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 Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:11 am
Robert was on the outdoor training field, doing something delightfully ridiculous. He was perched on one leg, his batleth balanced precariously on the knee of the leg that was bent up off the ground, and his hands were spread out away from him. He looked like he was doing some kind of yoga, or zen pose - really, he was just strengthening his leg muscles.
And lately, he had begun to stop caring about what other people thought of him, and his odd antics.
Sometimes.
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:19 am
Ariane really should not comment on the weirdness of other people - she had came to accept the fact that most of the people who chose to be hunters and were waken up from their pods were not normal. People like her who really stood out in their own way. Since they did not fit in with the rest of the world, they chose to seek their destiny or fate or whatever-you-call-it here as a hunter, where she imagined the mortality rate to be higher than or equal to the infant mortality rate of some third world countries.
Fantastic.
"Having fun?" She had came to know the large, stupid 'oh look at me touch this weapon my superior told me not to touch' gorilla man as 'Robert', boyfriend of Reine's sister, "You look like you are." She raised an eyebrow, standing a short distance away as she stared at his odd display.
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:23 am
One eye opened at Ariane's question, and the other eye opened when she answered it herself. His risen leg, the one that balanced the batleth, straightened out to point at her with his toes. His hands came down from their tree branch position, and one of them slapped the edge of the batleth, sending it twirling off his leg and into his waiting grasp. Then his leg dropped and he settled the batleth on one shoulder, grinning at her cheesily.
"Well damn, if I look like it then I guess I must be." He took Jezebel off his body, slammed her into the dirt, and leaned against it - only Robert would lean against sharp objects. Jezebel relished the feel of skin scraping against her.
"How about you, little lady? You having any fun today?"
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Dragain rolled 1 20-sided dice:
1
Total: 1 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:39 am
"I'm rather bored actually," She replied with a thoughtful expression, eyeing Robert's weapon before her attention went back to him, "Careeeee to change that?" She grinned, summoning her own weapon, the chains appearing and settling down on her palms noisily before she pulled it taut between her hands, adopting a defensive stance, ready to parry.
"We're on the training field anyway," She continued, her grin widening just a little as Kintama chattered on happily about how he wished she would do this everyday, "So might as well train, right?"
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Nio Love rolled 1 20-sided dice:
17
Total: 17 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:43 am
Ooh. Ballsy. Robert liked that in a woman. "You don't have to ask me twice. I'm always looking for a good spar. You've been around as long as I have, too, so now you've got me all excited."
Robert took his batleth out of the ground, flipped it over, and brushed the tip off.
"Mind if I ask the name of the lovely lady who's about to kick my a**?"
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:49 am
"That makes the both of us," She laughed, quirking an eyebrow, "Deciding that so quickly? There's always the chance that you would be the one kicking mine, but the name's Ariane... And whose lovely a** am I potentially whooping today?" Harrison's a** was much shapelier though, "Mmm, getting into a fight during our first official meeting. I like where this is going."
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Nio Love rolled 2 8-sided dice:
6, 2
Total: 8 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:49 am
Fiesty. This was actually not a surprise - he'd been in proximity of Ariane enough to have known she was a fiesty one. He'd just never met her person to person.
"Robert. Came in with the same troupe of clowns you did, in fact. I've seen you in action, and I agree." His batleth slid down one arm, extending his reach, and he swung it over his head once before sliding it against her body. In the moment of impact, he was right in front of her, grinning down at her like a cheshire cat.
"I like where this is going, too."
HP: 40
Damage: 2
Charge: 1/3
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Dragain rolled 2 8-sided dice:
2, 6
Total: 8 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:14 am
She barely had time to try to parry, glad for the fear shield that was probably keeping her from possibly losing a limb to Robert's weapon. as expected, his hits hit harder than the sparring partners she had before, probably due to the way he was built. Like a gorilla.
"I'm glad you agree," She replied after a moment's pause, taking a sudden sidestep only to swing her weapon at his side, "I have a feeling we'll get along."
HP: 38
Damage: 2
Charge: 1/3
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Nio Love rolled 2 8-sided dice:
5, 1
Total: 6 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:52 pm
Robert decided to take the first hit without an attempt at a dodge, simply to test out just how hard she hit - and what her weapon did. Capturing the movement of the weapon was important - if only because it would help him get used to dodging it.
Balls were flying into his side.
"Never saw a weapon like yours before. What is it?"
HP: 38
Damage: 0
Charge: 1/3
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Dragain rolled 2 8-sided dice:
2, 7
Total: 9 (2-16)
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:26 am
"I'm not sure, although I believe that they're close to something called Bolas," She replied, trying to decide if the man was foolish, stupid or impressive to have taken the first hit without any visible attempts to dodge, "But they're usually too heavy to be used as Bolas... Plus it really doesn't put me at an advantage to use them that way from my past experiences."
Not like she could try to trip a giant monster with her weapon, for example.
HP: 38
Damage: 3
Charge: 2/3
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Nio Love rolled 2 8-sided dice:
1, 1
Total: 2 (2-16)
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:37 pm
The chains wrapped around Robert's weapon, slicing through but failing to trip him as she'd hoped. It only made him stumble in his steps, as he tried to untangle himself from their grip.
"Bolas, huh?" He had no idea what those were, but they were still fun to watch.
His more typical weapon sliced down against her, and whether it was blocked or dodged, he shrugged and shook his head.
"Well, they're more versatile than my batleth, at least there's that."
HP: 35
Damage: 0
Charge: 1/3
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Dragain rolled 2 8-sided dice:
5, 7
Total: 12 (2-16)
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:22 pm
"Well, they did say that a weapon was made to go with their wielder, or something along those lines," She grinned, somehow managing to not get hit by Robert's weapon as she swung her own out for another hit, aiming for the back of his knee, "You the type to charge right into things and slice down everything in your path?"
HP: 38
Damage: 6
Charge: 3/3
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Nio Love rolled 2 8-sided dice:
5, 6
Total: 11 (2-16)
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:26 pm
Robert grinned at the assumption, his knees buckling when the bolas hit them. He crouched down, before charging forward, just like she'd expected him to do.
When his batleth rose to strike her, however, his body shifted, rising up to one toe and twirling around to slice her side opposite of the one it seemed he was coming for.
"Yeah, that's me. Take charge kind of guy."
HP: 29
Damage: 5
Charge: 2/3
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Dragain rolled 7 4-sided dice:
4, 1, 2, 4, 1, 2, 3
Total: 17 (7-28)
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:43 pm
She winced, her hand instinctively moving to clutch where Robert had managed to hit, pausing a moment to gather her wits. As Kintama started to pulse in her hands, she moved back, taking big steps backwards to increase the distance between them.
"Well, this might be the only time where I'm more than happy to use him as bolas," She explained before throwing the weapon at Robert, aiming for his legs. The chains of her weapon started to lengthen, and by the time it hit Robert, it was long enough to wrap around the hunter's legs and hopefully send him to the ground.
Satisfied, she desummoned and summoned her weapon, Kintama vanishing from around Robert's legs to her hand in an instant, the chains settling noisily, "That's how bolas work."
HP: 33
Damage: 13
Charge: 0/3
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Nio Love rolled 2 8-sided dice:
4, 6
Total: 10 (2-16)
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 8:03 pm
Robert slammed into the ground like a felled tree, the dust around him settling after a moment. He felt that fall in his bones, and the weapon itself likely was to blame for just how much it hurt. His Fear shield took a heavy hit from his fall.
When he finally got back up again, he was groaning with aches. "Augh... okay, pretty lady. Point made. And hopefully not a point I ever have to feel again, because.. ow."
His batleth swung over his head like a helicopter, fluttering nimbly through his fingers until he swung it down on her again.
HP: 16
Damage: 4
Charge: 3/3
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