|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 2:58 pm
Our hero had made no move, took no step, he had even watched his breaths. No player had drawn a weapon or made a threat yet, and he didn't want to be the first one to strike. After all, in Connect Four, the guy who picks red always loses.
No, he stuck to his technique, scanning the eyes of his opponent, watching for tells and signs. Genshin, the cocky bloodlust had made the challenge, but made no attempt at turning to attack. You'd think a man in his position would be eager to get the battle underway. Not doing anything at all, too fishy.
The tell appeared in the wave of a blazing sign, he wasn't doing enough. A guy like him, if he wasn't going to attack, he'd probably be mocking them, or at least taunting. But he was thinking, concentrating, focusing... As if he was waiting for something. No, not waiting. He was trying to maneuver something, keep track of it. He was watching some invisible creature snake its way over. Like a puppet-master with a see-through dummy, the only way to know it's there, is never to let it out of your sight.
All signs said that Genshin was attacking without moving, and to our hero, there is one response to unknown striking. Go on the defensive. And what did that mean to our hero? It meant get airborne and get away.
Nimble and light, our hero kicked the ground hard as hell and leapt backwards. Getting at least thirty feet between his opponent and himself, he touched down and took on a stance.
He made no effort to retaliate, but rather prepared for whatever came next.
((NOTE: This is not an annoyingly convenient response, but rather a natural decision for Gath. It is written in his character file that his main defense is jumping.))
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:21 pm
Cryo merely continued to smile. Oh yes he'd noticed alright. The shadows had been moving as if to try and tickle him. Genshin obviously didn't know much about Cryovix at all. In response Cryo's eyes flashed and the shadows which had been closing on Cryo stopped a few feet away unable to continue towards him. He chuckled silently knowing that if Genshin indeed had been in control would notice this. "Alright kids if your all gonna sit there and wait let me get it started and throw the first punch!!!!" Cryo jumped to the left so that he landed equidistant from both fighters and drew his two pistols. The white and black wolves. He brought them up so that each pointed towards an opponent. Then Cryo pulled the trigger letting loose two quick successive shots toward each. A 9mm round was a mere toy, but when the toy was explosive and the enemy didn't know? Well then the toy hurt people.
The thing about the bullets was however, that they were not the point. The point was actually the fact that while his opponents were busy dealing with the bullets small holes had opened up in the sand behind each one. Before the explosive bullets reached they're respective targets, but when Cryo was sure at least some attention was on the bullets, rock spikes shot forth at the backs of his opponents. If they went one way they faced unexpected bombs! The other impalement. How would they respond to his toys?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:49 pm
Apparently, someone was thinking, but not thinking too much on the issue. The shadows do their job at making the opponents move as Genshin wanted them to... after all, this was a set up for the beginning of the battle. He wanted two people to fight against due to the fact that he'll know which of the two he'll surely have fun time to play with and which of the two, he'll destroy without questioning.
Was Gath the one? Or was it Croyvix? The blade into the ground was the symbol of a force that'll be coming. The shadows, are the diversion from the blade itself, and now... it was time for an individual to suffer from their observational flaw.
Gath was smart to leap backwards, and to land just about enough distance to notice the shaking in the ground that's starting to occur. However, Cryovix's mistake was the fact he stayed on the ground. As Cryovix's eyes flash, the ground then ceases to be tangible due to the usage of PAIN's earthen technique. It'd be like quicksand, but more elusive to being almost like a vacuum to suck the man clearly into the ground. Cryovix's speech, would be halted to the point that if he brings out the weapons to be in use... he'll be underground, and well below the acquired 10 feet, thus making him out of bounds.
Now, Genshin's eyes laid upon the man that lept into the air and landed just a few more feet away, let's just say that now Gath is more so 30 feet away from Genshin now.
"So... you are smarter than I would have thought." The shadows continued to move, and thus, weren't halted by a sudden flash of another's eyes. As now the shadows act like water flooding the arena more. It already covered the stadium, and it wasn't stopped, thus the sudden flash only showed that Cryo knew it came, but it was already there. "Don't stay in that spot too long... Gath..." Genshin's eyes flare into their crimson ruby aura, "I think something wants to see you."
As his words came out of Genshin's mouth, shadows formulating a large hand come up from the ground to grab at Gath's landing body to capture it within its grasp. Being now at this time, more tangible than ever, and another hand to cover the disabling hole that Cryovix fell into to push him out of bounds.
"Do you really want to fight? Or shall I show you why pain doesn't effect me?" Genshin grins, his pearly white fangs showing through.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:06 pm
It was moments like these that our hero was glad he was resourceful. Locations change, and the inexperienced warrior never seems to prepare for that.
Our hero slammed a fist against the side of the humongous coffin strapped to his back. A library knowledge of which objects were where let him retrieve each required item.
The coffin door swung open, and a rock and a board popped out. With a spin, he caught each one in hand. A flourish even further, he tossed one side of the wooden board under his boot. The muscles in his left arm pinched, and with a grunt, he slammed the rock against the other side of the board. The magnitude of the throw launched our hero an astonishing 150 feet or so into the air. The board remained in the crushing palm of the shadow hand, while the rock rocketed up into the air as well, bouncing hard against the soft wood. It leveled off at about 75 feet or so.
His belief was that the hand would continue in it's action of clenching whatever was in its grasp at the time. Unable to tell the difference between a wooden board and a flesh and bone human, it would be blind to its own mistake.
Due to the carefully precise movements of our hero, and his aerodynamic technique, the execution of these actions took approximately 1 and a quarter seconds.
"Hmph... Guess I gotta' do something."
With sheer force, he flung something at Genshin. Nothing large, in fact. Rather small, really. To be exact, pebbles. When Gath gripped the rock before throwing it, the force of his actions broke a few chunks away from the stone.
The bits of rubble were not moving particularly fast, hardly evnough to even merit an annoyance. Perhaps our hero simply wanted to put up some kind of offense.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:43 pm
Cryo was smiling in silence watching Genshin go after Gath. Parlor tricks weren't going to work on him. Genshin once again proved he knew nothing of Cryovix. The mere fact that the ground swallowed him did not stop the fact that his bullets flew, they may have been fired underground but they had fired though bullets shot underground had little bearing on a surface battle. It also didn't change the fact that Genshin was still on the ground. Cryo was merely standing a few inches under the sand. The shadow hand was indeed pushing something down but that something was not Cryovix but actually a rock that was similar in shape. That being taken care of Cryovix thought for a moment. Genshin was on a power trip and Gath was being more defensive than anything. Cryo supposed that since he clearly wasn't worth the effort he'd just play some tricks.
His eyes flashed again and the ground shook for a minute. Cryo merely rose up to the surface and looked around as if lost. He found Genshin and blinked in confusion and looked up after scanning the arena where he found Gath. Cryo shrugged and merely raised his gun again. He fired a few rounds at Genshin. Gath didn't seem to be playing. However for precautions sake Cryo lifted off the ground about a centimeter. As the bullets neared they're target a small line seemed to appear connecting them. As soon as that line became visible the bullets glowed a white hot. The precursor to the explosion obviously, however instead of fire, lightning exploded outwards surrounding the flames so as to increase the blast radius. As for Gath a single regular shot would do. After all, this was just probing. What were they capable of?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:49 pm
And thus, Genshin's shadows continue to do their play. With an extension of his left arm directly towards Gath, the shadow suddenly goes to follow in front of Gath to stop the stones from leaving Gath's wake. The shadow hand did crush the board, however, doesn't mean that it will be stationary in that fact, thus, with Genshin's aid, the shadow hand continues its onslaught directly towards the Gath himself.
So, Gath had to worry about one shadow hand... but...
However, there seems to be another problem, apparently, Cryovix went into the ground. Fired bullets underground, but if those bullets were to explode from contact, and since the ground is merely sand... the contact would soften the blow and delicately... delay the erupting explosion from the ground itself. This shadow hand, we shall name it the right one, goes directly towards a dummy destroying the boulder with ease, but slithering through like water through a cheese grater to reveal itself once more directly in front of Cryovix.
Both hands would open as both of Genshin's arms were directed at each opponents, the sheer shooting of the bullets of Cryovix's weapon, meets up with the shadow hand, consuming each bullet and not disrupted by the sudden explosions for within the shadows... nothing escapes.
Maybe it's time for Genshin to rely more on PAIN than upon his own being, but apparently, PAIN was still residing in the ground creating tremors that continuously to occur within the arena. Almost... there...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:51 pm
Our hero know this was the mainstay of the battle royalle, he would have to avoid several offensive maneuvers at once, while contributing his own attacks at the same time. He quickly accepted this fact, he was aware of it even before he had accepted this arrangement. It was only now though, that he started to realize the ramifications of this set-up.
Don't get caught up in so much thought, his mind kept telling him. Trust your instincts, they won't let you down. That was correct, he had fought before using what he knew and what he had done before. It was no time to change strategies.
Alright, get your facts straight, Gath. Two obstacles between him and survival right now. Genshins shadow hand, that would surely kill him. Cryo's bullet, it probably wouldn't obliterate him, but it could make things dificult, especially since it would be easy to avoid. However, the other ammunition he had become privvy too, had exploded. Don't doubt that that bullet won't murder you, avoid it.
The hunk of metal flying at him was linear-moving, the hand was sentient. He could dodge the gunshot with a slight move, but the shadow's would pursue. He was about a hundred feet in the air... He could use that.
"Hmph!" With a spin, he tucked himself inside his coffin. Treading air no longer, he quickly began to fall downwards. The bullet would teeter past his last location, easily missing him. He'd no idea how the hand would react. He hoped his altitude would be enough to shake it altogether.
After he had rocketed through about 75 feet, he slid into a barrel roll, and pulled out of the wooden carrier. Grabbing the rock from before, still in freefall, and with a kick of his legs, threw himself into a tailspin. Using the momentum from the fall and from the roll he was now in, he let his upper-body muscles do the work for him. The wind at his back and everywhere else, he spiked the rock downwards, aiming right for Genshin.
That boulder, much larger in size than the pebbles he threw before, was greater in mass and launched at greater speeds. It would take more than another shadow to stop this hunk of gravel.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:23 pm
Cryo just shook his head and grinned. Genshin was either acting a fool or he honestly didn't know.....but that could be an advantage. Cryo drew his sword in his right hand. The blade forged in hell itself by a demon who was so dark it used one of its own as materials. The hilt handle fed into the guard, which was a depiction of a demon writhing in pain. Mouth open and screaming. Jutting out of that guard was the blade segmented and shaped to look like the demons spine. Sharpened on only one side it looked a strangely wide spine from the side and its length of three and one half feet made it seem a truly odd and wicked thing to behold. What most didn't know was that the thing hadn't been forged. A demon had taken a hilt, killed his companion and rammed the hilt down its throat. Then it used the dark arts to make the body harder than steele and sharp enough to cleave stone with ease. Then finally imbued it with the fires of hell. Cryo had lost a lot taking this toy off that demon.
Sword in hand Cryo slammed his left fist into the ground. It had already been shaking but it shook more now. On top of that the shadow hand what ate Cryo's ammunition dissipated....in fact all the shadows currently attacking Gath and Cryo became regular shadows again. The solidity gone from them. From there Cryo straightened. He turned the sword so the blade faced straight ahead of him, point down towards the ground. He held the hilt in both hands. His eyes focused on nothing but the air began to shimmer.
Cryo hadn't been screwing around. He'd been shooting pointless rounds of ammuntion to keep these men from noticing the important things. First and foremost being that Genshin would not control this battle with shadows. To prevent such Cryo had reached out to the shadows energy and made it lax. Gath should find the fist coming for him relatively intangible as was the one facing Cryovix. Secondly those bullets Cryo had fired underground should now be about five feet from Genshin. This being the case four holes slightly larger than 9mm rounds opened on Genshins four sides. Those stray rounds now launched at him as if full force from the gun barrel at point blank. That being the case Cryo continued to merely stand there with the air shimmering and the ground shaking the more violently around him. A friend had told him to go full out from the get go in all battles once.....this time Cryo was going to take his advice. What had seemed like a weak attempt at assessing his opponents skills had been a coverup for his focusing of energy. Now Cryo continued doing just that. A rock from above and bombs from beneath. Cryo had used but a little energy on his current parlor tricks but his new hand would be quite a bit more interesting. It was call time. Who had the best hand?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:41 pm
[[ Sorry for the long awaited reply. Work and such has been strenuous. ]]
Genshin seems to be in a predicament, or in fact, he was planning on this from the start. He thought his opponents were smart enough to actually -attack- him at the same time, to make things more difficult for him, but apparently, they're not and it made things a lot easier to respond to each opponent with ease. Simply put, Genshin was manipulating this whole fight from the beginning with the way things were going at this current point and time.
Gath's being rather smart, but not in the way Genshin wants him to be, it's not the case right now. To avoid the such maneuver of the shadow hand to go directly towards Gath, Gath went inside of his own coffin. Surely, put, the hand will react accordingly to now grab the casket itself to hold it directly in the air, and suddenly give it a toss directly towards Cryovix's direction. Which means, right when Cryovix begins to shoot that the bullets launched from Cryovix's being will be missed towards Genshin but have Gath as their new target instead of Genshin.
Even though Cryo tries to make the shadows become regular, Cryo couldn't manipulate the shadows that emmits from Genshin's body for its his own shadow, his own power, and the darkness is not manipulated by an outside force unless the weakness of the shadows were exploited. This didn't happen, thus, the other hand of the shadow hands fall as the casket of Gath comes directly in front of Cryovix.
It has begun. The attacks coming towards Genshin's body, they'll hit, creating tremendous explosion, extraordinary blasts and picking up of what seems to be black sand. But a laugh comes from the distant smoke of the arena as Genshin stands at his blade. PAIN has done what it needed to do, and now, it was time for Genshin's -real- attack.
Even though Genshin's body seems to be scarred from the attacks, it didn't matter, the rock was easily stopped by Genshin's left hand alone, his arm sending a pulsating blow to the rock creating it to disrupt as it explodes from his hand's impact. The right hand directly upon the hilt of PAIN, pulling the blade upwards the ground suddenly collapses falling creating a pit. It almost seems like there's absolutely no bottom at all this time. Unlike the last time Genshin used this technique, this time, there's no floor, but Genshin's body will hover in the air due to the fact that the shadows that enclosed the arena were holding upon the edge of the arena wall and keeping Genshin afloat.
"So... what are you going to do now?" Not even Cryovix nor Gath would have noticed that the movement of shadows being solid objects were mere distractions for the greater scheme he has planned.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:59 pm
A sheepish grin locked onto our heroes face. A realization of advantages had come to our warrior. A weapon our hero had been keeping in the dark up until this point, a tool which could've saved him from a lot of problems, it was time to unveil such assets.
The hand around him was becoming a problem. Judging by it's grasp on the casket and the velocity of it's approach, it was gearing up to toss him. That could be an issue for our hero, as he was not partial to such actions. With that same silly grin on his mug, he reached for a lever on the side of the Lock & Keyes Co. Casket he wore. With a snap, the spring-loaded mechanism shot his great blade out from within.
With another nimble spin, our hero pulled onto the hilt of his blade, and turned his motion into a whirlwind slash. The blade of his weapon should've easily cut through the shadows which planned to bind him so. In fact, they would stand the same chances as the garden-variety popsicle did in the garden-variety Hell.
As our hero dive-bombed to the ground, spinning a few times before landing, touching the floor ever so softly, he was ready to turn the tables on his opponents. The Diatsga, a blade comprised of solidified Sunlight-material, would do considerable damage to any shadow. In fact, so much, he could probably carve open these walls. Which in fact, he had already done.
For as he came to the ground, his sword had been dragged along the side of the shadowy walls. A great tear in the world had been formed where he started to fall, about 60 feet up. Hopefully, this was the thread required to unravel this whole scheme.
"Bring it."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:52 pm
Cryovix was suprised by the fact that Genshin had taken the attack in full as it appeared. It was meant as a test and all it proved was that Genshin could be damaged. Cryo drew other conclusions from his attempts to control the shadow failing and in the end knew what must be done. Though Gath seemed to be tackling the shadows nicely he probably hadn't noticed he was standing on a tree instead of the arena floor.
Genshin had done a wonderful job of interfering with Cryo's next move....well not interfering but revealing in any event. As Genshins sword made the sand and floor disappear something new was revealed. Underneath was what appeared to be a series of interconnected trees and bushes that Cryo had intended to bring up later but could in any event be raised now. As the trees and brush rose most of the sand held in place by the growth fell away. As it reached a point where the trees, which looked like choke vines crawling through a hollow tree trunk from above, could not only act as the arena floor but went on to rise above it. The true reason Cryo had been screwing around and the reason he'd never left the ground was this. He'd been spending the entire time creating this. The times the earth suddenly shook had been massive amounts of energy drawn from the earth to create this. It had taken a good deal of energy but Cryo knew the sacrifice had been worth it. Now it was time to see how well his opponents could deal with an animal in its natural habitat.
Cryo jumped and landed a little lower on the tree and then began moving around so quickly that any average fighter wouldn't be able to see his movements while the more seasoned warriors would see a blur as if a fast moving animal and just run out of their optical range. This plus the fact that his opponents sight was obscured by trees made him nearly impossible to see to quite a few well trained soldiers but these two had made it to so far in the tournament Cryo expected them to have they're ways.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:58 pm
((I call bullshit on two pieces of that post.
1. I never said that I landed on a tree, don't tell me what my character does, please. Also, with the Desert-Sands theme of the Arena, I find it extrememly hard to believe that there would be a tree in there already, unless you put it there. Did you put a tree there? No, you didn't. Drop the tree's already.
2. Moving at speeds untrackable by the human eye is against the agreed upon rules. Please amend your post or I will contact a moderator.
We agree on these rules for a reason, and I've no wish to see people dance around them.))
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:57 pm
((Right and here is my rebuttal.
1. How is it bullshit for me to be growing trees underground which I had planned for later use in the battle when genshin made the entire arena floor vanish? I said you landed on a tree because unless you landed on the wall then your currently in a freefall as you didn't say you saved a piece of the ground nor did you bother to mention whether or not it was indeed the wall or the ground that no longer existed you landed on. I apologize if I misread it but thats the way it translated to me. I'd also like to point out that I've been growing the trees since the battle began as stated in my post. If you want to call my growing them bullshit I'm an elementalist. Its perfectly possible for me to create them.
2. I'm not moving faster than the human eye. I can be seen. I merely said that to the regular fighter wouldn't be able to follow. I also stated that you both are above the norm and thus can follow. I said I was a blur which is not me moving so fast you can't follow its me moving so fast my body is to the point that it blends together but I can be seen. The only reason it would be impossible to follow is due to the fact that at current you can't see through the foliage. Its also completely possible you move as fast as I do and then my being a blur can be tossed to the side. I made that assumption as neither of you have made the effort to move faster than me up to this point.
Now as far as I can tell I havn't done anything wrong. To be honest I moved faster and fought a faster opponent in the first round and never had an issue arise from anyone. If you still think I'm breaking the rules then I have to make a complaint agianst Genshins taking out the arena floor and I'll slow down for you simple as that. Theres no need to be getting angry.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:06 pm
(( What an excellent rebuttal. I feel like every concern I had has been allayed and adressed. And as the nature of discussion exists to settle misconceptions, I feel like this has been rather fruitful.
Do go on, I simply wanted to clear things up for my own understanding.
I'd honestly no idea your character was an elementalist, I also seemed to have missed the part where you started growing trees. [I tend to skim a little bit! blaugh ]
Do go on, it's just getting good! ))
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:59 pm
((Good I'm glad we could come to an understanding. wink If thats all then I suppose it would be time for Genshin's move.))
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
