Ninja vs. Pirates "Dodgeball"

[godbent]

Who: Anyone (even just random people wandering through if you want)
What: Ninja vs Pirate Dodgeball
When: Until people get bored on the 15th
Where: Anywhere
Summary: Slightly hyped here, hyped more here, and announced Kyon the game Marco requested is afoot.
Rating: Uwwoooh



Red box is Pirate Base, green box is Ninja Base, blue X's are Get Balloon Stations (filled up with extended hoses/ lots of food dye there). No pre-provided subthreads other than the Team Identification one up top, but feel free ro make your own. Make up any scenario you please all over town and have fun
Ninja Count: 10
Pirate Count: 11

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[ilyana]

Okay... please stop for a moment. What is bending?

[savedtheworld]

Right! Bending. In my world, there are people who can control the four elements a lot. And it's called bending.

[ilyana]

[This just makes her have more questions.]

How do they control it? Can everyone in your world do this? What stops people from using this skill? When you asked if I bend lightning, is that what you meant? What are the four elements that you are referring to? Lightning, wind, fire, and... water?

[savedtheworld]

[He pauses and blinks for a moment. It's not that often when he has to deal with that many questions coming from someone other than Ikki. But luckily, from her example he's able to snipe down each question once she's done.]

Some people are just connected with the elements that way, and we control it by concentration and making special movements. Not everyone can do it; there are lots of people in our world who can't bend anything at all. I did mean that, but the four elements are actually air, water, fire and earth. Lightning's really just a part of fire.

[ilyana]

[As a mage most of this just didn't make sense to Ilyana who spent years of practice, memorization, and study to learn the arcane words to channel the powers of the universe.]

But that doesn't make any sense at all! Lightning and fire are completely different elements! Fire is extinguished by water, but water conducts electricity! Lightning and fire... they're just completely different forms of energy!

And is the bending ability something that gets passed down in the blood line? If so, then what happens if a Earth bender and a water bender get married? Would their children be mud benders? Or half of them water, and half of them Earth? Would the percentage of benders even be that high?

[She just felt frustrated trying to comprehend how their world's magic could be so... different.]

[savedtheworld]

Really? Lightning's supposed to be the cold-hearted fire. And sometimes water can extinguish fire, but other times fire can evaporate water. It doesn't just go one way, but having the sun or moon around could help.

It doesn't always get passed down the blood line. Benders can give birth to non-benders, and non-benders can give birth to benders. I know of... of an airbender and a waterbender who'll give birth to a waterbender, a non-bender and an airbender. Everyone can only be just one bender, too, so no one can be half and half.

[ilyana]

Cold-hearted fire?! You think lightning is cold-hearted fire?!

[Look out Aang! You're totally getting a water balloon chucked at your head with a lot more accuracy than she had before!]

Say that again! I dare you!

[savedtheworld]

[And he accepts it.]

Hey, that's just what it's called! Because firebending usually involves emotion, but lightningbending is all about calmness... I think. I mostly know how to deflect it.

[ilyana]

[She still looks a little grouchy, but she'll accept that his world's magic is clearly a lot different.]

Hmm... I see. I don't know much about lightning bending, but I think you'd probably have a hard time deflecting the amount of lightning I can produce. Still... I hope you never have to see me actually use it.

So, how about you then? Have you ever bent lightning before?

[savedtheworld]

No, and I never want to. [He says fairly sternly.] It's - it's too deadly. I've only deflected it, once.

[ilyana]

[Her expression softens considerably when she sees how troubled he is by the idea of it.]

... What's your name?

[savedtheworld]

Uh - I'm Aang. [He holds out his hand uncertainly.]

[ilyana]

[Ilyana offers out her own hand to gently shake his.]

Aang, I'm Ilyana. If at all possible... I would like to teach you more about my way of using lightning sometime. Okay?

[savedtheworld]

It's nice to meet you, Ilyana. [All things considered, she was a fun opponent. And did seem nice. But he hesitated before answering.] Sure, it be nice to see. Thank you.

[ilyana]

I want to show you sometime... that the elements can pretty much be what you make of them when you wield the power to control them. But for now...

[Splat! Sneak attack to the shoulder!]

I think we're dealing with some water, right?

[savedtheworld]

We are! [He winces briefly from the sudden attack on his shoulder... but then he peels it off with waterbending.] Fighting water with water! [And with some more movements, he has the water chase Ilyana.]

[ilyana]

Ah! No... no fair!

[She's running from the water, but she's not exactly all that fast. So she tries to blow the water back with her wind magic.]

[savedtheworld]

[It will probably work; Aang gives up anyway in favor laughing.]

Sorry! Maybe we should just do now powers at all.

[ilyana]

[Ilyana tries to just throw her water balloon at him when he suggests this idea. Unfortunately, it falls short of her target by several feet, and doesn't even break on impact with the ground, but just sort of rolls lamely.]

Hmm... I... I wonder if I'm throwing it wrong.

[savedtheworld]

[And they're back where they started...]

You gotta throw it harder. With some force!

[ilyana]

Umm... okay, I guess I can do that.

[This time when she throws it... it goes zooming past Aang for several dozen yards before splattering against the wall of a nearby house.]

Huuuf... oooof... H-how was that?

[She looks quite winded by that throw.]

[savedtheworld]

G-good... Good. Maybe you could even use... a little less force than that!

[ilyana]

S-sorry... I have a hard time gauging my strength sometimes...

[savedtheworld]

Th-That's okay! Just... something to work on.