The Gym - Monday Late Morning Through Early Afternoon

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter decided that a week was more than long enough to keep out of the gym.  His only concession was to avoid the salle and the temptation to use a real sword.  Instead he found himself spending his free time before Interstellar Relations working through forms with a practice blade.  And ignoring the fact that the work out did, actually, hurt.

[OOC: Open like a gym is before it is set up for a Club Fair]

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[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner decided to take advantage of his day off to hit the gym for some long-overdue staff practice. "Hey, Peter," he said as he tested the staves for weight and balance, trying to pick out just the right one. You got picky about that sort of thing after a while when you got used to working with unique arms, unfortunately.

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie came into the gym to do his usual work out when he spied Peter doing some bladework.

"Nice form," he said with a nod. "Don't suppose you'd like a sparring partner?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Hey Conner," Peter replied when he finished a form. He grinned at Conner's pickiness. "Sometimes I think drunk people made half the practice weapons we have here."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Or drunk monkeys, maybe," Conner complained, rejecting yet another staff. "No offense to Pippi's monkey, of course. Or anybody here who's ever turned into one."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Thanks." Peter nodded back. He paused for a second. "I didn't know you did swordwork. I'd love one, but I warn you, I've not trained for a week."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"I don't know. I think a pirate's monkey would be the most likely to be drunk," Peter replied. "Can't imagine he'd take it as an insult."

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"A dupe I sent away over the summer spent six months training to be a swordsman," Jamie said picking up a practice blade and making a few practice swipes with it. "I haven't trained for about three weeks so the warning goes both ways."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler came in and waved before setting into a run on the treadmill.

"Hey."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner finally picked out a staff to his liking and gave it a showy twirl. "That's true. But he'd probably also do better work while drunk."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter nodded. "Interesting. Any particular style?" He stretched slightly, trying to get rid of the stiffness in his chest.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Hey Tyler," Peter replied, nodding back. "How goes it?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Good point. Maybe we could get Mr. Neilson to start drinking and making practice weapons?"

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"A couple of them," Jamie said also stretching out. "The guy had a major revenge complex going, so he spent all his time either getting hired out or learning to fence. Last I heard he was thinking of going into piracy."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel came in and started to stretch out on the mats.

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"Pretty much the usual," Tyler said, pausing to stretch. "I was kind of out of it most of this weekend. Anything exciting happen?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Piracy?" Peter raised an eyebrow. "That's always a good time."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Neither famine nor invasion as far as I could tell," Peter said. "Unless it was a very quiet invasion, and we already had one of those."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Afternoon, Isabel," Peter said with a smile. "How do you do?"

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Sure if your into pillaging and plundering. Me? I'm just happy to get to the common room before all the good food is eaten," Jamie said doing a practice lunge with the practice blade.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Hi Peter," Isabel smiled as she tried to touch her toes. "I'm doing well. I'm trying to get back into working out regularly. How about you?"

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"Maybe a silent and invisible invasion," Tyler suggested. "And it'd have to be a very, very short famine."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"It's worth a try, right?" Conner tried a few practice strikes and nodded. "Who knows? Maybe he's an undiscovered genius with weapons."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"We have pirate problems at home sometimes during the spring and summer," Peter said. "I'll stick with your plan of Common Room attack. Either that or make sure I bring my own food to share."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Which begs the questions - if no one knows an invasion is there, did it really happen?" Peter replied. "A weekend long coffee famine perhaps?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Same here," he replied. "I took last week off, but I think I might go raving mad if I don't start training again. Out of boredom if nothing else."