*The large brown glides gently down to the ground, a few feet from the ground pausing mid air to turn on a wing tip and glid to the ground* -- The Weyrling Barracks

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Date Posted: 18:12:06 03/23/02 Sat
Author: D'tir and Kuvoth
Subject: *The large brown glides gently down to the ground, a few feet from the ground pausing mid air to turn on a wing tip and glid to the ground*

*The WeyrlingMaster dismounts and gives the weyrlings ready to train a quick signal that he'd be over in a moment. But for now he pauses by the bed of A'rak, and gently places the bedfur over his sleeping form. Then he turns and heads back over to the waiting weyrlings, grabbing a sack of firestone along the way. Dark rings under his eyes indicate that he is running on a severe lack of sleep but nonetheless, pride in the weyrlings, and klah of course, are keeping him awake. He grins at each of them before speaking, "I am so incredibly proud of you for your work during the Fall. You all listened to orders, and didn't complain once about having to bag the firestone. And those of you who delivered it to the riders above were wonderfully careful to avoid the Thread!" *he pauses a moment to lean back against the bulk of brown dragon behind him and continues* "Well, since you all worked very hard yesterday, I'm exausted, and some of us aren't here yet... lets restart training with something simple... The use of firestone." D'tir clears his throat, pulls a large piece of igneous rock from the sack, and then continues, "Since firestone is the base behind a dragons flame, choosing good firestone is important. Good quality firestone is completely black in color, and should have a somewhat dusty rough texture to it. This piece here is reasonably good, however... it should be about half this size before you give it to your dragon... The worst thing you could do would be to give your dragon a piece of firestone and have him or her choke on it mid-air." *D'tir takes a moment and smashes the soft firestone against a harder rock, splitting it in two.* "There we go. Now, when you give firestone to your dragon, you have to make sure that they focus on it going to their other stomach... so long as they focus on it, their bodies instinct will make sure the firestone gets to the right place. Also, only give your dragon one piece at a time as we start out, later on we can move up to more." *Kuvoth leans over and D'tir gives him about ten pieces of firestone, one at a time, then he continues* "Once your dragon has consumed the rock, wait a few minutes and then have your dragon belch. Flame should and most likely will come out so PLEASE, I urge you riders? Stay out of your dragons way... and Dragons? Please make sure the coast is clear before you flame... and, I'd like you all to try and flame the rock walls over there." *he points towards a hard, previously "practice-scorched" section of the area they stood in* "Now, Kuvoth will demonstrate." The large brown wearily made his way over to the wall, and, in an exaggurated gesture of looking left and right before flaming, gave forth a mighty roar that sent huge flames raging forth from his mouth. He did this two more times, before the small amount of firestone he'd been given was used, and he regurgitated the ash politely in a secluded corner of the area before heading back. "Alright, now everyone is to give their dragon ten pieces of firestone, and then you and your dragon are to go flame against the wall. Please spread out and dont forget that your dragon will need to regurgitate the leftover ash after flaming... there is a corner for this, with a nice pit..." *and he tilts his head to where Kuvoth had done the deed* "Ready? Go ahead and start!" D'tir now returns to his dragon and leans against him, waiting and watching the weyrlings attempts, ready to help if necessary.*

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Raises her hand... -- Kalya~Layath, 14:01:57 03/24/02 Sun
- Awake -- A'rak~Kadoth, 08:24:25 03/25/02 Mon
  - Laughs... -- Ryeri (formerly Kalya -check Wire for why I had a name change)~Layath, 17:51:40 03/25/02 Mon
    - =-= -- Channa and Wrelth, 08:29:15 03/26/02 Tue
      - ~^~ -- Wessae~Shrineth * A'rak~Kadoth, 10:46:29 03/26/02 Tue
        (and if it weren't confusing enough, now it's Kyeri! Because there's already Ralek, Ritaki, Rinali...etc.) -- Kyeri (last one, promise!) -()- Layath, 11:15:12 03/26/02 Tue
        ~^~ (*twitches wildly* You don't see me changing my character's names every three seconds. Mmph) -- Wessae~Shrineth, 13:16:06 03/26/02 Tue
        *Leaning on the brown W'ren hobbles in, though sags of skin under his weary eyes, his grins brightly at the WeyrlingMaster and directs Datoth over to the firestone.* -- W'ren and Datoth, 20:14:01 03/31/02 Sun
        *The WeyrlingMaster returns with two flamethrowers, only to frown as he watches the receding forms of the Golds dissapear in the distance* -- D'tir and Kuvoth, 16:23:29 04/01/02 Mon
        'Path to Kadoth -- Layath, 12:13:53 04/12/02 Fri
        ~^~ -- A'rak~Kadoth, 13:16:56 04/13/02 Sat
        ~>~ -- Layath, 16:05:21 04/13/02 Sat
        =-= -- Channa and Wrelth, 10:18:23 04/14/02 Sun
Eccentric.... <> ...Firestone -- Angele and Eirath, Chaos, Rage, Hope and Fear... <> ...C'rin and Tuath, Dilandau, 15:49:04 04/16/02 Tue