4 ★ [video] [fight club 2: electric boogaloo]

[darkinferno]

[Hey, Retrospec. Have you gotten tired of seeing this face yet? Dante doesn't look too excited to be on camera, but once he's sure it's recording and isn't going to fall over, he'll take a step back and begin.]

Hey, guys. I'm pretty sure most of you probably know who I am, but for anybody that doesn't yet, the name's Dante.

By this point everyone's probably got the gist of what happened last month: monsters throughout the entire city. They showed up at the end of the convention in July and didn't disappear until we managed to fix all this unreality stuff near the end of August. It didn't matter whether you were part of the network or not, if you were young or old, if you knew how to defend yourself or not--all those monsters went after whoever looked like a good target.

This isn't the first time we've had to fight like that. Anyone who was here in May can tell you; we were all shrunk down to six inches tall and a lot of us had to defend ourselves from rats or spiders or other bugs that decided to investigate us. It's probably not the last time we'll have to fight like that.

Back in June we started weekly training sessions, practices where anybody can try out different weapons and learn how to fight. After this past month, I'd say we need it now more than ever.

If you just got access to Retrospec this month, come and check it out. You're going to get these flashes of memory whether or not you're trying to trigger them, and if you knew how to fight, it can be dangerous to remember in the wrong moment. Even if you didn't know how to fight before, we can teach you how to defend yourself so that if something like this happens again...

[He trails off before shaking his head.]

Anyways, practices are Sundays from 6pm to midnight at Utsuki Dojo in Tisse. If you've got any questions, let me know.

[Dante reaches forward to turn off the camera, but pauses before looking back.]

I mean it. The stuff that happened last month... if there's anything we can do to keep something like that from happening in the future, I want to do it. Even if that's just making sure that more people know how to protect themselves.

That's it.


[[ooc: with an accompanying log for fight practices here! As always feel free to use both this and the log as an all-purpose mingle; threadjack as desired, it's all good.]]

Comments

[matchbreaker]

I take it that friend isn't on Retrospec? Or can you call them for it?

[ Surprise, it's a different voice. Still, a blind man getting in on this? Maybe she finally should, even if she didn't get much last month. Something was up with that woman in her memories, maybe she just needs to find the right way to fight. ]

[blessmefather]

He does have Retrospec and I can continue practice with him of course. I was thinking it would be good to at least speak with others familiar with different styles of fighting. If the man in the memories practiced something other than karate like my friend does or if he fought someone with a similar technique to someone involved in this practice it might help jog memories more effectively.

That and maybe someone involved simply has some clever ideas for a person who can't see.

[matchbreaker]

[ . . . Huh. That's a fair point, honestly. Elda hums a little and nods to herself. ]

I'm not involved in organizing, but I'll be a first time attender too. Can't say I have any brilliant ideas, but I don't know what memories I need to jog for my woman either.

[blessmefather]

There must be some patterns to the memories. If we can identify the way the other people fought, like a weapon they used or the type of location where it happened, we can purposely imitate those to encourage the memories.

[matchbreaker]

As a fair warning, some of it might be hard to replicate. Some people seem to have superpowers like setting themselves on fire or the like.

[blessmefather]

It'll have to be done on a case by case basis then.

Is that a real example of someone's power?

[matchbreaker]

Yes. He can also shoot it out from there... probably not my place to tell you his name though unless he wants?

[blessmefather]

I don't need a name. I'm just uh. A bit taken aback. That's a very dangerous power and I can't begin to imagine how disturbing it would be to have it start without warning.

[matchbreaker]

I don't blame you.

[ Honestly, it shows in her tone, and she exhales to get past it. That was so weird - disturbing, really - back then. ] Nothing I've experienced has been quite that absurd, thankfully. And the same is said of most people I know - it's rarer, basically.

[blessmefather]

Good to know we won't all be bursting into flames.

Any idea if the person who has that power had one of those "memories" of it before it happened? Has it been confirmed that the super powers are connected to the "memories" the way combat abilities have been?

[matchbreaker]

[ She mulls it over and... ] I don't know the--m that well, so I honestly couldn't tell you. But I can tell you from my experience while the strength I've gotten I didn't get forewarning about per se, if I'm ever able to talk to bats or erase memories, I'll have had memories in advance of those.

[blessmefather]

Hit or miss like the memories themselves then. Still good to know.

Will you be around the dojo for these sessions?

[matchbreaker]

I've been thinking about it.

[ which is why she responded at all, honestly. ] I've not gone to any others, but now I've found myself with super strength and had to do with all that insanity in August. So... I might as well see if there's something to work out.

[blessmefather]

Super strength? That could definitely be put to good use. Sadly I'm not a great candidate to test that kind of strength against but if you we happen to go in at the same time don't be afraid to say hello. I'm Matt by the way.

[matchbreaker]

Oh, no, no! I shouldn't want to hurt anyone - I'll need to practice holding back, but hopefully there'll be some robust people who have their own powers.

I'll be certain to though - Elda Marker, charmed.