open; when the others blocked your light

[monomachy]

Who: Diana & anyone!
When: May
Where: Free Cities, Horizon
What: Questing, eating, training, messing around with magic and moth hares
Warnings: TBD




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[monomachy]

In her excitement, she's caught unawares by the sudden intrusion into her yard. She's already got a spear in her hands, but stops the instinct to cock her arm back and hurl it on instinct. She isn't being attacked, just interrupted--

--by a very large man with four arms. Yes, she's seen him in the city and the training grounds, but they haven't formally met. Well, no time like the present. He stays on top of the wall, but she doesn't seem disturbed by the way she has to tilt her head just so to look at him. She rests the butt of the spear on the ground, and smiles.

"A new way of fighting." She isn't being deliberately vague; this new power has just opened up countless new options for her in battle. She presumes, anyway. She hasn't done much experimenting yet, though she already has many ideas. "I did not mean to disturb your own training."

[fourarmedandangerous]

A new way of fighting? That catches Goro's attention. "It is not an issue." He replies, jumping down into Diana's yard with a loud thud. He has his own weapons, the four gauntlets armed with retractable blades. With Maxwell and Hector both gone now, Jayce has taken on the responsibility of helping maintain them; the mechanisms are too small and intricate for Goro. He's just been testing them after their first tune-up from Jayce, and he will have to give the man his regards. The blades are as good as when they were first forged.

"I am Goro." He acknowledges Diana with a nod, folding his upper arms over his chest. "Would you be willing to demonstrate this new method of kombat?"

[monomachy]

Diana considers, briefly, asking him to leave her yard; she had reserved it, after all, and had not invited him. But though it's a little rude, she's excited enough about her magical discovery to let it go. She's actually been dying to tell some of her new friends about this, but what's the harm in starting here?

"I am Diana of Themyscira." It's a name that seems more appropriate for this place, for some reason. People here are very concerned with what faction they are associated with, which makes her feel as if she needs to clearly state where her loyalties lie. Themyscira may not even exist in this world, but that doesn't make her love it less.

Nodding, Diana gestures for him to come over to her assortment of weapons; there are swords, spears, shields, even a bow and arrow, all made of wood, as all the practice weapons are here. A little disappointing at first, but that suits her purposes just fine today. "Choose a weapon," she instructs. It doesn't matter which one; she'd spent the morning imbuing them all, testing the limits of the magic. "You will see something a little off about it, maybe a mark on the hilt or a sheen on the blade. They are imbued with magic." She sounds extremely proud of herself.

[fourarmedandangerous]

The fact that Goro may be intruding or that his presence would be unwelcome literally never even enters the Shokan's head. Something interesting is happening with combat applications. Who wouldn't be intrigued by that?

When Diana nods and gestures towards the weapons, Goro walks over and takes a spear in one of his upper arms. It looks comically undersized in his massive fist, but he leans in, examining the spear more closely. "Yes. I see a mark." It's not far down from the speartip.

Magically-imbued weapons, hm? Turning, Goro flips the spear around in his hand to a throwing position, then aims it at one of the dummies. With a flick of his elbow, he hurls it, driving the spear into the dummy's midsection, curious to see what Diana's magic has done to it.