Dominik Borra Vs. Adi

[Dominik Borra]

He smiled when he got one shot in, the other two hitting crates that he was behind of. As Adi got behind cover, Dominik got down on one knee, still recovering from what happened not a full minute prior. "Yeah.. I'm ok... Broken rib though, I think. And a four million credit suit ruined.." He added after looking over himself. It really was tarnished and would take some repair. He might have to go get more besker.. Great..

"This is quite the sparring match, if I've ever seen one." He got back up on his two feet. Every breath he took hurt his side, but standing up straight hurt him less then bending over. "How's your shoulder? Hit anything vital?"

 

[Adi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra_cUTmQykc

"Bah...Its just a flesh wound! Although, won't lie, not happy about the hole in this t-shirt...it's a collector's item, after all....It's vintage!"

In reality though, the blaster shot had done a bit more than just create a flesh wound. It hurt like hell, to be honest, and would most certainly take most function away from his left arm, should this bout continue. He would, however, not give up. This was a fight, and Adi would NOT yield, sparring match or not.

Besides, it was just a shoulder wound. A burned, cracked, and useless shoulder was the result, but Adi had fought one-armed PLENTY of times. He pulled the other man's sword to him, and looked at it for but half a moment. It was gorgeous, to be sure....finely constructed, and well-balanced. Using to to slowly bring himself up to where he could stand up, he closed his eyes for a moment, and gritted his teeth. Against his better judgment, he brought himself to just where he could see over the crates...and saw Dom on one knee. Very, very, very cautiously, he brought his line of sight over the crates a bit further. He didn't want to risk getting shot again.

"We could always just call it, and let it go at where we are. If we go any harder at each other, I don't think it will end well....not really fair to call it a sparring match then, eh? I know -I- don't want to end up on the wrong side of the dirt today...how bout you? Not saying I want to quit...don't get me wrong...but with your ribs, and my shoulder, one of us is bound to get pissed and try to kill the other.

Let's just let the rustbucket have it, and we can go have that beer."

There was still that caution...it would be stupid not to be on guard. He hoped that this guy would agree...he was someone that Adi would have to take along to the next festival, and introduce him to Aya....

....They'd get along smashingly. It'd be a shame to actually make him an enemy at this point....

 

[Dominik Borra]

A part of Dominik made him want to keep fighting, like he was giving up if he took this deal. But.. This man already pulled one move out of his sleeve. Who knew how many more tricks he had? And this was supposed to be sparring.. He turned and looked at the now-on-fire TIE on the ground. If they kept 'sparring', this whole ship might get destroyed. "Yeah.. let's get you that beer." He holstered his gun, and walked forward after seeing him holding his sword. "I'd like that back please." He held out a hand.

 

[Cassus Akovin]

This was an interesting fight to say the least, but I wouldn’t call it close. There were a few places where the advantage flowed from one to the other, and it was more of a death match then a sparring match, which isn’t bad but it was very odd reading the word “sparring” whenever Dominik decided to shoot lethals, or slice at Adi with his sword. Granted, Adi had a lightsaber, so it could be reasonable to believe that Dominik would think he’d use it. I do suppose though that Adi started the downward spiral from sparring to death match when he tossed an exploding rifle at Dominik explicitly stating he had no concern for his safety (though it was amusing to witness the exploding hot potato). Speaking of that, I find it unlikely that a rifle exploding would have a shockwave. At most, it would be shrapnel, and a small fireball from detonating rounds (fireball =/= grenade shockwave), though on the whole it doesn’t matter much, it was just silly to me reading about a rifle with the force of a grenade if it ever got damaged, being lugged around by a soldier/mercenary.

That isn’t the only silliness in this duel however, because honestly, I can’t imagine that an entire TIE fighter is going to be hoisted up by a single cable. I will say though, that despite that, I did enjoy the use of your environment to your advantage, Dominik. Lastly however… Dominik, your solution to speeding towards the hardy hull of a Starfighter was to use your tractor beam, which I thought was absolutely brilliant… until I read you were using it to /accelerate/ into the hardy hull of a Starfighter and knocking yourself unconscious, conceding unarguably the largest hit in the duel to your opponent. If I had been in your shoes, I’d have use the weight of the starfighter to alter my trajectory away from the ship, and/or slow the impact/descent to the ground/etc..

I have one more thing I must mention however: Good on you Adi for taking that last blaster bolt! You most certainly didn’t have to, but you acknowledge your characters surprise and took a hit. I honestly didn’t expect it, and thought it showed good sportsmanship, because I would not have batted an eye if you didn’t take damage there. So once again, good on ya.

Verdict: Adi is the Victor of this match.​

I really wanted to give this one to you [member="Dominik Borra"], I was rooting for my fellow teched out NFU, but crashing into that TIE fighter really did a number on you. Maybe next time!

Good fight as always [member="Adi"], I look forward to your next round


If you would like a full briefing on the duel as I read it, you can look at the document here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iGy2y4GqiK62XwWaMiudVkpA9sXmR0x7Dg1qXYXLvN4/edit?usp=sharing