Dark, studants and freinds have called me a master swordsman, natural etc. it's nice of them to say so, but thats simply their oppinion, i judge how good i am by my achivements and skill. i would and do fight a freind/family and enemy exactly the same, to do otherwise is to cheat someone. i only slow myself for studants who have only just held a sword for the first time in their lives. but for people who would do underhand things in combat.....i wouldnt give you the chance, i see you move to do so, i see dirt moving between your fingers, and i would take your head in a heart beat. if people NEED to resort to such things because they lack teh skill to cleanly and competantly defeat their opponants, thats up to them, but it robs them of any mercy they may have got from me.
Aeris, dont worry im not gonna stab ya like a maniak. Honer isnt the same as chivalry, and there are many differnt interpretations of both. Chivalry would have me not kill an unarmed foe, but in the sense of honer, i would be stripping my opponant of his honer by walking away and NOT defeating him. fighting with honer means you respect your opponants skills as a warrior, it means that you wont cheat or resort to anything beneath you to win, otherwise if you did your nothing better than a common dirtbag. anyone can throw dirt in someones eyes and stab them, but ti takes skill to win fairly and cleanly.
smarts have nothing to do with fighting, your mind and thoughts get in the way, it should be instinctual like the wind. IF YOU NEED TO RESORT to throwing dirt in someones face, your skills are lacking, otherwise you wouldnt need to. ANYONE can cheat, anyone can cut a throat from behind or poisen, by becoming a warrior who can stand the storm, your learning it be more than that.
stealth games, your talking about assasination, that isnt what we were talking about. if your one man VS a town of deadly mobsters lol, you in a differnt situation to warriors battling.
thats swordsman in Jones obviously wasnt any good or he wouldnt have stood around like a wanker waving his swords around. you carnt always expect another person to be as good or fair as you, but YOU can still kill them with skill and ability. anyone can shoot a gun, it's because people want results that nuclear weapons can kill everything on the planet and germ warfare strips anyone of any chance of honer. i walk out into a battle, and i walk away alive again without resorting to anything naughty or cheating.
you would rather sneak up on them because you lack the self confidence and knowledge that they will die and you will live, unless you know your abilityes you wont get anywhere
bottom line.....i know im worth more, than to have to cheat to win, i know that most of my enemies and opponants deserve a degree of respect if they will face me as a warrior. if they commit atrocities and then hide and cower, then yes i would simply slit their throats, but thats not combat, thats assasination, it has nothing to do with fighting, skill or honer
