1/11 training and breakfast

[citta]

[ As last minute prep for the dungeon, everybody has been called to get together for a training session during midnight at Lockdown, with promise of a light breakfast at the clubhouse afterwards and the suggestion that people take it easy during the day before they split up into their respective teams and head to the castle and the mountains.

Training is largely done in the school shrine, on the second floor where there's wide empty space without the maze to account for, where you can practice tactics together, or take on the Minato challenge where he has Messiah blast you apart in half a second and then immediately heals you and asks if you want to go again.

Breakfast at the clubhouse is split between western and traditional styles, whether you crave fluffy pancakes, or are more of a miso soup and grilled fish on rice sort of person. If you want anything in particular for lunch, Kido is on lunch duty and promises to make whatever you want, so long as you go out to the store and bring the ingredients back.

Thanks to everybody's efforts so far during the month, whether it's interacting with the townspeople or talking with the mayor or donating gemstones to the mountain shrine, the effects can already be seen around town, with the townspeople less wary of the Persona users, allowing them to purchase what they want in the stores if they want to have their own supplies to take into the dungeon later.

Now go out there and get along and learn to work together or is2g ]

Comments

[lotusroots]

[ Wei Wuxian just chuckles. ]

You'll be fine, trust me! You won't fight in this stance all the time, but it's important to get the basics down!

[ He adjusts Toki's hand on the hilt. ]

[yokeye]

Okay!

[Get the basics down. He keeps his hands where they've been placed.]

And then I just... slice at things?

[Stabbing is probably a better idea for him, but he thinks of swords as a slashing motion.]

[lotusroots]

More or less. It'll depend on whoever you're attacking whether you slice or stab someone.

[ He stands back. ]

Move like you're going to slash something, and I'll tell you what to fix.

[yokeye]

[This can't be too hard. He hopes Wei Wuxian is far enough back... Toki takes a step forward, straight in front of him, and swings the sword down with both hands. He's imagining slicing a watermelon and not killing somebody, but it should do.]

[lotusroots]

[ Wei Wuxian is definitely far back right now. ]

Not bad! There's not a lot you need to fix, not right now anyway.

[yokeye]

Really!? I did good!?

[Toki promptly drops the sword to clap his hands excitedly. He didn't hurt himself or anyone else and nothing needs to be immediately fixed. It's a miracle.]

[lotusroots]

[ He nods, moving to pick up the sword before anyone trips over it, or worse. ]

We'll need to adjust some things when you actually start hitting targets. But in the meantime, as long as you maintain the right stance, you'll be fine.

[yokeye]

Okay!

[He'll probably never pick up a sword again, and is bringing a pike to the dungeon.]

Like, if there's another dungeon after his one, maybe I'll incorporate swords~!

[Incorporate, like he'll have an arsenal of weapons to choose from.]

[lotusroots]

I'll help you out when you do!

[ Well. As much as he can. ]

Are there any other things you want to learn?

[yokeye]

Hmm...

[Before he'd come to Hirajiro, he'd been kept out of the fighting and learned absolutely nothing about combat at what was essentially a magic battle school.]

I have like claw gloves that electrify, but I gave them to Red because I have to get close to use them of course, and I think long-reach things are better for me, so... I think the sword's it.

[lotusroots]

[ Claw gloves, huh... he wants to see those. ]

I understand. Hand-to-hand combat isn't really how I fight either, especially not now.

[yokeye]

[When Red comes out of the dungeon a zombie, Wei Wuxian can inheret the gloves.]

Why especially not now?

[Because of Personas, or something else? Toki is curious, but then he realizes that it could have been a rude question and the answer might be something obvious that he didn't know about.]

Oh my god, if you have like only one hand or something I'm sorry!

[He can't remember if there were two hands adjusting his grip on the sword. Can he play the flute with just one? Probably.]

[lotusroots]

[ Wei Wuxian bursts out laughing. He really likes Toki, he's so funny. ]

No, nothing like that! Hmmm, how should I say it?

[ He's technically a spirit possessing a body, even though this body is now completely his. But he can't just say that either. ]

I'm weak now! I haven't done any training or fighting in a really, really long time.

[yokeye]

Oh!

[There's a sigh of relief that it's a mundane and normal reason. Wei Wuxian must be a frail old man.]

Even if you're not as strong as you used to be, you still have a purpose, and your skills will be passed down to the next generation when you move on! Not that you're going to die soon, but like, when you do!

[Help.]

[lotusroots]

[ Toki is going to make him die of laughter at this rate. Wei Wuxian laughs again, almost doubled over. ]

Unless someone kills me, I'm not going to die soon! [ The possibility of someone killing him is high, though. But more importantly, how old is this body anyway? Wei Wuxian pauses, thinking back to what he learned when he came back. ] I'm only 24. And I don't think I'll be passing anything down to the next generation either.

[ He feels closer to 34, but he doesn't want to confuse Toki even more by going down that road. ]

[yokeye]

Twenty-four!?

[Oh my god. Toki guessed so wrong, and he laughs too; a nervous sort of cackling.]

Haha, that's... Well! I'm sure you have your reasons for not fighting the way you used to!

[lotusroots]

[ His smile fades and although Toki doesn't mean it in the way Wei Wuxian wants him to (after all, he doesn't know his reasons or how he's used to fighting now), it's still nice to hear. ]

I do. [ Wei Wuxian says that softly, before smiling again. ] But it doesn't matter here anyway! I'll fight however I want!

[ Unless someone from home magically showed up, but that's a problem for future Wei Wuxian in that case. ]

[yokeye]

[That quiet response at least gets Toki to stop talking about it.]

However you want!

[He nods decisively. Topic dismissed.]