Swift Pain - OOC

[Logan]

yeah for sure it's not impossible. you can still attempt to dodge them all, all i was asking for was a bit of change in how you attempt to do it. thoughts?

 

[Aurius]

yeah for sure it's not impossible. you can still attempt to dodge them all, all i was asking for was a bit of change in how you attempt to do it. thoughts?

Course! Just making sure we were on the same page before editing, that's all. I'll trim her down and tag you here afterwards for review.

 

[Aurius]

@Relent Edits complete. I removed the force aura part entirely, and modified the existing dodge as follows:

Does that work for you?

Spoiler: Edits

He could not conjure the light, but he did redirect the excess energy he had pooled whilst moving, reacting to the incoming screeches the blaster bolts gave off. What heat he already possessed was transferred to his sclera, melting the ice away, as he broke the line of fire by hanging a hard right. Part of him wanted to mimic the woman's attack, though his flame would prove far more harmful than her ice. But he could not, instead he began to sprint at full speeds, as fast as his legs could physically carry him, bubbling the force around himself in an effort to both consolidate his powers on the move and prevent force manipulations on his body. He would weave and zigzag through any further oncoming blaster bolts trailing towards him, their sound and heat giving their angles away.

 

[Aurius]

@Phoenix Since GABA is currently offline, I'm gonna quickly ask - wouldn't either of those attacks break your concentration on Eivor? Those were both attacks using Level 4 force powers, same as Kravos', I don't think He'd be able to just shrug them off with such ease. Even in your own words;

So what does a distraction look like? It could be a gunshot, a sword strike, or a counter assault with the Force. Often "distractions" will take the form of another attack that a character must block or an assault of their own. This is perhaps the most important aspect of using the Force in combat.

And, since the Force Flash is still considered an interrupt attack, in addition with the Force Blast, (we're at two consecutive attacks now, as per Loco's words; Kravos is realistically the only one that would be able to respond quickly enough to Eivor's actions to truly deal with it, but the timing overall is so shaky in the thread right now he's just going to have to be defensive.) would it not be safe to say Kravos' concentration has been broken? Summoning a counter attack in milliseconds seems... a tad curious

 

[Phoenix]

@Phoenix Since GABA is currently offline, I'm gonna quickly ask - wouldn't either of those attacks break your concentration on Eivor? Those were both attacks using Level 4 force powers, same as Kravos', I don't think He'd be able to just shrug them off with such ease. Even in your own words;

So what does a distraction look like? It could be a gunshot, a sword strike, or a counter assault with the Force. Often "distractions" will take the form of another attack that a character must block or an assault of their own. This is perhaps the most important aspect of using the Force in combat.

And, since the Force Flash is still considered an interrupt attack, in addition with the Force Blast, (we're at two consecutive attacks now, as per Loco's words; Kravos is realistically the only one that would be able to respond quickly enough to Eivor's actions to truly deal with it, but the timing overall is so shaky in the thread right now he's just going to have to be defensive.) would it not be safe to say Kravos' concentration has been broken? Summoning a counter attack in milliseconds seems... a tad curious

I'm going to address these as quickly and directly as I can.

1. Link. I know it seems cliche, but it's completely true. A flash of light while it would be bright coming from a level 4 doesn't actually stop the attack in any way. He's not having to dodge it, summon a defense, or really... do anything except not stare. Hardly a concentration breaking feat.

2. "While not waiting for the who had tried to blend with the crowd (Zanna and Kravos) to recover as she sent a wave of energy rippling to where they stood, carrying any debris and garbage from the alley with it." If this blast is strong enough that it requires Kravos to use all of his energy to block it, then Eivor just massacred a lot of civilians as well, which I'm not seeing indicated in the post anywhere... therefore we can assume that's not the case. If that is the case, then I can revise, but that needs to be indicated somewhere in the post.

3. As for quoting me at me, I would recommend you also continue to read me: "The rules listed here [where your quote came from] generally govern what is possible for a level 1 combatant." Kravos is not a level 1 combatant and everything on that list is scaled up massively for a level 4. A gunshot or sword strike is not nearly enough to fully distract him. As for a Force power, yes, a level 4 could theoretically produce something that would require all of his effort to resist. See point 2 as for my reasoning why that is not the case here. (As an addendum to point 2, Eivor is also having just come off of or is still using Force flash, so she can't summon the fullness of her power in order to blast him. If for the sake of picking arbitrary numbers we say that the Force flash consumes 30% of her total power then she can only devote 70% to the blast. Likewise, Kravos could use 70% of his energy to resist the blast while using the other 30% to continue his attack)

4. "Summoning a counter attack in milliseconds seems... a tad curious." This is merely factually inaccurate and completely misrepresenting (albeit likely unintentionally) what this attack is. This was the attack from the previous round. It was being put together before any of the things Eivor did in this round. I spent the last post setting it up. I quite literally spent an entire paragraph in my previous posting round (paragraph 3, post 23) describing the set up. This is not a counter attack summoned in a milisecond at all; it is an attack that has been putting itself into place over the course of several seconds, which in PvP is an eternity.

 

[Aurius]

@Phoenix I did not realize you had set that part up. Those are the only rules I knew, and I thought they covered all levels, not just Level 1. I do apologize. I will allow GABA to contest if she sees fit.

 

[GABA]

I'm not contesting it, just would like to see this get pushed through so I'm not thinking about it during finals this week.

 

[Cazar]

His attack against her would be interrupted by the two attacks put together, coming before he ever launched it.

Your autohit needs to be removed. Both of us attacked you BEFORE your attack and it was written to interrupt you.


Beyond this, your defense against Zanna would not work and her hold which you accepted despite all of that would not allow you to spin and cut a hole. Plus Cami's attack is more than just melting your eyes... which by itself should make you SCREAM in pain and not be able to continue, and it would kill you as it spread. Not to mention the Force Lightning that somehow in your post would come way after the other attacks you dodged despite it coming at the same time.

@Aurius Pheonix

 

[Aurius]

Your autohit needs to be removed. Both of us attacked you BEFORE your attack and it was written to interrupt you.


Beyond this, your defense against Zanna would not work and her hold which you accepted despite all of that would not allow you to spin and cut a hole. Plus Cami's attack is more than just melting your eyes... which by itself should make you SCREAM in pain and not be able to continue, and it would kill you as it spread. Not to mention the Force Lightning that somehow in your post would come way after the other attacks you dodged despite it coming at the same time.

@Aurius Pheonix

Ahh, I see. Will do

 

[Aurius]

I hadn't read that part, but having done so, there you are.

 

[Cazar]

Despite some back and forth, hope it is a good ending and we can all keep going. Good fight all <3