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Richard ([personal profile] traumaticus) wrote in [community profile] expiationlogs2025-01-04 08:45 pm

[training mingle] - I wanna be the very best

Who: The Chosen of Aldrip
Where: The X-mansion
What: The Chosen of Aldrip are invited to yet another training montage
Warnings: General violence. Please mark any other potential warnings on the thread titles!



At the dawn on January 5th the tents for the training grounds raise up again. However, unlike the last time the training camp does not take place in the empty fields of the outskirts but instead they are set on the property of X-Mansion. Courtesy of X-men, who have agreed to let their home to be utilized for common good.

Each tent marks a post for a different activity while ome of them work as a simplified armories. There are sets of blades (from knives to long swords), axes, armors, firearms, bows and arrows and what have you. Feel free to pick your poison, so to speak! However, Richard keeps a keen list on who borrows and what, marking down immediately if something goes missing. So! be sure to return what you take unless you want him to come after you. And just like the always, the chosen are more than welcomed to use their own weapons.

And if the Chosen gets tired of running around in the cold and snow they can go and grab lunch at the mansion's kitchen/dining area! This time it is provided by the inn which, yes, means there's different kind of poultry dishes are being served. As for the dessert there is hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows available for the chosen.

For those who seek out more challenge and advanced training methods they are given access to Danger Room, a holographic combat simulator tucked deep down in one of the basements. In case someone needs help with setting up a perfect training scenario for their needs Morph is there to answer any questions.


The activities include:

Archery (instructor: Richard)
Horseback riding (instructor: Richard)
Swords (instructors: a2, Mitsuru Kirijo)
Magic + Superpower guidance(instructors: Morrigan, Fauna)
Firearms (instructors: Caitlyn, Levi)
Non-lethal combat (instructor: Vash)
Tech-Support (instructor: Mitsuru)
First-aid (instructor: Kurama)
Survival skills (instructor: Kurama)
Rescue Training (instructor: Morph)
Hand-to-Hand combat (instructor: Vi)
Danger Room (instructor: Moprh)
Lunch


[ooc: There is going to be a top-level for each activity/category. But feel free to make your own wildcard options outside of them, too. o/]
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[personal profile] bulleting 2025-01-09 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.

[Caitlyn is 100% there to watch, and...maybe train a little too. But she's fine watching, because her woman is absolutely a work of art. It never fails to amaze her, watching Vi fight or even just train. The way she carries herself, the way she punches, the way her muscles move and contract--

Yeah, she's gay as shit for this woman.

She has a break from her own station, so of course she was going to see how her partner was doing. Well, it seemed, by the way she's already glistening with sweat, and how rough those dummies are already looking.]
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[personal profile] grappler 2025-01-09 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vi smirks as she looks at Caitlyn, knowing exactly without words what she's really doing here. and maybe she'll show off a bit in a minute, but before that--]

Oh no, you're getting your ass over here and training more than just watching me. You can do that anytime.
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[personal profile] bulleting 2025-01-22 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I have been training, just with my rifle.

[But she laughs all the same. Vi sees right through her, because of course she does. Caitlyn likes the view. Her smiles disappear after a second though, her singular blue eye shifting to the punching bags.]

My balance is still off. Maybe I should wait a little longer--

[Vi, make your girlfriend train. It was easy, picking up her rifle again. As if she could go long without that. Caitlyn is way too stubborn to be still for very long. But hand to hand? She doesn't like to say she's traumatized, but...it brings back memories. Of sparring with Ambessa, of having to fight for her life, of almost losing everything--]
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[personal profile] grappler 2025-01-24 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vi rolls her eyes and waves for her to come forward.]

Your balance is never going to get better if you don't practice. Come here.

[at least her form of fighting is different from Ambessa's. Ambessa relied more on weapons than Vi does -- Vi operates on pure power.]

We'll start back with your form before anything else. 'Kay?
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[personal profile] bulleting 2025-02-17 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
I know. [Caitlyn sighs, because she knows Vi is right. She needs to be training and be ready. She needs to work past her new limitations and learn how to adapt and cope. This place was too dangerous to let those things go to the wayside.

It does help that this was weaponless. Just fists, which was more Vi than it was Ambessa.

She finally steps forward, slipping off her special shooting gloves, and grabbing the extra bandages on one of the tables. She's watched Vi wrap her hands hundreds of times, so it's easy and takes little thought to do just the same to her own hands. When she finishes, she moves over to the punching bag, stepping into a fighting position.]


How's this for form?

[A gentle tease, because she one hundred percent knows Vi's going to be taking this chance to look at her ass.]
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[personal profile] grappler 2025-02-23 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[oh, Vi is 100% looking at Caitlyn's ass right now. she looks at her up and down, humming to herself for a moment as she walks over to her. she puts her hands in the pockets of her pants, and then moves to tap her foot to the side slightly.]

Stance is off a little bit. Ass looks good as usual, though.

[she fell right into that trap that Caitlyn had set, and they both knew it.]