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The Preparatory Round
The Solars walked out into the sandy arena, looking around. Thousands of spectators, both living and dead, had arrived to witness the fight of the century, and Eater of Kindred waved gleefully to the crowd.
Overly Combative Simian grinned, looking to his compatriots. "I wonder how much experience a Deathlord is worth, anyway? Maybe I can learn that new combo."
"Idiot." Invincible Sword Princess shook her head, drawing her daiklave and taking a few practice swings. "This is Exalted, our experience system is story-based. Keep your game straight."
"Yeah, but think of all the neat toys the Lion must have. Oh, and saving the world from the tyranny of evil, etc, etc." Starry-Eyed Boy was also feeling chipper, and even Invincible Sword Princess smiled at the thought of the material rewards the Circle would reap.
Across the field, a dark door opened, and a figure clad from head to toe in black armour strode out onto the field. The cheers of the assembly died in a single breath, as everyone watch the First and Forsaken Lion stalk forwards to his beginning placement. For the first time, the heroes felt a single frisson of fear, but they quickly quelched it. Simian yelled over to the Deathlord, as he settled back into the Mantis Form. Around him, his martial artist companions performed similar katas, while Eater of Kindred and Invincible Sword Princess simply cracked their necks and limbered up. "Are you ready to fight, Lion?"
The First and Forsaken Lion's reply thundered across the field. "There are five of you. I hope that it takes more than five seconds to kill you." Simian gulped despite himself, but then his resolve hardened, and he pushed Essence to his limbs. Sword Princess began to appear more muscular, Eater burned with the light of the Sun, Boy cracked his neck in a disturbingly fluid manner, and Ninja faded from sight, moving to take up his own position.
The Lion chuckled softly as he watched his opponents. Those Solar pups had no idea of the fight they had brought down. His body twisted into unnatural forms, flowing in a fluid and exceptionally disturbing manner "Let us begin this, the sooner to end it."
Righto. The Solars know that they're in for one hell of a fight, so they prepare accordingly.
Overly Combative Simian is going to be relying on his brawling and clinching capabilities, while trying not to die. As such, he triggers Mantis Form and Four Halo Golden Monkey Realignment, hopefully pushing his power up enough to compete with the Lion.
Willpower: 6/7, Personal Essence: 8/8 (14 committed), Peripheral Essence 34/34 (17 committed)
Invincible Sword Princess is looking to balance defense with offense here; if she's going to have to fall back on perfect defenses, she wants to make the Lion work to hit her. As such, she triggers Fivefold Bulwark Stance and Increasing Strength Excercise.
Willpower: 6/7, Personal Essence: 2/2 (20 committed), Peripheral Essence 29/29 (22 committed)
Starry-Eyed Boy has made some advance preparations. His spell-storing cord holds powerful attack spells (three Gaia's Rebuke), which he has long since recovered the Essence and Willpower from. Now, he triggers Four Magical Materials form and Blade of the Battle Maiden. This eats a LOT of Essence and Willpower, but he's super-buffed.
Willpower: 7/9, Personal Essence: 0/0 (24 committed), Peripheral Essence: 35/35 (20 committed)
Ninja Man is working on the assumption that if you can't hit him, you can't hurt him. He triggers Ebon Shadow Form and Shrouding the Body and Mind, ensuring that even if the Lion can FIND him, he'll be at +7 difficulty to hit. Added to the shield bracers and the belt of shadow-walking, it seems pretty useful.
Willpower: 8/8, Personal Essence: 13/13 (10 committed), Peripheral Essence: 36/36 (18 committed)
Eater of Kindred has also made preparations; he's committed 10 essence to Principle of Motion in order to unleash true devastation right from turn one. To help out, he's also brought up his Flow Like Blood, and boosted it with Terrifying Apparition of Glory.
Willpower: 6/8, Personal Essence: 8/8 (15 committed), Peripheral Essence: 38 (16 committed)
On the other side, the Lion only has two turns of his own, but he's taking full advantage of them. First, he triggers the Charcoal March of Spiders form. This devastating Charm allows him to take three Fully Independant Actions per turn, including multiple Charm or Combo use. At least he can't use it with Extra Action charms... On Turn 2, using all three actions, he activates three Charms: Eye of the Tempest, Heart-Stopping Mien, and his grand finale, Enhanced Dexterity Discipline. The Solars will need to pass Valor rolls to attack, and they attack at -10 dice. Lion now has Dexterity 18. It commits a ton of Essence, but he's going to be hard to hurt without perfect attacks, with a persistant defense of 32 and a 10-die penalty to hit him.
In addition, he has already used Protection of Celestial Bliss (or rather, its Abyssal equivalent) to pull up ten perfect defenses months ago. Never got around to using them, so they've just been sitting there. They'll get good use today.
Willpower: 7/10, Personal 5/5 (77 committed), Peripheral 187/187 (31 committed)
