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As far as "power-playing" goes in battles, it really depends on how you play your hand. The idea is that you cannot have your character strike your opponent without permission. This leaves you with a few options:

1) Describe what your char does and then wait and see if the other person decides to take the hit or not. Note that under this practice it is discouraged or seen as "cheap" if you dodge everything and make your character seem like a god. See also; Aizen from Bleach.

2) Send a private message to the person and determine beforehand the rules you want to go by. You can decide which character will win and who will lose, or if it will be a stalemate, or if something else will interrupt part-way through. You can request that your character wins/loses and give your reasons for why this should happen ("my character is a few years older and is thus more experienced" or "something important will happen if my character wins"), or you can flip a coin or roll dice or play rock-paper-scissors to determine who will win. It's best if you could get a third part to witness the the coin/dice toss so that there's a witness. Ideally, though, you don't want people observing the fight to know what will happen until you write it out, that way there is still suspense!

3) Integrate ideas from both methods. Decide what works for you and agree upon something with the other party.

4) Decide by logic based upon the characters' fighting experience, personalities, and health factors. As mentioned before, if one character is a magic teacher and the other is a cocky student trying to upstart the teacher, I would expect the experienced professional to win. Of course, that isn't always the case, so it's generally best to talk it out amongst yourselves.

5) You can also agree amonst yourselves if you can say what the other person's character does. If you say what the person does WITHOUT PERMISSION in ANY SETTING then this is power-playing/godmodding. But with permission it is absolutely fine, of course. You should probably say [in brackets] that the person is fine with you controlling his/her character.

Here is an example of a roleplay battle between my character (Sethieron) and the lovely Winny-chan's (Elon). We discussed beforehand how we wanted the battle to go in general and then added description as we went. We even role played for each other's character. The fight starts a few posts down.

http://animatriangle.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=westisles&action=display&thread=30&page=1

[This role play is based upon the Fire Emblem video game series and is a scene that I am rather proud of. Epic archer duels ftw!]

I hope that clears things up somewhat, Nadindel. If you've any more questions about role play battling, be sure to ask.

Point well made, Chels. We did not plan out every single sentence or move in the battle beforehand; rather, Elon/Winny and I put out some ideas to each other and fitted them together, and then added our own spontaneous descriptions for each post. I'm glad we decided to allow each other to control our characters because I got to see her perspective of my character and vice versa.

I also like to plan out my battles so that I know what part it will play in the plot. that way I spend less time worrying about the end result and can spend more time thinking up good descriptions of how the fight plays out.

Don't take my word for it but I believe it was 3. Things may have changed since I was crew.
When I was crew I used to give people some leeway. Not so much on one liners, but say something like godmodding. Just a little reminder in a tagged ooc comment ie : (Watch your godmodding) and such. Especially if its a newer player who isn't quite familiar with the workings. You'll find that most people never knew they were doing such a thing and will look to you to teach them to get better at it. It's not something most people do intentionally. However, there are the ones who just continuously abuse the rules and that's when they'd get serious warnings.
disclaimer don't take the above as solid Golden rule. Once again, I reiterate that this is how I treated roleplayers when I was on crew. Current Crew members could give you a more current, concrete answer. But I hope this helps anyhow!

Yeah, I'd say that's definitely grounds for a strike. I would cross check it with Ai or Kurai though to be sure. If she's deliberately being stubborn and continuing in that manner, it's a clear violation of the rules.