This shows up on the notice boards in each of the dorms immediately following Montblanc's open log:

[lookouthalifax]

To any interested parties,
I noticed that there are many of you here who are not used to fighting. This puts you at quite a disadvantage in the battles, kupo! If anyone is interested, I'm willing to host a training session to help you out. I can cover basic combat, some weapons training, and general fitness, kupo. All are invited to attend regardless of experience level. The more experienced can join me in helping the less if they so choose.

If there is any interest, we will meet in the courtyard on [insert date here] as a courtesy to any unowned weapons and proceed to the gym if possible. Please sign the sheet below if you are interested, kupos!

Best regards,
Montblanc, Head of Clan Nutsy (Ivalice)

((OOC: If I get a handful of people interested, I was thinking we could maybe do a big group log full of threadjacking and people sparring, teaching, and otherwise helping and getting to know one another. JUST AN IDEA. Anyway, I guess this is an IC and OOC sign-up! So just throw your characters' names down if you want them involved.

Alternatively, feel free to just cover it in graffiti and have pencil arguments among yourselves. Whatever works!))

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[myblueskies]

Romeo watched carefully, really hoping that the memory was a happy one and that the system hadn't cheated again, he gave a small uncertain smile when Zoro took the cloth from around his arm and tied it around his head. Romeo kept grinning but Zoro looked like something out of a story, like something in one of the picture books Angeletta had showed him.

"Your welcome sir!" He watched him some more and then bit his lip thinking, though his smile did not disapear, "Sir what is that? It makes you look like a pirate from a story book!" He hoped Zoro didn't think he was rude, but he was telling the truth!

[shishi_sonson]

"Pirate, you say?" Zoro laughed at the comment, still grinning. "Then it's probably good that I am one."

Roronoa Zoro, first mate to the future Pirate King, reached up to the bandana atop his head and slipped it back off again, returning it to his arm where he neatly tied and knotted it.

"This is just a little something I keep with me," he added in a casual tone. "Makes me look scary, right? That's the idea."

Having already signed his name on the list, Zoro reached down for the pencil and used it to etch Romeo's name as well.

"Anyway, thanks again. Let's get going...we have some time to train a bit before dinner."

[myblueskies]

"Oh." Romeo blinked, Zoro was a pirate? But wern't pirates.... bad? They stole things and broke other people's ships and murdered others. That made them bad people, because Romeo knew that you should never steal and it was very very bad to kill other people if they didn't try to kill you first.

He was a little happier when Zoro took the bandana off but still, he couldn't imagine the swordsman who had been helping him and training him and making him stronger being a bad person.

He couldn't be a bad person! He was nice and had helped Romeo, he had to be good. Romeo started to shake because he wanted to run, he shouldn't help a bad person and he shouldn't be friends with a pirate. But it was Zoro, and he hadn't done anything bad that Romeo had seen. Romeo liked Zoro, he didn't want him to be bad.

"Alright sir." He said in a quiet voice, lacking any of his usual enthusiasm as he followed the pirate slowly.