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@Vin:
Working on it. But Hey, he's the one who's just here for the popcorn. Tell him to make a fight. rolleyes

You're seriously the first person who didn't realize it's a charge of some type.

I'm wondering if you're being stupid for the sake of being a b***h or if you're really just stupid. I wonder if you've even bothered to read my other fights, since it's the same damn thing, or if you just eyeballed how many words I typed.

In fact, there's plenty of hints as to what's happening right there in the ******** post. It's written for a reason.

I mean, let's get on detail.

What is your character wearing? Are you going to follow the logic behind all the detail you're trying to cram in, like the obvious pitfalls associated with extreme dehydration?

If not, shut up and post.

are you people

seriously

going to keep this up

neutral

like, i'm not even going to edit my last post. i'm going to make a new post for this.

SERIOUSLY

it is a common rp combat convention to note things after a post for the sake of judging, that the opponent will not be able to tell is going on unless they have the ability to read their opponent's mind.

i do not justify a lack of saying "there is nothing in-character to indicate something happen," especially this is not the case-- he does note energy going through his fingers. i only justify putting the charge at the end of the post, especially if the move in question carries no heat signature. my own character has a stance/charge/attack that, if he is standing as still as your opponent is, is virtually undetectable. however, there is a note at the end of the post that indicates to the judges that it's happening. i can explain it if you'd like, but i don't think you'd be interested. you might feel like i came here to be hoity toity and tell you to shut your face.

that's not what i'm here for. i'm here because someone told me there was lulz going down and i came to see what was going on. i'd like to believe that i have a bit of pull in the local community to say something and have it at least be considered, so i respectfully ask you to listen. or read, whichever you feel like doing.

reading over your opponent's post, i saw that where there was a lack of words, there was an abundance of character to make up for it. you might wonder where such a thing is, when there are few words to convey character, but consider what's there, rather than what's not there.



he is playing his character's lack of care through a lack of words. you can expect a player with a vain character to spend plenty of time describing their visage, the hue of their eyes down to the RGB and HEX, and how beautifully unmarred their skin is. what i take from the intro as presented is that, in comparison to your character who has things on his mind, virtue's character simply does not care.

why is it that you cannot accept a lack of care on the opponent-char's part? why do you feel that the player would wrong you with "disrespectfully short posts?"

if you want mercedes lackey or tolkien-style posts, go read their books. this is his style of conveying character, and you have no right to tell him that he is wrong for his method. i can, however, tell you that, for a number of reasons, you are wrong for approaching all opponents with the same expectations.

you still did not state why he would intentionally do such a thing. you are taking personally a person's way of conveying character. he admitted to not wanting to fight in the tournament, but it has nothing to with you. if anything, Vintrict should be offended, yet he's accepted enough what has gone on.

I just explained that I don't expect the same from everyone. It is different based on circumstance and situation. This is a fight, possibly to the death, and his character has no emotion whatsoever? Good lord, how can you possibly say that's good writing? He doesn't even give reason for why he doesn't give a crap. It's like his character is only there because he was magically created in that spot for this vary purpose; And that he is a hollow husk without any past emotion or experience to draw upon.

Hell, I don't even know what he looks like! For all I know he's a polo-kakhi wearing vampiric, multi-breasted centaur with wings and tentacles wielding flaming chainsaws in each spaghetti-hand, and THATS what "Incinerating touch" means.

EDIT:



The blade is long, and five feet in length at most, as mentioned in my last post. That gives you probably.... Three choices of blade, that I can think of, in that size category. He's a knight, and obviously British from his speech and references in my post.... Meaning it's likely a claymore, as the other option of a greatsword was more Gaelic in origin, if I recall properly, and is the shorter option of the two long blades anyway. We can also rule out any form of japanese blade of similar length from this same evidence.

The shield, as mentioned previously, covers most of his body, and as he is a large man, also mentioned previously, that means it has to be at least four feet tall (Average height of a man being 5'-6"6' tall) Meaning it's either a tower shield (Unlikely, as that would cover his whole body, or at least should) or a heavy shield.

Who has the reading level of a first grader again?

I need to sleep. I'm starting to get sick. I'll be up in the morning to respond to you.