text; un: piercedyourheart92

[piercedyourheart]

so now that every electronic device in our houses arent trying to kill us ive got a few questions

1) can we practice using our weapons anywhere? shooting at jellyfish is way harder than it looks and if we have to fight things (again....) id like to be prepared.

legal places only, please

2) are there places where we can hike or camp out? im okay with getting away from it all for a while

3) surefire ways to fall asleep after waking up in the middle of the night would be great.

thanks in advance!

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un: yinandyang

[sifukatara]

1: In a city this large there are bound to be gyms or training facilities, but you might have to pay some sort of fee to use something like that.

Otherwise, my go to is usually an early morning trip to a nice, quiet strip of the beach, or the rooftop of my apartment building.

You mentioned shooting, so... do you use those "gun" weapons?

3: That depends? There are plenty of ways, but in my experience what works for one person might have the opposite effect on another.

[piercedyourheart]

1. a fee is totally okay with me. i have to pay one back at home anyway so it doesn't bother me all that much

and nope, not a gun. just a regular bow and arrow. while id love to practice on the roof, im pretty sure the neighbors wouldnt like targets all over the place. what kind of training do you do, if you don't mind me asking?

3. true but im really open to suggestions at this point. itd be nice to sleep through a night again

[badluckblues]

1. solar flexus gym. we've got classes if you need training

2. you can travel a little outside the city without it getting too dangerous or too toxic

3. chloroform?

[piercedyourheart]

1. really? nice. shouldnt need any training though. its more like shaking off the rust if anything.

2. nice. ill have to check out what routes are safe. thanks....

3. ....ykw nvm. cant believe you managed to go from helpful to creep in less than 5 seconds. congrats

[badluckblues]

haha didn't say i would be using it, but hey. next time i'll start out on creep just to give you a fair warning

anyway all the gym's shit is reinforced and there's a range out the back, so knock yourself out

2/2

[badluckblues]

oohh but not with the chloroform ig

[piercedyourheart]

you almost saved yourself there

UN: MegaRobo3000

[leekspins]

[OOC: Assuming they know each other enough to recognize each other's usernames, but feel free to retcon that if you'd rather!]

I didn't know you could fight, Yukari-chan! That's awesome! Hiking does sound pretty fun. Guess it's better to do it before it gets too cold, ne?

If you can't sleep, you can come over and I'll make herbal tea. I don't mind if you wake me up.

[It sounds like Yukari might be having nightmares. Orihime's worried, but doesn't want to poke at the possibility over a public network where anyone can see.]

[piercedyourheart]

[ OOC: i think that's great! i'm on board. ]

ha yeah, a little bit orihime chan. and hiking is nice this time of year, too. all the leaves turning color at once are so pretty....

youd do that? i gotta warn you that sometimes it happens pretty late

[ nightmares of a sort. never anything as concrete as thinking you're being chased by a serial killer or you're repeating 9th grade all over again. but it's the sudden rush of adrenaline at midnight and the horrid sense of dread that the sky will turn a sickly green that makes yukari jerk awake at night. the past few weeks have been A Bad Time. ]

[leekspins]

That's okay! We'll make a sleepover out of it. I'll make popcorn too, and we can pick out some movies ahead of time to keep on hand. Just in case!

un: ilikebigboats

[boobytraps]

Can't answer your other questions but for your last one, I know there's potions for that.

I prefer more natural methods myself, though.

[piercedyourheart]

potions or whatever, ill take it

whats your method? counting sheep?

[boobytraps]

I'm not sure how they're made here, but I'm sure someone else can point you in the right direction.

No, no counting sheep. I count something else, instead.

text; un: D.Vel

[justicedevil]

1) I mostly do my training at the beach. Not sure how well that's going to work for unless you bring your own targets though.

But it's definitely legal, I probably would've been yelled at if it wasn't by now with some of the stuff I do that's not just normal martial arts.

3) No idea on the surefire way of falling asleep after a nightmare, but if I ever figure that out I'll let you know. I need a way to make that happen myself.

[piercedyourheart]

yeah the real problem is no targets
i could grab them but they can get bulky and the really nice ones are huge
so if youre not doing normal martial arts what are you doing

they arent really nightmares just....idk
but sounds like youre having trouble sleeping too, huh?

[justicedevil]

[ If only she had arrived here with more than one capsule. That would probably solve the issue pretty handily.]

How many of them do you need?

As for what I'm doing, it's Ki manipulation. Needing targets would be for things like energy blasts.

And yeah. I... didn't really have a good experience during the jellyfish invasion. As well as stuff that happened before I even got here.

un: j.valentine

[torsion]

I feel you on the jellyfish. I was kind of surprised!

But as for the latter options, I hope you'll let me know. I'm really into camping! It's enjoyable to me :)

[piercedyourheart]

it was like shooting at living water balloons
ugh it was just gross

and ill totally let you know! hiking is one of my favorite things to do, but ive never been camping all that much. no time to try it out like the present, right?

[torsion]

Awesome! Thanks for that palpable, visceral description!
Yuck.

Oh, hey. Nice to have that in common. :)
I'm curious how it'll work here, with the "levels" of the city.
Wonder what kind of animals are around the forests/beaches?

un: angel

[schmisse]

To answer your first question, I'm not sure where you can do it that's not one of the Moonblessed-run gyms. Of course, if you're a Moonknight, you can do so just about anywhere since you have permission... I guess I'm not helping much, huh?

As for hiking and camping out, you could camp out in the park, but for an actual wilderness feel, there's the forest outside the city. Though you'll want to be careful since there are so many alien creatures there.

[piercedyourheart]

no that totally helps
im not a moonknight so i just want to be careful. not trying to get arrested for the first time while in outer space
someone a little earlier mentioned solar plexus...is that one of the gyms you were thinking of?

yeah trying to figure out what plant is poisonous when you dont recognize any of them sounds a little dangerous
kinda fun but dangerous
the park sounds manageable though

[schmisse]

Yes, that one. I've personally never used that gym, since I go elsewhere, but if it's run by Moonblessed, it's bound to be better? I suppose. When you compare a Lunatian's standards to one of a Moonblessed—a human one, anyway, they tend to differ and you'll be a lot more comfortable with a Moonblessed's standards.

You could always just camp out on your apartment rooftop, but I guess that's not really getting away from it all.

un: c2037

[windowsills]

[ after seeing the disaster that their jellyfish attackers made of Yukari's kitchen and the variety of stings and zaps left behind, Alex kind of supports this. ]

Are there such things as guns here?
This city seems so

Like paradise.

[piercedyourheart]

im not too sure about guns. maaaaaaaybe there are some down on level 4?
im more of a bow and arrow girl so i cant say for sure. im not really a fan of guns

and it does seem like paradise before all the weird stuff happens at the end of the month

[windowsills]

A bow and arrow? The kind knights use? [ that's wrong Alex, so wrong ]
That does seem like something you should practise frequently. And the exercise might help with sleeping as well.

Yes, that was... strange. It happens often?