Soon Vace held his newly repaired sword, and swung it with a test for balance, and decided it was quite possibly better than before. He went to a practice area, and with the new honed blade he easily cut through wooden blocks and metal plates. He left his chainmail with the smith as well, who took one look and threw it in a pile of scrap metal. "You, my sir, are truley a man that knows your smithing, and I'm surprised you didn't realize that armor could barely stop a wooden arrow. What you need I have over here." The smith walked into the back, and after some clanking and lifting, he pushed out a trolley with a suit of finely crafted plate mail armor.

"It's not quite as nice as your new sword is, but it is the best that we have crafted with our ability, short of the king's armor. I figure with your new smithing tips, we might get some of your nice new weapons and armor into our soldiers hands and who knows how it might help." Vace stared in awe at the armor, which was made of some plain metal with no marks or emblams added yet, but he could see a master smith had helped in it's creation. Soon Vace tried it on, and after some test swings and practice, he found it to be surprisingly light and mobile. When he asked the smith, he said a passing dwarf helped them make a few dozen suits of it in return for a favor they did for him, and that it was the best he had ever seen. All the senior knights had already gotten suits of it, and they had some left, so since Vace had taught them new smithing tricks, it wasn't too much to give him a suit of the armor. Vace smiled as he walked out of the armory, for once feeling things were looking up, and that he might be ready for the battle ahead.

"Actually, I was beginning to question why I'm still here... I could have just left and tried to go back to the castle... to see if my teacher was okay. But the more I think about it, I believe she's dead. I can't go home now... and ... I really have no other place to go... or people to be with. I guess I'm just going to end up in the way now..." She stopped as Ark peered through the wall, then looked down, getting quiet.

She stayed quiet until Ark once again stuck his head into the room, this time through the door. "I suppose so..."

Gin knocked loudly on Jude's door "Make yourselves decent. We have a meeting." He then went to his room and grabbed his naginata. He was the first to arrive after the princess.

Ark left, and stopped at a junction. Vace came up, and Ark whistled. "That's some damn nice armour. Looks a lot like the stuff the Temple Guard wear. So, you ready for what's comin'?"

OOC: Ark is in the door, and Celes never said she went there yet...

Lynx sighed and got up from his bed. Deciding that the old wizards robes were to ripped up to continue to wear, Lynx grabbed a shirt and pants from the closet, put them on, then left for the meeting place.

ooc: did he hide the door when he was in the frame? It's still there. We aren't talking advanced quantom mechanics here.

Vace smiled confidently and said, "With this new armor and my repaired sword, I feel ready for anything. I just hope Cid's army is ready for us in the coming battle." Vace then noticed Ark's new armor and equipment and said, "Looks like I'm not the only one that noticed something he likes in the armory. So whats going on? I heard something about a meeting, hopefully that the king is mobalizing his army, and that he doesn't have to pull together something from scratch and actually has trained troops ready for Cid's army."

"I've never liked plate. I grabbed the best chain-mail I could find. It and the leather should be just as good." He frowned at the next question. "I honestly have no clue. We're supposed to go and meet with the king, and I hope we can persuade him to get ready. This isn't exactly the home-coming I wanted. Actually, I didn't really want a home-coming."

OOC: And Ark's body was in front of it... Gin would have had to reach over Ark just to knock on the door...

Lynx knocked on all the doors with his staff as he passed, and when he passed Ark and Vace he gave them a quick tap on the head to hurry them along.

"Were goin', no need to rush Lynx, I don't think getting to the meeting a minute or two late will matter in the grand scheme of things considering an army is bearing down on us from Cid's Kingdom in a few days regardless of what we do." Vace said.