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Practice Duel

Name: David Smith (originally Schmidt).

Random Descriptors:
Race: Human (Caucasian)
Gender: Male
Age: Older than he looks.
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 180 lbs
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eye Color: Brown

Physical Description:
Tall and deceptively thin, his physique is comprised of tightly packed muscles that grant him a level of strength that very often surprises his opponents, who are expecting to face a man reliant on speed and avoidance rather than one capable of delivering blows on par with the likes of heavyweight boxers. He keeps his dark hair cut short, usually no longer than a quarter of an inch, and tends to wear clothing that is tailored to both compliment and accentuate his tall and slender physique.

Personality Description:
No data available.

Abilities:
Willpower - More than once, he has been called the strongest man in the world, though not in the physical sense. Repeatedly demonstrating a profound ability to apply the theories of mind over matter in a very literal sense, he has come to be known by those familiar with him as a man possessing a truly indomitable will, capable of overcoming obstacles that would leave other men balking in disbelief at the sheer insanity of the attempt.
Hypercognition - David's brain is, for reasons unknown (though likely related to his possession of superhuman willpower), capable of absorbing and processing information on a subconscious level at speeds that surpass even the most powerful supercomputers. He can glance at a situation for an instant, and then correctly deduce the most likely outcomes based on a myriad of factors that most humans would fail to even notice, and indeed he himself is not consciously aware of noticing them. He can learn to speak a new language in days, perfectly mimic the movements of martial arts masters from simple observation, and discover a loophole through which to escape from nearly any trap. The instinctive nature of this ability renders it vulnerable to conscious override, and if he allows arrogance to get the better of him instead of trusting his instincts, its effectiveness can be reduced or eliminated almost completely.
Bend The Rules - Whether this is a side effect of his tremendous willpower or a separate ability altogether is unknown, but what is known is that he is capable of subtly and subconsciously bending the rules of reality in his own favor, making possible things that ordinary men could never hope to achieve and enabling him to match the feats of the peak humans of comic book lore. In addition to making him inherently lucky, it allows him to perform feats such as catching arrows mid-flight and sword blades between the palms of his hands, avoiding automatic and even well-aimed gunfire, punching holes in concrete, performing feats of accuracy and precision that can boggle the mind, and shrugging off wounds that would cripple or kill mortal men. It is this ability, combined with his immense willpower, that has kept him in his physical prime despite being well over one hundred years old.

Skills:
Martial Arts - He has spent a great deal of his life studying and training in martial arts techniques around the globe, and has subsequently developed a new style of fighting that is unique to himself, combining the traits he has found most effective from the various disciplines he's studied, both armed and unarmed, with his hypercognitive instincts to produce a style that can become nearly unbeatable if utilized to its fullest potential.
Firearms - Due to possessing an innate sense of spatial awareness and trigonometry, he is a phenomenal shot with every known firearm, having trained in the use of pistols, shotguns, rifles, and even self-propelled projectile launchers. His hypercognitive mind allows him to instinctively perform the calculations required for making very difficult or even otherwise impossible shots, such as deflecting a bullet off a surface to strike a target out of his direct line of sight or sniping a target from a kilometer away with perfect accuracy. Whether these feats are due entirely to his mind or also supplemented by his rule bending is unknown.

Weapons:
To be determined.

Character History:
No data available.

Practice Duel

The title says it all. This is a thread for practicing dueling skills. The location for said practice duels will be as follows.



One the most dangerous alleys in the city, the site of 23 murders in the last year, this alley is home to homeless, pickpockets and stick up men from all over the capital. Enter at your own risk.

For the purposes of the duel, the participants are the only people in the alley, though there are many street items scattered about (fire barrels, boards, the odd loose brick, maybe a baseball bat or two, empty bottles, and other things of that sort).

Nexus Of Worlds Multiverse

Green said
Shut your trap mouth! Your momma! *Flips off* Ah, I couldn't resist. How are you?

I'm good. Apart from all my fights either dying or moving at a snails pace... I think the only fight I've actually been able to finish since the site was rebooted was our first one.

As for the practice duel, I'm good with the cop. I'll probably be using David Smith (whose CS I'll post in the thread I'm about to make). I'll send you a link once I have the thread up and we'll go from there. On a side note though, I won't be able to post tomorrow. Gonna be travelling.

Jedi Bounty

Is this still happening?

Swordfight

So are we going to finish this or what?

Nexus Of Worlds Multiverse

Uh... LeeRoy? I'm pretty sure it's your post in the wastes... Has been for the last week. PinkFlower has a point. It's not just everyone else's fault that things seem dead around here. And I'm not aware of any recent arguments going on in the multiverse threads.

Nexus Of Worlds Multiverse

Ones with weapons. ;)

Personally, I prefer melee characters to ranged characters, or a blend of the two, but a purely melee character may not hold up well against some of the more offensively minded characters here. Almost everyone has some sort of ranged attack in addition to whatever melee skills they possess.

If you'd like, we could do a practice fight with generic characters to help you get the feel of things before diving in headfirst.

Nexus Of Worlds Multiverse

It absolutely is. We're always open for newcomers. :)

accepting all challengers

Umm...

Angar-Rylla- NVM

James hadn't paused to wait for the other man to recover the last time he'd attacked, why would he do so now? It would be a tactically disastrous move. Once you went on the offensive, you kept your momentum going or you lost. The germans had learned that the hard way in Russia. Something deep inside the soldier told him that he couldn't let this man have a moment's respite, couldn't let him gather his energies for a concerted assault. Perhaps it was a remnant of that feeling of dread that still lingered in his chest, or perhaps his senses were telling him something his mind couldn't quite decipher yet, either way, this was not the time to pause for conversation.

He followed the other man yard-for-yard as he darted away, never letting the distance between them grow to more than a few feet. When the other man stopped, James didn't, his left fist hurtling toward the front left side of the other man's ribcage, his forward momentum compounding the force of the blow and giving it more than enough power to break through another defense like the one the man had demonstrated less than a second ago.