Lauren (Vin Alt)
Feb 17, 2018 0:07:00 GMT -6
Post by Lauren on Feb 17, 2018 0:07:00 GMT -6
Name: Lauren Armatae
Class: Sage
Dragon Element: N/A
Age: 23
Born in: Etruria
Appearance: Lauren is fairly tall at 5'9 and boyish in build. Her hair is long and black but she keeps it in a professional bun at all times when on duty. This is further hidden by an ornate cap she wears that bears the symbol of her house. A symbol that her younger brother created for them.
Her clothes are a uniform donned by those that received the same training to denote their status. The top is a long black coat with white trimming and white gloves. The tail of the coat falls to her knees. The belt at her waste is a scarlet sash worn to keep the coat from being too loose at the waste.
Her pants are rather form fitting and even make her legs look small on occasion due to her armored grieves.
Personality: Lauren typically puts on a show of unopinionated stoicism. She will appear to at all times remain in control and calm even if internally it could not be further from the truth.
Her motivations are simple, she does all she can to provide a better life for her siblings. She will fight so that they might live in peace. She will investigate into a world of darkness so that they may bask in the light.
She likes to be in control of any group she might become a part of but will spend most of her time alone. In a group she tends to act like a big sister, willing to scold and chide others for failing but also there to offer advice.
In combat she relies on maintaining the tactical advantage only engaging if the situation suits her. If not she is content to wait for things to change. In the off chance she is taken unaware her style is to find a way to pick them off one by one.
History: Lauren and her siblings were children of the street. Their mother was a part of a less than savory trade so none of them knew who their fathers were. Lauren and her younger sister Laura (Their mother couldn't remember who was who so they ended up sharing a similar name) learned to steal and bribe people off of the streets for food and money.
When their youngest brother Lloyd was born however it was clear he had a defect and would never be able to properly walk. Looking out for her siblings grew increasingly difficult until one day at the age of fourteen she managed to steal important documents from an unsuspecting inquisitor.
Perhaps ironically his name was Interminor and she used these documents as leverage against him. It was a compilation of knowledge on a potential resistance cell in the wake of the fall of the royal family. To Interminor's relief the young Lauren could not read and had no idea what she was doing. When it came time he was able to easily subdue the girl and get his papers back. This single bribe had nearly allowed the prince and princess to escape from Etruria but thanks to Interminor and a traitor among the prince's ranks that was subdued.
The young Lauren was arrested but she did not go quietly, constantly kicking and screaming until she was bound and gagged. One day Interminor came to visit Lauren in her cell. He brought her an apple and an offer. He was impressed with her ability to steal, not entirely sure how she got his papers in the first place. He wanted to take her under his wing personally. Lauren initially refused both the offer and the apple until he came a second time. This time she agreed only so long as her siblings would be taken care of.
And so they were. Laura was sent to an academy where she became a troublesome yet quick witted student, and Lloyd was trained in the church, where he could be cared for and learn the texts. This satisfied the young Lauren enough to begin her training.
Interminor was a brutal teacher. Lauren needed to learn to read and write, as well as fight, but most importantly she needed to learn to read people, track in the wilderness, and so much more. She needed to stand as a one woman force. He ran her ragged until she learned to adapt or break, and to his surprise she adapted, driven mostly by her determination to aid her siblings.
Learning physical skills and reading people was an easy thing, she did much of that for him, it was reading, writing, and eventually ciphers that were troublesome. It was a long five years of effort before the two could communicate in that way and even then Lauren's penmanship left much to be desired.
Interminor was determined to make sure that his apprentice would not become less than the best and perhaps he could use her as an example of a new breed of inquisitors. He started with swordplay and she was mediocre at best. Though he noticed she was better with the training sticks than actual blades and this gave him an idea. It was a long process but in time he taught her to wield short heavy metal rods in each hand. She could never quite best her instructor but he considered her his near equal before the end.
He taught her to wield a whip with the hopes that such a tricky weapon would serve her well in besting an opponent that was taken off guard. She proved to have a brutal efficiency for it. And of course the two spent many a long day fighting with fists. Many parts of Lauren's body suffered nerve damage during the 'body hardening' process. From a physical standpoint her skills were good enough but he wanted her to know magic. Who would suspect to face an opponent in melee that would also use the arcane powers?
This was the tricky part. Lauren struggled with reading the complicated texts, nor was she very gifted with staffs and channeling her magic. Lauren began to refuse the notion of learning magic, adamant that she could manage as she had.
Interminor would have none of it and sent her to spend time with her brother. It was a wonderful break from the training and to see how much he grew was a nearly heart-wrenching experience. She was away from her siblings for so many years without realizing it. He too had grown into a well learned priest and artist despite his deformities. Lauren could not be more proud.
The time the two spent at the monastery showed Lauren just how much good Etruria really was doing through the church. If she could really become the inquisitor they all believed she could then she could protect such a pure entity from the insidious threats against it. And that would mean protecting her brother.
She asked Lloyd to show her the ways of the staff and through his patience and teachings she too learned how to channel her magic. When the day for her departure came Lloyd gifted her with a broken staff. It was the first one he used and thought it would make a nice gesture.
Upon her return to training Interminor was ecstatic to see his plan and patience had payed off. The only remaining issue was getting her to learn combative spells. He tried to show her light but she had no gift for it. Trinity however, there was a small spark, quite literally. This pleased Interminor and so he sent her away to the academy with her sister Laura.
Lauren was fully aware of her mentor's intentions now and asked her sister if she could show her how to perform magic. As it turned out Laura knew exactly how to get the concepts through Lauren's head. It became a very physical lesson. Lauren would learn to use magic through the physical pain of failing to do so. After weeks of little more than a candle flame she could finally start creating proper orbs. The two were not afforded the time to progress more together but the seeds were set for Lauren’s growth.
When Lauren returned she found Interminor’s office was in ruins! His desk was overturned and the signs of a fierce skirmish were clear. Despite her initial shock she noticed a small line of ciphers written in blood. It was a location and a name. What did her mentor wish to tell her? Was that where he was? Was that his captor? She did not know, but she needed to. It was time to put all Interminor had taught her to use. Magic, rods, whips, and staffs, it was all too much to carry if she was to travel and carry practical supplies and so she took her things to Interminor’s personal smith and had personal commissions made. Her metal rods were reworked to incorporate the whips as one multipurpose tool and she had silver bracers fashioned for herself that with the right motions could cover from her wrists or extend over her hands. In these bracers she built in space to hold the focus gems of staffs. In her right arm she stored the one from her brother’s broken memento.
She may have been an initiate but it was time to act like an inquisitor. Her investigation led her to a sleepy town that on the surface was a perfect and law abiding place. They welcomed her warmly and assisted her in her hunt until one night a group of men tried to silence her in her sleep. The men failed when good fortune had one of them make too much noise, waking Lauren. The fight was short but Lauren’s retaliation was brutal. These men were no warriors. Leaving one of them alive she interrogated the man and learned of a smuggling trade that ran through the town. Those in charge of it were also in charge of the town and so it went unreported. It did not take but the single night for Lauren to bring the ringleaders into custody. It turned out that there was a man named Lucius hidden behind them as the one truly in charge, but he did not make appearances easily. Perhaps she would track him down?
It was a good deed done but it did not explain what she wanted to know. That is, until she saw another cipher marked into the wall of the inn. She was being lead somewhere. The next location she was brought to was an old church. Things were seemingly ordinary there except for the bishop in charge. He had taken to learning dark magic in secret. None of his fellow clergymen even knew of his transgressions and yet Interminor had known. It was difficult to discover but her training into magic had allowed her to sense the distortions of magic. Following it she discovered the truth for herself. It was simple curiosity rather than maliciousness that brought the bishop into evil but if the church was to be protected he had to be purged.
Arrested and tried the bishop burned along with his tomes of dark knowledge. There were other documents however that interested Lauren, something about a king and heroes and gods. It was all strange but might have more meaning to them, and so she kept said documents for herself. She stayed another two night in the church hunting for a cipher and nearly gave up until a hawk came to her with a letter. It said that if she had received this than she had done good work but it was time for her final test, meet him where it all began. That was easy to figure out and Lauren went to the streets of her youth and the alleyway she tried to bribe her mentor to be from.
He challenged Lauren to a duel to the death. She initially refused such an absurd demand until he stabbed her in the side. Again he ordered her to fight him. She healed her wound before drawing her weapons. It was a progressively harder and harder battle. Interminor was fierce and aiming for blows that could kill her but he never seemed to connect. Once the fight began to drag out his strikes grazed her skin more consistently. Eventually he would have killed her if not for Lauren getting the edge. She knew her mentor well, and she knew he was holding back no matter how hard he fought. She waited for him to perform a maneuver she had seen countless times and once he did she countered him flawlessly. She knocked her opponent to the floor and shot a small ball of fire by his face for good measure. Interminor congratulated her saying she passed, and she proceeded to knock him out with a smile on his face.
Following her trial she was granted the title of inquisitor. It was now her duty to find and eradicate threats against Etruria. She was determined and she had leads to pick from. She decided it would be best to start her hunt for this Lucius. He was elusive and difficult to capture, even failing to come through on the promise of contacts if he brought her a Bernese wyvern egg. Even if the man evaded capture she was able to find many smaller threats and extinguish them. She recently heard whispers of a man that fled Etruria after suffering amnesia from some dark ritual. Perhaps she should look into that sometime too?
NPC fight: Meet where it all began, such a simple instruction, even a newborn babe could figure that one out. The streets of Lauren’s youth were dirtier than she remembered and the memories they evoked were unpleasant but not overwhelming. There was no sign of Interminor though, not even at the inn she managed to snatch his old papers from. That fool left them sticking halfway out of a bag. His lessons were brutal but efficient, making him her perfect teacher but he ought to try and remember his own lessons more. Since he was not at the inn, she supposed he never realized where she had managed to first steal from him, and that meant he must be waiting in the old alleyway.
So predictable, she thought with a sigh. “So, what exactly was all that back in your office? And how long have you been waiting here for me?”
Interminor smiled at his protégée. “Long enough to question if you would come. But I see you followed my tracks and surely ended the threats?”
“Yes, they were easy to discover once I was in those towns. But why bother with the theatrics of it all?”
“I wanted to know how far you would go if it all came as a surprise to you. Would you quit and abandon your station, or would your training kick in and you become the inquisitor I knew you could be. Judging from your appearance I would say it worked better than I even hoped.” Interminor drew his sword and rolled his shoulders. “Now I know you are capable of investigating this world but how is your ability to fight someone more skilled than you and wants you dead? Your enemies will be many and none will be able to protect you except yourself, so come at me with all you have or I WILL kill you.”
“You can’t be serious.” Lauren stepped closer to Interminor and into the alleyway to keep any potential combat from the streets. “To think my graduation would come down to a fight… how asinine,” she muttered moments before Interminor seized the advantage to thrust his blade into her side. “Gah!” The breath was short and sharp as she stumbled back holding her bleeding gut. “Bastard!”
“I missed anything vital, but next time I won’t. You’d had better take me more seriously.”
A flash of anger crossed Lauren’s eyes before she held onto her steely gaze. “Right then.” Channeling her magic she healed her wound. Interminor afforded her that moment as well it would seem. Once her wound was closed she threw the armor of her bracers over her hands and began her retaliation. First it was a small ball of flames followed by a second a moment later. Interminor easily evaded with light footwork, keeping his blade trained on Lauren. She then lunged with fists swinging.
Interminor smiled as he narrowly avoided her first fist and countered with a stab of his own. To his surprise Lauren had anticipated this and protected her body with her other bracer sending his blow aside and striking his face with another fierce blow, this time including a bit of fire for good measure. With her opponent staggered she drew one baton and struck for his head. Before her strike could connect something exploded at Interminor’s feet. It created a flash of light and a pop that left Lauren reeling.
“Gah!” Momentarily deafened and blind her opponent began a flurry of blows against her. How could he move so quickly? His blade was light but even then it was an inhuman speed. (Adept) She simply could not defend against it. Each strike was at best sent off course but still they struck her body, grazing her. Drawing from her belt her second baton she realized that Interminor could not maintain the pace he used previously. “You could have ended me already, and that will be your biggest mistake in this fight!” Lauren challenged. Her counter attack consisted of striking multiple body parts simultaneously with one baton always blocking her mentor’s blade.
This seemed to work as it pushed the man back and the moment he stumbled she had him. With just the right movement Lauren’s batons broke into a whip as she cast one around his leg and pulled him to the ground. “Gotcha!” Interminor hit the ground of the alleyway harshly before a small flame hit the ground beside his head. “Next time it will connect if you don’t surrender.”
Laughter. “Very good! You still have much to learn and far to travel but if your opponent is not me I think you may just do splendidly!” Crack! Lauren kicked Interminor in the side of the face rendering him unconscious. The two could speak after he wakes up in a less hostile mood.
“You Ass.”
PC Fight: Lauren eyed her challenger appraisingly. She couldn’t believe that someone would want to fight her simply out of sport. She gave a soft sigh but agreed to it. Her opponent had aided her previously so it was only fair to return the favor in this way. Better than asking for something else later, that could be complicated. So yes, a simpleton’s request was quite alright with her.
“Very well, I will accept your challenge, but do not expect that I will be like any opponent to have come before.” They were probably counting on it she thought as she lowered her bracers and took a stance. She figured she had more tricks than her opponent but just in case she ought to feel them out a bit first. Once the two were ready Lauren opened with an orb of flames aimed for the left leg of her opponent and another aimed for their right shoulder. Let’s see if they can cope with such a strike.
Starting gear: Exotic Seal, x2 Fists, x2 Rods, x2 Whips, Trinity, Heal
Class: Sage
Dragon Element: N/A
Age: 23
Born in: Etruria
Appearance: Lauren is fairly tall at 5'9 and boyish in build. Her hair is long and black but she keeps it in a professional bun at all times when on duty. This is further hidden by an ornate cap she wears that bears the symbol of her house. A symbol that her younger brother created for them.
Her clothes are a uniform donned by those that received the same training to denote their status. The top is a long black coat with white trimming and white gloves. The tail of the coat falls to her knees. The belt at her waste is a scarlet sash worn to keep the coat from being too loose at the waste.
Her pants are rather form fitting and even make her legs look small on occasion due to her armored grieves.
Personality: Lauren typically puts on a show of unopinionated stoicism. She will appear to at all times remain in control and calm even if internally it could not be further from the truth.
Her motivations are simple, she does all she can to provide a better life for her siblings. She will fight so that they might live in peace. She will investigate into a world of darkness so that they may bask in the light.
She likes to be in control of any group she might become a part of but will spend most of her time alone. In a group she tends to act like a big sister, willing to scold and chide others for failing but also there to offer advice.
In combat she relies on maintaining the tactical advantage only engaging if the situation suits her. If not she is content to wait for things to change. In the off chance she is taken unaware her style is to find a way to pick them off one by one.
History: Lauren and her siblings were children of the street. Their mother was a part of a less than savory trade so none of them knew who their fathers were. Lauren and her younger sister Laura (Their mother couldn't remember who was who so they ended up sharing a similar name) learned to steal and bribe people off of the streets for food and money.
When their youngest brother Lloyd was born however it was clear he had a defect and would never be able to properly walk. Looking out for her siblings grew increasingly difficult until one day at the age of fourteen she managed to steal important documents from an unsuspecting inquisitor.
Perhaps ironically his name was Interminor and she used these documents as leverage against him. It was a compilation of knowledge on a potential resistance cell in the wake of the fall of the royal family. To Interminor's relief the young Lauren could not read and had no idea what she was doing. When it came time he was able to easily subdue the girl and get his papers back. This single bribe had nearly allowed the prince and princess to escape from Etruria but thanks to Interminor and a traitor among the prince's ranks that was subdued.
The young Lauren was arrested but she did not go quietly, constantly kicking and screaming until she was bound and gagged. One day Interminor came to visit Lauren in her cell. He brought her an apple and an offer. He was impressed with her ability to steal, not entirely sure how she got his papers in the first place. He wanted to take her under his wing personally. Lauren initially refused both the offer and the apple until he came a second time. This time she agreed only so long as her siblings would be taken care of.
And so they were. Laura was sent to an academy where she became a troublesome yet quick witted student, and Lloyd was trained in the church, where he could be cared for and learn the texts. This satisfied the young Lauren enough to begin her training.
Interminor was a brutal teacher. Lauren needed to learn to read and write, as well as fight, but most importantly she needed to learn to read people, track in the wilderness, and so much more. She needed to stand as a one woman force. He ran her ragged until she learned to adapt or break, and to his surprise she adapted, driven mostly by her determination to aid her siblings.
Learning physical skills and reading people was an easy thing, she did much of that for him, it was reading, writing, and eventually ciphers that were troublesome. It was a long five years of effort before the two could communicate in that way and even then Lauren's penmanship left much to be desired.
Interminor was determined to make sure that his apprentice would not become less than the best and perhaps he could use her as an example of a new breed of inquisitors. He started with swordplay and she was mediocre at best. Though he noticed she was better with the training sticks than actual blades and this gave him an idea. It was a long process but in time he taught her to wield short heavy metal rods in each hand. She could never quite best her instructor but he considered her his near equal before the end.
He taught her to wield a whip with the hopes that such a tricky weapon would serve her well in besting an opponent that was taken off guard. She proved to have a brutal efficiency for it. And of course the two spent many a long day fighting with fists. Many parts of Lauren's body suffered nerve damage during the 'body hardening' process. From a physical standpoint her skills were good enough but he wanted her to know magic. Who would suspect to face an opponent in melee that would also use the arcane powers?
This was the tricky part. Lauren struggled with reading the complicated texts, nor was she very gifted with staffs and channeling her magic. Lauren began to refuse the notion of learning magic, adamant that she could manage as she had.
Interminor would have none of it and sent her to spend time with her brother. It was a wonderful break from the training and to see how much he grew was a nearly heart-wrenching experience. She was away from her siblings for so many years without realizing it. He too had grown into a well learned priest and artist despite his deformities. Lauren could not be more proud.
The time the two spent at the monastery showed Lauren just how much good Etruria really was doing through the church. If she could really become the inquisitor they all believed she could then she could protect such a pure entity from the insidious threats against it. And that would mean protecting her brother.
She asked Lloyd to show her the ways of the staff and through his patience and teachings she too learned how to channel her magic. When the day for her departure came Lloyd gifted her with a broken staff. It was the first one he used and thought it would make a nice gesture.
Upon her return to training Interminor was ecstatic to see his plan and patience had payed off. The only remaining issue was getting her to learn combative spells. He tried to show her light but she had no gift for it. Trinity however, there was a small spark, quite literally. This pleased Interminor and so he sent her away to the academy with her sister Laura.
Lauren was fully aware of her mentor's intentions now and asked her sister if she could show her how to perform magic. As it turned out Laura knew exactly how to get the concepts through Lauren's head. It became a very physical lesson. Lauren would learn to use magic through the physical pain of failing to do so. After weeks of little more than a candle flame she could finally start creating proper orbs. The two were not afforded the time to progress more together but the seeds were set for Lauren’s growth.
When Lauren returned she found Interminor’s office was in ruins! His desk was overturned and the signs of a fierce skirmish were clear. Despite her initial shock she noticed a small line of ciphers written in blood. It was a location and a name. What did her mentor wish to tell her? Was that where he was? Was that his captor? She did not know, but she needed to. It was time to put all Interminor had taught her to use. Magic, rods, whips, and staffs, it was all too much to carry if she was to travel and carry practical supplies and so she took her things to Interminor’s personal smith and had personal commissions made. Her metal rods were reworked to incorporate the whips as one multipurpose tool and she had silver bracers fashioned for herself that with the right motions could cover from her wrists or extend over her hands. In these bracers she built in space to hold the focus gems of staffs. In her right arm she stored the one from her brother’s broken memento.
She may have been an initiate but it was time to act like an inquisitor. Her investigation led her to a sleepy town that on the surface was a perfect and law abiding place. They welcomed her warmly and assisted her in her hunt until one night a group of men tried to silence her in her sleep. The men failed when good fortune had one of them make too much noise, waking Lauren. The fight was short but Lauren’s retaliation was brutal. These men were no warriors. Leaving one of them alive she interrogated the man and learned of a smuggling trade that ran through the town. Those in charge of it were also in charge of the town and so it went unreported. It did not take but the single night for Lauren to bring the ringleaders into custody. It turned out that there was a man named Lucius hidden behind them as the one truly in charge, but he did not make appearances easily. Perhaps she would track him down?
It was a good deed done but it did not explain what she wanted to know. That is, until she saw another cipher marked into the wall of the inn. She was being lead somewhere. The next location she was brought to was an old church. Things were seemingly ordinary there except for the bishop in charge. He had taken to learning dark magic in secret. None of his fellow clergymen even knew of his transgressions and yet Interminor had known. It was difficult to discover but her training into magic had allowed her to sense the distortions of magic. Following it she discovered the truth for herself. It was simple curiosity rather than maliciousness that brought the bishop into evil but if the church was to be protected he had to be purged.
Arrested and tried the bishop burned along with his tomes of dark knowledge. There were other documents however that interested Lauren, something about a king and heroes and gods. It was all strange but might have more meaning to them, and so she kept said documents for herself. She stayed another two night in the church hunting for a cipher and nearly gave up until a hawk came to her with a letter. It said that if she had received this than she had done good work but it was time for her final test, meet him where it all began. That was easy to figure out and Lauren went to the streets of her youth and the alleyway she tried to bribe her mentor to be from.
He challenged Lauren to a duel to the death. She initially refused such an absurd demand until he stabbed her in the side. Again he ordered her to fight him. She healed her wound before drawing her weapons. It was a progressively harder and harder battle. Interminor was fierce and aiming for blows that could kill her but he never seemed to connect. Once the fight began to drag out his strikes grazed her skin more consistently. Eventually he would have killed her if not for Lauren getting the edge. She knew her mentor well, and she knew he was holding back no matter how hard he fought. She waited for him to perform a maneuver she had seen countless times and once he did she countered him flawlessly. She knocked her opponent to the floor and shot a small ball of fire by his face for good measure. Interminor congratulated her saying she passed, and she proceeded to knock him out with a smile on his face.
Following her trial she was granted the title of inquisitor. It was now her duty to find and eradicate threats against Etruria. She was determined and she had leads to pick from. She decided it would be best to start her hunt for this Lucius. He was elusive and difficult to capture, even failing to come through on the promise of contacts if he brought her a Bernese wyvern egg. Even if the man evaded capture she was able to find many smaller threats and extinguish them. She recently heard whispers of a man that fled Etruria after suffering amnesia from some dark ritual. Perhaps she should look into that sometime too?
NPC fight: Meet where it all began, such a simple instruction, even a newborn babe could figure that one out. The streets of Lauren’s youth were dirtier than she remembered and the memories they evoked were unpleasant but not overwhelming. There was no sign of Interminor though, not even at the inn she managed to snatch his old papers from. That fool left them sticking halfway out of a bag. His lessons were brutal but efficient, making him her perfect teacher but he ought to try and remember his own lessons more. Since he was not at the inn, she supposed he never realized where she had managed to first steal from him, and that meant he must be waiting in the old alleyway.
So predictable, she thought with a sigh. “So, what exactly was all that back in your office? And how long have you been waiting here for me?”
Interminor smiled at his protégée. “Long enough to question if you would come. But I see you followed my tracks and surely ended the threats?”
“Yes, they were easy to discover once I was in those towns. But why bother with the theatrics of it all?”
“I wanted to know how far you would go if it all came as a surprise to you. Would you quit and abandon your station, or would your training kick in and you become the inquisitor I knew you could be. Judging from your appearance I would say it worked better than I even hoped.” Interminor drew his sword and rolled his shoulders. “Now I know you are capable of investigating this world but how is your ability to fight someone more skilled than you and wants you dead? Your enemies will be many and none will be able to protect you except yourself, so come at me with all you have or I WILL kill you.”
“You can’t be serious.” Lauren stepped closer to Interminor and into the alleyway to keep any potential combat from the streets. “To think my graduation would come down to a fight… how asinine,” she muttered moments before Interminor seized the advantage to thrust his blade into her side. “Gah!” The breath was short and sharp as she stumbled back holding her bleeding gut. “Bastard!”
“I missed anything vital, but next time I won’t. You’d had better take me more seriously.”
A flash of anger crossed Lauren’s eyes before she held onto her steely gaze. “Right then.” Channeling her magic she healed her wound. Interminor afforded her that moment as well it would seem. Once her wound was closed she threw the armor of her bracers over her hands and began her retaliation. First it was a small ball of flames followed by a second a moment later. Interminor easily evaded with light footwork, keeping his blade trained on Lauren. She then lunged with fists swinging.
Interminor smiled as he narrowly avoided her first fist and countered with a stab of his own. To his surprise Lauren had anticipated this and protected her body with her other bracer sending his blow aside and striking his face with another fierce blow, this time including a bit of fire for good measure. With her opponent staggered she drew one baton and struck for his head. Before her strike could connect something exploded at Interminor’s feet. It created a flash of light and a pop that left Lauren reeling.
“Gah!” Momentarily deafened and blind her opponent began a flurry of blows against her. How could he move so quickly? His blade was light but even then it was an inhuman speed. (Adept) She simply could not defend against it. Each strike was at best sent off course but still they struck her body, grazing her. Drawing from her belt her second baton she realized that Interminor could not maintain the pace he used previously. “You could have ended me already, and that will be your biggest mistake in this fight!” Lauren challenged. Her counter attack consisted of striking multiple body parts simultaneously with one baton always blocking her mentor’s blade.
This seemed to work as it pushed the man back and the moment he stumbled she had him. With just the right movement Lauren’s batons broke into a whip as she cast one around his leg and pulled him to the ground. “Gotcha!” Interminor hit the ground of the alleyway harshly before a small flame hit the ground beside his head. “Next time it will connect if you don’t surrender.”
Laughter. “Very good! You still have much to learn and far to travel but if your opponent is not me I think you may just do splendidly!” Crack! Lauren kicked Interminor in the side of the face rendering him unconscious. The two could speak after he wakes up in a less hostile mood.
“You Ass.”
PC Fight: Lauren eyed her challenger appraisingly. She couldn’t believe that someone would want to fight her simply out of sport. She gave a soft sigh but agreed to it. Her opponent had aided her previously so it was only fair to return the favor in this way. Better than asking for something else later, that could be complicated. So yes, a simpleton’s request was quite alright with her.
“Very well, I will accept your challenge, but do not expect that I will be like any opponent to have come before.” They were probably counting on it she thought as she lowered her bracers and took a stance. She figured she had more tricks than her opponent but just in case she ought to feel them out a bit first. Once the two were ready Lauren opened with an orb of flames aimed for the left leg of her opponent and another aimed for their right shoulder. Let’s see if they can cope with such a strike.
Starting gear: Exotic Seal, x2 Fists, x2 Rods, x2 Whips, Trinity, Heal
