Trying to Step up into the Arena.

[Fallenreaper]

Alright…*takes a deep breath*

I am new to the arena section but I have been told I have potential and with reading a few matches here from WotW, odd and end fights etc., I am taking a plunge. Would anyone be interested in fighting/sparring with me? I am going for a T1 battle. I am starting out small until I have a few under my belt and get a feel for text battling. I am not picky about paragraph length, as long as you can make as clear as possible either in the OOC or IC then I am great. Just don’t post one-liners or you will regret it, I am nice but not that nice.

If there something I have stated that bothers you or is unclear, notify me. I also understand real life can get in the way so send me a warning that way we can postpone the match until a better time, I am hoping to end this match in likely 8-10 posts but that’s just a minor goal so the match doesn’t become an endless and dragging affair. If you have a plot then I am happy to hear it or even a simple random spar works for me. I think I have covered everything… if not, help on what I missed would be greatly appreciated.

Oh one more thing, it has been suggested it would be a good idea to have a judge set for disagreements and complications. I don’t know any at least not from a creepy stalker distance… so if you have any suggestions or know of one that wouldn’t mind being on standby for the occasion then feel free to name them. Unless there’s a judge that sees this and hasn’t a problem volunteering.

Requirements/ other info.

No guns or shooting weapons, please. I think it’s best to start off with basic melee and hand to hand combat as a starting fight but I am willing to attempt a weapon combat.

The fight would be based on T1 Eden Era rule which this:http://www.roleplaygateway.com/type-...era-t4212.html
I am not for magic at least for a while, more melee/weapons combat since it’s simpler especially for my first fight.

The battle arena, I pretty open minded and since I begin the fight I feel it’s only fair my opponent gets the choice of battle ground.

The usual arena rules apply: no-god moding, auto hits, endless npcs, meta gaming, etc.

If you are experienced fighter or have any tips you received from previous fights, I would love to learn from them so be kind enough to share. Anything from sites for particular fighting styles of your character to position to help in picturing the battle.

All concerns and confusion about the match I rather stay in the OOC, it makes everything neater and much easier to reference back for improvement. One last thing to note and most important, I am only going to have one fight at a time to give the current match my full attention as well as not to get overwhelmed.

Here’s the battle fodder…Oh I had a friend of mine look it over so I am pretty confident about it.

Name: Iron Horse (birth name) Iron Jameson (preferred name)
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Race: Human, Native American
Magic Ability: None
Classification: Indian/Melee and Weapon’s fighter
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 185 lbs.
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Appearance: Dark Ebony hair, cut about shoulder length with slight wavy to the straight thick locks. His sharp oval eyes are light desert brown almost wise when fully seen head on and up close. Iron’s skin is deep chestnut from being outside and in extreme conditions. A black tribal bear on the upper right shoulder trailing into a diving red hawk of similar style tattoo. His body has minor lines of past wounds but one in particular trails from a quarter inch from the left corner of his right eye, ending at the jaw line in a bright vivid white line.

Armor free battle: A black feather earring in the left ear, neck choker from cylinder beads in a pattern of three raven feathers on the front with a turquoise center piece stone. Usually shirtless in hot climate, while in fall conditions a red tee shirt and a bear skin coat for fridge weather when he knows the destination’s weather type. His footwear ranges from moccasins or work boots, dirt yellow. Black gloves with inside grips aid in holding his weapons of choice and prevent the stray splinter from handling the wooden handle but even in weaponless battle he wears them out of habit. Travel worn slightly baggy jeans, ragged but almost still in one piece. A thick black leather belt is across his hips, held by a metal oval buckle that laid in front sitting below his navel.

Natural abilities:

Senses:
Sight-Acute
Smell-Average
Touch-Average
Taste-Average
Sound-Acute

Hunter's Instinct: Learning to hunt and kill his own food, Iron's sense of tracking is well practiced and used that he is able to notice even the small details making it difficult in sneaking up on him.

Strength,
Hours of grueling body building to strengthen muscles from the moment he could barely lifted his weapon at fourteen, his limps has never known a moments rest for long periods. His will fuels his strength putting all his heart and effort into battle, not disregarding tactics in a fight by conserving at keep points, Iron refuses to treat any foe as a worthless combatant. Able to left a full grown jaguar on to his shoulders with little difficulty on his own thanks to his greater focus this aspect.

Speed,
Hunting many different animals from gazelles to warthogs, Iron's speed is quick in short dashes putting all his adreline and power into his stride to close the gap as quick as possible most of the time before his mark even knows he's there. Often one strike all that is possible, making his strike out in short burst of speed at his target.


Defense,

Unlike the rest of his attribute, Iron’s defense is not quite where he wants especially since his primary focus was strength.

Endurance,
Practicing in all sorts of weather, Iron has prepared his body for most weather conditions from skin numbing winter lands to scorning deserts. Pushing his body as far as humanly possible in long periods to exceed them as he takes each challenge to heart, he often adds difficulty to his training aiming higher and higher each round.

Others,
Adapted skills:
Techniques
Kick boxing and street fighting
Hapkido

Current weapons if a battle fight.
Primary Weapon(s): 2 Hammer-backed war axes of identical make and size.
http://www.therionarms.com/reenact/t...arms_c986i.jpg
Blade Length: 6”
Overall: 26"
Blade edge to hammer edge: 6 1/2"
Shaft length: 23 1/2"
Weight: 2 lbs 4.0 oz
Past: Iron’s very first weapons given, they have seen many years of practice and bloodshed from his father’s exploits so it expects no less from the son.

Secondary weapon: Cobra Steel falcata
http://www.therionarms.com/reenact/t...arms_c1327.jpg
Blade Length: 14 ¼”
Overall: 20 5/8”
Thickness: 3/16”
Blade width: 2”
Grip: 6 ½”
Weight (falcata): 1 lb 1.6 oz

[Fallenreaper]

Still looking for a sparring partner.

[Skallagrim]

Your character looks good, as far as characters go. Nice detail. Good descriptors. He is not a tier 2-3 character since he is a human normal character with nothing that pushes him into the enhanced human or mildly powered category.

His lifting of a 124-210 lbs animal gives a good idea of his overall strength. The speed aspect is alright, it is generic enough and it lays out the idea he can sprint short distances quickly.

[Fallenreaper]

I wasn't sure. The tiers descriptions are rather... vague? I guess would be the right word. At least now I can go edit that tier and thank you for the input. I greatly appreciate all of it and hope to test him once I get a sparring partner and a judge.

[Lyzan]

Finding a judge won't be as difficult as finding a partner, especially after you've stated how long the fight would probably take. Either Rilla, Guru or even Skallagrim himself would take on the task, I'm sure. But to find a partner, one have to be patient and you've been doing so rather well. *smiles*

Just so you know, I'll be keeping an eye on this.. *winks*

[Rilla]

HAhaha no, I won't.

I volunteer for nothing

[Asperser]

I keep thinking this is what Tasuke likes doing. T1. No special powers. Straight up fighting. You could ask if he'd be interested.

[Shoryu]

I'm always interested in a straight up fist fight if ya want ^.^ Of course i don't play human characters often myself unless it's required XD however i can easily play just about any species i come up with on a human level =P It's not difficult to tone something down to a tier 1 or 2 rating and strip out any ranged abilities XD

If your up for it i'll cook up a CS for ya =3 I've been around for a while myself and I'm always happy to help someone practice XD not to mention i have a habit of not trying to 'kill' my opponents >.>

[Fallenreaper]

Finding a judge won't be as difficult as finding a partner, especially after you've stated how long the fight would probably take. Either Rilla, Guru or even Skallagrim himself would take on the task, I'm sure. But to find a partner, one have to be patient and you've been doing so rather well. *smiles*

Just so you know, I'll be keeping an eye on this.. *winks*

You of all people should... Patience is nothing, I've waited for three months for a reply before so its rather easy.

HAhaha no, I won't.

I volunteer for nothing

Aww, I guess kindness isn't one of your best traits then...lol. And scratch one judge option: Rilla, Guru or Skallagrim.

I keep thinking this is what Tasuke likes doing. T1. No special powers. Straight up fighting. You could ask if he'd be interested.

Thank you, I appreciate the suggestion. Also, please don't slap Lyzan's avi (Stalked WotW), I worked hard on that thing! The ying and yang sign was murder getting right lol.

I'm always interested in a straight up fist fight if ya want ^.^ Of course i don't play human characters often myself unless it's required XD however i can easily play just about any species i come up with on a human level =P It's not difficult to tone something down to a tier 1 or 2 rating and strip out any ranged abilities XD

If your up for it i'll cook up a CS for ya =3 I've been around for a while myself and I'm always happy to help someone practice XD not to mention i have a habit of not trying to 'kill' my opponents >.>

Lol, I know that feeling. Iron is my first male human and he's more for the sparring then the killing himself so they should get along in a fun match. I have only one character that's not human, her CS is arena format cause I enjoy the detail and she's most certianly not T1. I figure I start from the bottom and work my way up. So that works for me as long as it's right at Iron's level, I am happy to see how this goes.

So will this be a melee weaponless battle or a low tier weapons battle, beware I am still familarizing myself with the use of dual axes but I got the basics of them or idea of it. XD Would you like to make the IC as well as chose the arena or should I and you can still chose the arena? Oh almost forgot, we still need a judge incase the need arises. Better safe then sorry so...any volunteers since Rilla won't?

[Shoryu]

Hmmm, maybe i should make sure it's cleared up XD My current best understanding of 'T1' is that it's a very detailed form of RP combat where you must remember to describe all the details of your strike, like angle, position, stance, and so on XD

I'm assuming we are shooting 'tier 1' character 'level' right? =3 funny thing, I got confused the first time someone said T1, it hought they meant tier 1, but they meant the eden era rules XD


And yeah i'm totally up for unarmed style =3 which would imply only fists or fist weapons XD for instance, a cestus? is basically just a metal fist XD

another funny thing XD i've had to get increasingly more and more obscure weapon research done to find weapons that i haven't used in RP battles before XD i mean i've used, axes, scythes, swords, guns, gun-swords, more guns, different types of guns [lol lots of guns XD even in melee battles], spears, axes, claw weapons, even magical impact based melee XD

It won't be a problem to go bare fisted though =3 i just gotta decide what imma do for the character ^.^

And hummmm. arena, I 've got no idea what to choose right now XD i mean if we want it fair we wanna try not to pick one that'll give a huge advantage to one of us XD


And personally i don't think we 'need' a referee, it's much more fun to just work it out ourselves, but it's up to ya =3 also i have an OOC to create for one of my RPs at this particular moment that's been waitin for me XD so i'll plop a character here probably in the next few hours ^.^



ALSO, last word, YAY PATIENCE!!!!