"Yep, I'm good to go get our equipment. Thanks for the walkthrough," Kiki says to Pik and Kip. "Can't wait until we're properly serving on one of these bad boys!"

You make your way down to the stores level, and find yourself facing a barred window, behind which stands an autognome wearing a smart apron with dozens of tools of various purpose tucked into tiny leather loops. The only other article of clothing he wears is a black felt bowler cap. As you walk up to the window his eyes light up yellow. "Greetings. I am known as Mister Blip and I am the quartermaster for the Academy. I understand you are recent recruits, correct? We have extensive stores of equipment and armor and if I might say so a particularly diverse collection of weaponry. In short anything you might require I am happy to supply for quite reasonable prices. But first I see we have some cadets for the spelljammer corps for whom we are pleased to assign one service weapon with no exchange of currency required," he pulls down and opens a thick catalogue, filled with pages upon pages of weapons. He begins thumbing through the catalogue, giving a detailed description of each potential choice of service weapon, from a whole section of different designs of daggers and shortswords, through tridents and hand crossbows, to a page at the end which even shows a few pistols, though he notes that those last items require an extra, fairly hefty, deposit due to their rarity.

[Spelljammer Corps members, choose one simple or martial weapon from the Player's Handbook that you're proficient with]

Once you make your choices, Mister Blip disappears into the storerooms behind the counter, and returns in a minute or two with your selections. He carefully notes down the serial numbers against your names in a ledger, before handing them over. "If you experience any difficulties or simply wish to exchange your service weapon for another in the future please visit us again. Now is there anything else I can get any of you? If you have a requisition voucher you may redeem that for any equipment you need. However note that there are some conditions: paragraph a), subparagraph i), total amount of exchange is not to exceed the value printed on the voucher. Subparagraph ii), value is non-refundable and non-transferable; any remaining value at the end of transaction is forfeit. Subparagraph iii) ..." he continues to list fine print for as long as you let him.

[OK, time for the actual gear shopping at last. Any of the gear from the Armor, Weapons, Adventuring Gear, or Tools tables or the Equipment Packs sidebar in the Player's Handbook is available. I think there's two ways to this, which each of you can choose: 1) Take the starting gold as listed in the prep thread, and buy equipment at the PHB prices, using up the 50gp voucher and then your starting gold. Or, which might be easier: 2) Remove all your equipment and gold, head back into the character builder equipment section, and take the starting gear that way, then add 50gp (or the price of the starting gear if less than 50gp), plus for corps cadets the price of the service weapon, in gold. Let me know if you have any questions!]

Da"KAL waits her turn to request equipment.

Some poking stuff, some slashing things, some leather bits...

She gathers the bundle and waits for her companions the shop. Her head tilts mildly curious while noting their choices.

Yaris spends some time browsing quarterstaffs, he spins a few and finds one that fits his flow and is balanced well. The one he picks has red and black fabric wrapped around the haft and is light but sturdy. 

He collects up a few other pieces of gear but does not collect any armour.

Icarus says "I'll take the standard pack-out, and for my service weapon I'll take that there beautiful Heavy Crossbow." 

This may cause some interesting looks for a Wizard to have such a heavy weapon, but he goes through the process of unstringing, adjusting the tension on the cog wheels, rough adjusting the sights in for himself, and restringing in but a few moments. He shoulders the weapon and turns to Master Blip and says "Thank you Master Blip; this will do fine."

[Once you're all geared up, I believe you has two tasks left: the assault course and the spelljammer basic training in the nexus]

Da'Kal is eager to try the assault course but willing to wait and see what the group wants to do. She thinks it would be a good idea to let the ship handlers have their fun first, a grumpy pilot seems bad.

Yaris agrees, let the spelljammers head out and do what they need to do, in the meantime Yaris wants to explore a little without getting disintegrated 

Icarus " Assault Course"

Kiki takes the standard starting equipment, then uses her 50 gp voucher to purchase a simple potion of healing.

"Assault course sounds good to me too - let's get to it!" 

As you head up a couple of flights of stairs to the gymnasium level, you see coming down the other way a large giff whose bearing and chest full of decorations mark him as some kind of visiting dignitary, being shown around by a group of academy officers. The dignitary is explaining at some length why his species name is pronounced with a hard "gee" sound, not a soft "jay" sound, and as the group are about to pass you he loudly breaks wind; the officers nodding along politely make a valiant, if slightly cross-eyed, attempt to ignore this. You hurry on past them.

No sooner have you entered the gymnasium—a large open space carved into the rock of the island, which can be magically reconfigured for a variety of physical activities, and is currently set up with an obstacle course—than you face your first challenge: make a straight dash through the first station. A task that would be easy if there weren't extremely loud (and, you hope, illusory) explosions going off at irregular intervals within the field.

[Everyone make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw]

Con save: [Roll]1d20+2[/roll]

Con save: 3

Icarus CON save: 11

CON save 18

Da"Kal gives Yaris.and Zoide a false hand claw bump for good luck before they run into the obstacle course.