Wow, look at the tracker go!

I've been doing a lot of work, which I won't bore you with, and eating various drugs and stuff like that. But last night I had a strenuous lightsaber duel with a Sith Lord called Joseph.

Basically, I went round someone's house for dinner, along with a few other people on my MA course. The person whose house it was has a five year old son called (you guessed it) Joseph. First of all he fought Jono, and Jono got bored (or tired, I don't know which), so he made me fight the boy. And he was pretttty violent. I have bruises on my hands this morning. Those plastic lightsabers are hard, but.... oh so cool. ;)

They have motion sensors in them so they make all the right noises. And they light up. And they just feel nice. (Nice is a bad word, but they do feel nice. Cool. Whatever.)

First of all it started off with general duelling. It's actually harder to fight with both hands on the hilt, which is how you're supposed to fight with lightsabers. The only Jedi to fight one handed was Ki-Adi-Mundi, whose fight scene was cut from Attack of the Clones, so I guess you'll have to take my word for it. Unless you are privy to the same information that I am, in which case you'll be able to sagely nod and we can both feel proud that we know something so useless.

Anyway... after a while it turned into serious roleplay. He was Darth Vader, and I was Luke, so he got to seriously injure me a lot. And he used force lightning (although he insisted it was 'electricity') and also the old force push to send me flying to the ground. Then it got even more bizarre, because I had to talk to the Emperor (who was sitting on an empty bench). He had to keep telling me what to say. Mind you, once when he told me to go and see the Emperor he said, "Go and sit with the Emperor and he can help you with your sums". It's an idea for Episode III, isn't it? Anakin goes to the dark side because he's having trouble with his trigonometry.

It made a change, anyway.

Even if he did know far too much about the prequels. ;)

I have been mostly.... WATCHING (TV): canadian grand prix (itv) / READING: sting (wensley clarkson); edge magazine

posted by Fiery Fred @ 11:07 PM