Honestly, Yami is stretching their shadowbending ability far more than the description in their CS would allow. Not that i'm saying it's bad - if it's done outside of a tournament, in order to slightly balance out the odds and keep the fight going, instead of ending in the first few posts, that's fine by me. But, IMHO, it's always better to write that into your CS beforehand or talk it over in OOC before doing so.

P.S. - don't do that against me, plis. Gigue is supposed to be smack-dab low-tier, no overshooting :P

@Vordak
Don't worry I'll actually be keeping Jazmyne low tier in our fight, nothing but hiding in shadows,shadow lances/slashes in a few meter radius and her regular physical combat abilities

@Lunarlors34Just because there is heat all around doesn't mean he can't pick out a solid mass of warmth that is separate from the various surrounding temperatures. Let's just say Shashous-Throth could put the Predator's heat sensors to shame.

Yeah, I tagged/quoted the wrong person, I meant Yami when I asked about the post.

But yeah...what do I think happened? I had no idea. It could have been a portal to the shadow realm, it could have been a sinkhole to the dark depths of an abyss the denizens of which are so horrible none can fathom...you get the idea. Now I know it is basically just a shadowhole. Which...kinda has me confuzzeled as to how to deal with it.

And what Doc says is right. A hot object among hot objects will still be visible as another hot object. You would have to be right up against a hot object...and at the SAME ambient temperature...in order to fool your average heat-seeking monster. So, if you set yourself on fire and hid inside another fire, that might work...not to mention, there is the pattern of a person, like how if you see a white piece of paper with a lot of black lines all over it, but also the black line silhouette of a person in it, you can still tell that the person lines are there, and what they are, despite a number of distraction lines.

@Doc Doctor
Fair enough, but it should still come with slight difficulty if he was running around in a fire, e.g take a moment to focus
And you guys know what instant means right? He was inside the instant it opened beneath his feet, E.g before anyone could swing a tail. He's stuck in an abyss of darkness which I've been told he can escape from but isn't easy to
Disorientation or something
Plus if you did JUST as the portal formed then you got sucked in as well XD, that is one nasty as portal XD

@Lunarlors34
It may have opened up beneath James instantly, but gravity isn't instant. Besides, he swung his sword before the portal opened and that was when the tail grab occurred.

@Doc Doctor
Sorry thats my fault I thought I'd made it sort of clear in my post, but he was dragged down instantly because I grabbed him and pulled with vampire strength and speed, aided by gravity. By all rights he wouldnt have had time to finish swinging his sword.

@YamiNoNeko2341Ah, alright.

Either way problem solved. Currently in the shadow realm, maybe I'll play some children cards game while in there XD

We were all thinking that, I'll bet...

However Doc, please note that those arrows I fired were magic energy arrows, not mere physical ones. Would you be able to block them as easily? Especially with only one wing, which I'm not sure if it is in position to block it or not?

@CruallassarWhy would Shash not be in a position to block?

@CruallassarWhy would Shash not be in a position to block?

Well, first the energy arrows burn through the target, rather than pierce it. Specifics on firepower are on the char sheet, so I don't know if your wing could effectively block it without taking some damage. Second, if the side of you that now lacks a wing due to my explosive arrow is the side I'm shooting at/from, then I don't know how easily you can swing the other wing around to defend that side. Those are what I'm thinking of.

[Edit] Though I find now that that first point you thought of, and so I don't have anything wrong as far as that is concerned. And I really can't tell as far as the second point is, whether I'm shooting from your intact or not intact side.

@Cruallassar
You never specified which side you shot from, and in most roleplays I've been in that means its up for dibs. It's pretty important to get the lefts and rights down.

@Doc Doctor
Huh. Thanks for the tip then. I was actually kinda under the impression it was from the other side without the wing, since it was from the same side that I shot the explosive arrow...at least, it seemed such. But now, both your wings are damaged, so this works... >:)

Since the shadow portal was apparently instant (don't look at me!), The monster would have have missed the grab, though as it was also strong enough to rip off appendages there would gave been little chance of the man greatly damaging its tail. As it felt the membrane of its good wing sizzling, the arrows having melted holes in the tough flesh, it would attempt to dive down into the pool of shadow in pursuit of James. The sooner it consumed him, the sooner it could go after the bothersome thing that had been launching strange projectiles at it.

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What does your tail being strong enough to rip off appendages have to do with James crushing your tail? He has the physical strength to easily do it.

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What does your tail being strong enough to rip off appendages have to do with James crushing your tail? He has the physical strength to easily do it.

Well, it implies that the tail has more tensile strength than a man's arm. If you can rip something apart without tearing your own muscles, that means that your muscle is built of a stronger material, right? Otherwise, it would be ripped apart by their own contraction strength.

At least that's how i see it.

@Vordak good point... If James had the strength of a regular human
Well reading James Cs I believe I wasn't very clear on this, but let me clear this up. James has rather enhanced strength...like tree-ent strength
Course if this fight was actually low powered I would have fun with it and mainly destroy the scenery. But this fight; all out or die in 2 seconds -_-
I doubt this tail can survive. How else does any think he cut through a tree with such ease earlier? (Well his runes helped)
In terms of pure brute force (I.e arm wrestle) James could go toe to toe easily with Magna Prater at full strength, which in this fight I am being forced to do
In short of James swings and hits Magna, fun will be had.
Suppose tree man was a little vague sounding

So a 19 year old Captain America?

@Cruallassar
If you minus the nearly indestructible shield and the fact he doesn't have his speed, experience, reflexes, durability and guns.
Not even remotely close to captain america, two very different people with very different abilities.
edit: also isn't really trained in hand to hand combat, remove his sword and he can hit you hard but not with any great technique (unless we're going with jabs and upper-cut. That's about it XD, maybe also slinging people over his shoulders).
Really his only decent trait is his strength, his reflexes can't really match Magna's so that's why he's been avoiding close-quarter combat. Also isn't Magna afraid of bright light? Why is he running around a fire? XD

@Lunarlors34
When its wounded, it throws everything to one side to heal up as quickly as possible. And if James is as strong as Shash, then with equalised power neither character could really tear the limbs off the other, just like how a normal child can't pull the arms off of another normal child.
The tail is also stronger than its arms, being both its primary form of locomotion as well as how it captures most prey.