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And enjoy the sunshine! Assuming you're not allergic to it.

Arthur wasn't allergic to the sunlight. If anything, it suited him.

Shiny golden hair and all, he was present.

Angela was definitely not allergic, and definitely was about to enjoy it. Getting towards her favourite time of the year with all the warmth. The more of that, the happier she was.

Priestly was ~~totally actually there for once, omg?~~ there, munching on veggies and definitely enjoying the sun and fair weather.

Gabrielle was most certainly not allergic to sunshine? You see that tan? The one fairly visible given the amount of clothing she wasn't wearing for the time of year?

It had her in a fairly cheerful-on-a-curve-of-Gabrielle mood, which meant you might want to watch out if you were allergic to cheerful, and she was nibbling on some of the goodies while they -- wait. They were doing what today?

Dinah was there! And despite being way fair-skinned, she also tanned. So she was very happy about the sunshine.

Dinah looked a little nervous as she got up to begin her talk. "Hi, everyone. Ahem. Okay, I learned this stuff in New Gotham, for dealing with, uh. Criminals. But a lot of it should still translate to other situations. Doesn't matter who's tied you up, or if you have powers. Given enough time, there's always a way out."

Francine, as it happened, was just as interested as anyone in this concept, even if she was standing up there looking like she knew what she was doing. "Yay for learning how to do it ourselves. The only time I ever got tied up, Merlin untied me." By magicking off the ropes that somebody else had put there, of course. What were you thinking?

Hopefully not what Dinah was thinking, until she remembered that week where there'd been punching of Francine. "So Francine's going to tie me to the chair, and then I'm going to do a Houdini and get out of it in less than a minute. Less than thirty seconds, and I want an extra cookie." Dinah grinned and sat down, and put her arms behind her back. "Okay, watch what I'm doing as Francine ties me up." The observant would notice that Dinah was both leaning forward slightly, rounding her shoulders, and tensing every muscle in her body. "Around and around, Francine. Legs too!"

If it looked like Francine was taking her time with that and studying everything extremely carefully, it was only because she was dedicated to education. Education. "Is that too tight?"

Dinah wriggled a little, and yeah, tiiiny bit of flashback to Shiva two weeks ago, but breathe in, breathe out, and... yeah. "It's fine." She grinned down at the chair and said, "Start timing."

She rocked the chair sideways, hard, once, twice, three times, and tipped over. "Oofff."

"Fifteen, twenty oh God, are you okay?" Francine, you're not supposed to rush over to try to help her. You're an evil mastermind.

"Yup!" Bruises, pfft. So part of the job. Dinah toed off her shoes, and then waved a foot at everyone. "Look, slack!" And started working her feet up the legs of the chair. "And in a second, my legs are gonna be free." Meanwhile, she'd un-clenched her fists and un-tensed her arms, and worked one pinky, then her ring finger, loose from the knots behind her back. With a lot more slack to work with, she had one loop over her fists in thirty seconds. "No cookie, but..."

"Half a cookie?" Francine suggested. And if she was watching the getting out with almost as much interest as she'd devoted to the tying up, that really was about education. Because come on, what were the chances that wouldn't happen to her again?

"I think... I'll get it.... now!" Ta~da! Dinah had gotten the ropes on her legs and middle loose enough that she'd managed to work the ropes off her wrists too, separate her arms, then duck her head under another loop and crawl out of the whole mess. "Yes!" She held her arms up in victory, then climbed to her feet, shedding rope lengths as she staggered upright. "Basically, you tense up everything you can tense, cross your wrists, hold them a tiny bit apart, and work the rope back and forth along the length. There'll be give to it somewhere. You don't need to untie the knots, just get free. You can be tied up safely or securely-- not both." She gave everyone a more sober look. "You just need time to undo it." Then she beamed at Francine. "Cookie time?"

"For you," Francine said. "Everybody else gets to practice tying each other up and getting out of it."

"And if you guys want to ask me questions about handcuffs or thumbcuffs, I'll be over here," Dinah said. "Having my reward."

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Arthur's eyebrows were climbing into his hairline until Francine finished tying Dinah up.

Er. Right. They were lucky that no amount of straps and buckles would ever jar Dinah out of the little-sister zone, and Arthur was free to raise those eyebrows at Francine's pausing instead.

The rest of the demonstration was fairly par for the course, as far as he was concerned. ...No, he wasn't going to say anything.

Priestly made a mental note to add this to the list of reasons why his best friend was insane.

Warren found himself watching the demonstration with no small amount of interest, yes.

This would probably come in handy any time he felt it absolutely necessary to break free of some restraint or other with the power of wings and adrenaline...

Gabrielle couldn't help feeling like there was something vaguely familiar in a weird, comforting way about watching Francine tie somebody up . . . oh, shut up, her thoughts were not trending in that direction, filthy-thinking person. Could she help it if she'd seen Xena tie up a bunch of people before?

Could she help watching rather intently all those times? Of course not. Please.

Still, she'd tried all those things before because the gods knew she'd been the one tied up more times than she wanted to count (because she could count that high, but there were some things you just didn't speak of), and they never worked for her. Why didn't they ever work for her?

Hmph.

If you have any further questions about getting out of being tied up!

[Dinah will be on around 7pm Eastern to respond to pings.]

Dinah was there, looking cheerful if a little bruised, with thumbcuffs and hand-cuffs, should you feel ambitious about learning more escape tricks.

They don't have a thing about bondage, seriously.

Morgana had to admit, she was pretty intrigued by this whole thing. As the king's ward, she often thought about the possibility of being kidnapped and ransomed, and this could make that a much smaller concern.

And it could help in dirtier situations, but she wasn't going to think about those here in public.

Why not? Dirty situations were always fun to think about.

"Interesting demonstration," he chuckled as he came up beside Morgana, reaching out to touch her arm.

"More interesting than I expected," Morgana admitted, smiling brightly at Jacob. "But useful, I think."

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