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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlassEye" data-source="post: 5755239" data-attributes="member: 40413">Expecting the young bravo to bolt Fury lets him go and touches tentative fingers to one of his wounds.  Wincing and withdrawing bloody fingertips he hears the old man's plea to catch the youth.  Recognizing the sound of desperation he steels himself and takes off running."Gods!" he mutters.  "Does the right thing always have to be so painful?"Taking off after the bravo Fury slips past Milo and into the alley.  An abrupt and unexpected winding of the alley causes Fury to carom off one wall with a solid thud, a yell of irritation from the occupant on the other side, a slight tearing of one of Fury's wounds and a curse from Fury himself.  He twists around but manages to keep his footing and keep going, barely keeping the youth in sight but closing a few feet on him.As he runs Fury realizes that his wounds, and the bravo's relatively unwounded state, will likely prevent Fury from catching him and that he'll have to do something drastic, and soon, in order to catch the bravo.  A moment later he skips across a narrow plank, not slowing, letting his momentum carry him across and not thinking about how one misplaced foot would dump him in the canal and let the young bravo escape.  Since the bravo slowed a bit to cross Fury manages to close a few more feet.Fury runs on.  And when he sees the bravo dart aside to reach a narrow and rickety wooden bridge to cross a looming canal nearly 40 feet across Fury doesn't slow nor turn aside.  If he can make it it would cut nearly two-thirds of the distance between them.  The familiar jangle rises up and he puts on an extra burst of speed.  He reaches the edge and leaps.  Legs and arms windmill in the air and he lands hard; one foot slips out from under him and into the canal behind him but he throws himself forward into a desperate roll and manages to somehow not bathe in the murky water of Planks.  Rolling to his feet he realizes his rapier is still in hand."Gods, I could have skewered myself!"He laughs, feeling bruised and battered but alive; so alive.  The bravo shocked and gaping after Fury's leap pauses only a moment before he is off again.  This time Fury is ready and bolts after him...<a href="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/11/thiefbustsmallnataliale.jpg/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/8458/thiefbustsmallnataliale.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>[sblock=Actions/OOC]Thanks!  That was fun.  Got a little dicey there for a bit and I was wondering how close of a shave it was going to get but it's turned out so far.  Now for a bit of a run.I'm not exactly sure how much you're expecting and how much leeway that I have in the particulars of the chase...  but then, everything is editable if I do something out of bounds.Acrobatics checks: <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/3308938/" target="_blank">1d20+17=31, 1d20+17=34, 1d20+17=35</a>; Totals: 31, 34, & 35.Move: --Standard: --[/sblock][sblock=MiniStats]<a href="http://livingpf.wikia.com/wiki/Orlando_Furioso_%28GlassEye%29" target="_blank">[size=+1]Fury[/size]</a> Human Rogue 3 / Bard 2Initiative: +7 Perception: +8AC: 20 (15 touch; 15 flat-footed)HP: 40  Current: 8CMB: +5 CMD: 20 Fort: +2 Ref: +11 Will: +4In Hand: rapier and sapSpells Remaining: 1st: 2/2[/sblock]</blockquote>

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