2017-07-02: Lacour Tournament of Arms: Lemina v. June

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  • Log: Lacour Tournament of Arms: Lemina v. June
  • Cast: Lemina Ausa, June Lim Ze, Fei Fong Wong
  • Where: Lacour Arena
  • Date: 2 July 2017
  • Summary: June Lim Ze and Lemina Ausa represent Savage Slayer and Knockout in the second winners' round of the Lacour Tournament of Arms! But will this be a mage's victory, or will this tournament of arms prove to be a tournament... of ARMs?


<Pose Tracker> Lemina Ausa has posed.

We're getting into the second round of the Lacour Tournament of Arms, after a brief break to clean out the arena and set up some new exciting sponsor signage for the evening matches. This is, of course, fine with Lemina, whose sponsor is already in the losers' bracket. As far as she knows, her sponsor is either out, or -- given who he's fighting -- about to be, so she shall have to carry the Knockout torch.

In worse news, our usual commentary crew is out. Fortunately, there's a solution -- Edda, of the Savage Slayer, has a horse in the upcoming race and her own opponent forfeited, giving her a nice, easy bye.

"Well let's get right down to it, Armory Tournament fans! I know everyone else seems to have forgotten what the point of this tournament is in a spray of pyrotechnics and ARMs, but don't worry -- I remember what we're here for," she says, brightly.

"MUSCLES! AND! BLOOD! <3"

Lemina heads out of her ready-room, coming in from the western side of the arena. She looks a little ill-at-ease in the leather armor and Knockout tabard, but has her bow, at the very least, at the ready. Is she... an archer?

"Making her way into the arena -- from 'Vane,' wherever that is -- and representing Knockout, it's... Lemina Ausa!" There's a pause, before Edda adds, "Yikes. That armor is embarrassing. Did you dress yourself?"

Lemina makes a mouth-fart at the commentators' booth and follows it up with a series of rude hand gestures.

<Pose Tracker> June Lim Ze has posed.

June had to get styptiched up from her various cuts and gashes - had to restrap her hand back on - had to eat like a pound of fried tofu squares, take a quick trip under a bucket shower, take a nap... reload her leg...

Let Edda dress her again...

June is now back in her harness-and-tape look albeit with a bandage on her arm from where she got hit by Epsilon in the previous round. However, since it's evening now, even the arena lights are dim enough that she's foregone her sunglasses. She has that pink robe on again, though, the hem of it railing as she is walked in:

'And from Guild Galad, cutting a stylish and flexible look, it's the Cut Branch fighter - June Lim Ze~ That's LIM as in Limbo, not LIN as in LINCHPIN, as in the LINCHPIN of the new look on sale at the Savage Slayer -'

"Well you're more lively than that stiff last time," June says pleasantly, rocking her head back and forth. She looks at the bow - she looks different with her glasses off, more piercing, in a way. "Don't mind her. You ready?"

The five count begins. June rocks back on her slippered foot, shifting her weight between that and the prosthetic, until there is the sudden announcement of "FIGHT" --

And she lunges forwards. If Lemina is cunning she might see that June is going for a leg-sweep maneuver, much as she had for her starting gambit against Epsilon...

GS: June Lim Ze has attacked Lemina Ausa with The Basics of Cut Branch Style!
GS: June Lim Ze has completed her action.
GS: CRITICAL! Lemina Ausa critically Guards a hit from June Lim Ze's The Basics of Cut Branch Style for 28 hit points!
<Pose Tracker> Fei Fong Wong has posed.

Fei has come to watch this fight. He sits in the stands. He is given a wide berth.

"June and Lemina huh." He murmurs to himself. "It's tough when you don't really want either one of 'em to lose." Of course, one of them might be an upcoming opponent so it's a way to check up on the competition--though Fei likely doesn't see it like that.

<Pose Tracker> Lemina Ausa has posed.

"Mega-ready!" Lemina declares, with a easy grin. "You -- me -- let's... do... thiiiiiis?" Lemina's voice cracks a tiny bit and she's keenly embarrassed during the five count.

Life comes at you fast -- though usually it isn't quite so dubiously-dressed. Lemina has been haunting the crowd for many of the tournament matches -- so while June's form is impeccable, Lemina's ready with a low duck and a use of the buckler integrated into one of her vambraces. It's nice and light -- though Lemina doesn't have the strength to quite block perfectly.

"Not bad!" she says, weaving back from June. A quick, low hop -- that's Jean's training at work -- gets her a little space to draw her bow, take careful aim, and loose an arrow. "Good work earlier today, by the way," Lemina notes, still wearing that smile.

GS: Lemina Ausa has attacked June Lim Ze with Mystic Bow!
GS: Lemina Ausa has completed her action.
GS: June Lim Ze guards a hit from Lemina Ausa's Mystic Bow for 48 hit points!
<Pose Tracker> June Lim Ze has posed.

June has slightly different taboos here, so she looks at Lemina with bafflement during her embarrassment. Though Lemina's block is good, June thinks - she's going to be more of a problem than Epsilon, who seemed to be mostly about screaming and leaping and slashing --

Thwip! June twists out of the way, but not so fast as to avoid a scrape along the outside of her right leg, letting out a tight laugh that's more of a muffled groan than, you know, ha ha funny time.

"Good timing on the praise, too. I suppose that means I don't have any surprises in store for you, do I?" June 'admits,' even as she pushes herself upwards like she's coming out of a Downward Dog stance, feinting with her fist towards Lemina's abdomen. Just like before, except --

It actually is a feint.

What comes forth is a twisting roundhouse aiming to slam her prosthetic leg, with its cargo of gun's, into the side of Lemina right about liver height.

GS: June Lim Ze has attacked Lemina Ausa with Shotgun Kick!
GS: June Lim Ze has completed her action.
GS: Lemina Ausa takes a solid hit from June Lim Ze's Shotgun Kick for 119 hit points!
<Pose Tracker> Lemina Ausa has posed.

This time, Lemina's caught off guard; the feint catches her square-on, and even though she'd known the ARM attack was probably coming, she can't do anything about it. She goes flying from the kick, though the armor takes the worst of it.

Lemina pauses for a moment, keeping her stance low; she looks at her bow for a second, then says, "... Nah." She'd been able to get through Emil without using too many of her actual tricks -- but now she puts the bow away and gets down to brass tacks.

Hopping back again, Lemina retrieves a second weapon from her back -- a long, heavy staff -- and points it squarely at June. "It seems like you've still got a couple," she hisses, before letting loose with a cry of "Ice storm!" and a single, massive spike of ice aimed at chest height.

GS: Lemina Ausa has attacked June Lim Ze with Ice Lance!
GS: Lemina Ausa has completed her action.
GS: CRITICAL! June Lim Ze takes a glancing hit from Lemina Ausa's Ice Lance for 80 hit points!
GS: Mute! Statuses applied to June Lim Ze!
<Pose Tracker> June Lim Ze has posed.

The fact that she successfully launched a person makes June feel a little better about herself. She's in a more stable stance by the time Lemina swaps her bow out for the staff, saying with a grin, "Oh, yeah, probably-"

The staff comes out. And gets pointed right towards her... and...

"!!!"

June kicks off the ground with a different angle than before, throwing herself out of the way of the incoming spear of ice with sufficient enthusiasm that Lemina may get the feeling she is not much of a sorceror. Also, this puts a gouge on her LEFT thigh, as well as nicking one of the straps - fortunately this is a lot less nasty than just laying in at 'em with a knife.

"... Well, at least I'm symmetrical," June says from the ground, before twisting on her elbow and tossing herself forwards. Into... a cartwheel? This is not a typical sort of approach, but it has its advantages; there is a narrow side-wise angle for Lemina to possibly perforate as she closes the gap, and at the end of the second rotation she leaps up.

She doesn't get as much air as Epsilon, but that out-massed leg is brought up and slammed down again in an effort to leg-drop Lemina extremely thoroughly.

GS: June Lim Ze has attacked Lemina Ausa with Axe Breaker!
GS: June Lim Ze has completed her action.
GS: Lemina Ausa critically Guards a hit from June Lim Ze's Axe Breaker for 27 hit points!
<Pose Tracker> Lemina Ausa has posed.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Lemina asks in a moment of wild misinterpretation, as she reaches for yet another implement -- this one is an umbrella! She brings it forward to meet June's leg, and it's shockingly well-reinforced; she presses off of the leg-drop to one side, breathing a brief sigh of relief as she finds her footing again.

She takes a moment to consider her options carefully -- but it's only a moment. She puts the umbrella away again for now, focusing her thoughts on her staff. "All right -- so you're mega-fast, and mega-tough... but let's see how you like this!"

She swings the staff up in a broad arc, and across its length, a crescent-shaped gout of flame forms. As the staff points to the sky, the wave of flame it leaves behind flies out toward June, threatening to do -- well, what fire does. Lemina's starting to feel the pressure of constantly ceding ground, though -- she might need to find a way to get back on June's opposite side before too long, so she has some more space to backpedal in...

GS: Lemina Ausa has attacked June Lim Ze with Firestrike!
GS: Lemina Ausa has completed her action.
GS: CRITICAL! June Lim Ze takes a solid hit from Lemina Ausa's Firestrike for 128 hit points!
GS: Mute! Statuses applied to June Lim Ze!
<Pose Tracker> June Lim Ze has posed.

An umbrella!? June looks distinctly bonetrouseled at the resilience of this defensive maneuver, though the complements make her smile a little, almost idiotically, in reply. Before she can answer Lemina, she swings the staff and finds out her answer:

SHE HATES IT

The bursting backpressure of flame sends June recoiling backwards. Her almost total lack of armor, maneuverable as it may make her, now means that her own precious skin is being singed and burned! She does not actually *catch* fire at least, but Lemina has room to maneuver now.

Exhaling with shaky force, June clenches her fists. Yes, both of them.

"So your big advantage is range, huh," June breathes.

She doesn't mention that she DOES have one big ranged weapon, but perhaps Lemina would remember it. Maybe she wouldn't.

Either way June starts to dash forwards. It is a ground-closing thing; she devours the space between them like it was those tofu squares she's been powering herself on. She knows that Lemina has bows, has magic, but that if she's close enough it won't matter--

And NOW that strategy does come back, the same one she used against Epsilon. Or rather, earlier - because she's still aiming to work that abdominal section! And of course this time around she's using her artificial fist.

GS: June Lim Ze has attacked Lemina Ausa with Weaponized Tummy Rub!
GS: June Lim Ze has completed her action.
GS: CRITICAL! Lemina Ausa takes a solid hit from June Lim Ze's Weaponized Tummy Rub for 138 hit points!
GS: June Lim Ze takes Cover! She gains 50 temporary hit points!
<Pose Tracker> Lemina Ausa has posed.

Lemina has not forgotten that ranged weapon -- though she might not realize how much range it has, given how it was used against her not too long ago. "That's right!" Lemina says brightly, taking a moment to stabilize herself -- only to end up making her situation much worse as a result. She has nowhere to backpedal to -- and she gets pummeled right in the abdomen as a result, letting out a high-pitched scream.

Edda, needless to say, is having a blast.

Lemina hits the ground with a wince... but elects to make the best of her present downed state, rolling to the side before she gets up. She has a little more room to work now -- and a little is all she needs for this particular trick.

"But my real advantage -- is mega-magic... magic! Let me show you how it's done!" She spikes the end of her staff into the ground, and cries out, "Freeze Claw!"

There's a wintry chill for a moment -- and then the actual attack comes. A massive whirl of ice spins around June, encircling her first from the back -- and actually ripping her toward Lemina. Then, it turns right back around the other way, icy talons threatening to shove June all the way back away, buying Lemina the space she wants -- and possibly slamming June into a wall besides.

GS: Lemina Ausa has attacked June Lim Ze with Freeze Claw!
GS: Lemina Ausa has completed her action.
GS: June Lim Ze guards a hit from Lemina Ausa's Freeze Claw for 161 hit points!
<Pose Tracker> June Lim Ze has posed.

June loathes Edda with the fury of exactly seventeen suns as ice runs up her spine in a most literal way. She has been out on cold mornings, of course, so she knows what cold IS. But being ramped forwards like this -

I have to strike before I'm thrown completely clear, June thinks, leaning forwards, swinging her left leg around despite the cold and icy embrace - twisting it forwards to point the two barrels at Lemina as she gets as close as she can. She manages to snap out a kick as she's at it, but it's not as full-bodied as the others. After that, just the GUN.

Her hand fumbles blindly behind herself in order to get a handful of the spiky frost waves biting into her back, producing such condensed and magical manifestations of the energy and water of Filgaia behind her. (Well, maybe not the energy of Filgaia. Shh.) The first blast of the shotgun pair is completely blank - just a wave of force and some dummy wadding washing out at Lemina, though the wadding may be a surprise.

After that she hikes her leg up, raising the handful of ice and dropping it right down the front.

Then she lowers it again, head tilting back...

FWAM

The ice is not going to last long in the heat and stress of a shotgun's barrel. But it doesn't have to last long at all - just long enough.

Of course it is equally likely this will just gently mist Lemina in a very refreshing way. Improvisation... isn't always a key to victory.

GS: June Lim Ze has attacked Lemina Ausa with Thunder Hits Your Face!
GS: June Lim Ze has completed her action.
GS: CRITICAL! Lemina Ausa critically Guards a hit from June Lim Ze's Thunder Hits Your Face for 51 hit points!
<Pose Tracker> Lemina Ausa has posed.

The wadding is a surprise -- but rather than getting Lemina to flinch, it puts her on guard for the second assault, and makes her redouble her magical effort in the pursuit of ice claws. She pushes through with her return strike, and rather than shatter or melt, the ice holds -- she's still stinging from that first blast of force and wadding, of course, but it's not nearly as bad as it... could have been.

Lemina takes the opportunity to press her advantage, now; she's got strong positioning and a great vantage point, though her body's starting to ache. She needs to finish this fast -- and she knows just how to do it.

She twirls her staff mightily, then raises it to the sky. "That's a really good trick -- we don't have anything like that on Lunar!" she declares. "But let me show you something I know you don't have here, okay?"

With a mighty pwong!! her staff contacts the ground, and a giant spike of ice forms on the head; magic swirls around it, honing it to a fine point that -- were it not for the wards on the arena -- would probably be killing.

The speed it takes on is impressive, too -- almost enough to make a sonic boom.

GS: Lemina Ausa has activated a Force Action!
GS: You have activated the Force Action Lock On!
GS: Lemina Ausa has activated a Force Action!
GS: You have activated the Force Action Snipe!
GS: Lemina Ausa has attacked June Lim Ze with Ice Lance!
GS: Lemina Ausa has completed her action.
GS: CRITICAL! June Lim Ze takes a solid hit from Lemina Ausa's Ice Lance for 156 hit points!
GS: Mute! Statuses applied to June Lim Ze!
GS: June Lim Ze has Fallen! She is no longer able to fight!