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[motherofnemesis]

[ she almost made this anonymous, but in the end concluded she could figure out a way to ask what she wanted without incriminating herself. ]

I have two questions for everyone.

1) Are there people here who have more than human abilities that can affect other people's minds? And if so, are any of them willing to help others train in resistance of mental interference?

2) How many people here have no experience fighting?

Oh actually 3 questions, I guess. I wouldn't mind finding a few people to spar with, if anyone else is looking. I used to do martial arts as a hobby, so I'm not entirely inexperienced.

[ ooc: if anyone wants to log out / action sparring encounters just let me know! ]

Comments

[motherofnemesis]

What do you know about kicking techniques? The leg is a lot more powerful than the arm when it comes to sending someone flying.

mother of god when i said at 10:30 i'd be down for playing D&D i didn't think we'd still be at 5:30

[fe_male]

I know that, that I could probably be more flexible, that it seems harder not to project movements with the leg than the arms, and whatever you're about to teach me.

Re: mother of god when i said at 10:30 i'd be down for playing D&D i didn't think we'd still be at 5

[motherofnemesis]

The key is to move fast enough there's no space for them to do anything with the knowledge that you're about to kick them. Like so. [ A split second spin kick, leaving her leg suspended in midair at the end for a long moment before she lowers it slowly. ] But really, if you know how to do the basic kicks the only way to get good enough to make them matter is to practice. A lot. Pretty much every day for a while, until it's just totally instinctive.

[fe_male]

[ He watches that, because shit, that was impressive, and it shows on his face for all of a second or two. ] I'm gonna say right now, if you're gonna force me to learn to protect myself, that's probably one: kind of didactic, two: kind of hot, and three: probably not a horrible idea. I'll go build an awesome training dummy and get right on that.

[motherofnemesis]

[ You bet it was impressive, she's deeply impressive. And she's not actually bothering to try to pretend that she doesn't know how to do this stuff around him like she would around others, because he doesn't tend to ask inconvenient questions. ] I'm not going to make you do anything, but if you want to teaching other people isn't that bad a way to keep up on your own stuff. [ And with an amused side glance. ] You have a thing for fighting or something?

[fe_male]

And who am I gonna teach? Butterfingers? [ But that makes him grin a little. ] Maybe. What're you gonna do about it?

[motherofnemesis]

Well, you've got to learn before you can teach anyone. But I'm sure there's always plenty of people to teach here. [ Raising her eyebrows at him. ] I don't know, what would I do?

[fe_male]

I have no idea what you would do about it. That's half the reason it's exciting. Also please, like I couldn't give out lessons on making a great paper airplane and people wouldn't line up around the block for it. There's some bias there to work around.

[motherofnemesis]

Well, I don't have any big plans so I think you're safe not being excited any more. [ Also all that's gonna get him is a 'please' sort of look. ] I don't think I believe that, at all.

true story: I totally forgot this was game and not psl and the last tag still sort of stands anyway

[fe_male]

What if I just find you, in general, to be exciting? [ Well he just gives that a 'ya rly' look in return, because, seriously, look at him, he's awesome. ] I can't imagine why you wouldn't.

lmao well done

[motherofnemesis]

[ The 'come on please' look just gets more accentuated. ] I'm not really very exciting. And really? Because I can't imagine why I would.

danke danke

[fe_male]

[ He's now wearing his 'Oh please, don't front' face. ] Why you wouldn't want to learn how to make the best paper airplane ever? Who doesn't feel the strong pull of temptation from that kind of offer?

[motherofnemesis]

[ She's just going to counter with being totally unimpressed. ] I don't feel any strong pull of temptation from that.

[fe_male]

[ She's going to keep being totally unreasonable, you mean. ] You must just be some kind of anomaly then.

[motherofnemesis]

[ She's pretty positive she's actually being really, really reasonable here. ] Or I'm just a normal person, and you have too much faith in your own charm.

[fe_male]

Uh huh. Because that's totally more plausible.

[motherofnemesis]

I think it's pretty plausible. I'm pretty normal, and it's not that interesting. We can do a poll, if it really means that much to you.

[fe_male]

That would be the height of insecurity. No thanks. I'll just choose to believe what I want.

[motherofnemesis]

If you feel like living in constant delusion and an inability to protect yourself, sure.

[fe_male]

It's worked for forty years; I don't see much reason to alter the foundation now.

[motherofnemesis]

You know, a scientist should be constantly adjusting their method, seeing if other ones work better.

[fe_male]

A scientist constantly adjusting how they do daily tasks would never have time for the true innovation.

[motherofnemesis]

But how do you know you're getting the most efficiency out of your daily schedule? Until you know that, you could just be wasting your time.

[fe_male]

You'd be a horrible person to have around for scientific purposes, you know that? This is walking second-guessing I'm looking at.

[motherofnemesis]

I'm actually a great person to have around for scientific purposes. When people let their confidence get in the way of actually doing their work, I provide a welcome service.