[center][h1][color=tomato]Wukong[/color] and the [b]Horrible, Terrible, No-Good Nun[/b][/h1] [i][h3]-Carmine Hall- "It Has Hit The Fan"[/h3][/i][/center] As the blood-knight nun’s instrument swung toward Wukong, empowered into a full-on threat beyond what the nun already had been, the simian esper reacted the only way she and her grimoire knew how to do on the fly…adapt! Despite the instincts telling her to jump back from the attack, Lilliah’s body refused to do so. Or rather, it did not refuse to do so…but couldn’t?! Like something held her back from moving farther away. In her panic the siminan esper ultimately rolled to her own left, dodging as the nun’s attack came crashing mightily vertically down where she once stood. At the same time, as she came back up to her feet and primed to make another move, Wukong struck out with her staff, aiming to use her reach to poke out/at one of the blood knight-nun’s own eyes. [color=tomato]“For a nun, you really do stick around like a [b]bad habit[/b]!”[/color] The matter of reach, however, no longer mattered. Her mobility options sealed by the nun’s cursed eye, the two dueling espers were now both within reach of each other’s weapons, and any step forward they took would further decrease the amount of space they had to maneuver. Which, of course, was fine with Lenore. As Wukong’s staff thrust out, the armored nun took another step forward, tilting her head to one side. The bludgeoning weapon clipped the side of her helmet instead, the damage minimal, and with a twist of her hips, she swung her falchion diagonally towards Wukong, the blood-graced blade aiming to carve into the soft flesh beneath her ribs. As the bloody blade sliced through the air toward her midsection, Wukong was casting a melody of her own as she pulled her staff to block the attack. With how little time she had to react, however, the most her staff would do is intercept the enemy’s blade closer toward the handle. And yet… [center][color=tomato][i]Bronze Touch Damage X Push[/i][/color][/center] …she hoped this would work. She [b]really[/b] hoped this would work. [b]“Finally!”[/b] Moments before sword would meet staff, Wukong noticed it. The shifting of Lenore’s posture, her knees dropping and her back straightening out, her exposed eye glimmering with an arcane light. She was expecting something. She understood something. She [i]sensed[/i] something. With the echoing of a great gong, one that resonated from the very depths of Wukong’s soul, her crimson battlestaff unleashed a rippling force against the incoming falchion, repelling it with magical force. Yet the nature of Instruments was indestructibility, and though the simian esper could hear the fractures racing up her opponent’s arm, she saw too, the reason for the change in posture. The falchion was pushed away at a tremendous speed, but the person wielding it had steadied herself against the incoming force. So what had happened? Spinning around, even faster than her first strike, Lenore delivered another horizontal slash, this one propelled by her opponent’s spell, to bisect the wind-blessed martial artist. Noticing something was wrong in those moments before contact, the shift of her opponent’s posture and so forth, Lilliah’s eyes widened as the gong-like echo of the blow rang out into the air and through her very self. She yanked her staff to the other side of herself as the blow pushed off of her staff, both hands and her body barely moved to the ‘safe’ side of her staff and holding onto it for dear life as she tried to block the blow with the midsection of her instrument where her hands were now not holding it. Her body also twisted as she moved to do this, lining up to brace in full behind the staff itself whilst taking a knee. [center] [hider=Banner Sheet] 9 | Female | G.E.M.I.N.I. | Wisdom At Journey's End Cherrywood Sage’s Staff | Quarterstaff | Physical | "Thrums With Power" (Aesthetic) Blooming Crimson Peach | Unhindered Mobility Tao | Wind | Oneness [Flight (6), Storm (4)] | Push (2), Pull (2), Restrain (4), Summon (4), Trap (0), Damage X (6) DAMAGE: D | SPEED: D | SENTINEL: D | 500 PHYSICAL: D | ARCANE: E | CHAOS: D | 308 [Bronze Beam][Damage X][Push] = 112 [Bronze Touch][Damage X][Push] = 80 [/hider][/center] [@Izurich][@BrokenPromise][@Ponn][@FamishedPants][@SilverPaw][@ERode]