Uhh... I am once more not entirely certain what I should do... I had intended to post first simply because what Aemoten does technically doesn't affect Thaler directly, and Thaler in return wouldn't be affecting what he does in any way (he'll probably half-register that she is speaking when she does, but wouldn't actually comprehend what she is saying until later). My planned post would - time-wise- be ending about when your *first* paragraph does, and has a fair chance of negating the rest of your post... Basically I intended to post first simply because I imagined there being very little opportunity and time during which Thaler can do anything that would potentially impact my post (hence my OoC-note that she has about five seconds between the yth retaliating to Aemoten's attack and him having already attempted to plunge a dagger into its left eye) before it becomes necessary for you to know what the outcome of my post would be before you can continue the post in a way which'd make sense (since I doubt she'd be acting the same way if Aemoten succeeds and the yth drops limply to the floor halfway through - having a dagger in one's brain tends to work rather quickly). She'd not have the [i]time[/i] to speak all those sentences she does in your post - especially those directed at the yth later on - before Aemoten would already have done his thing, successfully or unsuccessfully... - More so than on basis of turns, I tend to try to time my posts according to the (estimated) duration an action or another would take. This is why Aemoten can have three full paragraphs of speech when everyone is just standing around and doing mostly nothing but will at most pass a word or two when he's actively fighting (and even that has a high chance of resulting in a mistake derived from distraction and thusly injury). ((Once again, this is *not* meant in a negative way. Just learning process, and anyone is welcome to comment on if I do anything odd the same... And my brain is genuinely a little confused at how to make this scene play out in a way that makes sense.))