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Behind the Dorms, Tuesday Afternoon

"Alright!" Zack crossed his arms over his chest and grinned at the people gathered for the reserves meeting today. "Last week we covered some different methods of defense, and then we shared our own strategies with the, uh... class."

Sometimes, Zack's analogies fell a little short, yes.

"This week, I want us to focus on honing our physical abilities a little more. It doesn't matter where you're fighting, you'll probably get tossed a few obstacles on the battlefield from time to time. You might not be used to getting a foothold in the sand, if you're fighting on the beach. You could be stuck in the preserve, tripping over roots and whatever else is hidden under those leaves. The junkyard is full of scrap and whatever else we've just tossed away, and the ground is hardly stable there as a result. Maybe you're chasing after an enemy who knows his way around a cityscape, and he's climbing walls and jumping fences while you're lagging behind."

For a guy who could jump ten feet in the air from a standstill, Zack was still known to fall victim to the horrors of the insurmountable waist-high fence from time to time. Not. Fair.

"So, what I want you guys to do today is grab a partner or two, and then head off to some corner of the island which has terrain that you guys aren't used to working with. And then I want you to chart a course, maybe a hundred meters or so, and run it. If you wind up stumbling, backtrack and do it again until you make it through. If you have any problems, come talk to me afterward, and I'll see what I can do about setting up some kind of practise session with you in the future."

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Talk amongst yourselves, stretch and warm up, or whatever it is you do at these things.

Zack has been so kind as to provide a flat of bottled water, because he's not mean enough to make you run around without something to drink. Help yourself!

Ino stuck to the edges of things and just glared.

A lot.

Edited 2009-07-21 14:36 (UTC)

Turtle was there, of course, dutifully stretching because it was important and trying to ignore the fact that she might have been blushing just a little listening to Zack give the intro. Wait! No. She wasn't blushing; why would she be blushing? That was just silly. She was just suffering from a little bit of sunburn, that was all. Blushing. Puh-lease.

Ben and a cougar kitten that used to be Tahiri arrived on time.

Dinah was there and ready to work; she was trying to think of which part of the Island she was least familiar with.

This was there and paying close attention to what was being said.

There's plenty on an island like this to take into consideration, after all!

Now this could be interesting; Turtle had been on this island a long time, so she liked to think that anything on the older part of it was pretty familiar by now. Still, that whole unexplored woods on the new part could make for an interesting adventure, so she glanced around, trying to spot someone who might also be unfamiliar with the unexplored, and contemplating how it was interesting that, even if they did explore it, it would still be unexplored.

Set off to your unfamiliar surroundings, pick out a path to cover, and then run it. Zack would prefer you bring a parter for safety's sake, in case you happen to trip and injure yourself or something, but he won't argue with the loners, either.

Possible corners of the island to cover? The beach, the preserve, the streets in town (watch out for rickshaw drivers!), the rocks around the Selkie Cliffs, the graveyard, the junkyard...

Once they ping in!

Arthur was present and accounted for, and hoping no one else would get it into their heads to start a fight this time.

Edited 2009-07-21 14:06 (UTC)

Leto gave a nod to Arthur. "Anything happening last week that I should know of?"

"Leto," Arthur returned, with an equal nod. "Glad to see you're back from the great wilds." He pulled on one of his gloves, and thought about it. "Barring the island's flights of fancy? Not really. You got off light this time."

Also, Leto's new girl was batshit insane in a way that was far less pleasant than the way in which Queen Alice was batshit insane, but Arthur wasn't going to go into that.

Well, the Atreides had always thought there were more important qualities than sanity.

"Light? I take it you didn't have a good week, then." Because he didn't really want to talk about the tree business.

"I got to make fun of your leafy green head," Arthur said, somewhat cheerfully, "It wasn't a waste..."

And then there was the conversation with Merlin, which was none of Leto's business, and the irritating arguments with Fiona that involved her trying to twist everything around, but that was also not Leto's business.

Leto being a tree, though? Still bloody funny. He could use the laugh.

Edited 2009-07-21 17:21 (UTC)

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