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    [By the Yew]

    Iknika's ears dip slightly. Why would she think they'd try to kill each other?

    "No, we'll just test ourselves against one another. I have my training weapons somewhere around here..."
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    By the Yew

    Isaac picks up his mallet, looking at it.
    "I can probably use my hammer defensively. It hits harder than it should, but I ought to learn how to block with it, I guess." he muses.
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    Tuskfang thinks deeply about that.

    "Does your tree tell you when it's bedtime?"
    [Cabins]

    Salix giggles. "Nope! I don't have a bedtime." Will Tuskfang be jealous?

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    "I've never seen a practice fight before, that's all." Baccata clarifies. "I can help if one of you gets really badly hurt. If you wake up somewhere you don't recognise, look for a yew tree- any yew tree- and call my name, and I'll come get you." Though it won't work if they've been kidnapped and taken elsewhere in the Nexus, it should work for most afterlives and limbo dimensions. Baccata's a psychopomp, one that can take souls both ways.
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    [By the Yew]

    "Alright, then! Let me get my armour," Iknika says, before scurrying off.
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    Island Center

    The lance of an arrow spins off until it spears its way into a neighboring tree, the metal tip splintered by the force of the impact, but it has served its purpose and The Empress quickly forgets it. Her keen senses tell her that the King is approaching, but it is only her years of combat that tell her to prepare herself. She turns quickly, slamming the point of her hefty blade into the earth, the back edge towards the tree she'd been behind just in time for the bident to smash its way through. Her blade neatly catches the bident right in the middle, deflecting it upwards and away from her body. It nearly hits her head on the way up, but she twists just enough to avoid it.

    She doesn't speak or goad any further, the time for words finished and the time for action starting. An aura of cold envelops her body, causing frost to curl on her armor, shield, and sword as she steps forth to meet her challenger. With the initial thrust deflected, The Empress takes a firm step forward, great tower shield held before her in preparation for the next attack as she pulls her sword from the ground. Within a span of a pair of heartbeats, the aura solidifies further, creating a sphere around her that chilled waves of pressure wash off of her. The powerful waves are capable of pushing weaker mortals away several meters even though they likely wouldn't be noticeable to the Carrion King standing before her.

    There was no more hiding or running. It was now time to fight until only one of them stood.
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    Ah, a skillful thing! A breathless instant passes as the Carrion King watches the result of his throw, then he's coming forward, the simultaneously fascinating and disconcerting gait of his hobble-hop-crawl only serving to distract from the menacing speed of his advance. His feet and hands pound the earth, his legs extended and contorted behind, his hands whipping out before. The King holds his rusty carver in his teeth as he does so, rippling across the gap between them...

    Ah, what an incredibly distracting aroma that fills the air then! The flush of Winter's power brings a gape to the King's jaw... and the heavy, warty brown blade tumbles free to land in his open claw. A thin layer of frost covers him even as he reaches striking distance. Indeed, it proves no hindrance, and perhaps only serves to incentivize his viciousness further. Glittering with ice, feathers flying and fluttering, the King hews forward, cleaving left and right in a pair of great wild swings. Odd, hefty pops surround the Empress, regardless of whether she's struck. With those blows alone he's suddenly cleared an even greater killing ground for the pair of them, trees trunks split like firewood, left to fall in the dirt.

    The King certainly doesn't expect such early blows to fell his quarry. More, he hopes to drive her back... and he throws out his free hand to retrieve his bident from the last ruined tree-trunk, trying to wrench it free even as that old proud wood also topples to the ground. Thusly rearmed, he can orchestrate a fuller offense...
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    [Cabins]

    Tuskfang gasps and puts his furry hands over his mouth.

    "So you go to sleep when you want to?!"
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    In crossing, she looks up intently when the sound of clashing blades and breaking arrows ring out, and winces sharply when she sees a whole ring of treetops tumble over and fall. Just what's going on over there?
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    Isaac watches as Iknika scurries off. He looks awkwardly at the dryad and then down at the ground. He isn't really sure what to say to fill the awkward silence.
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    I don't have any idea how old Iknika or Isaac are, though I have managed to use Google to assist and therefore have some inkling towards 'teenagers'.

    "So, you two known each other long?" Baccata smiles at Isaac, and winks.
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    16 and 17-ish, respectively.
    "Uh, just an hour and a half." Isaac answers her, ears burning. Iknika is kind of cute but it's far too early to make such insinuations!
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    "Ah, I see." Baccata grins, of the opinion it's rarely too early for such insinuations.

    I'm not sure what else to happen until Iknika comes back.
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    [By the Yew]

    Baccata's player need not worry, because here Iknika comes. She's clad in a half-plate armour - a breastplate and plate elements over her shoulders, knees and elbows, with a suit of mail underneath. On her head is a helmet that partially covers her face, but her eyes gleam visibly. She's got a round steel shield strapped to her left arm, while the right holds a practice foam weapon resembling an axe or bludgeon.

    "Here I am!"
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    Isaac smiles at her and starts waving her hand over his mallet, causing an ethereal Cloud to form around the head.
    "There. That should make it safe. Probably. What rules do you want?" he asks.
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    "That's an interesting bit of magic. More complex than what I can do, too." Baccata watches the spell casting with interest, before looking up to study Iknika's armour. She can't imagine wearing that much metal, though she's aware there's probably some padding underneath made of softer, plant-based material.
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    [By the Yew]

    Iknika pauses. She hasn't thought this far ahead.

    "I guess... until one of us gives up, or can't fight anymore? Or until one of us is hit three times."
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    [Cabins]

    Tuskfang gasps and puts his furry hands over his mouth.

    "So you go to sleep when you want to?!"
    [Cabins]

    Salix giggles some more. "Yeah! I sleep when I'm tired, I eat when I'm hungry, and I play when I wanna!"

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    [Cabins]

    Tuskfang gasps again, and his eyes go as big as saucers. He turns around towards his mother.

    "Moooooom!"

    "What is it?" Reelshka asks, prying her attention away from her sketches.

    "Salix says she doesn't have a bedtime and sleeps an' eats when she wants!"

    "Does she, now?" The goblin peers at the dryad carefully. What has she been telling her son?
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    By the Yew

    "Uh...yeah, sure. That works." he decides after some thought. Though really, it puts him at a massive disadvantage. Though he really doesn't mind if Iknika wins, really.
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    "Do you mind if I watch?" Baccata really wants to watch, because she enjoys watching violence. She's a little psychopathic, but then, she's mostly a loner and she's got an inherent link to death due to what she is and what yew trees traditionally represent.
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    "Sure, okay. You can watch," Iknika says, as she puts her shield up and assumes a fighting stance.
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    Isaac nods and gets into his own pose, though it might be obvious that his minimal training was in unarmed combat and he doesn't really know what to do with his hammer. He waits for Iknika to make the first move.
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    [By the Yew]

    Iknika charges in, and tries to smack Isaac with an overhead blow from her training axe. It's clear that while she received training, she's overeager and reckless.
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    Isaac isn't entirely surprised at her wild opening move, and he jumps aside from the swing, countering with a weak kick mostly designed to remind her to not be quite so obvious without leaving her exposed. He shudders for a moment as if troubled.
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    Baccata just stands and watches, a little surprised by Iknika's speed in the metal. She doesn't make any comment, though, and can be skipped for now.
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    Iknika backs away from Isaac's leg, then advances with her shield raised. She's ready to counter-attack.
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    Isaac makes a show of casting a spell, and produces the force of your average punch to slam into Iknika's shield. It's not a particularly effective spell but he's holding back to see how she reacts.
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    [By the Yew]

    Iknika reacts to the spell-casting by thrusting her shield forwards and upwards in anticipation. When Isaac only punches the shield, she's surprised for a moment, before advancing. She tries to push his arm aside with the shield, and aim an overhead swing at his centre of weight.
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    By the Yew

    Iknika's maneuver works, but the satisfying thwack of the training axe is not against Isaac's chest, but the belly of a 270cm albino loxodon that springs up in his place. With a rattle his mallet extends into a long polearm with a more mace-like head, as Isaaac had described. His clothes look a bit goofy enlarged to the increased size, though for some reason his shoes have changed into sandles.
    Isaac gives Iknika a very gentle force push to put distance between them.
    "Point." he grumbles, ever embarrassed at new people seeing his enlarged form.
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    [By the Yew]

    Iknika steps back after being pushed. Her eyes go wide, and her ears dip noticeably.

    "Um, wow. That's... a transformation."
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