Re: Pitched Combat [Round 3: Overtime]
02-11-2010, 04:54 PM
Originally posted on MSPA by starburst98.
Imagine a pipe full of water, the flow impeded by a rusty valve. next to it is a man with a wrench and he constantly tries to turn to valve. every day he tries and every day he fails, but every time he is a little stronger for his efforts. now imagine the man, pushing on his wrench attached to the valve with all his might when SOMETHING gives him a shove applying the last bit of force need to turn the valve and the water comes rushing through. this is roughly what happened to Alex after Rong's last attack. the force of the magic opening a floodgate of power within Alex.
he switches to wind, but unlike before if you look you would notice wind swirling about it as well as being a darker shade of green. he darts forward, going at least 50% faster then he was with wind before. This startles Rong who tries to flame him, but Alex nimbly dodges the attack. he learned a bit about rong's technique from when they fought the death bunny. Then he barely dodged right's water attack. while he doubted it would cause any real harm it would have left him open to rong's fire, it was also obvious that that was the idea.
dodging around their combined attack was difficult, but manageable. it soon became apparent that this was a stalemate as Alex couldn't get closer to use his swords and they couldn't hit him at this range. so Alex retreated and went back to his time honoured tactic of go after the manikin. catching up to it easily with his new speed.
Imagine a pipe full of water, the flow impeded by a rusty valve. next to it is a man with a wrench and he constantly tries to turn to valve. every day he tries and every day he fails, but every time he is a little stronger for his efforts. now imagine the man, pushing on his wrench attached to the valve with all his might when SOMETHING gives him a shove applying the last bit of force need to turn the valve and the water comes rushing through. this is roughly what happened to Alex after Rong's last attack. the force of the magic opening a floodgate of power within Alex.
he switches to wind, but unlike before if you look you would notice wind swirling about it as well as being a darker shade of green. he darts forward, going at least 50% faster then he was with wind before. This startles Rong who tries to flame him, but Alex nimbly dodges the attack. he learned a bit about rong's technique from when they fought the death bunny. Then he barely dodged right's water attack. while he doubted it would cause any real harm it would have left him open to rong's fire, it was also obvious that that was the idea.
dodging around their combined attack was difficult, but manageable. it soon became apparent that this was a stalemate as Alex couldn't get closer to use his swords and they couldn't hit him at this range. so Alex retreated and went back to his time honoured tactic of go after the manikin. catching up to it easily with his new speed.