Just in case [After Moonlight Butterfly]

[notjustlockonm2]

[Lyle can be found in the gym with, of all things, a sword. A rapier, in this case. He's got a wallscreen set up with a simplified human figure going through basic stances and motions, and he's doing his best to emulate them. He's not doing bad at it...per se, but it's pretty obvious he doesn't have much experience with melee fighting

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[spiral_hero]

[Simon walks into the gym carrying a practice sword himself.]

Huh? Oh, hey. Didn't know you were into this sort of thing, too.

[notjustlockonm2]

It's a new thing. We get into way too many weird situations to be able to justify not knowing how to handle a sword.

[spiral_hero]

In other words, someone challenged you to a sword fight in the last mission, huh?

[notjustlockonm2]

Less "challenged", more "threw a sword at me and didn't die when I emptied a pistol magazine into him."

[spiral_hero]

...Yeah, that'd motivate a guy to learn how to use a sword.

Any particular reason you're going for that kind of sword?

[notjustlockonm2]

Most of the time I'm going to be using anything like a sword, it'll be a beam saber, so I figured learning with something that has a lighter blade will make the transition to something with a weightless blade easier.