Behind the Dorms, Tuesday Afternoon

[future_sandworm]

Leto had actually made some plans for this meeting, in case Arthur and Zack would still be asleep, although if they had been, there would certainly have been a lot fewer people showing up.

Those plans were now pointless, however. There was no way he would put people through defining the goals of defensive tactics today. Clearly those who had spend their weekend in another reality were a little too emotional to deal with that now. Leto knew that from experience; he had spent the previous day being bitched at (hello Arthur!) or hugged and cried on. It was obvious that people needed some kind of emotional outlet today.

Also, it seemed like some people had trust issues after having run into alternate vampire versions of themselves. That could prove dangerous in a fighting situation.

"Good afternoon," he greeted everyone gathered. "Today we will work on what I believe is referred to in this time as team-building. Without loyalty and trust - both of leaders and of fellow warriors - a military unit is nothing. Where that trust is strong and army may rise about their actual level of fighting skill."

"Often this loyalty has been nurtured by shared pain and suffering. A guerilla group might have faced persecution together for a long time. Many forms of military training forces the warriors to endure severe hardships together in order to achieve something similar."

Leto smiled. "Today, I decided for a more playful and gentle approach. We will start with a shared meal. Eating together is a sign of friendship in many cultures. First, you need to divide the food." He gestured at a blanket on the ground with a large fruit bowl in the middle. "It needs to be divided equally, but for every fruit you take, you need to tell the group something significant about yourself."

"When the food has been divided, you may eat, but you may not feed yourself, only other people."

He watched the people gathered. "Any questions?"

[Wait for OCD! OCD is up!]

Comments

Arrive and mingle!

[future_sandworm]

You may talk to people.

Re: Arrive and mingle!

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah was there, and when Leto first said 'team-building' she thought of sietch orgies and froze; but when he said food she immediately relaxed and beamed. Yay, food. Food she could do.

Re: Arrive and mingle!

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

Savannah was there and looking around to see who all was there.

Re: Arrive and mingle!

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

Triela didn't bother suppressing an eyeroll. This was rather ridiculously unprofessional. You didn't take a break from training just because you'd had a bad week.

How did these clowns get put in charge of a fighting unit in the first place. (Never mind that they'd organized it and she hadn't, or that they had a much better grasp of leadership than she did...)

Re: Arrive and mingle!

[glacial_queen]

Karla had also shown up again. Eating sounded like a great idea. She'd ask if it would be okay to participate.

Re: Arrive and mingle!

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

Fiona came, of course... it was practically required after last week. And she wanted to see her friends, of course. Hearing the exercise, though, made her wince and wonder if she shouldn't leave.

Re: Arrive and mingle!

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

Firekeeper and Blind Seer... well. It was Tuesday afternoon, where else would they be?

Blind Seer was wondering if he had to take part in the exercise. For one, he couldn't speak in a way that most would understand. And two... he didn't eat fruit.

Re: Arrive and mingle!

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Gabrielle hadn't developed any trust issues that way this past week. Maybe she was one of the lucky ones. At any rate, she could totally get behind this exercise today.

Re: Arrive and mingle!

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle was thinking she could be down with this exercise up until Leto got to the very last part about how you could only feed other people, and her nose wrinkled. She had two very capable hands, was capable of feeding herself, and so did everyone else, and she sometimes didn't even like people to use the same straw as her with a drink, and years of dealing with Nana gave her an unreasonable fear of drool, and...

Yeah. Feeding people, weird. And if there were grapes in there, she was going to insist until she was blue in the face that Leto done this with a particularly dirty angle in mind.

Re: Arrive and mingle!

[youcantfollow.livejournal.com]

After last week, returning seemed the thing to do. And team-building had been exactly what he and Ino had talked over...not that he saw her there yet. Griff stayed off to the side, listening to Leto's instructions.

Re: Arrive and mingle!

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

Elena wasn't usually a member of this group, but she needed to talk to both Artur and Zac, and this seemed the easiest way to find both of them.

She lingered around the edges, hoping nobody would mind if she joined. Feeding other people sounded very ... soothing, after her weekend.

Divide the food

[future_sandworm]

As mentioned above: The fruit needs to be divided equally, but for every fruit you take, you need to tell the group something significant about yourself. If you start mentioning pointless stuff or don't want any food Leto will think you're being childish.

Re: Divide the food

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah took a piece of fruit, and tried to think of something harmless but significant. Easy. Right? Breathe, Dinah. Oh!

"Okay. Um. When we went to Arrakis, I ended up dreaming a lot of people's dreams, um, sharing them? Because of the Spice there. So I've kind of stopped drinking as much caffiene or alcohol or anything else, so it won't happen again."

There. Yay.

Re: Divide the food

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

Savannah took a piece of the fruit and tried to think of something easy.

"I'm an artist. I've sketched and painted most of my life," she said in a quiet voice.

Re: Divide the food

[glacial_queen]

Karla snagged a piece of fruit, trying to think of something that fell between 'boring, obvious, or known' and 'serious trust issues need to be resolved before I bring that up in public.'

"I can feel strong emotions when they get trapped in wood or stone," she said eventually. "If I arrive soon after those emotions are felt, I can pull them out and reconstruct the event that just caused them."

Re: Divide the food

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Gabrielle scratched absently at the fading (but still itchy) bite marks on her neck as she turned an apple over in her hand.

"I'm a bard. I travel and write down stories of the things I've seen."

Re: Divide the food

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle took an apple, figuring that would be easy to distribute for feeding other people, and then mulled over something significant about herself that she could say, especially tied into the what they were doing this for.

Eventually, she went with, "I learned how to use my gun, because I was almost shot once, practically in cold blood, and I never want to feel that defenseless, or have anyone else have to feel that defenseless, again."

And then she almost went and took a bite of the apple, because, in her head, it made more sense to share than eat, but she caught herself right before she violated the catch, lowered the apple sheepishly.

Re: Divide the food

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

Despite the fact that she couldn't actually share in the meal, Fiona decided to take part. And she'd... eat it. Whether she liked it or not. For the team.

"I'm a twin, and my brother, Eliot, is at another school."

She took the ickiest looking fruit in the bowl, figuring she wouldn't be able to taste it anyway.

Re: Divide the food

[future_sandworm]

Leto took an orange. "My mother died when my sister and I were born, and my father shortly after."

Re: Divide the food

[youcantfollow.livejournal.com]

Looking around and being the only boy so far who wasn't a leader made Griff feel just slightly like a giant girl. Especially since he had to share something. Well.

"I'm not used to sharing because it usually gets me and other people in trouble when I do. I'm protective of my drawings because when I was nine my favorites were stolen off my walls." There, that was significant to him and he took a piece of fruit.

Re: Divide the food

[puppy_fair]

Zack considered the fruit bowl, and then plucked out a few strawberries.

"I always kinda find this thing to be pretty tricky, actually. I'm not much for keeping secrets." He considered for a moment. "Which I guess doesn't count, so I'll share that my blue eyes aren't really natural. They're this bright because of a treatment that everyone in SOLDIER gets put through when we join, back home."

See? That was significant!

Re: Divide the food

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

Elena picked out a lime. "I'm ... not usually here," she said, completely pointlessly. "I was enrolled in a military academy when I was much younger. My father taught there, and my sister was also a student, though she graduated before I attended."

She decided to leave out that she sometimes killed people for her job. That one was less of a crowd-pleaser.

Feed other people

[future_sandworm]

With fruit. Not with blood.

Re: Feed other people

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

So, Turtle had an apple. An apple was probably best shared in slices, so she looked around a little before asking, "Anyone have a knife?"

Talk to the guys

[future_sandworm]

When they ping in.

Re: Talk to the guys

[puppy_fair]

Zack was there, well-bruised, and kind of grinning, yes.

Awww, team-building! He had to hand it to this particular Leto, this was an excellent way to ease back into the reserves meeting after the events of last week.

OOC

[future_sandworm]

I just got another few days off work, yay.

Re: OOC

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

*cheers*