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SAMPLE SPAR
| Battle Posts | Dice Rolls / Notes | ||
| Elsa: Opening Post | |||
| The day today was wonderful. The sun was shining, and few clouds covered the blue sky. It was one of the places that the wraiths, or darkness as Abishia had called it, had not consumed. The ground was pretty flat, however the darkness of a few rocks concealed them from being seen, quite a disturbance for those who did not catch them with her eye. Other than the few rocks, the land was covered in a lush carpet of grass, cut low, only reached about halfway up a hoof. A whinny rang to anyone nearby, a call signaling a battle. She was ready to fight again. Her blue eyes scanned the area, awaiting the unlucky brute who would answer her call. | Post initial character stats:
No dice rolled because there was no attack. Establish setting, initial tone of the fight, etc. | ||
| Oxy: Attack 1/3 | |||
| A battle cry breaking the silence of the autumn air catches your attention and you suddenly forget your worries. Like Pavlov’s dogs, you are trained. The battle cry is your dinner bell; the familiar itch to destroy is your saliva. You pick up a trot and head towards the origin of the sound. There, you find poor Elsa. With no regard for your safety, you crash toward her, aiming for her left side, if she doesn’t move. You don’t even plan, you simply run. Screw the wings, screw her hooves, you are an avalanche of hate on this sunny day, intent on smothering the mare in her beloved snow. For good measure, when you think you’re close, you stop and reach to the left with an open mouth, trying to bite her neck, or anything else within reach. Your addled mind has begun to forget there is a larger war effort going on, that you should not mangle the poor girl or yourself to death. You want revenge. Let her suffer. | After Oxy posts and attacks, dice are rolled using his stats. Character Name: Oxy Attack Number: (1/3) Attack: 1d14 rolled for a total of: 5 (5) + 1d2 rolled for a total of: 2 (2) + 4.5 (character's attack stat) Damage: 1d6 rolled for a total of: 1 (1) + 7 (character's damage stat) If Attack > than opponent defense, attack hits. If d14+d2 = 2, critical miss: take 1/2(damage) to yourself If d14+d2 = 16, critical hit: opponent takes 6 + damage 11.5 > Elsa's defense of 8.5, so the attack HITS. Elsa takes 8 points of damage from Oxy. Oxy HP: 45.5 Elsa HP: 44-8= 36 | ||
| Elsa: Attack 1/3 | |||
| The day was quite normal compared to any other day. That was, until Mr. Crackface showed up. Momentary fear consumed her, as she stood motionless for a few seconds. She watched as the large, creepy ass Oxy ran at her. He veered slightly to her left, and she tried to go right, with a little rear, but all in vain. Gross, disgusting, drug filled yellow teeth clamped down on the soft pinch of skin where her neck and left shoulder met. Elsa screamed. The pain was a lot worse than she had anticipated. Her eyes blistered with tears as he pulled away, tearing some hair of her thickening coat. Where the hair had been pulled small droplets of blood escaped her body, staining the hair around the wound a rusty color. A large, purpling bruise was also quickly to follow, signaling the damage. A gargled grumble rumbled deep within her chest cavity. She reared up, and pivoted slightly on her hips to face him. Her crystal hooves flailed, trying to hit him in the face. She aimed to take out his horns, poke an eye, or maybe bop out a few teeth. Either way she was just praying he would feel pain. | Elsa responds to the damage rolled above and then attacks. Notice that the damage rolled about is a 1 out of 6- the lowest damage possible. Elsa doesn't take much damage in her post in order to reflect this roll. Dice are rolled for Elsa's attack. Character Name: Elsa Attack Number: (1/3) Attack: 1d14 rolled for a total of: 9 (9) + 1d2 rolled for a total of: 1 (1) + 4.0 Damage: 1d6 rolled for a total of: 5 (5) + 7.0 If Attack > than opponent defense, attack hits. If d14+d2 = 2, critical miss: take 1/2(damage) to yourself If d14+d2 = 16, critical hit: opponent takes 6 + damage 14 > Oxy's's defense of 6, so the attack HITS. Oxy takes 12 points of damage from Elsa. Oxy HP: 45.5-12 = 33.5 Elsa HP: 36 | ||
| Oxy: Attack 2/3 | |||
| Elsa steps to the side with ease, avoiding your barreling chest, but not your biting teeth, which clamp down aggressively. Out of the corner of your eye, you see Elsa rear, turning towards you. You try to lunge out of the way but being a draft, your movements are not fast. Elsa's hooves catch the very hind end of your rump as you pass, tearing at your tender flesh and making you scream. You're enraged. You can feel the slow pulsing of blood as it rushes to the site of injury, the way the muscles stiffen, the way pain comes to your brain in waves of nerve impulses. You bite your teeth against the assault, grind them, lay your ears back. How dare she. Planting your forelimbs, you awkwardly stop and lower your head, trying to buck. Your metal horseshoes reach for Elsa, perhaps in the area of her wing and shoulder junction. All the while, your left shoulder is burning as you cause a flare up an old injury from Colt. As your hind limbs touch the ground again, you have a noticeable limp on your left front side. Nevertheless, you keep moving, circling around to the right, trying to come back towards Elsa even though you know she'll probably attack. Unbeknownst to you, your boggart slips from her spot in your shoulder bag. She has plans of her own. | Oxy responds to the damage rolled above and then attacks. The roll is a 5 out of 6 so there is quite a bit of damage taken. However, notice that not all injury taken is from Elsa's attacks, but rather that damage can be taken from mistakes or new insults to old wounds. Dice are rolled for Oxy's attack. Character Name: Oxy Attack Number: 2/3 Attack: 1d14 rolled for a total of: 14 (14) + 1d2 rolled for a total of: 2 (2) + 4.5 Damage: 1d6 rolled for a total of: 3 (3) + 7.0 If Attack > than opponent defense, attack hits. If d14+d2 = 2, critical miss: take 1/2(damage) to yourself If d14+d2 = 16, critical hit: opponent takes 6 + damage Oxy rolled a 16- CRITICAL HIT. Elsa takes 13 points of damage from Oxy. Oxy HP: 33.5 Elsa HP: 36 - 13 = 23 | ||
| Elsa: Attack 2/3 | |||
| As Elsa landed after rearing, the junction between her shoulder and neck, where she had been bit, screamed at the rough movement of her shoulder. A glint of light caught her eye, warning her of his buck. There wasn’t enough time to move, but she wasn’t about to be a flightless bird so she swiftly moved her wings into the air and did another small rear. His hooves and shoes met just below where her wing and body attached on her left side. While dealing with the damage, she noticed that Oxy had taken to his right, circling around. Thank god he was not on the fast side, it gave her a few moments longer to calculate his movement, and figure out how she could better incapacitate him. He was obviously turning right, so that meant that he would be flashing his right side for her. She turned a tighter, more compact circle due to her breeding and cantered at him. Calculating her path, she attempted to meet near his front end. She reached out with her teeth and aimed to bite the flesh along his body as he moved by, reaching mostly for the jugular. Or maybe she would take his breath away. I mean, she was the prettiest thing since… well, ever. | Elsa responds to the damage rolled above and then attacks. Notice that even though the damage rolled as a 3 out of 6, the attack die indicated a critical hit so the damage was automatically escalated to a 6 out of 6. Dice are rolled for Elsa's attack. Character Name: Elsa Attack Number: 2/3 Attack: 1d14 rolled for a total of: 6 (6) + 1d2 rolled for a total of: 2 (2) + 4.0 Damage: 1d6 rolled for a total of: 3 (3) + 7.0 If Attack > than opponent defense, attack hits. If d14+d2 = 2, critical miss: take 1/2(damage) to yourself If d14+d2 = 16, critical hit: opponent takes 6 + damage 12 > Oxy's defense of 6.0, so the attack HITS. Oxy takes 10 points of damage from Elsa. Oxy HP: 33.5 - 10 = 23.5 Elsa HP: 23 | ||
| Oxy: Attack 3/3 | |||
| Elsa turns and begins to run towards you, a canter you'd like to match but can't due to this rekindled shoulder injury, so you just trot. As Elsa closes down upon you, you try to keep your body so it is parallel to hers, so that your right side and hers will pass by one another. A plan begins to form in your mind. She reaches out, but you don't even try to defend it. She grabs flesh, the right side of your neck, teeth scraping and tearing as she canters. Blood begins to trickle down, your skin twinging and protesting at this new type of pain that has found it. All at once, almost at the same time that Elsa bites you, you and your companion burst into a flurry of motion. Your companion tries to swoop down in front of Elsa's face, morphing for the briefest moment into a dragon with flared wings, but she has a hard time staying morphed. As for you, you bite your teeth down and lunge to the right. Your left leg screams in displeasure at this repeated torture you're exposing it to but you fight through the pain. You're trying to ram your right shoulder into Elsa's... anything, really. Her sides, her wings, her rump, anything. You hope, at the speed she's moving, that a simple bump will be enough to cause her to stumble, to trip and fall. | Oxy responds to the damage rolled above and then attacks. The dice indicated a 3 out of 6 for damage, a middle range value indicating about average damage. Again, some damage is taken from sources other than Elsa. Dice are rolled for Elsa's attack. Character Name: Oxy Attack Number: 3/3 Attack: 1d14 rolled for a total of: 2 (2) + 1d2 rolled for a total of: 1 (1) + 4.5 Damage: 1d6 rolled for a total of: 2 (2) + 7.0 If Attack > than opponent defense, attack hits. If d14+d2 = 2, critical miss: take 1/2(damage) to yourself If d14+d2 = 16, critical hit: opponent takes 6 + damage 7.5 < Elsa's defense of 8.5, so the attack MISSES. No damage is taken. Oxy HP: 23.5 Elsa HP: 23 | ||
| Elsa: Attack 3/3 | |||
| Suddenly, a small little black ball swooped down in front of her and flashes of a dragon appeared. In fear, she veered more to her left, slightly jarring her front shoulders from the sudden direction change. She could feel the now rusty looking wound that was by her neck. It stung, and screamed for mercy. She was too caught up in the boggart to even notice what had happened with Oxy. There was no clatter of teeth coming from him. There was no large thud where his big hooves would have landed. Whatever he had done, the attack had missed. Oxy had never hit her, and she could not put two and two together that his own companion had aided her dodge. Turning in a tight, 180 degree rotation, Elsa cantered back after the stallion. With the force of her canter, she tried to drive her shorter, bonier, shoulder into his girth. She hoped this would cause him to trip and fall. At the movement, her shoulder screamed, but it was worth it to try and bring him down. | Elsa responds dice rolled above and then attacks. Although the dice indicated a 2 out of 6 for damage, Oxy's attack roll was not enough to overcome Elsa's defense and the attack missed, so Elsa takes no damage. If the attack roll had been a 1 instead of a 2, Oxy would have rolled a critical miss and would have taken 1/2 damage (9/2= 4.5HP) to himself. Dice are rolled for Elsa's attack. Character Name: Elsa Attack Number: (3/3) Attack: 1d14 rolled for a total of: 12 (12) + 1d2 rolled for a total of: 1 (1) + 4 (character's attack stat) Damage: 1d6 rolled for a total of: 1 (1) + 7 (character's damage stat) If Attack > than opponent defense, attack hits. If d14+d2 = 2, critical miss: take 1/2(damage) to yourself If d14+d2 = 16, critical hit: opponent takes 6 + damage 17 > Oxy's defense of 6, so the attack HITS. Oxy takes 8 points of damage from Elsa. Oxy HP: 23.5-8= 15.5 Elsa HP: 23 | ||
| Oxy: Closing Defense | |||
| You lunge to the right, but get only air, the sacrifice on your leg all for naught. Your warrior's heart is thoroughly disappointed at the miss. As Elsa comes back at you, driving for one final attack, you just keep trotting, moving, anything, trying to get away. You see her from the corner of your eye, but you no longer feel a raging desire to destroy everything that she is. You just want to leave, to get out of here, to go hide in some dark corner of the Sanctuary that you were so spiteful of just minutes ago. Her shoulder presses into your right ribs and you grunt, but your mass against her smaller frame is no contest. You bobble, perhaps a little to the side, but the primary damage is bruising that begins to form in what little bit of muscle you have overlying your ribs. You flick your tail in annoyance and shake your head, but you don't have the heart to do anything else. You are done. Limping away, you try to leave Elsa behind, ready to tend to your wounds. Behind you, the little black wisp of a companion follows, obedient as ever, despite your lack of instructions. | Oxy responds to the dice rolled above and but does not attack. The roll was a 1 out of 6 for damage, again indicating very low damage. No dice are rolled and the fight awaits judging. Although Elsa ends with higher HP, a graded rubric taking in consideration writing elements can alter the winner of the battle. Note that this fight is very dry to read. For the sake of space, all superfluous emotion and imagery have been removed, illustrating the importance of these elements in an engaging spar or challenge. Emotion is just one of the four parts of the graded rubic: Realism, Emotion, Prose and Readability. Poor marks in any of these categories can severely affect your score. Thanks to Klare (Elsa) and Sevin (Oxy) for allowing their characters and writing to be used in this tutorial. For a more in depth look at fighting, feel free to read their entire, unedited spar here: Fight Thread with Rubric, Dice Roll Thread | ||
