thebastion | Day 150 | Action | Open | Orange Gels smell like they say

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Day 150 | Action | Open | Orange Gels smell like they say

Who: Duke, anyone-
Open: Open
When: 150th or so
Where: Training Hall
What: Duke has shard'd up a new building, and has finally sat down with the gift
Format: I will follow
Warnings: Depressed knight, spoilers for Tales of Vesperia if any of you care that much- XD

Duke had been rather busy after finding the gift in the shrine. After opening it, the knight had more or less wrapped it back up, made a trip back to put it away, and focused very intently on cleanup.

The next day was spent scribbling in a clear patch of dirt, because why use good paper when the knight wasn't sure it could be done. But then Duke vanished with a collection of shards, heading off to the Skyway almost empty handed after that.

Which leaves today. Today, the knight is inspecting a new building - a moderately tall, plain looking one a little more rectangle than square, with a four foot fence surrounding the area between it and the edge of the Bastion. Duke looks a little pleased after inspecting it.

Bother the knight?

Or, alternatively, explore the building some hours later, closer to when the clouds move in for night, and find the knight settled in a corner of the second story, struggling to keep steady hands while mending an odd black and red coat.

(OOC: Duke has acquired Twin's Coat from the gods, and has gotten around to getting a moderately good training building. PM me questions? )

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Well, well, looks like someone made a purchase!

[There's Colin, approaching the building and inspecting it with a curious eye.]

What have we got here?

A training hall with an archery range. Or would it be called something different, I think there are people here who shoot things without using bows?

[ The knight looks pleased with it, regardless of the lack of knowledge. ]

I kept meaning to do something nicer to help people practice how to beat things up.

Ah! A target range! And a training hall, you say? Tha definitely explains the fence-line.

[Colin studies the building a little more intently.]

Ippo and I were discussing bringing in a gym for similar purposes. Whatever the case, it's definitely something we need to keep people in tip-top shape.

I know bows and crossbows, but I've met someone with a gun here, so I figured a sturdier fence would be best.

[ Although now the knight grimaces. That man was gone. ]

Here? Definitely. We have a surprising amount of younger people. One of them had a fairly good idea - here.

[ And Duke starts off, going around the corner of the building and inside. ]

An archer brought these up. [ That's the explanation as the knight goes to a corner. There's wooden monsters settled there. ]

My twin sister is an archer, though I prefer pistols myself.

[He glances down the fence line curiously.]

Either way, I'll be needing to use this facility. My targeting program isn't used to ballistics, so I'll need to put a couple hundred rounds down range to get it calibrated properly. A set target range will help dramatically.

[He looks at the monsters, and grins slightly.]

Scenario practice?

Its what its there for. When I said I know bows and crossbows, I probably really meant that's about all I know. I had no hand in the heracles, which had cannons, and some Hoplon blastia. and I never tried dealing with Leviathan's Claw.

[ There's even a folded up windbag frame hiding in there. ]

I think that is what you would call them. Mostly for these.

[ At these, the knight pats the ones that look like Lunkheads. It has a big metal plate on the face. ]

I didn't have enough shards to get anything for guns to shoot at, so you will be free to do your thing with that, without some swordsman making mistakes on what you need.

I can make do with wooden planks if I have to, ballistic pistols and other firearms aren't much different from bows when it comes to marking a hit. Don't worry about having to provide everything for other people, this range itself will be more than enough to be useful to everyone. Thank you.

[Colin gestures to the targets]

Have you got automation set up for them? Pop-up targets and the like? Or is everything going to be set in place on a course?

I was under the impression that they ... penetrate more, or something. But wooden planks, those I probably have plenty of left over.

[ The targets, right- ]

I was thinking "this is how to attack hit without hitting each other", mostly. Some teamwork exercises, basically. I didn't have enough shards to get many of them.

[ A thin smile. ]

All I could do with making them move would involve pulleys. But pop-up, that sounds like how squirts usually show up...

It depends on the load, really. The Caeldonian stuff packs a punch, to be sure. But for sighting purposes, I just need to see where it hits, not how deep it penetrates.

[Colin nods appreciatively as Duke talks.]

I can probably rig up something for a reflex course, if you want me to. Team awareness is a worthwhile training goal, though. Especially since we don't have many people used to working in teams. And those of us that do still aren't entirely used to everyone else here. Major lack of team cohesion...

... I'll leave you to the gun things. I know a little about archery, and that's all I felt comfortable providing for the range.

[ The knight shrugs. ]

That would be a helpful project.

[ And Duke thinks about it. Hmn- ]

Depending on the scale, and how similar to skyway you can get it, it might be better to rope off another section of the Bastion for that.

For a real, simulated environment test, I'd need a lot more power and technology than we have available. A good goal, mind you, but we've got more important things to make than a Holo-theater.

Mostly, what I'm thinking is just a small, walking course, with targets set up all around. The person running the course chooses which targets to pop up, and the person challenging the course has to take the targets in a timely fashion.

More advanced courses often have recognisable friendly targets so as to teach people that not everything that pops up is hostile. Teaching someone to shoot at a moment's notice isn't a good thing if they shoot a scared little boy that runs out of a hiding spot, after all.

Ah- yes, that sounds... like a project that would be delayed a lot.

... that makes sense. And sounds rather doable. Could make runs and gather up some of the random scrap that seems to litter the skyway - make it the obstacles, or cover, that one could find out there. Maybe for intermediate, once they get the idea of "this is my reaction time".

[ A dry laugh. Yeah, hitting an ally who goes running through would be bad. ] Very true.

Yeah, it's not a hard task at all. It would take me a little while to build, but I can do it pretty easily. I just need the proper materials to set up a switch system, and then a little time to teach the operator how to manage the courses.

Since this place is your baby, though, I won't impose myself. Just come and grab me at the workshop whenever you want me to do it. And when we've got the materials for it, of course.

[He gives Duke a wry grin, then.]

Basically? Think of what you'd want to challenge yourself, in any way. And then ask me to make it. I'll happily do it for you, though I can't promise you'll be first in line every time.

[... another new building? There seem to be a lot of those popping up lately. Rin walks by it a few times during the day, but it's not until evening when she gets done in the kitchen that she finally pokes her head in to see what's up.

Ohh... training things!

... she really hopes there's no pitching machines in here. Those things like to have her head as a target.]

[ No pitching things. Duke doesn't even know what those are, so Rin is safe.

There are cabnets that hold a small variety of melee weapons, a quartet of wooden monsters in a corner - two lunkheads, two gasfellas, and what might be a collapsed windbag. A door on the long side leads to that fenced off area - a target range, it looks like. And there are stairs up!

Which is where the knight is, really. ]

[Good, good.

In that case, Rin is going to slip in quietly, currently weaponless herself since she had been working and not on the skyway. She walks around a bit, admiring the weapons and the targets until she finds the stairs.

Of course that's where she's going next. She's too curious not to]

[ The upstairs also has a nice high ceiling. Not nearly so high as the first floor did, but oh well. There is a tiny little kitchen area - a sink, a cupboard, sturdy cups - at one wall, some chairs and benches scattered around, and doors marked with what should be fairly clear "boys" and "girls". Those hold showers and bathrooms.

And there is one knight, settled in a chair, trying to stitch up a black and red coat. Seems Duke hasn't noticed that someone else is inside yet. ]

[This was a pretty sweet set up. Rin was thinking she would have to come back here at some point, when she wasn't worn out from work.

But she was still wondering, who had--

Oh. That... actually made sense.]

... hey.

[ Duke doesn't start, which is probably a good thing, considering how close that needle was to the other hand.

But up goes the knight's head, and the voice-

Ah. ]

You noticed the new building, I see.

[ The knight sounds a bit strained, but it is clearly getting shoved aside. Rather like how the coat is getting pushed out from under hands that might be shaking just a bit. ]

[Rin is grateful for that. She wouldn't want Duke to get hurt on her account]

Kinda hard not to notice. It's nice, though.

I thought something like this would be better than just the river bank. Maybe people would actually be interested.

[ But scratching under the ponytail for a moment. ]

I need to start collecting shards again, however.

This probably wasn't cheap, was it?

[Neither was the onsen, but donations had gone a long way that time.]

I could use it... I just gotta be careful not to burn anythin'...

The targets all together cost more than the building and everything that came with that.

[ This is what happens when you hoard shards for... forever. ]

That would be much appreciated. Just about everything is made out of wood...

... you must've had a lotta shards then.

[More than Rin had, but she spent most of hers on the onsen not that long ago.]

I'll uh... keep the flames from comin' out then.

[Or try to]

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Later in the evening

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/boogies

/awkward teenager dancing

best dance party right hurr

oh yes

/wiggles x3

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