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Behind the dojo
So, the range was available to use, right now? Sesame elected to sit back and watch everyone else go first; She was more likely to learn more here from being exposed to other styles and methods of combat than anywhere or anytime else. However, there were forms to consider. Sesame patted Myra-chan on the arm. "Good luck, Myra-chan. I will just watch, for now. I think I will go last, if at all." Sesame spared a glance at Argosy, then looked away, towards the range.
OOC: Behold! Porter has my 400th post! *Soy does a little dance, while Sesame sips some tea.*
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Sophia
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Sophia desides to make use of an open area to practice kata, her kimono shifting to a classic tai chi gi as she starts shifting styles rapidly with every strike, kick, and stancewhile keeping a broken rythem to remain unpredictable.
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Behind the Dojo
Sesame watches Sophia for a while, then nods. Valuable information, some that only she could understand, and some that were obvious. Two birds, with one stone. "Sophia, is that right? May I speak with you?" Sesame smiles friendily, but there is a sly craftiness behind her lips.
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Phelan
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Phelan takes a moment, hefting one of a few various hypodermic pistols, finally selecting a well-balanced, comfortable, and fairly heavy model chambered for a cordite-fired 8mm-bore neurotoxin cartridge.
Obviously, it would lack any of the stopping power that a Browning .45 automatic firing heavyweight star-point slugs had, but it would cut-down on his lethality and take a huge load off of his already taxed conscience.
He twirled the pistol, getting a feel for it, then retrieved a black plastic holster.
You came here to learn hand-to-hand, not pistol technique. You should at least consider those sais.
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Showing off at the dojo
Taross puts the baton away again and smiles. This is a point where little modesty remains and she just tries to show off. Not too flashy of course...
That is... She uses some 'simple' trickery, sleight of hand, to move more playing-cards into her hands. Those with a magical sense can see that these are exactly that, regular unenchanted cardboard squares. These things don't seem that regular the moment they leave her hands.
Defying most natural laws, mostly those of gravity and a breeze passing by, the car zips off like a throwing-knife towards her targets. While not enough (she might be pulling her punch) to completely 'kill', she manages to disable quite a few, until she runs out of cards.
For a moment, she considers the baton as she picks it up from the floor, but waits to see if someone is going to display some more melee-based prowess first. Eventually, she ends up just pushing it back into its compact form.
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Watching
Karou shakes his head, then sighs .. he pads over to Porter and murmurs, "May I be excused? I guess I am more weary than I thought .. perhaps by the time the youngsters are done showing off I'll be properly rested..."
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Practice Yard behind the dojo
"If any of you starts a combat, and has had enough, call out the word 'HOLD!', and the targets that are attacking you will all stop, until you attack them again, or until you call out 'RESUME!'."
Behind the dojo building there is a small out-building that has a variety of other weapons in it. There are rifles and pistols of several kinds; throwing knives, spikes, shuriken and hatchets; Bows and arrows, as well as crossbows and crossbow pistols with suitable ammunition; and also an assortment of weapons similar to those found inside. Myra has no problem finding the items she desires, including both belts and bandoliers for holding various weapons.
"The static targets for the ranged fire area all have a rectangular frame around the target area. They don't do anything back to you, but they will move to a new position and display a different target face each time they are hit. The others, which look more like three-dimensional opponents, will fight back with methods similar to what you use against them. Use hand-weapons for close combat, and so will they. Use ranged weapons, and they will switch to ranged weapons as well."
As long as Sophia's kata does not attack a drone, they don't attack her. Several of them seem to be hovering around her, however.
Phelan's pistol is an 8-shot model, with an automatic-style magazine in the handgrip. There are several clips of ammo available, as well as a belt with a holster and ammo pouches on it.
Taross' performance with throwing cards is noted with some interest. As she continues, she will notice the targets get progressively more mobile and faster in their evasion. If her missiles are in uncontrolled flight once they leave her paw, they will start to miss more often. If she can redirect them in mid-flight, she'll have a more interesting time of it than it first appeared. After her first six hits, the new drones that stream in her direction start firing rubber-edged discs back at her. They have a similar velocity to her card weapons.
Karou's request gets a sympathetic nod from Porter. "Of course, my friend. There's an underground apartment below the dojo, with a couple of bedrooms, a kitchenette, and a bathroom with a shower. You can go to it via a hidden elevator that is in the front right corner of the dojo. Just stand in the corner and touch the brass plaque on the corner post, and a five foot by five foot section of floor will lower to the level below. There's a similar plaque down there to send the floor section back up, or to call it down if you're down there and it's on this level. The bedrooms are soundproofed. Have a good rest."
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Phelan
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Phelan thumbs the magazine catch on the dart gun, releasing the magazine.
8 cartridges.
Not bad, not bad at all.
He tucks the weapon into a holster, setting it on a table for future experimentation.
Now, the matter at hand was...
Well, hands.
Or talons, as it was in Phelan's case.
He made his way over to a pair of sais on an ornate rack, hefting them for balance.
Each was perfectly weighted, balanced right at the top-edge of the handgrip.
Ought to be easy enough...
Just like a combat knife, only it won't cut with the edge.
Let's give this one a try.
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Taross' performance with throwing cards is noted with some interest. As she continues, she will notice the targets get progressively more mobile and faster in their evasion. If her missiles are in uncontrolled flight once they leave her paw, they will start to miss more often. If she can redirect them in mid-flight, she'll have a more interesting time of it than it first appeared. After her first six hits, the new drones that stream in her direction start firing rubber-edged discs back at her. They have a similar velocity to her card weapons.
She wasn't really expecting the practice targets to start hurling back objects there. She had noted that the things would start to avoid her cards, which she can't controll movement of after thrown, just like a regular throwing knife/dart/disc, and she had started to turn towards Porter again after having tried out a couple.
As such, she could barely press the catch on the baton she was holding in her armoured hand and as it extended she used it to whack away the first two discs shot at her... more by sheer luck than talent it seemed.
On the defensive, she appears to have a pretty good technique, using weapon-and-shield tactics to ward off the discs. This only works properly when the attacks come mostly from the front and not too far from the sides. She can jump out of the way of things aimed at her feet but once a 'coordinated' attack is made to the back of her lower body she starts slipping, it's hard to defend when you're longer than average.
After taking a couple of solid hits (and not just the backside, her technique is rather rusty) she shakes her head a moment and calls out 'Hold' clearly, as indicated and then hrmms softly, "Well, I guess that's a clear indication of what needs work..."
She turns to face the rest, confident the things work as explained and steps away from the range, folding away the baton again. "Enough playing around though, even if it's fun."
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Myra draws a knife in each hand and heads out into the practice range. She's used to practicing with automated remotes, this is how Battle Fleet prefers to train, so she doesn't feel silly treating the targets the same as she would real enemies. She sets the safeties on her implants to limit her strength to about 3x natural, not the possible 10x. No need to tear things up too much, after all.
As she enters the area two target rush her. She sidesteps one, giving the other a crushing kick to what would be it's midsection, then she turns and flings a knife at the first, then drives a hard punch into the throat area of the second.
That should take care of the fist pair, though Myra's not going to assume that. She takes a step back away from her 'victims, scanning the area for the next wave.
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It was there in the dark of that uncertain night,
They watched for the U-Boat and waited for a fight.
Then a whine and a rock, and a great explosion's roar,
They laid the Reuben James on the cold ocean floor.
-from "The Sinking of Reuben James"
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Myra successfully disables the first two 'opponents' with her first attack to each. They drop to the ground, and four more swarm in to take their place. Two of those are armed with what appear to be shuriken, though they are actually the rubber-edged discs again.
Phelan is approached by a target also armed with Sai, which bows in his direction, and appears to be waiting for his attack...
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Just like he'd seen before, Phelan returned the bow to the target, however stupid it may have looked.
He brought his wings tightly against his back to minimize his profile, twirling each of the sais in an open palm to get a betterfeel for their balance again.
After a moment, he lunges just to the side of the target, striking for the face as he turns sideways in mid-air to help to control his landing.
As he recovered from his own strike, Phelan drops to a low, almpst sprawled-out crouch, a posture he'd learned a long time ago fighting with rubber knives.
Of course, a Ka-Bar combat bayonet was much, much different than a sai.
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Porter said:
Myra successfully disables the first two 'opponents' with her first attack to each. They drop to the ground, and four more swarm in to take their place. Two of those are armed with what appear to be shuriken, though they are actually the rubber-edged discs again.
Myra moves to her left, circling around the incoming 'attackers'. Her intent is to keep the nearer pair between herself and the other two, cutting down on the number of opponents she has to worry about at once.
She lashes out with a snap-kick at the nearest dummy, while flinging a knife at the nearest disk-armed one. Then she'll duck to the right, hoping the change in direction will throw off any disk attacks sent toward her.
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When the long-guns rage and rattle,
Her light grows dim with every blow.
Space lies silent beneath the battle.
If we die here, then who would know?
- from "Fighting Lady" by Cynthia McQuillan and Leslie Fish
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Sophia
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Soy Sauce and Sesame Oil said:
Behind the Dojo
Sesame watches Sophia for a while, then nods. Valuable information, some that only she could understand, and some that were obvious. Two birds, with one stone. "Sophia, is that right? May I speak with you?" Sesame smiles friendily, but there is a sly craftiness behind her lips.
Sophia nods and launches into a back flip up high over the drones and and twists as she lands in a crouched position. She turns to Seasame and gestures towards the koi pond and starts in that direction herself.
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Behind the Dojo
From behind Sophia, Sesame almost smirked. Almost. The girl honestly had no idea. Sesame nodded, and the Waters of the koi pong rippled... and Sesame's voice vibrated out, like an electronic speaker. "Will this do, Miss Sophia?" A light fog enveloped Sophia... Meanwhile, Sesame stayed behind, lips not moving, watching everyone else at their play. There was no reason to deprive herself of a learning experience, only to play to someone else's idea of privacy.
By the Koi Pond
Quietly enough so that it would not carry, the pond spoke in Sesame's amused tones, "I was watching your... "kata," earlier. It was certainly an interesting sight. I wondered... Have you ever heard the phrase, 'You do not truly know someone, until you fight them.'? In my observing, I noticed something rather strange... Do you mind, if I speak frankly?"
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Sophia
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Soy Sauce and Sesame Oil said:
Behind the Dojo
From behind Sophia, Sesame almost smirked. Almost. The girl honestly had no idea. Sesame nodded, and the waters of the koi pong rippled... and Sesame's voice vibrated out, like an electronic speaker. "Will this do, Miss Sophia?" A light fog enveloped Sophia... Meanwhile, Sesame stayed behind, lips not moving, watching everyone else at their play. There was no reason to deprive herself of a learning experience, only to play to someone else's idea of privacy.
By the Koi Pond
Quietly enough so that it would not carry, the pond spoke in Sesame's amused tones, "I was watching your... "kata," earlier. It was certainly an interesting sight. I wondered... Have you ever heard the phrase, 'You do not truly know someone, until you fight them.'? In my observing, I noticed something rather strange... Do you mind, if I speak frankly?"
Sophia smilesand summons a staff of elemental water and rests one end of it on her shoulder. "Ask child and you may or may not get the answer you seek." Her posture seems casual butinfackedshe is ready to strike with the staff at any moment if nessasary.
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Oh, really now. The girl was so far away, what could she hope to attack? Such paranoia confirmed Sesame's suspicions. "Be at ease, Miss Sophia. If I wanted to kill you, I would have done so already. No, I only want to help you. For you see... Your kungfu tells me that your mind is in tatters, broken, shattered, one piece not meshing with the other in harmony. Indeed, it seems as if you are merely performing them by rote, for their meanings have been lost to you. Is this not so?"
OOC: A minor bit of meta-gaming, but excusable, considering Sesame's observational abilities, and her intent. Either update your profile, or reply truthfully to Sesame's question. The choice is your's.
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Sophia
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Soy Sauce and Sesame Oil said:
Oh, really now. The girl was so far away, what could she hope to attack? Such paranoia confirmed Sesame's suspicions. "Be at ease, Miss Sophia. If I wanted to kill you, I would have done so already. No, I only want to help you. For you see... Your kungfu tells me that your mind is in tatters, broken, shattered, one piece not meshing with the other in harmony. Indeed, it seems as if you are merely performing them by rote, for their meanings have been lost to you. Is this not so?"
OOC: A minor bit of meta-gaming, but excusable, considering Sesame's observational abilities, and her intent. Either update your profile, or reply Sophia just smiles truthfully to Sesame's question. The choice is your's.
Sophia merly smiles... "And yet child there is still harmony within the dessonince, as there is between fire and water, light and dark, both at peace and at war with each other. If ever you reach my age you might then understand." She chreats a sword of flame and a spear of blue crackling lightning. She brings them together and their essances bend and warp as the energies are both atracted and repelled, till they devide into two sphears one of a silvery white energy, and one of inky black. "just as the elements were atracted and repelled so are the eliments of our heart mind and body, thies give rise to a balance of yin and tang or light and dark energy if you will." Sophia squezzes the sphears and they become a pair of kali sticks. As you said you don't really know someone till you fight them if you think you know me or wish to know me then let your fists do the talking.
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Sesame sniffed in disdain. "You would lecture me on the balance? I, a Mage of Ice, who was and still am soul-sister to Soy Sauce, Mage of Fire? I say, create harmony within yourself, the chaos of the world is more than enough to be the balance. Nor does the mere weight of years bring wisdom. I have thwarted too many village elders and witch crones for that ever to be true."
Sesame switched to the offensive. "You deny that you are flawed, then? Very well. When you performed the kata, why did you not prove it upon the field of battle, and engage the robots? Who were you seeking to confound by switching styles so rapidly, each movement failing to logically follow into the other? You left gaping holes in your defenses, gaps that I believe symbolize your inner turmoil. I know someone who can help you, heal the wounds in your soul, if you would only admit the truth."
OOC: Minor profile update. Sesame got a new toy.
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Jason considers for a moment, then draws his sword and salutes one of the holograms before assuming a ready stance, waiting to see how his opponent responds.
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(Waiting for a resolution of Myra's attempts. Porter, are you out there?)
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It was there in the dark of that uncertain night,
They watched for the U-Boat and waited for a fight.
Then a whine and a rock, and a great explosion's roar,
They laid the Reuben James on the cold ocean floor.
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Sophia
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Soy Sauce and Sesame Oil said:
Sesame sniffed in disdain. "You would lecture me on the balance? I, a Mage of Ice, who was and still am soul-sister to Soy Sauce, Mage of Fire? I say, create harmony within yourself, the chaos of the world is more than enough to be the balance. Nor does the mere weight of years bring wisdom. I have thwarted too many village elders and witch crones for that ever to be true."
Sesame switched to the offensive. "You deny that you are flawed, then? Very well. When you performed the kata, why did you not prove it upon the field of battle, and engage the robots? Who were you seeking to confound by switching styles so rapidly, each movement failing to logically follow into the other? You left gaping holes in your defenses, gaps that I believe symbolize your inner turmoil. I know someone who can help you, heal the wounds in your soul, if you would only admit the truth."
OOC: Minor profile update. Sesame got a new toy.
"Ah child, You still do not see that peace is but an illusion there is always conflict ... as for my kata well the holo's would be to easy to beat, for they lack the ability to be inovative like you or I. You did not see my aponet cause my oponet was in my own mind, and exturnal movements but a reflection of the combat with one with whom shares as much skill as I. I change forms and styles as I do to confuse and misdirect, do not ever be fool enouh to see a movement and expect any pattern to follow. I embrace dessonance as it is a hidden part of the strugle of life, peace, harmony, those are thins for times when you are not within the chaotic flurry of combat." Starts another kata usin the kali sticks in the the movements of two swoardstyles that when combined are smooth, swift, elegant, but at the same time wild as sea swept tempest, and forceful and quick as lightning, the style is twin skies rageing storms. "Noone can help but myself, when one holds within themselves the minds, memories and knowlage of all one's othersselves there can there ever truly be harmony. for me there can be no peace."
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OOC: PM for you, Sophia. This is also a placeholder post. On a side note, where the heck is everyone??
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Dojo and resting area
Karou nods in thanks to Porter and makes his way to the area described, therein finding himself a place to rest, a soft glow surrounding him as his weary body recharges itself as he sleeps so deeply not even an earthquake could rouse him.
Upon rousing the next day, Karou finds his way to wherever Porter may be at the moment, stopping only if it will intrude on the canine's own resting or teaching... His whole demeanor seemingly refreshed after his rest, and a glint in his eyes as he looks forwards to learning something new.
(( Sorry for the delay flks, RL has been handing me curveballs that had to be dealt with, plus the fact that I just didn't feel up to posting too much.. ))
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OOC: Sorry for the delay, folks. I should manage a decent post tomorrow. Busy dog...  BIC:
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