Burner vs Nikhil: When Ice Breaks Loose

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Burner vs Nikhil: When Ice Breaks Loose

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‘I think I will take the head.’
‘No, you will not,’ Traveller announced.
The High King straightened, blade rising. ‘A little late for your friend, don't you think? Pangs of delayed guilt? Then again,’ and the man struck a ready stance, ‘please do. I came for a fight. Perhaps you can provide me one.’
Traveller edged forward carefully. ‘I speak now because the terms of my agreement with my friend have been observed.’
‘And now you wish revenge. Yes, yes. It's all so drearily predictable.’
Traveller flinched as if stabbed. He raised a hand, pointing. ‘Speak not to me of vengeance, Kallor.’ Kyle was shaken, hearing in Traveller's words echoes of the night before. ‘The one who lies before you made me swear off any vengeance in his name and I respect his wishes. And so I say to you – go now! You have struck mortal blows. Ereko will die of them soon enough.’
Kallor drew himself up tall. His mouth curled his contempt and disbelief. ‘You dare dismiss me! Had you the least idea of who and what I am you would run now and not stop until beneath the waves!’
Traveller eased his blade in its scabbard. ‘There are those who would say the same of me …’
A smile broke through the man's glower and he stepped free of Ereko, sweeping his blade wide in an invitation. ‘Then by all means, come. I will take both your heads.’
‘Flee now, High King, or I will act.’
The man made a show of peering first to the right and then the left. ‘I appear not to have fled.’
Traveller drew his blade. ‘That is good enough for me.’
Connecting to duel...
ri chooses to go first...
ri chooses to mulligan.
Nikhil chooses not to mulligan.
ri accelerates tempo.
ri ends their turn.
Nikhil draws a Hundra Tonia.
Nikhil ends their turn.
ri draws a card.
ri puts Parli from their hand into the conflict.
ri ends their turn.
Nikhil draws a Dvoid.
Nikhil puts Avant Garde from their hand into the conflict.
Nikhil ends their turn.
ri draws a card.
ri puts Thermoyster from their hand into the conflict.
ri ends their turn.
Nikhil draws a Dvoid.
Nikhil puts Leon Paladi from their hand into the conflict.
Nikhil ends their turn.
ri draws a card.
ri puts Lobs Trebuchet from their hand into the conflict.
ri puts Undertaker Promenetus from their hand into the conflict.
ri ends their turn.
Nikhil draws a Skyhunter Elisia.
Nikhil: why no kill parli?
ri: how would i?
Nikhil: lobs
ri: what would i launch?
Nikhil: nothing
Nikhil: but i lose 2 tempo
ri: oh right.
ri: thanks.
ri's Parli has setback Nikhil's tempo by one.
Nikhil's tempo has been setback by 1.
ri's Parli was destroyed.
Nikhil: lol
ri: I need to remember I can do that.
Nikhil puts Hypothermia from their hand into the conflict.
Nikhil needs to make a choice before the duel can continue.
Choose a target for Hypothermia.
Nikhil has chosen ri's Undertaker Promenetus.
ri's Undertaker Promenetus has been affected by Hypothermia and has lost 1000 power.
ri's Undertaker Promenetus now has 2000 power.
ri's Undertaker Promenetus has been affected by Hypothermia and become exhausted.
Nikhil has attacked Undertaker Promenetus (slot 4) with their Avant Garde.
Nikhil's Hypothermia was destroyed.
ri's Undertaker Promenetus was destroyed.
Nikhil ends their turn.
ri draws a card.
ri puts Lobs Trebuchet from their hand into the conflict.
ri puts From the Depths from their hand into the conflict.
ri returns their Undertaker Promenetus from their graveyard to their hand.
ri returns their Parli from their graveyard to their hand.
ri consumes tempo.
ri's From the Depths was destroyed.
ri has attacked Avant Garde (slot 1) with their Thermoyster.
ri readies their Thermoyster.
ri's Lobs Trebuchet was destroyed.
Nikhil's Avant Garde was destroyed.
ri ends their turn.
Nikhil draws a Fair Wind.
Nikhil puts Skyhunter Elisia from their hand into the conflict.
Nikhil ends their turn.
ri draws a card.
ri puts Parli from their hand into the conflict.
ri puts Undertaker Promenetus from their hand into the conflict.
Nikhil: die!
ri needs to make a choice before the duel can continue.
ri has chosen Parli.
ri's Parli has setback Nikhil's tempo by one.
Nikhil's tempo has been setback by 1.
ri's Parli was destroyed.
ri has chosen Nikhil's Skyhunter Elisia.
Nikhil's Skyhunter Elisia was destroyed.
ri consumes tempo.
ri ends their turn.
The two closed, feet shuffling slowly and carefully, blades extended. Kyle was worried, for the High King had just demonstrated amazing speed and his bastard sword was a much heavier blade than Traveller's. Not to mention that the man was more heavily armoured.
The blades touched, scraping. Both held two-handed grips. They clashed once, iron snarling. They clashed again, parrying, then Traveller was somehow before Kallor, his fists at the man's chest, blade thrust completely through to the hilt. Kyle gaped and Kallor stared as well, just as astonished. One of his mailed hands went to Traveller's grip while the other swung his weapon. Traveller snapped up a hand to clasp the man's forearm. They held like that for a time, circling and straining, Kallor's blade held high while Traveller's slim dark blade thrust straight from Kallor's back. Kyle was chilled to see no blood upon that blade.
Nikhil draws a Shinanigan.
Nikhil ends their turn.
ri draws a card.
ri puts Jarland the Time Turner from their hand into the conflict.
ri puts Shackel from their hand into the conflict.
Nikhil: hell wont go easy on you >:(
Nikhil's tempo has been setback by 1.
ri's Shackel was destroyed.
ri ends their turn.
ri: Mm.
Nikhil draws a Parli.
Nikhil ends their turn.
ri draws a card.
ri puts Aegia Expi from their hand into the conflict.
ri needs to make a choice before the duel can continue.
ri has chosen Nikhil's Leon Paladi.
Nikhil's Leon Paladi has been affected by Aegia Expi and has lost 2000 power.
Nikhil's Leon Paladi now has 500 power.
Nikhil's Leon Paladi has been affected by Aegia Expi and become exhausted.
Nikhil's tempo has been setback by 1.
ri's Thermoyster was destroyed.
Nikhil's Leon Paladi was destroyed.
ri exhausts their Jarland the Time Turner because of the effect.
ri ends their turn.
Nikhil draws a Shinanigan.
Nikhil ends their turn.
ri draws a card.
ri puts Energy Charge from their hand into the conflict.
ri draws a card.
ri draws a card.
ri's Energy Charge was destroyed.
ri puts Parli from their hand into the conflict.
ri's Parli has setback Nikhil's tempo by one.
Nikhil's tempo has been setback by 1.
ri's Parli was destroyed.
ri consumes tempo.
ri ends their turn.
Nikhil draws a Prism Wall.
Nikhil ends their turn.
ri draws a card.
ri puts Thermoyster from their hand into the conflict.
ri puts Undertaker Promenetus from their hand into the conflict.
ri ends their turn.
Nikhil draws a Magical Siphon Tyriaz.
Nikhil ends their turn.
ri draws a card.
Nikhil's tempo has been setback by 1.
ri's Thermoyster was destroyed.
ri puts Shackel from their hand into the conflict.
Nikhil: you think this is funny?
ri ends their turn.
ri: no.
Nikhil draws a Magical Siphon Tyriaz.
Nikhil ends their turn.
ri draws a card.
ri puts Thelnar, the Troubled from their hand into the conflict.
Nikhil: then end it already
Nikhil's tempo has been setback by 1.
ri's Shackel was destroyed.
ri: Was waiting for double breakers.
ri ends their turn.
Nikhil draws a Dvoid.
Nikhil ends their turn.
ri draws a card.
ri puts Undertaker Promenetus from their hand into the conflict.
ri's Thelnar, the Troubled can attack and has [Damage 2] this turn.
ri has attacked Nikhil with their Thelnar, the Troubled.
ri's Thelnar, the Troubled does 2 damage to Nikhil's Grid (+2 tempo).
ri: r?
Nikhil: xxxxxxxxxx
ri has attacked Nikhil with their Undertaker Promenetus.
ri's Undertaker Promenetus does 1 damage to Nikhil's Grid (+1 tempo).
ri has attacked Nikhil with their Aegia Expi.
ri's Aegia Expi does 1 damage to Nikhil's Grid (+1 tempo).
ri has attacked Nikhil with their Undertaker Promenetus.
ri's Undertaker Promenetus does 1 damage to Nikhil's Grid (+1 tempo).
ri has attacked Nikhil with their Jarland the Time Turner.
ri wins.
You may challenge your opponent to a rematch by using /rematch
Fury changed to consternation to disbelief on the High King's lined face as his eyes widened and his lips peeled back from grey teeth. ‘Who … are … you?’ he ground out. Edging his head closer, Traveller spoke, his words lost beneath Kallor's gasped breaths. The High King blanched, flinching away. ‘No! Chained One, aid me!’
A wind gathered around the two. The High King glanced behind himself where darkness blossomed. He gave Traveller a mocking smile. 'As you can see, apostate, though you have the better of me this time, I am just as difficult to overcome as you. And my Patron is very strong here. In this place, especially...' He threw himself backwards, sliding off Traveller's blade into the darkness of a gap that cracked open that instant. Traveller appeared ready to throw himself in, but Stalker, leaping forward, pushed him aside.
Steven Erikson wrote:All too often in fantasy fiction we’re stuck with the rulers, the leaders, and we see their machinations in a generalised sense of victory and loss, even good and evil. Until Glen Cook, we rarely saw the brutal consequences of all these toffs vying for dominance. When approaching our own novels, we wanted to emulate Cook’s ground-up approach, covering the entire social strata from the lowly street urchin to the gods and everyone in between.
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