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[propulsion]

WHO: Tony Stark, Loxley, Marcus Rowntree, and your fine selves.
WHAT: Tony works a forge, Marcus trains, and Loxley invents sunbathing.
WHEN: Covers off Solace.
WHERE: Around and about.
NOTES: Probably just a couple replies per prompt would make my life easier. Select the man of your choosing. Feel free to convert to action spam style tagging, I don't mind nor care. If there is something specific you want to do, let's wait a week, big AC-related wink, or hit me up in inboxes!

tony stark;

Clang. Clang. Clang.

These are the familiar sounds coming from the smithy, where it is almost unbearably hot. The air tastes of smoke and metal, thick with the occasional cloud of steam. The forge is burning with colours of bright white and yellow rather than gold at what Tony approximates to be probably 2800 F, maybe hotter. It's at his back with his attention paid forwards at the anvil, on which he rests a glowing-hot length of metal held secure in tongs in one gloved hand. The other hand wields a hammer, bringing it down onto soft metal with almost trance-like consistency. Embers spark and catch on his wrists, his arms, but only occasionally.

He almost looks the part. A coarse leather apron drapes down from his waist, and he's wearing a sleeveless jerkin of similar material, keeping arms exposed to the warm, fire-flecked air. The stand out difference would be the goggles he has fashioned himself at some point -- round, tinted lenses, secured with a strap. He flips whatever he's making around as the heat begins to leech from the iron, and Tony Stark resumes his meditative assault of hammer falling upon metal. He's been doing this for a while, now, arms soot-streaked and slick with exertion, muscles tense even where he grips firm the tongs, from wrist to shoulder.

As the iron turns from bright white to fading orange, he turns to shove the potential sword back into the furnace, and, pulling off his goggles, brings his forearm up to wipe his brow. Not necessarily in slow motion.

marcus rowntree;

It's getting late into the morning, the sun creeping towards one of its rare clear sky zeniths. Marcus Rowntree has the space mostly to himself, so it would seem, and who can blame anyone. It is hot as shite. But he has used this excuse all week not to do much of anything, and so he has summoned himself out into the training courtyard to roll through the motions of combat. Exercises, mainly, a collection of stances through which he moves his heavy, bladed staff through the air in swoops that are both powerful but controlled. Restraining the easy urge to let gravity and momentum wrest precision from him.

It's nothing they taught in the Circles. In his Circle, anyway. He came to all of this quite late.

Anyway he is also shirtless.

And when he is done, blade hitting the ground in front of him with a flicker of fire scorching the earth, he is breathing harder than he had been before, and drops the staff into the dirt beside him, runic incisions on the metal flashing hellfire orange for a moment before dimming. He is already walking directly to the barrel of water left out for this purpose, and at first, hovers his hands over it. A glimmer of blue light dances off the murky surface, cooling the water within just a little. Marcus picks up a bucket, matter of factly submerges it into the water, and brings it back up, full, to tip over his head, flicking wet hair out of his face as he does so.

loxley;

But all of that sounds like a lot of work, doesn't it?

Loxley is opting for leisure, when he can find it, and with a natural resistance to fire, has never feared the potentially damaging effects of prolonged exposure to the sun. Back in Tassia, when his hue was a bronzed-gold, he tended to darken up quite handsomely, and he's noticed, now, the qunari grey actually has some pleasing undertones of silver when it's in a certain light. So he is reaping the benefits on a lovely afternoon, having found an area of the island coast unbothered by deckhands and ferries and the like, and, after laying out a woolen cloak he has brought along for this sole purpose, lies upon it like a lizard beneath the open sky to sun himself. Quite a few pieces of clothes have been set aside, his weaponry resting atop of it, down to just a light pair of shorts and some dark-lensed glasses that the Research academics had been developing some months ago.

He is on his belly for a while, and you'd be forgiven to think that he might just be fully asleep, until he rolls his lazy way to lie on his back, positioning an arm under his head.

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Marcus

[windyvoice]

She had been loitering not far off, seated on the shoulders of a dummy, arms pillowed on its head and kicking her feet idly. She watches him with the interest of someone who's never seen that kind of precision movement in person before.

But once he finishes and dumps the water over his head? Jenny Lou grins and lets out a loud wolf whistle. It kicks up a little breeze that funnels through the training yard and stirs the air.

[luaithre]

Marcus turns as much for the whistle as the way the air kicks up, squinting off towards Jenny Lou. Ah. A child.

He submerges the bucket again in water, as he projects, "Can I help you?"

[windyvoice]

"Nah. Weeeell, maybe."

She jumps off her perch and ambles up to him, "You're one of the mages, yeah? What was that you were doing?"

[luaithre]

Marcus sets the bucket down, but lets his attention become diverted to Jenny Lou as she moves on nearer. His expression doesn't show much as she asks this first thing, but his voice is a little dry as he says, "Yes. We met in the ice caves."

And he thinks he recalls her petting Petrana's dog, but her aptitude in magic stands out clearest in his memory. At her second question, he glances towards where he'd dropped his staff in the dirt.

"Battle casting," he says, "I've heard it called. It was practice."

[windyvoice]

"Aw, you remember me!" Maybe not that surprising since she had thrown up like immediately after. If he'd been around Petrana's dog, like fuck she would have noticed. She loves that dog.

"Is that something anybody can learn?"

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[luaithre]

He dips his hands in the water and sets about cleaning his hands, his arms, of where dirt has settled, going about his business in a way that would probably seem uninviting to the less tenacious. He has seen enough of this Rifter to know she is not in that category.

"Well," Marcus says, "it's something any mage can learn. I don't know what use it would be to a person who doesn't use a staff. Do you cast with a focus, normally?"