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Awright.

I'll watch my wording next time Ido performs some crazy stunt like that.

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P.S. - you cannot just interrupt you attack whenever you want. If your opponent dodges, and you don't mention the possibility of altering the blade's trajectory in the previous post, then you ought to finish it the way you started. You can stop it midway once you see him dodge, but not change the trajectory. Only if your opponent's actions directly prevents you from acting you may chose a diffrent course of action.

A good example is in the OOC of one of the fights here. If you're interested, just find a thread name "Open Challenge", the first few posts by Schradinger explain it pretty well.

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He hunches forwards, then brings his back parallel to the blade and puts his calf in front of Sol's hand to prevent him from changing the blade's position. Sol can't immediately change the stab's trajectory, and Ido just has to hunch in mid-air, which he way already doing the the previous post when he threw the elbow strike, and turn another 45 degrees while stretching his right leg backwards. Pretty easy and fast to do. That isn't necessarily a dodge - he still gets hit - but the attacks goes against his ribs, not inbetween. Considering how little power and speed there will be in launching an attack from prone position, where it is incredibly hard to engage any muscles but those of your arms, i'd say his ribs would stay intact.

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Bah, poor wording on my part. He dodges as he lands. Hunching forwards with his whole body would come naturaly with continuing the elbow strike, especialy when doing so to create a downwards force, since the more mass Ido puts into this, the faster he descends.

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It was as if his opponent was reading his mind, each and every of his actions being a complete suprise for Ido, almost catching him off guard - but this time, Sol had made a grief mistake, prone to be mercilessly exploited by his foe.

Why wasn't Ido expecting his rapid descent? How come it caught him by suprise even if he were aware of Sol's wind magic? The answer is simple: because that wouldn't put him out of Ido's reach at all. Thanks to his formidable height, he only had to lift himself some 10 inches above the ground to catch the blade with a downwards elbow strike, and now, the windmage would slide right underneath his feet, a hair away from being crushed by the ruthless behemoth. Or to be precise, [/i]could[i] slide, if Ido let him do so.

Unfortunately for Sol, that wasn't going to happen. During his travels, the demon had studied various martial arts and participated in numerous fights - thus, he understood well the importance of controlling one's own momentum, creating a continious, rapidly flowing motion, where the force of one action is swiftly transferred into another. With the bushy abundance of supernaturaly sensitive hairs on his tail, Ido could clearly read his opponent's descent and the following attack, so he knew everything required to avoid it. Using the downwards force of the elbow slam to bring himself closer to the ground, the beastman continued spinning, eventualy turning his back on Sol, and landed the heel of his right foot squarely onto the windmage's solar plexus. Relaxing the muscles of his back, he hunched away from the blade, making it impact at such a steep angle that the stab was turned into a slice, which would cut into his back muscles and glance off his metallic ribcage without actualy harming any vitals.

If he would suceed in pinning down his opponent, Ido would then proceed to use the curel, inhumane, yet also effective weapon in his arsenal: flame. As he would stretch his arms behind his back, several inches away from his knucles, two jets of Kzich would erupt, heading for Sol's face, and as soon as they would connect, the demon would ignite the two jets, setting him ablaze, flaying skin, boiling the eyeball liquid and charring the windmage's skull. Within seconds, Sol's whole body would be engulfed in it - but by that time, Ido would already be out of the fire's reach, the 75 litres he had been preparing now at his disposal, in case his opponent would struggle a bit too much.

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Yup, it's fine now. Hopefuly i'll have my answer up sooner than last time. XP

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Eklipse, right now, your post is missing a lot of detail: where Sol is striking, at what distance from Ido does he start to descend, in what pose does he land? Please elaborate.

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If not the familiar gleam of Sol's magical energy, sticking out of the gash in the boulder, his attack would've left Ido confused and seriously doubting the windmage's combat ability - but as the demon could see the blade's extension, he quickly understood what wicked intent was behind this strike. However, he was already far away from where Sol expected him to be, rendering the windmages efforts futile. A pity, since the poor guy was busy pulling out his sword, he also lost the opportunity to bring down his opponent's cover and let the gunner shoot, as Ido already had both the smokebomb and flashbang at ready.

However, he ended up needing neither, Sol choosing charging into a melee over requesting someone else's aid. Unfazed by by such a recklessly agressive approach, Ido smugly grinned, baring his sharp, carnivorous teeth, and put his right foot ahead of himself, preparing for a brutal counter. Locking onto the blade's path with his eyes, he leapt into the air and sent himself barreling towards Sol by pushing off with the left leg, while swinging his body clockwise around his right. Masterfuly transfering the spin, the forwards motion and mass of his body into a downwards elbow slam with his left arm, Ido would knock the blade away from himself, and then meet Sol with a powerful body slam, bringing him down to the ground.

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a gun

*pouts*

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You mean limit me to using only Axes, or using only two of the four i have? Im actualy fine with either, BTW.