Interdisciplinary Studies or whatever, Class 4, Wednesday, Period 5

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Today's class was held in the Danger Room. Squall had emailed the students, but the email went out late, so the chalkboard was up by the main campfire with "INTER~ S. MEET IN DANGER RM" scrawled on it.

As the class entered, they'd find the Danger Room set up to look like... The campground, next to the gym. Oooh. How special.

Squall was leaning nonchalantly against the outside of the gym, picking at his teeth, with his gunblade speared into the ground next to him. He looked... More than usual. More alert, more alive, stronger, faster... He's normally pretty bad-ass, but he was a whole order of magnitude more awesome today.

Not that that improved his personality at all.




When everyone had arrived, he tossed the sign-in clipboard to a student and shouldered his gunblade. "You're here to learn important stuff, so today, class, we are learning self-defense." He looked them all over with a smirk, and shrugged. "I'm sure plenty of you already know how to defend yourself, and you're pretty good at fighting. I'm not going to make you learn the basics if you don't want to. Hands up, anyone who thinks that this lesson is pointless for them. "

When the hands raised, Squall scratched his head and shrugged at them. "Okay, you all go wait in the gym. I'll start the wusses off with some warmups and be there in a minute."

As they walked off, Squall showed the rest of the class some basic stretches and warm-up exercises to get the blood and the chi flowing. "Remember, feet wide apart, knees bent, and breathe from the stomach, not the chest," he cautioned them. "Also, ground and center yourself, or whatever you want to call it. Become one with your inner whatever, and feel the universe yadda yadda through you... Look, it works, okay? Just do it." And with that, he left them to it.


...And then he went to the gym. See the OCD below for the surprise.


When he came back a few minutes later, there was an inhuman screeching and wailing going on behind him. "Ignore the noise," he said.

"Now, I don't have enough time to ACTUALLY teach you self-defense, so we're going to go for the next best thing." And so he instructed them on how to break away if someone grabs you. He told them where to aim on the body for maximum pain -- eyes, throat, kneecaps, groin, that sort of thing -- and showed them some techniques for doing just that, especially while being grabbed. All sorts of stuff like that, in the general "if someone attacks you, cause them lots of pain so you can run away" school of thought.



[Wait for OCD! OCD up... enjoy!]

[ETA: Mun is at work, and apologizes; meant to be here for this class to take pings, and couldn't. Am updating for him.

1) No weapons beforehand, sorry. But there's a moddable copy of the weapons locker in the corner. If your char would think to grab a weapon while he's talking to the other group - or would run for one once the surprise appears - take anything you like.

2) Lightning in Final Fantasy is magical and not physical, so don't worry (OOC) about metal weapons conducting. Feel free to worry IC, if you like. :)

3) Physical attacks and normal weapons can totally hurt it, yes. Lightning-based magic, if anybody has any, will actually heal it, and water-based magic will be especially harmful. [Speaking of water magic, the mun would like to point to the ETA note from last week. Not that it's required in any way to take the beastie down, but if you would have thought to bring it along and try it out? Have at.]

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In the gym

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Squall walked into the gym and stood just inside the door, looking at the students there. "So you think you're tough, do you?" he asked. "I can't teach you anything, right?" He shrugged. "Okay."

He closed his eyes for a moment and the room darkened considerably. Blue spikes of lightning forked down from the ceiling and coalesced into a large... something rising from the floor. The lightning died away and the light came back, but now there was a giant glowing bird-snake THING in the middle of the room. It shrieked harshly and shot a bolt of lightning from its mouth at the students.

And Squall smirked and left, chaining the door shut behind him.


[Class, meet Quetzacoatl, the Feathered Serpent of Aztec legend Quezacotl, the elemental lightning Guardian Force. Have fun! Don't get electrocuted! You're in the Danger Room, and the safeguards are on, so if anyone gets too badly hurt you'll show up in the back of the other group of students for a refresher. Squall will open the doors again after you defeat Quezacotl or a few minutes before class ends, whichever comes first.]

Re: In the gym

[wannabehunter]

"...crap."

Re: In the gym

[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

The big bird-snake-thing shrieked and lunged at Jo.

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[wannabehunter]

Jo ducked, and rolled out of the way of... whatever the hell that was.

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[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

Whatever the hell that was shrieked and shot lightning bolts at her.

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[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

//"Oh sh*t..."// Ami cursed in Japanese and got into a ready stance to see how this thing attacked.

Re: In the gym

[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

With a burst of lightning followed by a tail-swipe, that's how.

Re: In the gym

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

Ami jumped out of the way of the lightning, but got hit with the tail swipe. "Ow" she said as she ran towards another person. strength in numbers and all that.

consolidating with the thread with Roxas

Re: In the gym

[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

"........"

Re: In the gym

[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

Quezacotl swung a powerful wing at Aravis, trying to knock her down.

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[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

Aravis dodged and ran for the weapons locker, grabbing a short, light sword quickly before turning around to face it again, blade at the ready.

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[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

It backed away a little and sent a bolt of lightning at her.

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[orewahikari.livejournal.com]

". . ."

Roxas isn't staring at Quezacotl. Or, well, he is, once Squall leaves. But before that, there was staring at Squall.

He wants to learn how to do that!

Then there's staring at Quezacotl, and much in the way of swearing.

"Guys? Anyone got any ideas?" he asks, looking around.

Re: In the gym

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"Well, there is running. Um. I think we need ranged weapons against it. Or a whole lot of jumping." Ami carefully picked up a sword.

Re: In the gym

[orewahikari.livejournal.com]

"Swords are metal. That thing just puked lightning at us," he says, but really, he's not sure what else to do.

He laughs a little.

"Anyone know any magic?"

Re: In the gym

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"I can make a little paper bird fly around my head. So no, no useful magic. And yeah. Lightening bad. But the sword is all i have..."

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[likethegun]

"...oh, come on. Seriously?" Sam whined, immediately looking around for anything weapon-like.

Re: In the gym

[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

Yes, seriously. And it was seriously coming right for him.

The weapons locker wasn't too far away, though.

Re: In the gym

[likethegun]

Spotting the oh-so-helpfully-placed weapons locker, Sam ran over and started looking for a good weapon. A good ranged weapon. Something he could use from as far away as possible. He came across a crossbow, and decided that was probably good to start with.

Re: In the gym

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Setsuna was sucking in a deep breath to calm herself as Squall shut the door. Yes, just because she didn't feel she'd learn anything from a basic self defense lesson, she was insinuating that she thought she was too good to be...

Ugh. Whatever. Her attention shifted toward the center of the room. Well. This would be interesting. Wincing at the shriek, Setsuna moved quickly as the lighting spewed from its mouth. She moved quickly around the gym, where she'd seen the copy of the weapon's locker, hoping to get to it and retrieve Yuunagi quickly by the time it noticed her and tried to attack again.

She was making a quick plan in her head. Lighting-based, will want to avoid using your lightening attacks. As soon as you get your sword, make a leap toward it's head and try to strike there. If that doesn't work, get out your wings and face it on its own level and try to get at the heart...

Re: In the gym

[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

Quezacotl was ignoring her (... avoiding her?) for the moment, so she was plenty free to grab her sword.

When she got near its head, it shrieked and bucked, filling the air around her with lightning as it tried to toss her away.

Re: In the gym

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

//"Shinmei Ryuu Lightning Barrier!"// Setsuna the overpowered sharply retracted her blade in to call up a defensive technique, which was able to deflect the lightly but left her thrown back. She reached over to grab the side of the bleachers as she went tumbling into the air toward it, using it to help her press her feet against the wall for a second. So that's how it was going to be, huh? She launched herself forward, pulling out her wings and swooping around Quezacotl, flying toward a slash at its back.

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[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly grinned and her eyes flared pink when the monster appeared. Oh, yeah. This is was going to be fun.

She dove out of the way when it shot lightning at them and came up back on her feet. Now, if only she could get it to come down so she could hit it.

Re: In the gym

[whatever-sucks.livejournal.com]

It... seemed to sense that she wasn't as scared as everyone else. So it did its best to keep away from her and only attack her with lightning.

Re: In the gym

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Stupid lightning bird thing. "Come down here!" Molly demanded loudly as she dodged more lightning.