ice_and_steel: Celes standing, head bowed, with her sword in hand, looking resigned (don't make me hurt you)
ice_and_steel ([personal profile] ice_and_steel) wrote in [community profile] crankycave2012-01-27 10:01 am

Murphy's Law Strikes Again

[On the Plains of Spite, there is plenty of room to pit yourself against whatever is chasing you down. Celes has been doing this for nearly an hour, sending herself on sprint drills followed by sets of push-ups as close to the lake as she can manage without (probably) having to draw her sword. She finishes a sprint and pauses to heal the ankle she just strained.]

[A shadow falls over her and she looks up warily, to see something alarmingly like a tentacle hovering over her.]

"Fuck."

[She draws her sword]
onlyhonournow: (sightless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-01-27 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[OH NO SOMEONE IS IN DISTRESS]

[I MUST APPLY HONOUR TO IT]

[unless of course, he is beaten to the punch]
onlyhonournow: (breathless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-01-27 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[i think i messed up.]

Did I ... interrupt something?
onlyhonournow: (limitless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-01-27 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[sheathing the two swords he was intending to wave around impetuously and sheepishly rubs the back of his head]

I wouldn't have minded, but thank you. Do you want some help with that recon?
onlyhonournow: (peerless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-01-27 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[it would have. it would have been honourable.]

[glancing behind him at another tentacle creeping up on them]

... well, that saves us some time. You wanna take the shy one?
onlyhonournow: (fearless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-01-27 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd ask you to go easy, but...

[meanwhile, making giant tako sashimi. did it occur to nobody to try to negotiate first? sheesh, protagonists.]

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lifestudies: (a matter of perspective)

[personal profile] lifestudies 2012-01-27 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it difficult to fight in that much armor?
onlyhonournow: (breathless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-01-27 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[looking down, a tad bit surprised that someone managed to sneak up]

I'm used to it.
lifestudies: (Default)

[personal profile] lifestudies 2012-01-27 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[sneaking is one of the first things they teach you in ninja boot camp, pretty sure]

I suppose you must be. You wouldn't have much luck trying to depend on stealth and speed with a frame like that.
onlyhonournow: (fearless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-01-27 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[you're a cheeky one :\]

That's true. But when it comes down to it, I might have some other tricks up my servos.
lifestudies: (because i have no idea what's going on)

[personal profile] lifestudies 2012-01-27 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[things they do not teach you in ninja boot camp: how not to be a dick.]

Well, of course; you wouldn't want to blow your load right away, would you?
onlyhonournow: (fathomless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-01-27 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[man he is way too robot/naive to pick up on how terrible that just was.]

It would all depend on the situation.
lifestudies: (that's as big as it gets?)

[personal profile] lifestudies 2012-01-27 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes there is an opponent with whom you feel the need?
onlyhonournow: (limitless)

[personal profile] onlyhonournow 2012-01-27 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[easing himself down on one knee, offering a hand]

Something like that, yes.

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lifestudies: (your attacks are boring)

[personal profile] lifestudies 2012-01-27 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[well, you seem to have the fighting part well in hand. jumping out of the way of a fallen bit of severed tentacle, landing on it when it hits the mud]

That's an interesting fire technique.
lifestudies: (because i have no idea what's going on)

[personal profile] lifestudies 2012-01-27 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
You can call me Sai.

[this is almost certainly an occasion where a smile is called for.]

Did she teach you any other interesting things?
lifestudies: (a matter of perspective)

[personal profile] lifestudies 2012-01-27 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, I have not been here long enough to know what skills are normal in this land. But in my own home, yes, the shinobi of the hidden villages learn a number of special techniques.
lifestudies: (...fascinating.)

[personal profile] lifestudies 2012-01-27 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
The name is not entirely accurate. Plenty of people know how to find them, especially the hidden villages of the powerful nations. But living in seclusion helps to keep the secrets of specialized techniques.

[also curious] Why would they need to fear if they were the ones with the power? Or did their enemies create some new technique to neutralize them?

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