[Below post hidden because Rachel's most recent post has negated it. It is kept here for posterity.]

Archer's jaw slacked somewhat at him playing the age card. Really? Regardless, though, the cat's amazing intelligence went further still, deciding that flipping the bird was more important than getting the hell out of the way of a beam of chaos energy.

But damn if he wasn't able to shake it off. It was almost as if he wasn't hit at all. He had then conjured up a baseball bat, and a ..baseball of pure energy, apparently. In response to Wyatt's line drive, Archer thought, Hey, if a baseball bat can hit that, why not a bow? and launched himself in it's path. Both hands gripping his bow's length, and swung it as if it, too, were a baseball bat to send it right back at their assailant.

I'd prefer that this not turn into a back-and-forth pissing-contest fight. It hasn't really yet, but I sense the yellow tide coming, hence this message. As much as RP generally already isn't very literary, the narrative here in the Wyatt vs. Tracer/Archer fight is descending into the realm of eye-rolling.

Rachel/Ben: A lot of us know that Tracer's single-use-per-fight uber-cannon was used to obliterate concrete structures and so on in previous threads, but the new guy honestly can't know that unless it's described as such in her profile or in the post, so try not to hold his underreaction to it against him too much. If the magnitude of the shot had been specified, he would have (hopefully) done more as a player to try to avoid it or acknowledge its full effects.

Scott: If you're going to take a hit, take a hit, man. If you don't want to take a hit, avoid the hit. Because of pacing reasons, you can't just have your character get hit by a big blast, get slammed into a wall, fall down, and roll over in pain, only to conveniently find his own weapon, get up, quip a one-liner, charge, and launch his own special attack all in one post. What do you think Tracer and Archer would have been doing while he was rolling around on the floor, groaning, getting up, equipping himself, making his remark, charging, and attacking? Staring and sneering and doing nothing with bullseyes painted on their foreheads? Don't write this RP like it's an episode of DBZ.

As such, if Rachel wants, she does now have the option to cancel your entire counter attack (and, by extension, Ben's post) simply by saying that Tracer kept attacking and didn't politely wait for Wyatt. That is up to her, though. In the meantime, please rein in your writing and remember to leave reasonable space for other characters to do the things they should be able to do. If you don't want to leave that space, then avoid creating those openings with your character's actions.

I don't want to have to keep admin-posting in this thread. The next time I do, it'll be with narrative to correct the action that is taking place. I will say honestly that this scene is tilted in Tracer's favor, and there's not a lot that can be done about it. She's not a character who shows up often, but she's been around a while now, she's well-equipped, and she's one of the most dangerous in the cast, so, Scott, your best bet if you want Wyatt to survive his first thread is to pick your fights carefully, take a hint, and try to get the heck away rather than engage in stilted counterattacks against a character who will probably snap his neck in a few seconds.




If this fight gets any more cumbersome, plot shields will be removed.