Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-25019125-20151207164822/@comment-24828824-20160105222204

Jericho was the first to enter the sparring room. At the edge of the raised octagonal platform he turned to address his teammates.

“Alright team, I scheduled us for this sparring room so we could get to better know each other. Seeing as we got four years ahead of us as Team Cosmos I thought it’d be good to get any big surprises out of the way early. You don’t have to worry about any embarrassing memory games or standard corporate team building exercise. Today we are going the beat the crap out of each other!" He clasped his hands in eager anticipation at the last line, with a broad smile watching his team’s reactions, or lack thereof. It was a shame he couldn’t team up with any other Flare students, they would have gotten the joke. He quickly moved on from the attempt at comedy.

“I’ve found that there is a lot you can learn about someone by the way they fight. So I thought that was a good place to start getting familiar with each other. Now I have two ideas for how to spend our sparring time here: we split into two groups of two and have a few rounds to the first hit before swapping opponent so we can all get a good idea of how everyone fights on the team. You guys are familiar with the rules for a Duel to first hit right?”

“Not really, we only had standard tournament rules at Signal” Merel Serac replied, She wasn’t the most talkative sort Jericho had already noticed, brief and to the point. He didn’t lose his stride though.

“Alright, ok. I was prepared for that. I’ll teach you the rules later. For now we’ll go with Plan B: Standard tournament rules for a one on one match. We’ll take turns watching and fighting, I doubt you guys want to go for three rounds straight with no brakes. Estevon, you want to start off with me? Merel, Feacha, you can take a seat and watch for now.”