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004: [visual]/location: Elisa's dojo

Mar 27, 2011 20:38

A couple of days ago, while exploring the city, Elisa had come across something in Central which had caught her eye. It was, to her eye, an abandon martial arts dojo. Mirrors along one wall, gym mats and sparring equipment in storage, and largely being not much more than a large-ish open room with a storage room and a back office. She wasn't ( Read more... )

{ kate beckett, @ central, (night), martha jones, glitch, paul smecker (au), { elisa maza (au), willow rosenberg

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[voice] justaddmarbles March 28 2011, 01:36:16 UTC

[ ...well ]

I might have something to offer, as far as instruction goes. A-although I'm a bit more spur-of-the-moment, defensively.

Re: [voice] garg_elisa March 28 2011, 02:51:17 UTC

"I'm sure you'd be great, Glitch. Always good to have a variety of styles."

[voice] slayersidekick March 28 2011, 20:52:01 UTC

A dojo? As in martial arts? That's... probably a really good idea.

Re: [voice] garg_elisa March 29 2011, 01:51:29 UTC

"Thanks. It's not any real specific martial art or anything, but I've had a lot of training, and with, well, what could happen... passing it on seemed like a good idea."

[voice] slayersidekick March 31 2011, 21:24:45 UTC

"i-I think it's a good idea. Getting people involved and protected. The more who can, the better."

Well, it was true in Sunnydale, so it might be true here, too!

Re: [voice] garg_elisa April 1 2011, 00:33:51 UTC

"That's the plan," Elisa says. Even before she'd changed, protection was pretty much hard-wired into this former NYPD detective.

"I just don't want to see anything happen like last time."

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[Voice] allthatlife March 29 2011, 15:18:35 UTC

It's a good idea. If people have proper lessons, I might have less injuries to patch up.

[Martha's tone was light, but she knew as well as Elisa that the lessons would be useful for an entirely different reason. In Taxon, you could never tell when disaster would strike and something would go wrong. The prisoners needed to be prepared.]

Re: [Voice] garg_elisa March 30 2011, 01:54:53 UTC

Thanks. That's the goal.

[Well, one of them, anyway. Regular fighting techniques might not do super-well against zombies, but getting people used to the idea of fighting, and maybe keeping a clearer head..., well...]

Wouldn't want to put you completely out of work though. Which does remind me, actually... I should probably schedule some kind of physical with you. I'm healthy and heal pretty well... but... never hurts to play it safe, just in case.

[Voice] allthatlife March 31 2011, 22:23:30 UTC

I think I'd cope.

That's fine. I have clinic hours between 9 and 5 ... but we can work out something else for you.

[And, if Elisa did end up getting hurt at some point, it would help be good to have some understanding of gargoyle biology.]

Re: [Voice] garg_elisa April 2 2011, 01:26:58 UTC

[Elisa chuckles a little at that.]

Yeah, I think I would too.

That'd be great. Really appreciate it.

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[Visual] noheatnikki March 29 2011, 15:24:04 UTC

Kate grinned at Elisa, excited.

"I have a lot of kickboxing experience, if you need another instructor."

Either way, Kate was excited to spar again.

Re: [Visual] garg_elisa March 30 2011, 02:25:05 UTC

Elisa smiles in return. "That's be awesome, Kate. I'm really looking for someone to handle some of the daytime shifts."

[visual] smecker March 30 2011, 06:23:05 UTC

Paul grunts at the screen before starting to talk. "Hey, Elisa.

"I probably remember enough of the getting-the-crap-beaten-out-of-me in Academy training to pass it on to others, although..." he trails off a moment, looking hesitant, then shrugs a hell-with-it sort of shrug.

"I get the feeling that half the people here know more martial arts casually than I probably picked up in both the Bureau and the NYPD combined. That said, if you're still short of teachers, what the hell."

Re: [visual] garg_elisa March 31 2011, 02:23:12 UTC

"Hey, Paul."

"Maybe a couple guest teaching spots, then? But I'm still seeing who responds anyway."

[visual] smecker April 2 2011, 09:57:36 UTC

Paul lights a cigarette and nods back at her. "Sure, that'd work. And I'm someone who can do the.... normal human stuff, as it were. Don't need to have the strength of Hercules, or whatever, to pull off basic self-defense.

"You planning on having firearms taught at your little school, or just the physical?"

Re: [visual] garg_elisa April 3 2011, 03:50:12 UTC

Huh. That was an option she hadn't thought much about.

"Not a bad idea, actually," she says. "I know my way around guns well enough to handle them myself, but probably not enough to actually teach someone else."