Description: Maki Genryuusai is a symbol of tenacity against overwhelming odds. A heroine, one of the handful of extraordinary individuals who could be counted on time and time again to take a stand against evil for Metro City - and not all that bad a looker. She currently leads the Neo League, but fights the good fight as global chaos ensues over restless people. One of those restless is Varvara Economou, a woman who believed she had all she ever needed to get through in life... and so many countless things have proven otherwise since leaving her home. With her steadfast (and intellectually equal) friend Naerose Delphine in tow, she intends to beat her answers out of Maki. Her question? Why does someone like /her/ get to be so strong where she apparently is not?
Metro City, a large city that has seen its share of ups and downs throughout the years. Unfortunately, a lot of the time, it's been plagued with crime caused by many gangs including the Mad Gears, who still pop up from time to time. But thanks to the efforts of Mike Haggar, a former pro wrestler turned mayor, but not afraid to get back into the fray once in awhile, and his colleagues, crime has been kept controlled quite a lot of the time. And one of his allies happens to be Maki Genryuusai, a master of the Bushin-Ryu martial arts style and sister to Rena, the girlfriend of Guy, antoher longtime ally with Haggar.
Currently, Maki is the top contender in the Neo League, but unlike most fighters, this is not something that she considers to be a big deal. Rather, she has used the Neo League as a way of improving her street fighting skills while touring the world and meeting new fighters. That's not to say that once in awhile she meets up with some punks who dare to challenge her. While she's seen her share of beatings, most of the time punks who challenge her wind up in a garbage can, which is where they belong in Maki's opinion. In fact, it just so happens that Maki happens to be walking through the slums of Metro City. A rather poor area of the city, which many low-income families reside in, and as a result there's a bit of crime going on here at times. Yet those who know Maki know better than to mess with her, while the good citizens wave and smile to her, since she not only helps keep crime down, but also helps out at the homeless shelters that are starting to pop up in the slums as a way of helping to improve things. Yet, Maki still remains on alert in case someone has the guts to try to challenge her.
Consider, for a moment, Varvara Economou.
...
Moment's up, no further need for considering. We all probably already know.
Having snuck back into the United States during a time of distress around the globe with violent crime approaching record highs across the globe, Varvara knows the name of one of Metro City's great heroes. One of their strongest people. One of their most celebrated people. As she stalks the alleys nearby after finishing off a surprisingly fresh turkey from a garbage can she took some frustrations out on earlier - or maybe it's whatever little she could take from Naerose upon its discovery.
Either way, no fresh turkey can last long in the presence of two very, very hungry women.
"She's gonna be here," she says to Naerose, wherever she is. Maybe it's a woman's intuition? (Varvara does qualify on the most very basic definition of being a woman, at least.)
It's not hard to see Maki out there, all alone on the most run-down parts of Metro City. She's a bright beacon of hope. A savior. One can't really miss her wherever she goes.
Varvara, herself, lacks subtlety, leaving the alley with no real declaration on her part. She lets herself be in full view of Maki without saying a word - that she treks through the dusty, dirty, newspaper-strewn streets to eventually close the gap between her.
She doesn't have a very friendly look on her face.
There were only really two reasons someone like Naerose would come to a place like this. One seems to actually be to help her friend? Friend do what? Find maki? Find food? Well, there was a lot of talk about there being lots of food around this place so Naerose has her nose out so to speak and looks for the food that is everywhere herself. And sure enough there is food everywhere! But the turkey isn't one of it. One benefit of being cleaner than Varvara is, is that you also can get food from people a little more readily. She's still got some of the fries that she snarfed by pure chance off someone who was rather done with the greasy meal themselves a moment ago when Varvara spots Maki.
"So.. This is some Mac person who agreed to be your teacher or something? The Red witch is really confused about that. "I don't get it, .. But Okay. So what do we do? I mean, lets go say hi and you can join her school of some sort of martial arts ?"
Why were they skulking in an alley? Naerose asks herself as her eye is drawn to the nearby resturant that is just opening the back door to throw something out. Oh that's why.
It might look as though Maki's just walking along, twirling her tonfa idly. But to those who know her, that's not what she's doing. In fact, one might call it a form of camoflauge in a sense. She looks like she's out walking along minding her own business, but in reality her senses are on extra high alert for anything that might seem out of the ordinary. And when Varvara makes her presence known, Maki immediately pauses and stares at the strange person that she's just spotted.
"You! Who the hell are you?" Maki asks, pointing her tonfa at the strange woman while she slowly approaches. "I'd strongly suggest you not try anything funny, because I may look good, but I can also kick your ass in a matter of--"
Her voice trails off abruptly as she spies Naerose with her as well, and her eyes widen even more. "N-Naerose? Wh-what are you doing here?!" It's not so much a question of interest as it is a question of interrogation, since Maki and Naerose have quite a history together, and it's not entirely good either. "I strongly hope you're not planning any crap with me, because I'm NOT in the mood!" She clenches her tonfa tighter and a slight hint of gritted teeth can be seen.
COMBATSYS: Maki has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Naerose has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Who the hell is this lowlife walking along up to Maki? Does it even really matter beyond the fact that she is a dirty, very hungry, extremely id-driven individual - almost virtually indistinguishable from whatever sort of Mad Gear thugs mill about this city?
"Tch." The Cypirot spits a wad of saliva onto the hardly pristine sidewalk when Maki points the tonfa out at her. The threats she levies, the demands. She may look good, but she can also kick her ass in a matter of...
"Yeah." Varvara mutters. "That's right. Ya can, can't ya?"
Maki has her own hopes and dreams about this scenario. To not try to plan any crap, in a city full of bad crap going on on a nearly daily basis. The way Varvara balls up her right fist is an early cue that there is, in fact, a whole lot of crap to be had as her foot nudges a newspaper out of her way.
"Show me why," is her demand with an ultimatum written in, oh, a straight punch to Maki's nose. No real form or flash behind it, it is what it is - the kind of punch that destroys any sort of nose it comes across.
"Huh?" Naerose asks, looking all sorts of confused and scratching her head, "Do I know you?" The red witch asks, apparently oblivious or at least pretending to be so of their own history. What is a witch to do? And then Varvara just runs up and tries to punch the woman.
"Wow, hey Varvs, I'm like totally confused, is this punk'd? Did you punk me? Okay okay, where are the cameras?" And the Red witch starts looking around, with a big grin on her face, in a trash can, behind a bush, in a brown paper bag that happens to have an un opened single serving of apple sauce
"Score!" <3 The red witch says. But .. doesn't help, not just yet.
COMBATSYS: Varvara successfully hits Maki with Strong Punch.
Grazing Hit
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"You should know me!" Maki comments, then turns to Varvara. "Show you why what?" There's no waiting for an answer, though, as Varvara's attempting to hit Maki right in the nose, something she's not intent on letting happen, since she's not in the mood for emergency plastic surgery. Instead, she turns to avoid the attack, but winds up getting hit anyway... albeit in the side of the face which barely fazes her. When she twists to face the two women again, Maki's glare is sharper than before. "You and I have had a few run-ins before, witchiepoo!" The nickname is issued with sarcasm more evident than the red outfit Maki's wearing.
But instead of continuing to converse with Naerose, Maki turns to face Varvara. "And as for YOU, I have no clue who you are or what you want, but I haven't seen you around before, so I don't know if you're one of the Mad Gears or just someone looking for trouble." Oddly enough, though, Maki doesn't attack either of the women. Instead, she stares at the two of them, sizing them up.
COMBATSYS: Maki focuses on her next action.
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"She never tell you either?" Varvara acts as though, in a moment of hopefulness, that Maki may have actually told Naerose what she herself wants to know. They know one another, don't they? It may be this moment of confusion that helps contribute to Maki's largely successful attempt to minimize the damage against her.
Whatever, Varvara's foul, equal parts violent and inquisitive mood thinks to herself as she stumbles a step forward, a sign of having overcommitted to the swing in question as she snarls at Maki's dismissive little stare.
"I'm lookin' to know /why/," Varvara starts as she tries to get her left arm around Maki's neck and bring her down into a headlock, "/why/ someone like you gets ta be real strong!!"
Following it up with a single, solid punch to her head to release her after the fact, to /her/ line of thought, might spill out a whole lot of illuminating answers! Or instant gratification.
She hopes Naerose is saving some of whatever it is she just found over there for her.
Doing her best to get the last of the apple sauce out, with her tongue, lacking a proper spoon, Naerose 'saves' some for Varvara, by being unable to finish off the apple sauce and regretfully, discarding the container on the ground. Taking up her broom she says to Varvara, " I have no idea! I don't remember this woman at all, but if her name is big mac, man, that's a totally mouth watering name.." She eyes Maki for a moment, then apologizes, "Sorry Miss Big Mac, but if you have food, could you please share some? Or wait, is this some sort of test, like you are the chef guardian that guy with the crazy accent was talking about...?" She looks uncertain, but then Varvara is going for another attack, so Naerose moves in reluctantly, "I'm really sorry about this, but I gotta help my friends and you do seem awfully angry, so maybe this is the right thing to do." She tries to hit Maki while Varvara is trying grab her.
COMBATSYS: Maki blocks Naerose's Medium Strike.
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COMBATSYS: Maki interrupts Minotaur Slayer from Varvara with Weapon Jab.
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"Why am I so good? Because it comes from years of training! Namely because my father is the master of the Bushin-Ryu style. Not to mention, beating up Mad Gear punks does a good bit of practicing for me as well." Maki then turns to face Naerose and scowls. "Miss Big Mac? Just who the hell do you think you are?!" Maki asks, bringing her tonfa up to deflect Naerose's attack away. "My name is Maki Genryuusai, and we've encountered one another before. Apparently you've got a bad memory or just like to play dumb..."
Then comes the issue of Varvara coming at Maki and attempting to get her in a headlock. "I don't think so!" Maki comments as she brings her tonfa up to deflect Varvara away, albeit with a little bit of pain against her due to getting caught by the initial headlock. "You two are crazy! I don't know what you want, but this is not the time for a lecture on fighting or teasing me!"
The jab of the tonfa against her jaw is very solidly connected. For something that might seem to be a simple effort, Maki is rewarded with a tiny spray of blood coming out of Varvara's jaw as she goes stumbling back (possibly into Naerose?).
"Tch," the shortest of the girls gathered growls, "just years of training?" Is it really also all about who you're born under? Just randomly beating up people (albeit in Maki's case, people who more or less require a good beating every so often to stay in line)?
"There's... there's somethin' more than that," Varvara mutters to herself before thinking that, uh, yeah, maybe she should be shouting it outright.
"There's gotta be more than that!!" That's more like it.
She's so desperate to know that she has foregone the usual niceties deeply ingrained to her from her time in formal destruction. No wishes for good health, nothing. The fight's already on, and if she's going to have to try and beat the answer out of someone who is, by all accounts, at least two magnitudes stronger, faster, and skilled than she is (and, um, twenty magnitudes better looking, let's not forget that)... so be it.
She's not going back empty handed.
Coming at Maki again, she moves to try and grab her by one arm in both her own, attempting to twist the wrist and maybe get her to drop one of those tonfas to begin with. "Tell me," she demands.
And then to help, Naerose, who ends up catching Varvara, gives a little push, no a shove, figuring, she wants to go toward Maki anyway and really this is between the two of them anyway, right. "
"Gen.. that's are really hard name to say." She decides to take the opportunity to look for more food, clearly the source of their power. She soon comes on a mostly empty soda bottle.. but not all the way empty! Kids, don't try this at home, it's totally a way to get herpes.
"Yuck!" the witch complains, "This is totally flat." She doesn't want to drink the rest.
COMBATSYS: Naerose assists Varvara.
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COMBATSYS: Maki dodges Varvara's Medium Throw.
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"Tell you more? Seriously, there's a lot more to the world of fighting than you think, and it would take hours, if not days, to explain nonstop. This is not the place to be giving lectures, though," As soon as she finishes, Maki avoids the incoming throw attempt from Varvara and spins out of the way completely. "One thing to note, though, that if you can't hit a moving target, then you're not going to be a good fighter."
At first, Maki considers going after Varvara, but then turns to Naerose. "And as for you, witchiepoo, I think it's time you and I got reacquainted again!" She attempts to rush at Naerose and then deliver a low sliding kick.
COMBATSYS: Varvara fails to interrupt Light Kick from Maki with Lion Crush.
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Even with the help of her steadfast friend and partner in good taste(?), Naerose, Varvara comes up short to a fancy sidestep from Maki. Maki is really right about one thing - if you can't hit your opponent, why bother?
"No! /Tell/ me," Varvara's teeth clench so tight it's a wonder a few of them don't just shatter right on the spot, looking to affix herself right back in front of Maki as she's starting to take off. Maki is, for the record, really, really, really fast.
"I'm not DONE yet!!" Varvara all but screams as she all but goes to dive tackle Maki as she looks to slide down low. To her credit, she manages to get ahead of Maki in that one instant, albeit she catches thin air.
Even on the floor, she tries to catch Maki's attacking leg. Just a hold of an ankle, /anything/ - but what she gets is Maki's sliding kick driving itself into her midsection, a loud cry of pain as she rotates two full spins across the dirty street (and on top of a rusted manhole cover, never fun) as she lies on her back, wheezing.
And meanwhile Varvara and Maki meet again, but it's clear that Maki is aiming attacks at her. Still Naerose decides to plead.
"Please miss, ah, Maki. Please help Varvara with what she's looking for. You see she has a family of little ones. Varvarettes that she needs to take care of. Do you see? These cute tiny things, their little children.. only with sharp teeth and they need, they need someone to help them, help them because life is hard, you know? And you wouldn't want these Varvarettes to become angry gears, I mean that would be terrible.!" And to add extra good measure, Naerose is trying to knock sense into Maki too.
"I'm like totally begging you to help my friend!"
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Maki with Clean Sweep.
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"I can only help one person at a ti-- OOF!" Maki gets hit by the broom and goes down to the ground for a moment, before getting back up via a kippup. "I'm willing to help her out, but not if she's trying to beat the $#!& outta me!" Maki dusts herself off briefly before facing Naerose again. "You should be glad I'm giving her a chance to recover, since it's time to teach you to drop that attitude of yours!" Without missing a beat, Maki drops to the ground and begins to spin around with her leg outstretched, aimed at Naerose!
"You're just sayin' that," Varvara curses from the ground as Maki proclaims loudly that she'd be willing to help. It's just pointless bravado on her end, isn't it, just to reassert her - so far as Varvara can tell - undeserved superiority. /She/ has fought for years. It's all she ever really knew how to do right. There's literally nothing else about her that anyone can say a kind thing about.
Nobody would say it's a bad thing that she's been stopped so many times, considering she thinks of nothing but to use her might to get her way. To a person whose general level of awareness seems to often extend only to things just right in front of her and what she immediately wants, however...
"Then tell me," she repeats as she pulls herself up off the dirty gutter that, uncomfortably, feels a lot like what she would consider home nowadays. "Shut up and tell me why /you/ are strong," this conflicting demand made as she works herself up to a proper fighting stance. Arms raised, hands pointed down, one knee bent slightly upward - even when she's not really in much of a position to walk up and try to save Naerose from the latest expressions of Maki's displeasure.
COMBATSYS: Varvara focuses on her next action.
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COMBATSYS: Maki successfully hits Naerose with Bushin Senpuu Kyaku.
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Is she break dancing? Naerose totally saw this in a movie one time, this spinning leg kick thing and then and then, well she just gets hit! and taken down. It's a take down, but the witch decides to try and get Maki with the wake up! You know those high priority moves people use and then you make them miss and hit them in the back? You know? Arcana Hearts 3? Naerose would totally play a video game if she was any good at it. She probably isn't.
So the Red witch just goes with something she's normally good at.
" En Criento!" She cries and tries to blast Maki with her palm outstretched. It's a staple move, but she has to ask,
"Hey, whats wrong with my attitude?"
COMBATSYS: Maki blocks Naerose's End Creation.
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Maki waits untill she's been able to deflect Naerose's attack away before she resumes her conversation. "First off, your attitude is just plain annoying, acting all stupid and like you don't know me, when we've met each other before!" She then turns to Varvara and scowls again. "I told you, I'm strong because I've spent many years training in my family's martial arts style. It was my past time for the longest time, although I kind of changed when I had to help out in Metro City.
"I had to mix it up a bit and improvise," She adds, "In order to take out those Mad Gear bastards, and to be quite honest I actually enjoyed learning to street fight also." A pause as Maki takes a moment to wipe her tonfa with her red 'ninja' garment before staring at Varvara again. "For some people, becoming strong takes longer than others. But if you are impatient like you're being right now, you're not going to get anywhere!"
COMBATSYS: Maki takes no action.
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"They don't have years!" Varvara yells in retort to what is, by all accounts, a very reasonable bit of advice on Maki's part. She's already put in so much of her formative years towards this one thing she could call her forte.
"There's a friggin' kid who wants to live like I do... and she's too strong. This garbage ain't what she wants!" Her head ducks down a little, as though considering maybe some new attack on Maki that she will almost inevitably work her way around to make sport of herself. "My family's starving. All they got... 's what money I can get 'em." Her eyes narrow. Maybe she's just trying to put on a tough front, hold back tears. For someone she really wants to brutally pummel until they get the answers she wants... it is entirely possible Maki may be the closest thing to help she can get.
"One of the... one of the only guys who ever gave a damn 'bout me," Naerose may contest this point heavily, "he ain't happy that I'm not as strong as I damn well oughtta be for everything! It's... it's people like /you/," she hisses through her teeth, "always... always so friggin' pretty, so strong. No scars. Nothin' to show as to /why!/"
She slowly advances towards Maki again, clear aggressive intent in her movements even without an attack hurled her way beyond her very words. "Why someone like /you/ is so far ahead!"
COMBATSYS: Varvara takes no action.
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She wasn't going to protest, the Red witch knew a few things. She knew first, Varvara said almost the only one to care, second, Varvara said guy. Naerose wasn't a guy, so it's totally cool. Then after a moment of being entirely and completely unhelpful, you know, standing there dumb, thinking this would end peacefully, Naerose speaks up,
"Hey! Shiden is that fellow who like totally treats you like garbage, I'm so not thinking he's cool at all." She puffs out her cheeks in protest, then notices that Varvara is going for Maki again.
"Oh wait, are we going to start doing that again? Oh okay." She shrugs, adjusts her shades and raises her broom in a way that might be interpreted as a ready position, that is to say, however ready a broom can get. Think about it It's a friggin broom. Do you hold it bristle down, like a broom? Or horizontal like you were going to sit on it? Well in Nae's case, horizontal.
COMBATSYS: Naerose focuses on her next action.
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"So far ahead?" Maki asks, still confused. "Haven't I told you enough already?" She taps a foot impatiently while watching her two opponents. "You know what, I'll just put it simply: Everyone gets ahead at their own pace in their own way. How's that for an explanation?" Maki waits for a moment, trying to let her explanation sink in. Then she shakes her head. "Here, maybe this will emphasise my point?!" Maki snaps as she comes at Varvara with an elbow strike aimed at her shoulder.
COMBATSYS: Varvara fails to interrupt Medium Strike from Maki with Chimera's End.
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"Tch." It is the truth that Shiden, largely, does not think too highly of her - and yet, he's the one who gives her money. The taste of true luxury, a life away from her constant need of things she can't easily get outside of beating the crap out of people. A complex love-hate relationship, or... well... more like an employer-employee relationship akin to that of a typical Walmart worker. The dependency.
More or less.
"Shut up! There's more you're not tellin' me!" Varvara's paradoxical emotional outburst shouts out as Maki comes in with a simple elbow strike. What Varvara intends to do, beyond all reason, is to try and reach out and grab the arm that /isn't/ being used to strike, perhaps to make some sort of point that really only makes sense to her in the heat of the moment.
Maki's elbow misses the shoulder and, thanks to the way Varvara leans, gets herself nailed somewhat more painfully in the collarbone, a sharp gasp of pain as the breath rushes out of her lungs as she stumbles down onto her rear end against the cold, dirty, unfeeling streets of Metro City.
Like largely any Mad Gear punk that tries to start anything with Maki, in any case.
"Oh now that's just mean, hitting someone when they're totally trying to have a conversation with you," Naerose chides and moves in, now no longer hanging back and frankly probably painting a big target on herself, but unlike Varvara over t- well down there, Naerose is just here for the ride, she doesn't really care about this particular quest for strength, besides Naerose has her own path to follow. And it involves feeding the Varvarettes.
"So if you know me so well, you'd totally know that I'm going to open up a can of my special witch craft. Here goes .. End Creation!"
And Nae tries to blast Maki with her own brand of pure energy explosion.. no range, just out from her palm and ideally into Maki, as opposed to say, the space where Maki was a second ago, or worse yet, the space where Maki was, but her Tonfta (is that what the thing is? Naerose always found that word hard) Is now, jamming into her tummy. Somethings Naerose didn't want to eat. Wooden stick for hurting is one of them.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Maki with End Creation.
-* WILD HIT! *-
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"I'm done with talking," Maki starts to say, only to find herself hit by the energy. She goes down to the ground and tumbles before landing in a semi-standing position, attempting to catch her breath. "Sometimes, you need force to emphasise your messages. But since you want to get involved..." Maki twirls her tonfa once again, "Let me teach you what I do to interlopers!" She attempt to grab Naerose and administer an over-the-shoulder throw.
Varvara scrambles up to her feet with all the grace of a disoriented, drunken hoodlum despite being (likely) devoid of the latter trait, a snarl as Maki decides to cut it with any sort of help and just go straight to violence. If it really all boils down to just using brute force with nothing else behind it, then Varvara probably wouldn't be having these problems she's having, would it?
Any introspection about this is lost as she goes over to pick up a garbage can and just hurl it at the established martial artist without much in the way of fanfare. Unless one counts the metallic sounds coming from the trash can bouncing across the road before it just simply rolls along into Maki's path.
COMBATSYS: Naerose interrupts Medium Throw from Maki with Spellbinder.
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In response to Maki, Naerose gets flung, but while in mid air, being rather a master of air, since you know, she can zip around a bit on that broom, Naerose is quite at home. More over, since she almost always crashes on that broom, she's also a master of not landing well, so she's really feeling very much at home right now as she is flung, rather easily, by Maki, but that's not all, oh no, not by a long shot. While in the air, Naerose twists around, causes a blinding flash of chi, it's harmless, just meant to stun and blind (especially someone not wearing nice black shades even in the middle of the night), before bringing her broom around in a full on baseball style swing. The sort of swing that helps direct Naerose in the opposite direction (every action has an equal and opposite reaction) before ending up skidding across the pavement face first like the flag on the end of a weighted bag.
COMBATSYS: Maki dodges Varvara's Large Thrown Object.
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Maki gets hit by the chi, but when she's hit, she twists herself to avoid the incoming flying object from Varvara. Nevertheless, Maki lands on the ground in a semi-crumpled heap this time. As she gets up, he dusts herself off and glares at the two women. "This is going to be quite a challenge, but it's also a way of showing just how I've become a top notch fighter. By dealing with more than one challenge at once!" Maki glances between the two fighters.
COMBATSYS: Maki focuses on her next action.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\==-----\1 Naerose
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"Is that it?!" Varvara shouts incredulously, her breathing hoarse as a sure-fire sign of her physical fatigue catching up with her withered patience. "Ya sure it's not just havin' a whole lotta money either?!" She is very visibly grasping at straws as she tries to wrap her head around the things that Maki is saying, as her friend Naerose skids face down on the road.
A dim light bulb seems to suddenly go off in Varvara's head as she bends down, hands on her knees, head slowly looking upward as she stares down the Maki in wait and her injured friend. She spits on the asphalt (this is vandalism!)... and rises up, arms raised with palms pointed downward, one knee bent upwards.
"Fine!" She growls. "Both you come at me! If that's what it takes to be strong!!"
COMBATSYS: Varvara gains composure.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\==-----\1 Naerose
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Picking herself up, Naerose shows shock and horror at the proclamation that Varvara gives, that has got to be the.. . Idea.. she ... ever
"That makes.. perfect sense." Naerose, Varvara's intellectual equal says, morose at the notion, "I can't find like anything wrong with that, but, it's so hard.. I mean to do, I'll just feel so bad about it, I already do," She makes a big show of wiping her face, her eyes, "I mean.. I don't know how.. I am going to .. live with myself."
She sniffles a few times and holds her broom tighter, "I'll never forget this sacrifice you're making. The.. the food that will be left over for me.. When this is over, I know it isn't an easy thing to do and I promise that I will save some for the Varvarettes!" She doesn't attack .. she's too busy in the theatrics of it.
COMBATSYS: Naerose takes no action.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\==-----\1 Naerose
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"Money might be goo for some," Maki says as she taps her tonfa idly. "However, there's a lot more. In reality, it's up to you to decide how." She stares at Naerose and how she's going crazy in Maki's opinion. "But it's not going to happen right away!" She continues to dust herself off a little.
COMBATSYS: Maki takes no action.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\==-----\1 Naerose
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"I'm tellin' ya how RIGHT NOW!" Varvara shouts as she takes off towards Maki, leaping forward about four Maki-widths away from her into a tackle that - if successful - will tumble Maki and herself along in a spin before tossing her away. Where Naerose is drinking in the drama and Maki might just be all but humoring these people at this point, Varvara is particularly driven and bloodthirsty even beyond the fatigue and aches of her body.
Like a true Metro City scumbag!
"Okay.. Okay!" She charges after Varvara, like she's going to you know, help except, she raises her broom and really hesitantly tries to strike Varvara with it instead, just like she's instructed. Somewhere she knows, this plan is perfect and such valor, nobility to do what has to be done, what Varvara knows has to be done. Naerose tries to strike her with the broom.
COMBATSYS: Maki dodges Varvara's Fleeing Musician.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\==-----\1 Naerose
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Maki dodges out of the way of the incoming attack from Varvara. "It could be money too, but that's up for you to discover yourself!" She says as she lands in a crouched position. "You have to keep at it!" Maki watches as Naerose heads after Varvara, and she decides to let the two go at it for the time being.
COMBATSYS: Maki gains composure.
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Maki 1/-======/=======|=======\==-----\1 Naerose
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COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Varvara with Medium Strike.
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Maki 1/-======/=======|=======\===----\1 Naerose
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Who knows - maybe Maki, tactical mastermind and fighting genius that she is, may be thinking of just letting these two beat one another senseless.
This thought never reaches Varvara's thick head that may actually not have a brain, but instead some brain-shaped muscle of some sort. It would explain so much.
Naerose manages to catch Varvara out of her evasive tumble with a well-placed (and equally well-intentioned, if not moreso) broom to the point that Varvara actually aligns herself, accidentally, to get socked right in the abdomen with the stick. She flops right over it and onto the ground right next to her steadfast friend.
A steadfast friend that she so very willingly sweeps a foot out to take her shins out from underneath her as she keeps her arms close to herself, loud breathing being a signal to those perceptive that maybe, just maybe, she's running on empty in regards to sense and stamina (and also cents).
COMBATSYS: Varvara successfully hits Naerose with Swollen Foot.
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Maki 1/-======/=======|=======\=====--\1 Naerose
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Well The plan seemed so good, but Naerose never in her entire life imagined she might be getting hammered too. She was pretty sure that the plan consisted of Varvara just getting beaten up and then somehow.. profit ? Nae was no book keeper, but still, what she really wasn't doing was expecting to get kicked, or swept, because that would be terrible and painful and Naerose looks fully surprised as she finds herself crashing to the ground again. And now she just looks confused. Is she in a fight with..
"Okay, now I have no idea what is going on." Naerose confesses, from her spot on the ground.
COMBATSYS: Naerose takes no action.
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Maki 1/-======/=======|=======\=====--\1 Naerose
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"You obviously have no idea what's going on," Maki comments, "Because you're not giving it your all!" She then points her tonfa at Varvara and says, "As for you, I'm starting to see some potential in you. Why don't you try me again?"
COMBATSYS: Maki takes no action.
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Maki 1/=======/=======|=======\=====--\1 Naerose
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"You're... you're fightin' me," Varvara reminds, her statements broken up with her body attempting to suck in breath. She's worked herself up pretty much to being a sitting duck. She's going largely on adrenaline alone as what keeps her swinging as opposed to... sitting down and taking a breather like her friend and Maki are probably ready to do at this point.
"Shut up," Varvara's aggression rears through as she stumbles along towards Maki past Naerose (likely tripping on one of her legs to begin with) as she starts throwing... a punch?
It's three or four punches in something too slow to be considered 'rapid succession' but still a combination of some sort tossed in Maki's direction. It's clumsy and shameful and the sort of thing a sensible person would throw in a towel for, for how much Varvara is working herself up over.
Naerose sits up and says, "Well, I'm not giving it my all.. because.." Because she virtually never gives it her all. There are a ton of reasons for this fact too, but we're not going to bore with the details, not today anyway. Instead Naerose sits there, scratches her head and the nstarts to pick herself up,
"This would be so much easier if you would have teached her your secrets from the start." Naerose comments.
COMBATSYS: Naerose takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Maki interrupts Binding Seeds from Varvara with Bushin Senpuu Kyaku.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\=====--\1 Naerose
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Maki simply watches as Varvara comes after her, then drops to the ground and attempts to knock Varvara away with a spinning kick that sends her propelling around like a tornado... except Varvara also makes contact. Meaning Maki gets hit also. She goes down to the ground and this time gives a slight thumbs up. "You're getting the hang of it..."
Maki's trademark technique shines brightly against the darkness and grit of the slums, soundly slapping the Cypirot a few times over. It really only takes two kicks to stop the assault cold. So committed into the motion and too physically tired to be really on her toes, she just ends up standing there and taking it until she clumsily stumbles backwards and hits the road on her side.
To say the temptation to at last give in to exhaustion is not very strong would be an outright lie.
Maki may be giving her approval, but Varvara - being Varvara - really only takes to this compliment by still finding some way to just lash out. To strike. Unfortunately, it's just a tiny little piece of road. Just a rock. A rock that Varvara can't toss with a whole lot of force, given the strength of her arms have all but left her.
It might still leave a mark on Maki's shin if she's not careful, though.
Naerose is awfully confused here, but rather then get too involved she sits back a little longer, then decides to ask,
"So am I supposed to be doing something?" She takes a can of red soda out of her hat and starts drinking it. Just where does she have something like food that she somehow managed to not eat before now? The world may never know. She decides she should do something and promptly tries to hit Varvara, it's all for her sake after all, right?
"Somehow, this will make you stronger!" Yep. Somehow.
COMBATSYS: Maki dodges Varvara's Weakened Small Thrown Object.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\=====--\1 Naerose
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"Hmmph," Maki comments as the obviously weakened girl throws that piece of road at her, which she ducks underneath. She then stands up and says, "You might want to take a breather or something." She then turns to face Naerose and says, "Have fun."
COMBATSYS: Maki focuses on her next action.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\=====--\1 Naerose
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COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Varvara with Light Kick.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\=====--\1 Naerose
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Varvara is no mere girl! She's a woman! ...Technically, by the broad biological definition, at least... ahem.
"No." She replies weakly to Maki's well-intentioned suggestion as Naerose saunters on up and just kicks her. You know, she asked for it, just a nice little kick. After all, if the way to become strong is to beat up a bunch of people at once...
...Let's say this method isn't working.
A nearby trash can lid that fell off from the earlier toss gets groped as Varvara's body jerks to one side under the strength of Naerose's friendly kick, immediately attempting to swing said lid down into Naerose's own leg.
There seems to be a theme going on about... well... going against the shins, really.
COMBATSYS: Varvara successfully hits Naerose with Weakened Random Weapon.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\=======\1 Naerose
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At this point though, as Varvara attacks her, Naerose isn't even sure they're attacks and though she gets hit, the response is sort of muted. The red witch is getting a little tired, but she asks, "You know Varvara, I ahh, hey, stoppit." She winces a little and then looks at the trash can lid, "Right so like I heard you can over do working out or something." She's totally not sure what she's even talking about, "At least, I heard somehting like that on like this thing called P-Naerose-X." Don't ask. She looks at Maki and says,
"so are you her teacher now?" The red witch adjusts her shades, leans on her broom and really seems to be running out of steam herself,
"Cause I gotta say, I'm not even sure what we're fighting for and I'd say, anymore, except I'm not sure I ever knew."
COMBATSYS: Naerose takes no action.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\=======\1 Naerose
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"Am I a teacher? Am I a teacher?!" Maki asks, narrowing her eyes at Naerose. "Is that supposed to be a trick question or something? I'm not a teacher, I'm just trying to give you advice on how to reach the top..." A pause as Maki catches herself. "Wait, what am I saying? I should be saying that to Varvara, but since you have my attention." A slight smirk as Maki attempts to deliver a knee strike to Naerose's stomach. "Let's see ya stomach THIS!"
If there's anyone who has overdone anything, there's no doubt at all as to who Naerose is referring to as the angry woman - now too tired to really properly be angry, so maybe just the woman (among other women of varying levels of exhaustion themselves) as she, after striking with the trash can lid, rolls face-flat onto the ground as she brings in that dirty, dusty air to her lungs. She tries to bring both arms to push herself up - look at 'em bulge while she cringes to push herself up.
It's really telling when she can't even manage that push-up as she pathetically flops right back onto the ground as Maki screams and goes after Maki. It is kind of nice she knows her name, somehow. That she's even worthy to have one and not just be some random piece of garbage...
"On /me/," she growls weakly, though she clearly does not have the teeth to go with her snarling any more as she reaches a hand out uselessly to Maki before breaking back down into further gasping for air.
Naerose probably has it right about there being not much more point to continue, given the state of her Cypirot friend.
COMBATSYS: Varvara takes no action.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\=======\1 Naerose
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COMBATSYS: Maki successfully hits Naerose with Strong Kick.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Naerose
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Huh huh? Eat this? "Is it food?!" Naerose asks, way too excited for what is to come. Which is Maki kicking her.
"Ooof! Hey! I thought you said stomach! " The witch goes flying, rolling tumbling and then ends in an unceremonious heap on the pavement again. Slowly.. surely.. she gets to her feet and asks.. "Eumm. Maki ? Are you saying you've been made up of food this entire time?" And she hasn't been trying to eat her? This is so wrong. " Cause.. I think that changes things a lot." The witch adjusts her shades with the look of someone who suddenly thinks Maki might be edible.
COMBATSYS: Naerose focuses on her next action.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Naerose
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"Edible? What are you, a cannibal now?!" Maki exclaims. "You are more insane than anyone I've ever met in my life! I knew you were crazy, but this is ridiculous!" She looks to Varvara briefly, then to Naerose. "Come on, one of you two, take me! I'm running out of patience here!"
COMBATSYS: Maki takes no action.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Naerose
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"I'm comin'," Varvara is so not. Just look at her - she's all tuckered out. She's spent pretty much everything she's had moving around. Just her managing to get up to a kneel is, in itself, something big... but not for long, as she doubles over, head down, arms barely supporting her upper body staying something approaching upright as she wheezes to bring in air. Her head slowly rises to look to Maki head-on, face mostly blank save for whatever sorts of aggressive, mean looks she can pull when her body is basically at the very limit of what she can exert.
"I'll show ya," she spits out, "gonna, gonna crush ya and then I'll... I'll be strong enough..."
She's so not.
COMBATSYS: Varvara takes no action.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Naerose
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For her part, Naerose doesn't look much better for wear, but she's got spunk and spunk will do.. ah, something for her.
"Here I come, and when I getcha I'll totally stomach all I can eat!" Yep Maki, she's not hearing anything beyond being told to stomach something, which was a knee and if you stomach.. nevermind, Nae-logic isn't going to help anyone here. Naerose meanwhile hops on her broom and shoots off after Maki, zipping at a rush with her mouth wiiide opened. She maybe only trying to crash into Maki.. For now.
COMBATSYS: Maki blocks Naerose's Delphine Charge.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Naerose
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"Oh no, you aren't!" Maki snaps as she spins to face Naerose. "You aren't going to go all cannibal on me, you creep!" Maki yells as he brings her defense up to deflect Naerose away. Although with speed like that, Maki twists a little out of proportion, causing a few minor curse words. She glares at Naerose, adding, "I thought you wee crazy, but now you've gone too far! Time to finish this!" Maki leaps onto a nearby trash can (one that isn't overturned,) then flies at Naerose with an immense flying kick.
"Don't," Varvara starts as she brings a hand to her gut, sucking in a bit more breath as she chances getting a leg out to begin standing up. "Don't... don't," she repeats again as she rises, a hardened form failing to hide the weakness in her movement as someone who should no longer be in this part of town tries to make her stand.
She may not really be choosing to stand specifically for Naerose's sake, although honestly she's so hungry she might even consider cannibalism /herself/. No, she doesn't want to be ignored, she doesn't want to be treated like a lesser person, she wants to be strong - but how much can want really take her when there's not much left of her to feed into this want?
"Don't ignore me," voice sounds largely pleading as Varvara attempts - very poorly - to get back to her ready stance. Arms aren't lifted so high, she's not really bending the knee. Her stance is extremely unsteady, but a part of her still hungers.
Hopefully Maki's still got a knuckle sandwich or two ready for her - she doesn't look like she'd be able to initiate much on her own even with what determination she can cobble together.
COMBATSYS: Varvara focuses on her next action.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Naerose
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COMBATSYS: Naerose parries Maki's Hassou Kyaku!
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Naerose
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"Oh man, you say that Tofu lady, but I'm pretty sure it's just a clever act to trick me. Trick me into thinking you're not really made of tofu, but I'm not falling for that, no ma'am, I'm on to you. You're just pretending to be not tofu. But you're tofu.. I read about this once. Tofu people impersonating real people." She's so hungry she's getting delirious.
"I'm gonna prove it too, taaake this!"
Naerose tries to ensnare Maki with a long silver thread she gets off her broom, the thread being rather electrified with her chi energies.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Maki with Threads of Fate EX.
Grazing Hit
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Maki thinks she's got this whole thing in the bag, but apparently she's getting ahead of herself here, as Naerose manages to get her and throw her, with some energy added no less. Even then, she still manages to get back up. "I'll get back to YOU as soon as I finish with this crazy witch!" Maki says to Varvara before turning to face Naerose. "And as for you, I think it's time we finished this!" Maki says as she attempts to delier a swift twisting strike of her tonfa.
COMBATSYS: Maki successfully hits Naerose with Genkou.
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Naerose, in a fit of caring less about her well being and more about, well eating Maki, spins around to try and avoid the next attack, while getting closer to th emeal promised her by Tonfa! .. Erh. Tonfa?
Naerose looks mildly confused as the real world comes rushing back. Maki stops looking like a tasty meal and more like something she totally can't eat. Somewhere in her mind she's wondering why she even tried, before flying, peacefully, perfectly, into a dumpster. Just as she hits it the lid slams shut.
COMBATSYS: Naerose takes no action.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\====---\1 Varvara
COMBATSYS: Naerose can no longer fight.
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Maki 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\====---\1 Varvara
"No," Varvara grouses in weak protest as she stumbles towards Maki. If Maki were not occupied with trying to take down Naerose, it would be absolutely simple - elementary, even for the likes of Bred - to just shove Varvara over with one good punch.
Maki's focused on Naerose, giving her this window of opportunity - a very tiny, rather unlikely one given Varvara's performance against Maki even when she /isn't/ tired almost to the very bone - but one nonetheless as she stumbles towards Maki and, suddenly, goes to wrap one of her dirtied hands around Maki's neck and, the other, around her face.
It's a choke, plain and simple. It may be too plain and simple for Maki to really be victim to after all her years of training, but...
"I'm... not... done," Varvara insists as Naerose herself is ejected into a dumpster.
COMBATSYS: Maki interrupts Medium Throw from Varvara with Bushin Gou Rai Ha.
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"You're not done yet, but you will be!" Maki says as Varvara grabs onto her. "I'm taking you out with the crazy witch!" And then, Maki launches into a few tonfa strikes, followed by a couple of kicks. The combination literally flows from one attack into another with no stopping. Then Maki finishes with an upwards jumping kick. When she lands, she's a little bruised, but she still shows the spirit of the fight. "Still not done?"
"Don't..." Varvara is probably thinking of the word 'dismiss' to follow it, but it doesn't really come to her lips when Maki pries her free with a tonfa strike. It speaks to Maki's skill that she is able to strike so quickly and decisively in tandem - any slower, and Varvara would be already on the ground, unable to really be struck further by the combination as described.
Maki is fast, powerful, beautiful, and tough. It's becoming an increasing stretch to find one of these things to describe Varvara as the final upwards kick sends her on her way with a loud, echoing yell that just seems to happen whenever a fighter is knocked out of the picture.
Naerose was the lucky one. She got to land inside a dumpster full of soft, kind of spoiled but probably delicious leftovers. Varvara only gets the cold, hard, rusted metal of the closed top as her battered, tired body hits it and rolls off into an equally unfeeling, dirtied slum alley.
Varvara, knocked senseless, thinks she's seeing Maki's face when a low hanging flag of some sort waves about almost mockingly in front of her, throwing a pointless punch at the flag's fabric that does little good.
"'m not... done," she hisses way too quietly to be easily heard - but this probably answers Maki's question as it is.
Nothing stops Maki from just going about her business from here.
COMBATSYS: Varvara takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Varvara can no longer fight.
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Maki stares at where the two fighters are, before adjusting her tonfa and wiping it off. "Well, let this be a lesson. You both should have learned something about fighting today... but for now I've had enough." Maki dusts herself off and then begins to head off. "For now, I think I could use some tapioca. I haven't had any of that in the longest time..."
COMBATSYS: Maki has ended the fight here.
Log created on 20:08:42 05/13/2011 by Varvara, and last modified on 17:33:57 06/07/2011.