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I'll say it did! That's an awesome attack description. :)
Before I get to work on updating the cyrodiil NS tomorrow, how big exactly is an acceptable number for the imperial legion? I was originally going to base it off the size of roman legions, but that would put the total numbers of all 18 legions at around 100,000 troops. Judging by gcolds latest post and his mention of an invading force numbering in the thousands and being exceedingly powerful, I get the impression that that number is a little high.
Thanks. :) Is the slash going from his right to his left or his left to his right?
This is the part of written combat where your RL training could help immensely. Being able to picture a situation (or even get up and acually act it out) can help you be able to give as much detail as possible, making each attack or defense that much more effective. Essentially, the more detail you put into an attack, the harder it is for your opponent to do something unexpected that you didn't account for. Take chess as an example. If you just wrote "I move my piece", then that could mean anything and your opponent could make up just about any scenario to counter it. If you wrote "I move my piece four squares", it's a little bit harder for them to make anything up, but still heavily in their favor. If, however, you write "I move my rook to A-7, putting the king in check" there's only a handful of moves they can make to get out of it, and you can account for most (if not all) of them and plan accordingly.
Of course, there's always the hassle of getting them into the position where a check is possible, but that's the fun part. ;)
This is the part of written combat where your RL training could help immensely. Being able to picture a situation (or even get up and acually act it out) can help you be able to give as much detail as possible, making each attack or defense that much more effective. Essentially, the more detail you put into an attack, the harder it is for your opponent to do something unexpected that you didn't account for. Take chess as an example. If you just wrote "I move my piece", then that could mean anything and your opponent could make up just about any scenario to counter it. If you wrote "I move my piece four squares", it's a little bit harder for them to make anything up, but still heavily in their favor. If, however, you write "I move my rook to A-7, putting the king in check" there's only a handful of moves they can make to get out of it, and you can account for most (if not all) of them and plan accordingly.
Of course, there's always the hassle of getting them into the position where a check is possible, but that's the fun part. ;)
Can you add an attack to the end of that post? Otherwise I don't know what I should be responding to. Is he swinging he sword straight down trying to cut her in half vertically? Is it a left to right slash? A right to left slash? Where is it aimed? Her head? Her neck? Her stomach? Is he just ignoring the sword altogether and trying to tackle her?
If you don't specify an attack, your opponent can't respond effectively and they're left with having to make something up and hope for the best (which can also put you at a disadvantage).
If you don't specify an attack, your opponent can't respond effectively and they're left with having to make something up and hope for the best (which can also put you at a disadvantage).
Yup. Definitely a cocky bastard.
She continued her forward movement, passing by a large pillar to her left, and kept the smirk on her face. "Oh, shiny and me go back a long ways, Sugah." He was less than ten feet away by this point, and still hasn't started shooting at her. That was a good sign, right?
Unless of course that hand behind his back was hiding some dastardly attack that he was waiting to unleash until she was too close to avoid it. Like a grenade. Or some sort of energy blast. Maybe he was a new model of sentinel. She wouldn't really be surprised if that were the case. Trask was always coming up with some new way to torment mutant kind.
She continued her forward movement, passing by a large pillar to her left, and kept the smirk on her face. "Oh, shiny and me go back a long ways, Sugah." He was less than ten feet away by this point, and still hasn't started shooting at her. That was a good sign, right?
Unless of course that hand behind his back was hiding some dastardly attack that he was waiting to unleash until she was too close to avoid it. Like a grenade. Or some sort of energy blast. Maybe he was a new model of sentinel. She wouldn't really be surprised if that were the case. Trask was always coming up with some new way to torment mutant kind.
Cocky little bastard, isn't he?
She smiled at the voice as it rebounded around the empty station, the echoes making its source pretty much impossible to locate. Smile still on her face, she straightened and holstered her pistol, then turned to face the "empty" station platform again. "If you like what you see so much, why don't you come get a closer look?" Her smile turned into a sultry smirk, and she began to saunter towards the faint clicking of a revolver being reloaded. Her keen eyes quickly picked out the shadowed figure of her quarry standing in the shadows, and she was suddenly embarrassed that she hadn't seen him earlier. Shadows were a poor substitute for physical cover.
Three steps into her saunter, her sword slipped off her back and into her right hand, and her jacket seemed to slink off her shoulders almost of it's own accord. "There's a lot more to see than just my ass." It slid down her arms until it was hanging on only because of the sword and scabbard in her right hand, so she switched it to her left and let the jacket fall completely to the floor, leaving her arms bare and her bosom very much in view. The corset, of course, did nothing at all to make that view less appealing. "How 'bout it sugah?" She'd heard the accent used by one of the x-men once, and it seemed to make men become immensely compliant. She never had figured out why.
She smiled at the voice as it rebounded around the empty station, the echoes making its source pretty much impossible to locate. Smile still on her face, she straightened and holstered her pistol, then turned to face the "empty" station platform again. "If you like what you see so much, why don't you come get a closer look?" Her smile turned into a sultry smirk, and she began to saunter towards the faint clicking of a revolver being reloaded. Her keen eyes quickly picked out the shadowed figure of her quarry standing in the shadows, and she was suddenly embarrassed that she hadn't seen him earlier. Shadows were a poor substitute for physical cover.
Three steps into her saunter, her sword slipped off her back and into her right hand, and her jacket seemed to slink off her shoulders almost of it's own accord. "There's a lot more to see than just my ass." It slid down her arms until it was hanging on only because of the sword and scabbard in her right hand, so she switched it to her left and let the jacket fall completely to the floor, leaving her arms bare and her bosom very much in view. The corset, of course, did nothing at all to make that view less appealing. "How 'bout it sugah?" She'd heard the accent used by one of the x-men once, and it seemed to make men become immensely compliant. She never had figured out why.
As an example, look back at when Aureo dove behind the concrete barrier. I used the barrier itself and a comparison with modern day tank armor to show how much damage the bullet was capable of, instead of saying how much damage it should cause if it hit Aureo, since the calling of that damage is up to you (though my personal estimate is that it would take two or three hits at least for a bullet to reach any sensitive parts, since his shell is quite a bit more durable than tank armor).
Yeah. I try to avoid absolute statements like that in my own posts, that way it leaves room for my opponent to respond the way their characters normally would, without having to ignore parts of what I wrote.
Just a heads up, you can't reload a revolver silently. Or any gun for that matter... Unless you have sound absorbing powers at least.
My point being that just because you say something is silent, doesn't mean it will be. The casing will always scrape against the chamber, the cylinder will always have a faint click as it spins, and the hammer will always click when it cocks back. That's just the mechanics of guns. So while it might be inaudible for a normal human, someone like X-23 with superhuman senses would be able to hear it.
I say all this because she's going to in my next post, and I wanted to explain why and how so you don't think I'm just ignoring what you wrote to gain an advantage. Since Aureo doesn't have any sound manipulating powers, I have to assume that the normal acoustic properties of revolver mechanics still apply in this scenario.
Basically, it's the same as if I wrote that she lifted a truck and threw it at him. She's nowhere near that strong, so you'd be well within your rights to say the truck was a tonka toy that she grabbed off the street, and respond accordingly.
My point being that just because you say something is silent, doesn't mean it will be. The casing will always scrape against the chamber, the cylinder will always have a faint click as it spins, and the hammer will always click when it cocks back. That's just the mechanics of guns. So while it might be inaudible for a normal human, someone like X-23 with superhuman senses would be able to hear it.
I say all this because she's going to in my next post, and I wanted to explain why and how so you don't think I'm just ignoring what you wrote to gain an advantage. Since Aureo doesn't have any sound manipulating powers, I have to assume that the normal acoustic properties of revolver mechanics still apply in this scenario.
Basically, it's the same as if I wrote that she lifted a truck and threw it at him. She's nowhere near that strong, so you'd be well within your rights to say the truck was a tonka toy that she grabbed off the street, and respond accordingly.
If you want to, go right ahead. Anything that limits a character's capability doesn't really need approval, since it's going to be fundamentally weaker than the original approved version.
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