. This tells me that at least some of the energy is going towards the lightsaber, though that is my own opinion/POV.In addition to pulling him closer, it should also interfere with the draw of the firespray he wanted (and not being able to use it on Xaxis by extension), and mess up his readied guard with his lightsaber
. So you plan on continuing on with your attack from last round but also go against going that "planned attack" by, while running, moving your left hand, pulling with a "heavy amount of use of the Force," and then going for another attack. Yes, I realize that you state that this is a different attack but it reads much the same as the, essentially, same attack from last round. Humans tend to jog at over 5mph (2.2ish meters/sec) and run at between 10mph (4.4ish m/s) and 15mph (6.6ish m/s).Xaxis, not wanting to stop his own momentum and wanting his planned attack to land with as less interference as possible,
So obviously I disagree, though am at work and we've run fairly steadily all day so my thoughts may be a bit jumbled. To start, I don't think it's beyond a person's ability to pretend to fumble for something on their belt while keeping an eye on their opponent. Especially given it's something to be used against said opponent, I feel anyone would be keeping at least some of their attention on their opponent. While this is anecdotal at best, I can start an IV without needing to take my eyes off of the pt because I know where I set my stuff.
That said, I don't think I'm having to negate my own action nor precog your attack. Celtar goes for the firespray (keeping an eye on Xaxis, in my opinion, as mentioned above), and feels the pull (your interrupt). He ceases going for the firespray and instead redirects the energy to affect his lightsaber/hand while pushing with the Force. While I am no RP admin, I believe this is doable because the Force here is limited mainly by one's imagination. I'm sure that this will be our main point of contention because you feel this is not doable whereas I do.
This tells me that at least some of the energy is going towards the lightsaber, though that is my own opinion/POV.
In addition, Celtar hasn't used any Force powers/abilities/energy this thread (as the choke was interrupted by @Undine's character) whereas Xaxis has force sprinted/sped/ran around the arena fast enough to attack Celtar before he entered the arena and was ready to do those blasts for, IIRC, two posts/rounds now. While I will agree that that doesn't count as actually doing them, I still feel that preparing such an attack should use some energy.
. So you plan on continuing on with your attack from last round but also go against going that "planned attack" by, while running, moving your left hand, pulling with a "heavy amount of use of the Force," and then going for another attack. Yes, I realize that you state that this is a different attack but it reads much the same as the, essentially, same attack from last round. Humans tend to jog at over 5mph (2.2ish meters/sec) and run at between 10mph (4.4ish m/s) and 15mph (6.6ish m/s).
If your character is moving at 5mph and, when we're 10m away from each other, you remove 7m of that space, you are essentially planning to attack within a second of that pull and, given the length, heft, etc, of a staff, I feel that is difficult, if not impossible. If you are arguing that Celtar is unable to effectively respond given not having enough time, I would argue that Xaxis is unable to attack due to, essentially, the same reason.
I wished to avoid numbers games or other rather pedantic arguments (positioning, exact specifics, etc), hence why I responded in the way that I did. I wish to make clear that I'm not calling your argument pedantic, rather that I seek to avoid unnecessary arguments that often come up in PvP.
I'm not arguing that your person can't have attention on the person in front of them charging at them. But for your IV example, like randomly started forcefully pushing/pulling you while doing said IV thing it would be wholey botched up? Maybe? I'm not going to pretend to know how that works. But part of what I find questionable here is the instantaneous defense. Unless I am mistaken with something like force push/pull, you don't feel it and then it hits you a moment later. The feeling and it hitting happens simultaneously. And then as you said, you are redirecting the pull and pushing the lightsaber with the force at the same time, that means you instantaneously used two different force abilities at the same time. I don't think that's allowed
The force is kind of limited to one's imagination, but even then it has rules and limitations. At best, I'd imagine for a redirect that you'd have to wrestle control of my force pull by exerting greater amount of force that what i'm doing. But I don't see any basis in canon for this kind of redirecting. I don't see any basis for it in legends (going by a quick google search anyways). The only thing I'm seeing in the Guide to Forcepowers about redirecting is redirecting plasma-based attacks like blasters or lightning. And I maintain that you won't be able to grip the lightsaber too while doing it at the same time.
No. I stated my force pull was aimed at your chest. Foiling your readied guard was a hopeful/intended/antipcated side-effect of doing pulling you some 7 meters. Going by your post, I didn't need to hit your firespray arm to interfere with that.
I did say in like my second post the arena 'wasn't that big' for what it's worth. But my listing of current uses of force powers are. 1. Having the force flow through my kyber staff to use later in my opening post. 2. Running around the arena. 3. An interrupted force choke before any real damage could be done or power exerted. 4. Heavy force pull.
And the Kyber Staff's write up says it stores force energy, that of which can be released later. If I used my stored shot and then decide to store more energy into it, that would be me using energy. In the write-up I'm not seeing anything leading me to believe there is an upkeep cost or a cost to prepare to used the stored energy. Pointing my staff at you shouldn't cost me energy.
To add on, you never had a stipulation that your character was prepared to alter his actions should the event arise, this is a full commitment to your character's actions per the PVP rules. You stated how your character you react with the canister and his physical defenses should his opponent continue the assault but no other mention of mental or force preparations are made and no clause stating your character was prepared to alter his actions either. So, by stating your character stops going for the canister (for your defense), an action that was confirmed by my post you are in fact negating your own actions to negate mine, you cannot self-negate.
In addition to pulling him closer, it should also interfere with the draw of the firespray he wanted (and not being able to use it on Xaxis by extension), and mess up his readied guard with his lightsaber
So I didn't state (due to my own fault, I can admit) which side I was pushing the staff towards and you specify the left