THE SECOND HBH TEST DRIVE MEME!

[halfbloodhillmods]

The Test Drive Meme
A chance to test out character voices in an in-game setting before playing with them!

Who: Campers from all pantheons!
What: It's your free time! Grab some lunch or do one of your favorite activities at camp!
When: Mid-June, around lunchtime.
Where: Camp grounds.

This meme is open to anyone thinking of checking out the game, whether you've apped in or not! Feel free to tag in under one of the prompts or create your own thread. Have fun! :)

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THE ARENA

[halfbloodhillmods]

[Hey, it's always a good idea to practice with whatever weapons you're learning to use. Just saying.]

cosette ( les miserables ) | daughter of aphrodite

[larks]

She doesn't particularly enjoy swordsplay. After all, children of Aphrodite had better things to do with their time, but Cosette seems to be one of the more responsible girls of her ilk, dutifully training with a lighter sword.

Cosette has arrived to the training session early, busy polishing the front of her armor and the sword itself, careful not to cut herself on the blade.

[poetofthefall]

[He's heard about her. The girl Marius fell in love with at first sight. He's a firm believer in the notion, and one of the few that actually believes what Marius says is true.

And as he peeps his head around the corner of the arena, just to steal a glance-

Wow. She is a beauty. The stuff of legends.

Embarrassed, he tucks his head behind a pillar, hoping he wasn't noticed.]

[larks]

[ Truth be told, Cosette also hopes that Marius would show up. She had known a few of his friends would be in attendance this morning, but.

Well, if he doesn't show, she at least can say she was productive this morning. She hums to herself and tucks a dark curl behind her ear. She does hear some footsteps in the distance and lifts her head. ]

Hello? Who's there?

Re: cosette ( les miserables ) | daughter of aphrodite

[worldabouttodawn]

[Enjolras is not much in the mood for an early morning training session, but he knows that it's important so here he is, rubbing the heel of his hand to his tired eyes. Most would think Enjolras was a morning person - they're horribly mistaken.

Yawning he enters the arena, only to pause spotting the girl polishing her armor. She looks familiar, though he can't place how.]

Good morning...

[larks]

Good morning! [ Cosette sings happily, always an eager beaver, even at this hour.

She pauses to inspect the amour. Ah, missed a spot. Even when going into battle, she thinks, one should look their best. ]

I suppose the rest are still trudging out of the dining pavilion.

Ben (All Superheroes Must Die) | Son of Ares

[kissmyass]

[ The arena is probably the most comfortable place in the camp for him - an environment that just feels right. He understands how everything works here, can handle it all well without looking like an ass, and it's almost therapeutic the way he's swinging a battle ax in each hand, alternating between hitting a few different targets around him.

Maybe he ought to be trying something more challenging, trying to work on things he's not already confident in, but he was already in the arts and crafts pavilion the other day and already got fed up with sucking at water colors, so he'll just be over here. Training might be starting up soon, so its good he's early, right? Right. ]

Amelia Pierce ⇁ OC | Daughter of Apollo

[foredoes]

[Amelia is just kind of staring helplessly at a bow and quiver of arrows. As a daughter of Apollo, she's supposed to be skilled with them, but it's hard to pick a target and shoot accurately when your mind's eye is being assaulted by potential visions of the future. She's small and fast, and someone should probably point out that she'd be better off with a dagger, but she's also extremely stubborn.

So she's just going to keep staring at this bow, like looking at it is going to magically grant her the ability to use it.]

[axecerbic]

[Part of being who she is is sizing up the competition, finding weakness and exploiting it in others and what better place to watch and learn than the arena? Getting in some practice while she's on the lookout doesn't hurt either.

Johanna wields her blade with ease, striking one of the targets repeatedly until she works up a fine sweat. It's only when she's taking a break that she notices someone near the archery range, and heads over to investigate.]

Keep staring at it, maybe it'll learn to shoot itself.

[foredoes]

[Someone else might have registered the insult, but Amelia just keeps staring at the stupid weapon] That's what I'm hoping.

[kissmyass]

[ The Arena is pretty much the regular haunt of Ares kids, either training with themselves, helping other campers to get the hang of weapons they're simply innately familiar with, or starting shit with someone :T So suffice to say, Ben's seen Amelia standing over there for a good long while, death staring the bow. She's an Apollo kid, right? Shouldn't this be her thing?

Passing over, he cocks an eyebrow, a hand going through his hair to push the sweaty bits back (he was training okok its hot ) before hands just settled on his hips to watch for a second. Uh huh. ]

Is this some new zen kind of pre-training meditation crap you Apollo kids have started?

[foredoes]

[Amelia scowls, her frustration at her inability to deal with this weapon morphing into irritation at this guy] Yeah, I'm super Zen right now.

Re: Amelia Pierce ⇁ OC | Daughter of Apollo

[worldabouttodawn]

Would you like help?

[Enjolras has been watching her staring at the weapon for a good few minutes now before finally walking over. He may not be the best at archery, but he thought he'd offer.]

[foredoes]

[Enjolras is, she supposes (technically) her half-brother. So he doesn't get the same wary reaction that Ben did. She lets herself be a little frazzled, looking up at him as he walks over] I don't know if it'll do any good, to be honest. I've always been terrible at this. I just feel like I...should know.

[snowpointvictor]

Against her own preferences to weapons, Zoey decided to swap her sword for a bow as well as a quiver. She wasn't that good with it unfortunately yet, and that was when she spotted the older girl Amelia. "Trouble with the bow?" Zoey really could sympathize with that.

[foredoes]

Amelia just sort of keeps up her staring contest with the weapon for now. "You know, I think it's more that it has a problem with me," she decides finally. "It's a personal issue. It's not me, it's...it." That sounds plausible, right?

Zoey | Pokemon Diamond and Pearl (anime) | Daughter of Nike

[snowpointvictor]

[Zoey was a little bit peeved to say it lightly. She had only been in camp for a few months and though she knew she couldn't control her own parents she was still mad at her dad and 'mother'. So she focused on her first training in the arena.]

Zoey had taken up a light in-weight sword, visibly annoyed. "This all because of them. They should have told me."

Bastien(?) Grantaire (Les Miserablés), son of Dionysus, I think.

[sceptical]

To say that Grantaire is a fighter would be completely incorrect - but he'd been warned about monsters, been scolded to take things more seriously, and he had a light afternoon - it was a good time to at least try to get some practice in, even if he'd most likely just end up messing around instead.

He has a staff, which doesn't seem like a particularly great weapon without a background in martial arts, but Grantaire can't say he trusts himself with any kind of blade, even if he has been forced into unhappy sobriety since coming here.

He keeps to himself, off in a corner - there's a training dummy, but it's not exactly hard to hit an unmoving target with what is essentially a giant stick, and he loses interest fast enough, ending up sitting on the ground, leaned far back against the dummy, a book folded open in one hand, legs crossed.

He's not training anymore.

Jehan here is a son of Apollo.

[poetofthefall]

[Prouvaire honestly doesn't spend much ttime in the arena, as he's a more traditional Apollo child. He's skilled with the bow and arrow, and he enjoys learning to fire ranged weaponry - he's been working with a sort of Celestial bronze blunderbuss that he'd found in the armory one day as of late. But he's watched Grantaire long enough to know that neither of them really belongs in the arena - but for different reasons entirely.]

It would appear that neither of us are having much luck here today.

[He gives Grantaire a sheepish little smile.]

[sceptical]

[Grantaire glances up from his book, then sits up straighter, brushing his shirt off self-consciously. One thing he can say about this place is that the people here are much more friendly than they were in his other, more typical schooling. He does his best to smile, despite feeling a bit dazed (courtesy of his mind-altering ability, and using it a bit too liberally on himself).]

I'd just leave, but I'm pretty comfortable. You know, I never see anybody relax in here. It's a shame. Ground's surprisingly soft.

[clearasil]

Natalie suddenly appears.

Literally. As a daughter of Hecate, she likes to practice travelling shrouded by shadows, building her stamina so she can sustain her control when the moment calls for it. The shadows fall away from her in a grey mist and it looks like she's just come from the archery range.

She had been hoping to find Enjolras here since she needed to ask him a question, but instead finds someone else sitting in a corner of the arena. Reading. Natalie snorts.

"Mrs. O'Leary's been here," she says of Percy's hellhound, "sitting around probably wouldn't be the, uh, wisest choice."

[sceptical]

Grantaire almost jumps, but really, he's too dazed from his own mind-bending abilities to be aware enough to do so. Instead, he focuses his gaze on girl in front of him, slowly lowering the book.

"I got distracted," he says, jovially, then gestures to the staff he'd abandoned a few feet away. "I was training." Sort of.

As if realizing suddenly where she'd come from (or rather, where she hadn't - Grantaire hadn't heard footsteps at all, and Natalie seemed to have just appeared), he sits up straighter, mentally sizing her up. "That's an interesting trick you have there."

Hey there!! Another son of Apollo here

[worldabouttodawn]

You are aware this is a place to train not read?

[It's safe to say that Enjolras didn't actually notice him training in the corner earlier. But he's noticed him now, standing in front of where he's sitting, a frown on his face. There's a good chance that he would have crossed his arms, except that he's holding a sword in one of them which would probably end badly if he tried.]

Allison Argent | Teen Wolf | Post-Ragnarok Skadi

[sagittarium]

[ Let's see how much Manda fucks this up

If there was one thing Allison was good at that her supposed goddess self was as well, it was archery. She hadn't gotten the hang of the rest of her powers yet, which she knew would obviously take some time, but it didn't help to annoy her.

For now, keeping her mind off of everything, She leveled her sight at the center of the target 100 meters away. A quick breath in, and she exhaled slowly, fingers releasing the bowstring. It hits dead center.]

[usernameallison]

[To be completely fair, Scott should definitely not have been practicing lacrosse in the archery field in the first place. He's tossing a ball back and forth with Stiles.]

Go long, man!

[But when he says 'go long', he really means it. He's shot the ball with his stick about a mile away, and it'll be a long time before Stiles comes back with it. He's about to apologize, and he's so caught up in his game that he doesn't realize he's definitely about to get stuck with the pointy end of an arrow.

Crap.

Then, he turns, looking to see who fired that arrow - and lays his eyes on what is possibly the most beautiful girl he's ever seen.]

Whoa.

[It's all he can muster, and he gives her a little wave hello in the meantime.]