(OOC: due to having been inactive due to RL reasons we have decided to skip past the training in the IC thread and continue that much in PM.
This is in order to continue with the story here and get this rp back on track.
However I have a few matters that I feel I have to include in the IC that plays during the training.
These matters will all be addressed in one post to get it over with ASAP without having to skim them in too much!)
First day after the training
After the Hand to hand combat Training with Moena the group was sweaty, dirty and sore all over.
"You know, starting tomorrow you'll get lessons from Master about various things after training, you'll likely be done around the same time as today then" she said looking at the yellow evening sky as the sun had only just began to set down.
"So, how about we all go into the hotspring together, I'll make sure the others are there as well"
Moena then extended her bone wings and flew off to the cottage, expecting most people to be there or at least Zeke, from there on they could look for the others and contact them though magic if they would be out of the cottage at the time.
Once the group got to the back of the cottage, the deepest part, they would see two doors as with all traditional Hotsprings, one for the woman and one for the males and Hecate standing guard "Keep to your side of the dressing rooms" She specially eyed Orin as Yuriha walked by her.
Once Marcus would walk past her she stopped him as she whispered once Orin was out of hearing reach "After the hotspring", she did not say anything else as she took it he knew she meant the note's appointment (as they both failed to find a good time earlier today)
Inside the dressing room they would find a note about hotspring basics found in any hot spring, though something was edited.
Under the rule, "No clothing" was written, swimming clothes are optional.
There seemed to have been an other rule but that was scratched out so badly that it was unreadable.
They would find their swimming clothes packed nicely by Moena in the cabinets with their names on it, if they so wished.
once the new guys and girls would finish changing and entered the spring area, they would find both all the girls that were the seniors, aside Hecate as she still had to change, keeping watch to the last second, and even Zeke, pretty much surrounded by the girls.
Only Ophelia and Yumi were wearing swimming gear, Yumi was wearing a nicely covering bu still with her curves sexy black and red bikini.
It was currently impossible to tell if Zeke was wearing anything due to the girls playing around him and greeting the others as they entered.
Marcus would be one of the last as Hecate had stalled him to enter the hotspring, with before him Ophelia wearing a simple gray bathing suite that failed to hug her curves...
Once they are were in the water would Hecate finally walk in, her body covered by a towel, making it impossible to know if she was wearing anything at all.
"what?" she snarled to those watching her as she stopped walking, she was used to Zeke and the girls, but with so many new people and especially guys, she felt somewhat elevated and self conscious.
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After the Hotspring/ MarcusXHecate
After Hecate had left the Hotspring, she had changed into a White sleeveless shirt and mini skirt, she had not taken account that her still wet body and hair would cause the shirt to become see through or had even realized it.
Worst was she had misplaced her underwear so...
Well she figured it would not matter, standing on top of the cliff, waiting to talk with Marcus, she had left before him, no one would see it, though she had no idea about the shirt issue.
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Last lesson of the second day
As the group entered the living room of the cottage where they were send to after the last physical lesson they would find Zeke sitting in his regular chair, a glance with a small unnoticeable smile was aimed to Yuriha as he had felt traces of her aura on the chair, while he had a regular chair he always sits in, he never minded of someone else would sit in it.
"welcome to your first lesson about the underworld, today I plan to explain some practical stuff such as Sacred gears and the evil pieces"
Zeke waited for everyone to take a seat and had a cup of thee or something else before continuing.
"As most of you know we have a Rating game coming after a few weeks, so I think it would be wise to explain some matters that will not be covered in your training, though some may have been.
Sacred gears, these objects have been made by god to create miracles on earth, even now they work and are still developing, even once never before seen have suddenly became active.
Sacred Gears work by your will power, the more powerful you want it to work or something else as more powerful, the quicker it will react and stronger at that.
It has been quite often that A sacred gear has gone an evolution in appearance and powers, this is called a revelation, I am pretty sure that much has been discussed during your testing yesterday, this as well is based on your will.
Yet what must not have been discussed would have been the subspecies and balance breakers.
Both are pretty rare but they exists and are important to take into account.
Normally a Gear is bound by a fixed path in both Revelations or Balance breakers, but at times a gear may make an change that breaks away from the path, this is called a subspecies.
An example could be made with Hecate's Gear, Flame Charge first Revelation would be the Flame Cloak and its second is Cloak Rush, but if instead of Flame cloak where it covers her back it would gain the power to create multiple arms made of flames, then this would become a subspecies.
There is a small added rule to this, a gear that gains a subspecies revelation would forever be changed as such, meaning the next user that gets that specific Flame charge would also get the Flame arms revelation instead of the cloak.
While a Balance breaker has added rules, A gear can still gain a subspecies balance breaker if they first got their original, a subspecies balance breaker tend disappear once its hosts dies, however there tend to be exceptions, if the new subspecies breaks away too much it could become a fixed balance breaker to overwrite the original, though some may even have two balance breakers due to this eventually" Zeke took A few sips of his thee before continuing.
"balance Breaker, it is said that all sacred gears possess a secret power inside them, this power is said to be strong enough to break the balance of the world, thus the name balance breaker, there are many types of balance breakers and they are hard and rare to unlock, they say you need a great inner change, something that makes your thoughts go against the flow of the world, likely something more as your thoughts must go against how you have been thinking for a long time, but its pretty cryptic.
regardless balance breakers are powerful, an example is a gear of legends, the boosted gear, this gear has reached balance breaker often though the ages, the gear itself is an gauntlet to double the users power once every 10 seconds, but the balance breaker is an armor, increasing strength and defense naturally and giving the ability to do multiple boosts in a duration of 10 seconds for a powerful attack, though I think the boosted power disappears after the attack."
From that point on Zeke drank the rest of the thee to let everyone take it all in before he continued to the next section.
"Evil pieces, each of you has one, they are used to reincarnate any creature to a devil under its king, one of the great kings made them as the devils numbers have lessened quite a lot during the last great war, so instead of taking pride in very powerful individuals we decided to make it possible to create groups with enhanced abilities to fill the gap of devil numbers, and while the numbers have been filled we keep to this system which has caused the underworld to change in, what I consider, A good way.
Regardless there is still the rule that power means everything.
Evil pieces are, as you have noticed, made to resemble chess pieces and each has a value which in some games such as the Dice games take great priority.
I shall start at the top and follow the boards placement, The king piece.
It should be natural that I am this groups King, the king piece itself is not much and lacks value, it basically allows me to manage my family and be warned when you are in danger, though together with a Rook piece A king can do towering where they switch places.
The next piece would be the Queen with a value of 9, the queen is said to be the most powerful piece and possess weaker but still counting traits of the Bishop, Knight and Rook, an Increase of magic, enhanced speed to a small level, an boost in strength and the ability to shape a Queens shield of their magical energy, this shield is very powerful but has a very limited time range and is not indestructible either.
The queen is also the kings right hand and to every formal occasion is expected to be next to his or her king, and as you must have realized, out Queen is Moena.
The Bishop, this piece is often used on supporting characters and gives an increase of magical energy and magical recovery, it has a value of 3.
Our Bishops are Runa, a fitting role as she rather heals and defends, not liking to go on the offence, and Sonitus, who we still have to see what his gear can do and his magical talents in general.
(OOC: yes I am playing that during the test or first real training we activated his gear, but dont know what it can do yet)
The Knight, also a value of 3, Knights have an increase in speed, the amount varies from person to person, from what I can tell, Marcus is by nature faster then Hecate, Knights are known for their speed and using swords, but do not take such for granted, I will explain why shortly, but first...
The Rook, Rooks have a value of 5, increased strength and natural defense as able to do the towering, our rooks are Orin and Ophelia, who, from what I have understood, has trouble controlling the increased strength for some reason."
Just at that moment Moena enters the room with more thee and cakes.
"We got some weird people in our group when you think about it, Ophelia cannot use a power she should be able to use without thinking and Marcus cannot even think of something holy or even the word of it without getting damage while we all can just as easy say god for that matter without problem, as long as we dont try to pray or something"
Zeke nodded, he had some checking up to do if this continued...
"Anyway, After the Rook we have left the Pawn, Pawns have a value of 1 each, meaning that those who take in more then one pawn would have an value based on the number of pawns, our pawns are Yuriha, Yumi and Creighton, at values 4, 3, 1 respectively.
Pawns have an unique ability that where their king says its enemy territory, they can promote into anything outside of a king.
And for the matters behind the Value as why you should never take all the basic rules of the roles such as knights with swords or supporting bishops as water tight.
A value is also depending on the one a king wishes to reincarnate.
everyone has their value based on various matters, often their known potential, current powers and sacred gears, as long as the values match or if the evil piece has an higher value then then one the king wishes to reincarnate, then the king can pretty much use any piece he has on him regardless of the targets abilities.
This can do both strengthen and weaken a person depending.
An good example would be a mountain troll, they are slow but powerful and high defense, they also have no ability to learn magic and lack intelligence, A queen piece could be used but as the troll is basically a living tank, that would be futile, due to the lack of intelligence a pawn would be unwise as it cannot understand how to promote as that with no magical talents, a bishop would be wasted on use.
If you however give the troll a Rook, then its already high attack and defense would only rise, where you can also say you balance his stats out by giving it a knight to increase his speed, with some luck you may get a troll who is equally fast as powerful, though that much would be a gamble.
For this reason you can have rooks and bishops who uses swords while knights may be pure magic users or archers, there are even some knights who specialize in healing to quickly recover its team mates when they get wounded."
Zeke then sighed and looked at the clock.
"Let us keep it at this for today, so any questions?"
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Second day gear and magic combined training session
As the group entered the center field in front of the cottage after having done the basic stamina training with Zeke for once, they are met with Hecate, Runa, Yumi and Moena.
Zeke nodded to the girls as he left to the cottage.
"So, hope your all not too tired, were going to discuss the issue with the Valefor wings"
At that command, Runa, Hecate and Yumi extended their aura wings.
"As you can see, our wings are made from aura energy, most devils have black devil wings, only a hand few have special wings such as us and the Fenix house, however for some unknown reason the evil pieces have taken up Master's wings and gave us those instead of the black bat ones.
These Aura wings lack the mass to fly and only allow us to glide though the air instead of falling, but still, the ability to fly will be useful later on.
The upside to this is, we dont have to train our muscles to fly, which is hard and takes a while, the downside, we need to find a way to fly some other way.
You have seen my wings, I can lift the crystal cores inside the bones to fly, but I am pretty unique on that regard, so.. Runa, Hecate?"
As Moena asked the two suddenly water gathered around runa and placed itself inside the aura, mixing and fusing with it.
While Hecate's aura wings suddenly were set ablaze.
Once the group had seen this did Moena continued.
"By adding elemental mass can Master fly, Runa and Hecate were able to do the same by forcing their gear somewhat, you could say this is a subspecies ability but the gears are not subspecies themself, just in cause your wondering"
She then nodded to Yumi, who's jacket suddenly came alive and shaped into wings, the hood seemed to become bat ears instead though.
"Yumi lacks an elemental Gear, instead she create her own way, her Gear Soul Bringer normally can only allow souls she creates or summons into elemental mass, but she has made her gear an official SUbspecies by forcing her favorite bat soul into her jacket, the bat acts like her wings to the point that she can basically fly on her own wishes, but Kiro tends to stay conscious as well and may act on its own to protect Yumi when needed.
Which brings us to you guys, today were going to spend most of our time or creating some way for you all to fly, who wants to be first?"
"Ah, Sumimasen Moena-sama, but was it not Zeke-sama's plan to divide us so we can help everyone as swiftly as possible?" Runa suddenly interrupted in a surprisingly polite manner for someone who just interrupted someone who she sees as her senior and superior.
"true, lets see, we have Marcus, Orin, Sonitus, Yuriha, Ophelia and Creighton, 6 people, but we are with 4, so..."
"Not completely true Moena, we are with 5 and they are with 5, Crieghton had a king before us and as such he should have his own wings as well, correct?" Zeke said as he looked at the newest member.
From there on, everyone was allowed to pick their guide at learning to fly.
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Sunday of the first week
As it was Sunday, everyone was allowed to pretty much do whatever they wanted, though they were all supposed to return to the center field at a specific time for food and some evaluations.
After everyone ate and Evaluations had ended, in general it was pretty good.
Something forced everyone to look at one of the other two mountains as a large explosion was heard.
Once the smoke cleared all that was left of the mountain was, well everything from the half down, the entire top halve had been blasted away.
"Seems Her Pawn is growing nicely" Zeke mumbled to himself as she looked with a smiling face, one that has rarely ever showed and was the first time to be seen by the new members.
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Last Friday
At the last day, training had ended early so everyone could pack their stuff and clean up.
Zeke and Moena were waiting in front of the cottage till everyone came out.
"Are you worried master?" Moena asked Zeke suddenly.
"Ophelia, yes" he simply replied.
"Ah, We never were able to figure out why her evil piece keeps failing to work properly when it comes to increased strength"
"I will have to talk with Beelzebub about this, I just hope it is not a broken piece or that it will give her problems during the game, we do not know what kind it is and if this would put her live in danger then I may have to consider letting her watch from the sides"
"Ah Master dont do that, she worked so hard for this"
"I know, but if she would die..."
"I know how you feel master, but forcing her to watch will only hurt her, there must be other options in such a case"
Zeke said nothing to Moena about this as he kept thinking and waiting till everyone finally arrived.
"Good, I know you are hungry and want to go home and relax, so I have some good news, once we get home, we will change into our finest clothing, if you lack that Moena can provide it for you, then we shall take the underworld train to a engagement party of someone close to me, I expect you to behave and further I wish you all to have fun, enjoy the food as much as you want"
(OOC: Nothing much to reply about with the last one, but it is the start of the next section between the meeting one someone we already know (outside mtntopview) and the rating game
@Demonspade: If you rather, we can take the cliff talk between Marcus and Hecate to the PM, it kinds of depends if someone would want to mess up their little talk AFTER the important stuff that must not be interrupted has happened
depending on your idea and wishes with that we can just skip a bit to PM and follow up here with the section where people can jump in on XD (the important stuff will be posted here later, but if stuff happens that is not meant for here, I can snip that bit away, your call))
The Mad Hatter