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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 24, 2006 23:08:36 GMT -5
The difficulty of twisting with her knee up takes its toll, even with Xexilia's prodigious skill, and she is struck in the face. She slides back, taking full damage, but immediately runs back with a bloodcurdling scream as the rage gets to her, hitting Maul straight in the face and throwing him into the building behind them. She has yet another opportunity to strike, as the rage increases her power.
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Post by sithofmacabre on Jan 24, 2006 23:12:38 GMT -5
Her hands clenched into tight fists and she bolts forward with force and speed, her feet digging into the ground and rapidly leaving small bits of rubble behind. She could sense him--see him--in the fury building within her. She raises her elbow and attempts a strike to his chin before throwing her fist in a large hook to the side of his head.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 24, 2006 23:23:32 GMT -5
Darth Maul meets the strike, brutal though it is, with his headbutt. Though Xexilia feels her elbow and hook take hold, the headbutt takes hold more. Worse, she left herself open. Maul is in too close of quarters to effectively use his lightsaber... or is he? Because when the rear blade is retracted, the butt of the lightsaber makes a darn effective club. Xexilia is thrown high into the air by the upward strike. From his gauntlet comes three small circular discs each creating four curved light blades. Maul throws the three light-stars at Xexilia. To augment this, he throws another great cone of lightning at her.
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Post by sithofmacabre on Jan 24, 2006 23:37:26 GMT -5
Throwing herself to the floor to evade the four simultaneous attacks, she manages to avoid two of the light-stars. However, the third slices some of her shoulder as well as the armor, bouncing off and hitting her hand. Somewhat driven by adrenaline alongside anger, she forces the stinging and burning pain into the anger that already existed, raising another telekinetic shield in order to block the lightning attack before shifting the guard into a cutting blast towards Maul. Once she hit the floor, she leapt to her feet and raced forward, raising her guard this time.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 24, 2006 23:50:19 GMT -5
OOG: A note of protocol. In general, I determine if something hits or not hits. Generally you are only able to control your attempts, not what actually happens. You can say that you're only seeking to dodge two of the three and will prefer getting hit by one than all of them, which alters my calculations when I roll the dice, but fundamentally, I roll the dice. In fact, you dodged all three, but the electricity struck you critically before you could throw up the barrier and the shocking takes 69% of your turn.
The erupting shield strikes Maul successfully, and Xexilia rushes forward with blocks prepared. Maul now strikes at the ground with his lightsaber, throwing a swarm of molten debris and dust at her. He then rushes forward, swinging the unactivated end, suddenly re-activating it, clearly attempting to mess with Xexilia's rhythm. Xexilia's shield repels it, and while he was prepared to step to the side and do a sweep, he is overwhelmed by her speed. Her turn, though her injuries are getting quite grievous.
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Post by sithofmacabre on Jan 24, 2006 23:57:35 GMT -5
(Works for me ^^;; Sorry, I got into the moment)
The sudden reactivation of his weapon forces Xexilia to hesitate a moment, but she continues running as the shield blocks it. Her breath came out in short pants, growing tired as her wounds were growing faster than her regeneration could react. Taking advantage of the speed, she spun rapidly, slightly to the side of Maul and raised her leg for a powerful roundhouse kick to his side.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 25, 2006 0:48:23 GMT -5
OOG: No need to apologize, you've been playing excellently. On another side note: Xexilia can undoubtedly create a weapon, anything from a psi-sword to a conjured blade, or use her guns/Angel Arm attack. As an Eva/Angel, she has all sorts of long-range attacks that could undoubtedly benefit her.
Xexilia's kick takes hold where it belongs, causing a sharp expulsion of air from Maul's lungs. Maul attempts to take advantage of his current footplay to shove back into Xexilia and get a punch in. He does so successfully and stops Xexilia's further assault. However, as she backs up, she gets another opportunity.
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Post by sithofmacabre on Jan 25, 2006 0:59:08 GMT -5
Hoping to gain a good distance from Maul in his short time of shock, she takes a few leaps backwards and now holds a large pistol in one hand, aiming it towards Maul, aiming, but for some reason, waiting, as if she knew accuracy wouldn't match his speed in coming back for another flurry of attacks.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 25, 2006 1:04:02 GMT -5
Xexilia can hear from behind the familiar sound of a lightsaber hum... three, actually. She's guessing the stars have returned. They are about fifty feet away. From the front, Maul rushes back and forth in a ten foot area, firing force pushes and pulls to throw off Xexilia's aim, disarm her and damage her. She not only is not affected, but Darth Maul accidentally elicits a shot, which strikes his lightsaber and disarms him. She now has several perfect shots.
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Post by sithofmacabre on Jan 25, 2006 1:14:41 GMT -5
Using deep concentration to aim at his body temperature, she fired six rounds, now having shot seven (the one being Maul's own doing), with one bullet left to spare. Knees bent, she prepared herself to jump once the hums of the light-stars were close enough, her pistol still aiming towards Darth Maul.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 25, 2006 1:23:22 GMT -5
Maul is thrown back far across the streets of Coruscant. Xexilia leaps away from the stars successfully. The breathing time gives her a moment to regenerate. However, that time is dreadfully aborted. After that brief moment, the lightsaber returns, spinning with an intense hum. The hum creates an ultrasonic static that causes excruciating pain to Xexilia. Next comes a spinning fusillade of debris filled with spinning electric energy. The stars reverse again.
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Post by sithofmacabre on Jan 25, 2006 1:32:01 GMT -5
With such pain shocking her entire body, she's forced to sit on her knees, gritting her teeth as she raised a barrier against the debris--weak, but she was glad she could at least summon it nonetheless. Her head lifts as if someone just called out her name when she hears the stars humming violently back. As soon as she recovers from the static, she drops to the floor and rolls over a few times, onto her stomach, the weak barrier held above her head and slightly over her upper back. Though she manages to move, she trembles vigorously from the static and moves to protect her head with the armor on her arms.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 25, 2006 2:18:47 GMT -5
Xexilia discovers with panic that something is pinning her feet to the ground. Luckily, she manages to deal with this quickly enough, ducking underneath the stars. Her barrier continues to hold, protecting her from the lightsaber and debris. It is her turn.
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Post by sithofmacabre on Jan 25, 2006 9:26:58 GMT -5
Glancing backwards to listen for the hum of the stars, she takes a breath and pushes herself up. She wonders what had pinned her down, but keeps her head forward, trying to sense Maul's presence. While standing, she tries to catch what was lost of her breath to start up a slightly faster regeneration. Tired, and feeling small but slowly healing cuts release a bit of blood, she holds her large pistol forward with some caution, the other hand tense within a fist, prepared for close range if it came.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 25, 2006 12:43:28 GMT -5
Maul seems to remain out of sight. Next comes the sadistic force choke, a crushing force around Xexilia's neck that also quite literally quashes the life out of her body slowly and painfully. She manages to resist quite well, taking only physical damage. But now that she is dangling in the air, she is ripe for the intensely powerful yet minute bolt of lightning streaking at her. This strikes and slows her reaction time. Finally, a second bolt streaks at her, but this one she has the opportunity to defend against...
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Post by sithofmacabre on Jan 25, 2006 20:59:20 GMT -5
As the bolt comes, the crackling almost echoing in her pounding eardrums while she chokes on the invisible force 'round her throat, she lowers one hand from trying to pry off the monstrous unknown smothering her to raise a shield--three times the size of her fist, but with some absorbant ability. Her mind is slow from shock, trying to catch up with her body's actions, but she only gasps while attempting to rewire her rattled brain. Without any success, her legs kick violently under her, as it would help in reopening her strangled neck.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 25, 2006 21:53:07 GMT -5
The shield does more than repel the damage, Xexilia actually feels energy and rage course through her from the lightning. She is still short on "breath" but is nonetheless fine and can counter-attack as normal.
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Post by sithofmacabre on Jan 25, 2006 22:02:39 GMT -5
Xexilia seems confused about renewed energy, catching her breath once more and slowly relaxing her legs, now only wincing at the tightness of her throat rather than lack of air. She listens, remaining still for a long while, for Maul, wondering if he was even anywhere near, considering the lightning attack. With her pistol still in one hand, she swallows a bit of saliva with a bit of difficulty and uses the other hand to try and free herself again.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 25, 2006 22:11:53 GMT -5
Maul's presence is currently out of Xexilia's perceptions. She may use the rest of this turn to charge something: The Angel Arms, an Eva cannon, etc.
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Post by sithofmacabre on Jan 25, 2006 22:20:40 GMT -5
She tries to shift a little in the invisible grip to make her neck less uncomfortable. Then, she releases the bullet casing from her pistol and her arm slowly breaks through armor, growing in size, ripping apart the suit from her shoulder to her fingers, morphing into a giant, dark gray cannon structure with huge feathers growing from it. The end of the barrel was glowing slightly, increasing in size as it charges up with more energy. While it slowly grows more powerful, Xexilia feels small gray feathers growing from the cheek closest to her Angel Arm, as well as a little of the energy working to regenerate her wounds faster.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 25, 2006 22:27:01 GMT -5
Xexilia has more turn. She can try using different perceptions, cycling through her visions, doing a more focused scan; or perhaps charging more; or healing herself; or putting up a new defense; or keep some turn for a parry chance bonus.
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Post by sithofmacabre on Jan 25, 2006 22:42:30 GMT -5
She allows her weapon to charge for a longer period of time--shifting some of the energy to a barrier covering the other side of her body, permitting the barrier to be slightly less effective to pull that power into her regeneration, looking through her choices of visions and deciding that a temporary fish-eye would be best for now.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 25, 2006 22:59:42 GMT -5
Xexilia sees Maul finally. She doesn't get the opportunity to fire. He seems to fade away... but appears again in Xexilia's vision. And she has a shot.
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Post by sithofmacabre on Jan 25, 2006 23:07:03 GMT -5
She sees her opportunity and takes it, aiming at Maul before releasing the cannon's shot and being pushed vigorously from the force of it.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 25, 2006 23:14:04 GMT -5
The massive blast rockets away. Maul looks at it and begins spinning his blade quickly. He shoves it suddenly into the oncoming light (yes, moving faster than light). Angel Arms fire sprays away, some leaking and damaging him... but a far more substantial amount headed back at Xexilia. Moving very, very quickly.
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Post by sithofmacabre on Jan 25, 2006 23:27:30 GMT -5
Feeling it blast back at her, she shifted every bit of energy from the cannon and her regeneration into her telekinetic barrier, rapidly increasing its size to surround her and the base of her Angel Arm.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 26, 2006 2:05:26 GMT -5
Xexilia successfully does so and gets another opportunity to attack.
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Post by sithofmacabre on Jan 26, 2006 2:08:58 GMT -5
She shifts the energy again, though this time it loses some power as she keeps up her shield--she manages to release two large, but short bursts, one right behind the other.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 26, 2006 2:17:49 GMT -5
Xexilia fires two bursts. The first shot, well-fired as it is, only hits Maul in the leg and strikes her with a powerful force push. Her next shot reflects this fact, going wild, but nonetheless her instincts let her get another reasonable hit.
Suddenly, Xexilia is thrown into a wall. The wall does not crumble but instead cradles her perfectly while Cosmic force, nearly infinite, pushes into her. Maul walks up slowly.
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Post by sithofmacabre on Jan 26, 2006 19:46:04 GMT -5
She curls up her body slightly, struggling to push back the Cosmic power, pushed back against the wall shaped to her back from the collision when she get tired from trying to escape, occasionally attempting to do so again. Xexilia lifts her head as she hears Maul approach.
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