<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=239093.msg11829979#msg11829979">Quote from: Vergil Tanner on 19-11-2015, 03:05:31</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Okey dokey! Well, if Superboy is gonna attack, may I suggest waiting to see Ice's interjection post? I mean, if the knife hits (for example) that might change Superboy's reaction, obviously. So obviously Warden can't attack in her Interjection (since it's not her attack post) but she can respond to DS's Attack Post (since he gets an attack post every two posts, since he's fighting multiple opponents, that last one classed as an Attack Post) to show her characters response to that attack, and then Superboy can post his attack, then a (possible) Interjection by DS if SB's post warranted it, then Nightwing's proper attack post, then back to Spoiler.<br/><br/>Everybody got that, or did I go too quickly? XD<br/><br/><br/>And Warden, I know, but she still has to be within a certain distance to use that staff. The longest staff that is reasonably usable in martial arts is about 8-10 feet...and if she actually wanted a good amount of force behind it, she's not going to just tap him with the end of her staff, she's going to put some follow through behind it, which suggests that they're about maybe six feet apart. DS grabbed and pulled the staff which - even if she let go - would pull her forwards maybe a step or so, and then he span around and forwards, using his momentum and his speed to close the distance which, as can be seen in many an online and training demonstration, takes a split second for somebody trained in knife use. She didn't lunge at him, but she had to be within a certain range unless she actively threw her staff at him.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>It's quite clear the attack was not meant to do any actual damage, only to make him start moving and open himself up for any possible attack from her allies.  She's not aiming for any amount of force.  As a guy who knows actual martial arts, lunging in on someone that's armored is not only ridiculously naive but effectively suicide, especially considering your knives aren't sharpened to be any real threat other than to initiate.  How long is his reaching distance?  I'm 6'1" and my reach is 4 - 5 feet at best.  She's 5'10" so we'll assumes her's is around the same.  That's enough reach between them in order for her to reach him with the end of her staff.  By 'force off his feet', I meant start moving, not knock him onto his ass.  Just not possible with his armoring and her lack of a lunge.<br/><br/>The counter-measure is perfectly reasonable but the lunge wasn't there.  Maybe a step-in by half a foot just to get any possible momentum but that's as far as it goes.<br/><br/>[EDIT] I can see where the confusion lies though in my typing.  Anyways, no need to change the post.  I was just pointing out she wasn't lunging at him.