Hit Me Baby One More Time (semi-open)

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WHO: Jim Kirk + Samouel Gareth, Christine, Ohgren, Cosima, Korrin, Kain, Inessa, anyone else who wanted to help with the experiments
WHAT: It's time for Jim to run his experiments and beat some leathers.
WHEN: Throughout Justinian, after this post
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: Nothing worth noting unless you protest the beating upon of leathers

Thankfully he was bequeathed quite a bit of leather to run these experiments, because there was a lot he wanted to test. He didn't want to run each subsequent test on a previously used leather either - that would skew results, and he needed these as precise and clean and controlled as possible. Not the lab settings he would hope for, but make due with what you got.

Now all he needed were his assistants.

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OHGREN

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I totally knew this was here shush

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When Oghren showed up, it was probably really late. Because he hadn't paid attention and life was distracting alright. But here he was because he was getting some good stuff out of this and why not.

"So what are you using to smack these things around?"

seems in character for him anyways, lol

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It was late. Kirk had almost given up on the other coming at all, to be frank. He gave the dwarf a nod as he approached, and had even sweetened the pot, so to speak, with a fresh jug of something alcoholic on the table. He had no idea of the quality, but it had a kick from the sip he took before hand.

"Whatever weapon you prefer," he shrugged. "I haven't done an axe or hammer yet, if you're willing."

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"I have a battle axe here." He nodded to the thing trapped to his back. Pulling it off, he gave it a heft before going over to have a drink of the booze first. Smacking his lips, he gave a laugh. "Now there's the stuff. So where's this leather I'm smacking around? Probably won't hold up to my axe but least you'll know."

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Kirk questioned the other's ability to hit the mark, but he supposed Oghren had survived this long so that was worth something. And hey, if nothing else, he would find out which leathers held up best in a drunken battle axe fight. And yes, he did in fact think that was a real possibility as a happening. That was assuming Oghren was drunk, which he thought he was, but he also thought that might Oghren's default state too.

He motioned to the stands. "Over there. I need you to swing once and let me record how deep the strike goes through each leather, and then I'll have you hit them until they break."

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"You got it."

Going over to the leather, he gave it a once over. Hefting his axe up, he gave a mighty cry, putting that Berserker rage into it for a fierce strike that would cause many to tremble. Drunk though he was, he was also a warrior through and through. Intoxication wasn't about to stop him from enjoying a good fight like this. No, that would be such a waste in his opinion.

Leather probably wasn't the best thing against a Berserker's axe but this guy would tell him the results of that soon enough.

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No, it probably wasn't, but Kirk figured it was better to have the data than to make assumptions. Who knows - maybe some held up better than one might think, like the dragons, but he couldn't be sure. He stayed well back as he let Oghren take his swings, waving the wine bottle when he had finished.

"All right, take a break while I take my measurements," he called. "Not to much, I might need you to take a few more swings."

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He hefted his axe onto his shoulder as he went to grab that bottle, ready to drink directly from it. Class be sodding damned because he didn't need it. It wasn't like he was a noble anymore anyway. Not that he'd ever been much of one in the first place.

"What do you think?"