My old job required me to be able to defend myself, so yeah. I've got a couple of blackbelts. I'm guessing you had something to do with publishing back where you came from?
I saw other people. I taught a class of beginners today. Three guys and a really annoying woman. None of them could tell me anything about this place or why they were brought here. They all basically went home one night, saw the glowing sphere, touched it and boom. Woke up here.