[@Inner Demon][@floodtalon]

Ok, so here's the deal. I'm not saying any of you cannot be powerful, that's fact. Henry is obviously fairly more powerful than Zack thanks to his Eyes, but I'm not asking anyone to die outright.

However, escalating the fight in a couple of turns to a level where no one else can even get close to it without becoming finely atomized particles, isn't doing favors to no one. Edits of IC posts are heavily frowned upon for their capacity to cause unneeded chaos and delay/completely change people's replies.

So, I say that, like every single character that has overextended and overexerted their powers up to now, Zack will have to pay the price by realizing his mistake when he goes out of power or burns himself in a very short order. It simply wouldn't be fair if we had bashed people in the past because of that and didn't do this to him so that's not really a question here. He dying because of hubris must happen in one or two posts at most.

Henry is mostly cool for the time being (given that he's trying to use his powers in a smarter way this time and I can actually see that he was struggling there for the first part of the battle), but I suggest that he gets at least tired, if not exhausted after this clash and has to avoid relying on his eyes so heavily for sometime. It doesn't need to be for the rest of the battle, but at least for a while he should need to catch a breath. Of course, Henry can always overextend as well, but he tasted the consequences of it on his flesh more than once in various battles. I guess that he knows what will happen if he pushes too far.
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Other than this, I have no qualms other than implore for people's posts, in general, to stop deceiving each others because of excessive purple prose. This has become an increasingly complex problem to deal with and I'd like to not have to yell at you like a rabbid tiger every two or three days because of it.

After all, come on, I learned to be clear on my posts (to a point that I don't think is really needed, since I don't like setting hard numbers on this too much, but well), after the complaints about the nebulous nature of Victoire's roses echoed around for too long. I'm not asking any of you to not do anything that I'm not doing on my own. There's a pretty clear count down to doom on foot of my posts (a very, very slower one compared to every other battle Victoire has ever been in, should I say). Everyone here knows what happens when the roses grow to a size that they'll regenerate/keep growing at a faster rae than anyone can burn/destroy them.

If, and that's a big if, any Vassal controlled by me ever drops around to fight anyone actively (since they still exist as anti-idiocy deterrents, after all), then I'll afford to be nebulous given that they are living plot devices. Even with them, I never deceived anyone with purple prose on my posts and don't think I'll. There's no for anyone to know what's happening if the text isn't at least easy to understand.

This is the only thing I wish all of you get to understand. Because I'm none too happy of having to come here to do this kind of announcement for the third or fourth time in less then 2 months.