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Due to the fact that Clash has not been here of late and under the suggestion of Moo I am bringing my complaints against the character Akira into the light of public discusion. Some of you will know that I have commented in the past over some of the moves taken and have had to go to Clash over a few issues so I'm sorry that the reptition must happen again.

Now my concerns are in the most recent post by Akira which are contrary to actions which I stated in my previous post.

This action being that has our swords would clash in a perry by mine I would have launched a strike with Quin's right leg to coinside with the blow against the blade. In other words I used exacting language to say that has the block was made with the swords Quin's foot would be kicking Akira in the head. Simple no? But then Akira in his return posts says that he drops his blade when it finds its way blocked by mine and then jumps back at the same time; why would he do that unless he was trying to work his way out of deserved damage?

My contention here is that between the swords hitting one another there is no time for Akira to fully dodge my kick for even if he dropped his blade and jumped back at the same moment Quin's foot would still have impacted upon his chin.

My next contetion is on the subject of two wounds. Akira earlier on was slashed across the throat and as Clash agreed with me earlier on such a wound would be lethal no matter what the circumstances. Akira made no refrence to it. In further disregard he made no refrence to the kidney shot Quin performed upon him in an earlier post.

Akira's failure to state anything of the damages has left me a little miffed over his willingness to except damage.

This point is further seen when one takes a look at the action he performs. Now earlier on in the fight Akira had charged Quin and rolled, striking his shoulder against the stone floor. Okay, I can except that; but in his latest post after jumping back he thinks he can land on his tail bone and be okay as long as his body doesn't tense up. Note here that at no point has Akira given any indication beyond the negation of magic to be anything more then a normal human. Landing on your tail bone is painful and I highly doubt Akira has a large enough a** to cushion his fall.

That's not such a concern and I do have one last minor complaint against Akira in that with the same move I had Quin conjure some magical energy which Akira has stated in the past both IC and OOC that his negation field leaches off of the energy of others. Thus from the description I gave of the action I directly boosted magical energy into his system, sort of like flooding too much energy through a fuse. In his responce he seems to ignore the nature of his own ability or change how it works.

The grenades, those I don't have a problem with; but I do have a problem with Akira never taking any damages, even those Clash has awarded me.

Alright so the big deal here is that I haven't ever directly stated that I am taking damage. I am sorry for that I have been slightly rushed as of late when I have an opportunity to post, this being because I've been on the road for a couple of weeks. That being said let me go over a few things.

Now as for the neck being a fatal injury, though I did not state that I know this I do know this. Akira never uses his grenades and/or guns unless he is in a dire situation. They are his uber powers if you will. So basically he is uping the anti in the fight because he does not have long to live. Now since it is only a small slash it will take a little bit, but in the fairness of the fight I'm guessing in about 8 posts from him he'll go unconscious, at which point it's do or die time before he bleeds out.

As for the inability for him to dodge the kick that was sent his way. It is completely possible for him to evade the attack. If he jumps backwards, like the opposite direction of the blow at the same time that it happens than he will be able to evade it though the blow comes close. I'm sorry but I've taken a jab to the kidney's and a sword across the neck, I'm not your punching bag and I'm not going to take every single attack that you aim my way. Regardless of him launching himself back on his tailbone, yeah it will hurt, but it won't be broken. You're assuming that a human will break under the slightest bit of pressure or force. I practice Judo and during practice we have to do similar backwards leap rolls as I did here, now it's on a mat but I've done it on cement. Yeah it hurts but you just bruise a little bit and you're fine.

As for the negation of energy. Now I realize that you tried to feed your energy into me, however you missed something from my previous posts. Akira was no longer feeding off of your energy, he was putting his own energy into the negation barrier. Thus when you tried to channel your energy into the shield instead of the shield having to steal it to retain equal power it already was maintaining equal if not greater power because of the energy wich Akira put into it, thus the shield did not need to absorb the energy to negate its effect. All in all I really don't see any kind of problem.

Ok so I light off C-4 behind you Quin, and you avoided being incinerated by the blast. However, then you have to deal with the concussive blast which comes off of the explosion. Now I'm not a physics major, but from what I know about force and the like when hit by the blast of that force you are tossed into the air uncontrollably, due to the fact that your character's mass and matter are insignificant when it's them vs. incredibly powerful C-4 blast. Physics dictate that you should be lifted up and tossed upwards through the air while at the same time your character would be forced into a prone position, not flying towards me with your feet dragging the ground.

Not only this, but then you go on to say that mid flight your character suddenly falls out of the sky on top of my character. Or that basically you can change your trajectory mid explosive flight. This of course would also be impossible, because unless you have wings, once you are tossed through the air by that blast it's almost impossible for you to change trajectory, due to the fact that there is nothing for your body to physically push off of that would change the direction of the blast.

In short I do not see how your character could have logically done what he did in your last post barring the use of magic, which we both have already agreed would be negated by Akira's magic negation barrier when you said that magic seemed to be useless.

Yes the blast is going to be omni-directional, however the fact still remains that regardless of whether you have forward motion or not, once you are hit by the shockwave of the blast it will physically lift you up and toss you. Let me give you an example. Me and my friends made a pipe bomb a couple of years ago, which has no-where near the force which the C-4 has, now my friend lit the pipe bomb because he drew the short straw. xd He took off running, like dead sprint, made it about 10 ft away and then the explosive went off. When it did go off though he was charging away from the explosive, like Quin, he was lifted up and tossed forward about ten feet through the air and landed flat on his face. Regardless of what motion your character was going through at the point in time when the blast catches said person, said person will be treated like a rag doll when the blast hits. Thus I still do not see how your character would drag his feet along the ground as if he tripped, it's basically not physically possible.

As for the magic negation, you did agree with it when I said that the barrier had negated, or absorbed, the magical force which you attempted to toss the C-4 away with and you let that slid by. Thus by you not trying to argue that point you concede the power. As to it being cowardly, it is just as much a justifiable power as is the ability to manipulate a storm. That's the point of fighting, you run up against new scenarios and adapt to them to win. If you can not adapt you lose, I could care less if you think the negation is cowardly, it's my character's power and is just as legitimate as any other power out there.

Now as for the weight of the C-4, I am indeed sorry that I failed to mention the weight of the explosives. But then again if you want to be that critical then you should be mentioning the calibur of the bullets which your character is firing off in each and every post. Just because I failed to bring up a minor detail such as weight is no reason to thus negate the post. The point of the matter is that it is a large explosive, going off behind you, and you failed to provide the appropriate reaction with said explosive. You can't try to weasle out of this by placing the blaim on me by saying I never said how heavy the C-4 is.

((By the way if you're going to quote Wikipedia...


Look a paragraph from the bottom. ...then you should at least cite the source properly. What you did was plagarism. 3nodding ))


Finally, as for mentioning that your character is still in armour and switching up the hands that held the gun. These are minor typos because I forgot to proofread back through my posts. If you want to make a big deal out of them I can re-edit my posts for you. However, this is beyond the point, you are merely being nit-picking by bringing said mistakes up. Everyone makes mistakes, you don't win or lose a match for a minor lapse in description because that's really all that the problems are: Problems with description. Even though I might have said the wrong hand with the gun the point still gets across of what my character did and leeway can be given for a minor mistake.