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Originally posted by thedoctor:
Also, I had to go overboard with Dirk kicking ass because I felt that you wrote him as being too weak. Dirk is a combatant all the way around. He uses guns when they are needed, but he does just as well without them. He wouldn't go for a gun or anything with an opponent that close because it would leave him open for attack. Nor could someone just reach out and cold-cock him, especially if he still has at least one arm free.

BTW, just be happy Dirk didn't DDT Edulcore onto the pavement. [woooOOOOoooo!] [wink]
I understand perfectly.

But the objection you made, works in reverse for your post.

You wrote Dirk shooting a bullet in Turner's leg, and then walking away happily, while the others stare at him.

That didn't make any sense. Both Edulcore and Turner would have kiked his ass badly, and Danny and Mxy should have followed them too. Probably Edulcore would have been severely beaten back, but Turner would have literally reduced Dirk to ash, with only a glance, and without Dirk having any possible way to react, beacuse not knowing Turner's powers, wouldn't have been able to anticipate his reaction.

Clearly, Gooz can't write Turner killing or wounding SEVERELY Dirk, that's obvious, but that makes no justice to Turner's power. After all, if he can rip the wall from the apartment, he would as easily have destroyed Dirk without any possible resistence.

All this to say that it's normal, when we write, to make some character a little weaker or somehow not perfectly aligned to what has been shown before. Sometime that's needed to preserve the flowing of the story, or we should continually asking the various posters to rectify what they have written. After all, that's precisely what you did disregarding the fact that I wrote Dirk unconscious and on the shoulder of Euro.

I understand that you want to show that your character is the ultimate warrior, but you must also understand that Turner is the ultimate secret agent AND metahuman, Edulcore is the ultimate raptor, Chance is the ultimate smart guy, Mxy is the ultimate magic being, Sam the ultimate shapeshifter, Naecken the ultimate everything and the same is true for every character.

If you want to shot a character in the leg, that's fine, and I must say that was a very cool post, unexpected, fun and very well done, but don't think to come out clean of a situation like that.

You shot him, and you get your load of beaten.

That's fair.