Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-26104528-20150518191206/@comment-25924729-20150802051703

Beacon students were generally better fighters than commoners, but even so, they could only handle so much before falling....

Estelle realized she'd made a serious tactical error by letting herself get surrounded. The Dawnies were tougher than they looked, and fought like maniacs, attacking without any care or regard for their own life. She was tiring quickly and straining to keep up.

A Dawnie lunged at her, and she countered her blade at his shoulder, slicing tendons and rendering the man harmless. Another one came from the side, and Estelle barely turned fast enough to block. A third suceeded in jamming a dagger into her back.

Gasping in pain, she slashed in a wide arc, forcing her attackers back. She made a desperate thrust at a sledgehammer wielding giant, and suceeded in disarming him but....."Crack!!"

A sliver of metal went flying, the Nova's steel blade actually snapped in half from the force of the blow, leaving Estelle holding only a spiked hilt and 4 inches of remaining sword. Encouraged by this, Sledgehammer made another move towards her.

Thankfully, Browning jumped into the fray, forcing him a step back. A releived Estelle moved closer to him, counting on teamwork to compensate for numbers. "Hell yeah."

Fortunately the Dust crystals were still in the hilt. Estelle suddenly found herself wishing she'd learned better knife combat skills.

(I've been wanting to update Estelle's weapon for a while now. Hope y'all don't mind me using this as a chance to break her old sword and get a replacement.)