Description: Dry heat, humidity, and a gigantic pile of sand. SNF finds Faolan and Reese in the middle of the Sahara Desert. If the heat doesn't kill them before the fight is over, the sandstorm might. (Winner: Reese)
Welcome to the Sahara. It is not a pleasant place to be to be honest. To be honest Faolan can think of several other places he would rather be including some hellholes like swimming in the Ganges or visiting New Jersey. That certainly goes to show how bad this place can be. Still that is where the Ikari was required to be for his fight so there he was with canteen in one hand and his bata in another.
"Hope we can get started soon. Ready to get out of the heat and into someplace proper." he mumbles under his breath. He is dressed in his usual gear aside from the fact he is wearing a bandana over his face to keep wisps of sand from getting up his nose and in his mouth. He idly taps his bata off his shoulder and he looks to the nearby staffer that is setting up his camera. "I understand a lady has to make herself look good, but does she have to take this long?" he asks only to get a helpless shrug in response.
Deserts? Pah. Reese has been in far worse places than the dry, sandy heat of the Sahara. When one has to spend hours upon hours at an archaeological dig, brushing old dirt off of older bones... well as much as she loves that? That can be worse. The drive out there was perfect, just a slight breeze in the air. Just enough to blow off her hat and cause her ponytail to pull loose.
All the while, she's been smiling.
"We are in the middle of the Sahara," she replies as she tips up the canteen and sips at it. "It'll be hours before you're back in civilization, mate." Recapping the canteen, she tosses it into the jeep. Then she brushes her fingers through her hair and ties it back up tightly. "Sorry for taking so long. Felt it best to hydrate before we got started."
Guh, hydrate. That is exactly what he wants to do, but not in the typical sense. He may like his medicine, but he isn't crazy enough to be drinking out in the dry heat like this. That is all he needs to do is pass out in the desert. He would never hear the end of it from the other guys. "Ehn, the sooner we be done the sooner I can get to said civilization." he comments in response and he hmms as he looks over Reese when she arrives. He gives a sly grin that is hidden by the bandana covering his face.
He hands his canteen over to one of the staff milling about and he twirls his bata about before letting it rest over his shoulders and his hands grip each end as he tilts to the left and to the right. "Well are ye ready to get things going? I suppose the sand can't be good on the complexion." he says and gets a bit of a chuckle. It is hard to tell if he is taking things seriously since his face is covered up for the most part.
"A little tan never killed anyone," Reese replies, tossing her newly tightened ponytail over her shoulder. "Too much sun though? That's why you wear the sunblock." Her body twists to the right, then to the left. A glance at her opponent with a raised brow, then she nods.
"Ready as ever." A frown creases her brow as she peers off in the distance. "May want to fight as fast as you can then. I'd hate for you to pass out before you get to the civilization that you so desire."
"A tan? We don't exactly tan very well." Faolan responds to the girl. "I have two colors. White and red." he points out. It hasn't exactly been too great on his skin to be living in the jungles of South America with the rest of the Ikari either. That is why he is careful to be this covered up right now. "And I got plenty of stamina. I am a soldier. Not some Nancy that thought he could throw a punch."
He takes a deep breath and he moves to holds his arms forward as both hands grip his bata tightly. He doesn't know much about this girl and she seems the confident sort so that means one of two things. She is either good at what she does or she is full of hot air. He can hope it is the latter, but given how most women are in the fighting world he highly doubts that. "Lets get this started, then."
COMBATSYS: Faolan has started a fight here.
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Faolan 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Reese has joined the fight here.
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Reese 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Faolan
Arching her right eyebrow upward, Reese can't help but snort a little. Oh, it's good natured, but it's still a snort. "I tan just fine," she says, fluffing up her ponytail to faux-act superior for a moment. "If you turn red, that ain't going to be my fault." Then again, it's not like she's bothered learning anything at all about her opponent. In fact, she was told to show up at a location so she did. "A soldier, hmm? That might make things more difficult..."
Dropping her hand to her whip holster, she quickly snaps her weapon out. Giving her wrist two quick flicks, she steps back. Twisting the handle around, she rushes in to quickly ram it at Faolan's middle, trying to catch him off-guard.
COMBATSYS: Faolan just-defends Reese's Jab Punch!
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Reese 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Faolan
Annoyed me may be, but he is far from being unprepared. The girl is fast, he will give her that. Faolan doesn't have any time to really move when she comes in at him and instead stays his ground. He brings his bata upwards and grips it tight to use it to block the incoming blow. He takes a step back, but pushes forward in an attempt to push Reese off balance. "Not bad. Got some oomph there." He comments and grins behind the bandana.
He lets go of one end of the bata as he steps back as he looks for an opening and he holds the large stick almost like it is a rapier momentarily. In fact he uses it as if it is a somewhat more bulky rapier as he takes a step forward and thrusts the end of the bata forward in an attempt to strike Reese right in the midsection.
COMBATSYS: Reese blocks Faolan's Bata Thrust.
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Reese 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Faolan
"Obviously not enough," Reese says with a smile. The handle of her whip moves a bit slower than the bata, but she manages to swing it down in time to get in the way of the weapon as it reaches her midsection. Her arm takes a nice beating, but she doesn't release her grip on the whip just yet.
Her smile doesn't falter as she hops backward either. The necessity of putting room between them increases as she focuses on her next attack. The first hop just has the whip cracking overhead to draw attention away from what she's really meaning to do. The second gives her enough room to rapidly lash the whip out in a snakekiller technique, snapping it rapidly over and over at his feet and shins in an attempt to bring him down to the sands.
The plus side of this is that it kicks up a bit of dirt as well.
COMBATSYS: Faolan just-defends Reese's Excavation!
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Reese 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Faolan
The girl has skill at least. He was worried at first they were throwing him into a fight that was going to be more annoying than fun, but he has a feeling he is going to enjoy dealing with this girl. That is if the heat doesn't do him in first. He is quick to get back in a more defensive position and he is mildly distracted by the snap of the whip when it comes overhead. Then again he isn't fully distracted. This isn't exactly the first whip user he has had to deal with given he is with the Ikari Warriors.
He instead swings low to sort of deflect the whip with his bata while his hand grips it tightly so the strike doesn't knock the damn thing from his hands. "Gonna play keep away I see. I guess I will just have to keep pressing, then." he muses and this time he thrusts his bata forward, though this time he is too far away from it ever being able to physically strike the woman. Then again given the black ball of energy that forms and fires from the bata shows he had no intention of trying to reach out and strike her to begin with.
COMBATSYS: Reese overcomes Bata Blast from Faolan with Projectile Point.
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Reese 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Faolan
Skill is something Reese does indeed have, even if it's not //much// of it. What her desert skills are telling her right now is that it's time to duck and cover. Not in regards to the fight, but due to the fact that there is what looks like a wall of sand heading toward them. As if the heat wasn't bad enough!
"Oh... shit."
While her whip is being deflected, her free hand whisks one of her guns from the holster. She watches as the bata comes forward and the energy fires from it. Pulling the trigger, a double shot of energy blasts from the gun. The energy forms into a sharp, pointy arrowhead and blasts through the black energy ball.
COMBATSYS: Faolan endures Reese's Projectile Point.
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Reese 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Faolan
Faolan is now starting to really wonder if Whip has a sister and just never said anything. He might just have to question her about it next time he sees her. Though unlike Whip the bullets being fired seem not to be typical rounds. Probably a good thing since finds one taking out the blast he sent and the second one impacting him on the chest and eliciting a grunt. "You don't happen to have a sister do ye?" Hey, worth a shot to ask, right?
Of course giving Reese time to answer isn't exactly something he does. He steps forward, feinting a strike with his bata but instead letting it swing to where only a nice little breeze is felt from the swing of the stick. Instead he is more intent on doing something the Ralf Jones way of fighting women. He just goes to headbutt her. Of course the sting is coming in low as he does so in an attempt to sweep her legs out from under her as well.
COMBATSYS: Reese dodges Faolan's Sheehan Special.
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Reese 0/-------/------=|==-----\-------\0 Faolan
"What the hell are you..." Reese beats him to the punch, so to speak. His head swings in, and she's already dropped to the sand. Rolling along it to avoid his feet, she pops back up. Digging her feet into the sand, she lunges forward to twist her right foot up out of the sand, sending a spray of the desert dirt with it as she spins and thrusts it out in order to catch him on the chest and spin him around to face the incoming wall of sand.
"A sister would've been better than a good for nothing brother," she mutters. "And //much// better than that force we're about to face."
COMBATSYS: Reese successfully hits Faolan with Medium Kick.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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Reese 0/-------/------=|=====--\-------\0 Faolan
Ahh yes, sand. Faolan is rather glad he was wearing shades at the moment to where he is at least somewhat shielded. Of course his momentum is carrying him forward to where he isn't really able to get out of the way of the kick. He instead attempts to bring his bata upwards to block, but she nails him and he lets out a sharp 'Oof!' as he is spun about. "Oh hell." he comments at seeing the incoming wall of sand.
He grumbles under his breath and he turns about to where it is more whipping against his back as he reaches up with a hand to keep his glasses and bandana from flying off. Last thing he wants to be doing is eating sand while blind and fighting some chick with a whip. Instead he takes a moment to try and figure out how to finish things quickly so he can get out of this mess.
COMBATSYS: Faolan gains composure.
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Reese 0/-------/------=|====---\-------\0 Faolan
Unfortunately, Reese doesn't really get the option of turning her back to the sand. She has approximately ten seconds to reholster her gun, dig out a pair of sunglasses from around her neck and slip them over her eyes.
Then she hunkers down toward the ground, noting that he's not coming at her. She takes a deep breath (as she doesn't want to be sucking up all that sand), but continues to face Faolan in case he makes a sudden movement. With any luck, she can catch him before he does.
COMBATSYS: Reese gains composure.
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Reese 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Faolan
This is starting to be the pits. Fighting in the desert heat is one thing, but he wasn't expecting a sandstorm to hit in mid fight. Oh well, no use to complain about it. He isn't some sissy that is just going to stop because of some sandstorm that might possibly bury everything if they linger too long. Instead he just chages headlong in hopes of running straight into Reese. Once he thinks he sees an outline of her he goes to grab at her arm and tug forward as he attempts to run his shoulder into her with a surprising amount of force. He releases his grip in doing so in hopes of knocking her back and onto the ground. Getting back on one's feet in this mess won't be fun.
COMBATSYS: Reese dodges Faolan's Medium Throw.
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Reese 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Faolan
Sand is blasting against them, covering her hair and causing it to look a shade lighter -- with granular bits in it. Her face? Well people pay oodles of money at spas to get that sort of skin 'rejuvenating' facial. She'll survive, even if she doesn't like the look. Raw skin will heal eventually, right?
Her idiocy of facing down the storm pays off though. She spots the attack coming in, and she dives toward Faolan on the right side, missing his strike.
Now, with her back to the storm she smiles. She also tries to secure her feet in the sand again so that she doesn't get blasted toward her opponent. She sets the whi-- oh wait, she dropped that somewhere. Great. Drawing out her two guns she focuses all of her energy on them. Creating a sort of silvery blue energy around her that seems to burst down her arms toward the weapons.
COMBATSYS: Reese gathers her will.
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Reese 0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0 Faolan
Faolan is really starting to appreciate the fact he wore something to protect his face. The problem is it isn't exactly easy to see things now ashe turns about. Even with the shades on the storm has picked up quite a bit. Something that actually helps him in spotting Reese is the fact her arms are starting to get that energy running along them. No, it probably isn't a good thing she is doing that at all.
Standing where he is isn't going to get anything done either so forward he plods. Rushing isn't exactly easy to do, but he is doing his best to charge forward and he swings his bata baout in an attempt to smack it against Reese as he swings in the general direction of where she is standing.
COMBATSYS: Reese blocks Faolan's Power Strike.
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Reese 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Faolan
Even with the hot sun overhead, Reese doesn't exactly see Faolan charging through the sandstorm toward her until he's almost right upon her. The bata comes toward her head and she swings her right arm over her head to stop the weapon from knocking her unconscious. She's left with a choice, drop the gun and grapple his arm, or holster the gun and lose the chance.
Biting her lip as she makes the decision to drop one of the glowing guns, she makes sure she drops it onto her right foot. Her right hand grapples for his wrist to hold him in place briefly before she tries to lift him up and leverage his body over her shoulder and into a pile of sand behind her.
Her right foot then kicks up the gun and she makes a grab for that so she doesn't lose the prized heirloom.
COMBATSYS: Faolan interrupts Medium Throw from Reese with Jig Kick.
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Reese 1/-------/=======|=====--\-------\0 Faolan
This time Faolan really doesn't allow his momentum to be used against him. In fact he is more than fine with her hand grabbing him because that means at the moment Reese is still within striking distance. He lets go of the bata with the hand that is being gripped as he tries to hold his grand and swings it about with his other in an attempt to smack at the inner part of the lower leg of Reese in an attempt to make her slightly off balance.
That is when Faolan hops off one foot and brings his leg upwards right between the legs of the woman. "Just be glad yer not a man." he says as he steps back and twirls his bata about before gripping it with both hands again. He may regret doing that, but sometimes instincts just get the better of him.
Balance skewed, body falling, she gets kicked in the pelvic bone. Female or not, it's not exactly the nicest feeling in the world. Especially since the kick throws her back to the hot sand. Wincing with pain, Reese reaches her hand out and still manages to catch the gun. Both weapons are set back in their holsters as she kicks up to her feet.
Her hand catches against something in the sand, and she grins.
Prying the whip up from where it had dropped (and subsequently got covered with sand), she gives it a few quick snaps as her feet slide on the sand. The whip snaps to the left, her foot snaps to the right as she swings around to try and catch Faolan by surprise with it aiming for his gut.
COMBATSYS: Reese successfully hits Faolan with Strong Kick.
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Reese 1/-------/=======|=======\=------\1 Faolan
It still isn't easy to see where Reese is at the moment so Faolan can only pray she doesn't decide to really offer something in return. Then again it wouldn't be the first time he was nailed in the daddybag. It sometimes feels as if just by being a member of the Ikari that you have a 'kick here' sign over the crotch at times. Instead he is thrown off by the snap of the whip and he brings his bata up to block only to instead feel a foot firmly plant in his gut. He lets out a rather loud oof as he goes staggering back and lands on his ass.
With a grunt he fights back to his feet and he shakes his head to clear the cobwebs. He takes a deep breath and he thrusts his bata forward five times with each one leaving a small black orb like one he fired earlier. This time though he he swings his bata as if using a cricket bat and all five balls fire forward towards Reese where they look ready to coverge with one another before hitting her. They do just that as they turn into a much larger ball that then moves forward to impact Reese.
COMBATSYS: Reese dodges Faolan's Black Friday Rule.
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Reese 1/-------/=======|-------\-------\0 Faolan
Why won't the sands let up? Why won't they just die down and stop blowing across the desert? Reese is getting highly agitated at this, because it's making things difficult to see. On an excavation, she might hide in the tent until the sandstorm was over. Out here, in the middle of a fight? She doesn't get that luxury. Out here, she has to be vigilant and watch through the sand and the darkened glasses to try and keep herself alert and in control.
The bata swings at her and she sidesteps it. The five energy balls are... well not exactly //danced// around... but she manages to twist here and there, twirl, and dive down into the sand to avoid them as they converge and mean to blast her back against the jeep. At least where she //assumes// the jeep is.
Pushing up to her feet, she smiles again. Not that it's likely to be seen through the sand (and just how is this being televised anyhow?). Flicking her wrist twice rapidly, in order to crack the whip toward Faolan to get him to snap to attention, she starts to use the weapon as a sort of snaked jumping rope. Hopping up, she cracks it under her feet as she leaps over it and lashes the tip of the whip at his shins. Five times she does this. One leap right after another. Looking like a completely crazed, whip-wielding kangaroo.
COMBATSYS: Reese successfully hits Faolan with Pay Attention!.
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Reese 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Faolan
The storm is really starting to become a big annoyance for Faolan at this point. It also seems that Reese seems much more at home in the desert than the Ikari from the way things are going. She just seems to know where he is coming from every time he thinks he sees an opening. It doesn't help that his own game has been thrown off by the storm. In fact when it hit he has just been fighting an uphill battle. He squints and glances around, trying to see where the heck Reese went only to soon feel the sting of the wild woman's whip as she starts lashing about again. After this fight he is going to have an intense training session with Whip he thinks just so he is more prepared for this sort of thing again.
He hops backwards and eventually he lets out a 'Shiiiiit!' as he goes toppling over with arms flailing. He thumps on the ground and a the wall of sand obscures him for quite some time and before long there isn't any sign of the fighter. No, he isn't going to be a happy camper once he digs himself out, but given that the judges can't seem to find him at the moment they quickly declare Reese the winner just so they can finally get the hell out of dodge. At least Fao got buried with his canteen. He is going to have a long walk back to town once he has freed himself.
COMBATSYS: Faolan has left the fight here.
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Reese 0/-------/-------|
Yes, oh yes! It does in fact pay to pay attention to Reese. She's about to swing her arm around with a more 'tranquil' looking move, when suddenly her whip is just fighting against the sand. One second Faolan is there. The next second he is not.
She experiences another brief 'oh shit' moment, and then rushes forward to try to find him. The judges choose that moment to grab her arm and declare her the winner. She tries to get away to go dig her opponent out, but they throw her into the jeep. One sits there with a bucket, trying to dig the sand out of the vehicle as they drive off into the storm despite her very vocal protests.
A victory at last!
But at what cost?
COMBATSYS: Reese has ended the fight here.
Log created on 21:30:27 09/27/2010 by Reese, and last modified on 09:46:23 10/09/2010.