Playing In The Sandbox (Recruitment, Info, And OOC)

Talking is a free action within limits deemed reasonable by the GM. Your post did not contain an action, readying for an action, or any indication of actionness of any sort.

Well genius, if you had talked to the monks like I suggested you edit your post to say instead of refusing to and demanding it be a tournmanet and insulting me and telling me to shut up, maybe you would have found out. Why the fuck should I give you information when you go out of your way to avoid acquiring it even when I outright tell you "this is how you get the information"?

Edit: OMFG, this is an RP, not a choose your own adventure novel. If you want information, ask for it in character unless it's just something you can't get that way. And I'm still not obligated to answer.

You people.

He promised before he charged at her... while at the same time, started to prepare another spell. One that wouldn't come from his hands.

I was gonna suggest you just try and rape her, but it looks like you're already a step ahead of me there.

Fury of the Tempest wrote:

Bronymous wrote:You people.

Argument is other. Moving on.

I'm just going to laugh at the typo, cause I find it funny.

Fury of the Tempest wrote:And... the battles over too quickly for anyone to see it... and the point of the battle was for the other characters to see my character's skill at battle...

Knew I should of waited before posting...

Comments posted don't necessarily have to be linear in time. For instance, my character could have caught the last moments of your fight. Though he probably wouldn't be interested in actually watching any kind of martial arts tournament.

And then you get called out for dishonorably continuing the fight, rushed by guards, and beaten into the floor if you resist.

Fury of the Tempest wrote:
They probably should through...

Why? If my character has no interest in such things, why should he?

Whatever you say. Just don't get mad again when it doesn't happen like that.

Demonu wrote:

Fury of the Tempest wrote:
They probably should through...

Why? If my character has no interest in such things, why should he?

The same is true of my character...

At lest your learning, Fury... Still don't think that's the best of ideas. But hey it's upto what the GM says to deside things. And I'd agure that Magic is but just another weapon.

I guess you've got a point, but still Rumsas' option is the only one that matters.

Fury of the Tempest wrote:

Xel Unknown wrote:At lest your learning, Fury... Still don't think that's the best of ideas. But hey it's upto what the GM says to deside things. And I'd agure that Magic is but just another weapon.

A weapon yeah, but one that your kinda born with. I don't think Samuari would like people relying almost purely on it. They are after all, focused on fighting with the katana. So they would side more with those that are more meele inclined.

Look it from this perspective: if you can use magic, wouldn't you use it?

Besides, it's a changeling in a martial arts tournament. She's not a samurai and your argument is moot, seeing how samurai wouldn't even enter in such a contest.

Um.... ok...let's see.

1) Yeah, as was mentioned I figured the time frame was not exactly in sync (how do you have multiple conversations take place within the same amount of time as a fight that was at most a minute long?) and that the other characters who would have been paying attention would have seen it.

2) They might at least notice as you got flung into the crowd, which includes them if they were watching. *hint hint*

3) I misunderstood your attack and thought you meant it went around the opponent preventing them from moving.

4) She showed plenty of skill with her sword, at least as much as yours did Fury, I just personally am not too descriptive about sword fighting as I know jack all about it and don't want to sound like an idiot. Her style is a lot more brute force than yours. There was nothing dishonorable about her fighting style and there were no rules about not using magic, which in a high fantasy setting such as this is just as honorable a way to fight as hitting people with sticks as far as most people are concerned. Also, makes very little sense since you used magic as well.

5) Nobody, probably including your character, would think it was honorable to attack her after she was declared the winner. Also, you wouldn't be dealing with guards but clerics and monks and the other fighters (along with a crowd of hecklers). Even if you would be dealing with guards, what makes you think all they have would be melee weapons? Though, the most likely result would be that they'd just do nothing and let her kill you as you're no longer in a duel and you'd just be assaulting her without an honorable reason and in a dishonorable fashion. And that's information you'd all know in character, thus why I'm actually telling you and not just going "sure, do it".

Edit: Um, not all people (or most) who use magic were born with it. Sorcerer magic like Fury's character has is in fact one of the only kinds where it's something you're born with and even then you have to train to use it well.
If anyone wants to make an arcana check on his opponent I can give more detail on what kind of magic his opponent used (not Fury, he already flubbed his arcana roll for her).

Edit 2: In fact Sorcery and psionics are the only kind people are born with I believe. And not all psionics are born with it.

Edit 3: The samurai of this setting actually use plenty of magic. Some of them are purely martial but others use arcane or psionic or divine magic (I don't think too many use primal but...it could happen and there's probably some shadow too). They do tend towards the disciplines that involve weapons though. So Bronymous' character wouldn't be called a samurai even though she still could be a front line fighter and is of the warrior caste.

Why would they?

Unless under orders from their daimyo, they have no reasons to do so.

And before you die of laughter, do note I said samurai. As in someone belonging to the warrior caste and under the employment by a daimyo. Not ronin, not rurouni, not mercenaries or the like.

You realize monks are a psionic class right? The definitive martial arts class is partially magic powered.

Edit: Demonu is right, the actual samurai wouldn't enter this competition. It wouldn't be considered fair or honorable to be dueling with the lower castes.

You can challenge her to a duel if you want but, nobody is going to heal you (for free) after, and if she decided to not stop at defeating you nobody would do anything about it.

*shrug* Again this is a case of "if you hadn't skipped talking to the NPCs you'd know this crap" as they would have announced it was a no rules competition outside of deliberately murdering your opponents or using poisons or other effects that you weren't prepared and willing to cure afterwards.

They live in a world with wizards and psions, they are aware their power is partially magical. Also, if you note, everything she did involved her sword or her body. Hundreds of years ago people might have had these arguments but, they all got sick of listening to the wizards and psions explaining to them that there was no damn difference and as such they accept that. As long as an unarmed wizard or such didn't show up and start casting spells without ever using a weapon nobody is going to call foul.