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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sparky" data-source="post: 2953665" data-attributes="member: 13681">Oliver's frustration spikes as he makes a grab for the twisting orange bird and it writhes out from under him. His stomach lurches as the leap carries him past the point of impact that he expected and down to the rocks below... His eyes widen and his mind blanks as his body begins preparing itself for impact without the help of any higher thought. He hits and cries out as his body rolls and his battered leg and side take the impact. He jabs his feet down, trying to control the skid and uses his downward momentum to right himself and stand. Pain flares and dims his vision as he comes upright, blades in his hands. He pitches backwards over Vespers as the last of his momentum carries him to the wounded animal. Vespers barely groans as Oliver tumbles over him."Vespers..." Oliver murmurs. The bolt arcs down from the enraged arrowhawk. Oliver screams and suddenly sounds are all distant. He drops to his knees, swords clattering onto the rocks. Xiao's face looks down, Oliver can see the concern painted on the young man's face. He flops forward onto the downed horse's weakly heaving chest. His head is turned and he can see down Vesper's neck toward the horizon. The surf crashes in, carrying foam and seaweed. The wind rises. The sky darkens. The sounds of his comrades fighting and falling are distant. Vesper's scared, rolling eyes fill Oliver's vision. He feels the horse's fear. He murmurs to it as the darkness of the clouds spreads out and fills the landscape and all that isn't just in front of him. He murmurs to the horse, gnarled fingers trying to pat the beast's great neck. The old man's eyes are damp. The darkness grows. And in it a distant flare of white. He sighs. So, the end. The coming darkness fills him with a strange sense of relief. Blackness is complete. And now the whiteness grows... and grows. "Take... care of... Fendric," he murmurs and the whiteness is upon him. Xiao sees a flash, Oliver goes rigid, and then collapses again onto the horse. Still and unmoving.OOC: Oh... poor, poor Oliver. That was gonna be so cool. Let's see if he can tumble his way out of Certain Doom. How does non-lethal damage work? Oh... it could very well BE Certain Doom. And nothing to show for it! Curses!Tumble: 8 + 11 = 19It would be fitting for Oliver to die reverting back to his baser Arena instincts. He should never have revisited that part of his life... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Stabilization rolls start next round.</blockquote>

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