MelonHead

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I still don't understand the arm blocking the sword bit though, If his arm is in front of him he'd be blocking his own line of sight. Unless he's staring at the ground head forward.

@GreivousKhan

It's off to his left and above him (because he expected Khazna to drive the sword downwards into his back like he was holding a giant knife.) until he twists it round to initiate the grapple then it blocks the sword. I had to make a rough estimation because a lot of things in this confrontation are pretty much up in the air. Your character's powers aren't the easiest to imagine in this sort of close encounter.

Also, isn't your character technically indestructible? If he can create these clone swords at the speed of light and then explode them instantaneously I'm not entirely sure how anyone is supposed to actually hurt him considering the only avenue for attack seems to be at melee range. Save for carrying a machine gun into battle, a machine gun would be nice right now. Though Skallagrim nerfed guns in that fashion, so really your character has no particular weakness in this tournament.

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The transition in the wrist grab would literally just require him to spin his arm around and drag it down while remaining in contact.

Yeah that's not how I imagined it, Tab swung in from right to left stepping in on his right foot, Metz darted (his right) rightward to avoid the strike and then stepped in facing Tab's body, so he's facing Tab's body and they're roughly standing face on, there wouldn't be any reason for Tab's leg to be between Metz unless he stepped at any point, which I don't remember you doing. Considering Tab is so quick I'm not really sure why you let it get to this stage, he could have just ran away at any point up until this grapple and swung his sword.

Metz would probably be at Tab's 1 or 2 o'clock roughly.

Because Metz knife is curved the blade rebounded straight up rather than slashing past Tab, though I see where you're coming from and with a normal knife that probably would have happened (especially if Tab twisted or otherwise moved the strike away.) However, Metz position and his overall intention would override that in this case.

Metz strength in pounds is roughly 660, which puts him just slightly stronger than Tab, though it probably wouldn't be enough to be noticeable in this situation.

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So for this wrist grab, he's trying to twist backwards? But in what direction? Your backwards my backwards? Seems a tad vague.(and it seems to me he changed what he did from a simple block with an arm into an actuarial wrist grab again even though he abandoned that very act.) And he's using his arm to block the blade burst? I'll also add that must be the most uncomfortable wrist grab for him seeing as Taby's position means Metz's arm is inside his guard. Unless that's not a thing anymore for some reason.

Also wouldn't the path of his dagger have Tablurath's right arm still in the way? Unless he pulled his arm back before he closed the distance.

@GreivousKhan

If Tab is standing roughly facing Metz (as Metz is charging his open body) then backwards would be to his right, though it's not really important as the current situation has both fighters wrestling for control, its essentially just a grapple. It wouldn't be that hard to transition from a fore-arm block to a wrist grapple after they made contact, as far as I know it's pretty standard practice for disarming.

Metz isn't really using his arm to block the blade burst, his arm just gets in the way as he's grappling because the arm is between the blade and Metz face. You have to imagine Metz still being somewhat lower than he should be because he's essentially keeping fairly low to strike low at the body, or at least was until the most recent post.

The whole movement is one action, it makes more sense if you imagine him ramming the blade upwards with his right hand while his left twists, faces Tab's and then yanks down while bending. Not that Metz really has the strength to outright overpower Tab, though he is slightly stronger I think.

I'm not sure how your character's right arm would be in the way unless we're imagining the scene differently somehow. Metz is driving his blade up immediately after his jab, which took place simultaneously to the blade exploding. (which in turn required Tab's own arm to be up away from his body)

The only way Tab's arm would be in the way would be if he completely overcame Metz strength and managed to yank his arm back like he intended in the time it took his knife to richochet and shoot upwards, which seems unlikely as Metz is the stronger.

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Metz had one trap of his own.

His left hand shot out, easily within range of Khazna’s wrist and sought to twist it backwards, his earliest intention still valid as he offset the man’s movements with his own. This in turn protected him as the blade spontaneously exploded with little to no warning, the metallic spray directed at his vulnerable face slashing through the tough fabric around his arm instead and cutting into his flesh. Metz had little time to comprehend what was going on around him as unlike his enemy the world hadn’t somehow completely paused and given him time to calculate his every move. Instead, he reacted on instinct, as his blade shot forward and bounced off his enemy’s hastily raised defence. The man before him was somehow near completely untouchable, but he had made perhaps one small miscalculation, the Shint was a curved blade. The curve was pointed towards his enemy and the point slightly turned up and away from his initial thrust, perhaps betraying what Metz intended all along as his blade bounced up and with a jerk of his hand he rammed the point upwards towards his enemy’s neck. No matter how far he bent his head back the blade would still find purchase in his throat as it ran along the front of the man’s body, and he had just reduced his own ability to pull back by engaging Metz in a grapple.

Metz had engaged the man’s wrist while he was still holding his sword, so he had something of an advantage in that regard, though if the man could somehow reverse his decision to close with Metz after realising the danger his knife posed was uncertain.

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Well it does say he's stepping forward with his right leg from 6 feet away. I mean he would never even reach you otherwise, having a max 5 foot reach without his body moving. Oh well.

@GreivousKhan

Well, it does say he stopped six feet away. Why didn't you use then Khan. GODDAMNIT WHY KHAN.

THEN HE STEPPED FORWARD KHAN

THEN

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'He stopped some six feet away stepping forward with his right leg'

See, this was ambiguous to me, when I write how my character stops I'd have written he had stopped with his right foot forward, so this is what I took you to mean here. If you intended for him to step forward after stopping it would have been useful to have said he stopped six feet away, then he stepped forward with his right leg to cut. Instead you put the two actions together which left it up in the air what he was doing. Even an extra detail like how far forward he stepped would have prevented my confusion, because from what I read it just looks like he tried to cut at a crouching man from six feet away.

Trust me, I don't want to be confused, but it's always the smallest details that make the biggest difference.

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Btw, how fast did Metz accelerate forward? In MPH if you please.

@GreivousKhan

I have no idea. Metz can run at around 45mph when using Pure Mana, but that isn't really related to how powerfully he can launch himself off the ground. Considering he has what essentially amounts to Supernatural strength he's probably moving at about thrice the speed an Olympic Athlete can start off the blocks in a sprint.

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He did it preemptively before he entered his guard. Thus forcing him to bypass the second swords tip. Also the blades form very quickly, (four formed in the time it took for your lightening to reach) he cut before coming into range previously.

@GreivousKhan

The clone sword would have been further away from Metz than the original though, as you said it was 'off to his right' so even if Khazna recognised his original strike was not going to be fast enough, it didn't make sense to grab a new sword out of thin-air and strike from further away with that. I also don't really see how the second sword would be in Metz' way. You said the swords were clones, so presumably it cloned Khazna's sword as he cut with it, which would mean it would just be at an earlier stage in his cut.

Also, your character should be out of position really, he overextended trying to strike at a crouching man from six feet away.

You can ask Skallagrim for a ruling, he has more experience with this sort of thing. I don't really claim to understand how your character's abilities work but I don't really see how a vague mentioning of a sword forming in the dust where your sword was cutting has somehow translated into a surprise sword attack directly in front of Metz.

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I don't really understand why Khazna would abandon the momentum of his strike to grab a sword even further away from his enemy once he's already inside his guard. Also, it's a little harsh to suggest Metz was ignoring the particles, you said they were only beginning to form when your sword passed through them. It was a bit of a leap from beginning to form to fully formed when my post was technically an interrupt, but whatever.