3 ★ [video/text] [FIGHT CLUB]

[darkinferno]

[For those who haven't seen Dante in a while, he looks a little bit different when the camera clicks on. What was once white-blond hair has now gone pure silver, and his eyes, rather than going gray with the rest of the blues and greens of the world, are still the bright shade of aqua they'd turned back in April. For all his sarcasm about how Jim missed and took the wrong color from him, Dante knows he looks almost identical to the boy he's been remembering these past few months.]

All right. I know I'm not the only one who's been getting weird memories and abilities recently, but what I want to talk about today is this.

[He holds his hand up in front of him, and in a swirl of dark shadows, Soul Eater appears for him to take hold of, also still blue in all the right places.]

Weapons. A lot of people have ended up with them recently. Some of you might have gotten them in the mail, some of you have found them. But one thing's the same--whenever you get it, you know that it's yours.

There are a lot of us that are getting memories back of fighting, too. I don't know how many of you have given it a try, but when I tried to fight the way I had in those memories... it all started coming back to me. How to fight, how to defend... all of it.

So now we've got a bunch of people with weapons they barely know how to use, and a lot of us with memories of fighting but no way to test it out without risking that someone's gonna get hurt.

[He lets go of the sword and Soul Eater disappears back into the shadows.]

Last month, Retrospec managed to take us by surprise. I don't think anyone was expecting to wake up six inches tall or have to fight off spiders or cicadas. But it could happen again. We don't know what their end game is and we don't know what they're gonna throw at us next. And who knows? Maybe next time we won't have to fight. But with how many of us are remembering that sort of thing... I think it'd be a good idea for people to learn how to defend themselves, just in case.

Which brings me to the point of all this: I've been working with a few people and we're putting together network-wide training sessions. Tatsuo Kihara has been able to get us space at the Utsuki Dojo in Tisse on Sundays, 6 PM to midnight. We'll have wooden weapons to practice with so that nobody has to worry about accidentally shanking someone, and that way if you don't know if you did any fighting in the past, you can give it a shot and see if you remember anything. Both Doctors Trevelyan and Sutcliffe have said they'll be there when they can just in case anybody does take a shot too hard.

We've been working on finding people to teach different weapon styles like swords or spears or throwing knives so that you can try out all kinds of different thing.s Some people have offered to teach self-defense too, so even if you don't want to learn to fight offensively, you can at least learn how to defend yourself.

Our first session's going to be this coming Sunday the 18th. I'll be there right at 6:00. Let me know if you have any questions.

[Dante out!

A little bit later, he'll also make a text post to make sure he gets anyone who might not have watched the video. It's mostly the same information, but at the top he'll post the quick and dirty:]

Dante Rantanen 6/13 near Birch Hills

Retrospec Weapons/Self-Defense Training Sessions Utsuki Dojo in Tisse Sundays starting June 18, 6 PM to midnight

Comments

[darkinferno]

if someone winds up with a rocket launcher i'm really gonna question retrospec's misplaced sense of security. i'm pretty sure the first thing most people would do with one is aim it straight at their building

[vendettastool]

I have a feeling that it wouldn't work on the building.

[darkinferno]

unfortunately you're probably right

it'd still probably be pretty satisfying though

[vendettastool]

At least it will make a loud sound and maybe cover it in dust for a few moments, right?

[darkinferno]

you'd still get an explosion from all the powder, wouldn't you? at least SOME kind of fireball

[vendettastool]

Oh, yeah there's that too. So there's a little plus about it, just not what we really want to see.

[darkinferno]

yeah

it still might be worth it

[vendettastool]

I'm trying to think about how we can get away with something like that though. I mean Togusa can't cover our asses for something that big.

[darkinferno]

the better question is if he'd even be willing to

[Sure, Togusa seems to be one of the cooler cops on the network in Dante's eyes, but he's pretty sure the man's willingness to overlook things only goes so far!]

looks like it'll just have to be an accident, huh?

[vendettastool]

There are some thing he might cover for us, but I think doing that on purpose will be the line he won't step across.

Guess we'll just have to accidentally on purpose not try to blow the building up, right?

[darkinferno]

that's right, we'll have to be very careful. we don't want any mishaps

[Good to see they're on the same page! Now they just need to get their hands on a rocket launcher. Surely Retrospec will be accommodating, right?]

[vendettastool]

Exactly. Don't want to blow off any foots while we're setting up an accidental not on purpose explosion.

[ CEO stuff aside, Yoon-sung is a bit reckless and foolish and enjoys causing trouble. He can always go for a little extra mayhem so long as there was a means to do said mayhem. ]