Description: A Mountain of Meat. Watch as Tenma grosses out his teammate! Be awed at Haggar's mighty sausage! Thrill as we reach the meaty conclusion! (Winners: Flora/Tenma)
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak stares missiles into Tenma
[OOC] Tenma says, "Clearly Haggar sets, then."
Igniz has arrived.
[OOC] Igniz says, "MEAT"
Ssssnip.
The twin blades of the enormous scissors part the fine fabric of the large yellow ribbon tied across the double doors of Mayor Mike's Mansion of Meat. Each half, now separate, slowly glides downward through the air, until each ribbon hangs more or less plumb to the ground, occasionally disturbed by rushes of wind.
The scissors themselves are a custom job, built for this very function, with little ornamentation - plain grey blades, black plastic handles, with the Haggar coat of arms inscribed at the point where the blades join: two clasped hands with the sun and moon hanging over them, above a mountain range. The inscription beneath reads, in latin, "Strength through eternity."
The owner of Mayor Mike's Mansion of Meat is himself a large man, another former professional wrestler whose tastes turned to business. Rick Dunsmith, whose most well-known gimmick was 'The Butcher', is a man who has let comfortable living fill out his once formidable frame, light brown hair thinning, a pair of jowls formed on his face from years of joviality - but his hand is every bit the match of the one that clasps his now. Mayor Mike Haggar, chin freshly shaved, hair impeccably combed, mustache bristling with patriarchal power, grins to his old co-worker and former professional rival as he pumps his hand, and the two men pause to share a manhug with much clapping of backs. The crowd roars appreciatively - and then the SNF camera crew rushes in to set up for the match. There is but one more thing to do.
Haggar produces a microphone from behind his back, handing off the scissors to an assistant as he makes a gesture to the crowd. "MY FELLOW METROERS!" Big pop. Feel it. "My father used to tell me, back when I was a young man, 'Son. Never cook a piece of meat without making sure it's well-tenderized.' Well, I've always listened to every word my pop told me, and in there is a whole lot of uncooked meat! Lamb, pork, beef, chicken, just waiting for someone to get in there and pound it up. There are two young fighters in there as well, waiting for their shot at a great fight! Tenma Kiryu and Flora Akahana!" At first there's a smaller pop for the two younger fighters, but Haggar doesn't let that go, waving his hands, getting the crowd to go louder and louder. "Well, my pop said a lot of things, but I've got one too. You can't be a great fighter... without going through some tenderizing of your own."
Haggar flings the microphone behind him, and grabs the shoulders of his suit jacket. With a single pull, the fabric tears away, revealing a tight black tanktop, and a single suspender. The crowd goes wild as the Mayor of Metro turns around, pulling a pair of fingerless gloves from his pocket, working his hands into them as he steps until the Mansion.
It is now go time.
COMBATSYS: Haggar has started a fight here on the left meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Tenma has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Haggar 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Tenma
COMBATSYS: Flora has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Haggar 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Tenma
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|-------\-------\0 Flora
M.Bison has arrived.
Marisol has arrived.
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "mari-chan you missed my glorious opening pose"
"There's no way this is sanitary," says Tenma Kiryuu, staring up at the mountain of uncooked meat, and when the guy who fights by throwing BLOOD all over the place says that, it might be worth considering. Standing in the wings - as it were - from inside the 'mansion', presumably alongside his partner for this event, the leader of the Guardian Kings watches Mayor Mike give his speech with idle curiousity; as a teenager, he's too cool to be openly impressed by adults, especially authority figures. It's in the union rules.
His right arm only recently fully healed from having gotten rather hellaciously broken by his best friend's grandfather, Tenma nevertheless seems to be ready to go, the bloody aura already radiating from his bokken where it rests against his shoulder. He knows full well he needs to bring his A game here, Mike Haggar being something of a household name wherever you go, but he is - as per usual - quite confident of his own abilities. It's his partner that worries him.
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "you'll never forgive yourself now"
[OOC] Marisol says, "paste it to me :("
[OOC] Marisol ROFL
Oh, God, Flora thinks. This is /way/ too much publicity.
The absolute number of people here is probably actually smaller than some of her fights. She's been in Masters Stadium, she's gotten to go up against some realy big-name fighters, but they didn't seem so crowded or big or...just, well, popular.
Tenma is probably right to be worried. She's hunched a little and generally looks rather nervous, holding her long weapon (staff? bow? YOU DECIDE) loosely. Every once in a while she runs a finger over the fletching of one of the blunted arrows she has in her quiver.
Also, she's hungry. Too bad nothing in there is cooked. She'd eat it in the hope it calmed her down a little.
Geese has arrived.
[OOC] Igniz says, "oh hai guieese"
The doors of the store are wide, but Mike Haggar comes close to filling them as he moves through, shoving them open. Some of the crowd charges him behind him, parts of the place cordoned off for audience, but big TVs set up outside bring the show to people not lucky enough to get in, stuck outside in the chill autumn air.
The big man smooths his mustache with his thumb as he looks at the two fighters. He's seen Tenma before when he can actually spare the time to chew through his TiVo'd SNF backlog, but hasn't actually caught anything of Flora's before. Some of his people assure him that she's good, though. The Mayor shoots them a grin as he plants his feet wide, hooking one thumb under his suspender to snap it against his chest before putting his hands out, ready to grab and slam. "Alright, kids... let's give 'em a show! Come on!"
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "You guys go first because Haggar is friend to children"
Dark blue eyes glance over at Flora, before Tenma lets them slide close, and exhales a sigh. "Honestly, Stringbean. Just relax, you're makin' me nervous." He rolls his neck, turning his attention to Haggar, and the mountain of assorted meats, before he speaks again to Flora, this time without looking back at her. "You're supposed to be an archer, ain't ya? So show 'em some of that focus. Maybe you won't embarass yourself!"
He's trying to be encouraging, honest. It's just... Well, he's Tenma Kiryuu.
As for Haggar, and giving the fans a show, well... Tenma's mouth pulls into a slow, lazy smirk as he regards the frankly enormous Mayor of Metro City. "You asked for it," he informs the older man, suddenly swinging his bokken off of his shoulder in a blurring-fast sweep straight down. It's too far, of course, to possibly hit Haggar... But that's not the point. In the wake of the slash, a red afterimage follows the blade, and from that afterimage is born a crescent of roiling blood, tearing through the air on a collision course with Big Mike his own self. "Haa-!!"
[OOC] Flora returns from a wrestling match with a broken can opener and a can of coffee.
Focus. Right. "Uh," Flora says, right before Haggar decides to posture and call for them to come on.
She doesn't do anything for a moment, still somewhat startled and unable to concentrate or focus. Tenma rushing is what brings her back to her senses, and Flora jerks straight, no longer hiding her actual height (for the moment, anyway).
Reaching for her quiver, Flora pulls out one of the blunted arrows she likes to use - no blood in her fights, that's why Tenma's chi grosses her out so. She takes aim at Haggar with it in a high, arcing shot, dropping it down toward his shoulders or back as she tries to shoot around Tenma and also not hit any beef.
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "geese i'm going to kill you for putting me up against projectilers"
COMBATSYS: Haggar blocks Tenma's Dharmapala.
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Haggar 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Tenma
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[OOC] Geese Howard, as played by Michael Cera, says, "man you make such assumptions based on first round actions"
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "ONE OF THEM IS AN ARCHER"
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "ALL I'M SAYIN"
[OOC] Geese Howard, as played by Michael Cera, says, "AND THE OTHER"
[OOC] Geese Howard, as played by Michael Cera, says, "USES A SWORD"
[OOC] Geese Howard, as played by Michael Cera, says, "SUCH A PROJ WHORE WEAPON"
[OOC] Marisol says, "sword archer"
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "yeah but he shoots blood with the swrod! tenma is an expert of mixed messages"
[OOC] Marisol ROFL
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "i still don't know if he wants me to sleep with him or not"
[OOC] Flora says, "To be fair, I use a staff more than half the time."
[OOC] Geese Howard, as played by Michael Cera, says, "the answer is yes, mayor cheesesteak"
[OOC] Flora says, "Just...not yet. ALSO LET'S GO SHOOT MEAT"
[OOC] Flora says, "If I miss I will have shot the food"
COMBATSYS: Flora successfully hits Haggar with Strong Shot.
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Haggar 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Tenma
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|-------\-------\0 Flora
Haggar's grin turns into a tight line as Tenma shoots some, uh, blood at him. Kids today have no respect for a good fist-fight! Every time he turns his back they're coming up with weirder things to shoot. Already regretting his tendency to let the young bucks take the first shot, Haggar bounds forward at the arc of red, crossing his arms in front of him to take the blow on meaty arms.
Man meets blood with a sizzle, the force twisting Haggar in the air and arresting his forward movement. A line of angry red welt stands out where the wave hit him. Haggar doesn't even notice the far more sedate arrow streaking toward him behind the showy attack, and he snaps his head to the side too late, the blunt tip glancing off his temple and staggering him over into a long rope of sausages.
Grimly, the Mayor reaches up to the sausages, pulling them from the hook they rested upon, folding the rope once upon itself and clutching the ends in both hands, leaving a large, blunt loop, thick with delicious juices. So armed, he takes one big step forward, making a lot of progress in little time and chopping both arms across at the shorter kid, with the blood and the crazy. He isn't quite close enough to land the blow as-is - that's what the sausages are for!
[OOC] Tenma says, "Aw, what the hell, you only live once."
COMBATSYS: Tenma endures Haggar's Double Lariat.
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Haggar 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Tenma
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|-------\-------\0 Flora
[OOC] Marisol hands Tenma his lungs. :(
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "oh jesus his head came off!"
[OOC] Igniz says, "Haggar I believe in you"
Igniz has disconnected.
Igniz has connected.
[OOC] Igniz says, "Haggar I believe in you!"
[OOC] Igniz says, "also I missed whath appened"
[OOC] Igniz says, "What happenjed"
At least he seems to have put some of the spirit back into Flora... Tenma didn't really fancy the tall girl standing around like a lump for the whole fight. Now, there's just one particularly pressing concern: Haggar is coming right at him. There is no part of that sentence which isn't at least a little bit worrisome.
Still, Tenma is nothing if not willing to take patently ridiculous risks, so when Haggar swings sausages at him, the Guardian King lunges /into/ the attack, and he gets hit pretty hard for his troubles, lean body rocking visibly with each powerful strike. "Ghf," he mutters, because that was not particularly comfortable. Still, it doesn't quite /stop/ the Gedo swordsman, who grits his teeth and cowboys up, and other such cliches.
Raising his chi-emanating bokken over his head, Tenma goes toe to toe with the Mighty Mayor, swinging the wooden blade down in a diagonal slash aimed across the wrestler's torso, letting the sword's momentum play out at the bottom of the slash before reversing the blade and then swinging back /up/, creating a narrow V-shape in the air and, ideally, giving Haggar two solid hits to content with. "Graaaah-!!"
Flora felt that from here and she wasn't even the one getting bludgeoned with sausages. She winces when they smack against him with thuds best described as...meaty.
She supposes it would be best if she didn't just leave him up there to be hit, but seriously, Mr. Haggar is not exactly someone she wants to get close to when he's trying to punch her. He's one of the few people she's seen who's taller than she is! That's frightening.
Flora edges around to one side, moving not toward the pile of meat but instead a bunch of hanging hams off to the side. She uses it as cover to hide her approach, only the occasional movement of one of the hams giving her location away (that and her hair; it sticks out a little overtop).
She comes out from the hams rather surprisingly, shouldering them aside as she comes in low, hooking with her curved staff to try to yank Haggar's feet out from under him! Ideally, this puts him toward Tenma, but Flora is rarely that lucky.
[OOC] Flora says, "LOOK, HAGGAR"
[OOC] Flora says, "NON-PROJECTILES"
COMBATSYS: Tenma successfully hits Haggar with Ungyou.
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|-------\-------\0 Flora
COMBATSYS: Flora successfully hits Haggar with Hooking Sweep.
- Power hit! -
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|=------\-------\0 Flora
Candy has arrived.
The sausages burst succulently on contact, showering Haggar and Tenma both with chunks and juices. Haggar snaps an entire flying link out of the air, his powerful jaw making short work of it. He nods in appreciation - it is very tasty. True men can appreciate their meat raw, and have the immune systems to back it up.
Now, the battle is in close, where Haggar believes he has the upper hand. However, he fails to treat Tenma's sword with the proper respect - his hand comes up to slap Tenma's weapon out of line and away from his center mass, but the chi swirling around it has other ideas! Haggar's hand snaps back, smoking, and two lines are sliced over his chest, burning through his tanktop and leaving his skin an angry red.
Distracted thusly, he is slow to react to Flora's abrupt appearance, and she goes for his legs. While Haggar's upper body and lower body are fairly balanced, getting his ankles pulled out from under him has the same effect that it does on any man, and he tries to throw out his arms to take it like a proper bump - but the sweep is too hard, and he hits all kinds of off-center, hitting his left shoulder hard with an audible crack and grunt against the floor, clearly dislocating the limb. Haggar rolls back to his feet, takes hold of his arm, and pops it back into place without even flinching. His eyes spark, not with anger, but with excitement. "Ha ha ha ha! Now this is a fight!"
Haggar takes a quick second to judge his opponents. He'll be better off fighting the girl tired - she's using conventional weapons, and hasn't broken out any of that chi nonsense. It's a sad fact that it is just a better idea to focus on the short one first, and Mike comes forth, sidestepping to put Tenma between himself and Flora, and slamming his arms out like a steel trap. This could get /wiiiild/.
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "more... if?!"
[OOC] Candy says, "oh god"
[OOC] Tenma says, "oh god"
[OOC] Candy agrees
[OOC] Igniz says, "OH YES"
[OOC] Candy says, "tenma nothing can save you now"
[OOC] Candy says, "do you mind if I take care of Shurui :)"
[OOC] Candy says, "I will be her friend like kula"
COMBATSYS: Haggar successfully hits Tenma with Screw Piledriver.
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Haggar 1/--=====/=======|=======\=====--\1 Tenma
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|=------\-------\0 Flora
[OOC] Tenma says, "didn't hurt"
[OOC] Flora says, "uh huh"
[OOC] Candy says, "it's okay guys he's alright"
Contact.
The Mayor wastes no time once he has a hold of Tenma, leaping up into the air, almost up into the ceiling, forward momentum carrying them over the pile of meat. Haggar twists as he jumps, and the two of them spin rapidly, the sheer power of the whole thing causing the air to twist visible around them because visual effects are important.
In this position, Haggar can easily have his way with Tenma's nubile body, twisting him upside-down, pulling his own legs up, and shoving Tenma's head down beneath them. The two then corkscrew powerfully into the massive mound of miscellaneous meats, mashing many and making a mighty meltdown, making missiles of meat, many minor mounds materializing about the mansion's floor.
Moxious!
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "SUPER ALLITERATION"
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "18-HIT COMBO"
[OOC] Geese Howard, as played by Michael Cera, says, "shazam"
Oh dude that is the grossest thing that has ever happened in the history of anything.
Tenma tried, he honestly tried, to blunt the impact of Mike Haggar's mighty grasp, but it was pretty futile. So instead, he ends up a part of that titanic collision with the mountain of miscellaneous meats, and... Doesn't seem to be coming back out of there anytime soon, courtesy of that rather impressive piledriver.
There's just one thing, though: Raw meat tends to still, y'know, have blood in it.
So, wherever Big Mike ends up after possibly murdering Tenma Kiryuu, there's a low rumble from the direction of the meat mountain that ISN'T a mayor, one that goes on for a few seconds before something really, really, entirely and completely disgusting happens: A whole lot of blood comes raging out of the mound in torrents, from chickens and turkeys and pigs and cows, mixed together with a heaping helping of regular ol' human blood, forming into innumerable draconic shapes wrought out of blood and chi that seek to converge directly on Mike Haggar, intent on laying the Hero of Metro City low.
Also, probably grossing out everyone watching.
[OOC] Flora says, "Meanwhile, Flora gets a turn off due to staring increduously"
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "wait actually? i don't know this science"
[OOC] Flora says, "I'm posin', sorry for delay"
[OOC] Tenma says, "stab him in his black heart, flora!!"
[OOC] Igniz says, "I thought his heart was either red or pink depending on how you cooked it."
[OOC] Candy says, "They burned his heart"
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "my heart"
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "is immense"
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "with room for all the lovely citizens of metro city"
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "the only thing with more room is my bed slow wink"
That /really/ looked painful.
Flora is very glad that she wasn't the one being launched into a giant tower of meat. Beef goes everywhere. A pork chop goes past her ear, and a chicken breast smacks against her stomach, leaving a messy spot but no real injury. She can't get a clear view of anything through the mess.
She advances, slowly, moving toward the pile - before the pile explodes into a spray of blood, twisting and writhing into /shapes/. Flora lets out a sound halfway between a squeal and a shriek, draws an arrow, and fires it into the single largest lump she sees in there, jumping back at the same time to avoid getting sprayed. The arrow actually flickers into invisibility as she does, reappearing when it impacts with something.
That crap is /gross/.
[OOC] Flora says, "Oh I guess I can't quite do Secret Hunt"
[OOC] Flora says, "okay, have a normal"
[OOC] Igniz says, "suddenly, haggar gained 100 reflex"
COMBATSYS: Haggar blocks Flora's Long Shot.
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|=------\-------\0 Flora
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "gnnhrnrnhnarhRHNRNHNRHNRNHNRHN"
COMBATSYS: Haggar endures Tenma's Hell of Blood.
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Haggar 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=====--\-------\0 Tenma
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|=------\-------\0 Flora
[OOC] Tenma says, "uh oh"
[OOC] Flora says, "uh oh is right"
[OOC] Igniz says, "uh ha"
ODROP::Igniz goes somewhere else.
Haggar rebounds immediately after landing on the floor through all of the meat, bouncing far back to land in a rain of steaks and hams. He gives his head a mighty shake to clear eyes, hair, and 'stache of blood, slapping his chest twice to clean off his hands, and drops back into his stance with a bellowed "HOOYEAH!" The crowd eats it right the hell up.
But then, they also eat it right up when Tenma's massive dragons of blood come flying out! That's damn cool looking! That's craaaazy! And as for grossing out... Tenma, Tenma, Tenma, most of these people are pro wrestling fans. They don't have gross-out levels. The blood crashes in on Haggar, obscuring him from sight, striking simultaneously along with Flora's arrow.
The crowd parts to allow the attack to hit the wall behind, cracking it with the impact of likely it and the Mayor himself. However, the savvy might notice one of the chains on the ceiling moving... and rocketing forward. Roaring, the Mayor suddenly explodes out of the torrents of chi, gripping Flora's arrow in one reddened palm. His other hand grips onto the chain, his legs planted on a large side of beef. His body is burned, blood trailing from him in rivulets, and he gives one great swing on the beef before springing off of it, one hand slamming out, a red aura around him, stabbing at the forehead of...
--oh no!
[OOC] Flora says, "Well"
[OOC] Candy says, "LIIIIIIIVE"
[OOC] Flora says, "I /had/ been going to try to counter something thrown at me, but I go down the list:"
[OOC] Flora says, "0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0"
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "maybe it'll crit?"
[OOC] Flora says, "I'll let Tenma go. Then I'll FIND OUT."
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "b-but it's a more if"
[OOC] Flora says, "Oh"
[OOC] Flora says, "Well then FINE"
[OOC] Tenma says, "man up, flora!!"
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "SEIZE THE DAY"
[OOC] Flora says, "I'll do the thing that has ACTUAL PERCENTAGES"
COMBATSYS: Haggar successfully hits Flora with Giant Swing.
*KNOCKED AWAY*
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|=======\=======\1 Flora
[OOC] Flora says, "it's okay, it only did 81"
[OOC] Tenma says, "saaaavaaaaaage"
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "damn"
[OOC] Flora says, "I'm pretty beefy, it comes from being big."
[OOC] Helios says, "BEEF SUPREEEEEME."
The strike to the forehead is powerful, but it is not the focus.
No, Haggar immediately skids to a stop, bending down to scoop up Flora's legs, continuing to slide a few feet along the bloody ground as his legs pump, pivoting his weight into a tight circle (As Haggar is a gentleman, he turns his head aside, lest he glimpse the Lady's Secret beneath her skirt). "Now... y'know... you can't be a good fighter until you've taken yer lumps and gotten nice and dirty!" Faster and faster he spins, until he and Flora are both blurring to the normal eye, like a massive top spun by a titan.
"You'll thank me later, kid--!" Release! At this force, it's less 'being thrown' and more like 'being shot from a gun' as Flora sails into the spot Haggar just left, where Tenma's Hell of Blood made a big pile of castoff bits and quite a large puddle of the red stuff. The crowd goes near it not.
"Ugh," mutters a voice, as Tenma manages to pull himself out of the decimated meat mountain, slick with gore and smelling of raw beef. "Man, it smells like Pacific High in there." Getting his bearings, Tenma is just in time to see Flora get totally catapulted through the air by Big Mike, and can do little about it but watch with a horrified expression. Golly.
Still, what's Tenma to do after that, besides hope that he didn't get a concussion from Haggar's piledriver? Turning to look at the mayor, Tenma swings his bokken up to rest on his shoulder, and assumes an arrogantly relaxed posture, as best he can when he's covered in gibs from several species of edible livestock. "Shoot... That looked like it mighta stung a little bit."
COMBATSYS: Tenma gains composure.
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Flora doesn't say anything when she's being spun around.
That doesn't mean she's not making noise. She's actually screaming pretty impressively. There's just no words involved.
Flora goes flying, hits the pile, goes through the pile without appreciably slowing down, hits the floor, and rolls almost to the far wall. She curls up around her bow to avoid dropping it or breaking it, but she loses about half her arrows en route, leaving them scattered across the floor.
She stays down for a few moments and makes a rather pained groan before reaching up, using the counter to drag herself back up to her feet. Flora is literally dripping in places. She needs to burn those clothes because the stain isn't coming out.
She is also holding her bow as if she means to use it, three arrows held between her fingers before she looses them at Haggar, heedless of the bad angle or the fact that her hand is red to the wrist from where she tried to catch herself and only grabbed a rack of ribs. One of the blunted arrows has a chunk of pork stuck on it. It doesn't fly as well as the others.
In flight, those three arrows become six, then twelve, the extra copies shimmering green arrow-shaped projections of chi: guess you shouldn't have guessed she didn't do it after all.
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak crosses himself.
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak presses his hands together for a moment.
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak then--
COMBATSYS: Flora successfully hits Haggar with Thousand Flight.
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|====---\-------\0 Flora
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "d'aw"
[OOC] Candy says, "Does this mean."
[OOC] Candy says, "THROWING TENMA?"
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "we're using meat in this fight, not meatheads"
[OOC] Candy says, "oh ._."
[OOC] Flora says, "Huh, it actually worked"
[OOC] Flora says, "Normally Thousand Flight is, like, the least effective of maxes"
[OOC] Tenma says, "It can't be, it doesn't have Epic on it."
[OOC] Flora says, "Hey there, I get real good mileage out of my alt's Epic."
[OOC] Marisol says, "not tenma ha ha har"
[OOC] Tenma slaps Marisol right in the boob.
[OOC] Flora says, "Then again, it's Reigi no Ishizue, it'll either be horrible or awesome"
[OOC] Marisol :]
[OOC] Tenma says, "Sadly, Orochinagi has yet to hit anything since getting Epic instead of Prime."
[OOC] Flora says, "See, Reigi never had Prime."
[OOC] Flora says, "That's the difference."
[OOC] Flora says, "It was Signature though"
WHY IS IT ALWAYS CHI
That is not exactly going through Haggar's mind as the storm of glowing arrows comes for him, too beaten-up to care, adrenaline pumping too hard to think. He sees... one spot, one ridiculous move he can make to get through this - taking the hit is a bad idea at this point. The Meat Mountain moves, coming up from a kneel and charging right into the arrows. Haggar leaps, arms outstretched, and tries to twist through the air... right... here!
It doesn't work. He just couldn't get his big body QUITE high enough, and arrows pound into him even as he charges through them, creating great bruises, though his muscles are just too thick for them to break bones. He lands in a kneel again, sliding across the slick ground, grinning even as his vision starts going dark around the edges. These kids are good - looks like fighting's going to stay interesting even when he's finally too old for it.
...but he isn't too old yet.
Mike Haggar puts on another surge of energy, his hands suddenly lunging out for Tenma, a blue light flashing around him at the point of impact. With a great heave, he tries to fling him upward, with one battle cry!
"Roll the dice!"
COMBATSYS: Haggar has reached second wind!
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[OOC] Flora says, "oh crap"
[OOC] M.Bison says, "obviously I need to have SW too"
[OOC] Candy says, "nuuh"
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak goes to determine Tenma's potential fate in another window
[OOC] Flora says, "Your fate is 3, then 13."
[OOC] Tenma says, "embrace death"
COMBATSYS: Tenma interrupts Gamble Slam from Haggar with Head Breaker.
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Haggar 0/-------/---====|=======\===----\1 Tenma
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3 throws! 5 - Big Body Slam! 5 - Big Body Slam! 6 - Backbreaker!
Haggar does not wait for Tenma to land down, rather jumping right up to meet him. He catches him in the air, turns once, and then just unceremoniously flings him back down to the ground. He follows him right down, catching him on a hypothetical bounce to smash him down again. But then, when he grabs him one last time, lifting Tenma above his head and dropping to a kneel with one leg way out--?!
Pain. Lots of pain.
Haggar's terrific assault is probably nothing Tenma can offer a real defense against, so he doesn't... Even try. He's caught by the big mayor, and he gets flung into the air. Where he grins. Roll the dice? His sentiments exactly.
Through sheer stubborn cussedness, the Gedo swordsman rides out the painful assault, until he sees his opportunity. He's lifted over Haggar's head, and presumably on his way to a painful end, when he suddenly regains control and shifts his weight, landing heavily on his feet. "Get your... HANDS! OFF!!" the leader of the Guardian Kings bellows as he pushes himself off of the floor again, using his momentum and his proximity to Big Mike to deliver a mighty, lunging headbutt, bringing his surprisingly hard (it's probably full of rocks, which explains a lot) head right into Haggar's facemeats, with enough of an impact that he can at least get himself loose from the other fighter's grip before the wrestler does anything worse to him.
Flora is occupied right now.
She is picking chunks of meat from where they stuck to her shirt and jacket off with a rather horrified expression on her face. At least she doesn't do it for long; she just brushes the worst of it off before breathing in and out, trying to regain some of the focus she lost from a) surprise meat avalanche and b) shooting like that.
COMBATSYS: Flora gathers her will.
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Haggar 0/-------/---====|=======\=------\1 Tenma
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[OOC] Flora says, "Sorry for the delay there, cat made a mess, CLEANED IT UP"
Haggar's attack is regretfully (for him) halted - headbutting the Mayor is like headbutting a steel wall, but Tenma's head is at least an iron wall all on its own. Haggar rebounds away, stumbling back, hand lashing out to keep from falling and fastening on an incredible summer sausage, fully eight feet long, more for show than actual sale.
The fog threatens to swim over Haggar's vision once more, and he shakes his head to clear it. Blood swims from a tear in his forehead, courtesy of the Gedo student. Haggar pulls the sausage down, gripping it in both hands, before spinning it over his head like a tremendous staff. "Eat... this!" Mike Haggar takes a single step forward, sweeping the sausage ahead of him in a wide arc, sweeping at Tenma's chest.
COMBATSYS: Haggar can no longer fight.
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Candy has disconnected.
COMBATSYS: Tenma interrupts Random Weapon from Haggar with Dead End Breaker.
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COMBATSYS: Tenma can no longer fight.
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[OOC] Flora says, "I appear to be the only survivor."
[OOC] Flora dance
[OOC] M.Bison says, "no"
[OOC] M.Bison join, +dm/burst gigaton blow
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "Tenma I don't think I've ever had a fight with you that wasn't a DKO"
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "/as it should be/"
[OOC] Tenma says, "If we consider all my alts, there was the one at Strolheim the first."
No, Haggar. Tenma does not want to eat your eight foot summer sausage.
As the sassage is swung his way, Tenma actually starts rushing forward, and with a sweep of his bokken cuts /through/ the sausage, though it still hits him hard enough... But it doesn't stop him, oh no. No, he keeps coming right at Haggar, vision dimming as he advances on the mayor, bellowing at the top of his lungs to keep himself going. Once he gets /to/ the big man, he doesn't stop yelling, even as he slashes Haggar several times with his bokken, adding a few strikes with his fist and feet peppered amongst the slashes... And then, finally, he lunges for a /second/ headbutt at the titanic wrasslin' mayor, a thunderous strike that probably gets shown from various camera angles, before Tenma reels backwards, stumbles, slips in some pulverised ham, and falls right on his ass.
"Ow," he pronounces, as the energy aura on his bokken dissipates entirely.
ODROP::M.Bison goes somewhere else.
Flora stays right where she is. She's tense! She's ready for action! She's...
...the only one standing. "Um," Flora says, echoing her first word of the match, looking between Tenma and Haggar. "Well, uh, I guess..." She guesses people are staring at her. She reddens slightly (it's hard to tell at this point) and heads over to help one of them up, because Flora is a nice person and all that.
It's Haggar. She still doesn't forgive all the stringbean comments.
[OOC] Tenma :|
The final spray of bokken slashes decimate the front of Haggar's tanktop, though his suspender weathers them, leaving him mostly barechested for the final headbutt which impacts him right in the chest because his head is a lot higher than Tenma's. Still, with the Mayor already weakened and dazed, he loses his balance with it, and sails back through the air. He crashes into a large red drum, breaking it open and causing a fully-cooked turkey to drop out - a label on the drum proclaims it to be a 'Genuine Turkey Barrel', one of the Mansion's more experimental projects.
Haggar's left hand finds it, and with the last of his strength, he raises it to his mouth and takes a big generic bite of the meat. This gives him enough strength that Flora's attempt to help him up isn't a completely shameful spectacle, letting him at least get to his knees, breathing hard.
His hand disengages from Flora, and swoops up to pat her on the back with non-lethal force. "Ha ha! You kids... ain't half-bad." Haggar tears off the legs from the turkey, throwing one so it lands more or less on Tenma's face, offering the other to Flora. "Now eat up, get some protein in ya."
[OOC] Flora says, "Hey, barrel turkey."
Why would anyone put a fully cooked turkey in a barrel? This is one of the great questions of life which mere mortals may never be able to answer. For his part, though, Tenma just gets pegged in the face with a turkey leg, which is enough to knock him onto his back from his seated position.
Listening closely, one might hear his teeth grind.
"Thanks, I think," the Gedo gang member grits out finally, before taking the turkey leg in hand... And actually taking a bite out of it. He's kind of hungry after all of that, you know. Though one might wonder how Tenma can keep his appetite considering what he just went through.
Flora obtains a turkey leg.
Her stomach revolts. After all the blood? "I'll pass," she says, a little weakly. On the plus side, it /totally/ got rid of her flush. If anything, she's kind of pale now.
Flora takes a step back, then another - then darts, trying to get out of the crowd's view. Fortunately, it was already judged as a victory. She still looks like a bit of an idiot, though.
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "Then they all looked at the camera and laughed"
[OOC] Flora says, "It's true, I expect that."
[OOC] Mayor Cheesesteak says, "yaaaay i actually did a fight, the world is astounded"
[OOC] Tenma says, "It's a Christmas miracle!"
[OOC] Marisol is so proud of you Haggar. :(
ODROP::Haggar heads OOC.
ODROP::Tenma goes somewhere else.
[OOC] Flora says, ""
COMBATSYS: Flora has ended the fight here.
Log created on 16:57:32 10/12/2008 by Flora, and last modified on 17:37:50 10/31/2008.