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Self-Defense Club, the Gym, Monday afternoon

Hoshi waited until everyone got to the gym before she began speaking. "Before we get to actual fighting, I wanted to cover some basics first. There's not a lot of time to think when something attacks you, so it helps to have a plan worked out in advance," she said. "Today, we're going to identify some common areas where people might run into trouble, like the abandoned warehouse district, and how you can be prepared if something attacks you there."

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Adam Park

T.R. Wexler

Viki

Cal Stephanides

Naomi Wildman

Summer Roberts

Amber Atkins

Dick Grayson

Tony Foster

Andrew Wiggin

Liir Thropp

"For example, if I was walking on the path from the school to town and a vampire grabbed my from behind, I would scream so someone else would come to my rescue," said Hoshi. "Maybe it's not the best plan, but it worked last time. I guess having a stake or holy water could also help, if I remembered to carry them with me."

Viki blinked, mildly confused at being asked for a plan. What plan?

"...teleport out?" she tried.

"You are so lucky," said Hoshi, grinning. "Are there any kind of situations where your teleportation doesn't work?"

She actually had to take a moment to consider that.

"...not when I'm alone," Viki ventured. "Sometimes, if I have to fight ~~so the party can gain levels~~ I'll teleport knives in to drop on their heads while other people work on attacking them too."

"Oh, that sounds awesome," said Hoshi. "Next time the island gets invaded, I'm sticking with you until it's safe to go out alone."

That got a shrug and a bit of a grin. "If you'd like."

"If I didn't have access to my weapon then I'd probably try kicking it to get away," Naomi said, "if that didn't work then I'd most likely start screaming,"

"Um, does avoiding those places in the first place count as a plan?"

"It's totally my plan," said Hoshi. "Do you know how many people get attacked on that path from the school to the town? I try to avoid it as much as possible."

"I don't know how many," Cal admitted, hoping he didn't sound like an idiot if it turned out that was rhetorical, "but it's probably considerable. Another reason why walking back with someone else is probably not a bad idea, either."

Tony had a similar thought.

Oh, this was an easy one.

"Kick it!" Turtle chirped brightly. "Right in the shins!"

"I could try to stab it with my shoes," Summer shrugged. "If I was wearing the dangerous ones that is."

"It might depend on what or who was trying to attack me," Amber said, clearly thoughtful here.

"Suppose you were being attacked by evil zombies that wanted to eat your brains. How would that change your plan?" asked Hoshi.

"Zombies are slow by nature. I'd totally turn around and take off running," Amber nodded, smiled. "I'm a fast runner."

"Headbutt it by throwing my head back," Dick said. "It won't be expecting something that direct, and if the vampire is tall enough, you might even break its nose. That should give enough time to run away."

Or go on the offensive. Whatever.

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Hoshi thought about it for a moment. "What if the vampire is really tall and you're really short like me?" she asked.

"Then you hit it in the chin, neck, or chest," Dick said. "Any of those can give you a shot at surprising it. Follow up with stomping on its foot or kicking it hard in the shin with your heel and you should have a good shot at breaking away."

The idea of a vampire grabbing him from behind brought up ideas not appropriate for a general audience. Tony reminded himself that his relationship with Henry wasn't like that anymore. His body didn't seem to care. He shifted slightly and thought about cold showers and Mason Reed.

Considering the attacker to not be a vampire worked better. "I don't think screaming for help counts as a plan," Tony said. That approach had failed him more than once. He hunched his shoulders and shoved his hands in his pockets, trying not to think about the past. "What if no one's around? Or no one cares?"

"Yeah, that can be a problem," agreed Hoshi. "Most of the experts tell you that yelling 'Fire!' usually gets more a response than 'Help!' and it's not bad to have some sort of escape route in mind. Like if I was attacked by zombies when I'm leaving Caritas, my escape route would take me to the hotel because I could get a butcher knife from the chef there."

Experts? Seriously, experts? Did people run around trying to get attacked just to see what happened?

"My Plan A is not getting attacked," Tony said. "Staying where it's light and where there's people, to start. And trying not to draw attention to myself or look like a target."

"And ideally, that's what we should all do," said Hoshi. "That's why we're going over it now before moving on to all the kicks and punches."

"Well, good," Tony managed a wry smile. "I have some practice in that. Not being noticed, I mean."

Take a shot at the punching bags, show off your martial arts moves, or just practice screaming for help.

Dick was not going to throw his head backward into a punching bag before running away. He just wasn't.

Tony practiced his punches. He didn't completely suck at it but he wouldn't be giving Ratman competition any time soon.

When he pings in!

Murdock was there, just watching the activity. He was in a very good mood, and occasionaly would be grinning to himself.

If needed.

Summer wandered over to Hoshi sometime during the meeting. "Hey Hoshi. Sorry I wasn't here last week. I was, uh, kind of hiding."

"That's okay. I think there was a lot of that going around," said Hoshi with a reassuring smile.

"Yeah, I can imagine there was," Summer nodded. "Thanks for being understanding."

The more outrageous your self-defense plans are, the better!

FYI, if someone wants to volunteer to post the Self-Defense Club in a couple weeks when I'm out of town (November 10), let me know!

I can put it up on Nov. 10, if you'd like?

Yay, thank you!

Sure thing! :D

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