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Thread: [Nexus] The Hunting Grounds
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2012-11-30, 10:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Northwestern Mountain/Northwestern Airspace
More screeching as the dragon has horrible and immensely painful third degree burns dealt to its deep flesh. However, the desired is effect is achieved, mostly. The monster tries to throw the soldier into the nearby mountain, but that's still a bit away.
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2012-11-30, 10:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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[Northwestern Mountain/Northwestern Airspace]
As the soldier is thrown, he attempts to rip the superheated blade free, taking advantage of the force of the monster's own attack to make his own that much more powerful.
Regardless of the result, though, he's thrown, and the boots kick in to keep him in the air and not smashed into a mountainside. The result mostly determines whether or not he has his sword, or needs to retrieve it.Avatar by Ashen Lilies.
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2012-11-30, 11:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Northwestern Mountain/Northwestern Airspace
The sword is ripped free and the monster screams. There is a big hole in that hand now...
And the monster gives chase, but instead tries to whip it's tail forward and rip off the soldier's face with it's tiny lizard tail! Tail lizard. Or whatever it is.
Also, the whole face-ripping thing probably won't work if the soldier is wearing a helmet with a face mask...
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2012-12-01, 12:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, that, uh...doesn't work very well.
Because the soldier does, in fact, have one of those. It would hardly be proper futuristic power armor if it didn't have that.
He takes the opportunity the dragon closing grants and moves forward and up, trying to jam the blade into the dragon's underside and proceed to messily disembowel it.Avatar by Ashen Lilies.
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2012-12-01, 01:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-12-01, 07:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Serph feels the environment being used against him. Something tells him that this foe wasn't going to allow him to ready all his pyromancies at all. The first surge is not really of much use against him. The second passes through as well. The the third does not get a chance to touch him. For once he speaks clearly, "Flame shield, Flame Cloak, Flame Clone." There are now three Serphs coated in magical flame. Before the winds go to him he moves at the speed of flight to where the foe is. While in flight the three eat a pill and burn even hotter after which they draw blades. The real Serph has a laser blade hidden by flame the other two clones are just blades of flame but the difference is hard to notice. After the fourth Serph should be face to face with the foe. The fifth and six is battled by Serph with his own pyromancies. The three speak in unison, anger touched the voices. "YOU think I haven't been trained to fight Ice, wind and cold? You are full of yourself caster." The three lunge to attack the foe with swords. The three only attack to try and stop her from casting anymore but it is clear that they have also been focusing on something else, Serph still hasn't given up on his strongest move.
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2012-12-01, 05:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Northwestern Mountain/Northwestern Airspace
The dragon moves back, but does get a long slash along it's belly. It retaliates by swinging another claw at the soldier, one of it's seven remaining non-wounded claws.
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2012-12-01, 07:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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[Northwestern Mountain/Northwestern Airspace]
The soldier makes an unorthodox maneuver, cutting the boots and dropping to avoid the claws, then reactivating them and boosting back up, trying to get behind the monster and grab onto its back, having holstered his pistol.
A power-armored grip ought to be pretty difficult to break.Avatar by Ashen Lilies.
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2012-12-01, 07:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Rock Clearing
Provoke eh, well, the beast can respond to that. The beast swipes a clawed paw at Vincent. At this rate, its going to take a combined limit break or something to keep this beast from wiping the party.Avatar by Emperor Ing
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2012-12-01, 07:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Northwestern Mountain/Northwestern Airspace
the monster is grabbed, and immediately starts writhing and flapping hard, and doing some harsh acrobatics in an attempt to mack the soldier lose his grip.
It's still shrieking. You would think that it would have figured out that didn't work by now.
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2012-12-01, 07:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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[Northwestern Mountain]
The soldier maintains his grip long enough that he can raise his sword and try to jam it into the beast's back and hold on to it to use it to anchor him to the monster.
Of course, given the man's weight, the monster's thrashing, and simple gravity, it's entirely possible that sword is going to move around and make the wound worse, assuming the sword-jamming works in the first place.Avatar by Ashen Lilies.
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2012-12-01, 07:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Northwestern Mountain
The sword jamming does work... and the wound quite quickly becomes bigger as the monster's thrashing aggravates it. The sword won't act as a good hold long at this rate... but it should be long enough to do something.
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2012-12-01, 07:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Got you now!" The soldier, taking the opportunity, attempts to slash the sword horizontally and rip it out of the beast. With it in the monster's back like this, he's hoping to slash through the damn thing's spine.
Assuming it follows such mundane rules of biology.Avatar by Ashen Lilies.
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2012-12-01, 08:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Northwestern Mountain
Attempting to slash the sword through the thing's spine results in a loud CLANK! Because apparently its bones are made of the same, metal-like substance as its claws.
Why does it even need that lure?
Anyway, the monster is both in great pain and not very smart, so it continues to thrash about like a wounded animal with a painful thing on it's back.
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2012-12-01, 08:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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[Northwestern Mountain]
"Oh, seriously!?" The soldier doesn't seem particularly amused, and decides to finish by doing something utterly brutal to the beast.
Namely, he activates the boots again and sets them to boost, hoping to bring himself up and bring the sword with him-dragging it through the beast's flesh until it finally comes free.
While it's still grinding against the thing's spine.
That can't be very pleasant.Avatar by Ashen Lilies.
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2012-12-01, 08:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Northwestern Mountain
The sword quickly hits a rib, where it doesn't have much choice and slips out. The dragon spirals away, trying to get some distance so that it can do some basic strategizing.
Very basic. This isn't a real thinking monster. It's just been in enough fights that it can do a little bit of thinking ahead.
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2012-12-01, 08:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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[Northwestern Mountain]
It is quickly becoming evident that all these flesh wounds really aren't doing much. Gonna need a weak point at this rate.
The soldier follows the dragon, mainaining a bit of a distance, not closing to melee again. He wants to see what it tries.
He's also drawn that pistol again. Interesting.Avatar by Ashen Lilies.
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2012-12-01, 09:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Northwestern Mountain
The dragon will turn around, try to seize the soldier in two of it's hands (two of the good hands, that is) and then try to bite the soldier's upper torso off!
As I said, very basic strategizing.
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2012-12-01, 09:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Thankfully, he was anticipating something like that, and boosts back and up-trying to get himself level with the dragon's head...
...so he can fire a carefully aimed charged plasma shot, aimed right for the eye.Avatar by Ashen Lilies.
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2012-12-01, 09:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Northwestern Mountain
The dragon takes a shot in the eye, and it's head jerks back. It twists, turns, and tries to slam the soldier with it's tail... using the little eyes on its tail lizard to aim.
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2012-12-01, 10:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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This time, the soldier decides to go for an experiment and moves forward and to the side a bit, bringing up his sword and trying to slash through the tail to sever the lizard lure.
The idea is that the tail's momentum will make it worse for the poor lizard-tail.Avatar by Ashen Lilies.
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2012-12-02, 10:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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The tail lizard is severed and goes flying off in an arc!
The draconic creature then twists in the air again to try and bash the soldier with a wing... apparently oblivious to the fact that this will give the soldier another shot at its wing membrane.
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2012-12-02, 10:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-12-02, 12:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Rock Clearing
To be fair, provoking was also a big heavy sword attack. Even if not with the sharp end.
Of course, there was a dual purpose to attacking with the flat end. Now that all the rules are broken, Vincent can block. Which he does, by turning the sword to take the blow instead of him. BLOCK!
Vincent fails to get a counter in though. Learning new mechanics quickly is hard.
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2012-12-02, 02:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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[Northwestern Mountain]
The soldier backs off, but it just barely isn't enough, and he takes a smack with a wing. It wasn't really a good hit, though, and his armor holds, the effect mostly that he gets sent back a bit.
He tries to take the opportunity to get in a slice at the wing anyway, though, making up the wingsmack-induced distance with his own flight.Avatar by Ashen Lilies.
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2012-12-02, 03:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [Nexus] The Hunting Grounds
Northwestern Mountain
The slash does some damage, but not a lot. The drconic monster then turns to face the soldier, and drops any attempt at planning in favor of attempting to eviscerate the soldier with all its claws.
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2012-12-02, 03:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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[Northwestern Mountain]
The soldier boosts back again, not really feeling like getting eviscerated today. That, and I really can't imagine a partially blinded monster in terrible pain has the best aim, but that's really not up to me.
He decides to try and rectify that partially blinded thing, raising the plasma pistol and firing at the beast's intact eye.Avatar by Ashen Lilies.
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2012-12-02, 03:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [Nexus] The Hunting Grounds
Northwestern Mountain
The monster is hit in the other eye, and is now utterly blind. It does more aerial flailing in an attempt to kill the soldier... which is probably useless. At this point, all the soldier needs to do is actually kill the thing.
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2012-12-02, 04:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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[Northwestern Mountain]
The soldier closes in for the kill, deftly maneuvering to avoid the mad flailing as he moves in toward the monster's head, sword raised. "It'll all stop hurting soon!"
Upon getting close enough, he lunges forward, trying to jam his sword through the creature's eye and into its brain, then jerk it right back out.Avatar by Ashen Lilies.
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2012-12-02, 04:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [Nexus] The Hunting Grounds
Northwestern Mountain
The screeching stops. The flapping stops. The falling starts.
It is dead. It will fall to the ground, onto some rocks, tumble down into a snowbank. The soldier has won.