Catharyn said
Hey!! *wave*
Heh, long time no see. :K
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Heh, long time no see. :K
TheBiddz said
The way I read it is that Tab threw the sword, realized the pillar was still up, so instead of turning around, he just kicked off the base of the still standing tower, which would allow everything to have happened with changing any events.
Not sure how it would be read that way, as he threw the sword after he fell.
His landed on against the ice tower then struck it. Since he rebuilt the tower back instantly and no one fell, he simply kicked off of it.
He hit the other tower with both feet planted before him, and then aiming for a fissure where the strands of cryokinesis energy bound the tower into its current state, he cut right through a segment of ice, and through that very strand of energy. The effect was instantaneous, with most of the tower instantly dissipating into whiffs of water vapor. In essence Khazna had dispelled the ice tower, which inevitably caused Khold to free fall, along with a few chunks of ice spared from the dispelling effect. Of course so was Khazna, but the drop was only a couple feet off the ground, and he was expecting the drop.
He fell into a crouch which turned into a roll and sprung to his feet in one graceful motion, the whole maneuver taking no more than 2 and a half seconds, most of which spent in free fall. He had hit the ground mere second before Khold, due to his slight head start, though the man was still 35 feet away. Even with his abnormal speed he would never catch him before Khold hit the ground and readied some sort of hasty defense from the unexpected hostile action. He probably never imagined Khazna was capable of destroying his tower so quickly. An easy feat with all that time he had finding the focal point of energy.
So without a moment’s hesitation he threw his blade like a spear aiming for where Khold would fall a moment behind. Should it hit, the blade would easily pierce right through his lower abdomen. Normally he would resort to a mock blade, but there was simply no time. Whether or not it struck, Khazna was already sprinting forward, mercy flashing free of its scabbard as he ran, and if it missed it would pierce another pillar of stone behind it.
LeeRoy said
You mean you're changing actions that you have already written?
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, he made it impossible to carry out the action with the ice tower still directly in front of him. Besides that's what if statements are for.
TheBiddz said
I dont ever remember that. At least not in here. Oh, Khan, I did have a question about your last post. Which sword did Tab throw at the pillar? The one stuck under the ice. Is that just an extra sword?
The pillar? Well The tower was never dispelled and Khold never fell (thus by extension neither did Tab), so he never got to throwing anything.
I'll use Tab more to avoid confusion in the future, ha, you even put khan in there once. XD
I didn't make any fuss over it, I found it funny.
You should have seen the kind of post Wind and yoshua were apt to make.
Khazna noted immediately a wave of energy had started to rebuild the ice even as the focal point of power collapsed in on itself. The kinetic energy of the pillars atoms had not sped up to normal, as a result effectively remaking the tower much faster than Khazna had thought possible without line of sight, another factoid to file away and consider. With the pillar of ice still standing however Khazna could not physically follow through with the actions he had planned to carry out. His feet still braced against the ice he kicked off the surface aiming back and to his left. He landed on another giant sized spider web thread then kicked off of that one an instant later, to leap to another column of web that carried him far to Kholodny right some 36 feet away now visible to his opponent. At this point Khazna had become hardly more than a blur of motion hardly visible to the human eye. When Tablurath had first arrived here, he had found it a bleak, depressing, colorless landscape. (Not counting the strange aura of raw power that seemed to leak below the realms surface which was invisible to everyone but him anyway. It was still an improvement to rainbow pony land)
There was another thing he did notice right away, however, since leaving the false gravity of his capital ship. The gravity here was lower than nearly any other world he had visited, barring uninhabitable moons of near zero gravity of course. This translated to Tablurath weighing almost half of what he might normally weigh, and another unseen benefit; he was even faster here than normal. The weights he wore that normally kept him from exceeding his safe limit also weighed significantly less. This he quickly contributed to his revised plan in light of recent events. Translating to what would look like he was almost teleporting from web strand to web strand, not quite entering the break neck speeds found in flash point as he estimated he'd still need to remove the weights entirely, a dangerous move in a place like this. He didn't want to run off a cliff after all! Still to the human unenhanced eye, he would be near impossible to track while moving.
The tower of ice had offered his target a momentary sanctuary from direct confrontation and Tablurath's preferred fighting style. So he would have to improvise, he landed standing on a strand of web just a little over 11 feet off the ground and 30 feet from Khold.
"I'll warn you once, and only once Khazna(Really? How do you know his other name?)! If you've ever read a history book you should know. Don't EVER underestimate the Russian Winter!"
Knees bent and ready, Tablrath only responded. "I don't know who this Russia is..." He started even as he dashed to his left again, before jumping to another strand of spider web 5 feet up and now 28 feet from Khold in one blur of motion.
All the while Tablurath's accelerated perception kept track of his target, not his hands or feet, since he knew this one needed no such motions, but the raw cryo energy bounded in his form would be the Cardinals only hint. With his speed and enhanced sight Tablurath possessed a potent defense, but he needed to go on the offensive if he hoped to bring the man down and in one piece. Thankfully there was another weakness he could exploit. Like a pin ball he sprung from his current petrified web strand to the next. This one connected between another two larger pillars of stone that dotted the landscape 16 feet away from Khold 8 feet above him to his right. Tablurath landed on the side of the strand with his left leg bending to absorb the impact of his jump, already posed to kick off in a moment.
"But it sounds really disappointing, also who the hell is Khazna? Tablurath remember!" He finished as he pulled Mercy free of its sheath.
Since leaping off the side of Khold's ice pillar, he had been quickly but relentlessly moving around to Khold's right while maintaining a higher and higher elevation. All done in the time span of 2 seconds this would give the cryomancer plenty of opportunity to intercept him he knew. Something he fully expected and was prepared for. More importantly his bid to go higher might very well force Khold to do the same to maintain distance, something Tablurath was counting on. Still if his opponent did nothing but stand there in his short time left to himself, Khazna would leap off the edge of the last web strand aiming directly for Khold. Clearing the few feet between them in the blink of an eye, with both Serenity and Mercy becoming a blur, the first sweeping cut across aimed from lower right of Khazna with his left hand blade, sending it sweeping up to cut deeply into Khold’s forehead cutting his brain in two, it’s natural properties also weaving through the natural aura of cold around Khold, absorbing the unnatural cold to leave it’s wielder unperturbed by it. The next blade was already aimed, but not for Khold, but the ice at his feet. Stabbing through it, should it hit, thus effectively imbedding the sword in the ice and offering a unique platform for Tablurath. That following the sword strike to Khold’s head, one he would find hard to avoid if he allowed Tablurath this close in the first place.
There was another thing he did notice right away, however, since leaving the false gravity of his capital ship. The gravity here was lower than nearly any other world he had visited, barring uninhabitable moons of near zero gravity of course. This translated to Tablurath weighing almost half of what he might normally weigh, and another unseen benefit; he was even faster here than normal. The weights he wore that normally kept him from exceeding his safe limit also weighed significantly less. This he quickly contributed to his revised plan in light of recent events. Translating to what would look like he was almost teleporting from web strand to web strand, not quite entering the break neck speeds found in flash point as he estimated he'd still need to remove the weights entirely, a dangerous move in a place like this. He didn't want to run off a cliff after all! Still to the human unenhanced eye, he would be near impossible to track while moving.
The tower of ice had offered his target a momentary sanctuary from direct confrontation and Tablurath's preferred fighting style. So he would have to improvise, he landed standing on a strand of web just a little over 11 feet off the ground and 30 feet from Khold.
"I'll warn you once, and only once Khazna(Really? How do you know his other name?)! If you've ever read a history book you should know. Don't EVER underestimate the Russian Winter!"
Knees bent and ready, Tablrath only responded. "I don't know who this Russia is..." He started even as he dashed to his left again, before jumping to another strand of spider web 5 feet up and now 28 feet from Khold in one blur of motion.
All the while Tablurath's accelerated perception kept track of his target, not his hands or feet, since he knew this one needed no such motions, but the raw cryo energy bounded in his form would be the Cardinals only hint. With his speed and enhanced sight Tablurath possessed a potent defense, but he needed to go on the offensive if he hoped to bring the man down and in one piece. Thankfully there was another weakness he could exploit. Like a pin ball he sprung from his current petrified web strand to the next. This one connected between another two larger pillars of stone that dotted the landscape 16 feet away from Khold 8 feet above him to his right. Tablurath landed on the side of the strand with his left leg bending to absorb the impact of his jump, already posed to kick off in a moment.
"But it sounds really disappointing, also who the hell is Khazna? Tablurath remember!" He finished as he pulled Mercy free of its sheath.
Since leaping off the side of Khold's ice pillar, he had been quickly but relentlessly moving around to Khold's right while maintaining a higher and higher elevation. All done in the time span of 2 seconds this would give the cryomancer plenty of opportunity to intercept him he knew. Something he fully expected and was prepared for. More importantly his bid to go higher might very well force Khold to do the same to maintain distance, something Tablurath was counting on. Still if his opponent did nothing but stand there in his short time left to himself, Khazna would leap off the edge of the last web strand aiming directly for Khold. Clearing the few feet between them in the blink of an eye, with both Serenity and Mercy becoming a blur, the first sweeping cut across aimed from lower right of Khazna with his left hand blade, sending it sweeping up to cut deeply into Khold’s forehead cutting his brain in two, it’s natural properties also weaving through the natural aura of cold around Khold, absorbing the unnatural cold to leave it’s wielder unperturbed by it. The next blade was already aimed, but not for Khold, but the ice at his feet. Stabbing through it, should it hit, thus effectively imbedding the sword in the ice and offering a unique platform for Tablurath. That following the sword strike to Khold’s head, one he would find hard to avoid if he allowed Tablurath this close in the first place.
Milkman said
I think spells comming from the person themself is fine but magic should be really uncommon and not that influential. I prefer it in a way that it can influence the world but not on a massive scale. I don't really like the idea of a single person leveling cities in an instant. Maybe a in the way it is currently done in Game of Thrones. It is there, it can influence events but really uncommon :)
I think a age of Conan or Elder Scrolls level of magic would probably be a reasonable level of magic ability.
In any case I'll have a NS up soon hopefully.
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