Sparring Meetup No. 2

[kill_switch]

Who: You!
Broadcast: Reminder message to previous participants
Action: First Breath
When: Today

Network Message

Sparring session, First Breath, bring your own water.

Action

[She's set up the cargo bay as the center of operations; crates and cargo are moved to the sides to provide seating around a large open space. Feel free to spectate or engage.]

Comments

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[Furiosa smiles.] Please, educate me.

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[therewerefifty]

As you wish. [And she smiles a little, at that. The two of them might have more than just their gender in common.]

It will make a good way to wind down afterwards.

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[kill_switch]

[Probably, definitely. They should hang out more.]

I like that idea. So, shall we? [She gives Makie a light punch in the arm. Ready to tussle?]

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[therewerefifty]

[She looks a little disconcerted at the punch, tbh, but she gets the gist soon enough, expression clearing. And she hefts her sword.]

Yes.

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[Furiosa finds her own practice blade, ready to execute some of the forms Adalwolfe had been teaching her. She steps back and waits for Makie to make the first move.]

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[therewerefifty]

[Remembering the last time they sparred, Makie will go with a reasonably simple attack to begin with, likely one of the more common ones from their first bout. It's a test to see if her opponent has gained ground. She can measure the rest of her fight from there.]

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[Furiosa sticks with simple forms and what she knows as they warm up before she starts pushing herself, using the different forms she'd just learned.]

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[therewerefifty]

[Oh, excellent. She smiles briefly, shifting to accommodate.] Who is teaching you?

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[kill_switch]

Adalwolfe, new crewmate. [She smirks back,] Not bad for a first lesson, huh?

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[therewerefifty]

You are a warrior. [But yes she's pleased to see it. Furiosa is skilled.] But one lesson shows how perceptive you are. I should like to meet your teacher one day.

[If only because swordsmen automatically engage her interest.]

Re: Action

[kill_switch]

That I am. [She can't argue with that assessment. Literally, her name was almost The Warrior.]

He's here, if you want to meet him.

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[therewerefifty]

For the sparring, or a member of your crew? [Or both. She doesn't glance around, because lol middle of fight, even if they're not trying to kill each other.]

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[kill_switch]

[Good thing she didn't, because Furiosa would have taken the opening.]

Both. I can introduce you when we're done.

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[therewerefifty]

I would appreciate that. [If he's already here, that's convenient.]</small. From your world, or another?

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[kill_switch]

Another. [Considering for a moment,] One with magic.

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[therewerefifty]

I see. [That adds a shade of wary thoughtfulness, though the poor man probably doesn't deserve it. Magic is just such an unknown to her.] Does he practice magic himself, or is he just a swordsman?

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He's both, but he uses a staff over a sword, far as I know.

[She's modifying it as she needs, dependent as well on her own physical limitations.]

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[therewerefifty]

I can hardly fault him for preferring another weapon over the sword. My own weapon of choice is different also.

[Staff fighters can also be deceptively effective.]

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[kill_switch]

Hey, if it works, it's right. [She liked to be versed in whatever she can get her hands on, because who knew if that's all you were going to have available to you in a pinch. Personally? Shotguns and stilettos were the wear to her heart and lung.]

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[therewerefifty]

In my homeland, tradition is based around form and the use of only one sword, as is proper. [That's not a particularly respectful italics, though with Makie her scorn is mild enough.]

There's a movement called the Itto-Ryu that holds that it doesn't matter what weapon you use or how you fight, so long as it's one on one.

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[kill_switch]

[She quirks her head at Makie's inflection on that word, proper, and offers a dru chuckle herself.]

There weren't really any rules in my world about fighting. You did what you could so that you'd survive. If you made it through the day ... just means you did something right.

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[therewerefifty]

There is no law in your land? No authority to keep order?

[It's the first thing she thinks of, if Furiosa has to spend her days like that. There are certainly those in Makie's own who live in much the same fashion, but no rules in my world speaks of a vaster scale.]

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[She gives Makie a dry chuckle.] No, not really. Some people got their hands on the good resources and fought their way into power, you make contracts and partnerships where you can. dominate the masses, but there's no rule. Regime gets overturned, hopefully the people responsible have the strength to make it something better.

You travel outside your little oasis? Bandits, warparties, scavengers ... what 'authority' there was didn't extend far. [Sure, Joe and his brothers at Bullet Farm and Gastown certainly had a little empire growing, but the Rock Rioders didn't recognize that reign.]

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[therewerefifty]

So your world is like Kitty's... it has fallen apart.

[The people she knows well operate outside the law, but this... is a whole different level.]

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[kill_switch]

That's one way of putting it. Broken, poisoned, killed would probably work better.

[fallen almost sounded ... tame. Graceful. Her world was anything but. Sharp and ruthless.]