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Depends on where it hits. In the stomach, probably not. Lower ribs.. most likely not.. If it's higher and hits a lung or something? Yeaaaaaaaaah.

Also; I HOPE TO GOD YOU'RE WRONG. D< IF I CAN WIN WITH UP CARDS, I DEMAND TO VERY SLOWLY BUT SURELY WORK MY WAY UP, GOD DAMNIT.

If not.. I might just pay the 10 dollars for a magic online account.

Is it really fatal fatal?

EDIT: I can't get a judges call on that?

Yes and no. Chances are it won't kill them instantly, but they will die if they don't receive medical attention.

I mean there's a chance they'd die even with all the right hospital procedures, but healers never ******** up on Gaia.

So no, you won't be DQ'd for jabbing someone in the side with a knife as long as you don't do it an excessive number of times. Think like the end fight of Gladiator. He gets stabbed by that poisoned dagger or whatever, but the fight continues.

Either way, my takedown still holds water.

Judges call away.

If you pull a knife and someone runs at you to bearhug you, and you stab them in the side, that isn't a DQ. If the bearhugging person tries to pass it off as one, that's them trying to bend the rules in the favor which is cheating.

If you stab someone in the throat and then start sawing their head off with your knife, that's a DQ. If you stab someone in the lungs and they fall down, and you follow after repeatedly stabbing them, that's a DQ. If you stab them 47 times, that's a DQ.

...but no, this is a fighting tournament that approves weapons, so using your weapon just because your opponent decides to bring a fist to a knifefight is not a DQ.

That also depends. If you repeatedly and deliberately take high-potential kill shots, then I'll b***h in the Help Desk and Judge Rant Thread calling for your head.

Once or twice, I'll just shrug and say "s**t happens."

Oh, see, I don't know what the ******** is going on with "his knife wouldn't be able to attack because angles changed because I grabbed him and threw him", so, if I had to give advice I'd say you should have taken some superficial damage. Taking a shallow slash to the side as you fall wouldn't really cost you anything, but would keep the fight rolling.

That being said apparently tussling with a knife is obscenely dangerous, and there's a good chance that either parties will end up cutting themselves or stabbing themselves.

An important thing to remember is that a martial artist who is trained to fight against weapons isn't afraid of being cut. They KNOW if they're fighting someone with a knife that they will be cut. The difference is the severity of the wounds you'll take, and whether or not you'll be able to command the situation in order to preserve your life.