Month 7

RL Dates: May 11 – 21
Dragon Age: 7 months – 8 months

Play or write about learning to sort firestone. Group sessions on this topic can take the form of an interactive q&a with samples being passed around, or incorporate a sorting race or other competition between weyrlings.
Play or write about learning how to operate a flamethrower and do basic maintenance. Group sessions on this topic could include assembling or disassembling a thrower the most quickly.
Play or write about your dragon’s first taste of firestone and learning to make a flame. Group sessions on this topic can focus on the ‘first time’ aspect, or ongoing practice with flaming targets.
Play or write about learning more advanced wing formations.
In a small-scale mirroring of intra-Weyr games, weyrlings will be divided up into mini-wings to start carrying out regular competitions in air drilling and flame target practice. Flaming continues to be directed /only/ at targets. Flaming rope drills will not begin until Weyrlings have mastered Between.
Visualization practice continues and starts to incorporate actual destinations around the immediate Fort vicinity as you and your dragon are able to fly for longer periods of time.

Dragonet

Dragons get their first taste of stone and breathe their first flames.
By the end of the month each dragonet should be able to sustain a steady flame fairly well and control the strength as well as be moderately good at hitting a target.
Dragons are now just over half their full size.
Only the most gourmand dragons will still be eating more than once a day and some will start spacing their meals out to every other day.
Dragons are now able to fly comfortably as far as Ruatha Hold and in a radius equal to that distance around the Weyr.

Weyrling

Weyrlings should have at least three ‘homebase’ destinations memorized by the end of the month: Star Stones, Fort Hold, Fort Sea Hold.
Weyrlings should be able to easily tell the difference between different types of firestone and know how to stoke their dragons appropriately for drills.
Weyrlings should fully understand how to use a flamethrower and how to instruct a non-Weyr person in the use of one for mock ground crewing.

(This is a guideline only and is intended to give you an idea of how a typical Weyrling’s day might go.)

Moderation in drinking.
Discretion in private relationships.
Weyrlings may fly long as far as Ruatha Hold with supervision and to Fort Sea Hold and Rutha River Hold unsupervised for short visits.
Weyrlings must salute all riders, and may salute or bow to ranking Crafters and Holders.

Fort Weyr