As a side note, the Fallen are also a descended race, though unlike the Dreamers don't have DBZ powers or anything.
Though they do have sweet tech at least.
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As a side note, the Fallen are also a descended race, though unlike the Dreamers don't have DBZ powers or anything.
Though they do have sweet tech at least.
As the short battle thus far had progressed Tablurath had kept track of every subtle movement his opponent had made large or small. He had almost missed the tell the first time the winged warrior had manipulated the very air around him. By now, however, he realized that this Raelis always made a great gesture with his wings before tapping into the pressurized air gathered around him. Yes he saw now; the Asaraen pulled in the wind through a simple system built into his wing’s armor, but controlled it through some enchantment. The electrical spectrum further revealed a strong degree of magnetism surrounding his wings. One might think a warrior wearing so much armor would have obfuscated such fine details from the Cardinal, but his telescopic vision had turned the his avian foe into an open book.
In the sea of black rose petals the Cardinal watched as his enemy made their move. The much anticipated attack he had been preparing for as they unfurled their wings. The end result was as expected, though the form had varied at least.
The intricate threads of power now woven throughout the area were much like a complicated pulsing web, sundered here and there from his falling blades as they had passed through them. He released the air energy from Mercy that parted the sea of mibs, dissipating it as a result. Just as the Asaran launched his twisting cyclones of wind. The cogs of fate had begun to turn once more. But, Tablurath was still very much the one spinning the wheels.
In Tabluraths eyes his ocular abilities allowed him to see a great deal. To his vision the spears of wind had been set upon the strand once connected to Mercy. A tactically sound option by his opponent. It would allow Raelis’s attack to track him regardless of where he went or how fast. If not for Tabluraths own inhuman perception he would have been none the wiser. Still, even so the Cardinal had already foreseen and anticipated this manoeuvre. The moment the battle had begun Tablurath had considered every possible outcome and had made plans for each one of them. This outcome had been calculated at a strong 64% chance while his opponent closing the distance and engaging in hand to hand combat had only been a 32% probability. He sighed inwardly, bored from the outcome of the battle thus far. Even as his opponent found challenge in it; he simply did not.
His earlier actions had copied Mercy and in turn had created numerous swords now impaling the ground around Tablurath. While having taken his swords form almost perfectly, they had also inherited its last command. Each sword now drawing in the energy now vested into the spinning cones of wind. This in turn caused them to veer off course, dramatically. The pull of one sword might have only altered their course slightly, but with twenty five blades the effect was multiplied tenfold.
Every time a cone of wind was caught upon a strand leading to one of his sword clones, it suddenly was pulled in that direction. Raelis could always try arresting control of them, but due to his control coming from an enchantment, those new threads of magic would be pulled off course as well. In essence the storming of winds had effectively been severed from their leashes.
The combination of a field of starlhrim and the strange nature of this place had also taken allot of the kick out of the cones of air. Though deadly they did remain if unwieldy- it seemed attacks relying solely on energy were a poor choice in this location. Several of the cyclones veered off suddenly smashing into the stones around both opponents. To his opponent it would seem as if Tablurath had suddenly gained control over them. However, the truth was Tablurath had simply planned well for this exact eventuality.
As for the nano-machines of his opponent, they had long since been deemed a non-threat. Simply due to the fact his own mibs had already begun assimilating them upon contact. They held the ability to reconstruct matter itself in three of its forms, rendering these little trouble makers into dust in which they possessed no defense against. In fact, they willingly embraced their demise each time they made contact with a mib. Something now unavoidable. The Khazna’s own cloud of mibs acted as a prefect shield in catching them and scattering their substance to the winds raging around him. Already his own armor, mask, and cape had taken on a much darker tint to them, as a layer of his own mibs began forming over his body having since spread from his feet. Soon Tabluraths own nanomachines would be the only ones still floating about in the dome of black ash that now surrounded them both.
Divine and arcane. A powerful combination one did not often see. A shame power in any form was a terrible choice against the Cardinal. More so in this strange environment. Such time and power wasted. Still now was the time for the reprisal. He crouched low, the cones of wind still spreading before him like a blooming flower as they struck out at the clones of Mercy. His world then slowed to a crawl as he plotted the perfect course through the maelstrom.
At this point Tablurath noticed the sudden ease that he could move, as well as the utter lack of sound. It seemed those cones of wind had been a double threat. Creating a vacuum of sorts around him and attempting to deprive him of oxygen. A most noble effort indeed on the part of his opponent. The Cardinal would allow himself to be a tad impressed, even if this inevitability had also been foreseen before the battle had even been called forth. The sensors in his blacked masked helm activating and drawing on its own internal air supply.
The area would suddenly become much colder his opponent would find - for as the energy of the winds were consumed, the earlier energy they had absorbed from the ‘Cold Light’ was being released at a slow crawl into the space around them. Starlhrim could only hold one source of energy at a time after all. Effectively driving the bird man’s attack of course while granting the Cardinal with a ready supply of Cold Light energy to tap into when he required it.
He burst forward then, moving at a leisurely pace of only a third of his true speed. His own training weights keeping him from using his true potential for now. He had avoided moving much due to the draining nature of this place. Airing on the side of caution. Now however, was the time to move in for the attack, least boredom take hold and drive him mad.
Tablurath swung his body to the left then forward avoiding one pressurized blade of wind that now seemed to be moving through water. Anticipating their paths as easily as one might a river. Skillfully side stepping another and ducking a piece of debris. All the while never stopping his forward momentum. The cones of wind could no longer lock onto him and had for the most part been thrown of course entirely, but they had not exactly vanished. His opponent had furled their wings by the time Tablurath had entered within seven feet of them. Passing a large boulder to his right hand side as he watched his opponent the entire time for even the most subtle of movements. His eyes a blur as they absorbed the changing surroundings -- finding another focal point.
As he got within range his sword swung up from his right side and down again at an angle from the upper left aiming to cleave into his opponents right shoulder. At least it appeared so, possessing all the tenacity and power of a real blow. While the swords path had brought it through a cloud of mibs at the Cardinals right side. The time between Raelis’s own attack and Tabluraths response being within the realm of roughly two seconds.
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It was a very different kind of post, more story driven and with more character emphasis than my usual more technical posts. The point was that Judgement would skewer his opponent if she tried to strike at him again because it was what he was made to do, and the risk to his own person was unimportant. Your character can hit Judgement if she wishes, but she can't just nonchalantly flick his blade away again, which by the way would have been very difficult in the first place considering the huge disparity in strength and weapon types. It would be akin to trying to parry a thrusting broadsword with a shortsword times like ten.
There is a difference between parrying and blocking. The greater the difference in size and strength the easier it is to use that momentum against the attacker. If the person is skilled enough.
Also that whole segment about the spear outclassing the sword thing is total nonsensical bollocks just so you know. A spear has the advantage of reach on a sword, but if it was anything like you describe it to be. The world would have never have bothered producing the more expensive harder to train with sword. Thrust are faster than cuts (and more deadly) though are harder to land, but spear are not faster than swords, no weapon is inherently faster than another, as that's based entirely on the individual.
In HEMA they teach you, 'first comes the body, then comes the weapon' (and mind before that). Though I notice you only get that wsshing sound with a swords tip, never got a spears tip to move that fast without putting a whole lot of strength into it which would of course put you off balance.
The Bromance continues.
Weird seeing an argument I haven't caused for once.
I see no issue with Yoshua's queries, I think the issue here is that there really is no decent distinction between what is statistically assured and what T1 is set in place to balance. If the point of T1 is that every action is completely equal, then how do the varying unique powers and the like interact? How does anyone decide how much damage anything should do? What statistics do we ignore when deciding how something works and what do we follow? Yoshua is right technically, there are so many scientific implausibilities in that power that its existence should really boost the tier of Khan's character beyond the majority of characters here, but T1 in theory balances it, at least it's supposed to. The thing is, if T1 makes everything balanced, why do character tiers exist? Surely every character is fundamentally the same then and therefore tier is unimportant, but as every imbalanced fight ever seen has shown, tiers are definitely required to keep a fight entertaining and competitive.
I kind of agree with Rilla in the sense that the more technical Arena fights get the less fun they are from an artistic perspective, but T1 is specifically designed for competition and yet really doesn't do a particularly good job of explaining much of anything at all. Do you just accept someone can do something everytime they do it, regardless of if it makes logical sense, just because T1 states all things are equal? It doesn't really allow for the natural imbalances, the strengths and weaknesses, that make any match-up fun.
I dunno, seems like someone needs to re-iterate what T1 means in regards to this forum, because it's unsatisfactory in many ways as it stands, at least for me. I'm growing tired of the current system, I can exploit it easily with really very minimal effort, I choose not to most of the time because I really do believe this should be about fun and interesting stories rather than just winning, but the tournaments are ultimately competitive, and they need a rule-set that everyone fully understands to stop these issues cropping up.
Don't worry, it is your fault, since you set the precedent to doubt Skalla in the first place. You remain as the source of all arguments.
What just happened?
Miscommunication and hurt feelz.
Luckily I know what the Yellow Flash is, but I'm not that big of a Naruto fan. I'm a bigger Bleach fan, or you could have even used a one piece reference with the Rokushiki, particularly the Soru technique. Hahah
Sadly I don't know who Rokushiki is. :P
In fact I'm sure I can't pronounce it. Have yet to really watch One Peice, maybe on day. As for Bleach...meh, I kind of lost interest in it when they started repeating the whole kidnap and go save them archs. Was interesting while it lasted though.
Aizen is a rare example of something worse than OP. God mod.
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Leeway is fleeting, to be honest. Sometimes its there and sometimes its not. Personally, I'm willing to allow some stuff to happen, if it makes sense, but others may not be so forgiving.
That's why I think fights, competitive or not, have become far too technical to be much fun. Too many numbers, to the point, if you play them straight, you may not be able to do much. Now everything is can you actually do it, blahblahblah.
While I don't know what Khan's flash step requires - at first sight 760 mph, in a 30 foot zone, seems way to much - based off a previous fight with Kei'taro where he used Kusanagi in a relatively small area and one shot Frokane's character.
But, as I'm not judging, and as I mentioned - I don't know what his flashstep entails, so, meh.
Well to explain it in better detail. He can only flash-point effectively to wherever there is a sword(or clone).
Basically you should think less of it as super speed and more a pseudo teleport. For Him to cut someone in half with it, he would need to get a sword behind them, make sure their not moving while doing that, then align it just so that their on his path to the sword. Honesty at that point if someone can prep that much without you moving you kind of deserve the hit.
You're a Naruto fan(I think), so think of the Yellow Flash and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Only without the insane range. :K
If someone wants a visualization of what that would look like..
Damn shame Raelis can't fly....damn damn damn shame...for me :(
*marks the day he will be able to pull of omni-slash further ahead on the calendar.*
It would probably still be fair.
Assuming @EmptyArmor is still in for this.
I'll give @Dymion the end of today (or when I finish my NoW post) to throw up a CS otherwise I can start the OP for this and we can get this show on the road.
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Do called shot on Khan's boobs, insta win
Alright, I'm I missing any posted characters? Doesn't look like it.
So far its me and @Skallagrim on one team vs @Stekkmen, @EmptyArmor, and @Vordak?
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