Summer Tournament: Revas vs Jasper

[Community Moogle]

First Round: Revas v Jasper
Summer Tournament, Round One.
Location: Destiny Island; Paopu Island
Conditions: Midnight; Clear, full moon.

“If the participants would please pick heads or tails, kupo!~” the fluttering moogle would say, flipping a small coin into the air.

[Revas]

"Heads so I can chop off this shem's second head."

[Jasper Poe]

"Tails for me."

[Community Moogle]

The fluttering moogle caught the coin as it dropped, nodding in acknowledgement of their choices and smacked it against the back of its hand. When it lift up its hand, it revealed the side in which the coin lay.

"Heads, kupo!~ Just... try not to low blow, eh?" the moogle grinned as it disappeared in a blink of sparkling warped space.

[Revas]

Revas would immediately warp behind the lad, his sword already out. He was slightly elevated, bringing the sword down as Alternate Red had a blue version of Revas swing at the throat. In this attempt, he would try to heavily injure the boy to kick off the match. Gorion would come in with his bare hands, closing the distance and ready to send a flurry of short uppercuts to the gut. Sparks would be holding Revas' daggers, circling around the duo as they spaced themselves enough to be able to strike Jasper without being led into striking each other. Sparks would be ready to converge with the skeletal kid as soon as he would leave the epicenter of the attack.

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[Jasper Poe]

The moogle spoke out loud before disappearing. Jasper summoned his scythe and cleverly disassembled himself, it was so little however that Revas wouldn't notice. When the elf warped in behind the male, Jasper would pull his torso forward. Rwvas missed the shot at the back. Causing Jasper to laugh. "Not bad eh?"  He said as his skin evaporated off the bones revealing a talking skeleton.

A large scythe then assumed form in the monster's open hand. But Blue Revas tried to run a slick blade across the fiend's neck. Normally this would've been a major injury; but thanks to popping it off previous to the attack it completely missed traveling directly under a head that levitated two inches over the neck. "Whoops.~" said the skeleton as it's eyeless holes bent into a wink.

Due to his showboaty nature he hadn't noticed Gorion run at him. Whom closed the distance and punched at his chest. These uppercuts dealt damage and pushed the torso back over the lower half. This impact knocked Jasper's head into place, no pun intended. The skeleton saw Spark's run at him, hoping to converge. "Not today!"

The skeletal figure spum it's blade with absolute finease. Causing it to create a circular pathway as it attempted to slice through the creature. Then using his free-hand-- the bone man snapped its fingers. "Votive!" said he! A small cadle-like creature burst into his shoulder. It was turned around and suddenly if not instantly began apid fire at Revas who was still spaced behind Jasper.

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Skeleton Man Skill-Tree: Bone Displacement Method! [Used]

Adjutant Votive [summoned] (forgot the attack name, but my directory has an easy link too it. Sorry for the inconvenience. Super busy irl currently.)

Transmutation [Toggled Off]

[Revas]

As soon as Gorion would land his strikes, he would make sure he would continue to hit Jasper by wrapping one arm around him and keeping a fist to pommel his gut twice before rising it to try and smash it into his face. Sparks would keep the defensive stance, watching as the skeletal boy underestimated all the physical superiority in the lion. Revas would land, triggering the Armor mode of his synthesis body, putting the sword away and going at Jasper's back with the daggers on his hand. With each strike, Alternate Red would strike at the same angle simultaneously. Gorion would try to keep his grip as hard as he could, opening his massive lion mouth to bite down on Jasper's face. The two would assault at two fronts to keep the boy from moving towards Sparks, cancelling out his later movements beyond escaping the Lion's reach. Unless the boy did something to overcome the stacked odds upon him, he'd be in for an onslaught.

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Golem Model: Revas

[Game Master]

I have been called to settle a dispute. The issue at hand is the case of Gorian vs. Jasper. Before that ruling, a minor one.

In the case of Revas vs. Jasper with regards to the opening move, where one Revas did warp behind Jasper to deliver a blow which was dodged, I have made the following decision.

Jasper does not have the faculties to dodge this initial attack. While he is capable of displacing bones and otherwise dodging, two factors prevent him from a proper reaction. The first is that the warp behind him makes no discernible sound. This would not clue the skeleton into Revas' location. As stated in the case of Kia vs Lenneth, a person can not react to something that they have not the means to react to. As stated in the meta, a person can not react to something they are not aware of. The second is that, also as stated in the meta, at T1 speed it takes approximately half a second to react to stimuli. Even if Jasper  were aware of this, he would have to have essentially predicted where Revas would be in order to have moved fast enough to dodge the attack.

In the case of the main issue. It is possible for Gorian to interrupt Jasper's escape attempt. Gorian is in range and justified in making the attempt, which in doing so would invalidate the preceding events in Jasper's post taking place after the grab would have chronologically occurred.

It should be noted that despite invalidating the previous set of preceding events, Jasper still has the freedom to respond, but only if the grab is successful. It is extremely likely that this attempt will succeed, however the rest of Darius' post after this point is also pure conjecture and assumes that Jasper doesn't in turn counter him or otherwise disrupt him.

Essentially:
Revas hits Jasper

Gorian can grab Jasper

Jasper's post is negated past the point where Gorian grabs him

Jasper's next post will start from the point of being grabbed, and go from there with his next set of actions

Revas' post is pure conjecture after the grab, unless Jasper does nothing to prevent these actions in which event they will come to pass

It should be kept in mind for all that actions can be interrupted in the future. This should actively be taken advantage of.

[Jasper Poe]

I forfeit.

[Community Moogle]

The moogle returned to the field in a sparkly patch of warped space, fluttering harmlessly beside the elf. With one hand raised in his direction, the moogle made it's announcement. "With combatant Jasper forfeiting the match and pulling himself from the tournament, Revas wins by default, kupo!~ Congratulations!"

Revas wins T1: Round One by means default.

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