fandomhigh | Sensory Deprivation Combat Training; Monday, Third Period [03/27].

Oh, look! Another class inspired vaguely by the events of this weekend! But, hey, sometimes, some people had to make a lot of these things every week, if an easy opportunity for class material presents itself, you take it, and you run with it.

Ignis was running with it with a little extra help from Gladio again this week, since he'd be the first to admit that his experience with some of the things he wanted to do this week was a little restricted these days. But the class would find themselves in a bit of a volcanic terrain, very inspired by the Rock of Ravatogh back in Eos, just with a lot more lava flows and pits, as well as a variety of metallic and wooden structures to make it a bit more interesting to travel across and, naturally, your roaming enemy targets.

"Well, I have to say," Ignis started, "what happened this weekend was unfortunate, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't at least inspire a solution for how I could effectively work the deprivation of touch into a lesson. In fact, it opened up a few ideas for me for the next few weeks, but this week, I figured, since it's a topic very fresh in our minds, we'll do a little work with heat sensory. Now, sometimes, the danger of a fire or an extremely hot area such as a volcano or the like, isn't the fire or the lava itself...though make no mistake, those are definitely quite the danger...but rather what's around as well. Wooden structures that may collapse. Metal fixtures that are far hotter than they appear. And, typically, one could use their sense of touch to determine whether something is unsafe. Here in the danger shop, though, we can run a course where the sensation of heat is not there to guide you, and so you'll have to depend on your other senses to determine a safe path. We'll go over a few ways to use your sight, your hearing, even smell, to help you seek out factors other than the heat itself to know which way to go and what to avoid, and then, of course, you'll put that into practice. And since sight will be helpful in this case, we have Gladio here to help with that aspect, though if anyone's interested in running a version of the course that goes in the opposite direction, where we'll focus on the usefulness of feel without the aid of vision, let me know, I do have that prepared as well."

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Too hot to handle.

It's a lot of "where there's smoke, there's fire" and general information about the properties of heat and how it effects its surroundings from a guy whose name is literally 'Fire Knowledge', sooooooo....

You can't feel the fire unless you're right up in it, and even then, it's just a little flare to alert you to the fact that you've gotten too close. But try to work your way through the course while trying to avoid the fire hazards without actually feeling any of the fire.

Or, if you'd like, you can practice being hyperaware of feeling the fire in a scenario where you can't see it, instead.

Or both. There's definitely time for both.

One definitely is more there to be the other's set of eyes, but both are available if needed.

Gladio may have more experience in starting fires than avoiding them, really, but he's definitely had plenty of training in this kind of stuff. Even taking on fire damage, too, since, well...when one of your teammates could just make it and everyone's just lobbing around magic flasks full of it....