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 Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:30 pm
Rednal was, to say the least, amused. Again, a brilliant show by his opponent. His opponent was indeed strong, talented, and intelligent. He just wasn't good quite enough at this particular momnt. Whipping his blades downwards, the first intercepted his opponent's own sword and stopped it from cutting into Rednal. His offense wasn't high right now; his defense was. That was what made it possible. Then the counter took effect; a wave of energy burst out of his first blade and into his opponent's.
Pop Quiz: What happens when a powerful bolt of energy strikes an extended appendage at high speed? Answer: Said appendage is thrown backwards. The laws of physics then continue their job, forcing the body said appendage was attached to to move as well.
Pop Quiz Part Two: What happens when an arm meets the edge of a blade while moving quickly? Answer: It gets cut. The arm would have been severed where struck if its owner hadn't moved away. The fired attack was sent erratically off course, impacting the ground outside the arena to dissipate harmlessly.
Pop Quiz Part Three: What happens when a fractured Zanpakuto blade is struck in the same spot by a powerful wave of energy designed to shear through things? Answer: It breaks. After a moment, certainly, being a special type of sword, but it will break nonetheless. Rednal's opponent's blade and its effectiveness were already reduced by its earlier penetration, and blades did not heal in just a few moments. Thus, breaking.
Obviously, both Rednal and his opponent had a lot to learn about his spells. Nevertheless, though it was draining, they were obviously working well and doing their job. They were enhancing his existing abilities. Rednal looked at his opponent.
"You're beaten." he said calmly, as if stating a fact obvious to all.
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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:31 pm
Rednal's attack landed. It, however, did not land on the miniscule crack at the end of the soul cutter ("..shortening the blade by a foot, and allowing his opponent's soul cutter to pass through nothingness of air.."). The attack hit the midsection of Egeus, where there was no crack or any special 'penetration' that would allow Rednal's effect to take its suggested slicing effect.
The shikai's attack did knock Ugu's soul cutter away from its previous trajectory. From Rednal's Zanjutsu Egeus vibrated, sending shivers up and down its master's left arm. Several small droplits of blood wormed downward from the sword's handle to drip onto the wooden floor from the violently blunt downward Zanjutsu.
Ugu stood away from his opponent. His shoulders remained relaxed, unshifting in their regular stance. With his focus his soul cutter remained firm. It remained controlled, solemn, and within its bounds. The form of Egeus stood within itself, unshaken, and unmoved by the lone Shikai slicing attack. Ugu's blade remained in front of himself. It smoked slightly as it loosely rested in both of his hands. It went untroubled, unshifting as it stood stalwart between himself and his foe. He let out another calm breath. The past two years, and the many years before entering the academy, Ugu had trained. He had lifted trees, punched the said trees, focused, meditated.. Focused and strengthened.
Eternal focus. His mind remained calm in all circumstances, even if the situation didn't call for it. Rednal had not shown any amazing abilities thus far. Just some expensive abilities that'd cause more havoc to himself than to his opponent. Boosting moves. Spirit using techniques that amplified areas whilst draining away at the reiatsu of the user.
Another calm breath came from Ugu. His never shifting focus remained firm. Ugu had used roughly 20% of his spirit energy so far in the battle. With absorbing some of the blood that Rednal allowed to escape the loss was minimized. His total energy equated to somewhere around 85% to 90% of his original strength, after including the absorbed spirit power.
A light pinkish-red paste plastered itself on Ugu's hands. It sealed the small droplits of blood that had formed from Rednal's Zanjutsu attack.
Speaking of blood, the blood inside Rednal would still battle against Ghost Diver. Ugu's Zanjutsu still continued its effect as it moved his opponent's blood toward the lone gash. Reddening, or 'blushing', would soon begin to form around the still open, but oddly blocked, wound.
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 4:04 pm
((I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to edit your post. sweatdrop sweatdrop Sorry about that, it's probably my fault for not being clear enough, and it's a shame to see such literate effort go to waste, but this isn't something that can be overlooked. Otherwise I would, because you're an excellent RP'er and this is a lot of fun. However, you took the hit from my Shikai's ability (as you said yourself); the techniqe isn't a Zanjutsu, that wave is the ability itself. My Shikai's power is, put in a more exact way, 'the release of waves of energy that cut through the things they strike'. Rather like Ichigo's waves, actually, but smaller, more precise, and more penetrating. If it didn't outright shear you in half, the attack should have at least badly injured you. No Shikai ability should ever be passed off as weak, and in all seriousness, who the heck would make their Shikai's power the ability to just break somebody else's sword?
For more detail, from end to end the attack is about as wide as Rednal is tall, and is shaped roughly like a crescent moon. The part that actually hits would be the 'outside' of the 'moon'.))
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:47 pm
Rednal ((I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to edit your post. sweatdrop sweatdrop Sorry about that, it's probably my fault for not being clear enough, and it's a shame to see such literate effort go to waste, but this isn't something that can be overlooked. Otherwise I would, because you're an excellent RP'er and this is a lot of fun. However, you took the hit from my Shikai's ability (as you said yourself); the techniqe isn't a Zanjutsu, that wave is the ability itself. My Shikai's power is, put in a more exact way, 'the release of waves of energy that cut through the things they strike'. Rather like Ichigo's waves, actually, but smaller, more precise, and more penetrating. If it didn't outright shear you in half, the attack should have at least badly injured you. No Shikai ability should ever be passed off as weak, and in all seriousness, who the heck would make their Shikai's power the ability to just break somebody else's sword? For more detail, from end to end the attack is about as wide as Rednal is tall, and is shaped roughly like a crescent moon. The part that actually hits would be the 'outside' of the 'moon'.))
((I've edited my post.))
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:24 pm
((Thank you. ^^; I know it's a pain, but sometimes, things like that just have to be done.))
Rednal smiled pleasantly. "Good job." he said, honestly meaning it. "Just... one big mistake you made. You got hit by that." the slash's energy had not disappeared. On the contrary, it had started growing, and in an instant had spread out to envelop Rednal's opponent in a large, glowing sphere. "Here's how this works; its my finishing move, only available when my blade is at least Shikai." Rednal said, walking forward with his blades hanging down loosely, almost touching the ground. "When that wave hits, it locks onto you so you can't escape. It does not matter if you have a guard position or not, because it makes you immobile once it envelops you." he brought his weapons up, crossing them in front of himself.
"Being immobile, you can't escape the sphere. That would make this technique worthless, after all." he continued. "And so would a lack of you getting hurt. Now, here's why it's called the Divine Storm." Rednal began slashing as fast as he could, despite the fact that he was still three yards from his opponent. As each slash was completed, a powerful wave of energy shot out of the blade and into the immobilized opponent. In moments, a cloud of dust enveloped the scene, but Rednal kept unleashing the powerful waves of energy. These were not happy little 'I cut you' energy waves, these were serious attacks designed to take out what they hit. The beauty of the attack was that it did not really matter how strong the target was; with no way to counter or dodge, such a succession of blows was guaranteed to severely injure or kill. And that was the point, of course, of a finishing move.
A few slashes before Rednal knew his opponent would without a doubt die, he ended the attack. He liked his opponent, and while he wanted to win, he wasn't so desperate he would kill if he could avoid it.
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:02 pm
Bukotsu watched by as he looked at the match with perception. Rednal's technique indeed was very unique and seemed to catch his attention. The smashing waves were in the same class as Bukotsu's Tempest Splitter zanjutsu. Whereas Bukotsu's Tempest Splitter was able to unleash an enormous amount one at a time, Rednal's Divine storm a continous wave in moderate amounts and seemed to be a 'final move'. Knowing that it was a cutting wind style move with a blend of visible reiatsu, his seemed more towards being in the same branch as his Tempest Cutter instead which had also possessed a blend of visible reiatsu, it wasn't something that could be blocked easily.
Bukotsu had found some idea as to how Ugu would escape that sphere. He was just wondering if Ugu had figured it out.
"That's a rather powerful move don't you think?" Bukotsu said as he looked at now that Okuni was leaning on him.
"Uhhh...Okuni?" Bukotsu said as he was in an alarmed state of mind.
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:23 pm
((Interesting technique.))
"... Really....." A breath left Ugu. He remained calm and focused, unheeding his opponent's useless words.
Rednal's Zanjutsu wormed over the Shinigami's head, spreading its diameter for 7'1 feet. Ugu looked at the edges of his small prision to measure the sparse 3 and a half feet radius. Within the shrinking space the shinigami slid his zampakoutou into the small gap between his left hip and his shinigami belt.
Egeus still pulled at the blood in Rednal's shoulder, pulling at the Ghost Diver technique. Its pull still gathered the blood there against the barrier, draining the other areas of his opponent's body. The blushing soon turned to a violent reddening where Rednal's blood gathered.
"A finishing move," he mumbled, staring at the closing gaps, whilst he smiled. Trapping him, and keeping him in this small spot, would drain spirit energy away from Rednal. Energy, dear readers, that Rednal had already been throwing away like it was worth nothing. As a finishing move it would probably leave Rednal very much opened for a counter offensive.
When the spirit energy completely surrounded Ugu two separate mallets formed in his hands. They swirled with green energy, compressing into the form of hammers.
Then, when Rednal's first strikes came from the wall four-some feet away, Ugu's hamers went flying. For every cutting 'slice' that went for him his hammers smashed them away. The condensed energy of the spirit mallets smacked the side of the oncoming spirit strikes, smashing into their flat edges, and redirecting their movements to the side of the sphere.
After a moment of this Ugu turned off his Blood Sacrifice technique, and allowed his opponent's blood to flow regularly once more. Silence remained inside the ball of spirit energy as Ugu continued to smack away his opponent's attacks with his own strikes. Ugu kept silent, focusing on just smacking away the incoming energy cuts when they came at him.
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:31 pm
((Of course it is. sweatdrop And again, I wasn't exact enough. >.< Man, I haven't made this many mistakes in... ever! Or maybe we're both partially at fault and you're misunderstanding. I meant it literally when I said you would be immobile; as in you CANNOT MOVE AT ALL. Hence the 'no way to counter or dodge' line.
The entire point of the technique is to take an opponent and remove all possible defenses so that the subsequent waves will carve them up, see? Unless you're Zaraki Kenpachi and have such a huge amount of energy that the waves can't cut you, the technique should pretty much wipe you out. That's the way my character fights. He wears you down somewhat, until he judges he can wipe you out. Being cool-headed and analytical, he's generally not wrong about these things.
I highly respect your skill as an RP'er (it's a nice change!), but I also respect the nature of techniques and believe they should perform exactly as they should. You took the key hit with the first wave, as you said yourself, and therefore I believe I have the right to perform the technique exactly as it is supposed to work. It is my belief that your character has been fairly beaten by this technique. I mean, seriously, these waves are STRONG, and weren't designed to be brushed off with impunity. That would unbalance the entire system.))
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:11 pm
((Rednal ((Of course it is. sweatdrop And again, I wasn't exact enough. >.< Man, I haven't made this many mistakes in... ever! Or maybe we're both partially at fault and you're misunderstanding. I meant it literally when I said you would be immobile; as in you CANNOT MOVE AT ALL. Hence the 'no way to counter or dodge' line. The entire point of the technique is to take an opponent and remove all possible defenses so that the subsequent waves will carve them up, see? Unless you're Zaraki Kenpachi and have such a huge amount of energy that the waves can't cut you, the technique should pretty much wipe you out. That's the way my character fights. He wears you down somewhat, until he judges he can wipe you out. Being cool-headed and analytical, he's generally not wrong about these things. I highly respect your skill as an RP'er (it's a nice change!), but I also respect the nature of techniques and believe they should perform exactly as they should. You took the key hit with the first wave, as you said yourself, and therefore I believe I have the right to perform the technique exactly as it is supposed to work. It is my belief that your character has been fairly beaten by this technique. I mean, seriously, these waves are STRONG, and weren't designed to be brushed off with impunity. That would unbalance the entire system.)) Kenkaru Rednal Zampaktou name: Ein Sou ((Technically, that's Hebrew. Diving Being.)) Look: Exactly normal; nothing special or different about it. Shikai look: Ein SouCall: Shine your holy light, and destroy those who oppose me, my Ein Sou. Powers: In its lower level form, Ein Sou grants Rednal the power to send out waves of energy by slashing his blade. Their release is controlled by his will, but the effect is simple: They cut through most things fairly easily. Techniques: Divine Storm (Finishing Technique): When Ein Sou has been unlocked to at least Shikai, Rednal gains the ability to use his finishing move. A single powerful slash is performed, sending out a huge wave of energy towards his opponent. Naturally, this needs to be performed at close range. Upon contact, the wave will spread out to encompass its target, holding it inside of a sphere. Rednal then unleashes a barrage of waves from his sword as fast as he can. This technique has not yet been learned, of course. Approved.
Has your Ghost Diver technique hasn't been approved yet? Because I can't seem to find it in the Kidou or the Zanjutsu approval threads.))
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:20 pm
((You have a point there. ^^ Man, I love a good debate. The set was posted AGES ago, and seeing as Kidou before and after were looked at, and no comment AGAINST my techniques was made, I have come to the conclusion that they are acceptable. See, sometimes people don't comment if it's good, but you'r guaranteed to be told if it's bad.
And you have noticed Ghost Diver's two major weaknesses, right? Well, if not, here they are:
1. A sufficiently powerful technique will break straight through the spell. I grade 'sufficiently powerful' as in the vicinity of 'at least three times stronger than Rednal's energy alloted to the spell'. Thus, a superior opponent can crack my character open like an egg.
2. Repeated powerful strikes against Rednal. He has large reserves of power as the result of lots of practice with his spells (they're draining, but like all things, you get better the more you do it; in this case, he has more raw power than most people), true, but it takes a fair amount of energy to block stronger strikes.
[quote="Rednal]He felt a bit more drained than he should have, because it had needed more energy to perform its duty, but it had worked... ...and while it drained a lot more energy than his other spells because it was so much stronger, Rednal's regular practice with it had built up his raw spiritual energy. Zenmaru almost had overridden the spell, but there was two more facets of it he probably hadn't counted on
That was my character feeling the drain of blocking your technique. It's not like he flicked it aside; that attack took a serious toll on him. And he HAS been almost constantly pumping himself up. He BARELY blocked it. Trust me, Ghost Diver is hardly invincible. It's got a time limit, it takes extra energy when an attack is too strong to cope with normally, and it will cut out entirely if it doesn't have enough.))
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:49 pm
Rednal ((You have a point there. ^^ Man, I love a good debate. The set was posted AGES ago, and seeing as Kidou before and after were looked at, and no comment AGAINST my techniques was made, I have come to the conclusion that they are acceptable. See, sometimes people don't comment if it's good, but you'r guaranteed to be told if it's bad. And you have noticed Ghost Diver's two major weaknesses, right? Well, if not, here they are: 1. A sufficiently powerful technique will break straight through the spell. I grade 'sufficiently powerful' as in the vicinity of 'at least three times stronger than Rednal's energy alloted to the spell'. Thus, a superior opponent can crack my character open like an egg. 2. Repeated powerful strikes against Rednal. He has large reserves of power as the result of lots of practice with his spells (they're draining, but like all things, you get better the more you do it; in this case, he has more raw power than most people), true, but it takes a fair amount of energy to block stronger strikes. Rednal He felt a bit more drained than he should have, because it had needed more energy to perform its duty, but it had worked... ...and while it drained a lot more energy than his other spells because it was so much stronger, Rednal's regular practice with it had built up his raw spiritual energy. Zenmaru almost had overridden the spell, but there was two more facets of it he probably hadn't counted on That was my character feeling the drain of blocking your technique. It's not like he flicked it aside; that attack took a serious toll on him. And he HAS been almost constantly pumping himself up. He BARELY blocked it. Trust me, Ghost Diver is hardly invincible. It's got a time limit, it takes extra energy when an attack is too strong to cope with normally, and it will cut out entirely if it doesn't have enough.))
And "The set was posted AGES ago"? Interesting.Rednal About the Sacred Arts: Rednal's own spell series, the Sacred Arts are a series of Kidou spells that increase his abilities in some way. Each takes a lot of energy to use, and lasts five minutes at most. I have absolutely no idea which category they belong in, as they are support effects. Stand Keeper - Nullify Impact Damage (Blunt weapons, slamming into walls, etc.) Royal Guard - Nullify Blade Damage (Zanpakuto, sharp Hollow Body Parts, etc.) Abyss Walker - Nullify Physical Damage (Normal swords, etc.) Phantom Fly - Dodging Ability greatly increased. (Swords, Hollow Body Parts, etc.) Blood Dancer - Physical and Spiritual power greatly increased. Platinum Singer - Physical and Spiritual defense greatly increased. Heaven's Tracker - Find opponent's weak spots. Ghost Diver - Counter all attacks. (Quite useful, despite the fact that it drains heavily) Babylon Seeker - If counters can be done, they hit very hard. Overtaker - Speed greatly increased. Heartbreaker - Things break a lot easier when hit.
Errr.. I can perfectly see why it wasn't commented on. You didn't a). follow the form set out by Kenkaru, b). describe your spells correctly, and c). didn't ask for Kenkaru's help in approving your spells.
NONE of your special boosting spells, or skills, have been accepted. NONE of them. It's all fine and dandy that you've created weaknesses and information for your skills: but none of them have been passed through the acceptance thread.
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3351/rednalgd6.gif ))
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:30 pm
(( Nevermind. It'd be beneficial to my character to have Rednal a seated member of the first division. Sorry for wasting you time, Rednal. heart Ugu forfeits.))
And from beneath the glowing orb of white energy no one remained. It was empty. Empty of blood, guts, and most of all: empty of any Shinigami. Ugu left the small confines of the arena to escape off to his training grounds.
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:00 pm
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