(D12, MM) To Sting the Unicorn

[Bayushi Mitsu]

Bayushi’s head turned as a flicker of purple crossed his vision.

(D12, MM) Remaining polite and calm in the face of my enemy - Earth/Courtesy TN 2 | TN: 2 |
[failure: 1 void point gained]

“Ide-san!” Bayushi called out. “Ide Tomeo! Come out here!”

The Scorpion picked up a bokken, leaning it on his red-garbed shoulder. “You’ve been wanting to take a shot at me since you got here, eh? Now’s your chance!” Dramatically, he spun towards the ring and leapt over the wards into the center.

Initiative
After dancing about just a moment more, Bayushi settled his stance into near-motionlessness, holding the bokken at his side.

(D12, MM) Duel initiative check - Void/Meditation TN 1 w/ VP | TN: 1 |
[succeeded: initiative value including bid here, as well as opportunity spend]

[edit: linked to PF]

[Ide Tomeo]

Tomeo sneered.

"I look forward to demonstrating to all your potential spouses just how weak you truly are, Bayushi-san." he said rising to the challenge

https://sakkaku.org/rolls/1904 Init: 5 +2 = 6, 2 strife

Strife: 3/8 (After stare-down)
Endurance: 0/8

Lowest honor Scorpion goes first!

[Bayushi Mitsu]

Round 1

Continuing to stare at Ide, Bayushi fixed the grip on his bokken, remaining otherwise deathly still.

Round 1: Void stance, ready weapon, initiative 6 (no bid)
Strife: 1/4 (+1 from round)
Fatigue: 0/6

[Ide Tomeo]

Tomeo seemed content to wait and let the Scorpion demonstrate the price of his temper, leisurely resting his hand upon his bokken.

(Earth Stance, Ready Weapon)

[Bayushi Mitsu]

Round 2

With a sudden feint to the right, Bayushi drew his bokken and spun left, cutting in an upward arc from thigh to opposite shoulder.

(D12, MM) Duel round 2 - Strike! Air/MA Melee TN 1 w/ VP | TN: 1 | Success: 0 / Opportunity: 4 / Strife: 0


[Not going as planned! I'll spend two opportunities to learn Tomeo's disadvantage, one opportunity to add a kept ring die set to opportunity to my next martial check, and the last one to show off I guess!]

Round 2: Air stance, strike, initiative 6 (no bid)
Strife: 3/4 (+2 from round)
Fatigue: 0/6

[Saibankan]

Tomeo didn't even have to dodge that, the feint having failed to draw him out of his sturdy stance. Instead, he simply studied the Bayushi, knowing that the universe was about to prove him right.

(Tomeo switches to Void stance, and uses the Predict Action)

[Bayushi Mitsu]

Tomeo didn't even have to dodge that, the feint having failed to draw him out of his sturdy stance. Instead, he simply studied the Bayushi, knowing that the universe was about to prove him right.

(Tomeo switches to Void stance, and uses the Predict Action)

Round 3

Bayushi tried to refocus and find his center again, though clearly his body language was more frustrated and unable to maintain complete stillness. Pushing through, he sucked a breath in and out, leaving himself open to attack as he prepared himself.

(Bayushi moves to Void stance, and prepares to strike again; however at the beginning of the round he takes 3 strife and becomes compromised. If Tomeo also strifes out from the staredown, does Bayushi get to attempt a finishing blow first due to his lower honor, as described in the last paragraph on page 259? and assuming so, can he unmask as part of that action?)

Here's the roll just in case (and I think Bayushi is just destined to fail this!). Using the opportunity to lower the next Air check TN by 1.
(D12, MM) Duel round 3 - finishing blow? - Void / MA Melee w/ last VP plus kept opportunity from earlier Air opp, TN 2 | TN: 2 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 1 / Strife: 0

[Ide Tomeo]

The Unicorn and the Scorpion both felt the weight of the duel upon them because somewhere a bear bungled the math. The two lashed out at one another, but the Bayushi was the one who grunted from the shock of the blow, not the Unicorn.

(Both getting a finishing blow, Mitsu missed, and bear forgot he didn't need to trigger a crit...so kept bad dice and did so anyways. He'll spend the two opportunities to show off instead.)

Tomeo finished his follow through with a smile, his foe was beaten before everyone here.

(Severity 6 critical strike inflicted on the Bayushi. They may make a Fitness roll to reduce the the severity by 1 for each success). The round's technically not over, so if he wants to take one more swinging at the back of his opponent dishonorably, he may.

[Bayushi Mitsu]

Roll to resist critical:

(D12, MM) Fitness roll to reduce critical - Void/Fitness TN 1 | TN: 1 | Success: 1 / Opportunity: 2 / Strife: 0


That will reduce it to a 5, so Bayushi will still suffer the Severely Wounded condition to Void. He won't take a last strike at Ide.


Bayushi dropped his bokken, turning to look at Ide, mask expression-less. The Scorpion held a hand to the back of his head where the Unicorn's weapon had cracked against him, the fingers lightly smeared with blood. "You win, Tomeo..." he near-whispered, before turning and staggering out of the dojo.