Numeric Five: Public Archive

Video: Cat's Guide to Modern Times- Fighting

[A video file from the Cat's library archive, a part of junior standard educational materials]

Title card, ''Guide to Modern Battles"

The video starts with a screen with another video playing. Footage from an space vessel commercial shoot, the historic humans set themselves up around the vehicle before one clapped a clapperboard, just as the presenter starts to talk the light of the blue wave radiates in the sky shutting down the camera. The screen is moved to reveal a prepared flipchart, the first page written in thick black marker 'GrandMage Kade (he/him)', a Catgician [Felis Catus, Historic Magician] walks into the camera frame with a pointing stick.

Kade: Hello students, I am Kage, GrandMage of Illusion.

He flips the page. In a frame a theoretical image of the particle of time can be seen but the video has been edited, a photograph of the particle is placed on top.

Kade: As you have been taught, before us, the humans created the particle. The blue light in the video, the blue wave was a product of its creation. The colour is only a product of its initial exposure throughout the universe but it's energy irradiates across the entire universe and continues to do so.

The next page shows the battle bias model. With small pictograms of each fighting type, arrows point between each show which type is biased towards the other. The overall shape is a arrow.

Kade: The new energy in the universe caused a shift in the ways we fight. The scholars have created an intuitive way of modelling matchups.

Kade points to the symbol of a flexing arm.

Kade: Attack type. Up-close and hard hitting. Their visceral attacks beat the concentration needed for mages to preform their spells. They are beaten by the speed and range of those more agile.

Kade points to the symbol of a blue star.

Kade: Magic type. Far and versatile. Their spell traps beat the space needed to be agile. They are beaten by the pressure of brute Attacks.

Kade points to the symbol of a running figure.

Kade: Agility type. Near and slippery. Their maneuverability beat the slow actions of strong Attacks. They are beaten by magics untargeted destruction.

Kade pushes the flipchart off the camera revealing behind it two animals in fighting gear. Kade runs in frame joining them with his own gear.

Kade: I'll like to introduce you to a demonstration of the three main fighting types.

The three animals hold up posters. The otter reads "Clam (he/them) Attack". The rabbit reads "Hibiscus (she/her) Agility". The cat reads "Kade (he/him) Magic".

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A video cut, Title card reads "Attack Vs Agility".

Clam positions their practice sword two handed near their face for a downwards thrust. Hibiscus dodges to the side following with using her foam batons to sweep their leg and jumping back to keep her distance. They counters by swinging their sword behind her escape momentum, she grabs the floor and twisting her arm she redirects her momentum. Following by throwing her batons to their head, she lands paw first on the floor.

Kade: Two zero, if equally skilled Agility is biased.

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A video cut, title card reads "Magic Vs Attack".

Kade holds out his staff, his other hand he holds a spell book with a large yellow sticker reading "educational use". The mage blurs and splits into illusion copies, Clam rushes swiping clones into a puffs of smoke. The real Kade prepares a blinding spell, Clam recognised the sound of the incantation turns and using the side of their sword to block the grey bolt. Rushing in with their sword the mage starts his next incantation but gets interrupted by the impact of the sword to his side. Clam proceeds with a quick follow up strike.