Grenadier & Junior Trials ~ Aleri Briggs

[Linaeus]

Skill-at-Arms
~ You will be considered as having passed this test upon successfully defeating Commander Keres in a fair duel.
~ You may seek tutoring and training from any source in order to prepare yourself for this duel.
~ You may request as many rematches as you like.

Loyalty
~ You will escort the Baron on a diplomatic tour of the Duchy of Trinsic, carefully guarding him against all threats. Remember that just two years ago a member of the Church was cut down in cold blood at a public gathering in this city. While it may seem safe, there are threats everywhere.
~ You may either take the initiative and arrange the visit with Trinsican officials yourself, or alert the Baron to this task and have him arrange a date and time.

Discipline
~ You will arrange a Joint Training with our Yewish and Trinsican allies, with a special focus on live combat experience.
~ This should be a practical training rather than a theoretical one. Emphasis should be focused on -practicing- methods of survival, targeting, and tactics rather than explaining them in detail.

*Signed*
Commander Torrak Keres, Army Command

[Aleri Briggs]

Skill-at-Arms - 09/08/2011

Duelling the Kommander?! Bah! Imposible! I'd lose an eye! Or a leg! Or an arm! Or a kidney! Or one of my heads or torso or somthing!

If I'm to come outta this alife...I'll need tips...and takin a page from the Art of Ware, I shal take tips from the enemy! The Comander himself!

Keep your frends close, and your enemies closer!

First attempt! Sucess! It seems I caught the Commander stif and slow and I dealt a knockout blow! Kapooey!


And he's down!

With a bit maor time on my hands, I went for morre practising with the Comander geting loosened up and we tangled nicely!


Tips an' tricks from one of the finest!

Roundin' it off, a job wel done for my fighting abiliti - I'mma ready to paint me face red and black and waggle my tongue like a warrior and fools I pity!


Training wel done!

Aleri Briggs,
Junior Guardsman

[Aleri Briggs]

Discipline Destructibility - 06/12/2011

Seconds! Minutes! Hours! Days! Weeks! Months were spent trying to set up a training seshion between the fantabulous Cove, the poncey Trinsic and the smelly Yew; but bah! I'll just have to "imaginate and innovate!". When it hit me...I knew wat to do!

With the trusty Watchman Ringo by my side, I had great plans for domination. First things first...to learn to read! find those blue prints!


Briggs scheming!

Flippityflipflip and aha! Found them! The Grenadier War Catapult mk.I! To make sure that this is the original and unaltered plans, I check for the Grenadier Seal and there it was! Created and thought up by one Sergeant Graystone, with preliminary tests carried out by Sergeant Graystone and Corporal Al Maktoum...it must be legit!

Resources collketed, time to get hammering!


It's so beautiful *tears up*.

With the Grenadier War Catapult mk.I built to the correct approximate be able to stand and stuff, time to start testing!

Test 1:

Using Watchman Ringo as a counter weight and an almost full keg of greater conflagaration as ammunition, I loaded up and fired. LO AND BEHOLD MY CRAFT! It works! I killed a tree, a cat and a family of pigeons with one blow, think of the uses! THE POWER!


It works!

Feeling really quite smug, I decided to bump it up another notch! With instructions to Watchman Ringo and different calibrashions and sciency stuff (which obviously I understood "completely"); we can move on to further testing!


MORE!

Test 2:

Yes.....this test went well! Uh...like, it worked but! It seems I need to use a bit more than just spit and tree sap and random hammerin' to put the thing together! I loaded up an unknown qwantity (a LOT) of conflagaration in the machine and let it rip...and rip it did! The Grenadier Catapult mk.I ripped itself apart, it couldn't handle it! The payload went up hiiiiiiiiiiigh into the sky, I had to follow it! For science!


Oh shi-

Running, running...running backwards?! Gah! The wind's picked it up and is carrying it backwards! Crap! Where's it going to land?!


OH SHI-

ANYWHERE BUT THERE! ANYWHERE BU-

Okay! Testing is done for now! Results? Positive! Positive...more testing required but positive!

Oh, Corporal Ilyana, by the way, you're really pretty and I really like your hair and your house and I like your new garden! The fire effect is quite the addition! you're really pretty! I'll be gone...for a week...maybe more...


SPONTANEOUS VACATION!

Aleri Briggs,
Junior Guardsman

[Leanne Martin]

Well done, Briggs! See trial three as accomplished! Keep up the good work!

Ilyana Drachen,
Arcanist Corporal

[Aleri Briggs]

Loyalty - 09/12/2011

Withe the Baron still away on his tropikal island vacation, and his pending Diplomatic mission to Trinsic being neglected, I took initiative! Lo and behold Baron Briggs! Dressed in the finest clothes I could find around in my shack, and my silver tongue, I set foot to Trinsic! Just my luck to find Regular Nicholi there too, I'd have to be REALLY convincing if I want to pull this off!

Finding the few Trinsicians there, I lay down the facts early and have them think I'm the Baron early, hah! With my subtle distraction techniques, things are going very well! Talks of Pandas and Vesperians are keeping them very intrigued until noble blood turns up for the Diplomatic mission!


Baron Briggs at your service!

Finally! The Duke's niece, I could convey my message to her and she can pass it on! I quickly tooke her aside to talk in private, and told her aboute our troubles with Vesper brewing; and of course the threat of Pandas!

After the talk, I'm sure to have Trinsic on our side! Baron Briggs is working perfectly, they don't suspect a thing!.....


Baron Briggs diplomacising fantastically!

They still think I'm Baron! Hah! The idiots! Time to have some fun! I make up this radical story about wanting to test Covian armour and hah! I manage to get a Trinsician to throw a conflagaration at Nich! Look at him light up! Haha!


BBQ Nicholi!

Setting fire to Nicholi was amazingly fun sure, but this is where things go southe...

With my manic power trip, I let my words slip! Trying to cover up my slip up, I just keep digging my own grave! I drop my badge in front of everyone! Oh crap!


Oh shi-

I make a break for the nearest building, but it was the prison cells! The door is locked! Cornered! Gah! I try to talk my way out of the whole situation without having my block chopped off, but where it's going...I don't think I'll like...

They led me outside and burned me with magiks multiple times! Gah! I tripped and hurt my nose too! Gah! I explained and apologised to Regular Nich and the rest of the Trinsician Guards; but all I all I think I got my message across! For Cove!


Owwww!

Aleri Briggs,
Baron of Cove Junior Guardsman