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There was a rack full of practice swords standing rather prominently at the front of the Danger Shop today. "While weaponry may be practical in many instances, such as we saw last week," Obi-Wan said, "There is something to be said for ritualized, civilized violence to settle disputes. Young Jedi have been known to work through both differences and practice in lightsaber duels. Your own planet's history has its fair share of such practices as well, albeit with slightly different weapons."

"They aren't as good as lightsabers," Anakin said flatly, eyes sparkling a bit, "but that's not really your fault. Sword fighting--and fencing, which is slightly more common as a sport these days since not a lot of people wander around with swords any more--" his tone said more's the pity "--has rules that are similar to Jedi lightsaber combat. Wounding is considerably more difficult to do than killing outright, and is therefore considered the mark of the superior warrior."

"Each sword must be of equal size and length as that of your opponent," Obi-Wan said, and if there was a euphemism in there, he wasn't going to budge and admit it. "And it must be dulled. You must take off your coats to show that you have not brought extra fortification to the battle. You may not use your off-hand for anything during the battle, or you will be disqualified."

Anakin was totally smirking at the euphemisms. "I thought we dropped the cloaks for better range of arm motion?"

"That as well," Obi-Wan said primly. "There are many reasons to dispense of such garments before battle."

(Or he was a drama queen from a long Master-Padawan line of drama queens.)

(It was totally the second one.)

"All right. Everyone grab swords that we have made sure are all the same weight and length, step far apart from each other, and prepare to do a few basic maneuvers with us," Anakin said.

"Remember that you must stop if you wound your opponent," Obi-Wan said, "Unlikely as that is with these particular weapons. And when the other says stop, you must also do so-- though that means your opponent forfeits the battle."

He took a few paces back, then slid into a ready stance with a practice sword.

"That part we don't do in lightsaber combat," Anakin said, snorting. "Can you imagine a Sith Lord asking you to stop? Please." He faced off against Obi-Wan, then went through a basic attack and parry sequence at half-speed.

"Now," Obi-Wan said, as they finished, his own sword pointing towards the floor, "It is your turn."

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Civilized.

Garik Loran

Raven Darkholme

Kathy Li

Kaylin Neya

Dueling! Etiquette! Swords! Dramatically thrown garments!

Even in half-time, it's probably clear Obi-Wan and Anakin have dueled many, many, many times before.

Now it's your turn! Go through the exercise at half-speed, then try it faster - or have a match of your own.

Just remember to observe proper etiquette.

Face looked far, far too cheerful at the prospect of swinging swords at people.

"Should I take that expression to mean you've done this before?" Raven asked.

No, no, you should not.

Face shook his head. "I've had some training in stage duelling." Vibroswords, not lightsabers. Even if he hadn't been too young for Jedi roles, there was no way he'd have been cast as one in an Imperial holo. "Never got cast in anything that called for it though."

"Well, good. That'll put us on more even footing." Raven shrugged. "I've had maybe one or two classes here that dealt with swords. And I used to pretend to fence my brother with sticks."

"As far as I can tell the main difference is we're actually going to be trying to hit each other." As opposed to hoping the other guy remembered the choreography in time to block.

"You're not a telepath, are you?" Raven checked. "Because my brother could read minds and that's totally cheating."

"Nope, not a mind reader," Face said, completely neglecting to mention how well he could read body language, it wasn't like he had enough practice following up on that in a fight that it'd give him enough edge to be cheating.

"Well, alright then," Raven said. "I suppose anything else would be fair game."

Like, say, shapeshifting.

She adjusted her grip on her practice sword and lifted it into a decent imitation of a proper fencing stance. "En garde!"

"Ladies first," Face quipped as he settled into his own stance, keeping his eyes on Raven as opposed to her sword.

Kathy lacked a cloak to swirl dramatically, so she pulled her hair up into a ponytail to swish around while she practiced. That counted, right?

At least two of which have a noted history of throwing their robes around dramatically.

Soren did not have robes to throw around dramatically, no. He did, however, look as if he wanted to say something about the 'not many people wander around with swords anymore' comment. Because they did in his version of Earth, thank you very much.

Anakin stopped throwing them dramatically and learned to sweep dramatically in them while killing people with his brain.

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