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piper902020-05-03 05:19 pm
tarnishedavenger) wrote in piper902020-05-03 05:19 pm
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002: Offering Lessons.
I'm noticing a few of you are having trouble with Planker's combat training. And, all due respect to Lubitsch, but he's a little too distracted and has too little time with us to do more than give pointers.
[That's about as close as Armstrong's going to come to saying that he thinks Lubitsch is about as useful as tits on a bull.]
With that in mind, I'm willing to teach some of you.
I've been a boxer for thirty-two years. I learned the basics of combat at West Point and, when I became a Silver Avenger in 1986, I was trained to fight superhuman opponents and groups of armed human opponents. I've been doing that, and training others to do that, for just about twenty-five years now. I'm also decent with a blade and good with any kind of gun you'd care to name.
I'm not a fancy martial artist. Don't expect any hebijutsu or capoeira from me. This would be about surviving, not looking pretty. I may have picked up a few things here and there, but that's about it.
I'll work with you, whenever your time allows, gauge your level, and we can build up from there. I won't say it'll be the easiest thing you've ever done, but it won't be punishing. Some sessions will be more exercise. You need to be fit to fight. But it won't be a waste of your time.
Those of you with more experience, I'm willing to work with you as well, or just spar for the people who don't need it, but this offer is gauged more towards those of us who never needed to learn. If you'd like to help, by all means, meet with me and we'll see if we can't work something out. I'd prefer to do this in small groups or even one on one,just so I can cater to everyone as needed. More teachers would make that easier.
[That's about as close as Armstrong's going to come to saying that he thinks Lubitsch is about as useful as tits on a bull.]
With that in mind, I'm willing to teach some of you.
I've been a boxer for thirty-two years. I learned the basics of combat at West Point and, when I became a Silver Avenger in 1986, I was trained to fight superhuman opponents and groups of armed human opponents. I've been doing that, and training others to do that, for just about twenty-five years now. I'm also decent with a blade and good with any kind of gun you'd care to name.
I'm not a fancy martial artist. Don't expect any hebijutsu or capoeira from me. This would be about surviving, not looking pretty. I may have picked up a few things here and there, but that's about it.
I'll work with you, whenever your time allows, gauge your level, and we can build up from there. I won't say it'll be the easiest thing you've ever done, but it won't be punishing. Some sessions will be more exercise. You need to be fit to fight. But it won't be a waste of your time.
Those of you with more experience, I'm willing to work with you as well, or just spar for the people who don't need it, but this offer is gauged more towards those of us who never needed to learn. If you'd like to help, by all means, meet with me and we'll see if we can't work something out. I'd prefer to do this in small groups or even one on one,just so I can cater to everyone as needed. More teachers would make that easier.
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[Absolutely too much nonsense is happening right now and Cain doesn't know what conclusions he should be coming to.]
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Unless Abaddon the Despoiler launched the most concise, successful 13th Black Crusade in history and marched right up to the gates of Terra without ripping up the carpeting all the way across two segmentums and alerting half the galaxy, and I've bloody well slept through it, you're telling me you're from M31?
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[Cain sobers up a bit, reading those words. This must feel like a monumental revelation for somebody who was just at Terra's gates, and so Cain tries to treat this discussion with a little more respect.]
The Imperium's armies vanquished the Archenemy's forces. Not entirely, and with a greivous sacrifice of life, but we won. We still stand now.
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By the Emperor's grace.
The galaxy isn't perfect, but we're limping on. Is this something you'd like to hear more about in person?
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[He supposes even space marines can be overwhelmed. And the discovery of a future ten thousand years in the future would certainly be the cause of one. Cain's feeling fairly shocked himself.]
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[He'd worry about overstepping his boundaries, but this space marine feels completely lost even through the device. ]
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[ Not the most direct call to arms about their captors, but he figures even in the midst of a messy funk he can still quiet about things. ]
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But until then, could I have your name?
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Ciaphas Cain. I'll see you around then, Loken.