fandomhigh | Basic Weaponry; Friday, Third Period [12/01].

One nice thing about a class like this one is that it could be a little...cathartic. Therapeutic. Beneficial to one's mental well-being. Which was why, even though they were set up as usual in their little medieval Ren Faire-esque training grounds, while Amaya got class started, Rosa was busying herself with piling various radios, speakers, and other devices that were, naturally, continuing to play an endless stream of various versions of Carol of the Bells.

"Today," Amaya announced, "we're talking war hammers, a weapon that, as you can guess by its name, was used by a lot of foot soldiers and cavalry during battles. Now, we'll likely keep this short," and not even just because it was annoying trying to talk over the music, "but you'll notice a lot of similarity between the war hammer and some of the other weapons we've covered. Like an axe, you've got a handle and a head, and the length of the handle can vary, anywhere between short like a mace or long like a halberd. The big difference is the shape the head, which is usually going to have a blunt side and a pointed side, and its designed to best crush through armor and cause concussions to your enemy. The spike on the end also makes for a good way to target armor, reins, shield, the legs of a horse...I'm sure you can think of plenty of things, today our targets are going to be a little less....organic, but we'll get to that in due time."

Because, of course, even with the music, Amaya had plenty more to say about the war hammer, its history, points about making it, so on and so forth, you knew how the class went, to the point where she barely even noticed the music any more, she was that much into it. But Rosa, on the other hand, could not be so easily distracted, and was clearly getting impatient about getting to her part of the class.

But they'll get there. Eventually. Look, prolonging it would only make it feel that much more satisfying, right?

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Ready to SMASH.

Again.

Oh, boy, just wait until Amaya gets into the different types of war hammers! And plenty of discussion on what makes a war hammer different from a mace and other questions she knows is just itching on everyone's brains.

Rosa's part of class was simple:

"You remember maces and polearms?" she asked. "Yeah, same basic idea, only a little different, you got more of a spike to it. Let's just get to smashing these things."

And she was not going to waste any time in demonstrating for you all what she meant; if you're quick enough, there might even be some devices leftover for you to hit, too!