thursdays_angel: (Zeppo)
thursdays_angel ([personal profile] thursdays_angel) wrote2009-09-04 09:17 pm

Baseball Team Meeting.

Castiel has had a new opportunity to make signs, and multicolored flyers have gone up all over the bar.

There will be a Team Meeting
for those playing with Castiel
on the baseball diamond, beginning at 4 o’clock


On the appointed day, he sets up his meeting at the baseball diamond. Castiel has witnessed meetings like this before. And he has prepared accordingly.

A beverage called Kool Aid seems to be popular, so Castiel has provided three large pitchers’ worth—one red, one purple, one green—along with paper cups. And several boxes worth of cookies. Some upended crates from the building supplies serve as makeshift tables. There is also a selection of bats and a bucket of balls laid out by the bleachers, and extra copies of the rule book Meg has compiled.

Castiel—as ever, in his trench coat--stands a little apart, hands clasped behind his back. He’s not quite sure what to say. Addressing assemblies has never really been a part of his job description.

He clears his throat.

“Hello,” he says. “Welcome to the team meeting.”

So far, so good.

“The purpose of this meeting is to become acquainted, so that we may go forth into the game with a sense of camraderie. This way we may talk, and, if we wish, practice together.”

Castiel nods deicisively.

Clearly, the celestial chain of command is not good at delivering the warm, fuzzy speeches. But it’s a start.

[OOC: For the players and their muns to have a good time. Go forth, handwave, play, mingle, enjoy!]
ostro_goth: (Default)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2009-09-05 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"You go to a school where fighting with katanas is part of your lessons?" Teja asks.

He does not add, 'Cool!', because that term was not invented in his time.
a1enzo: (Guardian)

[personal profile] a1enzo 2009-09-05 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fighting with everything. It's the Guadian Academy."
ostro_goth: (Default)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2009-09-05 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"What do you guard against?" Teja asks.
a1enzo: (Guardian)

[personal profile] a1enzo 2009-09-05 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Viruses, malware, Games, and system damage. It... doesn't make a lot of sense if you don't know computers."
ostro_goth: (Default)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2009-09-05 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't," Teja says. "Why are games bad?"
a1enzo: (Game)

[personal profile] a1enzo 2009-09-06 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
"They're games to the Users... the humans playing them. Only they don't know that they're real to the sprites that end up in them, 'cause they don't know we're there at all. If the User wins... we lose. Big-time."
ostro_goth: (Deep look)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2009-09-06 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"So you must keep the users from playing those games?" Teja asks. "Even base-ball?"
a1enzo: (Guardian)

[personal profile] a1enzo 2009-09-07 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
"We can't keep them from playing them. They're like gods for us. We have to keep them from winning. That's my job. Well, it will be."
ostro_goth: (Attentive)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2009-09-07 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
"So you are learning to be a fighter, in the cause of your people?" Teja asks, looking at the boy with new respect.
a1enzo: (proud)

[personal profile] a1enzo 2009-09-07 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Yessir! There's more to being a Guardian than fighting, but that's a lot of it."
ostro_goth: (Almost amused)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2009-09-07 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
"There was more to being a fighter among my people, than fighting," Teja says, "and yet, all the other things were done in readiness to fight. Else, they would have not carried the weight they needed."
a1enzo: (Default)

[personal profile] a1enzo 2009-09-07 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
Enzo considers this, and nods. "That sounds like a Guardian, yeah."
ostro_goth: (Default)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2009-09-07 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
"How is it that you learn?" Teja asks. "In what weapons and disciplines are you trained, apart from wielding a katana?"
a1enzo: (weapons)

[personal profile] a1enzo 2009-09-07 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
"They try to teach us some of everything. Most of what we learn is guns, unarmed, and swords, but anything can turn up in a Game, so we have to be ready."
ostro_goth: (Questioning)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2009-09-07 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Have you ever wielded a battle-axe?" Teja asks. "Naginata? Bow and arrows?"
a1enzo: (weapons)

[personal profile] a1enzo 2009-09-07 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Not the nagi-whatsit. And we haven't used any really big axes."
ostro_goth: (Almost amused)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2009-09-07 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
"The naginata is a weapon from the lands of Japan, which you might call a battle-scythe, judging from the way you wield it," Teja says. "I have seen it there, and become interested in he concept. It is lighter than my axe, and has a longer reach, but does not have the same momentum, as the blade is lighter than the head of a battle-axe."
a1enzo: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] a1enzo 2009-09-07 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
"So..." Enzo tries to envision this. "Kind of a polearm?"
ostro_goth: (Axe)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2009-09-07 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Indeed," Teja says. "A long pole, with a long blade on the end; I hear that in the olden times, one would often re-use broken or chipped sword-blades for that."
a1enzo: (Default)

[personal profile] a1enzo 2009-09-07 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh. Sounds like a good idea. We've done some polearms, just not that one."
ostro_goth: (z Canon - we achieved destruction!)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2009-09-07 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"I think a naginata is a very good idea, and a clever invention, of those people of Japan," Teja says.
a1enzo: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] a1enzo 2009-09-07 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Japan. That's where sushi comes from, right?"

Yup, that's about the breadth of his knowledge.
ostro_goth: (Default)

[personal profile] ostro_goth 2009-09-07 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"And the katana," Teja says.
a1enzo: (Default)

[personal profile] a1enzo 2009-09-07 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ohhhh. Cool."
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[personal profile] ostro_goth 2009-09-08 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Where did you think a katana was from?" Teja asks.

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