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! ]

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[anti_nonsense]

"He's not my--" Rita can't even finish protesting at Lambert before Strange chimes in and makes things even worse.

"UGH!!" She lets out a frustrated cry, then takes a breath, and starts chanting another spell. "Why don't you both just die already!?"

There's a spark as the spell activates, but rather than a fireball or a lightning bolt, there's an oppressive sense in the air within a large circular area... and then gravity slowly starts to weaken, then reverses, pulling its targets upward. This includes 9S; the magic tractor beam may pull him (and Pod 153) the rest of the way out of the moat and straight up into the air. Within the area of the spell, Rita stands unaffected.

"Screw this! I'm going home," Rita huffs, still red-faced and agitated as she turns and storms off. Within seconds, the spell's effect expires, and anyone still suspended by it will suddenly find themselves at the mercy of gravity once more.

[whattaprick]

Who's stopping Rita? Lambert isn't stopping Rita, particularly not as he's yanked up out of the water, dripping like a wet dog. He's still laughing at Rita as she goes, meaning when they're dropped, he nearly hits himself on the edge of the arena instead of landing anything like gracefully. Flat on his back, head lolling backwards over the edge, he grins up at the Carnival's magic-made sky.

"Well," he says, "I think that went pretty well, don't you?"

[kingsroads]

Strange is flung up into the air as well. As she leaves, he falls back to the ground with a thud, enough to knock the wind out of Strange and knock the shithead smile he's got off his face. Okay, yeah, that one hurt, ouch Rita. Because obviously this is her fault and not the fault of the shithead adults who were teasing her.

"I've certainly had training sessions that went worse!" Strange remarks as he gets back on his feet, still wincing slightly. "Though I don't know how much Rita was paying attention."

[dressedtothe]

9S nearly lets out a cry of surprise when he's dragged out of the water, Pod 153 getting lifted just out of his grasp. Unlike the other two, when he's dropped 9S grabs on to Pod 153's primary arms and floats down to the ground.

After that dip in the moat, 9S looks more like a drowned rat than an android. Once he touches down, 9S shakes his head, flinging droplets of water, before trying to wring out the water from his clothes.

"This is all your fault!" he grumble-yells at the two men. "What else did you two say to Rita to tick her off so much!?"

Because he can't imagine the teasing stopped after he got dunked in the lake.

this may look like a shit post tag but it actually is not

[whattaprick]

Lambert, still flat on his back and soaked besides, rolls his head to the side to give 9S a lazy look.

"We'll tell you when you're older," he says. Of course, he's just as likely saying that to get a rise out of the android and keep having someone to tease until they all inevitably leave .

[kingsroads]

Strange just picks right up on Lambert's teasing and offers his own teasing in turn.

"It's an adult thing," he pipes up. "I doubt you'd understand." Never mind the fact that Rita's also a kid, this might get under 9S's skin, so it's happening. Unlike Lambert's lazy look, Strange's smile is straight up a shithead grin. He's being awful and he knows it. Teasing builds character or something like that!

"Though we could tell you, if you want."

[dressedtothe]

"Oh come on! You know age is different for androids!"

Were they talking to Rita about sex? He's starting to learn that whenever people use his age as an excuse not to tell him something, it has something to do with sex.

He COULD leave; he gets the feeling he's going to regret continuing this conversation. But Strange's obvious bait still snags him, hook, line and sinker.

And because it's the thing he always says to convince people to talk whenever people show hesitation about telling him things because of his age, he adds, "I'm a soldier. I can handle it!"