[Open] Qombat Qlass with Uncle Qrow

[blodsvorr]

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.

Comments

[cluelesscavewoman]

[How likely is he to notice that she's putting way too much force into this high-five? Because it'd probably hurt a normal person. This is not the intended use of Athletics.

And then she's running straight at the other guy and jumping at him and waving behind her at Orpheus.]

Hello, me and him are friends now. But I do not know you.

[napstar]

[ Orpheus himself doesn't understand human strength so he wouldn't have noticed anything until the strength of the high-five pushes his arm back a few inches. Wow, much strong.

Minato would have noticed because he's a regular teenager and that would sting like all hell but he's not paying attention until she's jumping around at him. Wait what happened? Friends with Orpheus? Huh?? ]

Ah. I'm Minato Arisato.

[cluelesscavewoman]

Jud. [And she's nodding then bowing at her waist.]

Futayo Honda... Do I have to be friends with you if I am friends with him? [She doesn't get how this works. Other than her new friend appeared because this guy asked. But this guy- Minato, it's like talking to Four-eyes.

Not even trying to hide the slight disappointment at that.]

[napstar]

[ Uh. Most of the friends he's made was because he had a Persona, but none of them would have claimed to be friends with his Persona rather than him. Futayo asks the really hard questions. ]

... I suppose not. But. He lives in my head.

[cluelesscavewoman]

..Your head is too small... Does he turn to ether so he can fit? [That's how the mice worked. Not that she had one, her powers didn't need one.]

[napstar]

... Yes.

[ It's close enough, probably. He has no idea what ether is in this context but it sounds like an easy way out of explaining things he doesn't really know. ]

[cluelesscavewoman]

I see, it is that kind of contract.

[And she nods, that's that. Then she's tilting her head to stare again.]

Though I do not know why the coffee boy was not allowed to fight. This is the correct class for such challenges...

[napstar]

[ It was less friendly and more like a "your existence sickens me" attack. Minato thought they had gotten along well, too... ]

He didn't get permission first.

[cluelesscavewoman]

[Gasp! And her head is jerking up and she's punching her palm.]

You need Branwen-sensei's approval to fight. I see. I did not know of that rule, thank you for telling me.

[napstar]

[ Sure. Close enough. Qrow would probably prefer it anyway. He's a teacher. Minato nods. ]

Yeah. During class anyway.

[cluelesscavewoman]

I have not fought anyone here yet. But I will ask... Do you know anyone that is strong?

[napstar]

[ He puts a finger up to his chin as he thinks. He doesn't know a lot of people here, but he does know one person from home that's in the Bureau as well. ]

Shinjiro Aragaki. He's strong. [ And he might even be attending this class! ]

[cluelesscavewoman]

[Her eyes light up at having a target possible sparring partner.]

What kind of fighter is he?

[Why would you do this to Shinji?]

[napstar]

Heavy weapons. Usually axes.

[ Shinji needs friends!! ]

[cluelesscavewoman]

I see, so he fights like father then... Though I have never fought someone who uses an axe before.

[napstar]

Make sure you ask first. [ Let's try to not traumatize him further. ]

[cluelesscavewoman]

Judge. It will be a duel, there are no sneak attacks in duels.

[She is good and follows rules. There is no way that this will get her killed.]

[napstar]

[ That should be fine. You're welcome for the new friend, Shinji! ]

Thanks. And... Thanks for being friends with Orpheus.

[ He thinks that deserves thanks? Probably? He's not sure how that's going to go but he's interested to see. ]

[cluelesscavewoman]

Judge.

[And she's turning to Orpheus.]

I do not have many friends but I am trying to be better, so thank you for being my friend.

[And she bows. Then starts jogging away. Is the lesson over? Maybe? She's lost track.]

[napstar]

[ Goodbye, friend of Orpheus but not Minato. Godspeed to you. ]