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On a normal day on Deus Ex, much of the morning and early afternoon was taken up by duties. It could be anything from training to research to reconstruction. It was uncommon for a trainee to find themselves without anything to do, as there was always a project of some sort that could use the assistance of a few extra hands. While most of the projects were dealing with reconstruction, there were the few that were of a different sort. Namely having to deal with classes.

Earlier that morning the trainees received a debriefing from a certain Death division leader. Later that day they would receive a follow-up from an unlikely source.



At least she remembered to include her name this time. And it was at an actual tolerable hour this time, unlike that emergency mission at 2am. Come to think of it, Aria never gave a debriefing statement concerning that event...

In any event, at 2:45pm on the training field Aria was there already. She was busying herself with arranging several runic weapons on a table and checking over them, running last minute checks with them while waiting for people to show up. The most she did was throw a quick glance to anyone that showed up before turning back to her work.

Madison had been pretty much miserable ever since chaos had broken out at the Christmas Gala. It had been nothing but crap ever since then, presents biting and glowing... whatever the ******** that had been, and Caelius yelling especially nastily and just... no. She was done. She wanted to be done. The demotion was especially galling, and thinking about the unfairness of it all made her throat tighten with the urge to cry in frustration.

But she wasn't going to cry. She was going to kick some freaking a** instead.

Thus, Madison ignored Kouki's frustrated objections and headed off to the training grounds. Part of her was curious to see the actual Aria, but mostly she wanted to prove to everyone that she could do this. Do it, and own it.

Still, when she got there she couldn't help but feel oddly shy. Madison couldn't quite bring herself to address the Mist Hunter directly; instead, she nodded back meekly when Aria glanced at her. It was still hard to think that this was, technically, her first time training with the Mist division leader... well, at least Jordan was here too. She offered him a wry smile, slightly dampened by everything that had happened. With a side order of oh god, he saw me acting like a total idiot. Nevermind that everyone had been acting like a total idiot...

Dakota didn't think he would be coming to this class but...

he wanted to become just a little more useful in battle. While Chama's barrier was a great gift, at the same time, it left him pretty much lacking in the offensive. And a dead defense hunter was no good at defense ever.

So he plopped down with the other hunters and rested his hand on his chin.



i don't really, but this will help on missions, and I need all the help I can get.

Chama shrilled. Dakota rolled his eyes before ignoring her.

Wilson was more than willing to attend the optional follow-up Aria was offering. He re-read the text, his eyes lingering on the time listed. His mouth twisted into a smile. Although he barely knew the mist division leader, she certainly seemed better than Caelius in a number of aspects. Most notably he appreciated the fact that he didn’t have to rush to the meeting destination, although he also vaguely recalled the last text message he had received from Aria. It had been so damn early that time.

He ambled over to the training fields with plenty of time to spare. Wilson flipped open his phone to check the time and it was just around a quarter to three. He curiously stared at the woman as she leaned over a table filled with peculiar weapons. Why was there a blow to—oh wait, there was Dakota! His eyes lit up as he jogged over to the lad and plopped down next to him. “Hey.”

Though it wasn't mandatory, Deryk decided to come and check it out anyway. The runic weapons seemed pretty interesting and all. Making his way over towards the training field, he just noticed there weren't too many other trainees around for this.

Finding a place to stand, he grinned and waved to the handful of others around before glancing at the table of weapons. Well.. that was an interesting assortment to say in the least.

On the whole, volunteering for demonstrations got one stabbed, hit, or electrocuted.

Jordan stepped up. "I'll do it."

It was very unlikely for 'not interested' and 'training fields' to go in the same train of thought, and so, especially after having mostly missed the briefing by Caelius earlier, Reine was pretty happy to receive the message she did. Hopefully it'd catch her up on things, even if she just really didn't feel like she could move very much.

Pausing a moment, she stretched again before continuing on her way. Some other trainees had already gathered there- she recognised all of them, for once. The demonstration seemed like it had already started, with Jordan stepping up towards Aria. Shooting Dakota a dirty look, Reine stalked past him and waved at Marcus and Madison, though she didn't approach any of them, instead choosing to lean against a tree.

"Yes, ma'am." Jordan returned the smile, relaxing just fractionally. He studied each runic weapon carefully, then picked the chain up; the shock burned through him, and he gritted his teeth and kept hold of the chain.

Ow, Ferros grumbled.

I hope it's not going to do that every time I pick one up. Jordan moved over to join Aria, as instructed.