she watched them with a bit more scrutiny, sizing up the competition as she tied the bandana tightly around her bicep, the blaze of red standing out quite a bit from her fuku colors.
Maia barely even had to say parallel bars before Juno was there, though instead of simply lining herself by them she stood between them before lifting herself up and giving a few prepatory little swings.
Like a horse at a horse race waiting for the bell and opening gate, she sprung forward as soon as the word GO sounded. The Amazonian had always been the attack first and ask questions later sort anyway.
Running forward she leaned to pick up a tennis ball, before wailing it at a member of the other team.
Eos Galvus rolled 1 10-sided dice:
10Total: 10 (1-10)
Eos Galvus
Shadowy Celebrant
Online
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 11:04 am
SOCCER BALLS!
Massalia's eyes glinted and suddenly, the chibi moved, running for the balls as quickly as he could, beginning to dribble as he moved. The ball was moving to and fro between his feet, the boy practically dancing as he moved, before taking aim at a member of the red team. He didn't care who he hit, he just wanted a good score, and the young boy took a hard kick.
Lassell ran the set of soccer balls and took off towards the other team dribbling between his feet so is soccer skills could play a part in this training battle. He dribbled for a few seconds and kicked it towards the red team. Wondering who it would hit there was no main target that he was aiming for.
A mixed blessing: on the one hand, Sisyphus's eyes brightened to be put on Athene's team, recognizing the senshi from foul play at a baseball game. On the other, he was separated from his cat, his mentor, and she who pushed him to actually take action. So he went slowly, putting on his blue bandana, and had barely tied it shut when a tennis ball came out of nowhere.
He yelped as it hit him in the back of the head, an undignified sound, and blinked up in shock at Juno on the parallel balls before gathering his wits.
