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!! ]

Comments

[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... ]

[heelies]

[Here he raises his eyebrows, but this she will not see. Among his people women are celebrated for their chastity and fidelity, and condemned for any qualities which stray from this narrow path - but he has long since learned that Ramir confounds all the constraints of his culture, so much so that he hardly expects her to conform thus.]

How like a siren you are, leading men unto temptation and then leaving their ships stranded there upon the wave-whipped rocks. What man is this that you have ensnared with you wiles which I hesitate to call feminine?

[heavyhitter]

[ she snorts. ah, his way with words ]

Well I sure wasn't using my masculine wiles. [ because he's so straight... so painfully straight... ] Anyway, Sigma.

[heelies]

The son of Klim! I would not dishonor him by lying with his woman, and so these our words shall not come to fruition when already you have his bed to keep warm.

[So is that a "no" on threesomes?]