mages are bad swordsmen

[crouching_sin]

Characters: Naoya and open
Setting: Floor 25
Format: Whichever.
Summary: Naoya got a sword, and is trying to remember how to use it properly. Unfortunately, physical skills are not so easily remembered.
Warnings: Naoya is probably only a danger to himself in this log, really. At least he has a healing spell.


[Naoya - or rather, Cain - had used swords before. It wasn't an uncommon weapon through the years, and it wasn't always that he'd had relatively weak physical strength. In some lives, he'd been extremely physically strong.]

[However, this life - Naoya - is… less so. He's still strong, but when he lifts the arming sword he struggles slightly with the weight. He needs to practice, and the meadow has enough space to wave a sharp object around with a minimal risk of hurting someone other than himself.]

[Which is how he's come to be in the meadow, going through old drills. His movements are a mixture of various styles, but he's rusty with them. His movements, while quick, lack power. The weight of the blade is significant enough that he occasionally has to set it down and rub his wrists, which is a good time for anyone who's been watching to speak or be noticed.]

Comments

[bowandblade]

[He watches Naoya's movements as he walks over, drawn by the familiar face and the weapon usage. The sword is simple and the movement is sloppy, but there's an obvious knowledge there in how the sword techniques differ from one another.]

It looks like you remember more than your body does.

[crouching_sin]

[He grins a bit as he looks over at the Servant.]

Of course. I've had plenty of experience. This sword is very similar to one I used long ago.

[bowandblade]

[Archer keeps one hand in his pocket, eying the sword again at those words.]

I suspected it was something from the administrators. But you did not strike me as much the swordsman type.

[crouching_sin]

Not anymore. I have been, in the past. It seems like a wise idea to start arming ourselves more signficantly as time grows more and more short, though.

yikes, I thought I replied to this

[bowandblade]

If you were not who you are, I would have considered the training too little, too late. Attempting to learn how to use a weapon well enough to protect yourself from the Tower's creatures in the time left? Laughable.

[Even more so if they attempted to fight the administrators, from his experience with Jason.]

It happens. :3

[crouching_sin]

Even if I'm no match for the King of Demons in my world, I know my way around a fight. While I might rely more on spells than swords, I'm not exactly a pushover. It's just a matter of training muscle memory again.

[bowandblade]

Precisely. If you had no previous memories to fall back on, I would tell you to quit now and work towards-- [he flicks a hand thoughtlessly] --your strengths.

Not that there is much known about fighting the remaining administrators.

[crouching_sin]

Indeed. I thought I'd cover all the bases.

[bowandblade]

...Speaking of the administrators.

[He frowns at the particular subject, as he's still quite sore about that one death at Jason's hands.]

Have any of the others been fought before? Or has it only been our dear spider-like doctor monstrosity?

[crouching_sin]

Not directly, no. There was a period where they were competing against each other - Riki, Dax, and Jason, I mean. I believe that was the first time Ruana was encountered.

[bowandblade]

Competing? So were they flaunting any noteworthy powers?

[Dax. The first dead administrator. He never did learn much about that one.]

[crouching_sin]

They were competing via challenges set for the groups of Tower residents that were put under them. I believe there was some display of Ruana's psychic power, but I wasn't directly involved in that part. I did come with a group trying to disrupt the game, though.