Let's try and be a good sport, you know: "Let's have a good fight", wish her luck etc etc.

I'm not good at pre-fight talk that isn't "Don't worry I'll call 911 when I'm done".

Don't talk to the reporters. Tell Rebecca that you hope her trip was nice and that the two of you shall have an enjoyable fight, wish her the best of luck and all that.

Let's fight like gentlem-- gentlewom-- whatever.

Recommend some restaurants around the town, but speak so the reporters can't hear.

WHEN I'M DONE WITH YOU, YOU'LL WISH YOU WERE BACK IN IRELAND CHASING POTS O' GOLD. I'M THE HAMMER OF METRO CITY AND YOU LADY ARE THE NAIL. YOU'VE GOT THE BALLS TO STEP UP, BUT THOSE BALLS WON'T BE ENOUGH.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmEiwtOP9Ds

GET ON THE DANCE FLOOR

>>21503441
Let's be a good sport

Offer a handshake

>>21503579
That sounds very good. I support it

Unrelatet, i have a feeling that we will loose today because you guys discarded our bowtie.

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You transfer both sticks to your left hand and put out your right for a handshake. "Let's have a good fight," you say. Rebecca shakes your hand, suspicion in her eyes. Her handshake is firm, but not a strong as you'd expect. She's kind of...slight? Slight is a good word for it.

"Thanks. You too," she says. "There's no ref up here, do we just count to three and fight or what?"

"Sounds good to me," you say. "Also, can we agree right now not to throw each other off the roof? It sound silly but that seems to happen every time someone fights on top of a skyscraper."

"Deal," she says, smirking. She raises her hands in a ready stance you're not familiar with. "Three...two..."

>What's our fight strategy when she finishes counting down?

>>21503727
Play the defense game for a while

We have the range advantage with our sticks

>>21503727
We excel at close range, so we should test her by rushing in and unleashing the fury with our beatsticks. Everything else comes later. Seize the initiative, like our sensei told us back in the dojo.

>>21503759
I dont think so, she has been stated to be an expert with kicks which have been stated to have a longer range than our sticks. Thats why we've been learning kicking. Unless i am mistaking something in which case i will shut up.

>>21503727
What was her deal, anyway? Fighting-wise, I mean. She was super well-rounded right?

>>21503727
Get in there and fuck her up. We may be able to just whack he on the head once or twice and knock her out quickly.

>>21503807
>>21503790
From the thread she was introduced:
"First up, an Irish competitor named Rebecca Lane. A few self-defense courses awakened something in her, she dropped out of college and used the loans to travel the world seeking out new masters and new challenges," she says. She hands you a photo. "Mostly Muay Thai, but she's one of the most well-rounded martial artists I've ever seen. I'd peg her as one of the most dangerous fighters this time around."

>>21503807
Great at Muay-Thai, and has a lot of weird tricks, but the the Muay Thai is the only thing she really excels at. Problem is that being great at Muay Thai translates to us getting turned into a bruised sack of cracked ribs if she gets us in a clinch.

>>21503807
Super Well Rounded with the main fighting style being Muay Thai

I still say that we should get an idea of her attack range before going all crazy on her

>>21503830
>>21503834
>>21503840

Shit. Shit, okay. Countering Muay Thai. Actually, knee-blocking their leg-kicks, which hit with the shin, is a pretty easy way to fuck up a Muay Thai person. If we see a kick coming, we could fuck the leg up something fierce with our brand new Heavy Sticks

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"...one. Fight!" she finishes.

You decide to try setting the pace of the fight by stepping in and swinging. She dodges your first two range-finding strikes by stepping away, by the third she stands her ground and slips the strike.

"Is that all? Eskrima?" she asks. Her stance changes - now recognizably silat. "I was hoping to learn something new today."

On your next swing she intercepts it and gently redirects it downward. You recognize the motion - you practiced it enough time - and manage to jerk the stick free just before she manages to disarm and take it from you.

"Aw, so you've dabbled a bit elsewhere? No matter," she says. "Come at me, if you're hard enough."

>Try to Free Drive her
>Mix it up. Saturn Launch.
>Mix it up. Kick...kick. Think of a name for your kick, while you're at it.

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>>21503926
>>Mix it up. Saturn Launch.

Sega Saturn... Shiro!!!

>>21503926
We don't want to get in close to her if we can help it. Try our sorta-lame kick.

>>21503926
Kick Kick Kick

We will attack her up with the Civil Response, a kick to the head.

>>21503926
Feint with an overhead smash, only to Free Drive her with the other hand/stick.

>>21503926
Don't we have two kicks? Or do you mean our brazilian/rugal direction-changing kick that looks like our knee and shin can't agree on what they're doing?

>>21503926
I am not sure if Saturn Launch would be a good idea, considering our judo knowledge is pretty pathetic.

Also, trying to mix it up against someone with a fuckton more experience with different styles might go over badly.

Its also far too early for a Free Drive.

I dislike all options...

Lets do a kick...

>>21503989
Mixing it up may be a valid strategy. If we get her to defend against a certain style and attack with a different style it might throw her off.

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May as well mix it up a bit. You feint with a right overhead without committing much energy to it. When her block rises you lash out with your right foot into her ribs, hard as you can.

She seems genuinely surprised as she backs up to make some pace, holding her rib.

"That's better," she says. "A bit light for a kick, though. My master at the Shaolin Temple would've broken half my ribs with that kind of opening."

"I thought you studied Muay Thai," you say, circling a bit.

"I've studied lots of stuff," she says. She steps in fast - faster than you expected - hands aligned in straight line in front of her. Wing Chun?

>roll 2d10 for defense against chain punching

Rolled 9, 3 = 12

>>21504054
Crush her fists with the sticks

Rolled 9, 7 = 16

>>21504054

Rolled 8, 1 = 9

>>21504062
>>21504063
Man, maybe we should have gotten a new outfit sooner. The dice aren't being half as cruel today.

Rolled 4, 5 = 9

>>21504054
I think I'm in love.

Rolled 9, 6 = 15

>>21504054
I am the wind.

Rolled 7, 3 = 10

>>21504054

We should keep our distance and methodically try every tactic we've already used, testing her strenghts.

Then we throw a stick to her face, laugh at her surprised "what the f-" and charge her while switching to full howling berserker.

Rolled 9, 9 = 18

>>21504054
Let's try smashing her fists with our sticks as they come at us

>>21504114
I somewhat like this. We still need to try out the Pillow Demon Crusher special move.

Rolled 8, 10 = 18

>>21504054
C'mon, natural 20...

Rolled 3, 5 = 8

>>21504114
Weren't we trying to avoid the berserker thing these days? As far as the sticks, I saw we just try to get a surprise attack if she does manage to disarm us- see if she expects us to have a backup set.

>>21504116
>>21504133
Goodness we are nimble.

Rolled 10, 6 = 16

>>21504145
New clothes, man.

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>>21504116

You jerk your head back, avoiding the first strike. A few more land in quick succession - fast, but lighter than you expected. You swing at her head and she backs away. Three, maybe four punches scattered across your chest.

"You're a tough one, aren't you?" she says, shifting stances again. This one's less familiar.

>Ask if she really hasn't fought anyone this tough yet on the way to the World Warrior Tournament.
>Ask about her reason for fighting.
>Don't say anything, just try hitting her in the face.

>>21504174
Ask about her reasons for fighting.

May as well chat while we're here.

Rolled 6, 4 = 10

>>21504174
>Ask if she really hasn't fought anyone this tough yet on the way to the World Warrior Tournament.
Not that surprising. Everyone we fought with the exclusion of Dark Honda was kind of a joke, and only messed us up because our training was severely lacking, or we decided to do something dumb and bust our head open on the street.

>>21504174
Tell her we have had some kyokugen training in preparation for this. We had to fight a bear. And worse things.

>>21504174
You are not too shabby yourself. Excellent footwork and no wasted motions. Just the right amount of strength to really mess me up. This is the work of an artisan that loves her craft.

>>21504193
Giving your secrets to any enemy is a bad idea.

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>>21504150

Turns out the bowtie had crazy wind resistance.

>>21504139
Alright, switch "full howling berserker" with "cold deadly gentleman".

>>21504196
This is pretty good, with the right banter we might get her to relax a bit and create a decent opening for us.

>>21504174
>Ask if she really hasn't fought anyone this tough yet on the way to the World Warrior Tournament.

>>21504196
I like this.

Rolled 98

>>21504174
>>Ask if she really hasn't fought anyone this tough yet on the way to the World Warrior Tournament.

Its not just me getting wimps?

>>21504174
>Ask about her reason for fighting.
Most of our wins come from talking. I think Talking should be one of our moves.

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"You're not so bad yourself," you say. "Good footwork, no wasted motions. You seem to be using each of your styles ecellently.

"Cheers," she says. Shifts into another stance you don't recognize. How many martial arts does this woman know? She edges forward - slowly this time.

>Attack!
>Back up. Force her to come to us.
>Keep talking, see if anything comes of it.

>>21504329

Keep talking. I'm interested in who she's fought so far.

>>21504329
Talk

Who says we can only hug other guys?

>>21504329
Back up

There has to be a reason she's moving forward. Be prepared to defend.

>>21504329
talk

So i didn't quite catch where you were from

Rolled 9, 2 = 11

>>21504329
"So how many styles do you know anyway?"

Throw a trusting attack to see if she is awaken

Rolled 4, 1 = 5

>>21504339
Yeah, I kinda wanna hear what yahoos she's gone up against. Hopefully nothing as ridiculous as an axe-weilding juggalo.

Rolled 2

Rolling for humorous stories.

>>21504356
This, we have to ask if she ever fought a rapping clown. If she seems surprised and slightly taken out of focus by the question then we have a great chance to attack

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Rolled 8, 7 = 15

>>21504329
>Keep talking, see if anything comes of it.

Ask if she even master a specific martial art style.

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>>21504329
>Back up. Force her to come to us.
>Keep talking, see if anything comes of it.

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"So who've you fought so far?" you ask. "Evil sumo wrestlers, boxing waiters, rapping hatchet clowns?"

"Mostly just martial artists," she says. She feints with her lead hand. You move a stick to intercept and she withdraws. As you lead her back she keeps throwing a few of these light strikes.

"I kind of envy that," you say, throwing out a range-finding feint of your own. It stops well short of her, but she doesn't move back or react from this one in the slightest. Odd.

"I should point out this is kind of unfair," she says as she shifts styles again. Tiger Style? She doesn't seem to have the raw power for it. "I mean, have you noticed it yet? Try swingin'."

>Gentleman's Beatdown!
>Don't do what she says, that's just a bad idea. Try kicking again.
>GENTLEMAN'S HEADBUTT.

>>21504503
GENTLEMAN'S HEADBUTT

I refuse.

>>21504503
>>GENTLEMAN'S HEADBUTT.
nah

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>>21504503
>GENTLEMAN'S HEADBUTT.

>>21504503
She has probably studied a fair share of counterfighting as well. So lets mix it up and surprise her again, move in for a gentleman's headbutt and then follow it up with a Sega Saturn Launch.

>>21504503
Damn it OP, you already know how this is gonna end.

GENTLEMAN'S HEADBUTT TIME.

Rolled 2, 5 = 7

>>21504503
I can't remember a time that headbutting has worked out in our favor. Do it anyways?

Rolled 4, 8 = 12

>>21504567
>PARTYHARD
>FUKKEN METAL

>>21504503
Go boomshakalaka on this girl, yo.

Headbutt.

>>21504582
This we can feint with more than just sticks and kicks.

>>21504631
Why don't we go for a pincer attack? Move to headbutt and strike with the sticks at the same time.

I wish how I could see this one live but I've got a three hour drive. Dice gods for once plus us in our hour of need.

>>21504653
Because such a movement would be incredibly awkward, I think. I can't imagine pulling it off without looking like an idiot

>>21504653
Because any kind of reliable headbutt needs to be a surprise or be done while grabbing hold of the other person. Surprise is out, so we'd have to grapple, throw our head forward, then hit with the stick. It'd be silly and innefective.

>>21504691
I was thinking to swing both sticks at her sides, and when she moves back step in and headbutt her.

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Nobody tells you what to do!

You try to headbutt her. She sidesteps it fairly easy, actually, the distance was too far for a headbutt to completely work. While sidestepping she throws out another light strike, jabbing her fingers into your shoulder. You swing wide with your left - slower than you usually do, actually, with some sort of new sharp pain in the shoulder.

"There it is," she says. "Surprised it took this many hits to start effecting you."

You swing with the right. Still fast, still no pain. She dodges it easily, though you manage to pull yourself away before she can hit.

>how should we handle this now?

>>21504653
I don't like the idea of a headbutt in general. If we throw it from range she's coming from Muay Thai background and she'll easily hit us with an intercepting knee. Moreover on our way in she'll just leg kick us to death Jose Aldo style.

>>21504767
>pressure points
oh boy here we go

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>>21504767
She's got... poison fists? What the shit.
We can't bring our sticks to her, so let's bring her to our sticks. CROSS COUNTER

Rolled 9, 1 = 10

>>21504767
Aw man, she pressure-pointed us? At least she hasn't actually made use of her Muay Thai yet, but with one arm weakened we need to be that much more careful about getting caught. Also, we aren't going to be able to block well on that side, so her kicks are going to mess us up. Be very, very careful, in other words.

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>>21504767
Man, she on some pressure strike-type ish? They didn't tell us we were fighting female Kenshiro. shit. here's the deal.

she has the speed advantage and the range advantage with her kicks, and trying to initiate a clinch with the nak muay is asking for death.

let her fuck up. fight defensive, counter-strike, maybe leave "open" a weakspot and try and get her to charge in.

lead foot heavy stance and backup, find yer range.

>>21504767
Dodge everything. She's trying to screw our arms up. Go for her arms with kicks.

>>21504767
anyone remember that one episode of naruto with a guy who pulled this shit?

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>>21504825
>throwing kicks at the arms of a muay thai fighter with pressure points
anon pls

>>21504836
sadly, yes

>>21504823
But we don't drink enough of our own piss to be an effective counterfighter like Machida.

>>21504836
yeah, back when i followed that series.

naruto hit him with a deus ex machina uppercut after hiding undeground. he fell for it.

we don't have naruto powers (thank god) and we don't have any tunnels to hide in, but we can make her fall for our tricks.

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"Have you ever actually mastered a style?" you ask. The left arm is sluggish, but you can still hold a defense with it.

"Came close a few times. Then I got bored with it and moved on. Muay Thai, kenpo, a touch of Hokuto Shi-"

She interrupts her own speech with kick to your leg, standard Muay Thai.

>tank it, use the opening to hit her harder with your right stick
>try to defend. Her leg isn't as hard as your sticks.
>HEADBUTT. SHE'LL NEVER EXPECT IT AGAIN.

>>21504836
>anyone remember that one episode of naruto with a guy who pulled this shit?

why.jpg

>>21504940
>HEADBUTT. SHE'LL NEVER EXPECT IT AGAIN.
We will win this fight with a headbutt, if its the last thing we do!

>>21504940
>try to defend. Her leg isn't as hard as your sticks.
I'm pretty sure our skull is the only part of our body hard enough to tank a kick from a muay thai fighter.

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>>21504928
Shogun Rua drank no piss and he beat Machida at his own game in their second fight. I believe we can make it happen.

Fight like we normally would and fight smart/defensively and leave open a "weak spot". She jumps in, we counter and hopefully don't lose any more limbs.

Alternatively, throw a stick at her.

>>21504940
Can't we dodge? If not
Defend with the sticks.

>>21504940
defend give her a stick to the knee.

Rolled 1, 3 = 4

>>21504940
...Headbutt! But seriously, she already figured out we're pretty resilient, she probably wants us to try and tank the hits while she takes us apart limb-by-limb. And besides, you never tank Hokuto Shinken.

Also, trying to block the kicks with our sticks is going to be pretty hard with our left arm moving sluggish- she's got us in a rough position.

>>21504940
Tank it, grab the leg, and break her leg with the sticks

We're pretty resistent guy

>>21504940
>"Came close, then got bored"
Who are you, Kotomine Kire-

>"Hokuto Shinken"
wat

Tank it and clock her upside the head with the right stick.

>>21504940
Tank it and hit her with the opening or defend it

>>21504940
>>try to defend. Her leg isn't as hard as your sticks.

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>>21504940
COUNTER COUNTER COUNTER

"Yeah whatever"

And then we throw a stick to her face. Let's see how good she's gonna be with a busted nose.

WAIT

What if we grab the leg and throw her?

>>21504940
Tank that shit and use our greater size and weight to attempt to pin her down and then wail on her with the stick. It's not very gentlemanly, but we need to try something to win.

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Rolled 1, 3 = 4

>>21504940
>>try to defend. Her leg isn't as hard as your sticks.

>try to defend. Her leg isn't as hard as your sticks.

Try remember how we deal frenzy wolverines from the past, then apply it to our blocking skills.

>>21505063
>pin her down and wail on her with the stick

How lewd, anon.

>Catch and counter.

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You're moving slow with that arm. That just means that when you swing it straight down you wind up trapping her knee instead of hitting it.

May as well roll with it, you think. You've got the advantage in size and strength.

>take this fight to the ground
>try throwing her, just...not near the edge
>keep her leg trapped, hit her with the other stick

Rolled 10

>>21505088
>>try throwing her, just...not near the edge

>>21504940
>a touch of Hokuto Shi-
Well fuck you too.

>>21505088
>take this fight to the ground

If we throw her she'll just roll with it.

>getting on the ground
Worst idea ever.

Smack her upside the face.

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>>21505088
>keep her leg trapped, hit her with the other stick
If that isn't forcing the issue,
>try throwing her, just...not near the edge
We have zero ground game against a fighter who should be expected to have several wrestling backgrounds. Going to ground is a terrible idea.

Rolled 1, 7 = 8

>>21505088
Throw her! We need to find a range that works, and point-blank is not it. Having her leg just gives her a better chance to disarm us and do more of her pressure-point stuff, disabling us further. She gets a chance to start throwing knees, we're going to be lucky if we don't need an organ transplant at the end of this fight.

>>21505088
>Keep her leg trapped, hit her with the other stick.

>>21505088
>try throwing her, just...not near the edge
leg trip. try and grab one of her wrists with the free arm, because otherwise she's going to get an arm free and poke you to death with that fist of the north star shit.

All our options are bad.
Might as well throw her, Mario 64 style.

>>21505133
Throwing knees with one leg trapped should be pretty unwieldy, shouldn't it? If she jumps in the air for a knee, she has zero stability. That's when you spike her into the ground with a throw.

It's not very gentlemanly, but driving a stick end first into the side of her knee will do some damage.

>>21505109
Switching vote to hitting her with the other stick.

>>21505088
What about a solid hit at the knee? We need to slow her

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>>21505121
if we can get a throw without getting ourselves on the ground (e.g. some sort of akiyama vs. shields judo throw) then we can reset the distance.

>>21505156
This is a thought. We have her leg, so crack her in the caught leg with our stick. Not in the shin; that's pointless against a muay thai fighter.

>>21505156
Quite. Disable leg, smack her about, toss her.

Rolled 8, 5 = 13

>>21505154
My worry is that her being this close with her leg trapped also takes our arm out of the picture- assuming we can even hold her leg with a weak arm. She already showed she's capable of disarming our sticks, and at this range, with one arm to defend with, she'll probably do that no problem. Then we're unarmed, point-blank with a chick who's already disabled and arm and can do lord knows what else to us to get free- and then she'll knee us, at which point we implode.

>>21505188
>Then we're unarmed
That's precisely what our new, faster telescoping sticks are for.

It's not gentlemanly, but you're kind of past that. You swing for her knee, had, with the off hand stick.

"Fuck!" she shouts. She throws everything into a palm strike at your left shoulder. You pull away just enough to avoid the worst of it, releasing her leg. She throws more punches - a ridiculous number - all over your torso before limping back.

You don't like where this is going.

"I thought you were a gentleman," she says. "The old standards, all that."

>"A gentleman still fights to win."
>"And you're no lady." You don't care if it doesn't quite fit.
>"S-sorry." Just completely spaghetti. When she's feeling awkward about it then you strike!

Rolled 5, 9 = 14

>>21505210
I'm worried about trying to get them out when we've got one worthwhile arm and she's this close- we could easily end up with our other arm all screwed up too, and then we're in a lot of trouble.

Rolled 9, 7 = 16

>>21505228
Dudley would be ashamed of us. Still, if there's one thing we've been consistent about, it's that we fight to win, even when we look like a gigantic asshole at the end of the fight.

>>21505228
>>"A gentleman still fights to win."
Also, i used to be a rabid berserker, once. Old habits die hard.

>>21505228
"A gentleman still fights to win."

It would be wrong of me to fight you with anything other than victory as my goal.

>"S-sorry." Just completely spaghetti. When she's feeling awkward about it then you strike!

Let's drop our heavy sticks at the same time, give her a surprise with our quicker telescoping ones.

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>>21505228
Well, those palm strikes to our torso are probably going to leave us literally pooping ourselves or something. On the bright side, we were able to force her at range and apparently slowed her down with the strike to the knee.

>>21505228
"I am. A proper gentleman respects his opponent, male or female, prince or pauper. I respect your power and skill to the point where I had to address it directly. You would do the same, don't lie."

>>21505228
Oh come on. She's a fighter. Hits to the knee are a bloody first thing she learned in her self-defense courses. It's admirable that she actually is fighting after that hit, but it was her own fault for leaving herself wide open like that.

Her Shaolin master broke her ribs? Well, now she learned something new.

"A gentleman still fights to win".

Rolled 3, 8 = 11

>>21505228
Try to move. See what limbs and organs are still in working order.

>>21505228
A gentleman still fights to win, and neither of you are going for the Queensberry rules or something like that. It's not a proper fight unless you're giving it your all. There is no other way to fight against someone you respect.

>>21505268
>"I am. A proper gentleman respects his opponent, male or female, prince or pauper. I respect your power and skill to the point where I had to address it directly. You would do the same, don't lie."

I like that this guy said.

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>>21505253
>Dudley would be ashamed of us.

>>21505268
This is brilliant!

>>21505228
>"A gentleman still fights to win."
A gentleman doesn't let someone walk all over them. He seizes opportunities as they present themselves and capitalizes on every moment.

Rolled 5, 2 = 7

>>21505297
Dudley knew the difference between fighting to win and trying to cripple someone so they can't fight again.

"holding back against you would be disrespectful."

>>21505264
ahahahahaha I remember this. Man his brain took so long to comprehend that monstruous punch from Crocop. To Sapp's credit, that punch looked like it would've knocked the lights out of anyone, that he was conscious enough to understand how much it hurt is pretty remarkable. Kinda.

>>21505268
This gets across the same point as
>"A gentleman still fights to win."
without sounding overly flippant about it.

>>21505304
son, we're fighting someone from a Muay Thai background where teep kicks to the knee are as common as saying hello.

>>21505314
He went down because Mirko cracked him in the eye socket. He starts wailing and slowly flops over.

>>21505304
We don't end careers. Plus, like >>21505323 said, she's Muay Thai, so this should be nothing to her.

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>>21505314
it was a broken orbital i think, but i'll never pass up a chance to clown on bob sapp.

>>21505304
It's street fighter. Realism bends to the rule of cool.

Broken bones are just something that dramatically happens at opportune moments in fights, and then the guys continue fighting.

>>21505228
It's not like this is the first time we've gone for the knee in a fight.

>>21505355
Last time was against Dark Honda, though, and he was literally going to kill us if we lost that fight.

>>21505388
That's a fairly good point. We did open up this fight by making an agreement not to kill each other, and have been fairly civil about it so far

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"A gentleman still fights to win," you say. You try moving your arms. Hurts like hell, but it mostly works.

"Hahahaha. Just fucking with you," she says. "You think you're the first person to try that?"

"That's...so you tried guilting me into giving up?" you ask. You raise your sticks. Burns a bit.

"Everything's fair game in a fight. That's what makes it fun," she says. She stretches out the leg experimentally. Doesn't seem to be much worse for the wear. "You know what your real issue is? You expect everyone to be all noble and shit, like you try to be. Martial artists are selfish to the core, or else we wouldn't be in this business."

"That's hardly fair," you say.

"It is, think about it. All the time we spend in the gym, practicing the same moves over and over. Could've spent that time helping people, seeing your family, working in a soup kitchen, whatever. Instead what have we got to show for it?"

>>21505405
Just say there's no hard feelings and treat her to some good beer after the fight. She may have traveled the world, but she's still Irish.

>>21505349
>>21505327

Yeah I know about the cracked orbital, but still. It's hilarious just how slowly he crumples and wails about it.

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>>21505426
>what have we got to show for it?
"The strength to protect those things most dear to us. Ask Chun-Li."

>>21505426
"We're inspiring children world-wide to stay fit and learn to defend themselves...?"

Rolled 13

>>21505426
> Could've spent that time helping people, seeing your family, working in a soup kitchen, whatever.

You know, except for the part where I'm poor enough that that isn't an option, you're somewhat accurate

>>21505426
We give people something to admire. We make people want to be better.

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>>21505442
She worked as an Interpol officer, then she opened a school/shelter for Chinese children. That's someone to look up to.

>>21505426

An example to everyone watching. An inspiration and an ideal, that demonstrates that just because you have power doesn't mean you can, or should abuse it. That you could do everything to win, but choose not to, and win anyway.

>>21505426
Nothing really. But it's not about what you accomplish in the eyes of others, it's about what you accomplish in the eyes of yourself. True, it's selfish, but that doesn't make it bad.

>>21505426
"We inspire people."

>>21505426
A point to ponder after victory.

Now, boot to the head!

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>>21505477
Plus she's still hailed to this day, in the same breath as Ryu himself, as one of the greatest World Warriors of all time.

>>21505426
"Lady, speak for yourself. You have any idea how much time the martial artists of this city have spent making sure that Mad Gear don't terrorise the people more than they can?

I don't know how it is in Ireland, but here in Metro City, we don't practice because we are obsessed with being the best. We want to be the best because we want to help people, be it by smacking down a gang terrorising the city, by giving people something to strive for, or maybe just to be able to put on a good show.

Yes, I know everyone's not noble, and I know the day where everyone is may never come. But that doesn't mean I will stop striving to bring it about."

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You think over the friendships you've made since you came into this business. That night on Wolverine Mountain with Tatsuya. Being there for Belle when she needed a helping hand. Working together with Ellie to convince Moira to leave the sword at the dojo so she doesn't stab some nuns.

More specifically, you think to Eagle. To that awkward kid watching television, and how this stylish motherfucker seemed to open up a whole new world to you.

You remember the TV cameras for the first time in a long time. The world is watching. Who knows who could be listening right now?

"Inspiration," you say. "We can show people that with enough dedication you can be better than who you are now."

"That's...a way to look at it," she says. She actually looks troubled for a second.

Fuck it. This woman's going to take you apart piece by piece if you let this go on too long.

>you cast IRON HEART SURGE to fight through the pain!
>roll 2d100 for FOUR-STICK DEMON CRUSHER

Rolled 99, 58 = 157

>>21505562

SATAN GUIDE MY STICKS

Rolled 49, 19 = 68

>>21505562
FOUR-STICK DEMON CRUSHER!

Rolled 28, 96 = 124

>>21505562
HOLY SHEET

Rolled 72, 96 = 168

>>21505562
LES DO IT

>>21505562
Here we go

Rolled 47, 72 = 119

>>21505562
>Quest Time's almost up, pull something crazy!

Rolled 53, 19 = 72

>>21505562
ITZ STREET FIGHTER BAYBEE YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Rolled 100, 77 = 177

>>21505590
I cannot into lowercase

Rolled 17, 98 = 115

>>21505562
Can we use one of our stored crit successes on this one if the rolls don't pan out? This lady's kinda hax, and more or less built to tear us apart it seems.

Rolled 12, 41 = 53

>>21505597
...Glorious.

Rolled 77, 77 = 154

>>21505562
IRON HEART SURGE to fight through the pain!
FOUR-STICK DEMON CRUSHER

Both at the same time.

Rolled 18, 48 = 66

>>21505562
>>roll 2d100 for FOUR-STICK DEMON CRUSHER

FIGHT LIKE A WOLVERINE

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Rolled 74, 58 = 132

>>21505562
IT'S TIME

Rolled 59, 47 = 106

>>21505610
Dem doubles. Welcome to the Dub-Dub Club.

Rolled 12, 60 = 72

>>21505603
I think we're pretty much doing okay. My plan was to let her disarm us and then pull the second set of sticks for a surprise attack, and to keep her using her other styles besides Muay Thai, since she's not great at the other stuff.

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>>21505597
>>21505610

>>21505610
lol 7777, are we getting some kinda bonus for that?

Rolled 3, 69 = 72

>>21505603
We got a 177. We're fine.

Rolled 26, 97 = 123

Please luck be a lady

>>21505562
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQgXvmtI_ug
Some music for the occasion

>>21505646
>>21505634

Everybody STOP FUCKING ROLLING or you'll cancel out the natural 100.

Rolled 4, 39 = 43

>>21505562
Gentlemanly demon crusher.

Can't forget that. FULL POWER.

So. We rolled a 100 followed by 3 77s? This is kinda hard to believe. Looks like i was wrong for thinking casting away the bowtie was bad.

>>21505562
If we go for a big heroic rant while we attack like General Grievous, we should bring up the Metro City Three as great examples of really good people. Even Cody Travers, a convicted felon who insists is nothing but a thug, is remembered fondly because even if he claimed that all he cared about was fighting, he always took out his urges on some of the worst people around.

Rolled 34, 14 = 48

>>21505678
Maybe the bowtie was our limiter.

>>21505562
>FOUR-STICK DEMON CRUSHER

So... basically a more advanced version of 2:15 here?

Rolled 93, 31 = 124

>>21505562
Wolverine strike!

>>21505702
Now we can breathe in our shirts, so we're wildly more efficient now.

>>21505714
whoops forgot the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM3rV3rhTN0

>>21505699
RISE, RISE, TAKE YOUR SORROW AND TURN IT INTO ANGER!!! METRO THIRSTS FOR THE STRENGHTH OF ITS HEROES!

Ok, i stole that one from Space Hitler.

Rolled 94, 92 = 186

>>21505702
>>21505718
Let's hope no one ever finds out what would have happened had Dudley taken his bowtie off, then.

>>21505727
SEIG ZE-- err.. YEAH!

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>>21505735

Rolled 88, 25 = 113

>>21505735
>94, 92
Jesus.

>>21505735
Apparently fucking VAPORIZE his opponent.

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>>21505597
>>21505603
>highest numbers for the two individual phases of the move

You throw the two in your hand, the heavy sticks. Rebecca crosses her arms in front of her face to block them.

By the time she lowers the block you're already airborn, the two backup sticks in your hands. They strike like lightning.

She stays standing for longer than you expected, you'll give her that. Even manages to switch halfway into another stance before her eyes go blank and she slumps to her knees.

"You fought like a true warrior," you say. She jerks awake, but doesn't bother to stand.

"Fuck. How long was I out?" she asks.

"Few seconds."

"That'll do it," she says, slowly coming to her feet. "Nice job with the hidden sticks. Don't think that's gonna work twice, though."

"You're good," you say. You can hear the media machine surrounding the tournament working itself into a frenzy, ready to burst through the door if you two don't head down now. "If you want to see the good the martial arts can do, stick around Metro City. I'd be delighted to beat up on some Mad Gear goons with you."

"Yeah?" she says. She stumbles a bit as she walks. You offer her your arm, which she surprisingly accepts. "That actually sounds kinda fun. Might take you up on that when we're done talking our heads off here."

>>21505798
Rebecca has been added to the party.

Is this a harem quest now or what?

>>21505827
no we just picked someone up for belle to woe

>>21505827
Nah. None of the girls have even really shown much interest in Anon, so it's hard to call it a harem quest or anything. Anon just does that to a lot of his opponents.

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>>21505798

That's it for SFQ today. I need to get my ass to Mars. By which I mean work.

Thanks for reading!

>>21505798

Maybe now that we've beaten the snot out of her she could tell us about the fighters she's fought, what it's like in Ireland, a little about herself...

>>21505827

Nah, no harem. I just thought it'd be interesting to see how Rebecca reacts to finding new outlets for her martial arts instead of seeing it as a selfish, myopic activity. If anyone has a harem it's clearly Belle.

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Oh, hey, I've been waiting for SFQ to pop up again, mostly just so I could post this.

>>21505853
Nah, we need a recommendation on a good country to hit for training! Road Trip time before the next tournament match.

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For some reason I imagined Rebecca looking like Nina from Tekken.

>>21505913
We should go to the Philippines. We're a pretty good Eskrimador, but there's got to be all kinds of crazy old masters out there.

>>21505913

South America. Let's train with some mercs. Pick up Sambo, Krav Maga, shit like that.

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>>21505906
Next time on Bellequest

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>>21505931
Or Sarah Bryant from Virtua Fighter, alternately. They're essentially the same person, anyway. Just stick some glasses on her like in the concept art in >>21503727.

>>21506015

I like to imagine she throws the glasses away when fighting, as an additional thing to confuse opponents and keep them guessing.

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>>21505931
>>21506015
What is with strong blonde women and leather? Look at Lien Neville from KoF Maximum Impact.

>>21506065
developer fetishes

>>21506065

Lien sort of fits the profile, but she's not blue eyed.

I actually met a blonde, tall, blue-eyed Irish girl when I worked in Dublin a few years back. She had an awesome accent. And consumed multiple pints of beer daily.

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!

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>>21506179
I'm pretty sure the Zero Suit isn't leather, though. It's, like, special Chozo material that mildly augments her power and agility.

Then Other M gave the Zero Suit high heel platforms.

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>>21506212
Hey, there's a thought for a fighter, someone in the vein of C. Viper: a person competing at least in part to test a new power suit that augments their abilities. We haven't seen that yet.

>>21506232

Sponsored by the corporation that's manufacturing the suit? I can dig it.

I'm looking forward to us delving into the more far-out parts of the SF universe and not just fight martial artist or martial artist with a joke theme, but actual commandos, mystics and assassins with secret agendas and objectives beyond "punch other guy's face in".

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>>21506212
We don't talk about Other M

>>21506330
I love Other M because it makes you guys so damn mad. As if Samus ever had any integrity as the creation of a Japanese man

Rolled 25, 36 = 61

>>21506160
Did you propose to her?

>>21506377

I was engaged with a short Swedish brunette at the time.

>>21506360
>implying the Japanese can't have integrity

shamefur dispray

>>21506405
You can't say you didn't see it coming, given the progression of Samus' design.

>>21506422
>independent bounty hunter
to
>mindless drone

I didn't really see it coming.

>>21506422
It's not just the design. Shit, I don't doubt the Zero Suit is fetish fuel, but there's plenty of modern-day skintight suits in use. AFAIK, there are even skintight space suits being developed, so a skintight suit under the power armor isn't outlandish.

I'm not gonna explain why Other M was an abomination that completely ruined more or less every single piece of established Metroid stuff it touched, because you know damn well why. Even with different designs, even more sexualized designs, Samus remained constant as a character up until that game.

>>21506654
Japan. Fetish suit. Previously uncharacterized character

>>21506752
>Previously uncharacterized character
Calling bullshit

Seriously, knock it off with the Metroid discussion. This is SFQ. Don' ruin a good thread with unrelated bickering.

>>21506734
Samus had next to no character. You ran around, flipped, solved puzzles, and shot shit. Off the top of my head, there are two games where Samus speaks, and she doesn't say anything particularly meaningful

>>21506767
Implied character is not character. Just so you know, I care nothing for any presentation or interpretation of Samus, I just find it amusing people are mad.
>>21506772
Who cares, nothing is happening

>>21505798
I wrote >>21505512 and like to think that it had something to do with the bit about beating up Mad Gear goons in Metro City.

Probably not, but I like to feel important.

>>21506360
Speaking of shit games that make fans of a beloved franchise mad, I'm basically waiting for Anon to meet/be challenged by Kyle Travers, younger brother of Cody and protagonist of the horrible game known as Final Fight: Streetwise, which we also like to pretend didn't exist.

inb4 Kyle's not a former marine punk streetfighter but an upstanding citizen serving under Mayor Haggar's administration.

>>21506778
It seems like you're saying that what a person says defines their character more than what they do. I hope that's not what you're saying, because it's wrong. Samus's actions defined her character. She was a badass space bounty hunter who fought space dragons and blew up planets without a single fuck given. Other M's "characterization" ran counter to everything the franchise displayed about who she was.

>>21506992
Plus the director of Other M (who is actually the guy who created Metroid as a whole) effectively said the Prime series never happened. That ticked a lot of people off.

>>21506992
>without a single fuck given
Samus generally didn't emote at all--relative levels of fuck are purely speculative. There was no character there, she basically served as your avatar for shooting and flipping. But it's great that this is how you want to feel about Samus, and it makes why other m bothers you even better

>>21506778
>Samus had next to no character
Yeah, aside from the manga, which took it's entire script from the guy who MADE Other M.

The two stories don't match up.

>>21506821
There was characterization in several of the games and the tie in manga.

Other M also invalidates all of Metroid Prime.

>>21507197
>Other M also invalidates all of Metroid Prime.
Not directly, but as in >>21507027, the director in an interview effectively said Prime never happened.

>>21507210
Because the many things Other M did to invalidate the plot of the Prime trilogy.

>>21506288
Regarding that, all you have to do is to elaborate on their background a bit more. State their personality, their story (keep it not too ridiculous), their styles and moveset. And, hey, maybe even their theme too.

Of course, give the Storyteller a bit of leeway to adapt the character into the story, and trust his decisions.

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>>21506288

A lot of that part of the universe might not be in the purview of Anon's story. He's a prize fighter with ambition, but the odds of him fighting a commando are about the same as an MMA fighter in our world having to do so. Extraordinary circumstances may allow it, or an ex-commando may have gone into the World Warrior tournament, but that'd have to be it.

Not to say it definitely won't happen, and I kinda dig the augmented suit thing, it just wouldn't quite jibe with Anon's tale so far. The joke-theme martial artists are half there to show how far the standards in the martial arts community have fallen (for example, Tha Hatchetman), sometimes because I just think it'd be funny (the BJJ yoga master who uses his superhuman flexibility to choke the shit out of you.) Also a lot of our opponents are based on the "give me a fighter! stat!" so I tend to just roll with what comes out of that. That's how Belle and Moira were created, and they're two of my favorite characters now.

>>21506919

Never played Streetwise because of the terrible reviews, I was just going to toss it in the pile of games that get ignored for lore purposes.

>>21505931

I figured she would look very slight, almost kind of hipster-ish, them make up for not having a powerful frame by having inhumanly perfect martial arts technique. Then it kinda went in the Hokuto Shinken-lite direction instead.

>>21506403

"at the time"? If the situation changed I hope it was due to making the short Swedish brunette your wife, in which case congrats. If not, sorry man.

I think that's everything in the comment-ish section that I wanted to address? If you had any other comments or questions you can ask, I'll try to answer whatever as long as I'm awake.