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How did I not know about this?

Wait, don't answer that. *Watches... and learns.*

Thanks Jello.

Now I need to find Ed and Maximos and bug them if I can use their words of wisdom.

-Is compiling a very big library of stuff.-

In terms of how long the fight has been going on, IC, it may not have yet. Time travel'll do that sometimes. sweatdrop

You know, there's a reason I try to never go further than one move in a post.

Which is why he evades and still catches the sword. So the polearm misses the chin, but his arm still goes out to capture the weapon. I know the timing that's going on. And it's not a hop. His feet are stepping back simultaneously. I just worded it that way because I'm pretty sure it wasn't that significant at that point of the post. What I am saying is that the kick happens during the detachment, so he could perform them smoothly into one motion. No having to make any choice. He's not stupid to leave any openings.

My moral is that you need to stop thinking I don't know what I'm doing. Unless we were drawing with pics for our posts from now on, there's going to be disputes between how we see things, so don't get so uptight about it.

Does he have three feet?

Is he just leaning forwards and pretending that his bottom half went back?

Or is he hopping?


And then he gets hit because he's got one foot off the ground and both hands occupied. Which leaves us with another choice... is it, as you say, happening simultaneously, or is it, as the post seems to imply, that one happens immediately following the other? The posted response covers one. The posted response covers the other.

Yeah. I thought I was going to write something different, too.






And I just deleted the rest of my commentary because it's not very nice things to say. Yet I still felt the need to write this in its place, because I'd feel guilty writing things and then removing them without a trace. Because timestepping bad, grr.

You know what. The feet argument has no significance to this so I'll skip to the next one.

Here's the timing:

Blade detached.
Foot strikes the weapon.
Yariel lets go.
You strike at chin as an interrupt.
Yariel evades, still grabbing at the sword.
You charge in with the second attack.
Yariel's sword now counters.
Tiem charges in along with attack.
Yariel steps to the right to get to the left side.

Maybe I should write my posts as simple as that from now on. Yariel will evade because he can and sees the attack coming toward him. Not everyone is slow in reactions, and you're underestimating Yariel's. It's not like I'm dodging a bullet here. It's a strike at his chin. Who wouldn't expect retaliation from removing their hands off a weapon two opponents were struggling against? It's why in the post before I had it where he brings the sword forward because with that weapon in hand, he knows Tiem is going to take that opportunity to try to get him Jackie Chan style. So you interrupted, and Yariel reacts. It's no timestepping at all.

Yes, he performed the movie "doesn't have to look" to know how to kick up a weapon. I can easily make proof of that that his martial arts training had him learn techniques like that, so yes, he did it without having to look toward him. Once he stepped on the weapon, he knew then where it was and how it lied.

And saying he attacks immediately after he lets go isn't going to fly. If we're both were pulling, and he suddenly lets go, then that means Tiem should be stumbling back. But because I'm such a nice person, I didn't even try to add such a detail for you to consider in a consideration that you would not make such a big fuss over me doing what I did.

What I don't like is your misreading of my post, nor saying what my character can or cannot do. Most of your post always involved what Yariel could not do, while I was not as strict in the mechanics of how you have to do this to do that slash, or how your movements made you slower than you think. It's frustrating and drops the fun of this match lower and lower everyday.

So...



Unless your character was pushing with that hand, immediate won't be the speed you attacked. But then again, if your character can easily send an attack with the knowledge that the blade was going to be detached and his hands pulling away, then you shouldn't be the one complaining, but I.

So. just accept that he evades and continue on. Not all of your attacks will hit, assuredly against someone like Yariel. As it was stated in the rules, your fighting style is suppose to account realistically with your character. If I am a martial artist, then it is correct that Yariel would be able to act accordingly to different situations in close combat without hesitating, such avoiding an "immediate" attack in the way Tiem did. And though Tiem's combat technique is kenjutsu, his mixture of street style, such as the shoulder charge, or the fist grab, then I can pretty much argue that Tiem himself would be acting on the balance of power over accuracy.

But I won't judge how you play your character. You do enough of that to me.