animus_network | 6th pokeball [mass mailbox notes + text]

[John isn't typically one for waking up early in the morning, but with as much as he needs to do today he needs as early a start as he can get. His first stop is the mail room, where he sets about putting the following note into the mailbox for every tower resident. Because this seems like a much safer option than the network.]

[Once all the letters have been delivered and breakfast devoured, he heads to the library to take care of TDL item number 2: finding a fighting mentor.]

somehow i get the feeling that this sort of thing isn't an uncommon request around here but whatever, i need some help.
i need to learn how to fight.
i was lucky enough to get one of my hammers back today, but it's been over two years since i've used it and the rust shows.
especially since i never had any real training with the thing in the first place.
i am pretty sure i have sparring partners covered, so what i really need help with here are the fundamentals of hammer and/or fist fighting.
in return, i can offer...uh
something.
idk what exactly, but we can figure something out.

((ooc: For those who don't know, John managed to get a video recording of the soul extraction process during the Something Unexpected event. And like hell is he not going to share it after all that. I really didn't want to copypasta the same note onto a billion mailbox posts so I figured this would be easier. I'll be tossing up a log to actually thread out the tape showings either later on today or tomorrow. If you want your character to run into him in the mailroom on this post though, that's a-ok with me.))

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so basicly you got to know hwo to streetifght

i can do that

[So is Kanji the only one who writes this stuff out well]

I can help with both!

[Chairs and desks are totally a lot like hammers, right.]

[Itachi doesn't feel like struggling with the keyboard today, so he switches on the video function. It's the first time he's used such an option, but he seems confident enough.]

Hello.

I don't have personal experience with hammers, but I can teach you how to hone your skills as far as fighting with your hands and feet goes.

street fighting, martial arts, i'm not picky.
i just need to learn how to fight with my own two hands again since apparently my pokeballs can be sealed.
which sucks but there's not much i can do about that.

ooh hammers

[Close enough, really.]

really? sweet! :D
two for one! tbh i was a little worried there wouldn't be anybody here who knows their way around a hammer.
i'd really appreciate it if you would be up for that.

[John has no qualms with video whatsoever. So here's a look at the short, chubby teenage nerd you're offering skill-honing to, Itachi. He offers a small wave.]

Hi! I have never tried fighting with my feet before but that's probably a good thing for me to learn now that you mention it.

wel, only one hammer but yes!
do you use them too?

i used to
do urs squeek as well?

Well uh, I usually hit monsters with chairs and desks. I just swing them like a giant hammer, but that should be a similar process, right?

err...no it doesn't.
it does have weird time powers though.

sounds like a great hammer
how big is it?
as big as the sun?

oh.
well yeah, same basic principle. swing big heavy things, knock out monsters, rinse and repeat.
i'm not going to split hairs about it.

Why don't you go for a weapon that'2 more deadly? Wouldn't iit be ea2iier to fiight wiith 2omethiing 2harp?

[Like a knife or sword or something. Not everyone can be like Yzma, John.

Not that he actually knows and would make that reference, but whatever.]

it is pretty great, yeah. hehe.
my other hammers were pretty awesome too but i didn't see much of a point in asking for more than one when i don't have my sylladex here.
kinda hard to carry them around that way.
nah it's not quite THAT big though.
it's more like...

[He switches to video at that point, holding up a large, red and orange hammer.]

...exactly this big.

[When the other feed clicks on, Itachi's brow furrows, and he looks confused for a second.]

John?

[Though they never really spoke, Itachi roomed with another John for quite some time. But, no, that John recently disappeared. This one had to be different.

He shook his head.]

...Pardon me. I don't suppose we've met.

Not like we got much of a choice around here, anyway. I know there was another Persona user guy that wielded axes, but I haven't seen him around lately.

huh. well i guess technically it doesn't really matter here does it?
since we aren't restricted to specific kind abstratuses anymore.
still, i'm just more comfortable with hammers at this point. even if i haven't used them in a while.
and i think you underestimate how dangerous smashing power can be.
things don't have to be sharp to do damage.

[In other words: John is all brute force and no finesse.]

[She too changes to video.]

Oh, that looks neat. Make sure to balance carefully!

II have no iidea what you're talkiing about.
But thiing2 wiith edge2 do more damage wiith le22 effort, 2o unle22 you want to wa2te all of your energy bangiing on thiing2 and makiing your2elf an ea2iier kiill you miight want to get 2omethiing 2harp.
Or put 2piikes on your hammer.

Oh um...yes! That's my name.

[Luckily, the concept of people he doesn't know knowing him isn't exactly a new one on him. Hell, he's done it to tons of people between this place and Johto.]

I am guessing that you have either been to other universes aside from this one and your own or you met the other me who's running around here somewhere, am I right?

Edited 2013-03-01 23:51 (UTC)

persona?

[He feels like he's heard that term somewhere before...maybe in one of Rose's psychology books? ~~Or maybe it came up at some point with Yu in the elevator who knows.~~]

Isn't it? It used to belong to Hephaestus. Though his version of it was a lot bigger, I had to shrink it down.

I will be sure to do that though. Last thing I want to do is fall down on my ass in the middle of a fight or something.

[He has been really quiet since the network post of man eaten alive, more news at 11.]

you know without asking ill help you
i have bro to bring me back up to sword par but never stopped hand to hand
probably a good idea to get training in anything anyone is willing to give
and you are going to frown at me but i dont care
your windy thing
you need to learn to bust that out when you can
its still in you
its just not super charged

uhh...didn't you guys have strife specubi too?
or do trolls have some other of system/weaponry management?
but wouldn't putting spikes on my hammer still have the same energy wasting problem? i mean i'd still have to swing it the same.

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