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Or, if you will, places and ways to torture people and what weapons to fight with. Let's cover the torture part, because it's so fun to talk about!
Torture is a wonderful way to release tension and loosen one's self up. That is, if you're not being the one tortured. In any case that you are, better hope it doesn't hurt too much.
Now, some villains from Sailormoon were great when it came to torturing people. Rubeus comes to mind almost immediately. Remember when he hung the senshi on crosses and tortured them? And then when he was fighting Sailormoon when he had his powers multiplied by that one crystal. He was indeed, one of the strongest villains Sailormoon ever crossed. He was also one of the more ruthless ones, and he made two mistakes: First of all, he turned his back to his enemy--Chibi-usa--and that caused him to lose his power, and the second one was asking Esmeraude for help. But he was ruthless, he had no scruples, and absolutely no morals. He made a good minion, being loyal only to his leader. And he would have won, if he hadn't turned his back on his enemy.
That really doesn't pertain to this chapter, but I just thought I would mention it. Torture comes in a wide variety of methods. You can do what Rubeus did and hang the senshi on crosses and torture them. Although it is nice to have a bit of morbid and sadistic touch, but there is more to torturing people then just sticking them full of really dull needles. Some villains went for a far more finesse touch.
Like Nephernia. No, it wasn't enough that she had to KILL Usagi, she wanted to completely and utterly destroy Usagi! She was going to make her hurt, and take everything that she held dear to her heart. This meant destroy Tuxedo Kamen (a blessing on everyone's ears), and thereby getting rid of Chibi-usa (who, admittedly, no-one would have really missed). Frankly, I think she would have had a better go at it by taking out the candy factories.
Of course, another thing we need to ask is what sort of thing do you like when you torture people? Do you like to see the blood, do you like to hear their screams, or to just watch them suffer? Don't be afraid to explore and find out what you like to do. I mean, sure, the Iron Maiden was a great way to torture someone. You can really hear them beg, plead, and scream. But you really can't see them suffer.
Another thing you need to ask: Are you squeamish about the sight of blood? O.O You better not be! Okay, if you are (shame shame), then you should find a torture method that is extremely painful, but very bloodless. Use the iron rack, or stake a person in the middle of an ant hill.
Where is the best place to torture a person? Well, you can go for the old-fashioned ways, which is a deep, dark dungeon with no windows and spiders in the corners and bats on the roof. But you know, sometimes psycological torture can be worse than physiological torture. You can stick them in a room and force them to watch Britney Spear and Barney vidoes *shudder*. Or you can stick with the physical torture, but do it in a room with happy face wallpaper and pictures of My Little Ponies and the Carebears plastered all over. I mean, talk about your sadism!
A word of warning: Unless you are heartless, you shouldn't surround yourself with Barney and My Little Ponies and such, because they may be a bad influence you in the long run. Get rid of them if you find yourself singing "I love you! You love me!" under your breath, and then go beat up some little old lady on the street to put you back into your mood for wickedness.
Now, what kind of weapons do you want to use? Sure, it's nice to get something really impressive, like a really sharp and huge sword, but if you can't lift it, then you will become a laughing stock. >_< Remember what I said about Bungling Idiocy in Chapter Three. Try to be practical. After all, if you can handle a whip better than a knife, then use it. Whips are dangerous. Anyone who has ever been choked by them can tell you that (or curse about; whip burns sting like heck). If you can channel energy through them, they can be very destructive; just ask Calaveras.
Let us go over the arsenal of weaponry commonly (and not to commonly) used. We'll look at the positive side of using them as well as the negative side.
Now, these are nice things when you can throw things like Tuxedo Kamen can. However, when you face off with someone who has an even larger pointy object--like say, Sailor Uranus and her talisman?--then your knife isn't going to do you much good. Always keep distance from these large objects.
These items are really nice things to use when you're fighting at really close quarters. But they won't do you a whit of good at long distance unless you can somehow make a copy of Sailor Uranus' "Space Sword Blaster" attack. Which is why I recommend you learn how to shoot stuff like fire or lightening from your blade. Just use some ordinary black powder for the special effects if you can't use lightening or fire.
Anything that will shoot anything; like Eudial's gun or Tin Nyanko's bazooka. These are really handy for long distances, and if the enemy is unsuspecting, really disastrous. You might want to make sure that it is light and very wieldable in case you have to fight in close quarters and you don't have time to reload.
Three very good examples of people knowing how to use these are Calaveras, Tiger Eye, and Lead Crow. You can strangle people or whip people to shreds or use the whips to project dark energy at a person. Good for close quarters and, if you can stretch it like Calaveras, good for long quarters.
Being able to project the elements is very useful, especially by shaping them. You can be like Zoisite, who preferred ice and used it in many different ways (storms, shards, swords, knives), or you can be like Cooan, who could wield fire in different forms (a long stream or raining it down on umbrella-less people).
This is an attack based on almost all attacks. You can't do a whole lot without it, so I advise you to learn how. (Think: Queen Beryl, Wiseman, Black Lady, Kaolinite, etc. etc.)
(it's those two sticks on a chain commonoly used by ninjas). Heehee. :) These things are really cool! You can really leave bruises if you hit a person with them. Be careful when you first start out with their use though, because you can bruise yourself with them, and we evil people don't look cool with black eyes.
Or, you can go for originality, which is nice and leaves the senshi unsuspecting of what you are doing. (Like Tellu and her plants; none of the senshi have a weed cutter!) It's also harder to come up with a plan to stop something when they have no idea how to react.
This had to go somewhere, so I may as well put it after the offense: Defense.
Armor is a very good idea. A skimpy bikini, while it may be comfortable and very flattering, is not too sensible. Really, how can you expect it to protect you from someone's attack like Venus' "Love and Beauty Shock"? However, by the same token, if you wear enough armor to protect yourself from Sailormoon's attack but you can't move any faster than three feet per minute . . . Um, no. I really don't think so. Practically the only way you could possibly survive a run-in with the senshi while wearing such armor is if they are too busy laughing their butts off to attack you.
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