[Travelers Complex] Punching, Kicking and Thinking

Kreig does more training...and more sorting of the thoughts

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This lazy agricultural settlement rests on the swampy shores of the Middle Suvan at the delta of The Kenash River. The River's slow moving bayou waters have bred a different sort of people - rugged, cultured, and somewhat violent. Sprawling plantations of tobacco and cotton grow on the outskirts of the swamp in the rich Cyphrus soils, while the city itself curls around the bayou and spawns decadence and sins of all sorts. Life is slower in Kenash, but the lack of pace is made up for in the excesses of food and flesh in a city where drinking, debauchery, gambling, slavery, and overbearing plantation families dominate the landscape.

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[Travelers Complex] Punching, Kicking and Thinking

Postby Kreig Messer on September 15th, 2014, 7:00 am

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31st of Fall, 514 AV 16th Bell 23rd Chime.


"One....two....One....Two" One could easily assume that Kreig could be training with weights at the moment, it was a fair after all and not really a wrong one. The only 'fault' about the assumption if they assumed he was lifting weights, but then again that easn't wrong as well.

Connect to the brawlers wrists and ankles were weights, 5 pounds each. The weights were simply small canvas sacks filled with with dirt, sewn up tightly and wrapped around the previously mentioned joints. From what he'd been told this method was supposed to help raise his strength and endurance. Much like the previous day he was stripped down to his breaches, except this time he was standing and the only person in the room.

Much like the previous days training this one focused on repetition which suited him just fine, he liked the repetition! He had taken up a boxing stance and began ithe training by throwing a left jab followed by a straight punch, a one-two combo as it was frequently known.

The Jab was a quick punch that require no muovement from the shoulder, a light blow that served more to dustract or even to measure distance than to cause major damage. The straight punch was the opposite, requiring that he lean forward slightly with each punch, it was something to finish fights with.

These punches were 2 of the 4 basic punching technqiues of which he had added to his repotoire of skills seasons ago, the reaons of which is to simply increase the lethality of his already deadly punches.

the punches were quick with only small puases in between so that he could set up a rhythm and to gain the full value of the weights on his wrist. He hoped that this training would make the quick explosive jabs more powerful and his straight punches capable of killing outright 'Considering I use guanntlets that really wouldn't be a problem...' But that was besides the point, he wanted to increase the natural capabilites through natural means and if he added that to the destructiveness of his guantlets than he would truly be destructive!

The other purpose of such a training is that it helped focused his mind and also clear of it distractions, allowing him to think more clearly about issues. His thoughts currently focused on Kenash,his favourite subject, he had learned much about the place... whilst he still felt hatrd for the place it was tempered by knowledgr of its past.

' During the founding of this place they needed slaves....' He had come to learn, Kenash had been a swampy area that comprised part of the grassland, a ferocious area that offered no respite to the 'colonists'. Few people were mad enough or ambitious enough to build a city in such dangerous territories so to garner up the manpower needed to build the city the families needed forced labor to supplement those who were willing.....

He wondered why once they didn't just set the slaves free once they were done... but the more he thought the more he realized that it just became a necessary evil keep them, a neceaaary evil that also bordered on luxury and veered into reducing the value of the life of slaves into its monetary assets and their own self value into some twisted superiority that really....made them goddamn monsters.

'No, not monsters.....just hedonistic idiots' He amended, though of what he heard of other families they certainly seemed like it. He let out a grunt of anger as he added a bit more force tha intende din his straight punch, nearly losing his balance as the weights pulled him forward at the unexpected force.

He stood still and took a deep breath through his nose and let it out through the mouth, this was no time to let his anger rule him after all...

For now he put aside his one two combow and resorted to another attack, a simple low kick with his right leg. He would repeat the kick 30 times for each set, once each set was done he would alternate to the other leg. As much as he valued his punches he also valued his kicks, he needed to cover all variables after all and kicks were very powerful variables in a fight.

Once he set up the rhythm he woukd resume his thoughts. Though he hated thinking about it....

"Evolution is a petched up thing...."
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[Travelers Complex] Punching, Kicking and Thinking

Postby Kreig Messer on September 15th, 2014, 6:04 pm

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" Six...Seven...eight...nine" The brawler kept count of each kick, the low kick was the easiest of the sidekicks as it required the least effort to raise the leg and move. The weght made it more difficult of course and that was the point, if it were easy how would he improve? The little amount he had done now was just a warm up much like his one two punches, he needed to wake the legs up so they could begin feeling the effort put into the training.

" Its annoying.... Sunberth, as much as I love it, is a shykehole because our ancestores hated order, magic and rulers because of what they did to them. That made us what we are today." He compared Sunberth's past to that of Kenash. He didn't know when slavery came to the mix of Sunberth's life but he'd always held it with apathy, compared to the slavery here it wasn't quite as numerous.

He sighed as he switched to the left leg now and began kicking. Compared to his arms the strain to the legs certainly came quicker, he supposed the reason was obvious enough; compared to the arms the legs were constantly carrying something as Kreig moved about, so adding the weights he wore with his own natural weight made it harder on the legs.

The training was going smoothly at this point and Kreig had decided to simply focus on the training at hand. As time passed his body began to work up a sweat like no other and his body began to complain like a senile old vagik. After finishing his low kick sets he had resumed to throwing punches. The variation of punches was similar to the first with the addition of an extra jab and a form of movement that swayed his upper body left to right and back, apparently it was called weaving.

With the movement of his body he threw his punches in according to the dirdction he moved, with left being his jabs and his right the straight punch. Unknowingly his bpdy began moving as he imagined an imaginary foe before him... A shadow image for which to him to guess at the enemies movements and to measure the speed of his own hits against it.

' I'm getting too into this' Kreig noted but made no effort to lessen his enthusiasm as he moved forward, his body weaved left and right but not by instinct but by conscious awareness, it was effort that moved them. He was aware of many things about his punches and kicks, he was aware of his movements….. They were all quite sloppy. Not surprising really, while Kreig was a skilled fighter with his fists they were more wild and unrefined, his own legs weren’t used often as well so kicks weren’t a specialty either unless he was stomping or kicking a foe while he’s down…. His weaving was abysmal as well as he didn’t sway quick enough, the purpose of the sway being to make it harder for the foe to guess from where his strike while simulataneously making Kreig harder to hit. But for Kreig, that 2qw alright, for after all…..

“Practice makes perfect!”

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[Travelers Complex] Punching, Kicking and Thinking

Postby Kreig Messer on September 16th, 2014, 10:29 am

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Kreig had been at it for quite a while before he finally decided to rest as he crashed on top of a chair, grabbed the jug of water and poured himself a cup. He took deep breathes as he inhaled through his nose and exhaled through his mouth in a slow pace to regulate himself. His arms were being quite the grumpy ones, he could barely left them as the numbness set in ‘ I suppose barely feeling the cup is a good sign that I’m tired and yet not dead’ Kreig chuckled as he sipped from the cup, as if savoring an exotic drink rather than a liquid that was tasteless and supposed to replenish the water in your body.

He was tired…. Very much so, yet it seemed he wasn’t too tired to think. Thoughts of Kenash came to him, the city with the visage that everyone could get rich and that it was pinnacle of culture….only to find out it was a giant honey trap that would suck you dry and keep you as a toy if you aren’t careful and with enough political intrigue that Rhysol himself would just need to sit back and watch, perhaps with a sack of nuts. God he hated this town, yet he tolerated it much like he tolerated Syliras with its choking atmosphere. Whats worse Kreig knew is that he only saw the crust of the town, the center could very well be ten times the impression he saw.

He lifted himself from the share, holding onto his cup then proceeded to down it. He placed the cup on the table then grabbed for the jug and proceeded to drown the water it held, with some of it missing his mouth and touching his sweaty physique. With a loud thud he slammed the jug on the table. He knew staying longer in this town he would tolerate it more… but he was afraid! Much like when he hated Syliras he found himself falling in love with the castle city. The very same thing could happen here and that bothered him……..it bothered him a lot.

I doub’t I’ll have any trouble leaving….’ But will he ever want to return? Will he actually wish to be able to return for reasons other than wanting to help the slaves of this city? To do some impossible task? He looked outside the window, seeing the sleepy yet rich looking city outside. Like a courtesan it seduced whoever came near, yet like a leech its hunger was so great….so very great.

He sat back down on the chair and tightened his practically numb fists, trying to will to give more energy but even he by then knew that was asking too much, his head lifted itself and looked at the window and thought ‘ What would my will decree of me?
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[Travelers Complex] Punching, Kicking and Thinking

Postby Vice on October 21st, 2014, 5:54 am

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Kreig Messer :
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  • +2 Bodybuilding
  • +2 Boxing
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  • +1 Endurance
  • +1 Philosophy

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  • Want: To be Destructive!
  • Kenashians: Hedonistic Idiots
  • A Budding Fear: Falling in love with Kenash


Comments: Loved this thread! Short, sweet, but it left me with a very profound impression of Kreig. Good show, man.


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