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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] giraffic 2025-02-08 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Suuuuper serious. He's old and grumpy, got a beard, dark hair. Uh...got a scar across his nose and [ taking on a deep, Texas drawl ] talks like one of them fellas from when there were cowboys.
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[personal profile] grappler 2025-02-09 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't know what cowboys are outside of some of the cheesy shit I've watched here, but that was definitely him. Wasn't here for an extremely long time, but... he was here.

[she kind of misses him. they'd had drinks together once, when they'd both shown up here.]

Sounds like you looked up to him, though... by the way you described him murdering people, and all.
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[personal profile] giraffic 2025-02-12 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
Joel's pretty great. It was kinda rough when we first met, but now I boss him around.

[ the poor dummy is just getting its head bonked repeatedly at this point. ]

We've been traveling together for a few months, looking for this group called the Fireflies. Buuuut like everyone ever is trying to fucking kill you outside the zones, so we've been watching each other's backs.
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[personal profile] grappler 2025-02-13 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Good. He looks like the kind of guy who needs to be bossed around.

[she doesn't mind if they just end up talking. maybe Ellie even needs to talk about Joel some, if she misses him.]

Few months with people trying to kill you? That's impressive. But I've seen how you can handle yourself, so I'm not that surprised.
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[personal profile] giraffic 2025-02-15 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
See, you get it. Joel was stubborn as a mule. It took forever for him to even let me have a gun. We ran into some hunters who were camped out in a city and hunting down anyone who came through and one of them almost got him.

[ she'd been quiet about it at first, but the further they got from Boston, the more the lack of trust in her had grated on her. she'd kept her mouth shut for a while, knowing that she was depending on him to survive. but once it'd become clear he wouldn't just be ditching her if she argued, she hadn't been able to keep from snapping at him. ]

I literally had to shoot a guy to save him to get him to trust me with it. Stubborn. As. Fuck.
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[personal profile] grappler 2025-02-20 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm.

[there's a bit of a sad smile on her expression, almost as if she's thinking about something specific.]

Sometimes us protector types are so blinded by the need to keep people safe, they don't see their potential.

[this isn't coming from personal experience or anything, nope!!]

You ever met Caitlyn? If you wanna practice shooting a gun, she'd probably help you, too.
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[personal profile] giraffic 2025-02-21 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
She the woman wandering around here making googoo eyes at you when she thinks no one is looking?

[ she's waggling her eyebrows ]
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[personal profile] grappler 2025-02-25 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
[unashamed shrug, and a bit of a grin.]

If she's looking at my abs, ass, or arms, yeah. That's probably her. Also has an eyepatch and legs for days, which is probably a better physical description.

[lesbians...]
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[personal profile] giraffic 2025-02-25 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Ooooh, someone's got a crush.

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[personal profile] grappler 2025-02-25 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohhh, yeah. Been together for like...

[she actually has to think about that, for a minute.]

Almost a year and a half, I guess. At least, here.

[they were Complicated back at home.]
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[personal profile] giraffic 2025-03-01 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Did she shoot you? I bet she shot you and that's how it happened.

[ lesbians love being beat up by other lesbians as a meet cute ]
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[personal profile] grappler 2025-03-07 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, she bailed me out of jail. I did block a shot from her, once. In my gauntlet.

[she waves her hand towards where she knew it was.]

Pretty sure she's wanted to shoot me a few times, though.
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[personal profile] giraffic 2025-03-09 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
You were in jail? Like a real actual one?

[ FEDRA just shot or hung basically anyone who they caught, so she only knew jails from what the older survivors said. ]
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[personal profile] grappler 2025-03-14 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
No, I was in a jail for monkeys.

[Vi rolls her eyes, and scuffs her foot on the ground.]

Yes, actual jail. And before you ask, it wasn't for anything cool. So don't get your hopes up on a story.
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[personal profile] giraffic 2025-03-14 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
So you're probably just a monkey in disguise. Got it.

[ Ellie's survived this long by understanding when someone doesn't want her to push. Granted, Vi is one of the few she'd even respect that from.

So she shrugs like it's nothing. Of course, it's not an interesting story. No deeper details to dig for here. ]


So you wanna try shooting my gun? I can teach you.