Kellehendros
Eternal Wanderer
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Firstly, there appears to be a miscommunication regarding Cadmooz's posture. Your line of reasoning here indicates that Cadmooz is upright. I do not see anything within your last post that supports this. So far as I can see, the following section of your post deals with Cadmooz's positioning during the fall and up through the attempted grab. quote:
He tripped instead, landing on his left side. He kicked out with his right boot at the fighter, having dropped his blade as he fell. Pushing himself up with his left hand, he reached for the attacker. Cadmooz fell, dropping his blade as he went down. He then kicked at Aurinko with his right leg, implying that the Kaarme is within melee range. Immediately after kicking, Cadmooz pushes himself up with his left hand while reaching for Aurinko with his right. At no point in any of that does it indicate that Cadmooz got his legs under himself and resumed an erect posture. Frankly, I don't see how he would have had time to accomplish such a maneuver. It would require pulling his leg back, shifting his weight up on one arm, gathering his legs beneath himself, and then standing. None of which would be conducive to an accurate grab attempt at the same time. My conclusion after reading your post was that Cadmooz was still on the ground, pushing himself up while reaching. At best, doing this while on one knee. Secondly, absorption of force is not the same thing as negation of that force. Cadmooz is neither immovable, nor braced in such a fashion as to easily shed a blow. If Aurinko hits Cadmooz's arm, yes, some of the concussive force of the blow will be absorbed by the armor, but his arm is still going to be deflected off course, the same way a tennis racket redirects a tennis ball (though admittedly not with as much force). That push would drive Cadmooz's arm down and back towards his own body. If the two were standing facing one another, this would have the effect of driving his hand further away from Aurinko's body and making catching his belt much harder. If Cadmooz was reaching up from the ground, as I understood him to be from my reading of the post outlined above, that would mean his falling hand could still snag Aurinkno's advanced left leg. At this point, I think we need to agree on whether Cadmooz is standing, prone, or somewhere between. Then we can sort out what comes next.
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