(OOC: Perception 34)<br/><br/>As 'cutie-pie' took her seat, Alexandra surveyed the crowd. Silence, awe, fear, and arousal... about what she was going for, the last one though she made sure to bounce her bosom playfully, licking her lips once before turning, kicking the axe imbedded into the podium up into the air, and then caught it in one hand, hefting it to one shoulder, blade up.<br/><br/>"And now that I have your attention for one reason or another..." she began, and started gently tossing the battleaxe up into the air, catching it after it spun around once, and repeating. "The good news: I will not be expecting you to<em>master</em>the art of melee or ranged combat in here; you will not be expected to go toe-to-toe with someone like me in a no-holds-barred fight.  Neither will you be expected to learn any of the more difficult weapons; you will be introduced and graded on proficiency - not mastery - on all of the most basic and common items of martial combat found.  Now if you were enrolled into the Martial Magi courses that'd be different, but I don't teach those!  I do however also assist with the 'Advanced Combat Tactics' course later on now, so if any of you have enrollment into that, I'll be seeing you there!<br/><br/>"So, to wrap up: no mandatory books but I highly recommend you all look into the history of weaponry and into various basic training manuals.  Most of this course after the first week or so will be taking place outside on the training grounds, but I'll let you know when the change of locale will occur.  Those of you whose magical talents are of the alchemical bent or simply don't involve a lot easily-hindered movements will be receiving additional armor training as well - onceisortoutwhomyassistantprofessorisforthat - and those whom wish to learn a specific weapon not on the curriculum that you'll be receiving shortly need only request as I've set out additional hours in the day for special training sessions if we're unable to fit it into the curriculum.  Luckily for everyone here this is a simple pass-fail course; you pass by demonstrating at least basic competence with the most basic of weapons!"<br/><br/>She produced a stack of parchment from her hip-pouch and handed it to the nearest cute girl in the class with a smile, assigning her to hand out the curriculum - which was basically a list of simple weapons - with the information she had just provided as well about additional weapons training, armor training for those whom qualify, and informing that like the day the courses would take place early in the morning.  Once they were all handed out...<br/><br/>"So!  That all done..." she started tossing the axe up and down again, looking in idle thought. "Hmm... who can tell me what a weapon is?  It's a simple answer really if you think about it..."