PLAYER PLOT! EVERYBODY WAS KUNG-FU FIGHTING

[amonfire]

Your local pinko fantasy communist, Amon, has taken it upon himself to start taking on students in the ancient technique of ~CHI BLOCKING~ Which is in essence a discipline of martial arts (shrouded in mystery - like you do) that emphasises on attacking a persons' line of chi (read: energy, life force, applied phlebotinum, et al.) Pressure points. You'll be learning how to take jabs at a person's pressure points to temporally sever voluntary muscular function in a localized region that usually effects an entire limb or joint. So just go with it. The bulk of these lessons would be Amon teaching those without any outstanding abilities to defend themselves through supervised training.

(translation: non-benders and regulars preferred NO BOURGEOIS AND SUPERMEN)


HELPFUL LINKS

Avatar Wiki Article for Chi Blocking
Avatar Wiki Article for Chi Energy
Wikipedia Article for Pressure Points

CHI BLOCKING IN ACTION

STUDENT BODY AND POSSIBLE TEACHER-STUDENTS

As of right now OOC'ly I can take up to around ten students at a time, but can hand wave a few private lessons (lemme teach you how a real pro bends ahur). But to allow for more novitiates I will make an OOC registry for possible assistant instructors. Preferably anyone already adept at martial arts that can be taught to make the transition from throwing punches to making surgically accurate strikes to the human body easier.

Below are forms for both.

FOR STUDENTS
<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Time Zone:</b> <B>OOC Contact:</b> AIM, plurk, or journal to PM(optional) <b>Handwaved or IC lessons preferred?:</b>

FOR TEACHER STUDENTS
<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Time Zone:</b> <B>OOC Contact:</b> AIM, plurk, or journal to PM(optional) <b>Handwaved or IC meeting preferred?:</b> <b>Any experience with martial arts or its ilk:</b>

CURRENT STUDENT ROSTER

1. Westley
2. Katniss Everdeen
3. Sabriel
4. Marius Pontmercy
5. Hayley Stark
6. Miles Morales
7. Toph Bei Fong
8.
9.
10.

CURRENT TEACHER STUDENT ROSTER

1. Dinah Lance
2. Ava Ayala

Comments

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/SUGGESTIONS

[amonfire]

[alphatar]

[amonfire]

Re: QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/SUGGESTIONS

[michaeljangelo]

Where would Mutant Ninja Turtles fall on the nonbender/regular - Superman/BOURGEOIS continuum?

Re: QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/SUGGESTIONS

[amonfire]

Assuming Korra hasn't fully convinced the turtles that Amon is satan then yes he would be willing to teach them. One reason being he can differentiate between what is a species (or in the this case incredibly rare mutation that might as well be a species in its own right) and what is 'I won the super power lottery and part of the privileged few'

That and anyone living in the sewers is about as far removed from bourgeois as you can get.

Re: QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/SUGGESTIONS

[michaeljangelo]

Eehehehehehe. Excellent.
Now I just have to figure out what all Mike knows about his neighbor.

Re: QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/SUGGESTIONS

[amonfire]

'some quiet creepy guy that's never home and his apartment always smells like sea prunes'?

Re: QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/SUGGESTIONS

[michaeljangelo]

What's to know? He's a quiet guy who keeps to himself.

[dustonmyfeet]

Toph has not met you, but she officially does not like you now. :| Why would you do this, man?

[amonfire]

Well this is awkward.

If it's any consolation he wouldn't take your bending (because that would look bad, and you're very much still a blind girl) and because he's magically leashed and cannot. Also he's been avoiding her like the plague in the event Korra broke the time-space continuum and blabbed everything.

But clearly this is an excellent way to meet.

And not like each other.

[dustonmyfeet]

(Toph's player is not angry, by the way -- just giving Toph's ic reaction. Nice to meet you, and sorry if this actually was awkward! ^^;)

Toph would meanwhile like to point out that, okay, maybe he's not going to do it to her himself, but he'll teach everyone else to do it. :|

[amonfire]

(haha no not at all)

I'm sorry does Toph have a problem WITH FAIR AND EQUAL FOOTING B[

[dustonmyfeet]

YES, BECAUSE SHE RELIES ON HER FEET. >:|

[amonfire]

WELL HE'S NOT TELLING EVERYONE TO ATTACK YOU PERSONALLY SO I THINK YOU'RE JUST OVERREACTING, TOPH

[dustonmyfeet]

DETRACTING FROM THE POINT, WHICH IS THAT YOU'RE TEACHING PEOPLE STUFF THAT HAS AN EVIL HISTORY, NO-FACE MAN.

[amonfire]

YEAH WELL

THE GREEN LANTERNS SAID HE COULD

SO

NEH

[dustonmyfeet]

AND YOU BELIEVED SOMEONE WHO PRODUCES STUFF FROM THEIR MIND AND NEEDS A BACKUP BATTERY?

REALLY?

REALLY?

[amonfire]

HEY ONE OF THEM IS A NEUROSURGEON

PROSPECTIVE STUDENT INFO HERE

[amonfire]

[franchisepirate]

This guy's always up for learning new things and becoming a bigger badass~!

Player Name: Lena
Character Name: Westley
Time Zone: EST
OOC Contact: lenainverse
Handwaved or IC lessons preferred?: Either way, but IC would be lovely if there's time!

[amonfire]

Added!

[bindsthedead]

Note: Sabriel will not be expressing any interest until power sapping takes effect- if all other slots have been filled by then, feel free to disregard this!

Player Name: Sarah
Character Name: Sabriel
Time Zone: CST
OOC Contact: You already have my plurk!
Handwaved or IC lessons preferred?: Either works!

[amonfire]

Post proper might not go up until the 15th, or 16th when the event begins. In any event there should be enough room so I'll add her.

Re: PROSPECTIVE STUDENT INFO HERE

[kelpful]

Player Name: Hannah
Character Name: Katniss Everdeen
Time Zone: GMT+12
OOC Contact: plurk: hannahcake
Handwaved or IC lessons preferred?: IC would be rad let's make this cr happen

Re: PROSPECTIVE STUDENT INFO HERE

[amonfire]

omigosh yes added!

[saisamour]

Can i sign Marius up even if he won't be any good at it

Player Name: Chiqui
Character Name: Marius Pontmercy
Time Zone: +8GMT
OOC Contact: plurk, you already know it lol
Handwaved or IC lessons preferred?: Could be handwaved but IC would be hilarious too

Daddyyyyy

[amonfire]

si GGGGH

ok but don't hurt yourself

[saisamour]

immediately hurts himself before even starting

[amonfire]

"Did you just chi block YOURSELF?"

[spiderkid]

Now that we've discussed it IC...

Player Name: Chris
Character Name: Miles Morales
Time Zone: EST
OOC Contact: gazzafizza
Handwaved or IC lessons preferred?: Either or!

[amonfire]

+1 imaginary friend amirite?

[spiderkid]

Well he's just going to show up as Spidey, so...

PROSPECTIVE TEACHER STUDENT INFO HERE

[amonfire]

Dinah!

[raptorcanaria]

Player Name: IB
Character Name: Dinah Lance
Time Zone: EST
OOC Contact: lycanfae
Handwaved or IC meeting preferred?: IC.
Any experience with martial arts or its ilk: Dinah is proficient with a wide variety of martial arts styles, including styles that include the flow of chi in their teaching and philosophy. She's also been shown to use pressure points time and time again, as well as a number of single strike techniques.

Re: Dinah!

[amonfire]

Somewhere in the Marvel universe Iron Fist is screaming, but yes this is perfect! Amon and Dinah can talk shop in the IC announcement?

Re: Dinah!

[raptorcanaria]

Excellent!

sooooo hi

[superoverachiever]

Okay so Ava has magical enhancement but it's from a Thing that's not actually her and she'd be willing to downplay that to learn badass chi blocking techniques. She's both well-versed and proficient in martial arts and has some basic experience teaching people (specifically metas but hey) although she's sixteen so Amon could probably find better people and also I think that conversation could be fun to play out IC whatever Amon's answer was and I'm sorry this sentence is so long

[amonfire]

tl;dr is not a problem and the simplest answer is he'll tell her to downplay that noise the moment he gets wind of it and bullshit some excuse of it getting in the way of The Learning Experience

albeit with less tact but sure she can join

sweet!

[superoverachiever]

Player Name: Jo
Character Name: Ava Ayala
Time Zone: EST
OOC Contact: lavarocks
Handwaved or IC meeting preferred?: IC
Any experience with martial arts or its ilk: Lots. She's got some experience whipping her teammates into shape and she can adapt some SHIELD training techniques, but she can also just be a regular student, however the ratios work best.

[everylittlegirl]

Player Name: Kate
Character Name: Hayley Stark
Time Zone: EST
OOC Contact: grayace
Handwaved or IC lessons preferred?: handwaved please

[amonfire]

added!

[everylittlegirl]

Thanks!

Also, I'm MST. rofl. (EST is force of habit, but I just moved)

[dustonmyfeet]

Player Name: K
Character Name: Toph Bei Fong
Time Zone: EST
OOC Contact: Journal to PM, but if you need/want me by AIM, we can make that work.
Handwaved or IC lessons preferred?: You know we have to have one or two IC lessons. ;) Probably most can be handwaved, though.

Yeah, this will be epic.

[amonfire]

except when everyone's powers turn off

which is exactly when the bulk of this is going on

good luck, toph :']

[dustonmyfeet]

Yeah, man, that's not ominous or creepy. ;P

Toph may put off her lessons until afterward.

[amonfire]

YOU FOR ALL HIS SHIT

he's probably not going to actively be a dick to someone who is blind without their special power crutch

but yeah probably a good idea to wait until you can 'see' again

[dustonmyfeet]

Gotta keep an eye -- er -- foot on the enemy. ;P

Foot sounds so much better anyway in Toph's mind.

("Probably not actively." I can't even touch that. XD)