Technique list name: Navy Standard Weapon Skills
Overview: The basic form of this style is to your beat your enemy on the head with a sword. Should this fail, you have clearly not beaten your enemy hard enough.
To this end, the Navy Standard Weapon Skills teach various moves with the end goal of successfully beating your enemy with a sword. It is a simple style and easily modified, designed to be simple enough to be adopted in a few months by marine recruits. The marines know that the technique doesn't carry far, and Halmsmarr has modified it to his own tastes, though he still prefers the basic overhead swing utilized by the marines.
The style in general suits him, and he prefers force in his swordsmanship, though he has integrated some skill into it. His style still focuses on firm, two handed cutlass strikes with an equally simple defense.
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History: Halmsmarr learned Navy Standard Weapon Skills at boot camp, and has been refining it to his own use since then.
Techniques:
-Level zero-
Name: Sword to the Head
Type: Sword Style
Description: Halmsmarr brings his sword above him in a two handed grip, and then brings it down at the opponent's head. In truth, this does not need a sword, and any instrument which can be swung at the opponent will suffice. The name is not usually said aloud, because it would sound stupid. Most unnamed techniques have more sophistication than this.
Effect: Should this attack succeed, the enemy will be left with a nasty head-wound, a possible skull fracture, or death. Heads are awfully sensitive things.
Level learned: 0
Stat Requirements: None. However, strength factors highly into the effectiveness to the attack.
Name: Overpowering Front
Type: Sword Style
Description: Firstly, Halmsmarr was never good with names. Secondly, if brute force does not work, you are not using enough. This technique is performed by placing the sword directly in front of oneself in a firm grip, leaning down on the opponent to clash weapons. This done, the blade is twisted to the side as the leaning motion is directed to whichever direction the sword is being twisted towards.
Effect: Should this attack succeed, the enemy will either be disarmed, or the weapon used by the enemy will be too far to the side to defend, freeing Halmsmarr to follow up with another attack, such as the Sword to the Head.
Level learned: 0
Stat Requirements: 15% Strength
-Level one-
Name: Arched Atrocity
Type: Sword Style
Description: Halmsmarr has experimented with alliteration. To perform this move, Halmsmarr positions himself slightly to the right from his opponent before attempting to strike a forceful hook to the opponent's gut, hopefully causing him to double over, at which point he performs a one-handed sword slash to the back or the neck.
Effect: Loss of breath from the punch, a back wound from the sword attack, and possibly falling down from the combination of attacks, especially the sword slash directed rather far from a doubled over person's center of mass.
Level learned: 1
Stat Requirements: 20% strength, Skill 10%
Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:56 am
