recolle | [training log] november training sessions

WHO: Anyone interested in learning a weapon
WHERE: Utsuki Dojo in Tisse
WHEN: Sunday evenings in November (11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25), 6PM - 9PM
WHAT: ~~FIGHT CLUB~~ Weapons and self-defense training, informal information sharing
WARNINGS: None atm, will edit as needed

ATTN: This will be the only fight club log posted for November! Feel free to start new threads throughout the month and do come back periodically to check for new threads!

* Note: Characters can have heard about this from any source; feel free to handwave finding out about it! They do not need to have talked with Tatsuo beforehand in order to attend.

training sessions - November

i. introductions

Just before six, Tatsuo opens the doors of the building. The layout is fairly straight forward. Mens' and womens' locker rooms to the left, office and storage room to the right, and the dojo itself straight ahead. A small hallway leads off to the right to some smaller practice rooms, but those won't be in use tonight. Once those that need to change into more comfortable clothes have had a chance to do so, and everyone is assembled in the dojo itself, Tatsuo steps to the front of the group.

"I'd like to thank everyone for coming tonight. As you might have heard, this is Weapons Practice. It was started last year by Dante, who is no longer on the app, because many of us either received weapons from Retrospec or have gotten memories of fighting or battles. As some of the newcomers have already learned, you might find yourself in a situation where you want those kind of skills."

"However, just because you've gotten a memory of fighting doesn't mean you are instantly a master. It takes some time for those skills to settle in, so to say. Weapons Practice can provide you the space needed to work on those skills and people to practice them with. This can also very well cause more memories to surface, so be prepared for that. Or maybe you haven't gotten a weapon or memory and just want to learn how to fight. We're here for that too."

"I will reiterate the rules at this time. There is to be no use of magic, with the exception of healing, should that be required. If you have enhanced physical abilities, please rein it in for those of us that do not. No live blades unless you have gotten clearance from me to do so. No firearms or other non-inert weapons, unless they can be used in a strictly inert form. If you have questions whether your weapon is allowed, please see me."

"You may not spar or even lift a weapon until after you sign the legal waiver. All spars must be supervised, so please grab me or someone who has identified themselves as a referee if you wish to spar. If you are here to go all out and run wild, leave. We are here to practice, not beat each other to a pulp. If anyone does get injured, stop the bout immediately and call for Elliot."

ii. pick your weapon and find a partner

There are a number of practice weapons available for people to use. Wooden swords of various lengths and styles. There are also some metal ones, ranging from fencing foils to short swords to katanas, all blunt and tipped for safety. Staves and other polearms (ie spears, glaives, naginata, halberd) lean against a stand. There's even some wooden axes and knives, along with wooden and metal sheilds. And for those with an interest in close-range non-bladed weapons, there are short staffs of varying lengths.

Don't see a weapon that intrests you? Just ask Tatsuo. Depending what your request is, he might be able to get you something by the following week.

Once you've selected your weapon, it's time to find a partner. There are a few old-timers who can help teach, but maybe you want to just jump right in? That's okay too. Or are you someone with a little experience under your belt and want to pass on a little knowledge? Weapons not really your thing? You can learn some hand-to-hand here as well. If you're wanting to test your skills with a little sparring, don't forget to grab a ref. And if you aren't sure where you want to start and just want to watch for a while, grab a chair. Just watch out for the occasional flying weapon.

iii. cool down and mingle

Right at 9 PM, Tatsuo lets out a loud wistle. With only one healer on deck, the weapons portion of the practices are only going to last for three hours. But people are free to stick around for an hour or two to get to know their fellow Weapons Practice attendees. Compare weapons or fighting memories. Or just compliment someone you saw having a good spar. Maybe someone was nice and brought cookies?

[[November training logs! This log will cover Sunday, November 4, November 11, November 18, and November 25! Please use this log throughout the entire month to log anything that might happen at Sunday practices! You're encouraged to make new toplevels as necessary for any new developments that might occur throughout the month, such as new metaplot developments/reveals or character development leading to spars, or anything else you might think of! There will be a toplevel in the comments to OOCly collect all new metaplot details collected in the info-sharing meetings in one place.

Any questions, concerns, or additions can either be PM'd to me here or PP me at

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[Li-Na squints a little. Even to her that name sounds a bit odd.]

Draco? Was that short for anything?

[Derek shakes his head.]

Nope. Just Draco. And he didn't like it when people laughed at it.

Well, I suppose no one likes being laughed at because of their name.

[Li-Na gives Derek a curious look]

Have you noticed how some of us remember having different names, but others don't?

Yeah, I have. Which I don't understand why that is. But I guess I should be grateful my name isn't Draco now. Derek is much better.

[Even if it is from his bear apparently... still, better than Damian.]

I don't know... you could probably get away with Draco. Though Derek certainly raises fewer eyebrows.

[~~Robin would take offense at that~~]

Hey... could I ask you a question?

You just did, but sure. What's up?

[don't be such a smartass Derek]

Who was that... person who attacked you?

Voldemort. He's an evil wizard that Draco and his family is somehow involved with. He uses their home as a meeting place to talk with all his head followers with. He believe magic should be only allowed to be practiced by pure blood wizards, like Draco's family. Half-bloods and muggle borns... well he feels they should all die and that muggles are beneath wizards.

So... muggles are... people who aren't wizards?

[yeah, this guy doesn't sound nice AT ALL]

Muggles are humans without any magical abilities.

[Li-Na frowns, because this is a rather grim picture he's painting]

How much of your world was wizards and how much was muggles?

Uh... I have no idea. All my memories are in the wizarding world. Its more of, he knows the muggle world exists. And there are students that come to the school who are from muggle families, but they themselves have magic. It's almost seems like a recessive gene in genetics.

So in order to do magic, you have to have the genetic predisposition for it first. The wizards that come from muggle families, maybe they have a wizard as an ancestor?

[Derek nods.]

Yeah, I suppose you can think of it that way. I'm not 100% sure to be honest. I'm just gathering the small details from the memories I get.

[Li-Na thinks about all of this for a moment]

What did they do? Voldemort and his followers? Because he didn't seem like the kind of person to just talk with his friends about how much they hate certain people...

What don't they do? When he's fourteen the death eaters attack the world quidditch cup camp site... Quidditch is like the football of the wizarding world. The death eater attack... they levitate the muggles at the event ad spin them around with magic. It was a family, a father, mother, and children. One of the kids had passed out. They were there to hunt muggles down, make a statement.

That's horrible!

[She might have exclaimed that a little loudly. She covers her mouth for a moment, then lowers her voice.]

And his family was involved with that?

[Derek bounces his head from side to side for a moment, considering how to answer that.]

It wasn't out right said by Draco, but when confronted about it by a classmate, he didn't deny it. And I remember him feeling like he knew they were. That's how Draco got involved. Through the influence of his family.

[Li-Na gives Derek a curious look]

How do you feel about that? That he was involved with people who hold such... hateful views?

Considering he gets involved to the point that he is ordered to murder his headmaster when he's sixteen, I'm not too happy about it to be honest. He and his parents were threatened that if he didn't complete the task, they would be killed. Not the type of person you want to really be following you know?

I'm sorry but... what the hell? Whatever happened to doing your own dirty work?

[she pauses... then asks softly]

Did he?

[Derek leans over and softly answers.]

No idea. Though I do know that when he got that cursed with that big slash across his body, he was in the process of trying to figure out how to do it. And it scared the shit out of him.

[Li-Na frowns, because she remembers that wound and it was NOT. GOOD.]

I'm surprised either of you survived that.

Me too. It was the Potions Professor that save Draco. He knew the counter curse. And, as you know, you had a hand in me surviving it this time.

Well, I'm not too keen on people dying around here. We've had enough of that really.

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