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retrospec2017-06-13 09:29 am
darkinferno) wrote in retrospec2017-06-13 09:29 am
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3 ★ [video/text] [FIGHT CLUB]
[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:]
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
Utsuki Dojo in Tisse
Sundays starting June 18, 6 PM to midnight
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it's not your spear, but i like it
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I have to carry Velora around if I want to do training, it's not very subtle
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i'd prefer the sword too
[It's meant in a joking manner, though. Her spear really is pretty nice, especially with the range it gives her!
...but yeah, at the end of the day, he'll take Soul Eater any day of the week.]
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I hope I can catch you using it sometime, in my visions I had two sword users on my team but the way they fought was entirely different
despite how weird it is to be able to suddenly do all of this, it's kind of interesting in its own way too, how everyone's fighting is different
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i had it then but fighting back wasn't the point
i'm sure you'll get a chance to see me fight at practice sometime though. who knows? maybe i'll have the same style as one of your teammates. you'd think that even if we're all remembering different things there'd be overlap somewhere
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Vision Triggers, for people who don't want to wait
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i'd say "flash fighting" but i've been told multiple times by different people if we call it anything that could be connected with "fight club" we'll get shut down by the cops so who knows if that would work
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hence the 'training sessions' and 'self defense' wording, huh...ah well, it's good enough for what we're doing! It just doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well
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i feel the same way but if it keeps people from coming in thinking they can beat up on other people with no consequences, then i'll live with it
we can come up with a catchier name later if we want