You said that Slimy "conveniently tore apart his own method of flight" by hitting the pauldron. I consider that to be a trip. What's more, I left little to be vague about what my character did. It lunged to the right and off the mech, and I mentioned nothing of its progress being impeded, presumably because the metal plate you speak of is about as troublesome as a stump on the trail, which reminds me to again repeat how I didn't try to turn Higan into a bumbling sap by ignoring his competency and flat out stating that at least one the multitude of stumps he was sprinting through at 70 mph should have tripped him, simply because you didn't mention them.

That's what you're doing, and boy, isn't it swell to dwell on what could have been but isn't? Let me say that again. [b]What could have been but isn't?[/b]