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"Ah?" Surprised by the tap on his shoulder, he glances over his shoulder at the young dancer, not having expected this turn of events. "Oh . . . thank you. But will you be okay?" His line of sight trails to the mercenary not some paces away, brandishing his blade, eyes scanning for the easiest target. If he leaves Chirya, she'll be within striking distance, and it goes against everything he has learned all his life to leave a woman in danger without offering assistance. Alternatively, three of his allies have the injured archer mostly surrounded, and if he acts quickly to siphon off the bowman's last means of escape, he can trap him in and render him immobile, but that also means . . . putting himself within striking distance of three of the pirates himself with little means of defense besides his own evasive skill. But if the archer is permitted to go free, he may choose to shoot for their healer or Chirya regardless . . . decision made, he tightens the reins and spurs Kite into a renewed canter again. "Be safe," he says to the girl, regret heavy in his chest as he moves into place, drawing up beside the daunted archer with tightened jaw and tense muscles, the mercenary and next pirate staring at him with greedy glee not mere feet before him. Mother Earth, Father Sky, give me strength. He would need all his training to survive the barrage he knows is coming. Move to I8 and hold.

"I'll finish him." The words, hardly more than a whisper carried on the salty ocean breeze, just barely precede the sharp whistle of an arrow as it cuts through the air. While he hadn't anticipated that their fencer wouldn't be able to finish the pirate off by themselves, the extent of their wounds hasn't gone unnoticed. Curiosity has naturally led him to wonder how they could have sustained such injuries as they had worn even before this battle had started, but out of both a natural inclination towards reticence as well as respect for their privacy, he hadn't asked. As it is, their wounded must be protected and covered for. Move to F9 and make Pirate 3 a pincushion!

A flicker of a satisfied smile tugs at the corner of his lips as both arrows find their mark. Despite the unsteady terrain, he and Kite still have yet to lose the years of their training, he supposes. A good sign; the grey-dusted stallion has been as restless as his rider all morning, but come time for battle, both have re-centered themselves into necessary focus. Just to stay on the safe side, he reorients himself a little further back after his attack, drawing abreast of Cadence two paces away. Move to F8.

Drawing up Kite's reins, Idei urges his mount into motion, the familiar rhythmic, rapid thud of hooves on solid ground replaced now with the hollowness of open compartments beneath the wood planking. Admittedly, he hasn't yet gotten accustomed to sea travel; barring when he had come to Veritias for the first time, this is the only occasion he has ever been on a boat, seen such a vast expanse of endless water. Thankfully, the endeavor of trying to get ahold of his sea legs -- which hadn't been going very well all morning; he'd mostly stayed below decks -- is forgotten in favor of more immediate danger as the band of sea thieves drew their vessel up alongside the Virgil with a groaning creak. He passes Cadence and Darius, the former heavily wounded. "Don't die, please," is all he manages to say to the fencer -- the brevity of the words making it difficult to make out what tone they're spoken in -- before riding past them, hands already lifting his bow and notching an arrow, eye on his target, gauging distance, gauging wind. Move to G8 and shoot Pirate 2.

"They can leave the way they came in. Alternatively, the window's always an option . . . "

alternatively, dancing someone like idei or rayne who can then rescue you and get you both out of range..... win/win?

and even if she was, this is why we have mounted units and the rescue feature, right :'D

no pressure, hah

i feel so at ease now with her as our healer....

well, i wasn't about to put my bets on the aum staff haha i see, okay

so i was wondering -- i know there are mechanics in place to make this relatively unlikely, but what happens if someone dies? does the player have to auto-leave the rp or make a new character or what?

now we all have faces! :'D /regards everyone impassively from a distance

i would toss idei into this chat party but he's reserved just imagine him watching from the sidelines ig like an awkward wallflower

i also have no artistic eye either haha so i even have trouble describing what my character looks like to people my basis for asking people to make me mugs or art is like '.......he/she has a face....yeah' there are a ton of people here already offering to help, but i got my best friend who used to do spritework to make my redone mug, so i can always ask her too if anyone needs anything o/

looking through the sheets on the intro post again, zeta, i noticed that you added the additional stat boosts that we allocated to the base stats we put on their sheets. i know i already added the stat boosts when writing up the base stats and just put the +1 or +2 next to the boosted stat to indicate which ones i'd buffed, so you adding them again on top of the base stats makes them even higher starting out looking back through everyone's submitted sheets and comparing them with the base stats listed in the handbook, i don't think i was the only person who already added the boosts.

herp that's what i get for not looking back at the intro posts

do we get to learn what affinity everyone else is, or is that not revealed until support bonuses?

got idei's sprite redone cause i decided i wanted to see him with long hair instead so here's the new and official lewyn idei, just in time for the gaaames

i actually play fe near-constantly; it doesn't make me much better at it though hah thanks for your kind words, though

oh, wow! thank you so much hosts for letting me in! i'm absolutely honored and it's a privilege to be here <3 apologies up front to my fellow players because this is my first time doing an rpg of this kind and my first time doing any rp on these forums ( though i'm in no way a stranger to rp overall ) but hopefully i'll pick things up as i go along! i'm also nowhere near a veteran fe-gamer and possibly the worst strategical mind to ever touch the series, so also apologies up front if i make dumb moves ( hopefully you all who are much better at this can cover for my idiocy ) i'm really, really excited about this game and looking forward to getting to know all of you and your characters better!

i think ultimately it's up to the hosts and what they want to do i wouldn't complain about having the calcs taken out of my hands haha either way i'm sure we'll be all right

artur died to a 2% crit on my fe8 normal playthrough sobs at the very end of a map although to be fair my entire run of fe8 was just full of rng ripping me a new one ........literature grad student hello i haven't touched math since senior year of high school orz

yeah i figure we probably shouldn't send units in to attack enemies without at least having an idea of the battle forecast x'D well, i mean, we could, but that could probably end badly

i think they're all in the player's handbook that's on the first post in the rules section

i'm with sutaratosu on this one yeah i was like 'it's all math but the gm handles all those calcs right :'D" until i realized that in order to get an idea of my own hit and AS forecast i have to do it myself and then i cried