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[ There is a blast of static before the video feed clicks on. The only elaborate thing he owned that stood out against all the drab issued-on-arrival furniture that dotted his bare as bones suite was a cherry wood desk. Laid out on its surface was a gutted and dissected glove that looks to be made of metal and snaking cords of copper. Even behind that white wood mask he looked displeased with whatever project lay the electric glove in pieces. ]
While experimenting with finding alternate power sources for these devices in the wake of yet another series of tragedies and misfortunes, I decided to turn my attention elsewhere. Not to arsenal but to my fellow foreigners.
The divide between those who possess preternatural and even god-like abilities and those who do not is wide, and I find this distressing. While we are all unequal in the eyes of the Emperor I believe she does wish us to be capable of standing on our own two feet whenever the next cataclysmic event occurs, or whenever the supposed apocalypse fires start.
Taking time away from my free clinic in the Earth sector I will start offering to teach those with little to no formal training in the basics of martial arts: specifically, chi-blocking and hand to hand, closed quarters combat. Without demonstration I can best describe chi-blocking to the uninformed as a school of martial arts that places emphasis on temporarily rendering muscle function useless and even dampening chi or energy based powers. If nothing else, those who feel defenceless can take some initiative.
Kyle Rayner has agreed to supply rooms at EA-3B for training a small number of students at a time so I won't be far from my clinic. In the meantime I hope to attract a small student body and cooperate with anyone here who has experience in close-quarters combat and/or martial arts. It would be best to introduce something so demanding and exact as chi-blocking slowly. A sort of teacher-student arrangement.
I will be taking names of interested foreigners and answering any questions through my personal console, or in person at my clinic.
Standard encryption: private to M. Pontmercy
It's entirely up to you, but I must insist you take up these lessons.
While experimenting with finding alternate power sources for these devices in the wake of yet another series of tragedies and misfortunes, I decided to turn my attention elsewhere. Not to arsenal but to my fellow foreigners.
The divide between those who possess preternatural and even god-like abilities and those who do not is wide, and I find this distressing. While we are all unequal in the eyes of the Emperor I believe she does wish us to be capable of standing on our own two feet whenever the next cataclysmic event occurs, or whenever the supposed apocalypse fires start.
Taking time away from my free clinic in the Earth sector I will start offering to teach those with little to no formal training in the basics of martial arts: specifically, chi-blocking and hand to hand, closed quarters combat. Without demonstration I can best describe chi-blocking to the uninformed as a school of martial arts that places emphasis on temporarily rendering muscle function useless and even dampening chi or energy based powers. If nothing else, those who feel defenceless can take some initiative.
Kyle Rayner has agreed to supply rooms at EA-3B for training a small number of students at a time so I won't be far from my clinic. In the meantime I hope to attract a small student body and cooperate with anyone here who has experience in close-quarters combat and/or martial arts. It would be best to introduce something so demanding and exact as chi-blocking slowly. A sort of teacher-student arrangement.
I will be taking names of interested foreigners and answering any questions through my personal console, or in person at my clinic.
Standard encryption: private to M. Pontmercy
It's entirely up to you, but I must insist you take up these lessons.
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The standing tally is six. Eight if I factor in those who wish to come on as teacher-students.
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Unless that training is boring. In which case then it deserves all the mocking it gets.
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You're thinking about whether or not to smack me upside the head with a walkingstick right now, aren't you?
[Or at very least that's what this silence feels like.]
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I hadn't gone so to far into detail as thinking it needed to be walkingstick, no.
[ damn kids, etc etc ]
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[ He's exhausted his capacity to joke this month. ]
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PARDON ME DON'T MIND ME LEO IS A STALKER [Voice | Locked to Mike]]
Big Brothers are the WORST, aren't they Amon?....Uh....
[Audio | Basic Encryption] Big Brothers spoil EVERYTHING.
Look, Korra says he's bad news. And he used "blood-bending" against another foreigner - someone who wasn't even attacking him. That's controlling another person's body, Mike.
It's true he can't do it right now, but we can't trust somebody who would abuse his power like that.
[Yet... if the smooth-talking bender really is bad news, they could stand to keep tabs on him. And Leo would quite like to know who the other students are, or rather who moves on to acquire this skill-set - even if they would pose little danger to his family. After all, they have soft-bodied allies. As much as he hates to admit it, an eye on the scene would be useful.
After a long pause of reconsideration he sighs, a reluctant and distinctly Leo sound that's invariably accompanied by crossed arms.]
But... I guess we could stand to know what he's up to.
Just be careful. And I want to hear everything as soon as you get out, got it? [Because it's not as if Leo would love to learn that crap too.]
[Audio | Basic Encryption] Big Brothers spoil EVERYTHING.
[Audio | Basic Encryption] It's their job.
[Audio | Basic Encryption] It's their job.
[This would probably be a much more believable promise if Mike wasn't doing his impression of Leo while making it.