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Roronoa "do you even own a shirt" Zoro ([personal profile] yourotherleft) wrote in [community profile] estoria2016-04-02 12:12 am

The second rule of fight club

Who: OPEN...ish
When: IC 6/16, late night
Where: the pleasure district
What: it's time for a field trip to the underground fight clubs - voluntarily or accidentally. Not limited to characters Zoro personally knows, feel free to bump into him, thread amongst yourselves, etc.
Rating/Warning: violence, bloodshed, etc. I mean, it's fight club.

This time, it's not about the money. It's about letting off some steam. Zoro has some things to work out, okay, best done with bare knuckles and blades, and he knows he's not the only one.

He's talked about the underground fighting rings to a few people, so when he gets it in his head to go looking for one, he starts with a round of texts to those closer to him, who he knows would be up for some fun. Vietnam, Kashuu, Kaneda, maybe Mutsu. After that he adds in Dotanuki and Angelo and a few others, he's not as close to them but they sound like fun in a brawl. Sanji, well, he just gets dragged out of the apartment by the arm. He tells them they're welcome to bring a friend along, if they know someone who'd be all up in this mess. Meet at eleven outside a certain host club. Of course, a group like that prowling around the pleasure gardens looking for nondescript doors leading to basements guarded by thugs instead of patronizing any establishments is going to attract suspicions...

Success! This looks like just the place to get some fight on.

[ooc: so here's the deal. There are two fight clubs, we'll call them A and B. When people get tired of one (or kicked out), they can head to the second. Treat this as an open log - pick a setting, toplevel, tag around! No need to thread with Zoro alone, he's just one among many tonight.

Club A is a flashy setup where the fighters, some of them well-known with popular followings, like to don silly nicknames and even costumes or gimmicks. It's not just for show, though, these guys know how to fight and there are no restrictions on weapons, armor, or powers. A force field usually protects the audience from the blood splatter. Fruity alien drinks, scantily clad...uh, creatures of any gender, actually, this is the place for an exciting night out. A bettor can make it big if their fighter keeps going all the way in tournament brackets, but even one upset loss can be bad news.

Spectate from the bar, join the fighting, or pretend you're somebody's coach and sneak into the locker rooms to ogle the pro-fighters in their costumes.

Club B is dingier, darker, and not big on the showmanship, but the fighting is so savage that the stakes are much higher for both the fighters and anyone who bets on them. No armor allowed, and fights vary from fists-only to simple bladed weapons, no lasers. The drinks are terrible unless you like your booze neat, which probably is necessary for some of those bruisers to dull the pain receptors. They enjoy rookie fighters brave enough to show their mettle, and while not all fights end in someone's death, it's not rare.

The real heavy-hitters in the underground frequent this one, there may be heads of rings of illicit activities in the shadows. All that technology smuggling has to happen somewhere, after all.

If your character wouldn't be in Zoro's contact list to get an invite, or get invited by a friend/enemy/frenemy, feel free to run into him while he's talking his way into the fight club with the nice gentlemen in their very tight t-shirts standing guard at the door. He'll let anyone come along as long as they know what they're getting into - after all, Vietnam gets to play!
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[personal profile] beaconed 2016-04-20 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course she doesn't, which is why you have to go after her.

[ He would spell it out for her if he could bring himself to talk about his own team mate. Pyrrha didn't want anybody going after her either, and yet they all did. But the biggest difference between Blake and Pyrrha is that only one of those will definitely never be seen again. ]

Ruby hasn't given up, don't be so quick to decide it's over.
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[personal profile] heiroglyphs 2016-04-28 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
I know that, Jaune, but that's going to be pretty hard to do from Atlas. Or... from here, when she's stuck in... I don't even know what.

[The digital abyss? The vast reaches of space? How does this place even work.]

Ugh, but I'm glad Ruby's still going. She's tougher than any of us.