Looking For A Challenger

[scholar]

Suehiro dodged the niginata but it tore through his robe, he initially looked at the horse as it went past but noticed the rider was not there, he looked for him and got into a defensive stance. His left foot forward while slowly backing away from the riders. one of which was still mounted. He knew against their spears he could not match them in but in an attack he would be skewered so he waits in defense ready to parry and counter strike.

[Sanada Yukimura]

Two fighters are now dismounted? This isn't going to be too hard, but that naginata will be a pain.

Urging his steed onwards once more, Yukimura now passes to the right of his oponenet, who seems to be preoccupied with the other fighter. Turning his body to the left side, he swings with his spear, using the cross blade to puncture into the back of Suehiro. Something not easily dodged when he has another fighter there as well. Thinking to himself,

It'd be best to get rid of this one with the sword first. Then I can fight that guy with the naginata on my own terms.

Again he rode past quickly, and wheeled around. Having someone attack your back and front was difficult enough, so he waited to see how Suehiro actually fared against such an attack. Would he dodge the jumonji yari and then have Asato follow through? Would he not be paying attention and have the spear puncture his back and again have Asato follow through?

The outcome was difficult determine...

[asatokagesu]

Asato too his opportunity to ignore the swordsman, and instead took his naginata and thrust it to his left, towards the flank of Sanada's horse. With some luck, the blade would render it lame and bring the horseman to an even level.

As the blade shot forth, it glinted in the sun, the black pole turned and twisted just so during the attack to ensure maximum damage. As well as allow him to use the pommel of his weapon to deflect Kakizaki's assaults.

[scholar]

Suehiro struggled to escape the oncoming attack, he quickly turned to hit the on coming spear with his Katana. However as the blade hit the spear it only moved slightly and grazed his shoulder. Not enough for him to run, but enough to utterly unsettle his nerves. He now keeps a low positioned stance ready to dodge any real attack that comes from a distance. But his left shoulder is in pain.

[Sanada Yukimura]

Ugh, that guy with the naginata really is a pain.

Seeing the movement of the attack before it came, Yukimura shifted his weight in the saddle, and the well trained horse having been with him for so long knew what it meant. Instead of making a straight pass, he veered off to the right. Just missing the thrusted naginata. The curve of the blade would make it difficult to thrust properly, but it's twisting could really cause some serious damage to his horse.

For now, Yukimura decided to wait at a distance and watch the other two fight it out. Better for them to kill one another and then fight one. Looking closely at them with hawk like eyes, he scans to see if there's any sort of movement coming his way. Being on a horse might not be as nimble, but he had a speed advantage.

[asatokagesu]

[Sorry about being a while!]

Asato eyed his foe over and adjusted the grip on his polearm, grinning from behind his mask as he did so. Quickly he brought the weapon's head up and slashed with its edge into Suehiro's waist. The strike was carefully and knowingly made, the blow coming at a respectable but not necessarily blinding speed.

[scholar]

Before the blades strike all Suehiro could do was meekly block it with sword. The attacks force overpowered the block but no damage was done. Quickly he motioned his blade with a fast thrust to stab his heart. It was well placed, not only that but it was done as fast as Suehiro could do.

[scholar]

(What is taking so long? Should we just kill off the cavalry rider Aaron or...?

[Sanada Yukimura]

(Sorry for taking a while, I kind of forgot about this. Also, scholar take your Aaron 0-1 scholar out of your signature. Just because this didn't continue doesn't mean you've bested me. We can continue without Asato for now.)


It seems there's only the swordsman right now, and he's not even the greatest swordsman, I can take him.

Dismounting his horse, Yukimura slowly closed the distance between them. His jumonji yari positioned straight out in front of him, in the way one would hold it if they were marching in a spear wall.

His slow walking speed turned into a slight run, and very soon he was close to his opponent. He kept on the move though, circling Suehiro. While doing so, he quickly stabbed at his stomach, following up with a flick of the spear down and to the right, while extending it ever so slightly and hooking the left prong around Suehiro's right leg and pulling.

The movement was rather quick and precise, not taking any longer than what the actual movement needed to do. This rapid succession of attacks were not all going to be blocked. Either he could take the stab and not worry about being tripped, or try and dodge being stabbed and then get tripped and be in an even worse predicament.

[scholar]

(Well then, I better remove that shortly. And a nice way to put me on the spot as well.)

Suehiro saw the motion to begin a series of attacks and instead of dodging to the side with grace he lept backward more than four feet, remaining unscathed from the encounter, his blade was much shorter than what the warrior had. Far more close ranged, being only four feet in length. Suehiro grabs the sheath of his sword and holds it in his left hand with his katana in his right. What he was doing could be suicide, but the thought that it could be pulled off was absent from his mind. He was not frenzied, or frantic. It was as if it was all part of one graceful motion.

The sheath went to push the Yari in a way that it was no longer able to stab back, once Suehiro was in close enough his sword made a slash at his neck and another at his shoulder, unaware of the damage he had caused Suehiro turned back and made a swift motion to the side and backed away, not so much to see what he had done, but to gain a new vantage point, he was now looking at the warriors back, a side rarely seen. His Sheath was then planted firmly on his belt and his sword was now held with two hands, one foot slightly in front of the other, and the blade held vertical.

[Sanada Yukimura]

Yukimura continued to circle Suehiro, watching as he leaped backwards, but that wouldn't matter. He saw the sheath coming, trying to push the spear away, so simply making his arms stiff, he resisted the attack. When the sheath connected, Suehiro would most likely be jarred from something unexpected like that.

As soon as the sheath hit, Yukimura shifted his hands on his jumonji yari, and used the strong ashen haft of his spear to meet the sword strike midway through the swing. Pushing foreword, he knocked the sword back, and then he came foreword with another quick strike from his haft, directed to Suehiro's nose. He followed through with the momentum to bring the left blade towards Suehiro's ribs on his right side.

After another quick rotation, he brought the spear shaft low, and swept at his legs. He continued with the motion, and brought the spear back up, resting on his left shoulder and holding the spear with two hands in a kind of overhead stance, but positioned to the left of his head.

[scholar]

Suehiro looked at the man, both men had attacked each other and counter with such grace. When he went after his ribs his sheath protected him and his legs narrowly escaped injury. There was really few things one could think of in a time like this, memories of a life that seems so fragile in it's wealth, a life that seems to depend upon nothingness, a world of chaos, an ever gripping fear that strangles the soul, and chokes the life out of a man, or a frenzied rage that would take advantage of the moment and lung to kill the man even at the expense of his own life, a draw would be it. But of course, Suehiro had none of these thoughts going through his head. A blank mind, a calm as a still pool of water, and a ever watching eyes.

His sword held in the vertical, four feet of steel, one of hilt, shines off of the sunlight. The man in front of him remains unscathed, as does Suehiro. The day seems to pass in an instant as the Suehiro stares deeply into the warriors eyes. Then a quick lung the sword this time goes after the Yari, focusing everything on making sure it does not move. Then with a sweeping motion Suehiro tries to sweep the feet out from under the warrior as he does that he moves to disarm the man by placing his right arm over the yari and gliding his sword down the entire length of the Yari. If it was a short Yari this could very well have been suicidal, but since it is larger than the Katana it was doable. Only time would tell how the warrior reacts to the blade advancing down the shaft of the Yari.

[Sanada Yukimura]

(Just so you know, a Katana's entire length would only be about 3.8 feet in total. The blade itself would only be about 2.39 feet (give or take) in length. Anything longer is getting into Odachi length. Also, how can you make a sweeping motion with your sword against my legs, and then slide your sword along the shaft of the spear when it's at shoulder level, or even get your armpit over that height. Sorry, but no can do.)

Watching the swordsman was like watching a very bad kabuki. His motions were so poor that one would want to tear their eyes out. Yet though that were the case, one would keep watching, almost because of the fact that it was so cringe worthy.

Yukimura was upset that he could be fighting such a poor excuse for a warrior, and when he did something so stupid trying to put his arm over the spear or something like that, he ended up getting stabbed in his right shoulder.

Laughing, he said, "You foolish bandit, this is where you're going to die and your marauding will come to an end." He then tore the point of the spear out of Suehiro's right shoulder, and quickly thrust the spear towards his face, and then rotating the spear around, lifted the shaft off his shoulder and brought it down diagonally between Suehiro's left shoulder and his neck.

Switching over his left hand on the spear, he again rotated it, turning over his right hand while in the motion and brought the left blade down onto Suehiro's right clavicle. He was going to leave this bandit as a bloody mess, to serve as a warning to all others to cease immediately... A great warrior was in the area.

[scholar]

(The title given to it is "Precious Katana" fashioned after the many blades Yoshiteru received, some were made to be beautiful and not for practice use measuring up to 6 feet in length, awkward to handle. This one is a bit longer but in no ways awkward to handle.

Also I am extremely disappointed in you, that is nothing short of Godmodding. You may state motions to do an action but to actually state the results is a use of a character's actions that you have no control over. It would be as if to say that I simply actually cut off your hand with the original said act and then proceeded to lop off your head. Such an action is not allowed, why do you act as if this is any better? I have not done this very often and in fact this is the only one of four that I have done, but Baiko said that you can not act out another characters moves or damages for it's called god modding. Therefor you can motion to stab me but how can you do it? My arm is holding it directly under as my blade rushes down to slice the hand, not only is your move unfeasible but it's not allowed. Unless the rules I play by are not the same and you can in fact state a direct result, not allowing any response.

Answer me this and I'll with with no quarrel, how is such an action allowed, can you explain how every step is not considered going too far? I will not question your words I just need verification. I am confused and baffled by your move, every other move does not account to an action such as this, have you simply grown bored of it so you thought to end it, or a rough and busy day? I am not accustom to such ways of going about this, I feel a sense of nostalgia with this with sparking and I)

[Sanada Yukimura]

(I will answer you that, and I'll also give you diagrams, though essentially by trying to place your arm over my spear, you've walked into the blade.

This is not god modding or powerplaying, more that you did not realize how foolish your move was, and I took account of that. You essentially walked into my spear. When someone doesn't do a feasible defense or counter, it's generally assumed the attacks hit. What you did was not feasible.



This is the side view of how I ended up holding my weapon. Surely you can see that you can't position yourself to get your shoulder over it unless you are taller than me, or you jumped. Seeing as you didn't jump, you could contort yourself to get into that kind of position, but you would get caught on the side blades of the jumonji yari.

Again, you also could have put your arm over my blade if you were standing chest to chest with me, but seeing as you didn't write that, I can't assume that's what you intended. The only thing I can go along with, is what you wrote. What I can assume however is that you physically could not put your arm over my spear based on what you wrote, thus resulting in you getting stabbed in your shoulder.

Not to mention the only move that I said that hit you was you walking into the spear. You got too caught up in your prose and frilly writing to actually understand what I was doing. You're not dead, but unless you don't actually do anything, you will be.

As for your weapon, you've only described it now, and it's mentioned no where in your real time biography. Also in your signature however, it's simply a "katana" and the length given to a katana blade was only 2.38 feet. It could be a little bit larger or shorter (keyword: little) any blade in the 3 feet+ range was classified as a odachi, not a katana.)