[Exalted] The Dragon's Spite

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[x] All weapons allowed. Sorcery is a weapon, right? You'll show all the onlookers how powerful you could be as an ally - and he won't expect it.
Technically correct, the best form of correct.
 
[x] Unarmed only. You're certainly trained in unarmed fighting, but you don't know if he is. Your hands are more deadly than his are, though; you're pretty sure about that.
[x] Knives. This is to the death, and knives are in form for both the Peacock and the Viper. You'd be most confident with a familiar weapon in your hand - and would he expect a thrown blade?
[x] Short blades. The guards are armed with those weapons, and you're pretty sure you could borrow them. You could use them with Viper Style, and you're pretty sure none of those weapons could be rigged.
[x] All weapons allowed. Sorcery is a weapon, right? You'll show all the onlookers how powerful you could be as an ally - and he won't expect it.

I think any of these are reasonable for us and acceptable to our foe. I get the counter-argument for short blades being probably his best weapon, but as long as they're not rigged, we should still be okay for the simple reason of "being an Exalt". Let's show him up at his strengths. That's not a bad way to convince people of our puissance.
 
[X] Knives. This is to the death, and knives are in form for both the Peacock and the Viper. You'd be most confident with a familiar weapon in your hand - and would he expect a thrown blade?
 
[X] Unarmed only. You're certainly trained in unarmed fighting, but you don't know if he is. Your hands are more deadly than his are, though; you're pretty sure about that.
[X] Knives. This is to the death, and knives are in form for both the Peacock and the Viper. You'd be most confident with a familiar weapon in your hand - and would he expect a thrown blade?

Short Blades are tempting because iirc that's what Rena is best at, and if we want to make a good show of it it would also probably be the one he is best at (barring everything allowed), but I am a bit wary.
 
[X] Unarmed only. You're certainly trained in unarmed fighting, but you don't know if he is. Your hands are more deadly than his are, though; you're pretty sure about that.
[X] Knives. This is to the death, and knives are in form for both the Peacock and the Viper. You'd be most confident with a familiar weapon in your hand - and would he expect a thrown blade?
 
[X] Unarmed only. You're certainly trained in unarmed fighting, but you don't know if he is. Your hands are more deadly than his are, though; you're pretty sure about that.
[X] Knives. This is to the death, and knives are in form for both the Peacock and the Viper. You'd be most confident with a familiar weapon in your hand - and would he expect a thrown blade?
 
I kind of think duelling blades wouldn't get us all that much respect. Yes, they're the local 'proper choice', but we saw how people talked about them - they're designed to draw blood without necessarily being lethal, good for showy fights and scarring, not a duel to the death where people want to see some real mayhem.
 
[X] Unarmed only. You're certainly trained in unarmed fighting, but you don't know if he is. Your hands are more deadly than his are, though; you're pretty sure about that.

Snake style makes our hands lethal and Graceful Willow helps to escape from grapples. Clearly our best choice. We may even get out of it without serious injuries.

A knife fight is significatively faster than an unarmed one, which in turn makes our crippling strikes less useful - if he gets a good strike or two early in the fight he could even win. (And in any case the risk of getting new injuries and spend weeks healing is higher).

And using magic - well, certainly not. Leaving aside the problems of using spells in a one-on-one duel, a foreign sorceress is bound to attract the attention of the Demio - And all the hints we have point to that being a Bad Idea.
 
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[X] Unarmed only. You're certainly trained in unarmed fighting, but you don't know if he is. Your hands are more deadly than his are, though; you're pretty sure about that.
[X] Knives. This is to the death, and knives are in form for both the Peacock and the Viper. You'd be most confident with a familiar weapon in your hand - and would he expect a thrown blade?
 
[X] Unarmed only. You're certainly trained in unarmed fighting, but you don't know if he is. Your hands are more deadly than his are, though; you're pretty sure about that.
 
[X] Unarmed only. You're certainly trained in unarmed fighting, but you don't know if he is. Your hands are more deadly than his are, though; you're pretty sure about that.
[X] Knives. This is to the death, and knives are in form for both the Peacock and the Viper. You'd be most confident with a familiar weapon in your hand - and would he expect a thrown blade?
 
[X] Unarmed only. You're certainly trained in unarmed fighting, but you don't know if he is. Your hands are more deadly than his are, though; you're pretty sure about that.
I like @Broken25 's arguments. I don't think we'll be lucky enough that he's untrained in unarmed fighting - Hilmi strikes me as a guy who likes to throw punches at the drop of a hat - but that actually works to our advantage, somewhat. He's not going to agree to fight unarmed if he has no skill in it, but if he has some skill, enough to make him think "Yeah, I can take this fat socialite," then Rena can use Disturbed Snake Stance to turn his overconfidence around on him.
 
[X] Unarmed only. You're certainly trained in unarmed fighting, but you don't know if he is. Your hands are more deadly than his are, though; you're pretty sure about that.
[X] Knives. This is to the death, and knives are in form for both the Peacock and the Viper. You'd be most confident with a familiar weapon in your hand - and would he expect a thrown blade?
 
[X] Unarmed only. You're certainly trained in unarmed fighting, but you don't know if he is. Your hands are more deadly than his are, though; you're pretty sure about that.
[X] All weapons allowed. Sorcery is a weapon, right? You'll show all the onlookers how powerful you could be as an ally - and he won't expect it.

I don't have any grand reasoning behind my choices; these are just the options I think would be most amusing.
 
[X] Unarmed only. You're certainly trained in unarmed fighting, but you don't know if he is. Your hands are more deadly than his are, though; you're pretty sure about that.
[X] Knives. This is to the death, and knives are in form for both the Peacock and the Viper. You'd be most confident with a familiar weapon in your hand - and would he expect a thrown blade?
 
[X] Unarmed only. You're certainly trained in unarmed fighting, but you don't know if he is. Your hands are more deadly than his are, though; you're pretty sure about that.
[X] Knives. This is to the death, and knives are in form for both the Peacock and the Viper. You'd be most confident with a familiar weapon in your hand - and would he expect a thrown blade?
 
[X] Unarmed only. You're certainly trained in unarmed fighting, but you don't know if he is. Your hands are more deadly than his are, though; you're pretty sure about that.
[X] Knives. This is to the death, and knives are in form for both the Peacock and the Viper. You'd be most confident with a familiar weapon in your hand - and would he expect a thrown blade?
 
[X] Unarmed only. You're certainly trained in unarmed fighting, but you don't know if he is. Your hands are more deadly than his are, though; you're pretty sure about that.
[X] Knives. This is to the death, and knives are in form for both the Peacock and the Viper. You'd be most confident with a familiar weapon in your hand - and would he expect a thrown blade?

It could be quite amusing seeing her beat him to death bare-handed, as far as showing off... but that not only looks a lot more dangerous than killing with a weapon, it puts in peoples minds how easily we could kill someone even naked in bed >_>

On the other hand, knives are good for showing off (and seem to be her best overall) without being so terrifying... and it probably balances out that both of us would show the skills to kill Haitham with the discovered wounds. Only a risk if he's actually innocent of it AND terrible with knives >_> But if he's got a knife with a personal seal and not sold the jade one, probably not that. Plus, a lot easier to justify taking his knife as spoils of war if thats what he fights us with.

Soooooo happy to have found an Exalted fanfic to read, let alone a good one that focuses on Terrestrials <3 <3 And a touch more cheerful than Imago...
 
[X] Unarmed only. You're certainly trained in unarmed fighting, but you don't know if he is. Your hands are more deadly than his are, though; you're pretty sure about that.
[X] Knives. This is to the death, and knives are in form for both the Peacock and the Viper. You'd be most confident with a familiar weapon in your hand - and would he expect a thrown blade?

Both options use Viper, Unarmed uses Graceful Willow, and Knives uses Peacock. Graceful Willow and Peacock are at the same level, but Graceful Willow has an associated charm (because it's in aspect) and is defense focused, while Peacock's focus on surprise attacks and distracting clothing seems limited in a dueling arena with minimal clothing.
 
[X] Unarmed only. You're certainly trained in unarmed fighting, but you don't know if he is. Your hands are more deadly than his are, though; you're pretty sure about that.
[X] Knives. This is to the death, and knives are in form for both the Peacock and the Viper. You'd be most confident with a familiar weapon in your hand - and would he expect a thrown blade?
 
Unarmed, and people will talk of sabotage. Knives, and the victor will be a backstabber. And he has more experience with dueling blades.

And I'm not revealing sorcery on Sei's word.

[X] Short blades. The guards are armed with those weapons, and you're pretty sure you could borrow them. You could use them with Viper Style, and you're pretty sure none of those weapons could be rigged.

Not as good as knives for our style, but it's better than the dueling blades, and with better implications.

Also, it does occur to me that deities CAN bless favored combatants for a scene, gifting quite a bit of power. Innocent or no, if he has the support of a deity, he could get quite a boost. We should be careful, locked Jade Prison or no. So again, no dueling blades.
 
boo600 said:
Also, it does occur to me that deities CAN bless favored combatants for a scene, gifting quite a bit of power. Innocent or no, if he has the support of a deity, he could get quite a boost. We should be careful, locked Jade Prison or no. So again, no dueling blades.
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I mean if anybody is getting a bless here is Rena. She is actually in the right. (This time)

Unless of course Himli has some kind of direct connection with the duelling gods, but uh, his duelling record kind of disproves that.
 
VagueZ said:
Is she? I mean, I can't provide a more likely suspect just now, but it could be that he's innocent of this and sees this as Rena framing him.
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Sometimes an open and shut case is, well, an open and shut case. The knife in the bag is pretty solid evidence.

(And as easy as Rena may have made it look, a mortal would have considerable trouble planting the knife with that magic fire there)
 
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Broken25 said:
Sometimes an open and shut case is, well, an open and shut case. The knife in the bag is pretty solid evidence.

(And as easy as Rena may have made it look, a mortal would have considerable trouble planting the knife with that magic fire there)
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I'm pretty damn sure he is the patsy for someone else, given there was a false crime weapon just in front of his window.
 
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