Weyrling Training Guide - Month 3
Contents
Restdays
All schedules are for the first six days of each sevenday. Weyrlings are given a restday on the seventh day of each sevenday, unless Thread falls that day. If Thread falls on the restday, the Weyrlingmaster will designate an alternate restday for the sevenday. Weyrlings must attend to their dragonet's feedings, baths, and oilings on the restday, but the remainder of the time is free time.
Month 3, Sevenday 1
During this sevenday, the dragonet will eat one meal a day, tapering off throughout the third month until he or she is eating every other day in the fourth month.
Daily Schedule:
6 c/m Wake, feed, bathe, and oil dragon.
7 c/m Bathe, then breakfast
8 c/m Class: Advanced Cartography and Geography
10 c/m Class: Flight Safety and Basic Trio Formations
12 c/m Lunch
13 c/m Class: Dragonhealing Refresher, emphasis on fractures or strain injuries.
15 c/m Drills: Advanced ground formations in trios and nines, Dragon Toss incorporated from dragonback. Dragonets take first flights alone, further strengthening their wings.
18 c/m Dinner
19 c/m Clean weyrling barracks, followed by barracks inspection.
20 c/m Free time. Riding straps should be completed during this sevenday's free time. Studying is encouraged during free time.
22 c/m Lights Out
Month 3, Sevenday 2
During this sevenday, the dragonet will eat one meal a day, tapering off throughout the third month until he or she is eating every other day in the fourth month. Each weyrling will be given one complete set of riding gear (jacket, helmet, leather trousers, boots, riding belt) in preparation for first flights.
Daily Schedule:
6 c/m Wake, feed, bathe, and oil dragon.
7 c/m Bathe, then breakfast
8 c/m Class: Basic Aerial Formations.
10 c/m Class: Hunting Skills and Dragon Nutrition. Dragonet should learn to make first kill from the air this sevenday.
12 c/m Lunch
13 c/m Class: Basic Threadfall and Weather Charting
15 c/m Drills: FIRST FLIGHTS! All first flights must be supervised by one of the senior weyrlingstaff (Weyrlingmaster, 'Second, or 'Third). Solo flights for the first three days of the sevenday, with trios learning to fly together the next three days.
18 c/m Dinner
19 c/m Clean weyrling barracks, followed by barracks inspection.
20 c/m Free time. Can be used to explore the Weyr, if dragonet is agreeable (or sleeping). Studying is encouraged during free time.
22 c/m Lights Out
Month 3, Sevenday 3
During this sevenday, the dragonet will eat one meal a day, and should be hunting from the air. Weyrlings will move into their own private weyrs, but are still restricted from romantic relationships until graduating to be Senior Weyrlings. Dragonets still cannot /between/ to excrete waste, so the weyrlings are still responsible for cleanup of any mess their dragonets leave behind.
Daily Schedule:
6 c/m Wake, let dragonet hunt, bathe, and oil dragon.
7 c/m Bathe, then breakfast
8 c/m Class: First Aid Refresher, human and dragon. Weyrhealer and Weyrdragonhealer lectures.
10 c/m Class: Advanced Threadfall and Weather Charting.
12 c/m Lunch
13 c/m Class: Advanced Aerial Formations.
15 c/m Drills: Aerial drills begin, first with trios, then nines. Basic formations only this sevenday.
18 c/m Dinner
19 c/m After dinner chores by chore group: laundry, kitchen cleanup, assisting with dragoncare for injured/pregnant riders, craft areas (if weyrling was craft-trained)
20 c/m Free time. Can be used to explore the Weyr, if dragonet is agreeable (or sleeping). Studying is encouraged during free time.
22 c/m Lights Out
Month 3, Sevenday 4
During this sevenday, the dragonet will eat one meal a day, and should be hunting from the air. Weyrlings are still restricted from romantic relationships until graduating to be Senior Weyrlings. Dragonets still cannot /between/ to excrete waste, so the weyrlings are still responsible for cleanup of any mess their dragonets leave behind.
Daily Schedule:
6 c/m Wake, bathe and oil dragon (no hunting).
7 c/m Bathe, then breakfast
8 c/m Class: Long distance flights with hunting in wild herds.
10 c/m Class: Mating Flights. Guest lecturers to cover etiquette, importance of being calm and controlled, and other aspects of mating flights. Reminders of proper behavior towards riders whose dragons are involved in a flight, particularly a female dragon's rider prior to a flight.
12 c/m Lunch
13 c/m Class: Visualization Exercises begin
15 c/m Drills: Aerial drills with nines and 'full flight' (all nine-grouped weyrlings), including rider substitution during drills and formation changes.
18 c/m Dinner
19 c/m After dinner chores by chore group: laundry, kitchen cleanup, assisting with dragoncare for injured/pregnant riders, craft areas (if weyrling was craft-trained)
20 c/m Free time. Can be used to explore the Weyr, if dragonet is agreeable (or sleeping). Studying is encouraged during free time.
22 c/m Lights Out
Dragon Size Chart, End Month 3
Greens 14 to 17 feet
Blues 15 to 18 feet
Browns 16 to 19 feet
Bronzes 17 to 20 feet
Golds 17 to 21 feet
