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fandomhigh2018-08-03 12:59 pm
battlewithstyle) wrote in fandomhigh2018-08-03 12:59 pm
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Japanese Blades, First Period, Friday [08/03].
Back in the dojo this week, with again weirdly no sign of a guest.
Mitsutada looked a little worried about this fact.
"My guest has arrived already, so I do not know where he is at. He did go for a stroll, but... no mind. I am glad Yamabushi did not scare any of you off. I did not expect you all to get sudden ascetic training."
He shrugged, apologetically.
"This week, we are going to be practicing with ootachi. They are longer swords than tachi, with blades some three feet in length on average. My guest is a shrine sword, meaning a sword from a religious shrine. Specifically, the Ishikiri-Tsurugiya Shrine in Osaka, which is known as a place to go for healing. He'd be better able to explain all that, but... I suppose I can try and take questions in his stead?"
He was struggling a bit, this was worrying him a little.
[ooc: OCD up, class ready to go!]
Mitsutada looked a little worried about this fact.
"My guest has arrived already, so I do not know where he is at. He did go for a stroll, but... no mind. I am glad Yamabushi did not scare any of you off. I did not expect you all to get sudden ascetic training."
He shrugged, apologetically.
"This week, we are going to be practicing with ootachi. They are longer swords than tachi, with blades some three feet in length on average. My guest is a shrine sword, meaning a sword from a religious shrine. Specifically, the Ishikiri-Tsurugiya Shrine in Osaka, which is known as a place to go for healing. He'd be better able to explain all that, but... I suppose I can try and take questions in his stead?"
He was struggling a bit, this was worrying him a little.
[ooc: OCD up, class ready to go!]
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Time for Practice!
Oodachi were big swords, so these would possibly be extremely unwieldy for some students.
"This week, I'm not going to ask you to spar," Mitsutada said. He clapped his hands together and then appeared some training dummies with targets marked on them. "Instead, I want you to try and strike the dummies in succession. Strike to the neck, then the side. It's tricky, and not even I feel truly trained with such a large blade, but the sequence is something to know."
"I apologize that I'm not as familiar as my guest would have been."
Where was he?
After the Class
He stopped immediately, bending over to catch his breath.
"I lost track of time, and ran all the way here," the man said between heavy breaths. "Hopefully I am still mostly on time."
"...the class is over," Mitsutada said.
Oh, Ishikirimaru. You're so slow.
If anyone wanted to talk to the guest, he was there now.
OOC
Yes entirely for my own amusement.
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That didn't stop her from trying, of course, with the concentrated effort of someone who could at least follow directions, even if she was lacking when it came to skill.
Re: After the Class
Until the zero-hour, anyway. Which meant Astrid wasn't going to leave until she got in at least one question. It's not like she cared if she was late for brooding class; he would just tell Jono she was moping or something, maybe even get extra credit.
Since she didn't have much of an imagination to even start guessing what this one's story was, it was pretty simple.
"Why were you so late?" she asked. "Did you get distracted by something?"
Okay, two questions. But she just found herself really curious and, oddly, almost comprehensibly, a little irritated about it, too.
Re: After the Class
"Ishikirimaru isn't the... fastest sword," Mitsutada added, looking apologetic. "It was my mistake to leave you alone, I am sorry."
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