Eccles wrote:
Slamlander wrote:
Yes, she would. Arms straight and the blade being swung by rotating the torso. Sarine clipped Sara a good one on the back of the head, knocking her out or, at least, disturbing Sara's concentration enough for Sara's weapon to deactivate, incidently clipping a few hairs. Sara didn't deactivate her Dolon voluntarily.
That would be a really awkward move, one you couldn't put much force behind unless what you were swinging had most of its weight at the end away from your hands (like an axe or a hammer). Swords are balanced close to the hilt for speed, so you would only be able to give someone a light slap if you were swinging from the torso. Although, I guess it's possible the magic floaty crystal blades are super heavy or something.
Sarine is an Elf. Elves are stronger, faster, and more magical than humans. Also Durus Flamma are light, compared to steel weapons. In addition, it doesn't take much of an impact, on the back of the head, to really disturb things in a major way. A straight-armed torso swing, with a light weapon, can be extremely fast and even a light weapon, at substantial velocity, will develop noticable kinetic energy at impact. Even with the flat of the blade, this would put a minor dent in Sara's skull. Had Sarine used the edge, this would have performed a brain-ectomy.
Eccles wrote:
Slamlander wrote:
Note that either this all happened while they were both in time fugue, meaning that Sarine was matching Sara, or Sarine has somehow disabled Sara's time fugue ability. In either case, Sara is not moving any faster than Sarine and the magic time-ninja stuff is neutralised.
I thought Sara wasn't using it for reasons of "honor".
Sara herself hypothetically discounted that as "Bullshit", during her previous conversation with Sarine. With that, I wouldn't quite trust the
honor bit when it comes to lethal weapons like the Durus Flamma.
Eccles wrote:
(edit)- I'm not just arguing in favor of Sara because I want her to win. If anything, her whole "angsty teenager" routine kinda annoys me, and I'd like to see Sarine hand out a good ol' respect-your-elders style beatdown. I'm just postin' what I'm seein'.
That along with a short and pointy lecture, yes.
Like you, I'm only calling what I see