Slapstick Comedy

MARTIAL ARTS DESCRIPTION: A martial arts style developed by the Orleas Clown College. When a person is enrolled in Orleas Clown College, they are agreeing to having their bodies and minds broken down to be reshaped into that of a clown. Their bodys are hardened to take severe beatings through “durability exercises' ' where a student has heavy objects such as pianos dropped on them and cannon balls shot into their torso. Their reflexes are tested in a series of life and death performances such as a tightrope walk over a pit of spikes. Their minds are broken down through a use of shock therapy and hallucinogens. Finally after they are properly broken down the student must be subjected to a final ritual by the inner circle of the college where they are finally reborn as a clown.

Like traditional martial arts, Slapstick makes use of several stances in Slapstick; these are referred to as “bits” or “routines”. Users of Slapstick go into routines typically with the use of gag items that start off harmlessly but quickly turn deadly for the Clowns opponent. Examples of this range from the use of a seltzer bottle filled with acid to a banana cream pie with a hidden blade attached to the pie tin.