Task one, Getting to know the Dragoons.Joey & HoagieWhat better way to start a task then getting better acquainted with the cream of Company. Senior Dragoon, Joey Lanai and Officer Cadet Hoagie. We all bumped into each other in the cells when an old and toothless prisoner was being guarded. Of course I was going to snatch the opportunity while it lay in front of me and I asked them both if they could teach me a thing or two about combat.
Me and Hoagie started off with a duel to show Joey what I was capable of. He won the first round and I bagged the second. After I asked Joey if he had any input for me but he said he couldn't until I was a dragoon, which is fair enough. But next Joey himself wanted to duel me.
We dueled and I think you can guess who was victorious though apparently I did well and my arcanic usage has indeed improved from the last time we dueled. We dueled a couple more times and we talked about how useless the spell 'Close Wounds' is unless in paired combat. The next duel was a little different though, I expressed to Joey earlier how I'm going to try my hardest to win the next arms master so what better way than to pratice than to do?
The dueling went on for about an hour and a half. Joey taught me how to move effectively in combat, how to heal effectively and so on. Was an excellent training and overall I think I learned a lot.
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Hoagie, Kurt & NicholiAfter Kurt had dueled a bit, I invited him to the tavern for a general friendly chat. Luckily for us in the tavern already was Hoagie and we made him hop up and serve us a drink (which Kurt was a gentleman about and brought himself). The way to a mans heart is through his stomach as they say. It was awkward at first, as it is when you just randomly invite someone for a drink but all three of us began chatting about the upcoming halloween tavern night as well as the horse I want when I'm a dragoon! (I want a white one by the way). Me and Kurt chatted about the basic such as where we come from though and we also chatted about how we all came to the army.
We sat around for a while not really talking about anything particular, joking around and drinking our drinks. All in all it was good fun, though the fun. We were soon joined by Nicholi as well who sat down, had a gulp of wine and joined in, in our merriment.
We again began discussing where we were from only to find out that Hoagie and Nicholi both come from outside Britian (Coincidence, huh?) I still think their long lost brothers. Eventually Nicholi had to go do some paper work and Demarian wanted us to do a recruitment stall so our fun tavern evening ended!
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ThomasSo the barracks was empty and when theres an empty barracks, theres a bored Guardsman and it was unfortunate that today that was me. I stood outside them until I was lucky enough to bump into Thomas and his horse named Thor (which i still think he named after the dwavern god). He made a comment about me changing my hair and then we began chatting.
We chatted about his earrings too which he seems to think are really very manly (he also took a while to explain in full detail about when his ears got infected because of them being pierced.) Not long after that Conan came along and we started chatting about how masculine all the women were in the army, or..at least that's what Thomas said though I can't say I agree that I'm at all masculine!
We soon moved off the subject of my masculinity and then onto where we were born, apparently Thomas also comes from the out skirts of Britian on a farm. I then expressed my distress of how I was going to be the only Minocian in the Dragoons!
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Vince.R & HoagieJust as Thomas was about to leave Vince came along and caught the end of our conversation. Thomas was upset about his other 4 horses dying and Vinny just couldn't understand why he cried over it! Though Vince also expressed the only time he actually cried.
Me & Vinny then chatted about 'the old days' of him being a watchman that he was an alcoholic because I expressed my dislike for drunken behaviour. Was quite shocked to find out about his days as a watchman.
Conan then told us how he wants to ban drinking but Vince quite rightfully put him straight and told him Teagan would beat the snot out of him if he somehow had alcohol banned. After that we talked for quite a while to Sherri as well and Vince told us about when he was in an orphanage.
I think that's all the dragoons so far sir.
Flinaria Trix,
Junior Guardsman.
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