Calling all Roleplayers interested in serious RPs!

[Otebon Albrecht]

Lucas had been following Althea's bout with some interest, until Blizzard walked forward. He planted the butt of his spear in the dirt and stood.

"Absolutely."

Lucas made a short bow and flipped his spear into a ready stance. Without waiting for a sign of readiness or much else, Lucas began with a few quick jabs of his spear at Blizzard's chest.

[Colioli4]

Blizzard had suspected such an attack, but was still pushed in defense, dodging the fast stabs. One of the stabs came inches from his belly. Now it was his turn. He fainted a stab to Lucas his neck, then quickly jumped to his right, slicing with his other blade to Lucas legs.

[Otebon Albrecht]

Lucas knew that to fight someone with such small and quick weapons, his true defenses were speed and distance. He brought his spear in close and brought it perpendicular to the ground and point down to swipe nearby to give himself a bit of a shield as he quick stepped to keep Blizzard in front of him. Instead of dodging to the right as would most opponents (so that a circular flow would begin as both opponents moved counter-clockwise), he stepped left and kept Blizzard in front of him. Keeping the momentum of the spear as it traveled, Lucas whipped it around his head at full length and about shoulder height. Either Blizzard would get out of the way or would get a big stick to the side of the head.

It was definitely a "get away" move and Lucas put some force behind it.

[Colioli4]

Blizzard hadn't expected this move. His slice went wide, and it was all he could do not to be hit with a spear against his head. His hidden blades were amazingly fast weapons, but blocking was a lot harder than with normal daggers or swords. Then, in those few seconds he had before the hit, he got an idea. A crazy, almost insame, idea. Without thinking more about the possibilities, he trew himself forward, towards Lucas, blades at the ready. Spears, he knew, were great and lethal weapons from a distance, but were just clumsy sticks in closer combat. He just hoped to surprise Lucas with his move, otherwise...

[Cifero Windtail]

Did Jovi post yet?

[Otebon Albrecht]

Holly grunted gruffly when her student was unsure of what to do. "This is a fighting scenario boy, your tryouts if-you-will. You fight with everything you've got, but remember it's just a spar. We're not trying to kill each other." With that Jack took a stab at her arm that she just backed away from to dodge, "Please tell me you've got more than that!" He started spinning forward towards her, which confused her, it was certainly a move she had never seen before. The panther lowered her stance and flipped both of her daggers forward as he was coming at her, and then he did something she wasn't expecting by coming at her head. She did a back bend just barely able to get low enough to dodge the attack, and then fell to the ground catching herself with her arms and rolling to her left to do a sweep kick attack at Jack's legs.

(Good choice... as a Martial Artist and actually having been trained in both spear AND knife fighting, it's easy to know exactly where you want to be in your position. You, with the smaller, faster blades, want to grab Lucas by the belt-buckle and never let go; figuratively. He succeeds at range, but if he can't keep you away... it's a lot harder. Granted, there are counters for it too.)

Getting in close upset the sweep that Lucas planned to do, making the his wrist connect with Blizzard as opposed to the shaft of the spear. Lucas pulled back the power on his move though as this was training and he didn't wish to hurt Blizzard too much, but he knew that he was in trouble as well.

He let the shaft slide through his hands so that he held his spear a little closer to middle than he had previously, going to a shorter grip and retreated. There was nothing else for it but to try and make the space up that he'd lost with Blizzard's charge. As he did so, he kicked out at Blizzard to keep him occupied and bothered.

[Colioli4]

He wasn't really surprised this time by Lucas retreating move. He kept coming, slicing a couple of near hits. What did surprise him was that his opponent kicked at him. The kick hit him frontal in his belly, and he had to gasp for air for some precious seconds. In this short time, Lucas had managed to get some distance between the two of them. Blizzard ran forward, desperate to close the gap between the two of them again, blades at the ready, for this was the only way to defeat his spear wielding opponent.

(Hey, just a small question, in a battle against another furry, how do you decide an outcome? I imagine that most of the times, both would want to win. I don't really need to win a battle, but a victory is always better than a defeat. How do you roleplaying furries solve this???  )

[Otebon Albrecht]

(Usually, in an RP, there is a set way to decide who wins. Sometimes it's done by a random number generator, arbitrated by the Author, or decided out side of RP for story reasons. An example of each is that I was once in an RP where a dice-roller program run by the Author was used to determine everything and there were somewhat intricate rules to decided what constituted a win and a loss and for every "win" one person got took away one "health" of the opponent until one of the competitors had no "health" left. In another RP, the Author decided who would win based off the style and ability of writing employed; whoever wrote the best won. In a story I watched being written through Google Documents, the outcome of the fight was predetermined so that a story could take place.

Any of these are good and common and are decided on by the Author. Hopefully you won't do much PvP (player vs. player) as these are usually situations that may cause ill feelings between players, but sometimes it can be great fun. For the moment, let's assume that we're using the second method.)


With his shorter grip, Lucas had a lot less breathing room, but then again he wouldn't need to be able to extend his arms in this fight. With a combatant more than willing to come within reach, he needed to be able to move more than anything.

Lucas twirled his spear in a figure eight at his sides, letting the spear head whistle as it sliced the air as he settled into a more defensive stance.

[Colioli4]

Blizzard wasn't sure what to do with the new tactic of Lucas. He jumped left, the right, then left again to find a way through Lucas defense. There wasn't. This annoyed Blizzard a lot. He faked a left trust, then a right, but in the end went straight towards Lucas, blades forward to connect with his chest.

[Otebon Albrecht]

The spin was working as intended, it left no good opening for the small blades of Blizzard, but there was a problem with it: spinning the spear was tiring. It took a vast amount of energy to keep the spear moving as Blizzard was able to leisurely (comparatively) find an opening. When he couldn't find a way around or over, he tried to go through.

Lucas gave his spear a push to give it some strength to knock away the blades as he leaned back away from the blades. The spear was kept in constant motion and brought around to strike from Lucas' right shoulder at Blizzard's left.

[Colioli4]

The spear swung through the air and hit Blizzards shoulder. He was trown to the ground. He rolled up onto his right and not hurting shoulder and turned towards Lucas again, blades at the ready. "Slow, Blizzard, and relax. Don't get angry, it will only help him..." Blizzard td himself as he slowly began to circle his opponent.

[Otebon Albrecht]

Now that Lucas had the space he needed, he let the spear point drop till it was level with Blizzard's hips. Lucas held it lightly and followed the circling motion. He knew that it was a stalling tactic and a trap that far too many fell into, but it did give him the opportunity to rest his shoulders from the spinning.

Planting his feet securely, Lucas took the back end of the spear and moved it quickly. Under his direction, the head of the spear seemed to jerk around in a dizzying pattern before lurching towards Blizzard's central mass.

[Colioli4]

Blizzard was slightly confused by the strange pattern the spear made. The stab towards his chest came as somewhat of a surprise, and he tried to sidestep it. He succeeded partly. He just wasn't fast enough. The speartip hit a piece of flesh just underneath his right shoulder, and went partly in before being retracted quickly. Pain followed swiftly. Blizzard let out an involuntary yell as it washed over him, making it hard for him to think and stand. He fell to his knees, one of his hands covering the gap and stopping the blood from flowing. He managed to gasp: "Okay, you win, I'm out." He tried to think straight but only partly succeeded. It wasn't a lethal wound if it was bandaged soon, but could have been if Lucas had let himself go and stabbed fully. "Well," Blizzard thought with a wry smile, " lucky this was just a training..."

[Otebon Albrecht]

As soon as Blizzard's knees hit the floor and said that he'd one, Lucas dropped the spear and ran to plug up the wound.

"You fought well," he said. "It's just difficult to fight against the polar opposite."


Alright... As I have finished a few sparring bouts with people (I believe Jovi and Cif may still be fighting), I want to say that everyone I fought with was really good. I apologize for God-modding my characters a little so that the fights could keep going and stay in my favor () as well as using my real life knowledge (was a world-champ competitor level fighter for weapons and hand-to-hand ) in the fights, but I hope that it kept things interesting.

Everyone wrote very well and did things very efficiently. Good show everyone.

Jovi is my co-worker here, so I don't make all the decisions, but I imagine that is pretty much the highlights of what we could show you so that you rock any Serious RPs you deem interesting. Writing a story may be difficult, but you certainly have the abilities.

Work on your English, grammar, and spelling in general and you guys should be fine.

I don't know how to progress from here... Unless Jovi gets on in the next 24 and updates her fight I guess I'll take over so Cif can get in a bout as well. Other than that... does anyone have a question? Comment? Concern? Want to run a specific situation that they're interested in?

[Beatnory]

This probably a stupid question. Is there more then fighting in RP?
I hear here and there about RP's and so far everyone talks only about fighting.