D-d-d-danger! Watch behind you!

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 8:26 pm

Nailah's in the Danger Room, scrolling through the list of obstacle courses. She finally seems to settle on one. The room turns into the courtyard of a dojo with all kinds of weapons lining the walls and a whole gauntlet of martial arts dummies occupying most of the open area, spinning and jabbing out on their own accord. Nailah watches them for a moment, almost looking a bit hesitant but seems to shake it off, grabbing a piece of fabric to tie over her eyes as a blindfold.

Her entire posture seems to change as she steps forward, losing any hesitance as she moves with almost mechanical precision, following the step-by-step instructions of her power as she dodges and weaves her way past the whirling dummies. Ducking out of the way, spinning past another, even grabbing into one of the attacks to let herself be pulled out of the path of another before flipping herself into the air and across a third. She makes it about halfway through when it becomes obvious that she has to keep pushing herself more and more to pull off what her power is asking her to do. There's only so fast she can drop, only so much height she can gain by assisting her jumps with a beat of her wings, only so many strikes she can block before her muscles protest agianst what she's asking them to do and she slips out of a stance from sheer fatigue, right into one of the blows, which sends her tumbling blindly into the next and so on until the program finally decides she's had enough and shuts the dummies down, letting her stumble to the ground.

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by **Chase Delacroix** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 9:10 pm

"Nice moves. Well, up until that last part," said a slightly amused voice from the observation deck.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 9:26 pm

"Ha ha." Nailah says dryly, more annoyed with her own failing than the fact that someone was watching her. She pulls off the blindfold and looks around.

by **Chase Delacroix** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 9:55 pm

"Seriously though, kudos on getting that far blindfolded."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 10:00 pm

"Coulda done the whole thing." she grumbles a bit. "I knew how to..."

by **Chase Delacroix** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 12:55 am

After a moment he appeared in the entryway.

"Do you mean training or a power thing?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:21 am

"Both?" she says with a slight shrug. "My power tells me what to do. I just... couldn't do it."

by **Chase Delacroix** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 2:01 am

"Tells you what to do?" he asked curiously.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 4:12 pm

"Yeah. It's like a path. To where I want to go. Well... kinda. It's hard to explain."

by **Chase Delacroix** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 7:56 pm

"So... mental instructions?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 8:05 pm

"Yeah, kinda like that, I guess."

by **Chase Delacroix** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 8:56 pm

He was almost jealous before he really thought about it.

"Are you sure they're... from you?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 9:10 pm

"What do you mean? They're in my own head." Apparently she's never really considered the possibility that they could be coming from somewhere else.

by **Chase Delacroix** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 9:30 pm

"You wouldn't be the first person to be wrong about that."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 9:34 pm

"Wait, you mean, like, a telepath or something?"

by **Chase Delacroix** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 9:57 pm

"That or... other methods."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Jan 26, 2016 10:29 pm

"Now you lost me. How would someone else even care about what I do?" she asks, but she's not exactly dropping the topic either. She's never considered it but now that she's thinking about where these steps are coming from it's kind of unsettling, especially with how much she has to trust each one will take her towards her stated goal.

by **Chase Delacroix** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 12:51 am

"That I couldn't tell you," he answered, shrugging.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 4:01 pm

"What do you mean by 'other methods' anyway?"

by **Chase Delacroix** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 4:28 pm

He appeared briefly uncomfortable. "I mean... brainwashing."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 4:36 pm

"That's crazy. I'd remember if someone brainwashed me, right?"

by **Chase Delacroix** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 5:11 pm

"Yeah, probably," he lied, starting to worry he was freaking her out.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 5:29 pm

"Exactly. I mean... I still don't know where this stuff is coming from but I'm, like, 99% sure it's not some kinda programming." she nods, grinning and trying to shake off the strange feeling by making light of it.

by **Chase Delacroix** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:02 pm

"So... why the dojo routine? Training for the teams?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:22 pm

"I guess, kinda, yeah. But I'm also trying to make sure I can do what my head wants me to do. Because... well it'd be bad. Probably. I dunno."

by **Chase Delacroix** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:11 pm

"Yeah," he chuckled, "It probably would. I mostly knew what I was doing and still got hurt."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 3:55 pm

"Right, yeah, that too. Although I don't think my power cares very much about me getting hurt..."

by **Chase Delacroix** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 4:09 pm

"So long as your goal is achieved?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 4:12 pm

"Yeah. I guess sometimes that's just the only way?"

by **Chase Delacroix** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 8:02 pm

"Sometimes..." he said distantly.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 8:23 pm

"Well, that's just something that happens when you're a superhero, right?" she grins.

by **Chase Delacroix** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 9:18 pm

"Better us getting hurt than civilians," he agreed.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 9:24 pm

"Right, yeah, exactly."

by **Chase Delacroix** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 10:02 pm

"Better still if nobody gets hurt," he said, smirking "Well except bad guys' feelings."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 10:45 pm

"Or bad guys period, really. I mean... not seriously but, you know. A little. From getting punched."

by **Chase Delacroix** » Fri Jan 29, 2016 12:52 am

"Or maybe tasered," he smirked.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri Jan 29, 2016 4:03 pm

"Right, exactly. Is that what you do? Electricity?"

by **Chase Delacroix** » Fri Jan 29, 2016 5:17 pm

"Nope, I'm just super agile and good with my hands. I'm also really good at archery. As for the tasering... I'm learning how to use trick arrows."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sat Jan 30, 2016 12:40 am

"Oh cool, like with grappling hooks on them and stuff?"

by **Chase Delacroix** » Sat Jan 30, 2016 12:42 am

"Only the stun ones so far, but yeah," he nodded.

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