Schradinger

Training duel

"Well aren't you eager. I like that."

David simply watched his opponent approach, then stepped back until he was standing on the far side of one of the squares laid out on the floor. He raised a hand to gesture for the Arab to take the opposite position, and waited for him to do so before continuing.

"First, let's see what you already know. Attack when ready."

accepting all challengers

Trying? Your lack of faith concerns me...

accepting all challengers

Clunk, clunk, clunk...

Arty turned at the sound, and to his very great surprise found that skeletor was charging him from behind, sword raised to chest level. How in the blazes he'd gotten behind him even though he'd been able to see him a moment before when he'd cut the Mage in half was entirely beyond him, but it seems the universe was fickle today. Everybody kept disappearing and jumping about like this was some kind of mass temporal flux instead of a fight. It was annoying.

The blade was still six feet away when Arty first saw it, and he wasted no time in getting himself gone (while also keeping tabs on the fellow behind the tree, since he could actually sense him without looking). Or rather, getting his opponent gone. Anchoring himself to the ground, Arty reached out with his power and seized the air around him, throwing it toward the undead warrior at over 300 miles per hour. A gale force wind if ever there was one, and more than enough to launch the charging warrior across the field of battle, and incidentally straight toward another fellow who'd just arrived on the scene (QuietThinker).

Training duel

Putting character speech inside quotation marks is a good way to separate the narration and the speech. That way you don't always have to write "_____ said:".

Another good thing to try and do is put yourself in the mind of the character. What would he be thinking as he looked at David and the weapons? How does he walk? What kind of person is he? Is he naturally violent? More reserved? Would he attack first or bide his time? The more you can understand a character, the better you'll become at writing them.

Nobody's Battlerama!

Her sword clashed with his baton, unleashing all the energy meant for her arm into the blade instead, and he instantly used his grip on her foot to jerk her toward him while simultaneously extending the blade in his left gauntlet. From where it was positioned, her raised hand would be pulled straight through the blade and the arm would be split in two for a fair length before the blade finally cut through the bone of the elbow and out of her flesh. Her own defense, unless supplemented by some unknown strength, would prove too weak to prevent this series of events from happening, and it would all be over before any normal human could even blink, such was the speed at which he moved.

If, however, she managed to fire the shot before he took the hand out of commission, he'd abandon the slice at her hand and duck down and to his own right as soon as the energy visibly coalesced, sliding his staff down the blade of her sword until it struck the crossguard and from there driving it down and back farther still, using his superior strength and leverage to push her own blade directly toward her face as he pulled her closer.

Nobody's Battlerama!

Ok, thanks for clearing that up. :)

Nobody's Battlerama!

I'm kind of at a loss as to how I should reply. There isn't much detail in your defense, so I'd have to make something up about your character and some aspect of her actions pretty much no matter what I do. Things like the exact position of the sword (which could be the difference between her losing a hand and him losing a head). I'm also not sure how the sword got there fast enough, since it would have had to come from the other side of his right arm and cover twice the distance that the baton had to (or more).

Any input you've got would be very helpful.

Training duel

Racks of melee weapons line the walls, filled with implements ranging from simple staves to hand axes to multiple varieties of sword. Almost every conventional melee weapon is represented, allowing the fighters to pick their preference and utilize their specific weapons of choice.

David Smith stood bare-chested in the center of the room, stance relaxed and feet shoulder width apart as he waited for the arrival of his pupil. His hands hung loose at his sides, wrapped nearly to the elbow in order to protect him from the force of his own blows. His feet were similarly protected, and the pants he wore were loose and well-suited to the demands of combat. With his torso bare, a keen eye might be able to detect the hair-thin scars that criss-crossed his skin, and it was plainly evident that despite his slender frame his taught musculature still possessed a formidable strength.

Training duel

This will be a training fight for myself and Teoinsanity. Characters will be human-level fighters with no supernatural powers (to start with).

My character will be David Smith, who is very similar to Bruce Lee in terms of physique except that he's 6'4" and proportionately more muscular. Appearance-wise, he's European instead of Asian with his dark hair cut short at a mere quarter of an inch long. The rest is described in the opening post.

Darkstar (Fantasy/Sci-Fi)

Alright Pathfinder, you're up.