[open] I shot the target

[onlyhymns]

WHO: Cade and his archery babies
WHAT: the result of this
WHEN: early Harvestmere
WHERE: the training area
NOTES:will add as needed

I. Setup

A lot needs to be done for the proper testing of any initiates: there are already targets available, but not moving ones. Practice bows and a whole lot of dulled arrows need to be found, or made, for the people who don't have their own.
And if they're going to do this, they're going to do it right. With Nari's help, something of a pop-up skeet-shooting range is being constructed, involving her miniature siege engines and a plethora of chipped ceramic flatware.
Maybe a local sculptor can help by making some birds with mean faces.

II. The First Morning

Cade is there a little after sunrise, standing straight and trying not to look nervous, his bow over his shoulder and his eyes alert as he waits-- hopes-- for people to show up. If they do, he asks them in his quiet, serious voice to demonstrate their skill, if any. If they admit to having none, that's a different conversation, but one he's equally willing to have.

III. Misc

For anyone who wants to interact with Cade separately on the subject.

for D'Artagnan

It's late afternoon when Cade comes to the Watch office, looking military as ever himself, and clears his throat while handing a rolled-up parchment to D'Artagnan.
"I thought," he says quietly, resisting an 'um', "this might be of some use to you and your men."

Comments

I - open 2 threadjacking

[matchymatchy]

Of course she's early.

That doesn't mean she's helping, or at least, not by lugging things about. Someone needs to direct the construction, and if anyone dare suggest that might be Cade's job, or that of his charming elven assistant —

"Dear," She examines half a cup with one pointed nail. "Is this not all a bit of wasted clay?"

[onlyhymns]

Cade isn't really sure why Ottoline came to the setup if she wanted to learn archery-- not that he doesn't appreciate the extra hands, but she's... not... really being extra hands. Hers seem more the idle type.

He straightens from setting a beam in a notch and wipes his brow, looking confused by the question.
"Wasted?"

[nadasharillen]

"Only inasmuch as anything destroyed in training a skill is wasted," Nari chirps good-naturedly from where she is securing the other end of the beam, "I'm sure the potter that threw them lost a few cups in the process."

That and she'd gone through the trash heaps for most of these in the first place when Cade had told her what he was planning, and she has a net set up to catch anything that gets missed in the air so it can be flung up again, and she has an artist friend in the markets who expressed interest in having the pieces left over after exercises for his mosaics, but that kind of litany is hardly necessary.

[matchymatchy]

"Oh I'm certain no one will starve for it," If it isn’t wholly dismissive, it isn’t particularly interested in disagreement. "But might we shave the margins?"

"Instead of flinging sharp bits of crockery about, sand is come by cheaply, and a split bag may be mended with a —" A little tsp! sound, punctuated with a swoop of her fingers. "— Stitch."

Yes, needle and thread. Possibly they have those in the woods; perhaps even the templar’s allowed them.

[onlyhymns]

Well that's...
...reasonable.

Cade stares at Ottoline, then glances to Nari as if seeking help, his face going a bit red. "Well it's--" he fumbles, "we don't really--"

[nadasharillen]

Nari grins. "Sent by the Seneschal?"

Salvio seems to be the only one who requires constant consideration of cost vs effectiveness. It's fine. Really, someone ought to.

"It's a fine idea," she nods at Ottoline, then turns to look encouragingly at Cade. "I could get some different sized sandbags done with cloth and leather scrap, and then we can save the crockery for the advanced classes so they can practice on the strange shapes and trying to aim for moving weak-points?"

She tilts her head; an ask for confirmation. After all, he's in charge on the range.