DRAGMANTICAR: A Valentine's Day Exalted Datequest
- Thread starter Jemnite
- Start date
- Fantasy Romance
Jemnite
CVN-69 Fella
- Location
- 清源书院
Falling Petals Style (Politics)
The tea ceremony is an ancient art, known not only to mortals but to gods and even demons. It is one among many developed for its purpose. Whether it be midnight viewings of the moon or formal negotiations under a flag of truth; the ritual and ceremony of formalised motions serves to calm aggression and bring a meeting of enemies to a peaceful resolution. This Style applies only to formalised or ritualised interactions where a recognised protocol or specific procedure exists.
1: +1 to lowering tensions among participants.
2: +1 to polite bargaining from a position of strength.
3: Ignore one point of MDV provided by negative Principles, provided the opponent has a Politics rating of at least 2, including dots of this Style.
Feel free to ask about any styles you see that look unfamiliar, a lot of them are hombrew so they might not be exactly what they seem like to you.
Blazinghand
O cursèd spite
- Location
- California
[X] Run up to her and grab her arm to quickly fill her in on the situation
What could possibly go wrong?!
What could possibly go wrong?!
Tour pt 3
Jemnite
CVN-69 Fella
- Location
- 清源书院
You act fast.
"Sis~!"
You pitch your voice up, a little higher than usual, but that's easily compensated for by your sudden state of imminent terror, before launch yourself bodily into Six. You swing your arms her her waist and thwack your head into her midriff, bear-hugging her, throwing your entire weight behind it. She lifts up, partially, and then back down and backwards. As you go down, you look up. Six's eyes widen in astonishment- and there's a part of you which feels a sort of vengeful satisfaction from that; you've never managed to get the drop on her in one of your sparring matches- but another expression that you can't help but feel oddly familiar with.
You can almost recognize it, as she hooks a leg around your left leg as you push her down. In fact, you do recognize it, as she pushes your head away with both arms and swings a knee into your gut.
That look? That's her fight face.
The two of your tumble to the ground, her writhing, trying to slip out your side, but you stay on top all the way to the ground. As soon as her ass hits the ground, her hand grabs a hold of the dirt, her left pushes out, and she's trying to push out the top of your grip. She's always been a better striker than a grappler- her first instinct is always to get away from a grapple rather than finish it on the ground. But you saw that coming, and tighten around her waist, so she can't get away. She's always been a better striker than a grappler- so if you can't finish it on the ground, and she gets away, you're done.
She twists in response; she's planning to put her full force behind both her legs and arms to push out, out to top of your grip. But abandoning her guard is a mistake. It's an opening. In that second, you lunge up her exposed back, one arm swinging over her right shoulder, other arm swinging under her left armpit. You pull, and tighten. It's a triangle choke from back control! She tries to defend, of course, putting full force into locking her neck with her shoulder, and straining desperately to create space with her left arm, but you crush her guard, slowly. She won't be able to hold out forever, and once you've broken through- it's over!
...or at least, it could be over. 'cept you made one small mistake. You forgot to lock the legs. She pushes up, rather than away, and tips onto her shoulders, bracing her spine down on the ground. You slide forward along her side, and she tears out of your choke while you're off balance, ripping open your bracing lock. But you still have her left arm! In a show of spectacular body control, you immediately twist, and bring both legs off her back, over her head, to wrap around her left arm and slam your feet onto her collar. Shoulder blade bar! You've got her no-
"Hey, hey, what are you two doing?!" Someone yells out, stunning you in the middle of your closer. Two arms move out to roughly pull you apart and you drop onto the ground, upsidedown, while Six backpedals weakly, almost falling onto her ass. "Seriously! What's going on?"
"Huh?" You look over, chest heaving for breath, sweat dripping down your back and forehead, trying to recognize the air aspect standing over you. She's tall, with white hair, and piercing blue eyes. But you can't exac- oh wait. She was the other girl, who was coming with Six out of the baths.
...which is weird, because there's no public baths at home. Why was Six in a public bath? You mull on the thought for a second, trying to piece it together. Why....?
It's because.... you're not at home... you're at... oh, right! You didn't tackle Six to have another sparring match! You wanted to- to explain thins to her! Though, now that you think about it, tackling her was sort of a dumb idea. If you wanted to talk to her in private, you should have moved away, or if you wanted to avoid her, you should have pretended to not recognize her or run away. But tackling her on the ground, only meant that you made a big fuss in from of the dorm mistress, and also you had to have your talk with her right there in front of everyone. Why did you do that again?
...eh, you can't really remember now, anyway.
Behind you, you can hear some sort of cackling. You turn around, still breathing hard to see Mother Ajah laughing. "Hahaha! Is that how you always greet your siblings, Five?"
"Five?!" You hear Six exclaim loudly behind you to the air aspect's confusion.
"Not really," you reply. It's only Six you spar with like that.
"And Six, I see you've met your sister." Mother Ajah turns to her head. You hear a faint exclamation of 'sister?!', likely from the air aspect this time. "She's seems like a lively gal, doesn't she?"
"...yeah..." Six answers slowly. "She's certainly a lively girl, my sister. I almost forgot; I haven't seen in a long while. In fact, I almost didn't even know she was coming!"
...oh boy. That voice doesn't sound like it spells anything good.
"She was a last minute enrollee," Mother Ajah waved it off, while incidentally giving Six more information about you, that she might use for blackmail purposes. "She impressed the headmistress, and the old lady had no choice but to let her in."
"....I see..." Six purses her lips. "Actually, since I haven't seen her in such a long time, would you mind if I took her for a I second to catch up in private? I mean, she's my twin after all."
You hear a faint 'twins?!' in the background, again, most likely from that air aspect girl, but it almost doesn't register because of the pounding of your chest. Six does not look happy at all. You're about to tell Mother Ajah that you don't want to waste her time, you can certainly catch up to your sister later-
"No, no, that's fine." Mother Ajah says, irritatingly gracious. "Who am I to keep two siblings from having their first reunion in a while."
"Great!" Six pastes on a completely fake smile, and hauls you up from your ass on the ground, legs sprawled out seat with a single arm, before stragging you off to the corner of the bathhouse. Mother Ajah and the air aspect girl shrink in the distance. You give them sad looks as you're dragged away, internally begging them not to abandon you, before Six spins you around, in front of the bath.
"Fives, what the heck are you doing here?" She asks you, her eyes promising something painful if you bullshit her. You have no doubt she'd know, you two are twins, after all. "And why are you dressed up like that?"
IF YOU DON'T VOTE, I DON'T UPDATE
[ ] Give her an explanation
[ ] Deflect and delay
"Sis~!"
You pitch your voice up, a little higher than usual, but that's easily compensated for by your sudden state of imminent terror, before launch yourself bodily into Six. You swing your arms her her waist and thwack your head into her midriff, bear-hugging her, throwing your entire weight behind it. She lifts up, partially, and then back down and backwards. As you go down, you look up. Six's eyes widen in astonishment- and there's a part of you which feels a sort of vengeful satisfaction from that; you've never managed to get the drop on her in one of your sparring matches- but another expression that you can't help but feel oddly familiar with.
You can almost recognize it, as she hooks a leg around your left leg as you push her down. In fact, you do recognize it, as she pushes your head away with both arms and swings a knee into your gut.
That look? That's her fight face.
The two of your tumble to the ground, her writhing, trying to slip out your side, but you stay on top all the way to the ground. As soon as her ass hits the ground, her hand grabs a hold of the dirt, her left pushes out, and she's trying to push out the top of your grip. She's always been a better striker than a grappler- her first instinct is always to get away from a grapple rather than finish it on the ground. But you saw that coming, and tighten around her waist, so she can't get away. She's always been a better striker than a grappler- so if you can't finish it on the ground, and she gets away, you're done.
She twists in response; she's planning to put her full force behind both her legs and arms to push out, out to top of your grip. But abandoning her guard is a mistake. It's an opening. In that second, you lunge up her exposed back, one arm swinging over her right shoulder, other arm swinging under her left armpit. You pull, and tighten. It's a triangle choke from back control! She tries to defend, of course, putting full force into locking her neck with her shoulder, and straining desperately to create space with her left arm, but you crush her guard, slowly. She won't be able to hold out forever, and once you've broken through- it's over!
...or at least, it could be over. 'cept you made one small mistake. You forgot to lock the legs. She pushes up, rather than away, and tips onto her shoulders, bracing her spine down on the ground. You slide forward along her side, and she tears out of your choke while you're off balance, ripping open your bracing lock. But you still have her left arm! In a show of spectacular body control, you immediately twist, and bring both legs off her back, over her head, to wrap around her left arm and slam your feet onto her collar. Shoulder blade bar! You've got her no-
"Hey, hey, what are you two doing?!" Someone yells out, stunning you in the middle of your closer. Two arms move out to roughly pull you apart and you drop onto the ground, upsidedown, while Six backpedals weakly, almost falling onto her ass. "Seriously! What's going on?"
"Huh?" You look over, chest heaving for breath, sweat dripping down your back and forehead, trying to recognize the air aspect standing over you. She's tall, with white hair, and piercing blue eyes. But you can't exac- oh wait. She was the other girl, who was coming with Six out of the baths.
...which is weird, because there's no public baths at home. Why was Six in a public bath? You mull on the thought for a second, trying to piece it together. Why....?
It's because.... you're not at home... you're at... oh, right! You didn't tackle Six to have another sparring match! You wanted to- to explain thins to her! Though, now that you think about it, tackling her was sort of a dumb idea. If you wanted to talk to her in private, you should have moved away, or if you wanted to avoid her, you should have pretended to not recognize her or run away. But tackling her on the ground, only meant that you made a big fuss in from of the dorm mistress, and also you had to have your talk with her right there in front of everyone. Why did you do that again?
...eh, you can't really remember now, anyway.
Behind you, you can hear some sort of cackling. You turn around, still breathing hard to see Mother Ajah laughing. "Hahaha! Is that how you always greet your siblings, Five?"
"Five?!" You hear Six exclaim loudly behind you to the air aspect's confusion.
"Not really," you reply. It's only Six you spar with like that.
"And Six, I see you've met your sister." Mother Ajah turns to her head. You hear a faint exclamation of 'sister?!', likely from the air aspect this time. "She's seems like a lively gal, doesn't she?"
"...yeah..." Six answers slowly. "She's certainly a lively girl, my sister. I almost forgot; I haven't seen in a long while. In fact, I almost didn't even know she was coming!"
...oh boy. That voice doesn't sound like it spells anything good.
"She was a last minute enrollee," Mother Ajah waved it off, while incidentally giving Six more information about you, that she might use for blackmail purposes. "She impressed the headmistress, and the old lady had no choice but to let her in."
"....I see..." Six purses her lips. "Actually, since I haven't seen her in such a long time, would you mind if I took her for a I second to catch up in private? I mean, she's my twin after all."
You hear a faint 'twins?!' in the background, again, most likely from that air aspect girl, but it almost doesn't register because of the pounding of your chest. Six does not look happy at all. You're about to tell Mother Ajah that you don't want to waste her time, you can certainly catch up to your sister later-
"No, no, that's fine." Mother Ajah says, irritatingly gracious. "Who am I to keep two siblings from having their first reunion in a while."
"Great!" Six pastes on a completely fake smile, and hauls you up from your ass on the ground, legs sprawled out seat with a single arm, before stragging you off to the corner of the bathhouse. Mother Ajah and the air aspect girl shrink in the distance. You give them sad looks as you're dragged away, internally begging them not to abandon you, before Six spins you around, in front of the bath.
"Fives, what the heck are you doing here?" She asks you, her eyes promising something painful if you bullshit her. You have no doubt she'd know, you two are twins, after all. "And why are you dressed up like that?"
IF YOU DON'T VOTE, I DON'T UPDATE
[ ] Give her an explanation
[ ] Deflect and delay
notthepenguins
Neither Spherical Nor Frictionless
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
[x] Give her an explanation
Nah, we owe her an explanation. While deflecting and delaying would be genre-appropriate, it's sort of boring and doesn't fit character. So explain we will!
I don't know what that explanation actually is, mind...
Nah, we owe her an explanation. While deflecting and delaying would be genre-appropriate, it's sort of boring and doesn't fit character. So explain we will!
I don't know what that explanation actually is, mind...
DeepWaters
No one will be the wiser.
- Location
- Land of Spiders and Shipping Charts
[X] Give her an explanation
Blazinghand
O cursèd spite
- Location
- California
[X] Give her an explanation
we really really should.
we really really should.
Jemnite
CVN-69 Fella
- Location
- 清源书院
Write ins are an option *HINT HINT*
SirLagginton
Shadow Cabal Caerbannog Bun-Bun
- Location
- Arrrghhh
[X] Give her an explanation
- Location
- Wörms, the half continent
[X] Give her an explanation
-[X] Blame One
-[X] Blame One
- Location
- in the trash
[X] Declare our undying love for her and our desire to be with her forever and always do things together.
-[X] Furious blushing and and vehement protests that it's not that kind of love and we're not a siscon because eww eww eww that's disgusting
- [X] After that explain the full story of how you found the letter and managed to secure a place here
We need to get our priorities in order people
-[X] Furious blushing and and vehement protests that it's not that kind of love and we're not a siscon because eww eww eww that's disgusting
- [X] After that explain the full story of how you found the letter and managed to secure a place here
We need to get our priorities in order people
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- Location
- Denmark
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Declare our undying love for her and our desire to be with her forever and always do things together.
-[X] Furious blushing and and vehement protests that it's not that kind of love and we're not a siscon because eww eww eww that's disgusting
- [X] After that explain the full story of how you found the letter and managed to secure a place here
this is
important
-[X] Furious blushing and and vehement protests that it's not that kind of love and we're not a siscon because eww eww eww that's disgusting
- [X] After that explain the full story of how you found the letter and managed to secure a place here
this is
important
- Location
- Wörms, the half continent
DeepWaters
No one will be the wiser.
- Location
- Land of Spiders and Shipping Charts
Alright, since all the write-ins so far seems to be going for pure comedy, I'll try throwing in a more reasonable alternative.
[X] Give her an explanation
-[X] Ask if she really thought she'd get away with leaving us behind without a single word of explanation, or even a goodbye.
-[X] Explain that you found the letter in her room and proclaim that, since she didn't have the guts to tell us what was wrong before she ran off, we got One to help us get in the academy so we could make her tell us. If she hadn't tried to make our decisions for us, we wouldn't have had to resort to such drastic measures!
-[X] Also, we're totally here to stay now.
[X] Give her an explanation
-[X] Ask if she really thought she'd get away with leaving us behind without a single word of explanation, or even a goodbye.
-[X] Explain that you found the letter in her room and proclaim that, since she didn't have the guts to tell us what was wrong before she ran off, we got One to help us get in the academy so we could make her tell us. If she hadn't tried to make our decisions for us, we wouldn't have had to resort to such drastic measures!
-[X] Also, we're totally here to stay now.
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- Location
- Wörms, the half continent
[X] Declare our undying love for her and our desire to be with her forever and always do things together.
-[X] Furious blushing and and vehement protests that it's not that kind of love and we're not a siscon because eww eww eww that's disgusting
- [X] After that explain the full story of how you found the letter and managed to secure a place here
-[X] Furious blushing and and vehement protests that it's not that kind of love and we're not a siscon because eww eww eww that's disgusting
- [X] After that explain the full story of how you found the letter and managed to secure a place here
frozenchicken
Does not have a custom title.
[X] Give her an explanation
-[X] Ask if she really thought she'd get away with leaving us behind without a single word of explanation, or even a goodbye.
-[X] Explain that you found the letter in her room and proclaim that, since she didn't have the guts to tell us what was wrong before she ran off, we got One to help us get in the academy so we could make her tell us. If she hadn't tried to make our decisions for us, we wouldn't have had to resort to such drastic measures!
-[X] Also, we're totally here to stay now.
-[X] Ask if she really thought she'd get away with leaving us behind without a single word of explanation, or even a goodbye.
-[X] Explain that you found the letter in her room and proclaim that, since she didn't have the guts to tell us what was wrong before she ran off, we got One to help us get in the academy so we could make her tell us. If she hadn't tried to make our decisions for us, we wouldn't have had to resort to such drastic measures!
-[X] Also, we're totally here to stay now.
- Location
- italy bologna
[X] Give her an explanation
-[X] Ask if she really thought she'd get away with leaving us behind without a single word of explanation, or even a goodbye.
-[X] Explain that you found the letter in her room and proclaim that, since she didn't have the guts to tell us what was wrong before she ran off, we got One to help us get in the academy so we could make her tell us. If she hadn't tried to make our decisions for us, we wouldn't have had to resort to such drastic measures!
-[X] Also, we're totally here to stay now
-[X] Ask if she really thought she'd get away with leaving us behind without a single word of explanation, or even a goodbye.
-[X] Explain that you found the letter in her room and proclaim that, since she didn't have the guts to tell us what was wrong before she ran off, we got One to help us get in the academy so we could make her tell us. If she hadn't tried to make our decisions for us, we wouldn't have had to resort to such drastic measures!
-[X] Also, we're totally here to stay now
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
[X] Give her an explanation
Dynamesmouse
Bzzzzzz
We should be asking an explanation from her.
[x] Ask her why did she leave.
[x] Ask her why did she leave.
[X] Give her an explanation
-[X] Ask if she really thought she'd get away with leaving us behind without a single word of explanation, or even a goodbye.
-[X] Explain that you found the letter in her room and proclaim that, since she didn't have the guts to tell us what was wrong before she ran off, we got One to help us get in the academy so we could make her tell us. If she hadn't tried to make our decisions for us, we wouldn't have had to resort to such drastic measures!
-[X] Also, we're totally here to stay now.
-[X] Ask if she really thought she'd get away with leaving us behind without a single word of explanation, or even a goodbye.
-[X] Explain that you found the letter in her room and proclaim that, since she didn't have the guts to tell us what was wrong before she ran off, we got One to help us get in the academy so we could make her tell us. If she hadn't tried to make our decisions for us, we wouldn't have had to resort to such drastic measures!
-[X] Also, we're totally here to stay now.
[X] Give her an explanation
-[X] Ask if she really thought she'd get away with leaving us behind without a single word of explanation, or even a goodbye.
-[X] Explain that you found the letter in her room and proclaim that, since she didn't have the guts to tell us what was wrong before she ran off, we got One to help us get in the academy so we could make her tell us. If she hadn't tried to make our decisions for us, we wouldn't have had to resort to such drastic measures!
-[X] Also, we're totally here to stay now.
-[X] Ask if she really thought she'd get away with leaving us behind without a single word of explanation, or even a goodbye.
-[X] Explain that you found the letter in her room and proclaim that, since she didn't have the guts to tell us what was wrong before she ran off, we got One to help us get in the academy so we could make her tell us. If she hadn't tried to make our decisions for us, we wouldn't have had to resort to such drastic measures!
-[X] Also, we're totally here to stay now.
- Location
- Austria
[X] Give her an explanation
-[X] Ask if she really thought she'd get away with leaving us behind without a single word of explanation, or even a goodbye.
-[X] Explain that you found the letter in her room and proclaim that, since she didn't have the guts to tell us what was wrong before she ran off, we got One to help us get in the academy so we could make her tell us. If she hadn't tried to make our decisions for us, we wouldn't have had to resort to such drastic measures!
-[X] Also, we're totally here to stay now.
-[X] Ask if she really thought she'd get away with leaving us behind without a single word of explanation, or even a goodbye.
-[X] Explain that you found the letter in her room and proclaim that, since she didn't have the guts to tell us what was wrong before she ran off, we got One to help us get in the academy so we could make her tell us. If she hadn't tried to make our decisions for us, we wouldn't have had to resort to such drastic measures!
-[X] Also, we're totally here to stay now.