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Rynmere University Sports Clubs
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Even though Rynmere University prides itself on academia and the expanding of the kingdom's minds through education, the need for both physical exercise and defensive training is well-recognized. Idalos is a dangerous place and anyone who wishes to protect themselves against what threats lay outside the relative safety of city walls best have a place to learn.

The Rynmere University Sports Clubs are university-affiliated martial education clubs that meet two- to three-times every ten-trial and offer both students and Andaris residents access to both individual and group training in a variety of martial options (see below).
Joining the Sports Clubs

Rynmere University students can pay a seasonal fee of 10gn to become a member of a single division of the Sports Clubs, and they can join up to two additional divisions for a further discounted price of 5gn a season each. However, fitting three different Club training sessions into a student's schedule is rather difficult. An Andaris resident who wishes to join a Sports Club for training purposes can join one Club division per season for 20gn, and they do not receive a discount on joining any additional Club divisions. Non-students are not limited in the number of Club divisions they join, but PCs are encouraged to consider the time that must be invested in participating in multiple Clubs.

Each Club meets a certain number of times per ten-trial (see below for a rough schedule) for group classes. These classes consist of 5-10 students and a single instructor. In order to reflect the training received in these classes, a participant may write up to 2 threads per season representing their activities in the Club and the knowledges gained during that class. Individual one-on-one sessions with an instructor may also be requested once per season for 50gn a session, regardless of whether the player is a student or an Andaris resident. A one-on-one session does not count toward the 2 thread per season cap.

Once a year, each Club has a tournament to determine ranking within each Club division and participants can progress up a scale based on their competency level in the combat-related skill they have been in a class for. Once a participant reaches Expert level in the skill or skills for that particular Club division, they may apply to become an Instructor within that Club in a Division of their focus. Becoming a Rynmere University Sports Club instructor counts as one of a PC's two jobs and allows them to receive wages as per a teacher based on their skills, job thread written that season, and seasons' worked just like any other form of in-game employment.
Sports Club Divisions

Grappling/Unarmed
The most basic and often necessary of all combat skills begins with Unarmed Combat. This basic fighting style teaches students a combination of brawling and grappling skills but there is no specific martial art style taught within this Club Division. Instead, participants are taught self-discipline, strength, endurance, and how to use timing and distance to their advantage in Unarmed Combat. Nearly all students interested in joining any other Sports Clubs are encouraged to begin with a class in Grappling, as all other Clubs build off of the fundamentals taught in this Club.

Techniques, maneuvers, and counters applied to an opponent in order to gain physical advantage in hand-to-hand combat are the basic tenants of what is taught in Grappling Club. Learning to improve one's position, to escape, to injure one's opponent in important areas, and evasion techniques are taught as a precursor to weapon training. Offensive unarmed combat is not taught in any systematic form such as a martial arts discipline would teach in any Novice class, but instead participants are taught how to use their bodies defensively against an opponent in order to gain a strategic advantage in a combat situation. Advanced Technique classes offer more offensive unarmed training in the form of Brawling, Boxing, and Mixed Idalos Martial Arts styles.

Grappling Club has a bit of a rowdy reputation as being a gateway into the Fighting Pits for many a participant, but such a statement is dismissed as rumors by both the University and Club staff. That said, should one have a way with words, finding additional Unarmed Training outside of what the Clubs offer is knowledge one could discover from the instructors.

Grappling Club Divisions meet three times per ten-trial.


Dagger
As a somewhat universal weapon that anyone of any age can learn to use, Dagger Club teaches participants how to use the utility tool as a side arm. There are two levels to dagger training: the first level teaches basic footwork, evasion, and re-direction maneuvers while the second level teaches actual combat offensive and defensive attacks with both a single dagger and eventually a pair. All dagger combat is taught from an unarmored perspective.

Dagger Club Divisions are often regarded as a build-on to Grappling Clubs as many of the techniques are based on Unarmed Combat foundations.

Dagger Club Divisions meet twice per ten-trial.


Blades
Blades Club Divisions are based on the type of blade to be studied, with the three main Divisions being Longsword, Rapier, Short Sword and Sabre. Additional bladed weapons Divisions do exist within the Sports Club, but these four blades are perhaps the most common of weapons used throughout Idalos. Each blade type has a single instructor and a single class devoted to it, with some classes allowing crossover training days so that students can spar with other blade types and gain skills in countering and defending against different opponents.

Most Sports Clubs members are participants in a Blades Division and many of them take their Division very seriously. These are the most competitive and proud groups within the Sports Clubs and intramural rivalry is encouraged throughout the Rynmere University campus—students often have favorites among the Club members and will take up their names in the form of posters, pennants, and chants of encouragement during the once an arc Tournaments in Ymiden for ranking within the Clubs. Names and faces of these favorites are well known throughout Andaris and sometimes even the rest of Rynmere.

Blades Club Divisions meet three times per ten-trial.


Shields
Shield Club Divisions are perhaps the smallest Division within the Sports Clubs, often overlooked in favor of the flashier Blades options or perhaps just never reached by those with passing interest. Shielded Combat techniques are taught on several levels through several classes, beginning with the Buckler. At this time, there are no instructors to teach Tower Shield techniques, but a variety of smaller shielded combat technique instructors are available.,

All Shield Club Divisions require a student to have had at least one season of training in Blades because shields such as the buckler and round shield are used as companion weapons in hand-to-hand combat. Defensive techniques such as protection from melee combat and ranged combat are taught in Shield Club, but the shield itself is also used offensively and taught accordingly in advanced Club classes.

Shield Club Divisions meet twice per ten-trial.


Archery
Archery Club Divisions are another very popular part of the Rynmere University Sports Clubs, rivaling only Blades Clubs. Both Long and Short bow techniques as well as Crossbows can be learned in Archery classes, though the focus is mostly on bows because of ease of use for more participants. Archery Club fees include an additional 5gn/season due to the costs of arrows and bolts as additional equipment.

The Archery Club Tournaments are just as fierce and even more popular than the Blade Club tournaments. They are generally held in Vhalar and are the highlight of that arc for those who enjoy archery in Andaris. Much like Blade Club, names of popular participants are well-known, gossiped about, spread on posters and made into chants. The betting pool for Archery Club Tournaments is big business among the student population, and tuition fortunes can be won and lost in Vhalar over University favorites in archery.

Archery Club Divisions meet three times per ten-trial.
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Unarmed Combat Instructors

Grel Dukroz

Race: Human
Age: 27
Title: Grappling Club Instructor: Novice Techniques
Skills: Unarmed Combat: Grappling 80, Unarmed Combat: Brawling 60, Unarmed Combat: Kickboxing 50, Teaching 60, Leadership 35, Medicine 35

Grel is often underestimated. He is young and narrow-shouldered, but built almost entirely of lean, tough muscle. A freed fighting pit slave, he wears his brands with a peculiar pride that often manifests itself as a stand-offishness toward those who clearly come from better levels of society, particularly nobility. Still, he is committed to teaching self-defense to anyone willing to learn and has a soft spot for the vulnerable. He’s a calm, patient instructor despite his tumultuous past.

Ennen Otad

Race: Mixed Blood
Age: 42
Title: Grappling Club Instructor: Advanced Techniques
Skills: Unarmed Combat: Grappling 80, Unarmed Combat: Brawling 80, Unarmed Combat: Wrestling 60, Unarmed Combat: Boxing 50, Teaching 50, Medicine 30

Ennen was quite the name in the fighting pit circuit decades ago. Much like Grel, he is a freed slave, but how he feels about his past isn’t something he ever really discusses. He’s short, broad-shouldered and built like a beast, but he’s also possessed of an amazing, prank-bent sense of humor and a really great laugh. He doesn’t pull punches, however, and is the most likely to send students home bloodied so that they learn what “the real world” is like.
Armed Combat Instructors

Garren Volhad

Race: Human
Age: 22
Title: Dagger Club Instructor: All Classes
Skills: Blades: Dagger 80, Unarmed Combat: Grappling 65, Climbing 60, Teaching 60, Thrown Weapons: Knives 50, Stealth 30

Garren is a wiry young man who often looks out of place among the other Instructors, mostly because he is often mistaken for a student. Short and lithe, the red-haired, freckled human grew up on the streets of Low Town, fought his way out, and became a student of Religion at Rynmere University. While he may have once considered becoming a monk, he’s currently enjoying teaching.

Sanford Hatch

Race: Mixed Blood
Age: 57
Title: Blades Club Instructor: Longsword, Blades Club Instructor: Advanced Techniques
Skills: Blades: Longsword 100, Unarmed Combat: Grappling 65, Dual Wield 60, Shielded Combat 60, Teaching 50, Leadership 50, Logistics 45, Tactics 30,

Sanford is a retired Moseke Knight and a former bodyguard for a lower Merchant House. He is one of the oldest instructors for the Sports Club and yet is just as spry as one of the younger students. He teaches both Longsword classes as well as Advanced Techniques for students of any kind of blade and shield. He’s sharp of wit, full of fatherly wisdom, and often far too serious for his own good. He’s the organizer of tournaments and the current President of the Rynmere University Sports Club

Min Qau'Nacj

Race: Biqaj
Age: 26
Title: Blades Club Instructor: Rapier
Skills: Blades: Rapier 70, Blades: Cutlass 60, Unarmed Combat: Brawling 65, Dual Wield 50, Dancing 50, Teaching 50, Acrobatics 30, Tactics 30

Min is tall and loud and very proud of her Biqaj heritage. Her classes are often considered the most difficult not because of the choice of weapon but because many students feel as though they must first prove themselves worthy to be taught to her in order to get anywhere in the class. Once a student has earned her approval, however, find Min to be a thorough and thoughtful teacher.

Davin Lowe

Race: Mixed Blood
Age: 27
Title: Blades Club Instructor: Saber
Skills: Blades: Saber 80, Blades: Dagger 70, Unarmed Combat: Grappling 60, Unarmed Combat: Brawling 60, Teaching 60, Acrobatics 30

Davin is a Tournament favorite, and he has been since his student days arcs ago. Dashing, broad-shouldered, and known to be both a loud-mouth and a show-off, Davin doesn’t take to losing very well in a fight. He can be a somewhat impatient teacher and only mixes well with certain students, but if one can endure his conceit, they have a skilled and excellent swordsman as their instructor.

Thabita Dower

Race: Mixed Blood
Age: 31
Title: Blades Club Instructor: Short Sword
Skills: Blades: Short Sword 80, Blades: Dagger 70, Dual Wield 60, Unarmed Combat: Grappling 60, Teaching 45, Seduction 30, Acrobatics 30

Thabita is one of the newest instructors in the Sports Club. She is short, talkative, and somewhat flirtatious with any student who catches her fancy. She teaches both Short Sword and Dual Wielding techniques with daggers, is well known in low-town as a socialite, and has turned up to teach a Club class hungover more than once.

Egan Fuller

Race: Human
Age: 50
Title: Shield Club Instructor: All Classes
Skills: Bludgeoning: Mace 70, Bludgeoning: Axe 60, Shielded Combat 80, Endurance 50, Discipline 50, Teaching 30

Egan is a long-time friend of Sanford Hatch and the two have been running the Rynmere University Sports Clubs for decades together. He is a stalwart defender, a consummate Moseke Knight who retired just an arc ago, and a well-known family man in Andaris. Everyone loves Egan, and he is perhaps the most lion-hearted of teachers as well.
Archery Instructors

Sha'lora

Race: Sev’ryn
Age: 37
Title: Archery Club Instructor: Short Bow
Skills: Ranged Combat: Short Bow 80, Thrown Weapons: Knives 70, Detection 60, Teaching 60, Meditation 30, Discipline 30, Linguistics 30

Sha’lora is a soft-spoken, unassuming instructor. She teaches with patience but has the uncanny ability of pointing out a student’s flaws with their use of the Short Bow. She can also teach Thrown Weapons skills on the side as a private instructor. She never participates in the once an arc Archery Tournaments, preferring to keep her skills to herself outside of the Sports Clubs.

Blaine Neuman

Race: Human
Age: 45
Title: Archery Club Instructor: Long Bow
Skills: Ranged Combat: Long Bow 80, Detection 60, Teaching 60, Discipline 50, Intimidation 30, Rhetoric 30

Blaine is known to be dour, serious, and somewhat strict as an Instructor. He is a very by-the-book sort of fellow who is known as quite the antagonist in the Tournament in Vhalar because he often tries to disqualify his competition. He is still an excellent archer and a somewhat decent teacher, though one must get used to his mannerisms before really learning.

Uro Qe'Dajal

Race: Biqaj
Age: 24
Title: Archery Club Instructor: Crossbow
Skills: Ranged Combat: Crossbow 80, Blades: Cutlass 70, Acrobatics 60, Teaching 50, Storytelling 50, Navigation 30, Seafaring 30, Seduction 30

Uro is every bit a seafaring Biqaj. He comes to his classes as if on a breeze and always has a new story on his lips. He’s young and dashing and quite amazing with the crossbow—another local favorite in the Tournament that is held once a year. He loves meeting new students, is a patient teacher, and often absorbs their stories like a sponge. He can come across as overly touchy and flirtatious, but no one has ever really complained.
Services and Employment

Services

Student Membership:
10gn/season for one class + 5gn/season for each additional class, max of 3 classes total.

Non-Student Membership:
20gn/season per class, no class limits

Private Session:
50gn/class

Ymiden Combat Tournament:
20gn registration fee, prizes TBD

Vhalar Archery Tournament:
20gn registration fee, prizes TBD

Employment

The Rynmere University Sports Clubs are always looking for new instructors. Instructors must have reached Competent level in the particular combat skill they’d like to teach. Currently, more unarmed and shielded combat instructors would be welcome and there is a 50gn sign-on bonus for those who qualify.

Students and Andaris residents are welcome to apply to become instructors. Other employment opportunities include Tournament organizers and tacticians.
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If you'd like to join a Club Division and class, please fill out a form below for the season and class you'd like to join. If you and another PC would like to join the same class and write a collaborative thread together with the teaching NPC, please don’t hesitate to do so!

The fee schedule for classes per season are as follows:

Rynmere University Student Prices

First Class: 10gn/season
Second and Third Class: +5gn/season each class
Students are limited to 3 classes/season, though 1 or 2 is recommended. Three classes are a time commitment, especially for a student.

Andaris City Resident / Non-Student Prices

First Class: 20gn/season
Additional Classes: 20gn/season
There is no maximum number of classes for a non-student, but three is honestly a serious time commitment. Please consider your PCs employment and day-to-day activities instead of just the skills you desire to train and make appropriate choices for your character.

Private Session (Anyone)

50gn/class
You may request a moderated session once per season, but you are not limited to the number of private sessions you pay for and attend each season written on your own. Student Sign Up:

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[b]PC Name:[/b]
[b]Sports Club Class 1 (-10gn):[/b]
[b]Sports Club Class 2 (-5gn):[/b]
[b]Sports Club Class 3 (-5gn):[/b]
[b]Any other relevant information about your PC and the Club?[/b]
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[b]PC Name:[/b]
[b]Sports Club Class 1 (-20gn):[/b]
[b]Sports Club Class 2 (-20gn):[/b]
(Insert additional classes here at -20gn each.)
[b]Any other relevant information about your PC and the Club?[/b]
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[b]PC Name:[/b]
[b]Sports Club Private Lesson (-50gn):[/b]
[b]Moderation request?[/b]
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Please apply for employment with the Sports Clubs through the Job/Wage Request forum here. If you have any questions about what’s available, don’t hesitate to send a PM!
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PC Name: Caius Gawyne
Sports Club Class 1 (-10gn): Blades Club: Saber (Duh)
Sports Club Class 2 (-5gn): Unarmed: Grappling
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Any other relevant information about your PC and the Club? Might as well sign up for my own thing, eh? Yeah. I should. If anyone else wants to hang out, we can collaborate Unarmed.
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PC Name: Charlie Warrick
Sports Club Class 1 (-20gn): Blades: Short Sword
Any other relevant information about your PC and the Club? Charlie is a Skyrider, noble, and will be one of the archery instructors here at the club. Always looking for threads!
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PC Name:Zane Black
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Sports Club Private Lesson (-50gn): Charlie Warrick, Archery :D
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PC Name: Kayleigh Wintoic
Sports Club Class 1 (-20gn): Blades: Saber
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PC Name: Vincent Krome (Going by half-baked alias Jack North)
Sports Club Class 1 (-20gn): Dagger Thabita Dower
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