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Fighting With Powers [Monday, Fourth Period]
Welcome to the Danger Shop configured to look just like a regular school classroom.
"We've talked about how magic can affect someone directly in combat. Both how it can affect you as a user through things like flight or invisibility, and how it can affect others through projectiles or energy attacks. But magic is flexible enough to do more than just that. Which, since you're all smart and pay attention, you've figured out is the topic of today's class."
"Controlling your environment is one of the most powerful things you can do with magic, and one of the most difficult things to overcome when facing a skilled opponent." Max eyed his students thoughtfully, wondering who would learn this lesson and who would have trouble with it.
"Hopefully by now you've all learned how big a deal it is to control where a fight takes place." That had been one of the big points of the class on flight, after all. "Being able to manipulate your environment provides you with a lot of the same advantages no matter where you are. If you can pass through walls, for instance, then your opponent will be constrained by the room or hallway they're in while you have freedom of movement. If you can telekinetically move furniture around you can sometimes achieve the same effect."
"And if you can actually shape your environment?" Max grinned, concentrated, and stepped back as a massive wall of concrete rose up out of the floor, stopping when it was about three feet high. "You can guarantee yourself all sorts of advantages."
"This is one of those things that most people have trouble wrapping their heads around until they've had some experience, so it's time for everyone's favorite part of this class: the activity."
"Each of you have three minutes to find somewhere in this building that you think will provide you with the most advantage in a fight. And then I'll come and find you." And they'd find out if they'd made a good choice.
"Your three minutes begins now."
"We've talked about how magic can affect someone directly in combat. Both how it can affect you as a user through things like flight or invisibility, and how it can affect others through projectiles or energy attacks. But magic is flexible enough to do more than just that. Which, since you're all smart and pay attention, you've figured out is the topic of today's class."
"Controlling your environment is one of the most powerful things you can do with magic, and one of the most difficult things to overcome when facing a skilled opponent." Max eyed his students thoughtfully, wondering who would learn this lesson and who would have trouble with it.
"Hopefully by now you've all learned how big a deal it is to control where a fight takes place." That had been one of the big points of the class on flight, after all. "Being able to manipulate your environment provides you with a lot of the same advantages no matter where you are. If you can pass through walls, for instance, then your opponent will be constrained by the room or hallway they're in while you have freedom of movement. If you can telekinetically move furniture around you can sometimes achieve the same effect."
"And if you can actually shape your environment?" Max grinned, concentrated, and stepped back as a massive wall of concrete rose up out of the floor, stopping when it was about three feet high. "You can guarantee yourself all sorts of advantages."
"This is one of those things that most people have trouble wrapping their heads around until they've had some experience, so it's time for everyone's favorite part of this class: the activity."
"Each of you have three minutes to find somewhere in this building that you think will provide you with the most advantage in a fight. And then I'll come and find you." And they'd find out if they'd made a good choice.
"Your three minutes begins now."
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That was the principle of it, anyway; it just looked more like flailing.
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"Interesting technique," he grunted as he got his hands up and shoved her back.
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"I'm not a fighter!" she protested, kicking another chair into the way to hopefully buy herself a second to get back up. "I'm trying to make do here!"
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