ImportantNobody

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Opinion (that seems to be the popular one I'm rooting for): After the first exchange of blows, from that point on the fight can be judged to award points to the winner. If someone's gone past the time limit then you can get a free hit on them, so even if they were winning up until that point that would likely change, so it's very unlikely the person who left could still be declared the winner unless we take away the auto hit rule.

Forfeiting gracefully shouldn't allow you to keep points any more than a normal defeat (although either way, at the moment, we don't lose points), it just saves a bit of time. Otherwise you could forfeit right before defeat and save point loss.

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launch death balls instantaneously with the speed of a bullet

@MelonHead

There's a blanket nerf on any attack to limit to a specific speed. You can show them that ruling to force the speed of the attack down to the given max speed. That is unless Innue specifically said they could keep that speed, which I doubt. Even if the sheet was accepted that doesn't mean the speed of the attack was because that was a given (I know this caused some confusion in the past).

Arena FAQ/Advice

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Problem with cliche back-stories is that they're almost a necessity, there's literally no understanding the actions of a super-hero without sufficient motive, and most motives have already been stolen by comic book writers by now. Considering the nature of your character, I would just have random DNA mutation at birth be the cause of her body producing a number of proteins commonly found in Honey Badgers rather than humans, hence the superhuman stats, just an idea though.

@MelonHead

Mutants are a safe standby to describe how they got their powers. Nothing wrong with it or overly exciting. I'm not sure her motive yet.

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Maybe her hiding in a trench near a honey badger's nest amid a military operation in the African deserts, where she gets turned into a bloody mush by an explosion, bits of a poor, blown up honey badger mixing in with her own flesh. Most are extracted afterwards, when she is rescued and brought to a hospital, but some remain, and when she is put into a regeneration camera of some sort, this turns her into a chimera with both human and honey badger DNA in her organism .

@Vordak

Poor honey badger but not poor her?

Maybe she got into that situation by chasing the honey badger for play and the fight broke out suddenly. The badger could have even attacked an enemy soldier who came to get her (instinct rather than protecting her unless you claim it was an intelligent, mutated badger or something). Maybe her father is a very irresponsible arms dealer who had a "bring your child to work" day gone wrong.

Can Wolverine come back from the dead or does he just not die? This superheroine could probably die (nothing says a honey badger is immortal). If she came back to life after the incident then perhaps it was unrelated to her powers or she was barely clinging on to life already. Or maybe she could come back to life but there's plenty of ways to keep her dead so she can't just come back in a couple of minutes good as new or that would ruin the tension quite dramatically.

I like Vordy's idea. Maybe a few tweaks but it makes the most sense. Many superhero origin stories aren't as cheesy as you claim. Certainly there are some but then again many of those heroes were written in a time when pulp and cheese are what people wanted to read.

@Skallagrim

I'm mostly familiar with the older superheroes, so you caught me there.

The Mech that went to an Active Volcano (Ranked Battle)

See, this is what I have in mind for how I'd say he's holding the lance, which is also how a javelin is thrown unless I'm sadly mistaken.

first of all it is running away from you, and then turning in mid-step and backing up further, considering your character has less than a second to react to this and position a throw, something so accurate seems unlikely for anyone of relatively human stats.

@MelonHead

He can do all that in a second but my guy can't fling his weapon in that same time frame? Also, given the size of the mech at 12 feet, even his second smallest weapon in that picture is around 6 feet or so, the largest weapon, which is the one I'm attacking, maybe around 9 feet (just by guess work upon examination). Adding in the fact that he's still at quite close range and I truly don't see how that's pinpoint accuracy. The mech for sure had a much smaller target (saanga's entire body smaller than the weapon) and hit him 100% at much further range. If we say it's the speed at which this is all going on that shoots his accuracy to kingdom come, then it would stand to reason the mech wouldn't be able to hit saanga either (unless having a gun rather than a lance upgrades his accuracy tremendously).

But I'm fine with Rilla's judgement on this. He'll probably die in the next post.

The Mech that went to an Active Volcano (Ranked Battle)

I was imagining him holding the lance like how Link pulls out the master sword (I think...?) which means his hands would be orientated like a javelin throw, facing the same way your hands are normally positioned just holding your arms out with thumbs on top. Holding it your way sounds very awkward to be angled straight downward.

Arena FAQ/Advice

That's sort of like my normal fantasy stories. I guess the difference is they don't wear spandex and capes.

The Mech that went to an Active Volcano (Ranked Battle)

The lance was a downward orientation held in front of him, so all he'd have to do is move his arm back to get it into a throwing position. I would think someone could do a throwing motion in that length of time. He'd also simply land on his feet. Your mech was training his weapons on where he'd land, so if he was aiming I wouldn't think he'd be wildly moving the gun around, making it an easier shot and your weapon seems like it was a relatively large target and wasn't very far.

I'll edit the post to clarify his stance, although it would have to be in my post before last.

Arena Chat Thread

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True that. Though Vos can cover that entire side with his dagger, and Hikaru can hardly land a strike hard enough from the Chudan to break his parry, so it still could potentially benefit me.

Anyways, im look forwards to your next post, and i'll try to pick up the pace and post my reply sooner than this time.

@Vordak

Couldn't the dagger be caught up against her hand guard as she slides the katana forward to strike? Both pressed up against each other, the katana would have the range to hit while Hikaru would be safe, unless I'm missing something.

@ImportantNobody Yeah of course. Just let me know when it's all done, thread 'n stuff. ^^

@DJAtomika

Okay. Probably on the weekend.

Arena Chat Thread

@ImportantNobodyHurray for a normal man!

@Crazy Scion

I only have a quota of one normal male character for every ten! Affirmative action, yay!

@ImportantNobody Well then once you're ready, go ahead and create a thread and I'll hop on!

@DJAtomika

Okay. I assume you want his character sheet typed up, at least vaguely, before that.

You can fight Yurzia some other time.

I guess there's no harm in telling, since this is a practice fight, but i was planning for you avoid the bide, and thus, break your stance. The most obvious ones, and the exact few i was fishing for were simply pulling the sword away, stepping backwards, or transitioning to a different stance, for all of which i have follow-ups planned.

The reason i didn't write that into my post was because you could've seen through my ruse and answered with a move that i haven't predicted, and thus, planned for yet.

@Vordak

I see how she could sidestep in the direction away from the sword swing to try and strike his side.

Arena Chat Thread

@ImportantNobody Well then we'll go with that! Sorry to make you go through the trouble of making another guy just for this fight. XD

@DJAtomika

Well, I need a few more male characters in my male character-a-day week anyways! And...drum roll...he's not bishonen!