[training mingle] Let's get down the business!

[traumaticus]

Who: Everyone out there!
Where: Outskirts of the Aldrip - Training Grounds
What: It's time for the Boot(y) Camp! The Chosen of Aldrip have all been invited to train, learn and spar!
Warnings: Other than the general violence? TBA..!



It is early morning on the 9th of September. The sun is shining, the air is fresh and nicely brisk, which means that it is just perfect time for Aldrip's first ever group training! How did you find your way there? Who knows! Maybe you were one of the people who saw the original announcement on the network, or noticed posters about it around Adlrip. Or maybe you were brought here by friendly white boar. Well, whatever the reason is what matters is that you are here. Welcome.

The empty field near the outskirts of the City has been transformed into a makeshift training camp. There are couple of tents set up around the camp. Some of them work as rather simplified armories containing pretty limited amount of blades, axes, armors, firearms, bows and arrows and what have you. Feel free to pick your poison, so to speak, but be sure to return what you borrow. Richard is keeping an eye on the weapons and will notice if something goes missing. Of course, characters are more than welcomed to use their own weapons and armors etc. Other tents are for resting, ER practice and dining. The lunch is sponsored by the Sandwich Hut.

The official training areas and their respective teachers/staff are the following:

Spiritual training/magic: Kurama, Douman, Kakashi
First-aid: Ethlyn, Morph, Bones
Rescue training: Morph, Bones
Hand-to-hand combat: Jirk Jim & Spock, Kakashi
Tech support: Jirk Jim & Spock
Fire arms: Caitlyn, Levi
Swords & Melee: Richard, Hiei
Archery: Richard
Survival skills: Richard, Kurama
Military training: Jim & Spock, Miller, Richard
Endurance training: Bones
Lunch: Junpei (and Whitey the Albino Boar)

If there is an activity a character would like to do that isn't included in the list that's no problem. Feel free to create your own top-level with said activity or you know! Just the usual stuff that varies from silly hang-out to whatever your heart desires.

Also for references sake: here is the OG ooc info post about regarding the mingle

Comments

[spideyguy]

Yeah, well. [ Peter shrugs, though there's the slightest bit of uncomfortable tension in it - not due to Scott, but his own situation, being what it is. He looks away, messing with the cup of grapes instead to occupy himself. ] Can't save everyone, you know? And then people - think what they want to think, I guess.

The other me, uh, and Gwen - [ It's still so strange, but then he has to wonder, what part of his life isn't? ] - they get some of the same. New York is a hard city to win over.

Do you have the...Avengers, in your world? [ Peter's nose scrunches slightly and his head tilts as he selects the right word - it's obvious from his tone, if not their previous conversation, that he's only heard about these other heroes. Well, the other Peter had been fairly vocal, it's true. ]

[laserguy]

Not even you can save everyone...

[It's grim, thinking that even Peter wasn't able to save someone, because he's like... really strong. In full control of his powers. But that's what the other Peter mentioned to him too, like half of the universe dying, and even Gwen mentioned her failure in saving her world's version of Peter Parker. Will someone always die, no matter how hard they try? He wonders if the other mutants, the X-Men, are in the same boat.

Well, he knows the answer to that one: Genosha speaks for itself.

Scott's barely able to taste his sandwich now. He continues to eat, but it feels like some automatic motion rather than actually feeling hungry.]

The Avengers? [Scott's attention is at least pulled away from his more somber thoughts, eyes flickering back to Peter before he shakes his head.] No, I haven't heard of them before. Not sure if they just don't exist or they haven't formed yet. [...] Although, I guess if they were around, they would've tried to stop Magneto from killing the president.

[spideyguy]

No. [ Peter blows out a breath that sounds too hard for such a simple word, the weight of the gravity behind that sentiment in full-force behind it. It hurts to admit, but it's true - somehow, he never managed to save the people he wanted to save the most desperately. ] No, I can't.

[ Peter's used to the persistent companion of grief - heck, he has been for years. Being the kid with dead parents tended to halt a conversation in its tracks pretty efficiently, even before Gwen and the unflinching weight of responsibility. He pops another few grapes in his mouth, unperturbed. ]

They would have stopped who from what?!

[ Okay, that's definitely a new one. Peter blinks, eyes wide, as he reassesses just how wild it sounds like Scott's universe is. ]

[laserguy]

[For once, Scott's actually glad to swap the topic to Magneto, even though he's the only sign of things being a little nuts back home. Because he's sure that Peter is thankful for this change in topic too, instead of dwelling on the people that he couldn't save back home. He knows that he wouldn't want to keep thinking about it.

So, Scott looks a little more lively, no longer just eating and tasting nothing, as he swallows and huffs out a small breath.]

Magneto, a well-known mutant terrorist. He killed JFK before that, actually. [Curving the bullet into his head or something.] But it happened about ten years ago for me. He had the president and his staff cornered at a makeshift field and he was only stopped because Raven shot him. She's known as the mutant hero where I'm from.

[Which apparently is pretty weird to Kurt. Probably the other mutants too. Strange how timelines work sometimes.]

[spideyguy]

[ Peter just stares in abject horror - yeah, this is definitely news to him. Holy cannoli, Batman. And he thought his universe was kind of crazy - the other Peter's even moreso, but Scott had mutant terrorists?

Peter shoves another few grapes into his mouth to stop himself from blurting out something stupid, chewing them as he digests Scott's explanation. ] Dude that's - woah. Yeah, I bet they would have tried to stop that. Or - avenge it? I'm not really sure how it works but - woah.

So, are you training to be a mutant hero, then? [ Peter hasn't had a chance to see Scott's powers in action, but they certainly sound like they'd be a good deterrent for ne'er-do-wells. ]

[laserguy]

[He can't help it, but a small laugh breaks from Scott seeing the horror on his face. It just... it feels like his world is so normal, maybe even mundane, compared to what everyone else tells him about their world, that it's honestly kind of nice to see someone react like that. Like yeah, things can still be wild at home; there are mutants and everything! It's just. Not as crazy.]

For sure. [...] It's not like Magneto was being quiet about the whole attempting to assassinate the president thing either. He broadcasted that on national television.

[Magneto is many things, subtle is not one of them. Dude even came out there in an entire costume. And cape.]

And uh, not really? [Scott offhandedly shrugs, but it's honestly something that's been on his mind for a long time. He's not sure if he wants to train or not, at least back home-- or more like, he kind of hopes that he doesn't have to. Things have been peaceful since Magneto, and if he has to train... then it's for a reason, right?]

I'm doing it here, of course. The X-Men exist and I want to be part of that.

[spideyguy]

[ At least one of them is laughing, but then, Peter understands how commonplace tragedies can be reduced to humor - memes, more specifically - especially when you had to live through it. So while it might be disturbing to Peter, it's just A Thing That Happened to Scott. Still, the dissonance is striking. ]

They always want an audience. Can't do evil without an audience! [ Peter nods sagely, as if that makes perfect sense. Well, he's had his fair share of rogues - and they always loved to yap, and get on TV. ] Lessens the potency, or something.

Couldn't hurt, here. Things are getting nuts. [ The glitches, worsening. Peter's patrols have been nonstop, and it's a good thing there are two other spider-people running around, or Peter would never get any sleep. Even if these people aren't real...he can't ignore suffering. He's just not built that way. ] But you're not training to be an X-Man back home?

[laserguy]

Nope, and they always have to make a big monologue too. His was something about mutant superiority and humans only seeing a fraction of our power.

[He snorts, but there's something tense that briefly flashes across Scott's face that betrays his earlier light demeanor. It's just... if Raven didn't stop Magneto, if he actually succeeded in killing the president, what would things be like for his world? Maybe something more similar to the timeline Morph, Rogue or Quentin are from? They've mentioned Sentinels before and... they were there at the arena, he remembers them.

Only they got decommissioned after that whole thing. Supposedly.]

...There hasn't been a need. There's no supervillains or anything, like Magneto has stayed quiet for over 10 years now. [He shrugs again, hands now stuffed back inside his pockets.] I don't even know if a X-Men team even exists. Never heard of them in the news.

[spideyguy]

I feel like genetic superiority isn't very cash money these days. [ Peter makes a face, wholly unaware of how ironic his statement really is. The most dangerous thing in the world was someone who was only doing what they thought was right, without any regard for others around them, refusing to even consider another side.

Peter can sense the tension, but with no context for it he would be left guessing. He has enough skeletons in his own jam-packed closet that he doesn't pursue it, but he does note it. Things like that always came back around, at some point. ]

Wait, he was never caught? [ Imagine killing the president and just disappearing. Peter frowns, considering that for a moment. ] Then who's on the streets? Do you just have...vigilantes?

[laserguy]

Yeah, he disappeared. Not sure where he's at, don't care to figure it out either.

[If he hears from Magneto again, it probably won't be for anything good, right? The reemergence of the terrorist that almost killed the president... that's a hard pass from him. He'd rather not have one guy fuck things up for the entire world, for his friends. Hopefully things will actually keep that way and if Magneto stayed quiet this long, maybe he's. settled down too.

Kind of hard to imagine, but for everyone, he hopes that's the case.]

And uhh cops? [Scott answers, blinking just a couple of times behind his glasses. It feels like a silly answer, but he knows that Peter was genuinely asking.] There aren't any mutant vigilantes if that's what you're wondering.