Description: SOMEBODY's gotten a hold of a little video in which Reese claims to be in a most magical line of work! This week, she's been given a set, props, a glamorous, sequin-adorned costume! Heavy red curtains hide all manner of magical props: slotted barrels, sectioned boxes, racks! Anything you can think of that belongs in a magic show (tigers excluded) is available. Isn't it great for the woman to have such an expansive audience for which to show off her skills? (WINNER: FAOLAN)
Leave it to the promoters to see something of a grudge match. Mostly in the fact one has to wonder after the last fight if there is a grudge at all. Things were all even in the end and Reese and Faolan reached something of an understanding, right? It seems that the promoters think differently and they have decided to see who will take a third bout and gets bragging rights over the other fighter. Do either of them really care? Faolan would probably be a liar if he said he didn't care. There is a small part that does like competition.
In this case he is more curious about the setting. He does not know of Reese's past at all and her old line of work. Honestly he doesn't know much about her current line of work. He just knows she is good with a whip and a gun which probably means she might be something of a mercenary herself. The Irishman stands there on the stage as he looks over all the various items cluttering it up as he idly rubs at the back of his neck with his free hand. The theater itself is jam packed and people are already cheering for things to get started. "Oi oi oi. We will! Just give her a moment." he tries to tell the people that will listen. Where the hell is Reese? She getting a perm or something? What a horrible time to do something like that. Pfft, women.
Reese is going to //kill// him.
That is, when she finds him again she will. At least a nice long verbal assault. //Actually// killing Marius would be far more difficult. Had she thought his little 'HELLO HERE I AM' video was going to have her wearing a flashy, tiny, sequined adorned costume while she actually tries to fight, she'd have stuffed a gag in his mouth before he did it.
But now that she's 'Venus' in his little act, it was inevitable it was going to get out. //That// is why she's not quite 'here' yet. The Aussie is actually at the stage, she just can't be seen. Part and parcel of this whole gig is the fact that she's supposed to play //that// particular part.
So she's going to make an entrance.
A good one.
Lights on the stage dim. Then flash. Then the colored spotlights come into play, swinging this way and that. Fog rolls across the stage seconds before it rumbles. Then the lights dim again and when they come back up, there's Reese. Standing there in the middle. A cutesy little top hat on her head which is tossed off to the side of the stage.
"Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! Tonight we have a special treat for you! A feat of magical fighting!"
The crowd just gets more rowdy as the lights start to dim and it seems the fight is about to start. Faolan himself raises a brow and is unsure of what exactly is going on. Is this some sort of Halloween thing going on? Much like the audience he too ends up rather surprised at the sight of Reese once she makes her grand entrance. Unlike the audience he just stares for a few moments before he starts laughing really hard. "And here I thought they have made me do some crazy stuff." he finally says as he manages to calm himself. That grin hasn't left his face, though.
He shakes his head and keeps from breaking out in laughter again. "Magical fighting? What are you going to do? Pull a rabbit out of your hat and throw it at me?" he asks and starts snickering like mad again. Someone might just be asking to get shot right in the face at this point. A few deep breathes are taken and he raises a hand. "Okay, I think I got that all out now....I am ready." Oh he is trying so hard to keep a straight face right now.
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
"Not a bad idea!" Reese reaches off to the side of the stage, behind one big, red curtain. Instead of pulling out the teeny tiny top hat that she recently tossed over in that direction, she pulls out a rather large one. It's about three times the size of a //regular// top hat.
Waving her hand over the top of it, she smiles at Faolan. "Watch me pull a rabbit out of the hat!"
Granted, she's just the assistant, but she does know a few "tricks". Rabbits coming out of hats? That's stupidly easy. A large jackrabbit is drawn out of the hat by the ears and shown off to the audience.
Then it's flung right toward the Irish man.
COMBATSYS: Reese successfully hits Faolan with Small Thrown Object.
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Reese 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Faolan
PETA is probably already calling in for that one. There are claps when the rabbit is pulled, but then it turns to cheers when it becomes a flying weapon. It is such a surprise for Faolan he is several seconds too slow to stop the rabbit from hitting him right in the face. He tried to get a hand up to try and slap it away, but it hits air and rabbit meets face instead and Faolan is staggered back a few steps. "Why you little....." he mumbles and the rather confused rabbit bolts off the stage before it ends up caught in this brawl.
"Looking to embarass me, huh? Well I am not going to fall for that one again." he claims, but really once you start off getting hit in the face with a rabbit one has to wonder how far downhill this is going to get now. He dashes forward and looks to close in the gap and much like last time keep the fight close quarters. Harder to operate a whip when you have a large Irishman brandishing a beatstick in your face. In fact he is using said bata by swinging it and aiming to club Reese on the shoulder.
COMBATSYS: Reese dodges Faolan's Medium Strike.
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Reese 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Faolan
"Embarrass you? Hardly." Then again, Reese likely doesn't have any more rabbits living inside giant hats to just go off attacking him with. She //does// have... a cage! Yes, she has a large silver cage that is pushed up from under the stage that gives her something to hop up onto as it rises, keeping her out of the reach of the bata.
Once up top, she strikes a traditional assistants pose and then takes a bow. There's no immediate hopping off of it though. Instead, she pulls the whip off of her hip and lashes it out. Almost pretending that there's about to be a tiger in the cage.
There won't be. The producers of SNF aren't //that// insane.
But there will be an Aussie somersaulting off the cage with the whip still in hand as it's swung out toward Faolan and the pommel along with her fist angled at his stomach.
COMBATSYS: Faolan endures Reese's Medium Punch.
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Reese 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Faolan
After the whole rabbit thing and given some of the weird shit the people that run SNF have had him do Faolan actually would believe it if a tiger came into play here. Instead he is met more with just the fact Reese has decided to come in at him and aim for his stomach. This.....is actually a bit surprising. He figured she would play more of a game of keepaway and avoid getting in so close. He takes a deep breath and only a small grunt comes from him when she plants that punch. He doesn't budge at all, but he does let out the breath and grins.
Right as he tries to step forward and press on with his own attack. He grips the bata tightly as energy surges and he aims to jab it right into the stomach of Reese to throw the Aussie off balance. Even more so is the release of the black energy crackling along the bata that aims to give the young woman a nice shock if she cannot avoid it.
COMBATSYS: Reese blocks Faolan's Saying Hello.
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Reese 0/-------/------=|==-----\-------\0 Faolan
Bloody hell. Reese forgot all about that blasted energy. It's not until she sees it crackling along the bata that she realizes she's got little time to get out of the way this time. Rather than make the attempt and get hit, she slams her arms down toward the incoming attack. They take the brunt of the damage, and the shock which has her biting the corner of her bottom lip.
Before that's even worn off, she's running toward the red curtains again. Grabbing the first object her hands find purchase on, she twirls around in a showy manner. In place of her whip is a bit of magician's chain -- the type they tie themselves up with in order to go into water tanks, and cages, and finally find themselves at the back of the audience when the trick is done.
Lashing the chain out at Faolan, she spins it in such a way that it'll hopefully wind itself around him and tangle him up for a bit so that she can get to the other side of the stage.
COMBATSYS: Faolan blocks Reese's Light Random Weapon.
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Reese 0/-------/------=|===----\-------\0 Faolan
He may have not gotten a clean hit, but it did given the big man some momentum. Even as Reese twirls away and tries to put some distance between herself and the Irishman he continues forward to where it is hard to create a good amount of distance. Even when she tries to tangle him up with the chain it seems like he is ready to handle it this time around. He raises an arm and lets the chain snake around it, but his hand grips and he actually gets a firm hold. "Two can play at this game."
He just yanks on the chain and unless Reese is quick to release she just might find herself staggering forward right towards Faolan and the big ole foot he brings upwards as he aims to slam his boot in against her chest in a rather rough manner. "Let us keep it close and personal. No offense." he says with a bit of a smirk as he also lets go of the chain and it falls onto the stage with a thud.
COMBATSYS: Reese fails to counter Light Kick from Faolan with Artifact Snare.
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Reese 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Faolan
Reese //can// do up close and personal, but she'd rather not. So she releases the chain when the kick begins, her whip lashing out to loop around the foot. Only the foot is a great deal faster than she was expecting, and she goes staggering back into the bright red curtains.
Detangling herself from them, she glares at the man. Pressing a button on the fog machine, she fills the stage up once again with the faux-fog, and disappears into it, hoping to make it more difficult for him to pull that stunt again.
Deceptive speed? Nah, it is more his antics for once paying off. Sometimes being reckless pays. Quite well too if you ask the other Ikari. He hahs when he connects. "Finally gotc-hey! Get back here!" he calls out when she staggers away. He starts to move forward again, but then she decides to try to use the fog machine to her advantage as it starts to make things a bit harder to see on stage. Of course this also makes the fans a bit annoyed as they are seeing more an outline of the fighters when the fog starts getting thicker and not much more.
His eyes narrow some and he looks about left and right. "Oh wanna be tricky huh?" he asks and smirks a bit as he grips his bata. "Gonna take more than smoke to beat me." Perhaps more rabbits. Alot more rabbits. He keeps his senses sharp and he keeps his feet solidly on the ground as he tries to figure out which way she will come and attack him as he takes a few deep breathes as energy once again begins to crackle along the bata he is gripping with both hands.
COMBATSYS: Faolan gathers his will.
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Reese 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Faolan
Not a word is spoken as Reese moves around in the fog, trying to be as quiet as possible so that he can't locate her. Overhead lights shine through the fog, illuminating the fighter-forms. It's a green light on Faolan, and an aquamarine on Reese as she moves through the fog behind him.
Just before the lights brighten and the fog starts to dissipate out toward the audience, she springs. Arms thrust out to grab him by the shoulders and twist him around rather quickly toward the aforementioned silver cage.
COMBATSYS: Faolan auto-guards Reese's Quick Throw!
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Reese 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Faolan
The lights he doesn't even think about. He figured it would just be some sort of flashy distraction that would keep him from actually seeing where Reese decides to attack from. He is more just trying to keep himself ready for whatever she has planned. In all honesty he wasn't sure where she would come from, but it seems Reese makes an error in guessing how easy it would be to get the big lug to budge when he is in a rather defensive position. She finds out soon because when she puts her hands on him he only moves to turn about and face her instead of getting twisted about and tossed into that cage.
"Ikari throwing is something we usually only do on base, sorry." he says and he quickly attempts to hit her with two quick strikes with the bata to knock her off balance and away from him. Getting some distance away from him is what she wanted afterall......right?
COMBATSYS: Faolan successfully hits Reese with Windmill.
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Reese 0/-------/--=====|=======\=------\1 Faolan
"Ikari thro -- "
The bata knocks her backward //again// and she finds herself in the middle of the stage as the fog finally clears. For a second, Reese looks stunned. Then she's plastering on a smile and throwing her hands up in the air, a la 'Tada!'. See? It was all just a trick, right?
A magician's desk is seen off to the side and she bolts for it. Then she swings it around and uses it as a battering ram, running it toward Faolan in an attempt to bowl him over.
COMBATSYS: Reese successfully hits Faolan with Random Weapon.
- Power hit! -
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Reese 0/-------/-======|=======\====---\1 Faolan
He raises a brow at the smile and her sort of seeming act like she isn't bothered at all by things. Is she taking this damn fight seriously? This whole magician thing is kinda getting annoying. At least he can't end up buried in sand this time around. Or at least he hopes that is the case. Instead he sees the desk that is being shoved his way. He tchs lightly thinking that sort of thing isn't going to be much trouble. HOW WRONG HE WAS.
He should have actually been quicker in stepping out of the bath because he finds that thing hitting him alot harder than expected and the big man is run over by the damn thing as it continues past him and off the stage. With a grunt he gets to his feet and he frowns some at the rather spunky Aussie. "All right. No more mister nice guy." he mumbles and he takes a moment to clear the cobwebs from his head. Damn that kinda threw him off his game.
COMBATSYS: Faolan focuses on his next action.
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Reese 0/-------/-======|=======\====---\1 Faolan
Another 'Tada' action is give to the audience, as though this is also part of the 'act'. Reese actually //does// give Faolan time to get up. It makes for a much more interesting show, and his cranky grunt and mumbling is amplified through the microphones in the stage.
To get to the next tool of the trade she's considering, she needs to actually head //past// the man. Head tilting to the side, she snaps her whip beside her and then launches herself forward. It puts her dangerously close to the Ikari Warrior, but the Aussie doesn't seem to care. As she tries to move past him, she slams her fist out quickly to jab the pommel of whip into his face as a distraction.
COMBATSYS: Faolan blocks Reese's Jab Punch.
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Reese 0/-------/-======|=======\====---\1 Faolan
Of course giving him time to get up could be a bad idea. The guy is hard to get off his feet so it isn't often that a chance to kick Faolan while he is down occurs. Some people are too nice for the fighting circuit sometimes it would seem. The time just gives Faolan a chance to gather his wits and steady himself once more. Of course he recovers just in time to get his arm up to keep the pommel of the whip from hitting him in the face. He also tries to spin around and grab the woman to tug and throw her off balance some.
It is all in hopes that it throws her off balance so he can hit her with a series of blows from his bata aimed to pummel both arms and legs before he comes in low to the back of the knees to take the legs out from under her and cause her to hit the ground before he gives his bata one last twirl and aims to bring it down hard on her noggin. Hey, at least it ain't the face.
COMBATSYS: Faolan successfully hits Reese with Carry the Coffin.
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Reese 1/---====/=======|-------\-------\0 Faolan
The block is not what she was hoping for because now she's up close and personal with the Irish powerhouse. The bata strikes, and strikes again, and she's unable to actually get the hell out of the way of the powerful strikes. Falling to the ground, she barely gets a hand up to block the incoming blow when it crashes to her noggin. Again, not what she was expecting, and it leaves her dazed.
Giving her head a shake, she starts to crawl toward the back curtain. Every foot or so, she gives her head another shake to make the pretty magic stars that are spiraling around her give way.
Pulling herself up onto the saw-trick, she considers. Then she opens the lid, rams it toward him again but this time works to trip him up into it so she can lock him in.
COMBATSYS: Faolan blocks Reese's Random Weapon.
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Reese 1/---====/=======|=------\-------\0 Faolan
It would seem that the Irishman has learned his lesson. He may have gotten ran over the last time, but this time around he decides that it isn't worth trying to get out of the way. He just rather stay his ground and prepare himself for taking the hit. He takes a deep breath and he steps forward as he thrusts his arms forward as the hand grips the bata. He is pushed back a bit from impact, but the hopes of capturing him in the trick seem to be nullified. "No way. Not again."
He takes a step back and he aims his bata towards Reese since he can't quite reach her with an attack. Of course what she might not expect is the small glob of energy formed at the end of the bata that comes off of the stick and aims to slam right into her and give another nice electrical shock if it manages to connect. "Running out of tricks yet, huh?"
COMBATSYS: Reese overcomes Bata Blast from Faolan with Number One With a Bang!.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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Reese 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Faolan
"Damn. I was hoping you'd allow me to saw you in half, mate." Marius hasn't actually taught her how that trick works, so it would be dangerous... but potentially fun. It's not as though Reese'd //kill// Faolan. At least she hopes not. Reese may be a mercenary, a thief, but she's not a killer. Not yet.
The bata aimed at her can only mean one thing. When the glob of energy begins to form, the whip is dropped and both guns are swung up into her hands. A volley of energy bullets are lobbed off in his direction, each coming together to form a larger and larger bullet until it's rather large super-bullet that blasts toward the energy, and will explode on impact if it manages to get through the black glob.
COMBATSYS: Faolan Toughs Out Reese's Number One With a Bang!!
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Reese 0/-------/------=|=====--\-------\0 Faolan
It is a sequence of events that people watch these sort of fights. The crowd is roaring loudly as both fighters pummel one another. In this case it is hard to tell who has the upperhand. When it seems Faolan has released a trick, Reese manages to turn the tables and trap the Ikari in a bad situation. There is little that Faolan can do when that energy comes at him so quickly. He does things the Ikari way and takes it like a man. He grits his teeth and somehow through the large explosion of energy that hits he manages to keep on his feet.
He is panting a bit heavily and he he manages a grin. "Keep it coming." he tells the Aussie as he lunges forward to jam his bata into the woman's waist then use his strength to try to lift her up with just the bata before a shock of energy is released to send her flying away. "Hup!"
COMBATSYS: Faolan successfully hits Reese with One for the Road.
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Reese 0/-------/---====|======-\-------\0 Faolan
Bata lift, and energy, and flying back she goes toward the curtains. Reese groans as she crashes to the stage. For all intents and purposes, it looks like she's down and out. For all intents and purposes it looks like she's not going to move.
Her hand twitches, reaching under the curtain. A button is pressed and a one of those mirrored sword boxes falls from up above Faolan. It's not coming down as slow as it should be, it's actually crashing toward him at an alarming pace.
And afterward, Reese just manages to sit up, force another bright smile, and then crash back to the stage with a groaned 'ow'.
COMBATSYS: Reese can no longer fight.
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Faolan 0/-------/-======|
COMBATSYS: Faolan dodges Reese's Large Random Weapon.
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Faolan 0/-------/-======|
This woman can be such a handful. Especially in this environment where she seems to know where everything is. Wait, could she really be.....nah. No way someone like her would let herself be a magician's assistant. He is too busy thinking of such things to at first not realize that there is one last trick up the woman's sleeve. That is when a few screams come from the crowd and he looks up and eyes go wide. "Ahh hell." he mumbles and he leaps forward as the box crashes onto the stage.
Slowly the Ikari gets to his feet as people cheer and he takes a look around. It seems the officials are calling the fight right now as Reese remains where she landed and a person goes to check on her. "Hey, I did it again!" he says and raises his bata in the air. Good job, Fao. You are bragging you beat up a woman. The Ikari way indeed.
COMBATSYS: Faolan has ended the fight here.
Log created on 18:42:56 10/25/2011 by Reese, and last modified on 11:02:00 10/26/2011.