NytefallSo Gigue literally gives no shits he might have just had an axe thrown at him? That's fine, but if Sigurd does now throw the axe and Gigue reacts I'm going to be a little confused as to the reason.
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So you meant when Slimy bit its wing. I thought you were implying that it hadn't even gotten the chance to fly because of the pauldron.
But then again, how do I know what you meant? I mean, I only have your word, and you've shown me that anything can be interpreted in any way, so long as it helps win a fight O.O.C'ly.
If Slimy did touch the pauldron, it wouldn't have been hard enough to draw attention. It's not some gook that bumps into chairs.
The way I saw it Slimy had two options to get off the Mech fast enough to escape the chain-gun, if he wanted to go right (why you wanted to go right I do not know, probably the worst decision). Either dive directly off the Mech from the point it was at, at which point at least some of its very long and injured body would have caught on the pauldron and revealed it, or as is more logical and likely, Slimy would claw its way rightward and throw itself off the Mech from the pauldron. Either way, Slimy is a solid 300kg, that's enough weight throwing itself into or off the arm to draw attention, it's not like Higan has anything else to go on in his blind Mech.
"conveniently tore apart his own method of flight" You did that yourself you idiot, your character literally ate his own wings mid-flight which was convenient for Higan because it meant he couldn't just fly away. Literally all I did with that pauldron is detect which direction your character flung himself off my damn Mech while avoiding another of my attacks, so don't put words in my mouth.
I gotta be honest, the mech is way heavier than it needs to be.
Yep, I know, I'm planning to change the weight after the fight. I based most of the stats off the tank I was researching, but upon greater consideration it's still too heavy. I'll probably drop it down to ten tonnes or so.
Higan is literally controlling the Mech's arms and legs, the pauldron is connected to the arm. I never said Slimy tripped over the pauldron and got shot did I, I said it would have had to pass over the pauldron to clear itself off the Mech, impeding its progress and revealing which direction the Pater jumped off. It's by the same merit as if you were in a car and a lion jumped up on top of the roof, if it then launched itself off the side you would feel it inside the car. Same process here, except Higan's arms are literally connected to the Mechs so it's more noticeable which direction the pressure comes from.
You failed to point out that your character carefully stepped over the pauldron, aware that touching it would reveal its escape. Last I checked the Pater just threw its weight rightward and dived out the way, logically it would use anything it could find to help in that endeavour and may well have clawed its way over the pauldron to get extra lift. Fact is, I can interpret things you leave deliberately vague how I wish, it made very little sense to me that the Pater would choose to dive off the side with a literal barrier to its speedy escape, so it cost it. That's your mistake.
However, what you can't do is go back and change what your character did after realising your mistake. You could appeal for a judge and try and make the claim that your post suggests the Pater avoided the pauldron and therefore Higan has no knowledge of where it is, though considering you didn't mention it at all but did move right over it I fail to see what merit that argument has.
You're acting as if I've made the Pater trip over, when in actuality I've just accounted for something you've ignored and used it to my character's benefit.
You failed to point out that your character carefully stepped over the pauldron, aware that touching it would reveal its escape. Last I checked the Pater just threw its weight rightward and dived out the way, logically it would use anything it could find to help in that endeavour and may well have clawed its way over the pauldron to get extra lift. Fact is, I can interpret things you leave deliberately vague how I wish, it made very little sense to me that the Pater would choose to dive off the side with a literal barrier to its speedy escape, so it cost it. That's your mistake.
However, what you can't do is go back and change what your character did after realising your mistake. You could appeal for a judge and try and make the claim that your post suggests the Pater avoided the pauldron and therefore Higan has no knowledge of where it is, though considering you didn't mention it at all but did move right over it I fail to see what merit that argument has.
You're acting as if I've made the Pater trip over, when in actuality I've just accounted for something you've ignored and used it to my character's benefit.
@MelonHead Gotta correct you, you can wear a buckler and still have a free hand. You just have to strap it around your forearm instead of hand.
Edit: I don't know why the hand is a Furry hand.
'A buckler (French bouclier 'shield', from Old French bocle, boucle 'boss') is a small shield, 15 to 45 cm (6 in to 18 in) in diameter, gripped in the fist.' Strapping it to the forearm would significantly reduce its worth as a parrying tool, and as far as I can see in regards to a duelling tool it was never used in that fashion.
http://forums.kingdomofloathing.com/vb/showthread.php?t=116424 What you've shown is simply a fragment of fiction and DnD unfortunately.
Also for the record your argument that gunfire echoing throughout the cave would somehow give your character greater clarity of vision is laughable at best. Animals that use echo-location above the surface of the water, bats, have exceedingly sensitive hearing and would be running away in fear and generally disorientated by something as loud as a chain-gun blasting away a few feet from its head. I'm sure you're ignoring all the limitations of your character's echolocation, but I'd appreciate it if you didn't bullshit science advantages that don't exist.
@Doc Doctor The fuck? That's... what.
That's literally just cheating lol, what the hell? You failed to compensate for the pauldron in your previous post, or even mention it, and carried out a dodge that involved throwing your weight rightwards, nothing about a great high-jump that would see you sail over the pretty significant pauldron without touching it. And it's not like I haven't mentioned enough times to refer to the reference picture. Then, because I use it to discover which way your character dodged the chain-gun fire you go back a post and compensate for it after I've already put my plan in motion? What the fuck lol.
I'm going to need a moment to recover from this one, that's just hilariously bad form.
That's literally just cheating lol, what the hell? You failed to compensate for the pauldron in your previous post, or even mention it, and carried out a dodge that involved throwing your weight rightwards, nothing about a great high-jump that would see you sail over the pretty significant pauldron without touching it. And it's not like I haven't mentioned enough times to refer to the reference picture. Then, because I use it to discover which way your character dodged the chain-gun fire you go back a post and compensate for it after I've already put my plan in motion? What the fuck lol.
I'm going to need a moment to recover from this one, that's just hilariously bad form.
Ironically, though the right Optics had taken the first strike from the Pater it was the side less damaged when all was said and done. Higan’s screen was essentially a wave of darkness with one thin strip of light patches about two thirds of the way across if one started by looking leftward. This gave him something resembling vision from between 100 – 120 degrees.
“Optics critically impaired, tactical withdrawal advised.”
“What a little shit.” Higan swore profusely as the chain-gun spat death over the top of his Mech for an additional moment or so. Realising he’d either done enough or Slimy had escaped, the latter being more than likely, Higan began to brainstorm. Somehow a creature with little to no knowledge of Ramor technology had pin-pointed the weakness of his Mech, what a pain in the ass. Still, he had the capacity to defend what little sight he had left, better late than never and all that jazz.
With an extensive knowledge of his own Mech it was fairly simplistic to judge where the Optics were by touch and guess work, the chain-gun ceased firing as the left hand hovered over the damaged eye-ball of the A.S.P. Like a child peeking through its fingers the Mech protected itself from further assault as its pilot decided on what to do next. As he was thinking, Slimy was dropping to the ground after making another timely escape. There wasn’t much point standing around, Higan decided, having the Mech push off the wall with all its strength and lunge forward with a number of great steps and then turn around. If Slimy even bothered with its rock throw it wasn’t going to be hitting the optics at all. The pilot had summarised, correctly, that the one place his enemy wasn’t going to be was directly in front of the Mech, as Slimy would have walked face first into a wave of bullets. What was fortunate was that through pure guess-work, he had to choose a direction to turn in after all, the thin-strip of vision had alerted him to Slimy’s location along the cave wall as his Mech turned rightward.
It was going to be difficult to keep Slimy in view with barely 20 degrees of vision, but while it was there the Computers reacted with lightning speed. The Mech had barely turned 160 degrees before the right arm automatically adjusted and the rifle levelled at the creature, firing a round through the cave at the beast. His quick forward bound, owing to the mechanical strength of the Mech and its long stride, had gained an additional forty feet of space from the Pater, at least the spot where it was upon throwing its rock at any rate. The creature didn’t have much in the way of options facing his Mech, it would charge him again no doubt, so he readied the cannon.
“Optics critically impaired, tactical withdrawal advised.”
“What a little shit.” Higan swore profusely as the chain-gun spat death over the top of his Mech for an additional moment or so. Realising he’d either done enough or Slimy had escaped, the latter being more than likely, Higan began to brainstorm. Somehow a creature with little to no knowledge of Ramor technology had pin-pointed the weakness of his Mech, what a pain in the ass. Still, he had the capacity to defend what little sight he had left, better late than never and all that jazz.
With an extensive knowledge of his own Mech it was fairly simplistic to judge where the Optics were by touch and guess work, the chain-gun ceased firing as the left hand hovered over the damaged eye-ball of the A.S.P. Like a child peeking through its fingers the Mech protected itself from further assault as its pilot decided on what to do next. As he was thinking, Slimy was dropping to the ground after making another timely escape. There wasn’t much point standing around, Higan decided, having the Mech push off the wall with all its strength and lunge forward with a number of great steps and then turn around. If Slimy even bothered with its rock throw it wasn’t going to be hitting the optics at all. The pilot had summarised, correctly, that the one place his enemy wasn’t going to be was directly in front of the Mech, as Slimy would have walked face first into a wave of bullets. What was fortunate was that through pure guess-work, he had to choose a direction to turn in after all, the thin-strip of vision had alerted him to Slimy’s location along the cave wall as his Mech turned rightward.
It was going to be difficult to keep Slimy in view with barely 20 degrees of vision, but while it was there the Computers reacted with lightning speed. The Mech had barely turned 160 degrees before the right arm automatically adjusted and the rifle levelled at the creature, firing a round through the cave at the beast. His quick forward bound, owing to the mechanical strength of the Mech and its long stride, had gained an additional forty feet of space from the Pater, at least the spot where it was upon throwing its rock at any rate. The creature didn’t have much in the way of options facing his Mech, it would charge him again no doubt, so he readied the cannon.
Pretty sure a javelin outmatches the punch of a sling, not to mention the accuracy. Not the range though. That's where cover comes into its own.
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