STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- City in the Clouds

Same split as usual.

Rianna will pull herself back up onto the cable and back up a bit, regaining her balance.

"Good for you," Rianna snaps in response. "I've never done anything to you."

Better!

Agility Strong
Agility Weak
Agility Normal
Dexterity Normal
Dexterity Normal
Strength Weak

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"Rand won't value me as a student until you're dead!" Vash snarls. "I could learn so much from him and the only thing that is stopping me is YOU!"

Vash starts hacking through the cable...

"That's hardly my fault!" Rianna replies. She drops down and slips her lightsaber between his and the cable, trying to twist hers around his to force him to let go of it. Normal Dexterity.

This is a brief segue into the next set of rounds, so you can hold that Normal Dexterity.

Your blade slips neatly between his and the cable, blocking any further direct hacking attempts from him. He starts trying to force your blade down into the cable with his.

"As I said," Vash hisses. "Your resistance to Rand has led him to waste his time with you instead of training me! It's YOUR fault for not just joining! You're not even a Jedi any more anyway!"

It will be a Strength roll to stop Vash from pushing both blades into the cable.

"Why would I want to join Rand? I'm not a Jedi, but I haven't gone to the Dark Side!" Rianna snaps, kneeling down for balance so she can use both hands with her lightsaber.

(yes, I'll make that roll)

You try with all your might to stop Vash. but in the end, he is stronger than you are. He slowly pushes your blade into the cable with his own, and the cable starts to warp and the thousands of metal strands that compose it begin to unfurl and snap.

"Not yet!" Vash snaps, before delivering one final hack into the cable.

It separates, and the cable starts to fall out from under you.

"Are you trying to kill yourself as well?!" Rianna asks incredulously, as she clings to the cable so she doesn't fall.

The cable swings downward with both combatants clutching on for dear life. It reaches the bottom of its pendulum swing and begins to arc back up again. It does this a few times in either direction before settling at a vertical angle. The wind whips at it playfully.

Once he is certain he can hold on, Vash starts climbing toward you.

Rianna is going to scramble up the cable, putting distance between her and Vash, and also wanting to get back to solid ground already.

It is Strength to climb the swaying cable at any sort of decent speed. As we've seen, Strength is not Rianna's strong point (hah) and Vash begins to catch up to her.

Pretty soon, he finds himself within striking distance as Rianna turns to handle her pursuer.

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Rianna: 3

Vash: 4

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Rianna to attack.

Rianna clings to the cable with one hand while lashing out at Vash with her lightsaber, too afraid of falling to make any big or flashy moves. Instead she just aims quick, precise strikes at his head. Normal Dexterity.

Vash was going to try flanking you (literally), aiming a blow at the back of your legs as it is what is in reach and you'd have a hell of a time trying to climb the cable without the use of them. But you keep interrupting his attempts with those quick strikes, forcing him to defend himself and keep his head (again, literally).

It's a tie, but it goes with attacker.

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Rianna: 4

Vash: 4

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Vash tries to hack mercilessly past your strikes and into your side, bringing his lightsaber at you multiple times to dislodge you from your perch.

Rianna will try and deflect those attacks, moving her lightsaber quickly in the way of his and when she can get a firm grip, catching it and twirling hers to force him to drop his. Strong Agility.

No contest, there. He has trouble putting real strength into his attack as he is more concerned about not falling into the never-ending sky. You deflect his blows and, while you don't manage to disarm him, you do manage to twist his lightsaber about and into his portion of the cable by accident. It begins to unravel slowly as the strands melt and strain.

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Rianna: 5

Vash: 4

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Vash is going to try leaping past you in order to get a new handhold, waiting until the sway of the wind favors him, then sweeping his blade down to take your head.

Rianna waits until he's even with her as he tries to leap to try and slash at him with her lightsaber to try and throw his own landing and attack off, before bringing her saber up to force his blow to go wide. Normal Dexterity.

Vash passes you before you can slash through him. But in the time it takes for him to become stable hanging from the cable again, you are ready for his attack. His blade flashes powerfully against yours when you block it, and Vash tries to push down to put extra weight on you, trying to make you let go of the cable...

With a simple twist and upward swish of your blade, you cause him to misdirect his weight, force his blade awkwardly to one side, and cut off his hand.

Vash, now totally off-balance and distracted by the loss of his hand, falls from the cable and back past you, and just barely manages to catch a groove in the end of the cable. His hand and lightsaber keep going and disappear into the clouds below.

"And once again, you've failed at besting me. I'll be merciful, though; I'm not going to kill you," Rianna says, regaining her hold on the cable, before she begins to climb up.

You start to climb.

"Wait!" Vash shouts. "Help me up!"

"I can't climb up and take care of you at the same time - and why would I want to? You've tried to kill me several times!" Rianna shouts back.

Vash's grip on the cable is slipping. He is dangling by his hand.

"I'll fall!" Vash says. "Just help me, please!"