Defending Yourself [Monday, Period 1]

[furious-maximus.livejournal.com]

"Welcome back. Hope you all enjoyed your weekend." Max eyed his students. "And that you took the time to do your homework."

"Today's lesson is actually going to be short because I'm going to try leaving most of our time for some demonstrations, but there is something I'm hoping you all pick up on today: each of you has a set of instinctive reactions when threatened. Everyone has different ones, of course, but the lesson to learn is that most of them are useful. Maybe not all the time, or in all situations, and it's useful to be aware of when to fight your instincts, but it's also important to realize that no matter how new you all are to the concept, each and every one of you has some ideas about how to defend yourself. And not all of those ideas are bad ones."

"For instance," another look around, this time with a grin, "I gave you a homework assignment last week I gave you a homework assignment with very little guidance, and I'm willing to bet that you all managed to do it. And I also suspect that most of you came up with something the others didn't, if only because of the way you think about things."

"So let's see them. Everyone take a moment to show us what you've brought, and explain why you picked it. And feel free to talk ideas with each other."

And then Max's grin turned downright evil, and he nodded toward the door that wasn't part of the usual classroom setup (thank you, Danger Shop!). "While you're doing that, you'll find a list of your names in totally random order by the door. If you're at the top of the list, come on through for a personal evaluation." That totally wasn't going to be an ambush so that Max could evaluate your instinctive reactions to surprise attacks. Unless it was.

Hint: it totally was.

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Comments

Re: Step through door number 1

[furious-maximus.livejournal.com]

Pretty good plan, really. It probably would have worked a lot better if Max hadn't spent enough time training Karla that he actually tended to think of sight shields as pretty common.

The waiting trick was nice, though.

Of course, Max could wait, too. And he did. Standing behind the open door to see what Surreal would do next.

Re: Step through door number 1

[harpy-daughter.livejournal.com]

She would go up, of course, solidifying the air to run up two or three feet, and then turn to look around, slowly, getting the feel of the space and letting her eyes adjust the rest of the way.

He was clearly here somewhere, Surreal recognized his psychic scent in the room, but the question was where.

Re: Step through door number 1

[furious-maximus.livejournal.com]

Max waited for her to begin turning, and then kicked the door closed with a bang. In the same motion he moved forward, grabbing for Surreal's waist now that it was at a convenient grabbing height.