16 16. The Seven Masters Dojo (1/2)
Flora landed in a wood in front of another colossal portal-gate in a high wall. By now, she knew what to do and entered the portal.
Zone Information
Name: The Seven Masters Dojo
Color: Yellow
Enemies
Defeat: Defeat
Cornered: 2h
Drop: 0,00%
Neutral
Defeat: Defeat
Cornered: 1min
Drop: 0,00%
Friends
Defeat: Defeat
Cornered: 5sec
Drop: 0,00%
Automated Reputation Losses
Fighting outside sparing areas: - 5 Rep
Littering: - 1 Rep
Using weapons or armor: - 3 Rep
Automated Reputation Gains
Consum: + 1 Rep per 10 VirDos
Quests: + 1 Rep per Quest
Teach: + 1 Rep per hour
The compound consisted of a green garden with one modern main building composed of steel and glass and several smaller buildings from different earth cultures, like traditional Chinese and South American.
Walking toward the most prominent building, Flora passed martial arts classes which looked to her barely trained eyes like Tai Chi. All the pupils wore the same uniform, wide rust-colored trousers, and an orange top or stash.
After Flora entered the building, she immediately spotted the information counter and checked in.
The anteroom opened up to an atrium packed with bawling spectators watching four boxing rings with ongoing fights. Flora stayed clear of the crowd and analyzed the zone information.
The quest page was sparse with just one quest giver, the information booth, and two quests available: one daily quest attending a lesson and one weekly quest participation on a workshop. But the training tab was several pages long. Flora let Aidan count the different martial art styles, and he came up with 101. Flora hadn't even known that there were that many! She needed a recommendation.
Flowing Flowers to Radglory Flow: ”Sweety, what martial arts should I train? I'm at the Seven Masters Dojo.”
Radglory Flow to Flowing Flowers: ”Sorry, Ma, busy! Take Karate or something! And don't take a grappling art! You won't like to wrestle a slime or a dragon! And under no circumstances take Aikido! Bye!”
'That didn't help. What's wrong with Aikido? And wrestling dragon sounds like fun ...'
She visualized a majestic dragon and then her choking it. 'No, that doesn't work, my arms are too short of reaching around its neck'. She tried to imagine an armbar. Same problem. 'A little finger/claw-bar?' The dragon in her head raised its front leg with Flora hanging on for dear life and smashed it in the ground. 'Alright, I see the problem. But what's a good martial art against a dragon?'
Fortunately, Flora knew a few martial arts enthusiasts and called an old friend and business partner.
”Look who finally thinks about her old pals!” A window opened up showing a pale man with white sideburns and a thin mustache reclining in a canopy bed. He wore a silken burgundy dressing gown and smirked at Flora. Unfortunately, Flora was distracted. The world around her had sped up. 'It's like I pressed fast forward on a video-tape! Or selected double playback speed on youtube!' Finally, Flora figured out that her time dilation got deactivated, because she communicated with the real world.
”Earth to Flora! You call me, and then you just show me your gaping mouth! And what the heck are you wearing? Is this marble?” Though Edgar's choice of words was harsh, his tone of voice was intrigued.
”Let's skip the talk about clothing because you're sitting in a glasshouse, dear. Are you all dolled up for a Hugh Hefner look-alike competition?” Flora fired back.
”Honestly, darling! You look amazing!” Edgar exclaimed after he enlarged Flora's countenance. ”Where did you get your face done? Dr. Orlowski? No, he is virtuoso, but even he isn't that good.”
”I did it myself!” Flora smiled smugly while failing to sound humble. ”I'm in this VR-thingy. You know, we complained about the game that got all the young people addicted? It is absolutely horrible!”
”Tell me all about it! Are you addicted yet?” Edgar asked, excited.
”I am! And I was even violent and headbutted a poor guy!” Flora whined with gusto. Germans loved complaining, and Edgar and Flora were enthusiastically German in this regard.
”Amazing!”
”And French bank robbers abducted me!”
”Wonderful!”
”I died several times today because a mad scientist implanted a device in my neck that allows me to communicate with machines!”
”Awesome!”
”And one time because I tried to do parkour tricks!”
”I'm so jealous! I drank a cup of tea in a cozy cafe and read a nice book about gardening! I'm bored out of my mind! Tell me what I have to buy to join you dying amazing deaths in virtual reality!”
Flora gave him all the information she had, which wasn't much. But she was sure that CentralTank made it easy to acquire the gear. Otherwise, they wouldn't have 200 million customers.
”At the moment, I'm at a dojo and confused about what's the best martial art to learn. Can you give me a recommendation?”
”There Jiu-Jitsu is Jiu-Jitsu no Jiu-Jitsu 'best' Jiu-Jitsu martial art, per se Jiu-Jitsu, there Jiu-Jitsu is Jiu-Jitsu only Jiu-Jitsu the best Jiu-Jitsu martial art Jiu-Jitsu for you Jiu-Jitsu and Jiu-Jitsu a specific Jiu-Jitsu situation.”
”Alright, Jiu-Jitsu! But Jiu-Jitsu is a grappling art, and Robby said that I don't want to grapple with a slime or a dragon. I'm pretty sure he is right about the first.”
”A slime sounds slimy and a dragon impressive, but think about it this way: Who is the greatest enemy of mankind?”
”Itself! I see where you are going. So Jiu-Jitsu is the best against humans, and that makes it the best choice.”
”You Jiu-Jitsu are Jiu-Jitsu a Jiu-Jitsu great Jiu-Jitsu student, Jiu-Jitsu my Jiu-Jitsu darling Jiu-Jitsu.”
Flora felt better after the phone calls. She looked at the training-list, and a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu class was going to start in ten minutes. Though Flora liked the idea of doing Jiu-Jitsu, she didn't want to disregard Robby's advice. Therefore she searched for a striking martial art as well and found Wing Tsu. The description said that was a German branch of Wing Chun, a kind of Chinese kungfu invented by a woman. Because it wasn't a fighting style Robby had practiced or was mentioned in the UFC matches they watched together, Flora hadn't heard of it before. But she was willing to give it a try. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu had its origin in Japan. So she had Japan and South America covered and thought it would be nice to add a European or African martial art in the mix. On the Chinese-Japanese conflict, Flora was firmly on the side of the Chinese because they produced some of her toasters. That a woman had developed the Wing Chun added a bonus, not because woman were the better fighters, but they had a different reach and core area than men.
After Flora booked the courses for 100 VirDos each and got her uniform, she failed to locate a locker room, and Aidan showed her how to speed change. Flora marveled at the practicality of the system. She just had to drag the uniform from her inventory to the equipment tab, and she was ready for training!
Name: Seven Masters Dojo Monk Training Set
Type: Clothing
Effects: + 3 Training efficiency in everything a Buddhist monk needs to know.
Tier: 1
Rating: B
Zone Information
Name: The Seven Masters Dojo
Sub-Zone: Beginner Classroom
Color: Yellow
Defeat
Defeat: Defeat
Cornered: 5sec
Drop: 0,00%
Restrictions:
Combat mana-skills locked
Level Cap: 25
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Bonus:
+ 5 OV physical regenaration
Automated Reputation Losses
Disobeying the coachs: - 1 Rep
Littering: - 1 Rep
Using weapons or armor: - 3 Rep
Automated Reputation Gains