@Liliya

Posted. Not as big as the other posts but this one was just fighting, really.

@Silver Carrot Post is up. No worries on the length of the post, a lot of arena posts are literally;

"So-and-so swung their blade low toward the opponent's leg from right to left with their left and rear hand as they stepped into range with their right leg, attempting to cut them off low while aiming with the reverse gripped dagger in their right hand to strike from their right shoulder forward and down into the opponent's potentially now exposed neck assuming they crouched and parried low to stop the initial strike,"

That is a totally valid and legitimate post in this format. Less words then an average paragraph, but totally explains the character's position and their intended action.

@Liliya

I'm having a hard time deciphering what he's doing in that post, sorry, unless I draw a few diagrams

@Silver Carrot Been out all night, totally too tired to write a proper response. I'll clarify tomorrow.

@Silver Carrot So we were in a position where Aighrit had his legs wrapped around Rags waist.



She then gripped his arm and tried to bite him. What he attempted to do was release the guard (his locked legs) under the distraction of hitting her with an elbow thrown from the same arm that she was gripping and pulling her mouth down upon, in something that looks kind of like this.



Assuming that at the same time there was an elbow being thrown. All that happened here was Aighrit trying not to get bit and distract from what his legs were doing by using his arms, a common arena roleplay technique (usually people are paying attention to where the pain is coming from or the flashy thing going on, even if the real threat is somewhere else. Same principle as a street magician saying, "look over here," while she does some fancy trick with flash paper in her left hand while her right hand is actually the one pick pocketing your watch or whatever.)

At that point Aighrit is moving his right leg around Rags torso/belly because he wants to get off his back. This is the dangerous part for him, as if Rags notices in time she can attempt to move over his now defenseless torso and get her knees around his waist or, if she's real quick, his shoulders. The caveat for him is that she possibly just got elbowed in the face and won't have perfect reaction time. If he gets his leg around to the opposite side it would look something like this;



And at this point Aighrit is reaching around with his hand and half sitting, half sliding to try and get around Rags back to wind up seated behind her, with his arms locked under her's and his blade at her throat.



Obviously without drawing them I couldn't get the pictures to be totally correct, but hopefully they're a little bit of visual clarification.

@Liliya

Those are some fancy moves! I'll have Rags fall victim to them because he's a hunter-gatherer as as such isn't really trained in MMA, though I don't want her to lose yet. Not before she shows potential.

@Silver Carrot Post is up.

@Liliya

My post is also up

@Silver Carrot Post is up.

@Liliya

I will try to post later, but if not, tomorrow for sure

@Liliya

Posted!

I'm liking this fight now!

@Silver Carrot Posted. I love this part of a fight, where I can really get into the head of the character and consider how they would react to a change in circumstance. Aighrit is a student himself, and this is all still fairly unfamiliar, so he just went with what he knows, which I decided was enough not to get chicken winged but not enough to avoid giving Rags several interesting openings to strike at him, and it's where Rags now has a unique and odd circumstance which she has to respond to. It's way more entertaining than a more straight forward fencing match or something with clearly defined rules where twirling with an opponent and headbutting them would just be an obvious no-go.

@Liliya

Posted. Thinking of gearing this fight to wrap up soon. I didn't think Rags was going to win but I'm surprised how well she, and I did. You're a good teacher!

@Silver Carrot Sorry about the delay, I've been swamped with Halloween stuff. I have the day off tomorrow and will be getting caught up on all my stuff.

@Liliya

That's ok. Take all the time you need.

@Silver Carrot Post is up.

@Liliya

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