Ehh... How to most precisely describe what he is doing? He is definitely swinging the sword, and not stabbing; I pictured the yth being in front of and to the left of him,and the first strike being with the blade vertical-diagonal (base more to Aemoten's right than tip) by the time it would reach the Yth from the front - possibly slightly adjusted if the yth is actively trying to dodge, which it shouldn't be able to successfully do unless it got both of its stuck hands free during the half-second between pacifying Olan's halberd and Aemoten stepping forth. The next moves would admittedly depend a bit more on how alive the yth is after the first strike...

And yep, avatars were enabled at some point last night ... although when I noticed it then it only allowed you to upload one, and didn't actually bother to display it on the forums. I couldn't find my old avatar, either - so here is a [i]new[/i] badly-drawn digital 10-minute sketch of a firebird! Drawing with only a mouse available is entertaining, and that tool I used for the fire blurs a bit too much for the fire to look like fire ... I could probably either fix it or draw a proper one which is not just meant to replace the rule of unicorns with something familiar to other people, but seeing how I never got to swapping out the one I had been using just because people commented on my lack of an avatar in a chatbox and so I quickly came up with one during a five-minute silence... Attila went facedesk and said it was quite not what he meant when he said that I should get myself one. 
(For some reason that eye-picture as always made me inclined to stop and stare back at it for a second. Not precisely sure why.)

(Pity you don't wish to reveal what you have been writing ... would have been interesting to compare to your usual writing, at the very least (I could distinguish at least your WoTM entries with ease ... writers' "handwriting" is a thing). And no, I admittedly do not know what the point of pseudonyms is aside of lessening the chance of random people you don't know deciding to track you down. (People being too ashamed of what they write to let it be associated with them?) ...Granted, one of the reasons I originally took the alias of Shienvien *was* to disassociate the expectations strangers - strangers being the key-word here - who were familiar with my usual writings from myself, but... But in the end, people very quickly got to expecting things from Shienvien, too. [Given how you have been in a few roleplays where I have very decidedly and intentionally been writing in a strange or nigh-unreadable manner - Arechiarnaw especially might or might not come across as a familiar name - I cannot quite claim you have been left untouched by my own various experimentations. And in all honesty, I stopped caring that people know that I occasionally write odd things a very long time ago.])

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*pokes at Merc* Post?