Steel vice grips held a battered iron lance in front of a knight covered in a matte black broken up by crimson. The pointed end was dug onto the earth while the owner's eyes registered the formation of the former Advent standing in their way, equipped with blades in one hand and severe overconfidence or death wish in the other. The brief repose of inaction taken by Claire was broken by his feet kicking off the dirt and his lance following suit, with the man intending to block the pathway for the two myrmidons in front. Hopefully this time Lady Laplace will stay behind him.<br/><br/>The move was decided by this blackguard without any input or signal from the rest of the travelling troupe, and it was also devoid of any input or signal from said blackguard. Perhaps Edmund has his work cut out for him. Claire moved with surprising agility that seemed to disregard the fact that he was wearing fifty tea kettles' worth of protective metal on his person, maybe a little more or less. His attempt to stop involved burning the momentum he had built up on shearing the lance through the opposing swordsman's belly.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body">Claire moves 2 south to F18 and attacks Robotnik the Myrmidon @ G18!<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">nerdy calculations</div><div class="spoiler_body">new statblock!<br/><tt class="bbc_tt">Battle Inventory:<br/>  Name            Rng  Atk  Hit  Eva  Crt  AS  Ql<br/> - Iron Lance      1   014  090  005  002  02  40<br/> - Vulnerary                                   03<br/> -<br/> -<br/> -<br/>Active Skills:<br/><strong>Renewal</strong> - Passive Effect / At the start of each Player turn, you regain HP equal to 1/10 of your Maximum HP.<br/><strong>Armoured</strong> - Passive Effect / Any attack that would only deal 1 through 5 damage, no matter the source, the damage is reduced to 0.<br/><strong>Hold The Line</strong> - Passive Effect / Whenever you attempt to hold a chokepoint, the character with this skill blocks off enemy movement through the space to their right and left.<br/><strong>Hold the ****ing Line!</strong> - Claire is a knight bent on dedicating the **** out of his life to defending a cause. / If the character is within 3 spaces of Allied Units, +2 Defense / Resistance<br/><strong>Stirring Blood</strong> - Unless the enemy is another chivalrous knight to duel sportingly with. / If the character is fighting [Knight] or their Promotions, +10 Critical<br/><strong>Portable Oven</strong> - Metal is an excellent conductor of heat. Claire is covered in metal. / If the character is wielding [Fire], +10 Enemy Critical<br/></tt><br/><br/>hit: 90(claire base) - 14(myrmidon eva) + 15 (swords triangle hit bonus) = 91 or under to hit<br/>crit: 2(claire base) - 3(myrmidon luk) = why do i even bother to type this<br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Roll Result: evangel rolled: 1d100<br/>Comment: will claire hit robotnik<br/>Result: 99</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>hate my life<br/><br/>edit: completely forgot to calculate enemy attacking Claire. I am off my game tonight. :X<br/>edit: G18, not 19. Thank you changingsaint. :X<br/>hit: 105(myrmidon base) - 5(claire eva) - 15 (swords triangle hit penalty) = 85 or under to hit.<br/>crit: 3(myrmidon base) - 1(claire luk) = 2 or under to crit.<br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Roll Result: evangel rolled: 1d100<br/>Comment: does robotnik hit claire<br/>Result: 37</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>hit, damage is 0 b/c claire's defense is 11 (13 technically, with skill active) and myrmidon attack is 10(9 w/ penalty) <br/><br/></div></div><br/>And misses! Robotnik the Myrmidon retaliates and counterattacks for 0 damage!<br/></div></div><br/>Fortunately, Claire's lance found a much better thing to dig into to halt himself to a grinding stop. Unfortunately, spearing the Earth doesn't stop the myrmidons on the front and side of him from wanting to break his neck. While the knight was trying to peel his lance out of the patch of dirt he perforated quite well, the swordsman that just side-stepped his glorious charge saw it fit to decapitate him as a fantastic start to the battle they'll surely win.<br/><br/>The rowdy bumpkin's head on a silver platter will teach Ysena to even attempt chasing them down! Contrary to the delighted bandit's plan, though, what rested underneath the vermilion scarf keeping Cuddles' neck rather warm was cold, cold iron. The same metal that provided zero give against the strike, instead bouncing the sword lightly off without even a hint of collision.