voidtreckerexpress | Fight Club Open Log! (Catch-All For the Month of Fiddlesticks)

This is an OPEN LOG for anyone to join. Make toplevels to your heart's content and tag around to each other freely. Whether your character is offering to teach or wanders in looking for someone to get them involved (or just to watch), this is a post for you! You may use this for any sort of open or even private threads if you so wish.

This log is for anyone who wants to participate in exercising, training, sparring, and teaching lessons. Some of the "classes" also involve things like yoga, meditation, and easier self defense mechanisms for anyone to learn. Magic users are also extremely encouraged to use the practice dummies and other facilities as well! After all, they also need to practice and also get used to having physical fighters near them as they spellcast. And vice versa. Plus, some people use both abilities in battle!

Basically, if you want to learn new skills that could be useful on missions, come take a peek!

For a basic set-up consider this: a majority of this takes place in the gym; it's regulars have set it up with target dummies and various practice armaments. Armaments currently consist of things like wooden practice swords, poles, and bows and arrows. A few real weapons can be borrowed from either 47 (or perhaps others willing to share) or created by Piccolo upon request. (If you have any weapons or items to add to the practice sessions, please drop a line in the ooc post!) Of course characters can always bring and use their own items these are just for general use for anyone without armaments already. No one is regulating anything like that.

Various characters will be around to help answer questions icly if you like (I have 47 on offer for starters) and if you have any ooc questions or comments drop a line over here! An ic announcement was also made by 47 if your character needs an impetus for heading towards the gym. c:

And remember: you do you and have fun!!!

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Cassie grips the tonfas firmly by the side handle and smiles.

"Bitchin'."

She pauses for a moment, testing them against the air and admiring the feel and weight of them. She turns her head.

"Now, I'm guessing a gun is too much to hope for, right? I know some people on the train have been looking for a way to get their hands on some, and they probably wouldn't be if it was as easy as asking you."

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Piccolo made a slight face at the mention of guns. Less a distaste for them--although he wasn't really a fan--and more that the last time this came up it had been...well, an embarrassing disaster.

"Unfortunately I haven't figured that one out yet. Unless you have a diagram I can look at, or find someone with a gun to show me, I don't think it's a good idea for me to keep trying to make one without more knowledge of how they work." He doesn't want anyone to end up with an explosive in their hand instead of a projectile weapon. Piccolo glanced towards the practice weapons. "And no, I can't replicate the space guns from the previous mission. The energy source is too complex for my magic." He looked back at her. "You'll have to talk to someone else about that."

"Thought as much," Cassie says.

"Thing is, I've had a thought about that. Apparently there are some people with some engineering know-how on this train. And a couple people who can conjure fire well enough that maybe they could be spot welders. I'm no engineer, but I know enough about guns to tell you that there are some designs where that's all you need. It may be all you've got to do is magic up a couple tubes, pins, and springs. I should probably put an ICP vid up about that."

"That I can do. I can help provide the metal, too."

They could probably (or as mun knowledge: definitely) request that from the train as well. If they wanted to make a lot of that type of weapon.

"It couldn't hurt if you're adamant about it." Everyone else liked to do it, why not one more person. Well, Piccolo couldn't say it bothered him--at least as long as it wasn't so loud it hurt his sensitive ears.

"Yeah, I plan to make a priority of it," Cassie says.

"I know how to fight up close, but I feel kinda naked going into combat without a gun."

"Is that so?" Piccolo considered for a moment. "So you feel the need to compensate for a lack of physical range with a projectile weapon? Have you ever considered creating a technique that would allow you further reach without a weapon?"

Cassie sighs. "I've always wanted to. My dad can throw green fireballs. I've never been able to do it."

A slight smile crosses her lips.

"But I can channel my energy into bullets. Hits harder than either one of them do by themselves."

Piccolo considered this for a short moment. She definitely had power to work with, he already knew that for certain, and from what she said already had some control over it. Why she hadn't further developed it...well, maybe she just never had the right kind of teacher.

"You can channel your energy into objects but never managed to replicate the energy attacks your father uses. With enough training, don't you think you could craft your own energy attacks? Without the use of another object to fire it rapidly."

"On my world, it's a gift," Cassie says. "I can do what I do because I'm descended from an ancient Mediterranean warrior cult. Basically you can either do it or you can't. That's what I've been taught, anyway."

Even Raiden had never really bothered with it. He'd simply dismissed the possibility with words like "You have not your father's gift." 'Course, Raiden kinda sucks as a mentor.

"But if you know some other techniques or training methods that can make me more effective, I'd be happy to learn 'em. I've always wanted to."

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"Hmm," Piccolo hummed thoughtfully at her informative words. He wondered if that would make a difference in his training people here. As far as he knew true martial art techniques simply escalated into powerful ki manipulation if a person simply trained enough. Most people didn't, he understood that, but it was possible for anyone in his world.

Would that change because he was in another universe? It hadn't seemed to make any difference for the other universes he met in the tournament. Although Universe 2 had been...odd...

And it turned out there were a lot more universes out here than advertised during the tournament. But that was neither here nor there for now.

"I know how to manipulate ki in a large manner of techniques, including ki blasts, a long range energy attack. I could train you," he replied.

Cassie nods. "If nothing else, I can learn if it's possible. I'm a patient student."

Well, she's learned to be one anyway.

"Also I've got nowhere else to be and it sounds cool."

Piccolo chuckled. Well, she was certainly a character. Only time would tell how her demeanor would work along side his more stern nature as a teacher. But he was willing to give it a shot. She had the most potential to learn his style of martial arts than anyone else he had met on the train so far, and that was promising.

He was surprised by how much he looked forward to teaching again. A part of him missed it. He also missed Gohan but that he couldn't do anything about. Training new students he could do.

"We'll start with the basics. Not the martial arts, you already know how to fight well. But with trying to get you to manipulate your ki on a basic level. So you can focus on it and use it how you want to, not how it allows you to."

Cassie has made it through Q-Course with Sonya Blade as an instructor. She's pretty sure she can make it through any training that could be devised by anyone. Frankly, she prefers no nonsense from her instructors. Leave the loose improvisation for the field.

Her grin fades into a stoic and determined expression as she listens to Piccolo lay down the opening groundwork.

"Are we starting with physical training, meditation, or both?"

"I prefer both," Piccolo replied. He wouldn't deny he was pleased with her quick shift into a serious demeanor. It made things all the easier. It was also good to have a pupil that already knew what to expect but not assume anything. This was good. (Except for maybe the slight pang in his heart from being reminded of Gohan, and missing him so much. He ignored that.)

"Meditation brings concentration, concentration brings focus, focus brings power under control. Focus is the key to manipulating energy to your will."

"They're both useful."

She seats herself in front of Piccolo with her legs crossed.

"I'm ready to get started."

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