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THE SET-UP: The final battle rages in the upper levels of Faylar's palace in the occupied city of K'rra Chi, centre of the Civil War between those on Damagran who want to leave the Republic and those who do not. The dictator Faylar is hard pressed by the Dark Jedi who seek his head for an earlier betrayal, while the Light Siders come to rescue the errant Knight Argentis who has launched an unauthorised mission of revenge against his former Master, Kuylen, who now commands the Dark Siders. The Jedi have tried to stay out of the fighting buit cannot.

As Faylar tries to escape the palace, all the force users on both sides find themselves lost in the upper cargo area as they ifght through his numberless legions of battledroids, borught from the Hutts who in turn nicked them from the disgraced Trade Federation. In this confusion, old enemies from the last game, Lance Windu and Galder Welptat, run into each other, and after a fruitless attempt to leave the battle now duel near one of the broken lifts in the area, with droids all around.

HOW THIS WORKS: A quick re-cap.

The duellists take it in turns to attack each other. The attacker describes his attack and then the defender describes his defence. One person will succeed- a decision I make based on the skill of the fighters, the quality and appropriateness of their post, and a small random factor.

The winner of the round scores a point, and then the attacker and defender swap places. Aside from taunts, no other moves can be made except the single move or countermove you make each round!

First to five points wins the duel, but like in tennis you must win by two clear points. The amount of points by which you win a duel is how dictates what happens to the loser- a two point loss is a superficial wound, more is losing a limb, a five point win kills your opponent outright. Regardless, you cannot pursue a defeated opponent no matter what; if you lose a duel (and survive) you can always escape.

At the start of any round, either combatant may try to flee.

One small rule change- there will be no more drawn rounds. If a round is drawn, the attacker now wins.

ANALYSIS:

Lance and Galder are perfectly matched; both highly skilled, if somewhat impatient, duellists. Neither is significantly injured so there is nothing to chose between them

Galder attacks and so goes first.

Score:

Galder- 0 Lance- 0

Galder to attack.

OOC: Just waitin' for Rexxy.

(Oh, I'm supposed to attack? D'oh!)

Gald dashes at Lance and attempts to scewer him with his green lightsaber, using the red one for defence if needed.

Lance jumps over Galder as he charges and flips over him with a corkscrew twist and lands to where Gald's back is facing Lance.

Both of you seem to display perfect timing in your attacks. Rex's blow is fast and accurate, and Lance's twist through the air just as impressive. Gald spins to face Lance with admirable speed, however, and sabres lock.

Round drawn- awared to Gald as attacker.

Score:

Galder- 1 Lance -0

Lance twists his saber to the right and unhooks the lightsaber's. Immediately after he slashes up aiming for Gald's left armpit.

Gald uses the red lightsaber to block the blow by holding it across his chest and under his arm.

It's even going, guys. You are just in an exchange of even blows right now.

Round drawn; goes with attacker

Score:

Galder- 1 Lance- 1

Galder to attack

Each of you is now under fire from two droids.

Gald deactivates his green lightsaber and brings out his droid blaster. He fires at the two droids and Lance. He then dashes at Lance again and slashes hard at his midsection.

Lance takes a very quick notice of the two droids being blasted. But he quickly brings his attention back to the duel.

Lance brings his blue bladed lightsaber down and angled to the left to block the strong blow by Gald.

(To clarify, there are FOUR droids, two for each of you).

Lance easily parry's Rex's shots which have little hope of penetration with him splitting his attention with the droids as well. He DOES blast down a droid, though.

Lance blocks expertly and Rex falls a little off-balance.

Score:

Galder- 1 Lance- 2

Lance to attack

There are now three droids firing at Lance, just one at Galder.

EDIT by the user

Dude! It's my turn to attack!

Certainly is, Rex. Ignore it and take your turn from the point I said, Lance.

Oops, sorry. I'm speed readin.

(OOC: Ok)

Lance takes control of the point when Gald loses his balance.

He then aims some of the shots back one droid and blows it to bits.

Lance turns back to Gald and charges.

He then does a quick one-handed spin-twist and whips his blade to Gald's midsection.

Gald lets himself fall over and rolls out of the way as the blade hits the floor. He then gets up and slashes the remaining droid to bits. He then ignites his green lightsaber again, and hold both blades up.

Rex, it's just a LITTLE too muvch for you to be able to do it all perfectly. Lance bounces his shot and kills his droid and has started his next strike on you as you are killing your droid, and you are forced to perform a desperate defence and stumble back.

Score:

Lance- 3 Galder -1

Lance is still plagued by two droids and another one starts firing at Rex.

A stray shot hits an ammo crate behind you guys. There is a LARGE explosion...

Galder to attack

(Who said I was perfect?)

Gald uses the Force to throw some flaming objects from the crate at Lance and the battle droids. "Damned droids! Go away!" he shouts as he hurls the pieces of debres at the droids and Lance.

Lance ducks one piece of flaming crate, as he lifts his head back up he sees another piece coming towards him.

He dives forwards and to the left at the same time.

As Lance hits the ground he uses his momentum to roll back onto his feet with his lightsaber at the ready.

Lance, you avoid the crate pieces, jump and dive, get up, face Rex... crap! The droids! Rex can fend off his signle droid better than you can fend off your two and as you are forced to twist and defend yourself, Rex can get an advantage

(Round drawn; Galder wins as attacker)

Score: Galder- 2 Lance -3

Two droidekas are rolling into the area, one on each side. They will attack next round. They are accompanied by more droids that fire at once. Lance now faces four and Rex faces three.

Four is enough to give you a disadvantage now, Lance.

Lance to attack.

As Lance is circling around Gald he notices the droids coming in to fire.

He keeps his eyes moving from Gald to the droids as he pulls out a blaster.

He then runs backwards and starts shooting off round after round at the droids heads.

After about 10 shots are fired Lance holsters the blaster once more and grips the lightsaber with both hands and dodges as many blaster bolts as possible.

He then moves towards Gald and gives a strong, yet fast diagonal slash that ends with a quick full turn around. (meaning a full circle turn, facing Gald then ends up turning and facing Gald again.)

(Gosh, that's a big move )

Gald twirls his red lightsaber around like a baton to deflect blaster bolts at Lance, and then uses both sabers to defend himself from Lance's slash.

Gald's counter is a good one. By deflecting the shots fired at him towards you, Lance, while you are already deflecting the shots of several droids you are in danger of being overwhelmed; you find it hard to even begin your attack on Rex who parries easily.

Score: Lance- 3 Galder -3

You are both now equal on attacking droids at three each, not enough to cause an automatic disadvatage buut enough to worry about.

Not as much as those droidekas, though. They have unfolded and you both here the unmistakable low-pitch noise as they fire their heavy guns, one firing at each of you...

Galder to attack.

You guys could do with getting to a more confined part of the area!

(Are you telling us we can move somewhere or just attack droids)

Gald blocks the blow from Lance, and then holds up and swings his lightsabers (like Maximus in Gladiator during one of the fights) towards Lance's neck.

Lance forces his lightsaber in between the two in Gald's hands and since Gald is using both hands, Lance kicks him in the stomach to try and move him back some.

(Just that if either of you tey to move the fight into one of the more confined corridors rather than the open area near the lift you would get less droid hassle)

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It's good fighting from both of you. Gald's blades fly in; Lance blocks them in time and aims his kick which connects but as he does so Gald's right hand blade is loosed from Lance's guard and Lance is left vulnerable...

Round drawn; Galder wins as attacker

Score:

Galder- 4 Lance -3

Lance to attack.

A warning- if Galder wins this round he takes the fight. Lance, you have the option to attempt to flee if you so wish.

(I'm confused, did I loose my right hand saber or something?)

No, your right-hand sabre is past Lance's guard, as in about to hit him.

(No it just got loose from my block and your blade is in a good position to hurt me. But it's my turn so I'll make sure that it doesn't do me any damage.)

Lance backs up as fast as he can from Gald.

At the same time he looks for a place to take the fight.

Suddenly he sees an area big enough for a duel that has no droids in it at all.

"What do you say we leave these annoying droids and get to a place for 'peace & quiet'?"

Lance says that as he Force pushes Gald.

Gald flies backwards into one of the battle droids that had been firing at him. He then stumbles to his feet to deflect a few blaster shots at Lance and backs up. "My sentiments exactly," says Gald as he uses the Force to pull Lance towards him.

Is this banter or do you guys want me to grade this?

I say it should just be banter and we get to the other area.

Then Gald can attack.

Ok, in that case you guys are back to locking sabres as you enter one of the more narrow areas nearby. Note the droids follow but have far less anglwes to attack from.

Rex still has the advantage, Lance, and it is your move.

Lance charges towards Gald tapping into the Force a little bit to make him faster.

Lance then gives an overhead cut.

Gald uses the Force to push Lance upwards into the air to stop the attack from hitting him, holding his red lightsaber in defence over his head incase the blow does come down.

A push like that isn't greatly effective when the other one sees itr coming, Rex... a good push is better used when you have your opponent off-guard, like Maul did to Obi-Wan.

Lance brushes your push aside and slams his sabre into yours, pushing you back for a moment end evening the fight.

Score: Galder- 4 Lance- 4

Galder to attack.

Gald steps back a little and begins to talk to Lance. "Soon you will join your putrid master. Yes, I remember the look of sheer terror on your master's face after I cut of his arms and destroyed his lightsaber. Ah yes, and then I drove my lightsaber through him. I only had one lightsaber at the time."

He held up his green one and pointed to a glint of gold on his lightsaber. "This was part of your master's old lightsaber. The next two shards of metal..." said Gald, pointing to a silver and black one, "...were from two other Jedi I killed. They were just as pathetic as your stupid master." Gald ended his speech and hurled his green lightsaber at Lance.

Lance listened intently to the story while keeping an eye out for an attack.

As soon as the lightsaber was thrown, Lance uses the force to bring it to to his own lightsaber.

Automatically cutting it in half.

Gald stared in terror as the pieces of his father's lightsaber fell to the floor. He then looked Lance in the eye and used Force Grip to choke the life out of him.

You have to wait for Ush.

(Oh, sorry)

You manage it!

A swift and well-placed blow see the sabre explode in a shower of sparks.

From that Lance can re-join the attack with new vigour.

Score:

Galder- 4 Lance- 5

Lane to attack.

Rex, this time it is YOU who will lose if Lance wins this one. You ay, of course, flee if you wish.

(I will not flee this time...)

Lance leaps over Gald and lands with their backs facing each other.

Lance then stabs with his lightsaber underneath his left armpit, aiming to skewer Gald in the back.

Gald spins around and blocks with his ex-mentor's lightsaber. "Oh yes, you'll be meeting your master soon..." says Gald through gritted teeth.

That's a damn hard shot, Lance, and easily countered by Galder's spin-and-block, leaving him ready to work on your guard again. Your sabres hum and flash as they rebound off each other yet again.

Score:

Galder- 5 Lance- 5

Galder to attack.

By now the droids have made their way over and you are facing one each.

Gald slashes quick and repeatedly at Lance, cursing and yelling the whole time. "That was my father's lightsaber! I never knew my father! That was the only thing I knew my father owned!" he shouted over and over again. When the droids got in, he turned and started deflecting more shots at Lance.

Lance moves fast to parry all of the slashes.

He then easily deflects the blaster bolts harmlessly upwards.

"Do you think you're father was a Dark-Jedi like yourself?"

"No, he was a renegade Jedi Knight. Does Ren Welptet ring the bell you stupid Jedi?" Gald asked, anger raging inside of him. "That was my only precious possession except for a tattered piece of my father's Jedi robes! And you won't destroy that, because I won't let you have it, you stupid Jedi! Stupid!" Gald shouted, and spat at Lance's feet. He then used the Force to push the battle droids down, both of them.

The two droids are at rather differrnt angles to be doing that.

Well, I'll start to score again when Rex makes a proepr attack and Lance defends.

I don't know if that previous post was supposed to be his move.

But we'll have to wait 9 whole days to find out.

Tragic, isn't it? Sorry Lance. In the end, though., I think I will veto 'spitting' as a combat move. The rage is good, though.

I'm not talking about that post.

I'm talking about his post right before it.

Oh, well, if he wanted that to be a move he shouldn't have replied to you until I had scored it. Never mind.

So are we voiding that move?

He can make another when he returns.

(k, give me a recap of what the situation is, because I forgot when I forgot how to type over those 9 days. )

You are in a narrow area with one droid firing at you each, it's five all and it's your 'serve', Rex.

Gald dashes at Lance and does a spinning slash and aims for Lance's head.

Lance simply ducks the saber blow while lifting his lightsaber over his head to intercept Galds.

A simple exchange which all comes down to timing.

Gald's is better. Lance ducks the first blow but Galder dances around the attempted parry and Lance has to backfoot immedaitely. Lance scrambles backwards desperately as Rex presses forwards...

Score: Galder- 6 Lance- 5.

Lance to attack. It is match point again.

Lance stumbles backwards and then finds his center of balance.

While continuing backwards Lance notices a piece of crate that lay broken just behind Galder.

Lance uses to Force to fling it to the backs of Gald's knees.

Gald senses it coming and easily jumps over it and behind Lance. "You can do better than that Jedi!"

You DO dodge it easily, but this gives time for Lance to recover.

Round drawn; awarded to Lance as attacker.

Score: Galder- 6 Lance- 6

Galder to attack.

Gald runs at Lance from behind and does another spinning blow, this time twirling his lightsaber in his hand, and aims for the waist.

Lance turns in time to see Gald running towards him.

He then jumps up and backwards, away from Gald, doing a flip in the air at the same time.

Galder has caught the better timing again.

And again, Lance escapes the intial blow, but is caught short by Galder's follow up. By the time he lands after his flip he is caught desperately off-guard.

Score: Galder- 7 Lance- 6

Lance to attack, and again a victory is possible.

Lance, instead of backing away from Gald, rushes in and cuts down and to the right.

Aiming to take off Gald's left hand or at least a couple fingers.

Gald jumps out of the way, keeping the blade of his lightsaber over his left hand (I'm right handed).

Finally...

Galder takes the match 8-6

Lance, you rush in to attack Galder. He jumps back and as you make your blow the tip of your sabre catches against the top side of Galder's block. Things move in slow motion for a moment as Galder simply lifts your blade up and stabs forward, and then a strange sensation as it pierces though your right side.. You are alreadsy moving backwards by instinct and pull yourself free at once, but instead of returning to your guard you find yourself falling backwards as your sabre comes free, your whole body in shoch.

Rex, Lance lies fallen and wounded in front of you, which must being a smile to your lips, at least. You take a step towards him...

... and then things are interrupted because the entire column of crates next to you seems to be toppling towards you, Rex!

Players may return to their threads.

All I have to say is this: At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have our revenge...

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!

Well at least Rexxy has gotten his revenge for the first duel.

Muahahahaha!!!

We're even...for now...

Indeed you are; time to close this one off.