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Ryu's going against a Dragon...

A Dragon...

A... Dragon...

Oh, one little question about that now.

I looked back at the earlier posts, but couldn't find any specifics. Qwy brought a generic number of vines when he entered, then dropped into the stands, and then into the arena from there. Generic number, once again, remain 'above', not sure if that at the top, or at the stands level since that's still 100' up. One down on the ground, two stretching from the trees upwards to the 'coil' or whatever you referred to it as.

I guess I'm just wondering where those are.

Here's the math I went off of--o'course, there's no 100% guarantee on it, but I'll give it a whack anyways.

Mooo isn't going by the gunshot. He's going by the physical reaction he sees--human beings physically can't even dodge punches because they see them coming. Things like that border on precognition, because human beings' limited reflexes can only allow so much movement after so much time.

Mooo saw Tru's arm tense up, meaning that she's going to take a shot--because, as explained earlier, someone small like her can't afford to go loose-armed on a gun with as solid a recoil as a 10mm Glock 20. Closest thing to that I've fired is a S&W SW40, and while I'm a pretty big guy, I can't let that get away from me by going easy on the grip.

Through constant conditioning and training, Mooo's reflex to a chest-level attack is one of three things--a forward duck and step-in, or a left or right upper-body weave. When he saw the tensing of the arm, he took his step-in, and thus, dodged the shot by knowing it was coming in advance--not that he heard a gunshot and moved in a trained manner.

:laugh: Then I guess I was wrong and right at the same time.

If I had cut the vines in the beginning of the match, there would be no trees, but doing so at this point wouldn't achieve much, would it? razz

I guess that's what I get for telling myself "I'll wait until he does something to draw attention to them before Kenji notices what they're for"... put off to tomorrow what you can do yadda yadda.

I understand she's only human and he isn't. I mean, I clearly stated that in the time he was rolling around to put out the fire, she was already taking aim, which meant she fired as he was standing up.

Okays. ^^ I guess. All I know is that he rolled around furiously putting out the flames then dragged himself to his feet. When he stood she already had the barrel aimed, so she shot the weapon, not wanting to give him too much time to come running at her.

Normally I don't argue things like this, but I did wanna completely clarify and not do it in a "OMG ur t3h fukking RONGG!!!!!" kinda way.

The reason why I went with such an action is that--according to our writing, anyway, it went like this:

-Mooo rushes Tru.
-Tru shoots him.
-Mooo lights up like a Roman Candle.
-Tru gets to her feet.
-Mooo rolls around to put out the fire.
-Tru takes aim. The way she holds the gun to aim will be different than the way she actually fires it, as her arms will tense when she's about to fire. Holding an arm completely out and tensed while holding something of sufficient weight doesn't sound very comfortable, so I assumed her arm was relaxed.
-Mooo gets to his feet.
-Tru makes the "Isn't that all I asked for?" comment.
-Mooo gets into stance while saying the "give an inch, take a yard" mini-monologue, giving him time to observe her positioning and notice a change in said positioning when she's ready to fire.
-Tru fires.

By that train of thought, that's the only reasoning as to why I went with a dodge. If you still don't agree with that, I can edit my post and re-work my action from scratch.

Clash.

Are you going to make my match thread or should I.