Well, what's left of Democlus is gonna need a New Troy prosthetic hand if he survives much longer, it looks like.
So, that's a double-bladed staff with cattle-prod power, eh? Seems like it might be difficult to manage something like that without harming yourself, but I guess Nox has a precise set of drills/kata for it.
Uhhh Cent, and I quote,"as for a tap on the shoulder, hehehe I think you will like what happens." For the record I >>>DO NOT<<< like this. Was hoping for Aeneas coming out of the Tram Doors, Dolly and Ceci charging in, or both, Not Democlus being The 300 by himself. Especially on Friday.*Revives Malati sends her to visit Cent and discuss week-end cliff hangers*
ah yes.. the dreaded weekend cliff hanger. this fight continues next week and don't worry Demo isn't hurt yet. Most people would have already been dead twice.
Looking at that maneuver, I think I see how he gets out.
Also, I don't think HE will be the one who loses a limb.
You see, facing the same direction as him, if he's going down and to the right her kick will miss him and as he does so he can release her power blade and use his own to sever her leg roughly half way up the thigh or in fact where it joins the pelvis.
Looking at the placement of his left arm he may actually turn her movement against her.
Wonder if Nox can be knocked off balance. She's pulled off an impressive maneuver, but standing on one leg puts her at a temporary disadvantage, albeit only for a wee bit.
I think decapitation is saying a bit much, especially considering the armour probably being worth its money. But certainly a bad hit to the head that might be decisive.
It doesn't appear that Demo's had much experience fighting Cassian's like his boss. That pistol was useless to begin with; he should have concentrated on using his sword to block and damage that shock stick. Noxie's maneuver in the last panel is ,for me anyway, a tad hard to follow. However it's enabled her to take out Demo's sword hand and toss him to the ground with her ankle around his neck. The cavalry better show up soon or he's toast.
I would describe it as an insane move because you never, never, never take your eyes off your opponent so that you can see what they're going to do before they do it.
Frame one, Nox blocks and deflects blade hand. Frame two, Nox spins to face away from Democlus and begin moving empty left hand towards pistol. Frame three, Nox grips the pistol *behind her where she can't see it* and crunches it in her left hand. Frame four, she flips her right foot backwards, up, and over Democlus' head to beside it on their mutual left side, apparently to try to kick his head down and to the right. Simultaneously in frame four, Nox attacks Democlus' right hand with the blade in it with her electrified, double-bladed staff. Overall effect: Nox must be moving at a speed well beyond anything Democlus can match. If she weren't this set of moves that thrust her vulnerable rear right in front of Democlus would have gotten her spanked, kicked, or worse.
the pistol was only useless because he couldnt connect with with .. also - I know its hard to see but Demo caught her blade on the down strike as her blade was coming up. She is moving the staff in circular patterns. and she herself is moving in counter circles. Its very very very hard to show in a 2d format. but this fight isnt over by a long shot.
I keep suppressing the urge to ramble on about how I think one could go about taking Nox out.
I have been spending way too much time on it and I think I figured something reliable out, but you'd need some impressive gear yourself to pull it off and you'd likely go down with her.
Do a fission reactor powered suit of power armor, have a dead man's switch tied to a reactor overload bypass system so that if they kill you, you go boom.
An automatic shotgun loading alternating incendiary and AP flechette rounds for you weapon, and a bunch of claymore landmines strapped to your chest, with the blast zone facing her.
Honestly, something like a claymore shooting a ton of thermite and magnesium pellets might be all you need since that would, you know, glass the entire hallway in front of it.
If I were sending a kill team after her I'd send half a dozen power armored men, four packing 8 gauge autoshotguns loading alternating incendiary shells and flechette shells, one with a 65mm recoiless rifle loading an incendiary canister round with what amounts to an Uzi as his secondary weapon, and one guy packing a 25mm autocannon loading alternating HE and incendiary rounds.
First guy in line has a claymore landmine strapped to his chest that he arms the moment she comes into view (best part about claymores is they're so directional that even an unarmored man would only get a few cracked ribs from the recoil of it when doing something like that.)
A strong EM-pulse would probably make her pretty unhappy too.
Even if she survived, many little things across her body would give up the ghost, and she'd have to continue without.
I'm thinking that all androids including Cassian's are shielded against EMP effects.
There is a current way now to shield against the effect using MOV's in electronic circuits.
A MOV makes the energy generated by an EMP wave to turn at several right angles. Each angle reduces the effect by half IIRC.
So having several MOV's built into their systems would lessen the effects of EMP on them. Plus the skull is very much like a Faraday cage, so having shielded lines with MOV's built into them would shield a Cassian or any other Android from an EMP Effect.
I'm wondering if Democlus' armor has a shield or field that would not block, but disrupt a power sword. It doesn't stop it but it makes it hardER for the sword to cut through.
Otherwise, I'm thinking he's going to get badly injured if not killed.
Have you tested yourself against a Cassian, yet son? HAVE YOU? Have you shit yourself, yet son? HAVE YOU? Have you seen Death's dance, yet son? HAVE YOU?
Highly noble, yes. Highly trained, yes. Highly skilled, yes. Highly armored, yes. Highly armed--well, he was. Wise enough to understand that there are some fights one simply cannot win? Perhaps about to be.
Well, he did go into the fight with the full knowledge that he quite likely wouldn't make it. That his prime objective here would not be victory, but simply delaying the pursuers long enough for the princess to escape.
But that doesn't keep him from trying to grab that tiny chance for victory he has.
But pride never bites you in the tuhkiss, does it? Being confident in your own abilities and the lack of ability of everyone and everything else that may oppose your aims is stupid, because everybody wins all the time without losing or failing at anything, ever. Right?
Also, for those who don't know their Yiddishisms, here's your definition: http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/tuchus
While we can all be grateful to Yiddish for not pressing charges when English steals a lot of fun words, the proper spellings tend to be dodgy. "Tuchus" seems to be the most widely-accepted version.
If you look at her manuever there if he's already dodging there is an easy way out that leaves her exceedingly vulnerable to a quick counter attack, which with a power weapon like that means she'll be short a limb.
I doubt he's fast enough to pull it but it is there. There is also the possibility that he has some ace up his sleeve, or that Nox has a plasmacaster at her back.
Considering that her foot appears to be aimed straight for the lower cervical spine and she has all her mass and her enhanced speed behind the blow... I would have to concur with Rashala. The injury to the spinal cord is going to be major even if it is widely-spread blunt force trauma.
Even if she redirects to, say, the shoulder, Dem should be down, maybe out, and in for at least years of shoulder and upper-back, possibly lower back as well, rehab.
Or is there stuff in that red shirt armor you haven't mentioned?
While she is moving quickly, and he is indeed wearing a redshirt.
She has also put herself in a position where it would be childs play to unsettle her balance.
I'll hazard a guess that Nox will disarm him (maybe literally), then ask him where the princesses are. You can't get information from a dead lump (usually) and he may have just impressed her enough to have just earned that much consideration.
Much more so.... since dual wield is effectively a purely offensive technique; it has no defensive mode and is recommended for only the most aggressive and practiced fighters.
But it really is showy and impressive on the field! Kinda like watching a Schwarzenegger/Conan flick.
It can be a surprisingly nifty defensive choice because if you're doing it right you're using offensive feints/deflections/parries to make the opponent unable to attack while setting them up for a good strike.
*cough* Not that I would know.
Seems like he's nearly standing still, parts of Nox may be breaking the sound barrier considering the supreme awkwardness of how she's disabling and disarming him. This isn't combat, this is Nox dancing through the feeble attempts of someone else trying to defend himself moving at, like, a tenth her speed. I'd call it a touch disrespectful to turn her backside towards Democlus before killing him like this, since that by rights should be lethally risky or at least get her ass literally kicked..
Oooohk, so Democlus never stood a chance unless the exploding barrels took out Nox.
Some many characters could intervene right now to save his butt. Aeneas, or Dolly and Ceci, or Maxus (a remote possibility), or even Noctis ordering a stand down. Possibilities, possibilities, possibilities. Shame I get to know only on Monday.
So, that's a double-bladed staff with cattle-prod power, eh? Seems like it might be difficult to manage something like that without harming yourself, but I guess Nox has a precise set of drills/kata for it.
Also, I don't think HE will be the one who loses a limb.
You see, facing the same direction as him, if he's going down and to the right her kick will miss him and as he does so he can release her power blade and use his own to sever her leg roughly half way up the thigh or in fact where it joins the pelvis.
Looking at the placement of his left arm he may actually turn her movement against her.
Frame one, Nox blocks and deflects blade hand. Frame two, Nox spins to face away from Democlus and begin moving empty left hand towards pistol. Frame three, Nox grips the pistol *behind her where she can't see it* and crunches it in her left hand. Frame four, she flips her right foot backwards, up, and over Democlus' head to beside it on their mutual left side, apparently to try to kick his head down and to the right. Simultaneously in frame four, Nox attacks Democlus' right hand with the blade in it with her electrified, double-bladed staff. Overall effect: Nox must be moving at a speed well beyond anything Democlus can match. If she weren't this set of moves that thrust her vulnerable rear right in front of Democlus would have gotten her spanked, kicked, or worse.
I have been spending way too much time on it and I think I figured something reliable out, but you'd need some impressive gear yourself to pull it off and you'd likely go down with her.
An automatic shotgun loading alternating incendiary and AP flechette rounds for you weapon, and a bunch of claymore landmines strapped to your chest, with the blast zone facing her.
Honestly, something like a claymore shooting a ton of thermite and magnesium pellets might be all you need since that would, you know, glass the entire hallway in front of it.
If I were sending a kill team after her I'd send half a dozen power armored men, four packing 8 gauge autoshotguns loading alternating incendiary shells and flechette shells, one with a 65mm recoiless rifle loading an incendiary canister round with what amounts to an Uzi as his secondary weapon, and one guy packing a 25mm autocannon loading alternating HE and incendiary rounds.
First guy in line has a claymore landmine strapped to his chest that he arms the moment she comes into view (best part about claymores is they're so directional that even an unarmored man would only get a few cracked ribs from the recoil of it when doing something like that.)
This is the abridged version.
Even if she survived, many little things across her body would give up the ghost, and she'd have to continue without.
It all adds up.
There is a current way now to shield against the effect using MOV's in electronic circuits.
A MOV makes the energy generated by an EMP wave to turn at several right angles. Each angle reduces the effect by half IIRC.
So having several MOV's built into their systems would lessen the effects of EMP on them. Plus the skull is very much like a Faraday cage, so having shielded lines with MOV's built into them would shield a Cassian or any other Android from an EMP Effect.
Otherwise, I'm thinking he's going to get badly injured if not killed.
Drop a giant rock on her.
And.
Stuff a banana into her exhaust slot.
Highly noble, yes. Highly trained, yes. Highly skilled, yes. Highly armored, yes. Highly armed--well, he was. Wise enough to understand that there are some fights one simply cannot win? Perhaps about to be.
But that doesn't keep him from trying to grab that tiny chance for victory he has.
I get the feeling Nox is dragging this out. Savoring the fight.
That may bite her in the tookis...
puppy tookis? (I actually had to look the word up to make sure i used it right, I like this word!)
*slap*
Also, for those who don't know their Yiddishisms, here's your definition: http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/tuchus
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snapped, probally internally decapitared/ dead in 12 secoonds
yeah he's dead
I doubt he's fast enough to pull it but it is there. There is also the possibility that he has some ace up his sleeve, or that Nox has a plasmacaster at her back.
Even if she redirects to, say, the shoulder, Dem should be down, maybe out, and in for at least years of shoulder and upper-back, possibly lower back as well, rehab.
Or is there stuff in that red shirt armor you haven't mentioned?
She has also put herself in a position where it would be childs play to unsettle her balance.
But it really is showy and impressive on the field! Kinda like watching a Schwarzenegger/Conan flick.
*cough* Not that I would know.
brings new possibilities
into the play.
Some many characters could intervene right now to save his butt. Aeneas, or Dolly and Ceci, or Maxus (a remote possibility), or even Noctis ordering a stand down. Possibilities, possibilities, possibilities. Shame I get to know only on Monday.
I don't think he's quite out of tricks just yet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWlzhrX18-M