FalloutJack

Dragon Ball: Universe Zero

He was careless, foolish and careless. He should not have held back. In the end, he still won out, but there was a certain sense of having only lucked out there. Rica was as tough as tough can be, a dangerous opponent for anyone...and that is why he should have pushed the envelope, used his technique, but he didn't want to. Niko didn't want to use the last thing that Athena taught him, the technique that he had not even mastered perfectly at the time, and it had almost cost him. It was not only that Rica was dangerous, but because he'd also left himself open. Yes, she too had been low on strength, but he'd been debating on whether to let her wear herself out by defending or immediately attack, and after the fact...he was pretty sure she would've drained herself almost dry...EXCEPT that she'd unleashed her technique.

She had a special move, and if not for his having felt it, he might've missed the execution. As it stood, he knew what happened, and it was what he was being escorted off of the battleground for now. It'd been quick...and so precisely thin that only the evidence after - the bloody slice upon his body - allowed him to put together what he was seeing there. Oh, she was good, very good. And if she had fought or studied by Lee's side, then there was no question in Niko's mind that Lee could very well be the new Champion Martial Artist of the World. Others had hope. They who had emerged victorious thus far would prove to be - no question - his rival, but who would truly win it in the end?

These rounds were just flying by. He was sure that the previous rounds were only a few seconds long, with moves that some in the audience will not be prepared to see. Because of that, Niko stopped once they were off of the fighters' ring. The man helping him along urged him on.

"Sir, we need to stop the bleeding. You took a nasty hit. You're barely on your feet."

"Can you just patch me up and let me watch the next round? I don't think it'll be long."

He looked at the wound, which was down his chest, but close to the side so that it mainly harmed ribcage and reached no organs. It was now VERY painful, but he wanted to see how Angela did. Niko felt that, apart from Bakuto, she and him were the ones who would see this tournament to the end. And more than just wanting to study how she fought, he felt like he wanted to see her succeed. In any case, the attendant nodded, and worked on bandaging him through his torn shirt, saying that "If you start to pass out, you're going, no questions asked.". Niko agreed to that, at least.

Star Wars: Legacies (Always Open)

@Sam Quint I'm not in charge, but it's a fairly-open game, so if you wanted to start work on a character and wait for the GM's approval, that'd be fine.

Dragon Ball: Universe Zero

@Balthazar007 I think I may have goofed when I didn't do a Serious, but I wasn't sure because I'd also hit alot of exaustion there. Damn close. Anyway, I hadn't used Niko's technique because I dunno if I needed to discuss it with you and In-Character he was trying not to use it yet anyway. Now, however, he'll probably use it in his next match. (Probably be giving him a post for aftermath and recovery, BTW.)

Dragon Ball: Universe Zero

Niko VS Rica

Holy shit, she fought exactly like him! I mean, not exact exact, but he noticed immediately that she favored speed and sacrificed defense in her reaction to his attack. He'd been a bit off on his opening move and she'd countered almost immediately, forcing herself through the pain as she had done previously to strike at his neck. Niko juked right and he got hit in the shoulder-meets-the-neck region, instead, and in no time registered 'Holy shit, she's a killer!' as he worked to deflect or dodge further blows. He had little time to think, mostly to react, because just as he thought, Rica's brutal!

The two of them were pulling some serious speed, and Niko knew already that neither one of them could keep that up forever. At the first chance - at the first sign of slowing down while she was attacking, he was going to grab the offending limbs and pull her into a hard body-blowing kick, going for torso because it was an easy enough target, but specifically diaphragm especially to try and knock the wind out of her. Wasn't much on defense in a move like that. He needed to be fast to make it work, or at least to get out of the way if it didn't. It left Niko with barely enough time to clench.

Grab and Disabling Torso Kick
Power Level: 86
Health: 63
--Attack: 30
---Speed: 50
-Defense: 6

Dragon Ball: Universe Zero

Okay, thanks. Needed to be sure.

Dragon Ball: Universe Zero

@Balthazar007 Just to clarify: There was a strike to the neck, and now there's a series of swift strikes coming at Niko?

Dragon Ball: Universe Zero

I do that, sometimes, when it's appropriate.

Final Fantasy 7 Redone (or Alternative Fantasy 7)

@Jerkchicken

This sounds like something that needs to be discussed more, partly because I'm not sure what you mean.

The Discord is live now if you wanna talk more directly.

Final Fantasy 7 Redone (or Alternative Fantasy 7)

@BigPapaBelial

You mean like guns and hound dogs? I got no problems. This game featured main characters who wielded a BFS, had big guns mounted to their arm, used fist-fighting techniques, had magic staffs, were literally animalistic, was apparently a ninja, was a remote control toy, and of course used different guns.

Speaking of Cait Sith, since he's not a real boy, his controller is still here, but the creation has not been created. Just clearing that up.

Final Fantasy 7 Redone (or Alternative Fantasy 7)

@Hero

The antagonists are still antagonizing. To wit, Shinra and their plans for the Promised Land are still a thing, as is Sephiroth, which means that the chances of being sworded to death by a large Japanese blade are still there. When I say that the infrastructure and past events still happened, I mean that Shinra still made Midgar and that there's at least one version of Avalanche at large. Jenova still hit the planet and her headless body is still in a lab. Sephiroth still went crazy and Nibelheim still burned (and the whole thing was subsequentally covered up after the fact). The normal protagonists are gone. They didn't make it. At some point in their lives, they died, or never existed. Now, this raises the question: Wait, don't we need an Ancient for things to go forward? Perhaps. You can make a member of the Cetra if you want. I'm going to say it won't be entirely necessary, after a bit of thinking, and leave it at that.