Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-28948486-20160919145009/@comment-28948689-20160926125808

Rad leant forward and braced himself as the projectile pad beneath him shot out, sending him skyward. Rad straightened his body out, knowing the basics of wind dynamics meant that it would send him further ahead.

"If I fall further ahead than the rest, I'll have more time to find and seize the objective", he thought to himself.

As Rad started to descend when he reached the peak of his flight ark, he spread his limbs open, hoping to increase his surface area enough to slow his descent: as he did so, he unhooked the buttons at the front of his blazer, causing the two sides to open with his arms. Rad used this opportunity to direct himself slightly towards a tree coming up to his right. He couldn't see any other students, but he could see a dense shrub of leaves coming up.

Rad forcefully pulled his right arm down to his sword, fastened to his left hip. In a single motion, Rad drew the sword, using the momentum to keep spinning in a clockwise fashion. He sliced through the leaves and the branches, sending the tree carnage flying in all directions. Rad kicked down at a thick branch beneath him, aiming for another tree just ahead.

Step after step, Rad slowly descended as he jumped between the thick arms of the forest: he wasn't able to slow down - his momentum was too much - so any single missed step could have been catastrophic. After a dozen seconds, Rad came to the lowest possible branch, still a good twenty feet from the ground. Unable to slow himself, Rad instead embraced the jump, and tumbled down into a roll as he hit the ground hard. Rad's right foot pressed hard down into the soil beneath him, as he came to a complete stop in a kneeling position.

Standing up, Rad sheathed his sword and began to redo the buttons on his blazer, lamenting the fact that his hair was now a mess. Rad had never particularly liked nature, and it seemed like this trip wouldn't do much to change that...