[quote=@Nimda]
<Snipped quote by Nemeses>

*The blast send me spinning backward directly into a newly-spawned platform, where I land cleanly with my knees bent*
At least [i]our[/i] grandstanding had purpose.
*With a thunderous boom and enough renewed velocity to shatter the platform behind me, launches forward to close the distance between us, jutting my knife directly into your neck and firing my pistol into your abdomen*
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*Stuffs the palm of my hand over the barrel of your gun, stopping the bullet in its tracks as smoke flows from the barrel under my hand, while the knife itself is caught short of landing by a ring of energy solid enough to catch it where the blade meets the handle, stopping it in its tracks*
What purpose? A nice quote for your epitaph?
*My palm glows and then releases a burst of light outward, launching a shard through your gun itself and blasting through it and your abdomen like a shard of shrapnel*