[quote=ImportantNobody]
I'm honestly completely at a loss. All I had her do was twist around to try and attack him and that's a miraculous avoidance? I'm not trying to start I fight, I truly don't understand.
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You voided all of his attacks.

If your character decided to react to his post by turning and swinging, that's fine, but you should have said what effect that had to his knife strikes. Instead you just left it to the wind, with some ambiguous 'if my attack goes through then his attack goes through too!' 

Personally, I think your attack would allow you to partially avoid the first knife strike, hence you should have said that, suffering or graze or missing or whatever you think plausible. Instead you just left it so Skallagrim can decide how much damage he did to you, which just isn't how Arena works.

Secondly, turning around and swinging a sword is going to get you stabbed with a knife, probably fatally. Your sword will never reach the Elf before you die, its just how turning circles work. This is me judging it with comparable speeds, I'm not entirely sure on the specifics of each character.