Kakita Sojiro
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Post by Kakita Sojiro on Jan 30, 2012 1:49:41 GMT -5
A sudden flash of steel was the Crane's only warning as Ayumu stepped up beside him and sliced through the neck of one of their attackers, his nodachi causing a fountain of blood to erupt as it left the head hanging by only a few scraps of skin. Bringing the large blade up in a high guard, his grim face, decorated with a few random splashes of his victim's blood, silently dared the last ones to step forward. Beneath him on the ground, the nearly headless corpse twitched a few times before going still, the rain water quickly washing away the blood pouring out as well as the drops on the Oriole's face.
(OOC rolled two 10s for damage! FATALITY!)
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Daigotsu Thrakhath
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Post by Daigotsu Thrakhath on Jan 30, 2012 16:03:13 GMT -5
Kazushige made no indication that he'd noticed the spear scratching his arm. He yelled incoherently in defiance as the men charged him, and without regard for his own defense he swung a great two-handed blow at the nearest enemy when they closed the distance. His tetsubo impacted his assailant's leg with a sickening crunch, and the man went down with a howl of pain. "Surely this isn't your best!" he yelled.
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Saiko
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Post by Saiko on Jan 31, 2012 1:13:46 GMT -5
Outside the Inn Blood already flowed in the street before a melee even began. The group of assailants were reduced to half their number before the first even managed to swing on their target. The man sprawled in the mud finally broke the stone grip on his leg, and he scrambled to his feet, his face contorted with anger. He readied his axe once again, looking wildly around for the source of the arrows in his arm, but when he could not, he charged towards the furious melee that was now engaged.
The two spearmen stabbed out again, this time their yari finding their marks. One stabbed deep into Kazushige's leg, running all the way through before he pulled it back. The other punctured Shigeoki's shoulder, though as the attacker retracted his weapon he slipped in the mud, his yari falling to the ground, but he was already reaching for his katana. Meanwhile, the last standing swordsman went for Ayumu, feinting a strike to the shoulder but changing his attack at the last moment and cutting deeply into the Tsi's hip.Inside the Inn From upstairs, the woman who yelled could be heard sobbing, though any attempts to contact her failed to get a response. there were no other signs of life in the inn, though both Saiki and Akizora knew that there were at least two other people were supposed to be there, from their observations earlier. The Togashi, meanwhile, seemed quite exhausted, though his bleeding seemed to have stopped.
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Post by Iuchi Ozora on Feb 2, 2012 10:47:46 GMT -5
Taking the blow to the shoulder in stride, Shigeoki bent like a reed in the wind with the force and with a side step forward from his new sideways positioning he brought his sword up and through, slicing right through the bandit's throat as he attempted to straighten up from his slip and draw his blade.
Completing the turn, Shigeoki was back to facing down the street, his target back on his feet and rushing forward. Shigeoki was poised and ready to greet him with cold, wet steel.
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Zeure
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Post by Zeure on Feb 3, 2012 1:42:13 GMT -5
Eiji let loose with another arrow, but unfortunately, that was the same moment that the man he had been aiming for got his face caved in by Kazuhige. The arrow landed in the very center of his chest, no doubt impaling the man through the heart. The shot would have killed anyone that it had hit; it just hit someone who was already dead.
The proximity of the melee forced Eiji to realize that soon they would be on him as well. He dropped the yumi, which landed on the Tsi's porch, underneath the covering where it would be safe for him to grab up later. He took a few steps forward and placed his hand on his katana, readying to draw and kill someone with it, as soon as he got within range.
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Kakita Sojiro
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Post by Kakita Sojiro on Feb 3, 2012 2:48:54 GMT -5
The decapitating strike left Ayumu slightly off balance. He moved to block a strike aimed at his shoulder, only to be caught flat-footed when it suddenly changed angle and caught him in the hip. A line of fire seared through leg as the katana was withdrawn - the cut was deep, and he grunted in surprise and anger. Turning the abortive block into a counterattack, he brought the nodachi down in a vertical strike aimed at his enemy's head, but the pain in his hip made him misjudge the angle of attack, and instead of splitting the man's skull, he merely severed his ear.
"I'll take you a piece at a time, if I have to."
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Daigotsu Thrakhath
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Post by Daigotsu Thrakhath on Feb 3, 2012 9:14:14 GMT -5
That strike Kazushige did feel, evidenced by his yell of pain as the spear was yanked out of his leg. "Now that's more like it, you thrice damned spawn of Jigoku!" he exclaimed, punctuating his statement with another heavy two-handed blow aimed at his attacker. The tetsubo connected with the man's chest with a thunk, crushing the man's ribs into powder and sending him flying to the ground, limp and unmoving. With that enemy out of the way, Kazushige turned to face the remaining bad guys.
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Saiko
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Post by Saiko on Feb 4, 2012 1:18:02 GMT -5
Outside the Inn The face of the swordsman was covered in blood, his face contorted in pain as he shunted Ayumu's blade aside. His vision was obviously blurred by the blood flowing from his ear smeared by the rain, which seemed to have somehow begun to pour even harder. As such, the man's next strike swung wide, allowing the Tsi to easily counter it before his next move.
Just when it seemed the samurai would surround the lone bandit, the huge man wielding the axe charged into the melee, his powerful weapon high above his head as he swung it down at Kazushige, slicing the shugenja's magic weapon cleanly in two. The man brought the axe up again into a guard stance, his eyes burning with rage as he surveyed the carnage surrounding him.
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Kakita Sojiro
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Post by Kakita Sojiro on Feb 4, 2012 2:42:26 GMT -5
(OOC target acquired. Make that TN 15 will roll for me, please.))
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Post by Iuchi Ozora on Feb 6, 2012 12:19:27 GMT -5
Once more Shigeoki acts quickly and decisively, placing himself in front of the overly large bandit. With a grace he rarely shows to others, he strikes in at the large man's chest, cutting through the crude armor and drawing a shallow line across the broad chest. He draws blood but little else.
He stands at the ready, prepared to meet the counter that is sure to follow.
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Zeure
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Post by Zeure on Feb 7, 2012 4:27:11 GMT -5
Eiji was a flurry of movement. He crouched and put his yumi down on the Tsi's porch. As he did so, his right hand found the hilt of his katana. He leapt forward off the porch into two dashing steps that had him clearing the fence after the second one. His training in Iaijutsu allowed him to draw the katana with almost superhuman speed.
Unfortunately, when one is in mid air, one can not change direction or account for much else, so when the villian that was accosting his fellow samurai that he had been aimed at only seconds ago moved to the left a couple of steps. Eiji's perfect strike, that would have beheaded any man that it touched, only struck air.
He was in the fray now, however and his expressionless mask was unforgiving on the lowlifes that were in line to die. He struck an intimidating visage without any need for himself to enhance it.
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Kakita Sojiro
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Post by Kakita Sojiro on Feb 7, 2012 6:17:57 GMT -5
Keeping his nodachi in the lower stance that resulted from his ear-severing strike finding little resistance, Ayumu stepped forward as the man's right hand instinctively left the hilt of his katana to clutch the side of his head where his ear had once been. The Oriole brought his massive blade upwards in a diagonal strike as he stepped, knocking away the flimsy one-handed attempt at a parry and opening the bandit up from pelvis to collarbone. His victim screamed as he fell, quickly going silent as his severed heart emptied all it's contents onto the ground. Ayumu quickly pivoted on the balls of his feet and faced their final attacker, more than willing to match his nodachi against the brute's axe as he brought the blade into the first position - pommel at navel, tip of blade aimed at opponent's throat.
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Daigotsu Thrakhath
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Post by Daigotsu Thrakhath on Feb 7, 2012 14:16:22 GMT -5
Kazushige looked from the large angry man to his broken tetsubo, then back. He glared, tossed the useless weapon aside and charged toward the man, driving his shoulder into his enemy's gut and lifting, knocking the wind out of him and forcing him hard into the ground. He stood over the huge man, fists clenched, face contorted in anger. "I DID NOT GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO STAND," he yelled through the sound of the rain.
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Saiko
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Post by Saiko on Feb 8, 2012 2:46:52 GMT -5
Outside the Inn While winded, the huge man managed to quickly scramble to his feet and ready his weapon, despite almost slipping in the mud. With a great bellow of rage, he swung his axe around his head, preparing to deliver what would surely be a fatal blow to Kazushige, but the momentum of this attack combined with his unstable footing led his swing to go wide past the big man's head, leaving his whole body overextended and vulnerable.
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Post by Iuchi Ozora on Feb 9, 2012 20:36:41 GMT -5
Mentally degrading himself for such a weak strike only moments before, Shigeoki had expected to take the huge man's charge straight on. Instead, the mad bastard had decided to go after the Dragon who was slighly behind him, side stepping around Shigeoki.
Taking this as another affront, was turning with the movement in order to strike from the side, instead he sees that the bandit had slipped and was over extended, his body outstretched and bent slightly in front of him as if on display.
Bring his katana around in a low cut, he catches the huge man's stomach right on the center of his blade. Getting behind his strike, he puts all his weight and strength into this one attack, watching as the blade bites deeply into the soft tissue of the midsection. He makes it a several inches in before he spins and slices the blade out. At that moment, the insides of the man decide to just drop to the ground and the rain only barely covers the smell of an opened bowel.
Shigeoki turns his back with the completion of his spin and lets the rain wash over him as he stands there breathing heavily, eyes closed and body hunched from the exertion of that last strike.
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