voice, @TARANTO

[heavyhitter]

So we got a buncha old fashioned guys who are used to swinging around swords all the time and stuff, right? It seems like it, I can't go 20 feet without tripping over someone that's never seen a minipad before. God, would it kill that rift stuff to start taking more people from the modern era?

Anyway, point is I need one of you guys — or, hell, a buncha you guys — to start teaching. I've got some students in mind, foremost being me, because the training room here doesn't cut it if you've never even seen a fucking sword before. And if anyone else sucks at medieval stuff too lemme know, we'll make it a whole party.

Achilles and Koltira, you guys are my top medieval guys that know what you're doing, don't you fucking ignore this.

[ a beat ]

Also, I've got this little super strength issue where I might break any weapons I try and use, so... there's that, too. Still working on that obstacle. Any ideas, lemme know.


[ ooc: here's a planning post for teaching stuff!! ]

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[heavyhitter]

[ cue: regrets. she can't believe this guy was one of her top contenders as a teacher, it's like she just forgot everything about him.

She tries to interject a couple times, then ultimately gives up with a sigh to just wait it out, weather the storm. Finally: ]

Yeah, all that. The son of Klim is hot shit, and the other two are pretty good too.

And anyway, I don't expect you to do all the teaching. Take one or two, whatever you think you can manage. I got other teachers willing to pitch in.

[heelies]

[Do you not wish you could listen to the rich dulcet tenor of his voice all day? Is that not why you sought him as a teacher?]

Very well - then I shall take a student onto whom I can pass my wealth of skills, and perhaps if I am feeling generous I shall accommodate more. You mentioned too Koltira, did you not? The man has made most plain his hatred for me, and as for me, I care not a splinter for him either. Therefore do not expect us to collaborate one with the other in this endeavor.

[heavyhitter]

What, you, hard to get along with? That's unthinkable. But yeah, noted, no co-teaching Tuesday morning yoga classes together. Anyone else you hate I should be taking note of?

[heelies]

I am not difficult to get along with - I simply cannot tolerate slights against my honor or my people. Would not any man feel the same? I assure you there is none else worth noting in this regard.

[heavyhitter]

[ she would definitely argue the point... if she weren't also requesting that he teach, out of the goodness of his heart. sigh. maybe another day. ]

Alright, fine, you're a saint. Everyone here loves you.

[heelies]

[She is all the more tolerable when she wants something from him - already this arrangement suits him.]

What means this, "saint"?

[heavyhitter]

Holy shit, that's right, you're pre-saints. That's so fucking weird.

It's, uh... [ realization: she has no idea how to explain this ] A really good person.

[ seems to fall a little short, but whatever ]

[heelies]

Then I shall accept the compliment you pay. How sweet your tongue has suddenly grown, daughter of Jolanda, even laden with curses as it is. But I suppose were such curses too removed, I should hardly recognize her with whom I speak.

[heavyhitter]

[ it's hard not to roll her eyes... until she shrugs, and figures she may as well embrace it. there's a quick pause, and when she speaks again it's a little different. ]

You want me without curses, love? [ The same low, vaguely husky voice she always has, but decked out in whatever he hears as the equivalent of a thick London accent. ] Hardly recognizable? Couldn't refuse a friend, could I?

[heelies]

[Who even knows how a British accent translates into Ancient Greek... But she may be able to hear his raised eyebrow and curled lip through the touch of exasperation in his voice.]

Why must you speak in such a strange manner?

[heavyhitter]

[ she snorts ]

No? [ And the accent drops. ] I'm showing off for you, asshole. The least you could do is appreciate it.

i realize i'm probably setting myself up here

[heelies]

It hardly occurred to me that I should appreciate the babbling noises which endlessly spill forth from your lips. Is such a practice common among your people?

oh so you think i'm an innuendo tramp who will go after any ol low hanging fruit, huh

[heavyhitter]

God, no one told me the anti-fun police showed up when I wasn't looking. My accents are great!

more like achilles has no right to talk about other ppl's endless babbling

[heelies]

I am not against fun - I delight in sport and leisure as much as any man. It is simply that you and I appear to have rather different ideas of what diversions are pleasing and which are not.

oh okay fair. makes this innuendo anyway

[heavyhitter]

Pretty sure not all our ideas are totally different.

ah

[heelies]

[He is picking up that which you are putting down, Ramir.]

Certainly across all races of men pleasure is to be found in the embrace of a lover - all would agree but those maidens of Artemis of the silver bow who to their chastity hold fast.

[heavyhitter]

Okay, there's a few more people that aren't interested than that. Sadly. But sometimes they just think they're not interested and can be talked around, so at least there's that, right?

[heelies]

I have been known to be rather persuasive in such matters.

[How the boast is ripe upon his tongue with a teasing lilt. (Shut up Troilus, nobody asked you.)]

[heavyhitter]

Same. I'm kind of an expert.

[heelies]

Is this truly so? I would not have pinned you as such.

[Is that a double entendre? Perhaps.]

[heavyhitter]

Hate to be the one to point it out, but actually you can't pin me at all. [ ...for long, anyway. she's weighing that in her favor. ]

[heelies]

Then you would presume to pin me down instead?

[Now he scoffs although he knows perfectly well her alarming strength. He is not yet acquainted with the wonderful world of being topped by a hot lady.]

[heavyhitter]

Uh, yeah, that is the implication there.

[ starting to... slightly....... regret the monogamous arrangement. sigma, why ]

[heelies]

I should very much like to see you try, daughter of Jolanda.

[That she is bound by monogamy is probably for the best, as Achilles has a poor girlfriend who does not yet know that their relationship is rather open on only one end.]

[heavyhitter]

[ ah, achilles, you beautiful fuckboy ]

Yeah, well, maybe one day I will. Not too soon, though. I'm trying out this just one person thing for a while. [ mournful sigh... ]