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Round 1: Clash of the Old School [Alicia vs. Beverley]
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Post by Alicia Westfield on Jan 19, 2018 21:57:20 GMT
Alicia quirked an eyebrow as her attack seemed to be neutralized with ease by the charged attack. Which then proved to not be an attack at all, but a summoned energy weapon! That, combined with the way Beverly almost eagerly charged in with it, made her wonder if this was what the other attacks were aiming for, to buy her time to summon this weapon?
”... That level of... I can only assume it’s some kind of spatial distortion... that’s some high-level manipulation to say the least...” Sol muttered as he examined the blade, not really aware of the fact he was airing his thoughts to Alicia and Kisara. And though he quieted down after that, he could still be heard mumbling, presumably about the Ragna Blade.
”You’re rambling, dear...” Kisara informed the dragon spirit with an amused sigh. To her surprise, the dragon seemed to ignore her. Or maybe didn’t hear her at all.
Alicia didn’t bother commenting. Fortunately, with her amorphous form and throttling her abilities towards speed, she was able to dance around the slashes thrown at her, displaying just how nimble Mercurialdramon could be. Even when one slash looked like it was about to clip her shoulder despite evasion, Beverly would likely see how the quicksilver contorted to pull itself the rest of the way to safety.
As if in this form Alicia neither needed nor had any kind of supporting structure like bones or organs that would otherwise get in the way of such impossibly precise yet fluid motions.
“Lets see how you like this.” Alicia commented as she suddenly dropped and flattened herself out, mercury slipping between the ground and Beverly’s feet in particular. In an instant she twisted her body, trying to trip Beverly up or force her to commit to some kind of evasive action like a jump into taking flight.
Regardless of how her whirlpool effect went, Alicia lashed out with blistering speed. “Shatter Fist!”
Launching from the pool of mercury even as Alicia recollected herself, the liquid dragon aimed to catch Beverly in a blind spot with that blow.
Battle Log
Alicia deftly evades the Ragna Blade slashes thanks to her augmented speed and amorphous nature.
She attempts to trip Beverly up, and then attacks with Shatter Fist.
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Post by *Lady* Beverly and Ghost on Jan 21, 2018 12:33:36 GMT
As expected, the Ragna Blade had trouble with hitting her. But this gave Beverly a good estimation of the evasiveness and formlessness of her opponent. So formless, in fact, it practically melted at her feet. Bev performed a small hop to escape this (although part of the reason was due to her higher forms having a move that "covered the same ground", so to speak) and floated slightly off the ground.
It would be too much at the moment to give the mercury dragon too much distance at the moment, so she opted to stay close. A risky tactic but Alicia suddenly attacked! Bev brought up her right arm just fast enough to block the blow, giving her enough momentum to briefly fly back from above the puddle of Alicia, before flying back towards her. She would perform additional slashes with her Ragna Blade, this time striking the ground. It was as if Beverly was doing this on purpose, leaving decent sized gashes on the ground where her sword struck.
Alicia might have noticed, however, that Beverly's right arm was quite hard under the belts and bandages and leather...
(((Ragna Blade usage 3/10)))
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Post by Spire on Jan 26, 2018 20:36:46 GMT
Five Day Warning!
It seems that one player has been inactive for over 5 days now. This is a time warning to let Alicia know that she has only 2 more days to post her turn, otherwise she will forfeit the match to Beverly.
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Post by Alicia Westfield on Jan 27, 2018 0:36:43 GMT
((OOC: Sorry for the delays. Real Life decided to make me its chew toy))
Alicia quirked an eyebrow as she noticed her fist bounce off of something surprisingly hard. Had the LadyDevimon brought some armor to the fight to surprise her? No, that can’t be. The sound that was made was not the distinct clang of metal hitting metal. So it was something innate to this particular LadyDevimon. Well, nothing to be done about it now. With the Mercurialdramon’s innate swiftness, she pulled away from Beverly’s slashes, also taking note of how she cut gashes into the earth.
It made sense to do so in a way, she couldn’t deny that. It was the kind of logic Alicia would’ve used had she been in Beverly’s position. It didn’t matter too much in the end, though, she was fast enough that even if she could be caught in ditches like that, evasion was still a very real possibility.
But speed wasn’t on her mind. She’d gotten adjusted to Beverely’s movements with the Ragna Blade, and as she reformed her body, the lithe figure she had held for this section of the fight began to change, bulking up heavily. In fact, she was concentrating her mass so heavily that there was more mass to cut through should Beverly score a hit on her.
That would in turn allow the LadyDevimon to inflict significant damage if Alicia wasn’t careful, but She was aiming to bring this fight to an end before that limit. To that end she was going to match blade with blade.
“Mercurial... DIVIDER!”
With that howl, the dragon of mercury lashed her arms at towards the LadyDevimon. unraveling twin tendrils of mercury so thin they were almost two dimensional and hideously difficult to spot coming without the right angle. The blades of mercury stiffened as Alicia swung to cross them slash at Beverly, eying the result carefully.
She aimed to only cripple with severe damage, not out-right kill, after all. And she had the fine control necessary to do that, especially in this form.
Battle Log
Alicia pulls back, opening some distance between her and Beverly.
Alicia’s Amorphous Form changes it’s effects to a heavy power boosting status to hit harder than normal, at the cost of losing her speed bonus and sacrificing defense.
Alicia attacks with Mercurial Divider, aiming to decide the match now with a crippling blow.
Amorphous Form’s effects: Offense: ^^ Defense: v Speed: --
Mercurial Divider - Forming monomolecular blades from her liquid body, Mercurialdramon slashes away with insane amounts of cutting power. (2 Post Cool Down)
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Post by Spire on Feb 1, 2018 2:06:32 GMT
Five Day Warning!
It seems that one player has been inactive for over 5 days now. This is a time warning to let Beverly know that she has only 2 more days to post her turn, otherwise she will forfeit the match to Alicia. *Lady* Beverly and Ghost
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Post by *Lady* Beverly and Ghost on Feb 2, 2018 22:05:53 GMT
So, the slashes didn't really do much. Oh well, Bev thought. Of course, she should be taking this more seriously but it in truth she figured she might as well have her fun trying to take down a liquid opponent.
However, Alicia began to bulk up. Beverly would use this time to perform a few more slashes when she could, but at a certain point she flew back a bit, out of concern that this was some sort of... explosion attack. Or something.
Instead, she did something different. She shot out two thin blades, slashing at her. With only the vague direction of the motion of her arms as most of how she can see the attack, she defended with her right arm and Ragna Blade. She would hold her ground, taking whatever licks she was unable to block. In fact, at the moment she seems rather content in just blocking. And then, she deactivated her Ragna Blade. It vanished, almost as if the very space it occupied reverted to normal.
Should Alicia focus too much on Bev, however, she might not have noticed purple gas build up from her feet, which would quickly shoot up and knock her from her feet. Or whatever appendage she used at the time to stand on.
"That enough Poison Blow for ya?"
(((I will not ask for forgiveness for being so tardy. But now is not the time for seppuku!)))
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Post by Spire on Feb 8, 2018 10:53:33 GMT
Time Out Granted
This is just a post acknowledging that Alicia has requested an extension in her turn due to IRL issues, and it has been granted. Alicia will be given a few more days to post in this round.
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Post by Alicia Westfield on Feb 9, 2018 2:41:40 GMT
The mercurial dragon growled out as she was only able to mitigate some of the slashes that came while she was adjusting her form. The LadyDevimon’s blade struck home a number of times, but didn’t appear to leave and ‘lasting’ injuries. It did take from the Spirit Wielder’s strength, though, leaving its mark that way, though she had taken so little damage earlier that these few hits were still more than manageable. Still, she’d be able to get her Mercurial Divider off no problem.
But as the blade strands soared and whipped through the air... the other digimon just took a defensive stance, as if to stand firm against such a dangerous attack. ”Oh... that’s a bad call...” Sol agreed with Alicia’s thoughts quietly.
”Yeeeeup, this is gonna go badly for her...”
One blade met the Ragna Blade and was stopped cold, it’s nature as a weaponized distortion rendering cutting through it an effort in futility. Beverly’s right arm however...
Putting it bluntly, it never stood a chance. The weapons Alicia had formed were by their nature some of the sharpest ever seen, easily capable of cutting sheets of metal with the raw force put behind it. The LadyDevimon’s bone arm was slashed through with distressing swiftness before Alicia was able to pull her attack just enough. The only reason she still had the limb attached would clearly be because Alicia had taken action, though that had let the blade continue further into it’s swing, cutting a deep gash into her torso and up through the shoulder.
Then pain would lance through the arm holding the Ragna Blade, as the liquid blade now flowed around the weaponized distortion to do some damage. Though greatly reduced in power from losing it’s earlier momentum, that blade still cut some concerning wounds into the left arm as well.
Alicia sighed as she pulled the blades back after that single pass. Then she yelped as the poisonous fumes erupted from underneath her, sending her tumbling back and coughing as she flowed away from the gas. She reformed shortly there after... and promptly sat herself down and went fairly still aside from some coughing.
“Mmph... It’s over Lady Beverly. From one fighter to another in pure honesty, I recommend you surrender at this juncture. You took my most powerful attack head on with woefully inadequate defenses just now. That much damage, especially to your right arm... well it just can’t be ignored. Even if you have other forms to switch to, that’s going to reflect on them at least in severe exhaustion if not out right mirroring the damage to a degree. Going any further is most likely too dangerous for you.”
She waited there, giving the LadyDevimon a chance to evaluate the situation and make a call on how to proceed.
Battle log
Mercurial Divider from Last Turn has dealt extreme damage, only partially mitigated by the Ragna Blade.
Alicia is caught by some of the extra slashes and is later taken by complete surprise by the Poison Blow.
After recollecting herself from the Poison Blow, Alicia sits back passively, making some observations as to Beverly’s condition, but otherwise does not press the attack.
Mercurial Divider CD 1/2
Side Note: I did make an attempt to contact Panzer on what I’m about to bring up, though admittedly only a single one. And I’d posted the move description in the battle log. To see him not actually play out the result of attempting to block the Mercurial Divider left me in an... awkward spot. On one hand, it’s now up to me to be fair to him RPer to RPer. On the other... It’s my most powerful attack as Mercurialdramon, specifically noted for “insane amounts of cutting power” already and heavily pumped up by an ability on my passive, against unnamed blocking/parrying. And only one side has the Ragna Blade against an attack that comes from both sides equally fast.
I... I honestly can’t see any realistic way to play this out that doesn’t basically end the match right here. So I’m terribly sorry for any rage this causes. I’d like to reiterate that I did try to contact my opponent to talk about this in PMs, potentially give him the chance to edit his post, but never received an acknowledgement. So... my hands were more or less tied...
Edit: Fixed up a detail about Beverly I had mistakenly assumed. I also edited some wording to better clarify what occurred, since it was brought up by Panzer.
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Post by Spire on Feb 14, 2018 8:51:44 GMT
Adjudication
Five days have passed since Alicia's post, and there seems to be a dispute about how things have gone. I would like to make a reminder here to Beverly to please respond to Alicia's PM as to how this match can continue, since it seems something has gone amiss. *Lady* Beverly and Ghost
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Post by *Lady* Beverly and Ghost on Feb 14, 2018 20:47:17 GMT
(((Cripes life hits hard)))
Beverly chuckled a bit, despite the pain. And boy, was there pain to be had. It wasn't the most pain she had felt... but Beverly wasn't about to admit that she was using her telekinesis on herself just to keep herself from falling over.
"Alright, show's over, Mistress..."
Some smoke emanated from Beverly's battered body and quickly formed into a being. Something similar to a shoutmon, it seemed, but not quite. The eyes had an odd, orange hue to them.
"Yeah, yeah... stupid mistake, what I did. I'm used to singing in front of a crowd and succeeding, haha.
Anyway, good job. You even managed to cut through my arm. And some of my pride. I concede defeat.
Come on, Ghost. We just might have another chance yet. But until then I'm just going to fall over and wish a certain MarineAngemon was here. Ta."
Beverly turned around and floated away, leaving the Shoutmon behind momentarily.
"Oh, don't worry, I was not aiding the Mistress in her fight... despite really wanting to. I'd just like to personally say best of luck to you. If you and her meet again, I assure you things will be a bit different."
She held a hand out for a handshake as she took a few steps towards Alicia. "Mistress would like to do this but, well... you know."
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Post by Alicia Westfield on Feb 14, 2018 22:20:07 GMT
For a moment she had thought that Beverly would try and push the battle farther. She looked like quite the stubborn ‘mon frankly. But fortunately someone else cut in and headed off that possibility. A new mon manifested near Beverly from smoke. Something like how Sol and Kisara were for her?
A question for another time. “Credit where credit is due, you were easily one of my most difficult opponents. I will freely admit that I got lucky a couple times. I wish you the same luck going forward.”
She then smiled at Ghost, accepting the handshake. “I know how that is. My two advisors were practically biting their tongues to not shout advice to me and keep the fight as fair as possible.”
At being mentioned, the steel dragon and the ice maiden also materialized at the Mercurialdramon’s sides. Kisara waved with both hands, smiling and Sol nodded to Ghost in respect for the Shoutmon’s own decision to not intervene.
“Still, let her know I’ll be looking forward to the potential of the rematch. It’ll be interesting how it plays out now that she knows what I can do.” The Steel Spirit Wielder commented at the end, letting the Shoutmon go to be on his way.
It was a fight hard won. She would take it as an indication of what was to come, and how difficult this entire tournament would be. She still would give it her all though. That was all she could do.
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Post by Spire on Feb 14, 2018 22:39:36 GMT
Alrighty, well done to both players!
Alicia gets 2000 bits. Beverly gets 1000 bits.
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