Read the Room: Practical Self-Defense, Thursday 11/14 (Period 1)

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As students entered the classroom today, they would find themselves filtering into a small but fairly well-equipped gym locker room. The front area was made up of rows of alternating lockers and benches, leading into the shower area, where curtained showers lined one wall and partitioned changing stalls lined the other, and finally to the restroom stalls at the far end of the room.

Kennedy was standing on the bench near the door -- look, she knew she had a pretty large personality and could yell loud enough to match it, but she was still short.

"Hey, everybody. Sorry about last week," she said. "Some people accidentally triggered a small off-season apocalypse, it was a whole thing, I'll spare you the details. Anyway, today we're going to be looking at how you do in a close-quarters, sort of cramped environment. And this week, I want you to focus on incapacitating your attacker, not just getting away, got it? You'll be running through this one individually, you versus one not-so-friendly Danger Shop baddie. And as always, be creative, remember to use your surroundings."

She grinned at them. "The door-in-the-face move is a classic. Highly recommended, by the way. Okay, line up and have at it."

Comments

Sign In (Practical Self-Defense, 11/14)

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Squeaky clean.

Re: Sign In (Practical Self-Defense, 11/14)

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Lana Beniko

Re: Sign In (Practical Self-Defense, 11/14)

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Prompto Argentum

Re: Sign In (Practical Self-Defense, 11/14)

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Gratuity Tucci

Re: Sign In (Practical Self-Defense, 11/14)

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Shuri

During the Lecture (Practical Self-Defense, 11/14)

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Doze off, chat, whatever it is you do, but Kennedy can probably see you in this small space.

Square Off! (Practical Self-Defense, 11/14)

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Some of the lockers that are unlocked may have random gym bags in them. Feel free to mod the contents as things you'd be likely to find in people's gym bags. That might be useful as weapons.

Just … do keep in mind that it is a small space, even if it is pretty well ventilated, so you might want to think twice about weaponizing that Axe body spray. Don't want to end up incapacitating yourself too.

Re: Square Off! (Practical Self-Defense, 11/14)

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Shuri was totally weaponizing the hairspray she found, though, especially when she dug up a lighter, too.

"FLAMERTHROWER!"

Don't sound so excited, Shuri.

Talk to Kennedy (Practical Self-Defense, 11/14)

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Before or after class, she's around!

OOC (Practical Self-Defense, 11/14)

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Soooooooo on Tuesday night, I got overly ambitious chopping up veggies for a stir fry that I was making mostly to use up a bunch of stuff in the refrigerator before it went bad, and found myself with a colander full of already chopped-up cabbage that wouldn't fit in the wok with everything else.

And that's the story of how I ended up making vegetable soup at 11:30 at night, but I maintain that as far as Questionable Decisions In Late-Night Eating go, I have certainly made poorer choices than random-ass, freshly-cooked vegetable soup.