Dojo Mingling log!

[girlverine]

WHO: Laura Kinney / Open / Mingling!
WHERE: The School of Thunder Dojo
WHEN: Any time between the 9th and the 13th?
WARNINGS: Well, it's a dojo, so maybe some mild violence.
SUMMARY: People come and go and chat and do various things at the dojo!
FORMAT: Whatever!

Given the fluctuation in ownership and teaching staff, the dojo has remained surprisingly active over the years since it has been opened. During the day there are a few paid classes for younger children, and after school a few more for older kids. Adults can come in and teach (with approval) or train on the import-rated equipment, or train with one of the volunteer adult classes (for a fee.) There is a steady stream of 'street kids' coming in and out, learning for free from whichever of the teachers or volunteers have time!

A desk sits by the side of the doorway for volunteer sign ups, and Laura is usually there when she's not teaching or doing paperwork, otherwise she can be found around the building taking care of various things.

[ooc: So this is a mingling log for the Thunder Dojo! If people want to come in and talk to other people, make new threads, make new CR, volunteer to teach, whatever! Go wild! There will be a thread with Laura for people to volunteer IC if they like, just give me a vague idea what time they're there. Otherwise, free for all here, have fun. :D ]

Comments

Want to volunteer?

[girlverine]

[The table at near the door has a stack of sheets for people to volunteer to teach at the dojo. Some basic background questions, and arranging a time for an interview with Laura so she can check character and qualifications. She'll be around the table whenever and will conduct impromptu interviews with interested parties.]

[plains_hunter]

[Thomas is glad he happened by the place, at least. It was hard finding ways to fill the hours.]

Hm...

[He thumbs over the pages, taking note of the questions about his past. This was going to be difficult. Could they even do background checks on people from other worlds?]

[girlverine]

[Laura was finishing up a class when she spotted the man by the volunteer desk, and once the kids were squared away she headed over there. He looked familiar, but she wasn't exactly sure why. Hmm.]

May I help you?

[plains_hunter]

Ah! Don't mind me, just looking over the applications. I haven't exactly gotten a real job since coming here. Well...Haven't had a "real" job in a very long time, even before that. Thomas Blake.

[He put a hand out in front of him.]

[girlverine]

[She hesitates before shaking his hand, her green eyes narrowed in consideration. That was why he was familiar.]

You are a criminal. Why are you here?

[Whoops.]

[plains_hunter]

Ex-criminal. My record is perfectly clean here, I'll have you know. I'd like to think that our current actions here decide who we are, rather than our baggage.

[girlverine]

You were here before. You were in prison. [She thought it was prison. Or NOHOPE.]

Why are you here? In the dojo.

[plains_hunter]

I'm sure if that was the case, it wasn't the same "me". I have no recollection of this place.

I was curious and I like to fight now and then. Isn't that as good a reason as any? I've checked out more than a few dojos and gyms, since coming here.

[girlverine]

[Laura knows about redemption, and about being mistaken for someone you aren't. But wanting to be a better person, and wanting to be around her kids? Those were very different things. She's silent for a long time, considering him carefully.]

Do you want to train here, or volunteer?

[plains_hunter]

Volunteer. If there's anything I need to learn on the job, I'm up for some training. I can hold my own pretty well, though.

[girlverine]

You would have to be teaching children.

[plains_hunter]

It doesn't seem like it would be too difficult.

[girlverine]

It is extremely difficult. Many of them are poor children here for free, they do not take authority well.

[She's quiet for a moment, considering.]

Why do you want to?

[plains_hunter]

[Neither does he, but there's no reason to tell her that. First impressions and all.]

Why not? If I'm really going to make a go of this whole "turn things around" page in my life, then this is as good a place to start as any. A place where my skills are actually useful, that's legitimate work.

[girlverine]

Mm. [She makes a soft, noncommittal sound as she mules this over. Everyone deserves a second chance, though she doesn't know how many he has had at this point.]

I will consider it.

[plains_hunter]

That's all I'm really asking.

[girlverine]

[With that aside.]

How do you fight? What styles do you know?

[plains_hunter]

[Uh oh. Style? What's that?]

I'm...more of a self-taught brawler. I'm not unskilled or anything, I just haven't had much in the way of formal tutelage. Picked up a few things here, a few things there, kept whatever worked well. I can still hold my own against some of the tougher guys, back home.

[girlverine]

[Hmm. She seems to hear that a lot.] Most of the classes except a specific style. Judo or Karate. Some of the old students don't, though.

[plains_hunter]

Don't suppose there's some kind of aptitude test, is there?

[girlverine]

You will have to fight me.

[plains_hunter]

...That, I can do.