Salamandastron: Caverns - Archery Range -------------- Salamandastron --------------- As the training room cannot fit a truly adequate, large enough archery range, this large room, down in the caverns of the mountain, has been converted into one. It, in itself, is rather cavernous, and is more long than it is wide. The furthest wall from the entrance is lined with archery targets, at least a ten, and they are each separated by a few feet. Along the closest wall to the door, barrels are placed, containing arrows as well as bows, to practice with. Further, the walls are lined with torches, though the ones behind the archery targets are protected by metal grates, of a sort. The room is relatively well lit, and is usually a moderate temperature. -------------------------------------

Miyrr loads her sling with a good sized rock, winds up and lets it fly at the target down range...missing the target completely. "Ah, crud." she says with a sigh. She lifts up her eyepatch covering the eye that was wonunded in her Halyard "visit" squinting and trying to gauge the distance. She looks about for a stone to try once more.

Terrance walks into the cavern, here for a little extra sling practice himself. "Hey there Miyrr!" He calls out as he sports her, quickly getting a sling and some stone and then jogging into the lane next to her. "How's it goin', eh wot?"

Miyrr smiles hearing her name, "Hi Terrance, how ya doing?" She lets another stone fly towards the target. Still missing. sigh She is looking a bit discouraged but shows no sign of giving up.

Terrance shrugs a little, "Not doin' too bad I suppose." he says, loading his sling. "You remember that tall fellah that hit me on tha arm in tha corridor that one evening?" The young recruits asks, but doesn't wait for a response, "His name's Tom by tha way. Anywho, I knocked him out cold in tha mock battle couple weeks back."

Miyrr laughs loudly, "Good for you! So, has his attitude changed?" she asks.

Terrance swings his sling overhead and lets it fly, the stone hitting on the second ring from the outside at about 1 o'clock. Looks back towards Miyrr he shakes his head, "Not really. Tom wasn't happy ta be beaten by a runt and the next day, him and his buddies surrounded me an' started tossing me around a bit. Lt. Darklett walked in on it an' gave em a pretty stern chewin, but I think that just made him madder. Thankfully he hasn't tried anything since then though."

Miyrr take a stone placing it into the sling. Gives it a single swing and lets the stone fly. It hits the target...sort of outside edge. "Grrr! this stupid eye!"she takes off the eyepatch and throws it on the ground revealing the deep scar over the eye itself which is still rather cloudy. She loads the sling again and squints at the target.

You say, "Good ta hear you gave him a good one though." she says letting the stone fly...missing."

Terrance grins a little bit at Miyrr's outburst and then looks at her eye as she throws off the patch. Ohhh, scars. "Bet it's goin' ta take a while ta get used ta that eh wot?" He asks before loading his sling and sending the rock at the target, hitting about the 4th ring in this time.

Quinten walks through the door from the main cavern area, a couple of throwing javelin's held loosely in his paws, he's finally tracked down the archery range after twenty mintues of wanderingthe halls and looking lost, he looks around and spots the other two hares and bites his lip, should he be in here...

Miyrr nods, "Yeah I can't seem to judge the distance anymore. It's very frustratin'." She picks up the patch and brushes it off before putting back on. "Sorry, that must have looked a mess." she says turning back to the target.

Terrance shrugs, "Eh, looked cool ta me." He says with a grin, "Battle scar an' all. How many recruits can boast those eh?" He starts to load his sling when he notices Quinten, giving a nod to him. "Allo chap." He says, quirking a brow a bit at the recruit insignias on someone so old.

Miyrr laughs, "'suppose so." She turns to look to see who's just come in and nods at them. She loads another stone and lets it fly hitting the target this time on the outer ring.

Quinten pauses and looks over at the hare who spoke to him "Oh...uhm hello there.."

Terrance chuckles and then loads his sling and lets it fly, hitting about the same spot as last time. "Well at least my consistency is improvin'."

Miyrr nods, "looks pretty good." she jesters to the other open lanes on the range, "Plenty of room." she yells out to the javelineer.

Quinten nods and walks over slowly "Thank you....i'm supposed to practice now see." he hefts a javeling and sights along it "Though i'm not very good."

Miyrr smiles and point to all the stone no where near the target, "'tis alright, neither am I." she says while loading another stone.

Terrance looks back towards Quinten and chuckles, "That's what practice is for chap." He says. "I'm Terrance, fightah recruit."

Quinten smiles and hops from paw, to paw to paw and casts the Javelin, it sails up, curves over and thunks into the target three along from the one he was aiming at. He looks at it and his ears droop "I'm Quinten...fightah recruit too" he smiles at the other hare "Nice to meet you"

Terrance smiles, "Really? There hasn't been a new fightah recruit since me."

Miyrr concentrates on getting the stone from here to there. Missing constantly, wonder if that's something to be proud of. Prolly not she thinks to herself tossing a few more stones downrange.

Quinten nods his head ears flopping from side to side "Yes really...though i've been in trouble more or less since i arrived." he smiles weakly at the hares "i keepopening my mouth an saying things to the officers when i should keep my muzzle shut."

Miyrr trys to stop the giggle from erupting. With a slight blush she looks towareds Quinten, "I know what ya mean." she says quietly.

Terrance chuckles as he swings his sling and releases, sending the stone to hit on the outside ring. The young buck frowns at that and then says, "Well takes a little while ta get used too I suppose."

Quinten hefts another Javelin, sights along it and throws it in a smooth arc, this time he hits the target but it bounces back out again and he sighs "Well....i'm not ised to all this military stuff... me ma an pa were dead set against me leaving, i'd never heard of this mountain before i got her and mista howard broght me inside and i asked if they'd recruit me"

Terrance quirks a brow, "So why did ya leave then?" he asks before sending off another stone

Quinten shrugs and picks up his third javelin "I didn't wan to be a farmer....so i upped and headed off, left em a note and walked north....just walking till i found here"

Terrance chuckles and nods, "Can't blame ya there chap." He responds before launching another stone, frowning at the result.

Quinten leans back then darts forwards hurling the last javelin, it thunks into the outer rim of his target and he settles backlaughing "See i did it see i can do this"

Terrance grins and looks towards the javelin, "Good job chap. Now ya just need to keep doin' tha same thing the same way ya just did."

Quinten chuckles and quickly hurries out to retrieve the three javelins and then come back, his ears cocked forwards he salutes "Yes sir Terrance sir." he grins and winks

Terrance bahs and waves a paw at quinten, "Don't let an officah hear ya callin' me sah. I'm just a recruit, same as you."

Quinten grins and lays his javelins on his shoulder "I wasjust joking, we'll both be good little" he frowns and tuts "Whats that word, groonts, grents" he clicks his free claws "Thats it good little grunts, train, sweat, gt dirty and do chores."

Miyrr smiles at the two. She picks up a stone and gives it a good throw wither her sling. Almsot hits the target. "That's it. I'm done for today." she picks up her sling and gathers the stones quickly before more javelins fly.

Terrance hehs then looks towards Miyrr and nods, "Off ta meet Taye?" He says with a smirk

Quinten smiles at Miyrr "you did good with the sling...an Taye is nice, he helped me find a uniform"

Miyrr blinks and smiles although her ears turn a shade of pink. "Um, I donno. Haven't seen much of him recently. With my training and his patrolling..." she says then turns to face Quinten, "Yah, he's a good lad, thanks, i'm not doing as well I should be but I'm getting there." she says a little distracted in thought now.

Terrance chuckles and goes to collect his own slingstones

Quinten grounds his javelins and nods "Well he helped me find the right sizeduniform and showed me where to stash my other clothes"

Miyrr nods, "He helped me get settled in as well." She says rubbing her eye.

Terrance comes back from collecting his stones, "Aye, seems he likes ta help new recruits." He chuckles a little, "He's really wantin' ta have a round with Tom's buddy, Flatpaw, especially after he knocked Taye over the head at the battle."

Quinten scratches his ears "Tom? Flatpaw? Battle? Wot you jabbering on about Terrance.."

You ask, "looks a bit more concerened, "Flatpaw? Who's Flatpaw?" she askes"

Terrance smirks a little at Quinten, "Long story." he says and looks to Miyrr. "He's one of Tom's lackeys. He's regularly helping Tom out when he bullies me." He replies.

Quinten looks puzzled "Bullies? Why would somebeast bully you? Surely thats not allowed/" he looks rather worried at that idea

Miyrr looking angered now, "You mean during the battle he endangered another patroller for some pettyness?" her voice raising as she speaks.

Terrance shrugs, "It was during the mock battle, not Halyard

Quinten looks totally lost now and just sits down to listen and keep out of the way

Feathers ruffled a bit now, Miyrr calms down some. "Oh." is all she says at the moment as she collects herself. "I'm sure it will work itself out." she says calmly now.

Terrance looks back towards quinten, "An' yes, bullyin' is against the rules but that doesn't mean every hare follows it." He says and then smirks a little, "Welcome ta tha world o' fightahs chap. Anyhow, they pick on me because I'm smaller then everyone else in tha class. Easy prey an' whatnot, wot wot." He looks back towards Miyrr and nods, "Aye. Was hopin' that it'd stop after I clocked Tom but he was right when he said it was just luck. If I hadn't raised my shield in time, I would probably have a broken arm."

Quinten looks rather scared and shuffles "I....i'm small too.." he murmurs in a quiet and very scared voice "i don't want to be picked on...i jist wanna be in the patrol." His earlier exeuburance seems to have gone

Terrance shrugs, "Eh, I wouldn't worry too much chap. They prefer pickin' on us young ones. You're a little too old. Might actually be able ta put up a fight." He says giving a smile.

Quinten shakes his head "I'm not much of a fighter an well i'm still not sure how to act, i mean what do i do when an officer comes in the room?"

Terrance shrugs, "Keep on with your trainin' if your in the middle o' a class. If he's just passin' by, salute when he comes within six paces o' ya."

Quinten nods "Ok...i'l remember that and if they try to bully you just come find me i'll try and show them what for if ic an"

Miyrr nods, "Yup, it's that simple." she says finally gathering up her equipment.

Terrance chuckles, "Military life, just a bunch o' simple things that makes sense, most o' tha time anyhow."

Quinten nods "Well i keep speaking out of turn it seems....i'm used to speaking my mind i mean iwound up in the kitchen for three hours yesterday and then turned up in a panic to a lesson i was supposed to watch in a white kitchen smock

Terrance grins and chuckles a little, "Aye, almost everyone does something like that. My first night here I spent sleeping in the hallway 'cause I didn't know who ta report ta ta get a room."

Quinten smiles "I still don't have a room, i've been kind of sleeping in the infirmary"

Miyrr nods, "talk to one of the majors I'm sure they'll get you set up with a bunk in the recruit hall. We'll i need to do a few things. Nice seeing you again Terrance and good to meet you." she says nodding to the other recruit.

Quinten smiles "Nice to meet yuo too miss"

Terrance nods, "Good ta see ya too Miyrr. Hope the eye gets better."

Miyrr shrugs, "It will or it wont. I'll see you both at mess." she says as she leaves the range.

Quinten looks at Terrance "Whats Mess?" he asks