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iStoleYurVamps rolled 1 20-sided dice:
17
Total: 17 (1-20)
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iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 10:28 pm
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Seussi rolled 1 20-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-20)
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 11:00 pm
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Shaheen was no stranger to earning rank through the spilling of blood, countless hours of hard work and training, and yes, a lot of sweat. She had worked hard for her title of Chieftain. She had learnt every aspect of battle that there could possibly be learnt. She had fought and practiced and had mastered every weapon that was placed in her hand, often going until her hands were too chafed, blistered, cracked and bleeding to continue on.
But that seemed like such a long time ago, now. Even if she had only been very newly risen to her position before the fall of the islands, the time since then felt like decades to her. And if one thing had been made abundantly clear in the last few months it was that she no longer deserved the title that had been bestowed upon her. She had nothing left anymore. Her shattered pride, her wounded ego, her faded sense of self respect. All gone, leaving her with nothing more then whispers in her head and a grey tainted appearance.
She could not give up, however. Not yet. She could work towards becoming what she once was. She could put herself through a vigorous training regime once more. She earn back everything that she had squandered. And then..then she would find a cure to the insanity that continued to plague her, and rise up higher then she had been, hopefully by becoming better then she ever was.
And so she had been looking for somebody who might be willing to train with her, her wanderings bringing her to the all too familiar conquest encampment, her golden eyes settling on a small horsewoman whom she remembered from Fright Night, and who she also recalled speaking to about a future spar. She stood back to watch her for a time, admiring the way she wielded her weapon, weighing and judging her skillful mastery of the bow and arrow before moving forward, and calling out towards her.
"Hello, Lan. Would you like to take me up on that offer to spar, today?" She was already summoning her dagger to hand, eager to begin, and not wasting any time on idle chit chat.
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iStoleYurVamps rolled 2 8-sided dice:
7, 7
Total: 14 (2-16)
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iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 11:40 pm
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Another target, she hit dead center. It made her ego feel good, getting such prefect strikes but it did nothing for experience. Nothing for skill. Congrats, if you were shooting at a corpse they would be double dead. There was no excuse for her not just finding someone and demanding they fight her, or run back and forth as her target. (she still wondered if that would be all that frowned upon. The halloweeners were supposed to be helping them right? Being targets was fine, they would just reform or something later).
She wanted a challenge, she wanted to fight someone, anyone, just to feel like she was making progress. Even if she lost, at least then it would be experience. Something to look back on and examine. To improve upon. She was to master being a soldier. Then she could resume other things with confidence. Or maybe at least go into battle and not feel like she would be letting everyone down. The voice that drew her from her thoughts took a second but gold eyes moved to the horsewoman. "Shaheen. I have actually been seeking someone for such a thing." Smiling like they were not about to try and harm each other, Lan just brought up her bow and fired.
"Moving target are better. I've found this to be true, even if we lack targets."
HP: 40 Dmg: 8
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Seussi rolled 2 8-sided dice:
3, 5
Total: 8 (2-16)
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 11:54 pm
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iStoleYurVamps rolled 2 8-sided dice:
5, 6
Total: 11 (2-16)
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iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 12:18 am
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Seussi rolled 2 8-sided dice:
2, 4
Total: 6 (2-16)
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 12:34 am
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Limited supplies? Yes, that might account for how far Shaheen had let herself slide these past few months. Though if she were being honest, she might not have nodded along with Lan's words, and might instead have spoken of how they were only limited by themselves. But no, she kept that to herself for the moment, clenching her teeth against Lan's newest attack before taking another swipe with her dagger and pushing herself back, though her blade might have only managed to barely slice through the fabric of the conquest nobles adornment.
"You mean the students?" She assumed that's what Lan meant by 'natives'.
"I have found them to be more then accommodating when approached for a spar." Not that she was exactly proud of the amount of times she had found herself face to face with a student for lack of a better opponent, but they did at least prove useful in that regard.
Until, of course, they defeated her. Then they were just overstepping themselves.
HP: 27 Damage: 0 (btw this is why she has such low self esteem, stupid troll dice)
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iStoleYurVamps rolled 2 8-sided dice:
4, 2
Total: 6 (2-16)
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iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 3:15 pm
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The slash to her dress did get a passing glance. Simple or not, vanity was vanity, and Lan carried the trait in spades. She was just glad she'd 'dropped' her habit of wearing what she normally would have during training. Full robes would come after she was more adept with battle. For now, she'd waste no fine silks of getting herself cut up for the sake of her pride. "Students, native, halloweeners, oh I imagine they would be accommodating for a spar, thinking they are even on par with us." A shake of her head, she hadn't a clue to Shaheen's troubles nor why. "But when I just need some targets to run about in the distance? Apparently this is 'cruel'. I do not see much difference in it really. We do the same to the humans, these... chits only redeem themselves by embracing their role and our rule."
An arrow sent, the noblewoman sighed. "They will always kneel in the end."
HP: 28 Dmg: the story of tih
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Seussi rolled 2 8-sided dice:
1, 4
Total: 5 (2-16)
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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 6:01 pm
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Shaheen might not have visibly winced, but she did so inwardly at the woman's words. Students would think they were even more on par with the horsemen now, because the war chieftain had pretty much seen to that. Maybe one day she would be able to redeem herself, and prove the thought wrong, but she wasn't there yet and it would be foolish to challenge the boil again when she was still clearly so far off from being at her peak.
"While I have no problem in using humans in such a way, treating the 'natives' as you so put it in the same manner makes little sense. Well, unless they have aligned themselves with the humans." Like that girl who had cornered tried to tell Shaheen that she should no longer harm humans.
"But the others, the initiates, they are helping us. It wouldn't do any good to start shooting at them with arrows and driving them away, would it? They're harvesting Fear just as we are, and if what Medea has shown us can be believed..." She shrugged, seeing no reason to continue on in that line of thought. While she harbored no feelings of sentimentality towards the students or the other denizens of Halloween in general, she could not help but notice that they could be useful at times. One had to learn when and where it was appropriate to pick a battle. This was not the time, the place, or the right people.
The chieftain spun to the side as the arrow tore by, releasing her dagger in a throw towards the other woman as she did so, hoping to hear it tear through cloth and connect with flesh but finding herself quite disappointed.
HP: 27 Damage: 0
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iStoleYurVamps rolled 2 8-sided dice:
8, 6
Total: 14 (2-16)
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iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 5:29 pm
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Seussi rolled 2 8-sided dice:
6, 3
Total: 9 (2-16)
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Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 11:44 pm
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iStoleYurVamps rolled 2 8-sided dice:
4, 8
Total: 12 (2-16)
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Seussi rolled 2 8-sided dice:
7, 6
Total: 13 (2-16)
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 2:57 pm
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Shaheen had just enough time to see the conquest woman raising her bow, but in a maneuver that was definitely not meant for shooting arrows. She couldn't move out of the way fast enough, and felt the stinging slap of the bow against her cheek, sending her reeling backwards and to the side.
She stumbled to a stop, one hand raising to her face, a bit of blood dribbling out from the corner of her mouth and running down to her chin as her face broke into a smile, her hair eyes flashing gold and her hair falling in tangles, strands of it obscuring her vision.
"Nice move." She complimented, before throwing herself forward again, slashing out with her dagger once more.
HP: 13 Damage: 4
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iStoleYurVamps rolled 2 8-sided dice:
3, 2
Total: 5 (2-16)
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Seussi rolled 2 8-sided dice:
3, 4
Total: 7 (2-16)
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iStoleYurVamps rolled 2 8-sided dice:
1, 2
Total: 3 (2-16)
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iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 2:44 am
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