"Great, a week to figure out how fight monsters, make competent friends," she paused to stretch a little. Which, given her skills at ballet, was more than a bit impressive. She at least wasn't out of shape by any means, "And learn how to do the splits in pants that don't have any give to them. Joy."

"Probably some special blessed material, or the body parts of other monsters," All the stories required monsters to either be killed by a unique weakness material like wood for vampires, silver for werewolves. Or you could use some aspect of another monster as a weapon. It was just kind of logical, monsters would be just as deadly to other monsters, right? "So without the right kind of weapon, no amount of prep would actually help me win? Keeps getting better."