pineslog | ( march event ) mad skillz

EVENT: MAD SKILLZ

The flyers were everywhere. Slipped into mailboxes and taped to windows, these yellow sheets of paper are more than ready to catch a few eyes. That parking ticket you thought you got, tucked under your wiper blade? Nope, that's another flyer. (It goes without saying that each public trash can holds at least a few.)

Honestly, it's nearly impossible to live in the town of Wayward Pines and not know of the Skills Fair being hosted in a park north of where most of you live on this upcoming Saturday. Whether or not you choose to attend is entirely up to you.

Venture toward the park on 3rd and Alder anytime between 11 AM and 5 PM, and a colorful assortment of tents will greet you, from which drifts the buzz of conversation and a small assortment of downright delicious smells. The first few tents - the largest by a decent margin - are the food court and the sign-in desk for anyone looking to teach. It's far from mandatory, but a volunteer from the tent makes a lap every so often to make note of those who didn't sign up, for a full list of skills that newcomers can show up and learn. The food court hosts your typical limited variety of BBQ and pseudo-cultural foods, good for a quick bite and respite from a long day of sharing skills.

The rest of the park hosts a scattered grid of smaller tents and booths in varying colors. At first glance, they seem to be free for use - even since you've arrived, one or two people have strolled in off the street to set up one booth or another with relevant teaching supplies. Feel free to claim one for yourself, or maybe just stroll through the park and see what there is to be learned.

Taped to a tree or tent every so often is a request for those offering to teach any excessively loud or alarming skills (like firearm proficiency) to take their pupils to the makeshift shooting range set up two blocks north for the occasion. It's nothing special, a series of near-pristine targets in an unnecessarily large area taped off with bright yellow safety ribbon, but it's more of a shooting range than the town had before. Any other skill in need of some sort of target is also welcome to use the range, if they need it. In fact, it may be a wise alternative to trying to teach knife-throwing or archery in the park; below the request is a warning, stating that in the case of any injuries sustained at the Skills Fair, deliberate or accidental, the individual who caused the wound will be held responsible as if they committed assault. If that's not incentive to be a little more careful, what is?

Additionally, on the side of the sign-in tent and pinned to a tree facing each of the surrounding streets is a copy of the Official Notice, framed and enlarged at 1.5x, in case anyone might forget.

Might want to keep it in mind. You never know who might be listening.

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[ off to the side there's a horned girl standing no more than five feet tall — well, when you subtract the horns and her four inch heels, that is — leaning against a ... lance? it looks like a lance, but there's weird twisting metal at the tip and something like a microphone at the other end. it's extremely weird, and completely unbalanced, but eliza's leaning against it like it's no big deal, the tip of her tail flicking back and forth like a cat's. ]

Haaah, these moves are useless if you have beauty, magic, and weaponry at your disposal. [ despite her words, her tone is thoughtful. ]

[having spent the last year or so interacting with a demon with a habit of wearing crushed green velvet jacket and tinted blue glasses, Rachel's probably as taken aback by the girl's appearance as some other people might have been. It's still bizarre, sure, but she doesn't look afraid or like she doesn't believe what her eyes are telling her.

If anything, she's wondering if this means it's safe to step out of the broom closet herself, or if the girl just has no choice. Maybe she doesn't have a disguise spell she can make here? Regardles, Rachel can't help grinning--and wishing she could do the one-eyebrow-lift thing]

Yeah? Well, on a good day, I've got at least two out of the three. [she'll let the girl guess at which ones--even though she knows she's not looking her best right now, her charms are helping her look less ditzy than when she showed up] And [she drops her voice a bit, out of habit] I also know how to counter two out of the three. A good roundhouse can hold up against a saltwater bath way better than a charm.

[well, not a leyline charm. But she's not putting all her cards out there--not when she's still not sure if it's safe to tap a line to spindle some energy]

Edited 2017-03-16 22:12 (UTC)

[ if asked, eliza would crow proudly about her tail, her wings, her horns, and her fangs, but the truth is that she honestly doesn't have a choice in her appearance. oh, sure, she owns it, but when she was alive, she was human; gossip and rumors, and the demonization of her name have twisted her appearance into something befitting the name of "elizabeth bathory."

on instinct, eliza leans a bit closer to this girl when her voice drops, listening to what she has to say. ]

A... saltwater bath? [ eliza narrows her eyes ] Why on earth would you be bathing in the ocean?

[ fish pee in it. all day! ]

[Rachel can't help chuckling, leaning her forearms on her table. She's not worried about showing clevage--even if she had much to show, any guy who gets too creepy will find out her moves are definitely not just for show]

Not the ocean. Although that'd work pretty well too. [it's part of why Earth witches are rare on the coasts, and those that are there are so skilled--they've had to work more than twice as hard at their craft to get anything to stick] Just regular old water with enough salt in it to make it as salty as the ocean.

[she hesitates for just a second, but what the hell. She's not discussing the past, exactly. She's discussing her present, with someone who clearly isn't human either so hopefully knows just how far to push these lines of questioning around here] It breaks down Earth charms. You throw saltwater at someone wearing a pain amulet and suddenly they're feeling that broken arm again. So, it's always good to have a non-magic defense to fall back on.

[well okay, her plan B had once been quite literally 'grab the fish and run, but that was besides the point]

[ eliza, meanwhile, isn't checking out that cleavage to be creepy. in fact, she seems almost baffled by it for a second before a shock of jealousy causes her tail to flick from side to side.

h, how silly! she needn't be jealous of something like that! if she wanted to get bigger, then as a heroic spirit, she could! (no, she couldn't, but she doesn't know that.) the points of her ears twitch and she glances up at rachel's face as the other woman continues talking, and all eliza can do is scoff. ]

Graah, see?? This is why amulets are useless! [ she's made out of pure magic, a miracle made possible by the holy grail itself ] The only good magic around is from leylines or blood.

[Rachel actually chuckles a bit. She's used to this argument; she still considers herself an Earth witch where it counts, and she's heard that it's weaker than leyline magic for years.

And okay, maybe it's true in some ways]

Leyline magic's good too. But what if you're on the water, or somewhere with a lot of broken lines? [well, that's why real leyline witches have familiars. But she's not going to think about that right now, that path leads to Nick and anger. And she's...not touching the blood magic thing, nope nope nope] That's why I keep up my martial arts training. Even if I can't tap a line, I can still break a guy's nose.

( march event ) mad skillz

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sorry for how late this is!

no worries! I found a tag I lost two weeks ago just now ahem

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