You're The Best Around : Karate War Training Montage Log

[strikefirster]

The All-Trench Karate War | Training Log!

Who: Combat instructors, students, and anyone caught in the crossfire.
What: Training for the Karate War!
Where: Throughout Trench
When: Throughout April

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Comments

[terriblepurpose]

[In this case, Paul has no hand to tip. There are plenty of other students already doing an admirable job of providing a distraction, which Paul can still overhear from the crest of this hillside. He's as dishevelled and sticky as Akechi is, but when he dangles his legs over the edge of the pseudo-cliff it doesn't seem to concern him.]

I'm not sure 'calling them off' is an option.

[He's still a little breathless from the sprint, his heart racing, and he devotes some of his focus to down-regulation as he leans over his knees and looks with interest in the direction of the noises coming from elsewhere. That scream sounded particularly abrupt.]

My guess? It's a lesson in discretion. Not every threat needs to be met head on. A cobra doesn't seek out unnecessary conflict, but knows when to retreat to the rocks.

[He shrugs, a rueful twist to his mouth.]

Or someone told him it would be a bad idea. One of those, I think. Do you think anyone is actually going to be able to fight a bear without resorting to weapons or powers?

[fabrications]

[ Akechi is inclined to agree with Paul - he doesn't think calling off the bears is something Johnny is actually capable of doing even if he wants. He's not inclined to agree that there's any sort of wise hidden lesson in this, though, and only tips his head when Paul mentions the possibility that someone told Johnny not to do it. ]

Or implied one of the other instructions could manage it instead of him.

[ He thinks he remembers hearing something about a bear on the rumors post... Regardless, he hums thoughtfully at Paul's question. He turns his gaze down to the chaos in the distance as well. ]

No. At best someone might be able to scare them off. Bears can be rather cowardly.

[ Though not these bears, apparently. ]

I'd say someone should challenge him to fight a bear himself, but I think he'd just get himself killed.

[terriblepurpose]

[A certain deliberate and studious unseeing is required on Paul's part to knit together the best of what he believes about Johnny with the conduct he sometimes (usually) has in the public sphere. He still huffs a quiet laugh at Akechi's words, swinging his feet idly.]

He has a bad track record with wildlife.

[If you could call the Leviathan that. It's a wound not quite scabbed over, a dimming of his good cheer that he only mostly shakes off when he straightens his back and makes an attempt at scraping gritty honey from his face.]

This is going to be a nightmare to get off. I understand why he didn't use blood, but - fish guts couldn't have been that hard to come by.

Do you think we should do something to help, now that we're up here? Considering. [The mutually accepted fact that most people won't stand a chance.] I'm not sure if we could be better lures than everyone running and screaming down there.