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.]]

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[keystaff]

[She's definitely new. And young. Which is probably part of the reason why....]

Um. Dante-san, I'd be...completely new to this. But if that's okay. And if I can figure my brother letting me come. I'd like to. I heard about the shrinking thing. But this seems like a good idea. So, if it's alright, I want to check with you. And my brother. Though I'm not sure he would let me stay out that late with school the next day.

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[darkinferno]

[She also sounds super young? Dante frowns at this--on the one hand, he's not so sure about outfitting little kids with weapons. That's a line and Dante's not entirely sure he's ready to cross that. But at the same time, he thinks back to Ritsu and how he'd had to fight too...]

All right, first things first: who's your brother? Is he on the network?

If he isn't, it probably isn't a very good idea, even though it'd still be a good idea to learn how to protect yourself. Brothers ask questions when their sisters are going to secret club meetings with people they don't know. If he starts poking around asking questions, we're at risk of getting shut down.

[keystaff]

Ah, no....he isn't. At least not that I've seen. Or heard.

But I guess you're right. I wouldn't want to get the rest of you in trouble or anything if he did come asking around about it or something.

[She wasn't sure, which is why she had asked in the first place yet. Before just immediately assuming it would work out, if she talked to her brother about the idea. And well. Given how he all but immediately steps in whenever she might get hurt or something, it's. Probably not the sort of thing he'd agree to, that would go down well.]

[darkinferno]

There are always other options. There are plenty of places that teach martial arts or self-defense, if he'd let you try that out instead. Or if there's anybody on the network he'd trust you to be with that could come with you to practice, that might work.

I'll ask Tatsuo if he's got any advice too.

[keystaff]

Hm, that's true. I don't think those classes would go quite so late? Or maybe if I asked others on this app, maybe they could meet me after school when I don't have cheerleading and practice at home or at the gym while my brother is at work or something.

[At this point as she sort of trails off, she's half thinking aloud and half responding to Dante's ideas, really. But it's true this could be easier and go smoother if this was with someone her brother knew and trusted at least.]

Oh, is Tatsuo-san another friend on here too?

[darkinferno]

He works at the dojo.

But those are probably better options for right the time being.

[keystaff]

Oh, okay. I can at least ask him and see if he agrees to that. Even if I might not come to the later bigger class thing. But I hope others might show up and make use of this too! It seems like something important to figure. Even if I'm less sure on fighting.

[It would help, right? In at least being able to defend themselves? That much is important.]