Building a Better Fighter [Week 2, Period 5]; Thursday 05/24

[namelessblade.livejournal.com]

As Kenpachi walked into the Danger Shop, assuming all the students were already present with impeccable punctuality, he was moving a little stiffly, the bells at the tips of his spiky hair tingling significantly more than usual, and each little resounding one making him wince slightly. Yes, if you mention anything about him moving like his body had taken a sound beating, he will give you detention. And possibly sic Yachiru, who still clung to his shoulder despite the deep wounds there because he liked how her aggravating them reminded him of them, on you.

The Shop itself was structured to appear like a level in a first person shooter a metallic chamber, with a series of raised platforms, stairs, columns, and corridors to other smaller chambers.

"Listen up!" he barked to get their attentions, jerkily moving back and forth in front of them as he spoke, hands on his hips. Yachiru made silly faces at them all while he lectured, just to see who would break and get yelled at by him.



"Anyone," he started, "can be inspired to kill a 'scary' monsters." His eyes scanned the room for the one student who, in fact, failed at this task last week; not seeing her, he grunted, smirking. Like the witch had told him, best the fighting be left to fighters. "Well, most people, anyway. I will admit, I was impressed by your performances last week. Needless to say," he send one of his sneering grins over the class, "my expectations were low, anyway."

"Self-preservation against something larger than you, trying to eat you, invulnerable to most attacks, comes natural. A kitten, cornered by jackals, will lash out against them even if she realizes she doesn't stand a chance. Yes, many of you exhibited some level of skill; the majority of you depended on sheer dumb luck."

"Never forget, though, that sheer dumb luck will most likely be your best friend in a fight. But she's a bastard, and will just as soon desert you in favour of your enemy without warning. You can't rely on her..."

Yachiru tapped Kenpachi on the shoulder. He grunted as he turned toward her. "Keep on topic, Ken-chan!" she whispered in his ear, though loud enough that everyone could probably still hear it.

"Right. Anyway. Good job on the Hollows. But can you do the same on more familiar enemies? Can you fight...your own peers?"

"Your assignment today is to participate in a battle royale, against each other. The winner...will gain respect and the knowledge that, congratulations, for the moment, you are the strongest, the luckiest, aren't you special? The losers...have the chance to improve and the benefit of lower expectations for future classes to...impress me." Another sneering smile. "Those who refuse to participate will be asked to leave the classroom in disgrace with a direct ticket to detention."

"No weapons, either. I couldn't...quite get the Danger Shop to do what I wanted in that respect. Yachiru here will be on the battlefield and will determine when you have been defeated and may leave the competition. She will also be of assistance should any of you find yourselves in a relative stalemate. I will carefully be observing you all, so if you have any desire for admonitions when you finished, I suppose I will humour you."



He paused, looking over them all. "Well?" He turned his back to find his observation spot and waved a hand at them. Yachiru hopped to her feet, bouncing. "Go."

[[ Wait for the OCD, please. Big Fat OCD is up! More explanation on how the battle royale will work inside! Oooh, exciting! A winner has been randomly selected prior to class and has been contacted with special instructions. ]]

[[ ...sorry for Ken being really talky today. 0.o ]]


[[ Class Roster and Syllabus ]]

Comments

Sign In -- 05/24

[namelessblade.livejournal.com]

Well, at least he cares who some of you are now. Collapsy, like he hopes the majority of you will be after suffering....someone's wrath...

Re: Sign In -- 05/24

[snow-white-boy.livejournal.com]

Haku

Re: Sign In -- 05/24

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

Alphonse Elric

The Lecture -- 05/24

[namelessblade.livejournal.com]

Just try to keep a straight face at all those faces Yachiru is making. Really. Because Kenpachi will not take kindly to any snickering.

Re: The Lecture -- 05/24

[snow-white-boy.livejournal.com]

Haku just smiled at Yachiru. She was very cute.

Re: The Lecture -- 05/24

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn was concentrating on the teacher.

The Battle Royale -- 05/24

[namelessblade.livejournal.com]

Re: The Battle Royale -- 05/24

[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

Alphonse is around! And has no issues with sparring; in fact, he's looking forward to it. If anyone wanted a round with him, he'd be willing to go for it.

Re: The Battle Royale -- 05/24

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec might be in just the mood for a good fight or three.

[ooc: I'm on for a while yet tonight and then during work tomorrow. BRING IT, YO.]

Re: The Battle Royale -- 05/24

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy was ready to kick ass. She was feeling a bit naked without a stake though.

Re: The Battle Royale -- 05/24

[solowhistler.livejournal.com]

Abigail was totally ready to fight. She was really curious how she'd stand up against some of her classmates.

Re: The Battle Royale -- 05/24

[cutestripeyhat.livejournal.com]

Vi was there and looking fierce, and not in the Tyra Banks way.

Re: The Battle Royale -- 05/24

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly wasn't really happy to be facing off against her classmates. If this was a real fight, she could beat most of them easily and probably hurt them a lot in the process.

The only person whose strengths she knew well enough to battle against today was Teddy. Since she didn't want detention, she decided that he would be the only person she did fight today.

If anyone else approached her for a fight, she would refuse.

She just hoped she didn't disappoint Kenpachi too much.

Re: The Battle Royale -- 05/24

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter would have been happier with a sword, but he looked around for a partner to spar with.

(Handwavey!) -- 05/24

[namelessblade.livejournal.com]

If you are unable to participate today for any reason at all, please ping in here with a general idea of how well your character may have done against the others. Lower tier, upper, middle, whatever.

Re: (Handwavey!) -- 05/24

[snow-white-boy.livejournal.com]

Sadly because of UBER SP tomorrow I'm going to handwavey. Haku would hold his own pretty well, he's got those really fast ninja speeds and ability to manipulate water, sadly he doesn't have much in the defense area and his strenght is really only so-so.

Re: (Handwavey!) -- 05/24

[halfshell-hero.livejournal.com]

Eeegh, I don't want to go handwavey today, but I'm going to have to, as I'll be out all day working two jobs.

Mikey has his shell, his too-much-sugar energy level, and a lifetime of ninja training by a pretty radical rat. He'll probably come out middle-to-upper tier come the end.

Re: (Handwavey!) -- 05/24

[imcalledandros.livejournal.com]

I'm handwaving since I don't know what my availability is going to be like today. Andros would have been in the middle, close to upper since he's got ranger training and he's pretty good with self defense.

Re: (Handwavey!) -- 05/24

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Ugh, okay, not falling asleep till 2am + 5am wakeup time + three cans of various kinds of energy drinks = HUGE crash. So I'm gonna have to duck out and go handwavey. Bridge has got years of Ranger training plus that handy ability to see into the future, so he likely came out middle-to-upper tier.

Re: (Handwavey!) -- 05/24

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Seeing as I was in Disney World with no Internet access, I'm forced to handwave both Adam and Tori's participation. *sads*

Adam has a few years of martial arts training under his belt, so to speak and has his Ranger experience as well. So, he'd be in the middle to upper tier, definitely.

And the Winner Is.... -- 05/24

[namelessblade.livejournal.com]

The winner of the Battle Royale will be pinging in here toward the end of Thursday to reveal themselves and bask in their glory.

Re: And the Winner Is.... -- 05/24

[namelessblade.livejournal.com]

Glancing at the clock on the wall, Kenpachi realized that the time for the class had run out. Of course, as he expected, without a specific, clear victor. He sighed, standing up, and then mustered up his usual friendly psychotic grin as he bellowed out over the Shop to get everyone's attention.

"Time is up!" he announced. "Since there is no clear victor, I will announce the winner based on performance. The winner is..."

"Eduardo."

Talk to Kenpachi -- 05/24

[namelessblade.livejournal.com]

Arms crossed over his chest and observing carefully (hooray for an impressive monitoring system), Kenpachi will answer any questions. He won't be happy about it, though.

Talk to the TA -- 05/24

[namelessblade.livejournal.com]

Or, if you prefer, you can talk to Tori when she pings in.

OOC -- 05/24

[namelessblade.livejournal.com]

...FINALLY. Y'think I have enough OCD? XD

Um, anyway, yes. Questions? Comments? Coffee and/or pie? I should be around all day on on AIM at Skylie1313, too, (unless I finally get a job interview, omg!) should you need to poke and this here OOC world-end-preventing thread just won't do.

Re: OOC -- 05/24

[mouthy-merc.livejournal.com]

I WILL NOT GRATE CHEESE OFF YOUR ABS, GOOD SIR. THAT IS UNSANITARY!