The full seasonal event can be read here! Below are the main seasonal items for quick reference:
1. A thread reacting to the season's weather in some ways.
2. A thread in the part of the city your character doesn't live in!
3. A thread relating to your vocation.
Of The Season
Quote
"Tell Dr. Nate that Gale sent you, and he still owes me for the mushrooms. Except that it takes you a while to reach the clinic, and by the time you do your fever is spiking, and so instead of the requisite message you instead tell the poor soul who greets you that 'A gale'a m'shrooms sent me cus'a my hands.'" - Zephyr in Oh help me, please doctor, I'm damaged
Ira slides to a halt after her short dash to get out of the way and quickly turns around in time to see Nate pull Kyrie to the ground. She takes the chance to spend a couple of seconds catching her breath and pushing away the confusion over how she actually managed to get away from what had looked like an attack that would have hit its mark for sure.
However, she doesn't remain still for long and moves quickly towards Kyrie again, trying to continue her tactic to keep a distance from Nate while still being prepared to move away from any attacks. Still very much preferring to get all the blades out of the picture first no matter what. The sight of the knife being drawn keeps her from wanting to move in too close, though, and she once again tries to use the length of the stave to her advantage as soon as she is close enough to take a swing at Kyrie's head.
Ira will try to evade if needed and aims a swing at Kyrie's head with the stave.
The reader of this text has standing permission for responsible powerplay and to use physical/magical force against this character. Instant killing and permanently maiming not included.
back long before this twisted soul I'll be something you'd rather not know this was something we chose to believe
This is not a fight for strategy, not really. It’s a slugfest, something Nate excels in (usually) and he’s not going to treat it any different just because there’s weapons involved. Kyrie may not be out, but she is certainly down, fancy flips and hidden blades notwithstanding, and Nate is going to press what little advantage he has, rushing after the plater to try and get a hold of her arm and twist it, more than willing to use his bulk to his advantage.
Of course, this means he takes his eyes off Ira, but for the moment he feels safe enough from her to not actually be too concerned about it. There’s an understanding between them, he’s sure, a guarantee of kinds. Get the interloper out, and they can hash it out between them.
Nate rushed towards Kyrie and tries to disarm her, using his height and weight against her
Kyrie critically succeeds in jumping up nimbly and brandishing her knife, quickly getting into position. With her knife out and ready, she is able to attempt to counter attacks coming her way.
Ira tries to swing at Kyrie's head with her stave and hits, dealing 3 damage. Kyrie counter attacks with the knife and hits, dealing 6 damage.
Nate tries to grab Kyrie's arm and succeeds. Kyrie fails to counter attack with her knife. He twists her arm to disarm her; Kyrie critically fails to resist and drops her knife. Nate still has hold of her arm unless she moves to release his grip.
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Post Order: Kyrie (5hp), Ira (4hp), Nate (17hp)
take a breath 'cause she's gonna pull you down step in a little closer
She can’t quite seem to get into the groove of things, thrills rising and falling with each successful strike, parry, and then plummeting when she fails. Her world narrows to what’s around her, trying to release her body into its training whilst facing the looming knowledge that her strength is starting to wane in the face of double duty.
She tries to hide a throaty, frustrated cry as her hands betray her, dropping the knife. Trying to move in the same direction Nate twists, she aims a kick at his chest / ribcage area, hoping to try and knock the breath out of him again and make him drop her arm. At the same time, she's very aware that Ira’s stave has done the most damage to her thus far, so when she has her foot back on the ground, Kyrie attempts to dodge block whatever strike is inevitably going to come her way from the other woman - and if she can't dodge fully, then block it as best she can.
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Kyrie tries to move with the arm twist and kick Nate in the chest/ribcage, and then tries to dodge or block an attack from Ira.
Despite trying to keep what distance she can and move away after her attack, it isn't enough. She feels her swing hit, but before she can get away she feels a sharp stinging pain cutting across her forearm from the blade counterattack. Hissing angrily through her teeth, she almost stops to strike back again, but does continue to back away to gain some safer distance. Not wanting to take the risk with the wound potentially starting to bleed too much.
Leaving Nate to wrestle with Kyrie alone for a few seconds, hoping he will be too busy with that to do anything else (like going after her instead), she quickly tears off the lower edge of her shirt, hastily wrapping and tying the strip of cloth tightly around her arm as a makeshift bandage. It will just have to do for now, as she doesn't have the time to check how deep the cut might even be, nor does she want to withdraw from the match completely just yet and is prepared to get back into it.
Ira backs away from the other two, using:
First Aid | In combat, you can perform basic healing (three post cool down)
The reader of this text has standing permission for responsible powerplay and to use physical/magical force against this character. Instant killing and permanently maiming not included.
back long before this twisted soul I'll be something you'd rather not know this was something we chose to believe
Nate can’t stop the sharp, pleased sound that leaves him as the knife clatters into the dirt beneath them, his teeth bared in a savage grin. While he hadn’t come into the arena with any special weaponry, not that he’d even consider himself proficient enough to try, Nate had had confidence in his stamina.
Folding in half to try and avoid the kick, Nate twists, and attempts to throw Kyrie at Ira. He doesn’t expect it to work, just hopes that he can get her on the ground, but if it somehow takes them both out then that’s even better.
Nate attempts to avoid Kyrie’s kick then throw her at Ira
take a breath 'cause she's gonna pull you down step in a little closer
Her feet seem to do a little dance to stay upright as Nate tries to fling her away - maybe her kick had done some damage after all. Maybe the big guy is flagging. Maybe - maybe she can get around some of his natural advantages and hit a natural disadvantage.
Kyrie twists again, this time trying to come in close to Nate. The closer the better. She doesn’t even have to line herself up well, she just has to get there without her intentions being known. She aims for his balls, pulling one leg back so she can step into it, attempting to ram her knee into his oh so delicate Drencher bits. There, at least, he’s the same as any Plater man who’s made the bad decision to try and keep her close.
And then, if she can, if Nate is, perhaps, doubled-over, she tries to wrench herself away and put him as a physical barrier between herself and Ira.
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Kyrie tries to duck in really close to Nate and knee him in the balls, and then wrench herself out of his grasp so she can put Nate in between herself and Ira.
While starting to move closer again, Ira tries to make a quick decision on whether to continue to be on the defensive side or just go full offensive. Either she'd actually be able to do something against her opponents, or she'd just leave herself open to be taken out even faster. At least she'd be able to soon look after her arm if that happens, because forfeit on her own still doesn't want to fully cross her angry mind.
She moves in faster, hoping to catch them both while they are still close to each other and busy. Instead of keeping one of them between herself and the other this time, like Kyrie is trying to now, she tries to position herself where she can reach them both. Still using her tactic of keeping a distance by taking advantage of the length of the staff, she strikes one end of it out at Kyrie, then does the same towards Nate.
Ira jabs the end of the staff once at Kyrie and the once at Nate.
The reader of this text has standing permission for responsible powerplay and to use physical/magical force against this character. Instant killing and permanently maiming not included.
back long before this twisted soul I'll be something you'd rather not know this was something we chose to believe
He can’t help it. He really really can’t. The kick aimed for him has him barking a surprised huff of laughter, his efforts to dodge it half hearted at best. He does do his best to keep his grip on Kyrie though, attempting to shift and keep her between himself and Ira. The end is rushing up on him, this match no longer the easy win he’d been expecting.
Besides, any position she wants to be in he very decidedly does not want her in. Giving her what she wants just seems like bad news, and he’s not sure how much longer Drench solidarity is going to last. At the end of the day every one of them is a crab in a bucket.
Nate tries to block the kick (but not very hard) and tries to keep Kyrie from moving around him
