#rivervale_lodge

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Siv goes about looking for Dagmar "Dagmar? Hello?"

Dagmar is outside, bouncing a baseball off the side of the salle and catching it.

"Hey Dagmar, you busy?"

"Hey Siv. Nah." Bounce. Catch.

"Great, UP to some weapons practice?"

"Oh? Yeah! I got a practice Flyswatter now!"

"Thank goodness, it's gonna sting enough without you cutting me in half" A grin

She nods. "I mean, I don't wanna kill anybody..."

"Right. Now I understand you hit like a thunderbolt, but you need to work on acuracy, right?"

"Um... I guess?"

"Right..>" She grabs some padding , "Grab your practice flyswatter, which I suppose makes it a flybonker..nay, wait, that sounds dirty. Just grab it. me? I'm getting a buckler. It's a tiny shield. Oddly, your goal is to hit the shield. This shouldn't be too hard. I'll cover what part I declare with it. HIgh, Middle, Low. I'll pick up the pace of the position shift as you get better and better. "

She makes a face. "Okay?"

She grabs the buckler, and finally puts on osmething a kin to a hocky mask "Don't worry, thsi might even be fun"

Dagmar doesn't bother with practice armor, but she does get the wooden halberd from the closet.

Waiting for her and ready

She hikes out to the circle, testing the balance.

The balance is pretty close. The buckler has a red spot on it, like a bullseye

"So - hit the red dot?"

"PRetty much..." SHe raises it to her torso "Middle!"

Clearly wanting her to hit that

Dag lets the practice blade fly, hitting the shield square. SOMETHING cracks.

"Good hit! " SHe manages to strike it, causing Siv to grunt a bit but he's padded up enough it didn't hurt

A pause "Wait, hold it." She checks her buckler for cracks

"Oh, okay, it's holding. Good. Can't be too careful with equipment or so moma tellls me" A smile and shifts it "High!"

"Well, sure...." SWING.

thunk.

THat one skitters off mroe trather than htiting square, though it did hit " Try more for the center of the buckler" SHe says "LOW!" bringing it don

down*

THUNK.

"WOw! She gets knocked back' "Dead on! "

Grunts. "Sayin' I'm not accurate..."

"Well, you're proving me wrong aren't you... HIGH again!"

Raised it up!

THUNK.

"Dead on, no sliding that time, " Shift "MIDDLE..." Picking up the pace

And she switches too fast, which means instead Dagmar hits high, atching the padding in the chest instead of on the buckler

Dagmar sees it going astray, and tries too late to pull her blow.

"Woof" " The padding helps, but boy she felt it

"Did you pull that?" She rubs a bit

"I tried..." She grimaces. "You okay?"

"Yeah, yeah..it's okay, accuracy you have, speed and accuracy is tirckier. It's okay. Padding's holding, LEt's give it a few more tries eh? Pick up the pace again see if you can get reaction and build up. Don't have to wind up all the way. "

"Can't do nuthin', hitting from up close though..."

"Pardon?"

"You get more power with a backswing... I mean, maybe if you can't get power, go for lots of tippy tappy hits..."

"Right, but you lose speed don't you? You have strength aplenty, so even if that strength is cut by a third...you'd probably still hti harder than many, but your speed woudl go up. Least, that's what I'm thinking, but do it how you like. " SHe gestures "Middle!!"

SHe grunts, letting the zxe fly again - a solid, Siv-staggering hit.

DEADD ON, so perfectly placed that Siv fets the kientic force and actaully gets shoved backwardsn ad she wwhoops "Oh me arm's tingling"

"Okay," getting back up, "HIGH!"

Dag wears a focused expression, brows furrowed - THUNK.