[ ooc; asgard: the citadel ]

[pratentious]

The Citadel

Whether or not you believe in the oncoming war of "Ragnarok" or the "gods"' plea for help, there is an undeniable threat upon the people of Asgard, native and Traveller alike. We were brought here against our will into a battle we never asked for - and are not prepared for. They gave us sorcery. We give you steel.

You have a right to defend yourselves and your loved ones, and we intend to teach you how. At the Citadel, you will learn not just strength of body, but strength of mind and strength of heart. If it's a war they want, it's a war they'll get - and we'll be ready for it when it comes.

It's time now to stand and fight, Asgard. We will not be defeated.

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Employees

Owner

King Arthur Pendragon

Instructors

King Arthur Pendragon

Swordsmanship

Sir Gwaine

Hand-To-Hand / Self Defence

Allison Argent

Archery

Roxy Lalonde

Marksmanship ( guns )

Sophie Gargamel

Self Defence ( slim )

On-Site Healers

Merlin

Idiot - but moderately competent healer

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Available Courses

This is all tentative and not even half of the lessons actually available. Check the Instructors list for everything being taught, I'm just too lazy to make a set schedule. sob Please let me know if you'd like to request something specific to go up here!!

Archery I

Session I: MoWe 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Session II: TuThur 2:00pm - 3:30pm

　　Instructor: Allison Argent

• introductory course for those with little to no experience

Archery II

SatSun 10:00am - 2:00pm

　　Instructor: Allison Argent

• intermediary to advanced course for those with adequate experience
• students may advance to AII from AI at the discretion of the instructor
• students may begin in AII by test
  • idk something awesome shush

Cross-Bowmanship

Session I: MoWe 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Session II: TuThur12:30pm - 2:00pm

　　Instructor:

• introductory course for beginners with little to no experience

Hand-to-Hand

Session I: MoWeFri 10:00am - 12:00pm

Session II: TuThurSat 4:00pm - 6:00pm

　　Instructor: Sir Gwaine

• general course for hand-to-hand combat with a focus on offence

Marksmanship

Session I: MoWe at a time

Session II: TuThur at other times

　　Instructor: Roxy Lalonde

• introductory course for those with little to no experience

Self Defence

Session I: MoWeFri 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Session II: TuThurSat 1:00pm - 3:00pm

　　Instructor: Sir Gwaine

• general course for hand-to-hand combat with a focus on self defence

Self Defence ( slim )

Session I: MoWeFri at a time

Session II: TuThurSat at other times

　　Instructor: Sophie Gargamel

• general course for hand-to-hand combat with a focus on self defence designed for those of a smaller build
• before you call Arthur sexist, this was all Sohpie's idea!!!!

Swordsmanship I

Session I: MoWe 8:00am - 9:30am

Session II: TuThu 8:00am - 9:30am

　　Instructor: King Arthur Pendragon

Session III: MoWe 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Session IV: TuThur 5:00pm - 6:30pm

　　Instructor: King Arthur Pendragon

• introductory course for beginners with little to no experience
• lessons will be conducted with dulled blades

Swordsmanship II

Session I: MoWe 11:00am - 1:30pm

Session II: TuThu 11:00am - 1:30pm

　　Instructor:

• intermediary course for those with adequate experience
• lessons will be conducted with traditional blades
• students may advance to SII from SI by test
  • survive thirty (30) seconds in one-on-one combat with Sir Gwaine
• students may begin in SII by test
  • survive thirty (30) seconds in one-on-one combat with King Arthur

Swordsmanship III

MoTuWeThu 3:00 - 5:00pm ; FriSat 8:00am - 12:30pm

　　Instructor: King Arthur Pendragon

• expert course for those with significant experience
• lessons will be conducted with traditional blades amongst the Knights of Camelot
• students may advance to SIII from SII by test
  • survive one (1) minute in one-on-one combat with Sir Gwaine
• students may begin in SIII by test
  • survive one (1) minute in one-on-one combat with King Arthur

Throwing Knives

Session I: MoWe 11:00am - 12:30pm

Session II: TuThur 11:00am - 12:30pm

　　Instructor:

• general course for the use of various projectile blades

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Pricing & Fees

There is no set fee for any one course (mostly because I'm lazy whoops) but their main priority is making sure people are capable of defending themselves, so payment can be worked out on a case-by-case basis by speaking with Arthur. For the most part though, I think I once said like 7 silver runes every other week for one course, so, you know. There's that?

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Code of Conduct

1.) The first and foremost rule is that of courtesy - the knight's code will be adhered to strictly under penalty of banishment from the grounds.
2.) Absolutely under no circumstances are there to be unapproved or unsupervised spars or duels.
3.) At no point in time are automatic firearms allowed on the premises. ( rescinded as of Nov 2013. only took forever and a day!! )

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Applications

Potential Instructors

<b>Name</b>: (self explanatory)<br /><b>Weapon of Choice</b>: (weapon your character would like to teach)<br /><b>Combat Experience</b>: (where they learned, how long they've used it, what battles they've been in, etc)<br /><b>Hours Available for Interview</b>: (interviews are nothing more than a spar against Arthur with the aforementioned weapon. England will supervise, and they'll both judge whether or not they're skilled enough for the position. I think this can mostly be handwaved though, unless you specifically want to log it out. Let me know here if you do!)<br /><b>Hours Available for Instruction</b>: (how many classes they'd like to teach, on what days and at what times)<br /><b>Anything Else?</b>: (.....anything else? ;;)

Potential Students

<b>Name</b>: (self explanatory)<br /><b>Age</b>: (...because Arthur won't teach children, sorry. :C This can be fought ICly. In fact, I encourage it!)<br /><b>Courses</b>: (what classes, days and times you'd like!)<br /><b>Hours Available for Testing</b>: (only applicable if applying for advanced courses. England will supervise, and they'll both judge whether or not they're skilled enough for the class. I think this can mostly be handwaved though, unless you specifically want to log it out. Let me know here if you do!)<br /><b>Anything Else?</b>: (.....anything else? ;;)

Comments

Potential Instructors

[pratentious]

[ Reply to this comment with your application, please! ]

Sample Instructor Application

[dragonspeak]

Name: Arthur Pratdragon
Weapon of Choice: Pointy, metal thing called a sword & brute strength
Combat Experience: Born as a killing machine
Hours Available for Interview: Dawn to Dusk 11:00 morning to 2:00 afternoon
Hours Available for Instruction: Anytime I'm not sleeping
Anything Else?: I can be the biggest prat that ever walked the Earth and a horribly cruel taskmaster, but I have some redeemable qualities. You just need to look really, really hard for them.

Re: Potential Instructors

[starktomboy]

Name: Arya Stark
Weapon of Choice: Swordsmanship and Archery (okay she can do knife throwing too she's good)
Combat Experience: Originally taught by a Bravoosi Water Dancer, the style is thought to be highly coveted in both Westeros and Essos. She also has been training in the art of assasination with the House of Black and White, under a guild called the Faceless Men who are notorious enough to be considered for hire by the Seven Kingdoms if there were to be a need for a quick death of some party (poor Daenerys)
Hours Available for Interview: She technically already works there but I thought I should post this for house keeping purposes
Hours Available for Instruction: All of them :|
Anything Else?: I figure she can take over Robb's Swordsmanship II and pick up an Archery class and that empty knife throwing class. Also her students should note that the wolf is just there to stare at you intimidatingly. She doesn't bite humans... all the time. >.>

[1000tinycuts]

Name: Temari of the Sand
Weapon of Choice: Tessen(the large metal fan she carries around); taijutsu (hand-to-hand martial arts); flying missiles (shuriken and kunai); sword (shinobi style sword fighting)
Combat Experience: She attended the academy in Suna as a child, and was made a genin at the age of 12; promoted to chunin at the age of 17; made jounin at the age of 18; is the bodyguard to her younger brother, the Kazekage; just been named the head of the corps in charge of fighting with tessen and wind release jutsu before her abduction
Hours Available for Interview: Any time(If you'd like to be schooled by a girl, sure!)
Hours Available for Instruction: Mon/Wed/Fri 10a-2p, Tues/Thurs/Sat 12p-6p; Sun all day
Anything Else?: Please let her school someone in front of a crowd. Please?

[dyingisnotdead]

Name: Loras Tyrell
Weapon of Choice: Sword, mace, lance, hand to hand.
Combat Experience: Loras has been in multiple battles, and has been training as a knight most of his life. He's considered one of the best in Westeros.
Hours Available for Interview: Whenever. he's bored and has no job.
Hours Available for Instruction: Four times a week, 205 hours each day.
Anything Else?: Loras is awesome and even if he's an arrogant little snot at times, he genuinely cares about teaching people to become good fighters.

Re: Potential Instructors

[lt_blade]

Name: Sonya Blade
Weapon of Choice: Long or short staff, knives
Combat Experience: ten years martial arts training at various schools, Army hand-to-hand combat, United States Army Special Forces)
Hours Available for Interview: Morning/noonish-whenever's convient. Real time..I'm better for evenings
Hours Available for Instruction: Let's go for Mon/Wednesday 9am-11 am, and Tuesday/Thursday 8am-10am
Anything Else?: I actually have a thread up just for this purpose, but I didn't know how to contact you.

[didntbelieve]

Name: Sheriff Stilinski
Weapon of Choice: Firearms
Combat Experience: He's been a cop for over a decade, and that's probably where all his experience/training lies.
Hours Available for Interview: Whenever because unemployment.
Hours Available for Instruction: I'm just typing up random times, so feel free to change them if you need to.
Gun Safety: Session 1- Wednesday, Thursday 10.00am - 11.00am, session 2- Saturday, Sunday 2.00pm - 3.00pm
Marksmanship II: Session 1- Wednesday, Thursday 1.00pm - 3.00pm, session 2- Saturday, Sunday 10.00am - 12.00pm.
Anything Else?: Is backdating the interview slightly okay for paid housing reasons? He needs to be able to keep an eye on Stiles full time ASAP, okay.

Re: Potential Instructors

[espouses]

Name: Marian Hawke
Weapon of Choice: Two-handed weaponry (axes/sword); one-handed weapons (sword/axe/mace) and shield, but prefers greatsword.
Combat Experience: She learned through being a soldier in the royal army before it was overrun at Ostagar; she then learned through fighting for ten years in Kirkwall, eventually taking down the Arishok in single combat.
Hours Available for Interview: Whenever ~
Hours Available for Instruction: She would like to teach Swordmanship, the later experience levels (mostly because of her Strength power and her own experience) so she would take over the Swordsmanship II lessons if that would be alright! If Arthur needs a hand with other lessons she can do that.
Anything Else?: love me arthur :*

Potential Students

[pratentious]

[ Reply to this comment with your application, please! ]

Sample Student Application

[dragonspeak]

Name: Merlin
Age: 22
Courses: Whatever Arthur decides, most likely
Hours Available for Testing: Like I'm not around you most of the day anyway
Anything Else?: I'll be around if you need someone to look at your injuries! With Arthur as your instructor, you'll probably see a lot of me. Definitely.

[auditor]

Name: Edita, Felix, Lilavati, Nadya, Piera, and Rose.
Age: Most are in their twenties. Piera is in her late thirties and pushing it, but these prostitutes are adults, okay.
Courses: Swordsmanship II for Edita. Swordsmanship I for Felix, Lilavati, Nadya, Piera, and Rose. Plus, courses for hand to hand combat.
Hours Available for Testing: Edita is available in the early morning, probably.
Anything Else? ALL PAID FOR BY CLAUDIA. Be good to her girls, and boy, Arthur!!

[holmes_fanatic]

Name: Conan Edogawa.
Age: 7 (Conan is okay with being pawned off on someone else -- I do not know how to go about that, so I'm posting here anyway.)
Courses: Beginner, available 6am - 8am weekday mornings, or evenings from about 7pm until 9pm although he is busy some of those evenings.
Anything Else?: Was taking kendo lessons, but his instructor dropped, so he's at least used to regular drills and getting up at stupid o'clock for training. He does have a full-time job (9-5 but if there's a case, it's more like 9-7) to work around.

[samantha_grey]

Name: Samantha Grey
Age: 19
Courses: Meditation (Maya Natsume requested)
Hours Available for Testing: N/A
Anything Else?: Samantha has made arrangements with Maya to ensure that there is, hopefully, no problem with her demonic nature while present in the Citadel. She will probably not do much socializing with others while there.

[burningcreator]

Name: Shou Hitokage
Age: 25
Courses: Swordsmanship I - TuThu 8:00am - 9:30am
Anything Else?: Shou is up at the crack of dawn, doing groundskeeper work at Gefion Park, so he'll be taking a break from work to come to lessons. Unless they want to hold lessons around 5pm when he's done working. A friend of his vanished after the darkness, and he inherited their sword, thus his motivation to learn how to use it.

[heorot]

Name: James Potter
Age: 18
Courses: swordsmanship, self defense, hand-to-hand
Hours Available for Testing: all hours. he doesn't have a job. :B
Anything Else?: you know that annoying kid who wants to be in the club but instead of actually trying to be in it he just constantly hangs around and becomes friends with everyone? :D

probably should've done this a while ago...

[flightofdeath]

Name: lord voldemort
Age: 20
Courses: archery i (session i), hand-to-hand (session i), swordsmanship i (session i)
Hours Available for Testing: when it comes to this, he'll be open for when he wants to advance to the next courses. he doesn't have any solid experience with any of these things which is why i've put him in the basic classes but he's a fast learner? so he may or may not advance fairly quickly we'll see
Anything Else?: have fun teaching voldemort and james potter at the same time (if they're gonna be in the classes at the same time, that is). idk if arthur (or any of the other instructors for that matter) knows anything about voldy but if/when he finds out about how evil he is. i'm cool if arthur wants to kick him out of classes when that comes to pass or w/e. just let me know!

Re: Potential Students

[albuquerque]

Name: Severus Snape
Age: 38
Courses: Swordsmanship I, either session III or session IV; and Hand-to-Hand Session II on Saturday afternoons.
Hours Available for Testing: N/A for now
Anything Else?: As I mentioned, Snape is very busy during the week, due to the school he's putting together (plus he works at Draco and Samantha's apothecary, plus he tutors, plus he's learning languages… Workaholic? Nooope, not at ALL). Is it possible he might be able to get lessons in other things after hours or on weekends? Not right now - he'll be fine with learning the sword and hand-to-hand for now - but later on when he wants to take up other things…? :D?

[brainiest]

Name: Hermione Granger
Age: 20
Courses: Archery I-II; Self-Defence (Slim)-I
Hours Available for Testing: Not applicable yet~
Anything Else?: (Arthur is cute)

[hollowchild]

Name: Sophie Gargamel
Age: 17
Courses: Swordsmanship 2 or 3
Hours Available for Testing: most of them, but early morning is good.
Anything Else?: Sophie has significant practical experience with swordfighting, but she was for all intents and purposes using a much lighter sword (also likely one-handed) and was definitely not wearing any armor. How that will affect her level is up to instructors! She is also dirt poor, so something might have to be arranged there.

[pratentious]

[ I should really change the course info, those are just sort of general things that have become obsolete by this time. ;; But as far as payment goes, their main priority is seeing that everyone is safe, so there are no set prices and they can definitely work something out! ]

[superissues]

Name: Superboy.
Age: 16
Courses: Swordsmanship (beginner) and self-defence (medium to advanced)
Hours Available for Testing: Free as a bird!
Anything Else?: Is blindingly bright spandex a weapon?

[pratentious]

[ Blindingly bright spandex will not be permitted anywhere. Ever. Punishable by death. ]

[daddyissues]

Name: Connor Angel
Age: 19~
Courses: Connor is actually quite skilled in... everything being taught here, but he used to have superhuman strength and reflexes and it's all back to normal human levels now. He's not dealing very well and is looking for people to help him build his strength up to fighter levels to be able to cope. It'll never be what it was, but sparring partners would be much appreciated.
Hours Available for Testing: n/a
Anything Else?: He has no way to pay, haha. This will have to be discussed, I guess!

[pratentious]

[ Payment is usually fine to waive, we can just have Arthur put him to work keeping the armoury sorted or something. Haha. But we can do sparring partners! I know that Lou is having Superboy come to the Citadel for the same reason - loss of superhuman strength and abilities - so Arthur could set the two of them up together as their own little sparring support group if you'd like? I'll ask Lou about it too. c: ]

[dreamspinning]

Name: Ushahin Dreamspinner
Age: certainly old enough (1000+, mid 20s appearance)
Courses: Swordsmanship 1
Hours Available for Testing: n/a
Anything Else?: Ushahin only has one fully functional arm. His other hand was crushed when he was a child, and has both poor fine motor skills and less than excellent lifting grip--at best he could hold a dagger, and not with enough strength to properly fight with it.

[pratentious]

[ Hmm I think, because he is a special case due to his disability, Arthur might like to train Ushashin personally, if that's okay with you? Mostly because the basic courses are largely just running drills as a class, and Arthur would want to specialise his training so that he can wield with one arm to max efficiency. ]

[vigilanteup]

Name: Yuri Lowell
Weapon of Choice: Sword (Though wants to teach both that and self defense)
Combat Experience: Growing up as a child, was a member of the Imperial Knights, adept now
Hours Available for Interview: Any time of day. He's not picky.
Hours Available for Instruction: Five times a week for any interested.
Anything Else?: He got the idea talking to others, given that this is Yuri's trade in-canon, he'd be interested in helping people one on one or in classes on how to fight and protect themselves.

[pratentious]

[ Hey! Sorry this took forever to respond to, I've been stupid busy. sob. But I will go ahead and add Yuri to Swordsmanship I, if that's okay with you? But we've already got three people covering self defence/hand-to-hand combat, so I don't really know that we'll have need for another. Would he be okay with just the one course? ]

[occulthymns]

Name: Euri Taverna
Age: 19
Courses: Hand-to-hand TuesThursSat
Hours Available for Testing: N/A since she isn't taking advanced classes right?
Anything Else?: She'll request Gwaine because he's cute ;o Also she's going to train with Yuri with the staff, but I'm not sure if it'll be through the Citadel since there isn't a course for it. ALSO SHE'LL CONSTANTLY BE BRINGING TEA AND WHATNOT AS GIFTS since she'll be grateful for all the training.

[pratentious]

[ lmafslkdjf that is adorable, you rock Euri. Also, yes, she doesn't need a test or anything, and they can use the Citadel for staff training if they want, since Yuri is one of Arthur's employees and he knows Euri. Trust you guys not to break shit that isn't meant to be broken. :') ]

[hollowchild]

oh I guess I should do this officially.

Name: Sophie Gargamel
Weapon of Choice: hand-to-hand self defense for smaller folk
Combat Experience: mountains of practical experience, a knight for a big brother, and probably some formal instruction
Hours Available for Interview: she's there all the time anyway, whenever
Hours Available for Instruction: Sophie has a day job, so any evening after 6pm or weekend days
Anything Else?: if there's enough interest, she'd do classes by level.