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Home of the Konti people, this ivory city is built of native konti stone half in and half out of the sea. Its borders touch the Silverwood, and stretch upwards towards Silver Lake, home of the infamous konti vision water. [Lore]

Against the Dagger

Postby Tap on July 30th, 2016, 2:31 pm

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Summer 14, 516AV


To her it always seemed that although her sisters, extraordinarily gifted in the sai and suvai, never quite understood the danger held in this world. Tap did not either, of course, she had never left the paradise called the White Isle. But she liked to think she at least understood the fact that Mizahar had dangers unbeknownst to her.

She told herself that if she ever wished to get out of Mura and travel far somewhere else she would need to know at least a little to defend herself. And so a while back the lay Konti woman went and bought herself a shiny new dagger. The weapon was surprisingly cheap, but that was not the reason she chose such a blade. She could, of course, have had gone with the classic weapon of her people, the suvai, that was more dangerous after the fact with its poison rather than its pierce. But Tap could not see herself following so closely behind so many other Konti before her. She chose the dagger because it was small, unassuming and she figured she could easily acquire it anywhere. Tap could also not see herself brandishing a huge, silvery longsword or anything large like that. Sher preferred the light way the dagger fit into her hand. How, when underwater, it did not restrict her movement , and how it could be swiftly hidden in her sleeve.

She had procured the weapon almost and entire season ago but had not taken any time to teach herself how to use it until now. She realized the would probably need to be properly trained to get truly anywhere in wielding the weapon but she felt she could at least teach herself the basics.

So here she was, standing awkwardly just inside the edge of Silverwood forest facing a rather large tree. Looking at the tree was somewhat imposing with the thought that she didn't really even know the correct way to hold the weapon in her hand. Right now she held the small knife, her fist clasped over the hilt, the blade facing directly in front of her, pointing at the tree. For some reason this didn't feel right. Her wrist didn't feel as if it had full and normal mobility. And when she moved it she tarted to worry that if she hit something the pressure put on the blade would transfer to her wrist and hurt the muscles as it was freed to bend the wrong way. And so, uncomfortable with this position she fondled the knife into a different stance. This time the dagger was still in her hand, fist grasping the entire hilt. But now she blade went parallel to her wrist and up her arm, blade facing away from her skin of course. Tap felt a little better about this position. She felt as she moved her arm and wrist that it had more capability now. With the previous position it felt like she would stab someone with enough force. Though this one seemed better for slashing than actual stabbing. She wondered which the dagger was actually meant to do and if she was anywhere close to correct.
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Grader Note :
Currently I base my presentation of my Scavenging and Fishing skill on the skill write up by Shimoje and Ferrin, respectively, that is in the Founder's Review section of the World Development forum. This means, for example, that hand fishing, the practice of collect marine life out of the water by hand, Tap considers fishing rather than just gathering. Of course the final decision is up to the grader. This is simply what I am basing her actions off of.

Please also note that Tap is a very antisocial Konti and therefore please only reward her socialization point HALF of what you would normally award for a PC.
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Against the Dagger

Postby Tap on August 2nd, 2016, 3:04 am

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Finally deciding to just forget it and go, she suck with the handling she had now. She froze for a moment because she honesty had no idea what to do now. Perhaps swipe at the tree? Even the thought of that seemed silly. But how else was she supposed to learn? Even if she went to the Suvai Pavilion she would be striking at dummies right? Same thing really, just shaped like a humanoid. At least here when she failed horribly no one was around to see her. And so she swiped. She grasped the hilt with more force and swung her arm around her side in an arc until she hit the tree with such force the knife made a small cut but really just bounced off. At that sudden backwards movement Tap stumbled backwards and almost fell on the ground.

Straightening herself, Tap realized she probably should have prepared a stronger stance. She stood, once again, in front of the tree she had just hit and tried to think of a stance that would put her in a better position to not fall over when hitting an immobile object. She straightened her back, which she always had slouched and bent, much to her discomfort and placed her feet a bit farther away from each other to give her more surface area on the ground. She knew there was probably more ot a stance than this, but she did not know, so she went with it.

She face the tree once more in this stance of balance and preformed the same arcing swipe she had before. She swung fast and hard, hitting the tree again. The knife stuck this time instead of bouncing back and it hit Tap with a surprise. She left go of the hilt in shock and unpreparedness and stumbled back a bit more. Not as much as last time and she wasn't even close to falling over, but it still broke her stance. She thought she must have hit the tree with more of a straight force this time and so it stuck inside rather than bouncing off. At least that's what she thought and took it as an improvement, not knowing if she was right in this assumption or not.

Her new dagger was still stuck in the bark of the tree so she grabbed the hilt and tugged. It took a bit of strength to dislodge it and when she did the release of energy knocked her backwards once more. She sighed, annoyed at her inability to stand her own ground.

She stood again, placed her feet a bit wider than before and put her shoulders a bit far back, ignoring the discomfort it held. She swung again too, the same arc swipe as the items before and hit the tree. At least she wasn't missing. This time the knife stuck in the tree again but removed itself once Tap recalled her arm in the aftermath. However she had swung to rapidly that she cramped her arm and she dropped her dagger to the ground in shock and held her shoulder. It felt like she had dislocated her shoulder, but on a extremely lesser scale of pain. And the pain only lasted a couple of seconds. She figured she had just moved her arm to quickly after having it still that it shocked the muscles or tendons or whatever it was. The good news was that she didn't stumble, very much. She wobbled a bit but other than that was fine. She was still very new to this though.
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Grader Note :
Currently I base my presentation of my Scavenging and Fishing skill on the skill write up by Shimoje and Ferrin, respectively, that is in the Founder's Review section of the World Development forum. This means, for example, that hand fishing, the practice of collect marine life out of the water by hand, Tap considers fishing rather than just gathering. Of course the final decision is up to the grader. This is simply what I am basing her actions off of.

Please also note that Tap is a very antisocial Konti and therefore please only reward her socialization point HALF of what you would normally award for a PC.
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