[OOC] Black Mountain Tournament: Sigurd vs Gigue

[Vordak]

@OoTrillionoO I spy with my eye. What brings you here? Is our fight entertaining? ;^)

[MelonHead]

Scared 'em off, can't call out the lurkers they're skittish.

[Vordak]

Also, if you're going to get that earth elemental going, here's an ability that didn't quite thematically fit with my character (plus, i had already made him quite powerful at that point), but is quite swell for a zoner overall: a ground pound, seismic shock so to say. If anybody tries to harass you back or rush in, you can just launch an earth shaker to throw them off balance and disrupt any action they're doing. And heck, it's just as useful up close for the same reason.

[MelonHead]

Also, if you're going to get that earth elemental going, here's an ability that didn't quite thematically fit with my character (plus, i had already made him quite powerful at that point), but is quite swell for a zoner overall: a ground pound, seismic shock so to say. If anybody tries to harass you back or rush in, you can just launch an earth shaker to throw them off balance and disrupt any action they're doing. And heck, it's just as useful up close for the same reason.

@Vordak

I had a contingency for that, he has the ability to suddenly lift dirt particles from the ground around him in a dense cloud, and he can sense vibrations through the earth. Against enemies reliant on sight it's almost as good. The character is basically just a younger point on the timeline of an old Earth elementalist character I used in a WOTW tournament.

[Drifting Pollen]

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I'm really divided on the GCL thing, on the one hand Darth seems to know what he's doing and has a good system (for the most part, some things are stupid like the obvious advantages for ranged magical combat over physicality and some other funky spell effects) but on the other hand I don't like the ethics of that site and some of the participants seem like grade-A douche-bags, even by combat-RPG standards.

I'm still heavily tempted though, just to see how far I can get with a character who is quite literally just amazing at throwing stones.

@MelonHead

You should try it! I used stone-throwing as a weapon once, and won a tournament with it. You can pull all sorts of stuff like ricochets, fake throwing motions to threaten your opponent, sliding larger rocks across the ground like balls or hockey pucks to knock people off their feet, targeting terrain to do shit like knock branches off trees onto opponent's heads... plenty of fun options.

Definitely some a-holes over there, but you'll find those wherever you fight. Plus, over there you'll have competent judges to help deal with them (unlike over here, where right now it's just me doing my best).

[Vordak]

Welp, we're on the same wavelength man. Smokebombs here, with a slight pressure blast that can unbalance an opponent if thrown under their feet.

[Drifting Pollen]

Welp, we're on the same wavelength man. Smokebombs here, with a slight pressure blast that can unbalance an opponent if thrown under their feet.

@Vordak

*High fives* Flashbangs and tear gas for me.

[Vordak]

They're going to think we're the same person.

[MelonHead]

You know, Sigurd is only one move away from epic bonus points for hitting all of Gigue's appendages, so far he's hit his left leg and left arm with his sword, his face with the pommel of his sword and his right arm with an axe.

[Vordak]

I ain't giving you no spare moves. Nuh-uh.

[MelonHead]

If you read the small print in Sigurd's sheet it says if he hits all of someone's limbs they explode. My master plan is revealed!

[Vordak]

My master plan says that in post 21, Sigurd's the one to die. Good luck trying to foil it. >:D

[MelonHead]

My master plan says that in post 21, Sigurd's the one to die. Good luck trying to foil it. >:D

@Vordak

Well, I can't necessarily foil it if it works out the way you said, but that's mostly because I don't understand it yet. I want to sleep on this because all my best ideas come when I should be sleeping, but can I just get some clarification first?

Gigue presumably carries out his original plan, diving onto Sigurd's lower body, however is he now also kicking Sigurd in the arm at the same time? As you probably remember Sigurd's arm (after elbowing Gigue) was left in a resting position over his lower belly, so I can't for the life of me work out how a kick to it is possible of leading to the circumstances you describe. For one I'm not even sure how Gigue is kicking the arm, kneeling on it, and then wrapping his leg around Sigurd's head at the same time? Surely the kick is coming in from Sigurd's left hand side, which would knock it over to his right hand side (though arms literally don't stretch all that far across the wrong side of the body) so where exactly is it being pinned?

Can you offer a quick break-down of what Gigue is doing in summary-esque terms so I get it all right.

[Vordak]

@MelonHead Lower belly? For some reason, i thought it was higher up, covering Sigurd's chin from the kick. And by 'under his knee', i meant not the knee itself, but rather, its crook.

[MelonHead]

@MelonHead Lower belly? For some reason, i thought it was higher up, covering Sigurd's chin from the kick.

@Vordak

Nope, it would have been in the way of the sword slice if it was above his right arm, not to mention he had just delivered an elbow to Gigue's ribs so it was low anyway as this is one continuous action for Sigurd.

'not to mention the Northman’s stone arm had rested low over his torso to ease the passage of the cutting sword, and would prove a powerful obstruction.'

Sigurd didn't even know a kick was really on the cards at that point, so guarding his neck would have been a little pre-emptive. The only protection he had from that was his right shoulder (and pauldron) which was stretched over his body.

[Vordak]

I really need to get back into the habit of post revisions.

[MelonHead]

Well, I've waited this long so feel free to revise the post now. Just have mercy on Sigurd if you think of an execution move, remember I could have forced you to keep this cock up and punched Gigue in his unprotected balls with the stone arm so hard he'd have exploded just like I said.

[Vordak]

I can't really have mercy; with Sigurd's left arm nowhere near his neck, it's just free knives for everyone.
And balls are quite the hard target to hit spot on. There's a reason they aren't called balloons.

[Vordak]

But if Gigue just jumps on Sigurd I can only assume he would be getting a pretty shit wound for not so much gain, because Sigurd's arms will be in the way of all his follow ups.

@MelonHead

This is why i suddenly thought Sigurd's left arm was up there to guard him from the kick. Didn't quite interpret that the right way; but hey, chances are i won't be embarrassing myself as often in the future, now that i've got the right mindset hammered into my head.

[MelonHead]

Look at his reference picture and then think of his arm's position, his neck isn't that free a target. Not to mention if Gigue gets into that position drawing a knife to strike seems like a massive waste of time, he could just punch Sigurd in the face in half the time and knock him out. Your character's strength is actually insane, giving him the benefit of the doubt in regards to his punching form he can generate more force with his punch than any living human at least twice over, Sigurd isn't a boxer (trained to take punches to the face) and even giving -him- the benefit of the doubt he'd still be debilitated by a single punch. Why waste time with drawing a knife?

That being said, Gigue is already an unstoppable badass, multiple rending wounds, badly injured arms and even broken ribs and he's still performing acrobatics and break dancing, what more can Sigurd do?