exsiliumlogs | [closed] So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road

Date & Time: forward dated: Friday 22nd – Sunday 24th March
Location: a fair way into the Outlands
Characters:
Asami Sato

chittybang, Cedric Diggory

theboywhodied, Collette

whatsupcroc, Ellie Linton

reconnaissance, Fi Maxwell

burnsinvisibly, Katniss Everdeen

accidentalrebellion, Mitsuki Ishikawa

drowns, Peter Parker

arachnoid, Steph Brown

controlledvariable
Summary: Nine teenagers with varying degrees of trauma decide to go camping.
(Actually, eight teenagers get bullied into going camping by Ellie.)
Warnings: Not sure yet; I'll add them as they come up. At the very least some language, and fallout from PTSD.

Ellie had found the place once before on her wandering into the Outlands; a dilapidated old barn, with stone walls and a roof that was, by some miracle, completely intact despite all the evidence of nature clambering up its walls and trying to reclaim it for the land. There's a hill leading down to it, and if you follow that hill down, you meet the woods, a big lake. It's beautiful, she thinks. Nowhere near so wild as Hell, but that was better.

Finding that place had been how it started, before thinking about getting some of the others together had kicked in. A way to unwind, after the body swap. At the very least a chance to get some decent people all together in the same place (and maybe a way to apologise to Asami for pointing a gun at her that one time).

OOC: Party style, adventures everyone.Just go wild, if you want it to be set at a particular time, maybe specify in the subject line? I'm doing some starters just... in case that helps but do whatever you like tbh. YEAH. There's also the ooc plotting post so chuck folks in there and scheme and let the madness and CR unfold.

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Do you have people from home here, or can you give a one man demonstration?

[She brightens at the request - it's nice to feel good about something she does that isn't fighting - and nods, eyeing the area around her to work out how much space she's got.]

I'll preface this with the necessary 'don't try this at home, kids'.

[She takes a bit of a run up, leaps into a cartwheel, to a front hanspring, to a full twisting layout, followed by a tuck and ending on a simple aerial. The landing isn't great, since the ground doesn't give her a lot of purchase, she grins anyway, giving a little bow.]

I have two people from home. One's my enemy, the other's not the flying type. But depending on how that virtual reality thing works I could show you.

[Then it's time to watch her fly. His head twists as he watches her, and then he cheers.]

Wow. How long have you been training for that?

[The "enemy" comment has her a bit worried, for a moment, in case there's a dangerous witch here, before she remembers him talking to Rita. The woman is annoying, but Steph is 99% sure she could beat her in a fight, magic or not.]

I started when I was twelve, which is actually really late for a gymnast, I'd never make it to elite levels.

[She can do all the moves, technically, but she'll never have the same ingrained sense of form that people do when they've been a gymnastic since they were three years old.

Also she's a about five inches too tall.]

You have to start even younger than that? It would really be a matter of opportunity then, wouldn't it. But you're pulling it off so well I wouldn't have known.

[He can't tell. He's too busy admiring her skill.]

Do you do anything else athletics-wise?

If you don't start before you're five, you might as well not bother.

[But she smiles for the praise, wiping off her muddy hands on her jeans as she makes her way back over to thim.]

I play a mean game of table tennis. [a grin] And I've taken some self-defence classes.

[Understandment of the year.]

That's a really harsh game. Suppose I'll just have to stick with the flying.

[He looks past this and is amused.]

Table tennis?

It's pretty intense, and that's not even considering how much it wrecks your body.

[Not that... being a vigilante doesn't, but at least that feels like a better sacrifice. Saving lives is worth the likelihood that she'll have arthritis by the time she's thirty.]

You get a table, stick a little net along the middle - [she's making gestures to accompany the explanation.] - then use rackets to hit a ball back and forth over the net. The aim is to make your opponent miss the ball. You can play it one-on-one, or in teams of two.

It's a version of tennis, which is played on the ground, on a large scale.

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<small><Cedric tries to picture it. Her gestures help, but it's still a little confusing.</small>

I think I understand. But I definitely know what self-defence is. I'm just starting to learn now---magic's great, but it'd be foolish to rely on it.

There's probably a tennis court in the Hold, if you went looking for it. [She hasn't thought to look herself, since she trains in other ways, but - it might not be a bad idea, if there is one. Regular matches could be fun.]

It's foolish to rely on any one thing. [There's something a little impressed in her smile.] I could probably teach you a thing or two, if you'd like.

[She's so good at secret identities.]

I'd be grateful. I'm learning what I can in training at the Hold, but that doesn't cover everything. The tennis might be a nice break from that too.

[Steph has Opinions about how good the Initiative trainers are, but that's coming from someone who's learnt from... literally the top martial artists in her world, so she knows she's probably just fussy.]

I'm teaching Ellie krav maga, if you wanna come along one day to give her someone other than me to beat up. [She's grinning, so that's probably a joke.] And yeah, it's good to change things up sometimes.

[Tennis is also good practice for hand-eye coordination. Maybe she should take it up.]

Krav what now?

Uh...I mean sure, I'll make a good punching bag.

[She grins, huffs a quiet laugh, but figures it'd be an idea to explain if he is actually interested in learning.]

Krav maga, it's a martial arts style developed by an Israeli rebel, and the whole defence force over there uses it now. It's a combination of different styles, but the primary concern is self-defence for real world situations. It can be a bit brutal, but it's good for people who might not have a lot of natural strength, since it teaches you how to go for people's weak spots.

[It's why Ellie's taken to it fairly well. Not that Steph doesn't think Ellie's strong, but she's kind of tiny, and definitely hasn't had the training that vigilantes have had.]

Hmm. So, good for getting us out of difficult spots alive. I can see the use.

I'm signing up, right?

Basically. A lot of people are more comfortable learning self-defence instead of more attack based martial arts.

[Because people are weird.]

If you want to. I'd be happy to teach you what I know.

It'd be great. I don't have much to lose but my pride and a few soreness-free days.

[He smiled, pleased with the idea.]

Well, theoretically you could end up with broken bones, but I promise to be gentle.

[Steph that's the opposite of reassuring.]

How good are our medics at mending those?

[closed] So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road

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