let's get down to business

[whattaprick]

Who: Nightrunners and whoever wants to make use of the training yard for whatever reason.
When: S2 D1-D5
Where: The Training Yard
What: Training, or pointing and laughing at people training.
Warnings: Explosions and swearing, probably.

Though it's never really been off-limits, once they're down off the moon, Lambert wastes little time informing the nightrunners he officially expects them to get back to training and getting in shape. They can make ample use of the training yard facilities to learn how to work with each other after their extended vacation, or just get to know their newer coworkers in an environment closer to what their actual working conditions will actually be like.

The yard, as usual, isn't limited solely to nightrunners. Anyone who wants to work on their physical or magical skills are welcome, as well as anyone from the other departments who have anything they might want to test out that requires a combatant, for some reason.

Lambert's generally a constant presence at the fringes, sometimes participating in exercise or sparring himself, but mostly just watching and making sure no one's about to put someone's eye out or break the equipment, because that would be bad for obvious reasons.

[ ooc; this is an open log, so bring your own toplevel! ]

Comments

[soft_focus]

Entirely too energetic. Woah. And... "...Ok." Well if Foster says she doesn't want to know...He's probably correct. At the very least, he probably understands where her morals sit in regard to unnecessary harm and the like.

Especially when he continues Anyway. "Mmnnh...it's definitely better with these feathers, then..." At least then, it won't be some bird she knows... ...Ah, don't think about that. Though, it's a bit confusing, how he phrased that bit. 'Were' alive. "...Does it still act like they're alive, if I don't know whether they are or not..?" she asks, blinking.

Is this a Schrodinger's bird scenario, where the feathers and birds are all alive and properly symbolic as long as she doesn't look for the source to find it dead? Because yes. Negated is bad, but changed is Worse.

Much worse.

[criticallyfucked]

Sometimes, Reira startles him with her perceptivity. He doesn't know if it's intuition or observational acumen or simply that he is much more blind to what he's revealed than he realises, but the effect is the same.

She is right, and he is both surprised and impressed--in a critical kind of way.

"Its power is rooted in perception and belief," he says simply, though he's merely parroting common text. When he continues, he does so while taking great care--such as he can--to avoid the kind of logical loops he himself gets quickly trapped in if he thinks about it too hard. Or without divesting the feathers of their power.

"The feather does not have meaning of its own. It's only... it's only a feather. A thing. And it means nothing. Do you understand? But the--the body of minds give it power, give it a... a message which can be writ in magic. The thought that comes with the feather, that is what is used to draw upon for magic, the frame of reference."

[soft_focus]

Perception was what kept her alive, after all. More than that, it's something that can make or break what's going on in a strategy game rife with chance. Pay attention to the cards scattered about the field.

It could mean the win. The girl pays careful attention to what Foster is saying however, nodding only occasionally as she listens. Perception, and Belief. So then, if the feather itself isn't what does it...

"So, if I think-and really, really think it," she adds, "Then that thing I thought comes out in the magic..." And that explains the feathers, then. Becoming 'lighter' is something that can definitely be tied to birds. Birds are lighter, it's how they can fly at all. So then...

She nods, and more than that, manages a smile. "Umn! I think I understand then..!!" If she manages to work well enough with this then, that air-transformation might just be in grasp..!