[Maria's been keeping to her schedule with training herself even outside these meetings - it was a habit back home, and hadn't become any less of one here. But while the straw training dummies are useful as temporary opponents, they...definitely have their flaws.
Maria's sparring one of them, a blade in her hand only a little longer than a dagger, letting it press her back towards the weapon racks so she can take it out with a comeback attack. However, halfway through its last motion, its head twists suddenly and it goes rampaging back towards the path.]
What the-- [But she can see from here it's about to run into a person, and she doesn't have much time to catch it up. Turning towards the racks, she quickly grabs a heavy bladed whip and lashes it out towards the out of control dummy, with aim that only an experienced user would be able to manage.]
Stop right there! [She only barely gets that out before the whip takes off the dummy's head, and it stumbles drunkenly and a bit confusedly before flopping over. As she bundles up the whip and starts to head over, Maria looks a little troubled by how easy that was.]
I suppose they're still fragile, aren't they?
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[B: Rest and Refreshments]
[Standing a little away from the refreshments table so she doesn't get her ears talked off by the shinki over there, Maria's holding a stack of flyers and approaching anyone who comes close enough.]
Sorry to bother you, but I'm setting up a training class outside of these meetings and trying to get the word out.
[She holds out one of the flyers - it's a neatly handwritten and drawn message about agility training through dance, citing inspirations from various kinds of combative dancing styles as well as more normal ones like ballet and street. The address on it is listed as Sparkle Motion Studio, a location on the Near Shore.]
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[Maria's been keeping to her schedule with training herself even outside these meetings - it was a habit back home, and hadn't become any less of one here. But while the straw training dummies are useful as temporary opponents, they...definitely have their flaws.
Maria's sparring one of them, a blade in her hand only a little longer than a dagger, letting it press her back towards the weapon racks so she can take it out with a comeback attack. However, halfway through its last motion, its head twists suddenly and it goes rampaging back towards the path.]
What the-- [But she can see from here it's about to run into a person, and she doesn't have much time to catch it up. Turning towards the racks, she quickly grabs a heavy bladed whip and lashes it out towards the out of control dummy, with aim that only an experienced user would be able to manage.]
Stop right there! [She only barely gets that out before the whip takes off the dummy's head, and it stumbles drunkenly and a bit confusedly before flopping over. As she bundles up the whip and starts to head over, Maria looks a little troubled by how easy that was.]
I suppose they're still fragile, aren't they?
--
[B: Rest and Refreshments]
[Standing a little away from the refreshments table so she doesn't get her ears talked off by the shinki over there, Maria's holding a stack of flyers and approaching anyone who comes close enough.]
Sorry to bother you, but I'm setting up a training class outside of these meetings and trying to get the word out.
[She holds out one of the flyers - it's a neatly handwritten and drawn message about agility training through dance, citing inspirations from various kinds of combative dancing styles as well as more normal ones like ballet and street. The address on it is listed as Sparkle Motion Studio, a location on the Near Shore.]