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[Open] Qombat Qlass with Uncle Qrow

Who: [OPEN] Qrow Branwen (

blodsvorr) and anyone who wants to come to class
Where: Moon Base: the Academy, Dojo, & Arena
When: Throughout the month
What: Mingle post for combat class with Qrow! Tag teacher or form teams and pairs for lessons. Have fun!
Content Warning: References to someone trying to control their alcohol use/dependency to only partial success.

NETWORK POST

[On Saturday, a post is made to the network from username eight.span, Qrow Branwen. It reads as follows:]

So Schimmrigk isn’t coming back. Apparently, the guy enjoyed his sabbatical. That means I’m taking over combat classes. Show up or don’t, but for the love of whatever you buy into, make sure you’re ready for the next field mission. We’ve got shopkeepers and blacksmiths for weapons, and we’ve got the Academy and other Reclaimers for training. No one needs to go into the field unarmed this time.

If you're coming to my class, you should know I don’t do rubrics or homework. Don’t show up expecting any of that crud.

COURSE MATERIAL (i.e., mingle prompts)

So you want to get an education! Or maybe you just want to see how the hell Qrow got this job. Qrow’s educational practices can be described as "direct," at best. He follows the methods he knows from back home and is sticking to the philosophy of education that turned him into a Huntsman. That means all students are basically being trained the way he was trained at Beacon. Fun!

Some basic lessons:

WEAPON DESIGN: Design your weapon with Uncle Qrow! Weapons are, in the Remnant school of thought, a way of channeling your Aura, which is itself your soul. In other words, a weapon is an extension of who you are as a person. Thus, weapon design. Students are encouraged to come up with their own weapon, whether it be an axe that is also a blunderbuss, a scythe that is also a sniper rifle, or a revolver that is also a pistol. (Remnant likes guns.) You can also design a boring and normal weapon like a war hammer or a chainsaw. Whatever works! Qrow has experience with designing weapons, so he can help people figure their outs, but students are also free to discuss options with their peers.

Obviously, all weapons should be personalized. Paint it to match your colour scheme! Engrave some swirly lines on it! Come up with a symbol to represent your entire personality and slap that bad boy on your weapon! That’s what individuality means.

(Note that most normal weapons take 1 week for a blacksmith to craft, while weird combo weapons probably take longer, with a revolver-rapier set at 3 weeks. You may want to check with the mods to be sure of the time.)

WEAPON MAINTENANCE: The follow-up to weapon design. If you know how your weapon is structured, you can better maintain and even sometimes fix it. Whatever you made should, in theory, be able to last you your whole life if you take care of it properly. A person must always treat their weapon with respect. Qrow will not be letting any of his students fail to learn how to do everything they possibly can do to maintain a weapon in the field.

FIELD MEDICINE: How not to die when you're stabbed. These are all the basics of how to stop bleeding from a major artery or set a broken bone well enough that you can get back to base. Students get to practice on dummies, but more importantly, they get to practice on each other and themselves. Have fun pairing up and cutting off a friend's blood flow! (Not with actual broken bones or nicked arteries though, because Qrow doesn't believe in teaching methods as extreme as some people here.)

However, the majority of class time will be made up of the following two components:

COMBAT PRACTICE: The thing this course is supposed to be about. Sparring matches are mostly between students, although Qrow will also spar individually with every student to test their skills and abilities, so he can better help them going forward. There are also just drills and routines against dummies, targets, holographs, etc. There will be a lot of this. It's the point of being here. Well, sort of, because then there's the other thing Qrow wants to drill them on.

TEAM TRAINING: Making liberal use of simulators in the arena, this is a combination of terrain education (helping students learn how to handle different terrain, including how to use it to your advantage, avoid its dangers, and track a target through it), monster education, training in improvisational thinking, a crash course on field medicine, and, most importantly, general education in how to work things out and fight in teams. Groups are usually two or four people in size.

(Teams of four should follow the Remnant Team Naming Rule, which means an acronym from one initial of every team member that forms a word evocative of colour, with the team leader getting the first letter. Please make up stupid team names. I beg of you.)

Some training missions
Escape rooms
Obstacle Courses
Huntsman Missions: Missions modelled after the kind of missions that Huntsmen and Huntresses are assigned on Remnant, adapted to tasks they may encounter as Reclaimers.
search-and-retrieve (having to make your way through through monster-infested terrain, retrieve supplies or some random object, and come back)
escort (escorting another student through monster terrain. This student is given the choice to be helpful or to be ‘obliviously sabotaging’ with the rescue attempt. Qrow encourages the escorted student to have fun, because escort missions always suck, and so should the training for it.)
search-and-destroy (tracking down and destroying a monster’s nest)
perimeter defence/village security (holding an “inhabited” area against a monster attack or inclement weather)
bounty (tracking down and retrieving a wanted person alive. As with escort missions, the “wanted person” is a student, but this time, they get to actively and deliberately mess with the team sent in)

MISC. FACTS ABOUT CLASS

NO HOMEWORK EVER because he doesn’t want to grade it
Akechi, however, may assign some and grade it. Akechi is a weird kid. He isn't actually the TA, but he keeps acting like he is.
Generally it’s a non-standardized approach. He does better at one-on-one teaching than anything, so he avoids lectures like the plague and sets people off to work in teams and pairs while he moves between students to teach them all personally.
He ends up just keeping wrapped sandwiches and other foods in his desk to throw at children who have shown up without eating
He is notably softer with children than adults. For example, adults who have not eaten do not get free food from Qrow; they get told to leave and come back when they’re ready for combat.
He minces his curses in class even when it’s really obvious he wants to swear. There are too many children.
He is trying to be good, so he can frequently be spotted drinking from a coffee mug. A mug which he openly spikes in front of the class. But still. He’s trying.
He has literally never showed up for class on time, not even once. But at least he has never been more than fourteen minutes late?
The times he has shown up hungover have shown that being hungover has had literally no effect on his teaching or combat ability; he just pinches the bridge of his nose more and complains about noise without actually stopping people from being loud.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[The expression of rebellious is important to Ryuji; the expression of one's individuality is important to Qrow. So if Ryuji wants a costume change, Qrow has nothing but support for him.]

Make sure you have a word with the tailors sooner than later. You want something ready for the next mission. [inb4 Da Vinci pops in offering her seamstress abilities. Can Da Vinci sew? I don't know. Yet we must support her income.

Qrow mulls over the design, considering the options.]

Wood might me a problem for as simple a reason as material, but we can ask around and see about making it work. What about making it more compact? That'll give you more of the body of the bat for bracing against recoil. Something along the lines of... [Sketch sketch sketch] this.

[Qrow has outlined a quick sketch of that exact shotgun bat you gave me, yes. But he adds in the decorations. Those are important.]

Sure, draw me up a picture of what that looked like and I'll see how much it costs.

[And since this is Shop Small Slunardays, he probably wouldn't mind avoiding Garfield the Deals Warlock for a little while. He still has to buy a kigurumi from him this month as part of his cursed deal with him.

Ryuji watches, a little rudely in how close he's cramping Qrow's space to do so, but he's super invested in seeing what this would look like. While he's not married to the idea of wood being the base mat for it, he liked the idea that something from New Aspen could be used somewhere in the design. Wasn't every day you chance upon a cave with a (presumably) dead Barbarian's shit in it, alongside his own weapon of choice.]

Ohhh, yeah. That looks pretty tight. How long would that end up bein'? It looks like enough to swing around, too, but still be able to cause a good deal of damage if I can get the hit in.

[Sadly, Qrow likes Ryuji, so he has no problem with the style-cramping.]

We should be able to adjust length for what suits you. [Same as with a baseball bat.] The hollowing out for the barrel should be easy to counter by placing a few weights at the right places. That'll give it the heft you need to hit hard.

[He nods, he thinks he gets what he's trying to say. It's kind of like using a level in the right place to balance and pull something up with more force. A heavier swing can be accomplished with making a strong foundation and not allowing it to hollow out in the right spots.]

Yeah, and I'm gonna need to be able to do that. I've been seriously lackin' in mid range combat abilities here. I used to be able to control and manipulate lightning, but it looks like those powers got sucked right up outta me like a vacuum ran right over my soul.

[Blowing air out through his lips, they make a small vibrating sound.]

How much do you think something like this would cost?

[Qrow does frown at that.]

I can't say I'm a fan of how little pieces of people's souls keep being put out of touch. [Probably not important right now. Still, an issue for later. He instead goes to practicalities.]

I'd guess about twice the price of your standard weapon, give or take. You're asking for a certain level of know-how and creativity that might boost it, but it's also not as much for material.

It's just, weird, y'know? I ain't jokin' about the soul stuff. A persona user's persona is an extension of themselves. So for all my powers to be blown up and gone kaput like that is really kinda messed up.

[Which, actually, considering the course of events back home that he was never privy to, technically he shouldn't have the ability to use a persona anymore to begin with.

He scrunches his face at that. Something he needs to ask Akira about. Without a metaverse, how are they summoning? Does Faerun have one? Is it because magic is real here that cognition is strong enough to bend reality?

Whoa, that shit's deep!

So he'll forget about it for now. It presents more problems than he knows how to answer or critically think about.]

Twice, huh? Cool, so if I skip out on gettin' another armor set, I could rush the weapon and be ready before we get sent out to collect the next bullshit godmode OP magic item. And I still gotta buy another kigurumi or Garfield might actually come for my life force.

[Aw... that means no more grimm reaper costume.]

[Hollllllld on a second here.]

You have to buy a kigurumi from Garfield. "Another" one. How'd you manage that?

[I'm making an executive decision that they have these on Remnant (because let's be real, they would) so that Qrow can give Ryuji a Look. All other discussion has to stop for this.]

Edited 2019-01-10 21:10 (UTC)

[Don't call his boyfriend out on being a furry in public.

(no, that still stays, there's no getting around it.)

But Ryuji doesn't really have an awfully amazing answer for that either???]

Yeah. Uh... well... so, I bargained for one when we first got here, convincin' Garfield that no one is gonna buy that crap, so if he promised to give it to us for super cheap--- I mean, me. If he promised to give it to me super cheap, then I'd come back and buy one every mission until his stock sold out.

[...]

And now I think I made a deal with the devil? So.

[Ryuji.]

So you got a discount, but locked yourself into a bulk product.

[Wow.]

Do I need to add bargaining lessons to your lesson plans?

[He starts digging through the pile of papers on his desk for the one that's for Ryuji. He cannot find it. He'll just write it on another one.]

Yeah, I mean. It's aight, I guess. What's the worst that happens, right? A warlock stealing your soul can't be, like, that bad.

[He's going to pay that mafia boss off, just in case!!! though.]

Dude, do you have a file for me? That's pretty goddamn organi--- I take it back.

[No, Ryuji, Qrow has already figured out who "us" is. There is no reason to dodge that unless it was somehow private, personal, or embarrassing. It was early enough on that it'd be someone Ryuji had a connection with from before. Ryuji has already gotten embarrassed about sexual content.

So Qrow goes in for the kill.]

A warlock stealing your soul just so you can your boyfriend can be furries. Yeah, that's a real great deal.

[EYEROLL and ignoring the criticism of his organization skills as he just jots down "Ryuji: Markets" on whatever paper he found. It's Kaede's, in fact, and it has "?? portable pianos?? ask Leo" on it]

Edited 2019-01-11 03:59 (UTC)

[He scratches the back of his head, and the heat of a thousand suns just beats down on his face in a completely irreversible change of events that makes him feel utterly like a fish out of water, flapping around stupidly because it wasn't smart enough to stay in the ocean.]

Uh...

[Kill confirmed.]

I think... I'll go... take my seat now. Thanks, teach.

[Let him die quietly?]

[Welp. That sure confirmed that.]

We're also doing extra lessons on some semblance of a poker face.

[Qrow hands the papers back to him.] Tell me if you want me to do the schematics or you want them done by someone else, but they need to be handed to a blacksmith before the end of the week.

[THAT'S NOT FAIR! He didn't even know this had a furry connotation. Or maybe he did, but saying it made it a lot more real and in the moment.

Qrow has taught him a valuable life lesson in shame, and the lessons keep on giving. He blinks at the papers, remembering that's what he came up here to share with the guy, and fumbles around with his words for a moment before-]

Y-yeah, I was. Hopin' it'd be you. That cool?

[He's surprised by the stuttering. It indicates nerves. With eyebrows raised, Qrow just gives easy agreement.]

Yeah, sure. I'll have you something drawn up by dinner. We can drop it off at the blacksmith once you sign off on it.

[Kinkshamed, and yet accepting Qrow's design is still what has him in more of a tizzy than anything else. He thought it was a dumb idea, sort of, that it wouldn't be possible, but now that it wasn't shot down and has an actual chance of happening... alright. Cool. They can make this work.]

Cool. Alright. Thanks, dude... I can't wait to see how it turns out.

Neither can I. [He makes eye contact with Ryuji, wanting Ryuji to know he's taking this seriously. But also, he's grinning.] I'm really lookin' forward to seeing you try to use it. I think I'll call dibs on being the first person to kick your butt while you're using your new weapon.

That reminds me: don't forget to name it.

Dude, you can kick my ass anytime you want if it's gonna make me a better fighter. You just gotta keep gettin' back up on the horse even if you're knocked straight off, right?

[And then, as if the verbal diarrhea hits immediately, his kneejerk reaction is the worst name in the entire world, but it comes tumbling out.]

The boomstick?

No, shit. Not that. I'll work on it.

[JESUS CHRIST RYUJI. Qrow puts his face in his hands.]

Yeah, brainstorm that a bit and find something that works for you.

[All other thoughts were knocked out of his head by that.]

[He's back to his prime, beaming at the fact that Qrow has officially had enough of him. That's a pretty... usual and warm feeling for Ryuji, actually.]

I'll give it some serious thought. If I'm gonna name it, it's gotta be blessed with god and the power of anime, y'know?

[Everything is so much right now.]

[Qrow crumples up a piece of paper—it had yesterday's ignored lesson plan on it—and tosses it vaguely in Ryuji's direction.]

Maybe try something theme-appropriate.

[You know. Skulls?]

Edited 2019-01-12 04:59 (UTC)

[Whoa! He's pinged by danger sense in slow motion as his instincts take over immediately. He slam dunks that shit right out of the air, deflecting it immediately like he's just swung at a pitcher throwing a slider.

And congratulations! You rolled a 20. The force of the backlash is so strong and precise that the paper is repelled straight back at Qrow's face. What a lucky guy.]

You know how many teachers've thrown chalk at me before? You're gonna have to do better than that if you're gonna catch me.

Edited (the gods know what i have done) 2019-01-12 05:23 (UTC)

[Qrow did not have his Aura active, nor did he anticipate a 20 coming his way. And so Qrow is physically knocked back by the impact.]

Gods, kid, ever gonna turn that Barbarian thing off? I change my mind, I'm not getting you a new Candlenights present.

[Is he wearing the pin?

> Yes
> No]

[>Yes]

[Open] Qombat Qlass with Uncle Qrow

well i KNOW i never knew all the parts of a shotgun so you can just deal with this

MY KNOWLEDGE IS FROM RP i've never even touched a gun before in my life

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