Arylett Charnoa vs Eifie

[size=+2]Arylett Charnoa vs Eifie[/size]

Arylett Charnoa said:

Format: 2 vs 2 single.
Style: Set.
DQ: One week.
Damage Cap: 40%
Banned/Restricted Moves: OHKO and recovery moves. Everything else is game. Chills are unlimited.

Arena Description:
The Office - This is where I work. It's an office-building after hours. I'm looking to blow off some steam because my boss? He's really annoying! So let's destroy this place as much as possible!

This arena will be interactive. The objects that can be interacted with are:

- Desks. They may be tossed at the opponent, dealing Normal-type damage to the Pokemon from the impact. The damage done by tossed desks depends on a Pokemon's physical endurance.

Special Commands: Toss Office Desk

The damage by tossing an office desk is determined by subtracting the target's Defense stat from 200 and then lopping off the last digit of the result.

Example: If an office desk was tossed at a Fennekin (base Defense: 40), we would subtract that from 200 and get 160, or 16% dealt to it. A Dragonite (base Defense: 95) would be dealt 10% damage.

As for the Energy cost, this is determined by subtracting the user's Attack stat from 110 and then lopping off the last digit of the result.

Example: If a Fennekin tossing the office desk (base Attack: 45), we would subtract that from 110 and get 65, or 6% energy cost. A Dragonite (base Attack: 134) would only spend 1% because it would come out to 0, which is always rounded up.

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- Electrical equipment. Such as computers, printers, and fax machines. They may targeted and destroyed. This deals Electric-type damage. To produce a damaging explosion, special elemental forces must be used. Just flat out punching the machine with physical force won't do anyone any good.

Special Commands: Target [Machine Name] and destroy it

The damage destroying a machine would deal to the opponent is determined by subtracting the target's Special Defense stat from 200 and then lopping off the last digit of the result.

Example: If a fax machine is blown up on a Fennekin (base Special Defense: 60), we would subtract that from 200 and get 140, or 14% dealt to it. A Dragonite (base Special Defense: 100) would be dealt 10% damage.

As for the Energy cost, this is determined by subtracting the user's Special Attack stat from 110 and then lopping off the last digit of the result.

Example: If a Fennekin was destroying the fax machine (base Special Attack: 62), we would subtract that from 200 and get 48, or 4% energy cost. A Dragonite (base Special Attack: 100) would only spend 1%.


If any of these calculations come out to 0, it's always 1%.

Also, Pokemon do not receive STAB in these calculations.

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- Potted Plant An extremely exotic potted plant may be tossed at the opponent. Does not inflict damage. Instead, it can inflict random status effects or even stat buffs based on specific percents.

Special Commands: Toss Potted Plant

There is a 30% chance to poison the opponent.

There is a 30% chance to paralyze the opponent.

There is a 30% chance to attract the opponent.

There is a 10% chance to raise the opponent's critical hit rate to 50% of ALL of their attacks.

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Arylett Charnoa's active squad

Luperia the female Treecko <Overgrow>
Flarrai the female Pidgeotto <Keen Eye> @ King's Rock
Alterra the female Zigzagoon <Pickup>
Valight the male Dragonair <Shed Skin>
Naxalge the female Zorua <Illusion> @ Shell Bell
Falsair the female Drilbur <Sand Force>
Kujata the female Butterfree <Compound Eyes>
Arylett the female Fennekin <Blaze> @ Eviolite
Vesta the female Fletchling <Gale Wings>
Lunaris the male Riolu <Steadfast> @ Soothe Bell


Eifie's active squad

blob of peep the female Torchic <Blaze>
blob of cat the female Espeon <Synchronize>
blob of round the female Sentret <Keen Eye>
blob of pig the male Swinub <Oblivious>
blob of bird the female Wingull <Keen Eye>
blob of bones the male Houndour <Flash Fire>
blob of weed the female Hoppip <Chlorophyll>
blob of wax the male Litwick <Flash Fire> @ Dusk Stone
blob of plant the female Chikorita <Overgrow> @ Lucky Egg
Mazy the female Goomy <Gooey> @ Sachet

Wheel of Priority, turn turn turn,
Tell us which trainer takes first turn:

~ Arylett Charnoa sends out
~ Eifie sends out and attacks
~ Arylett Charnoa attacks
~ yes I did just rhyme turn with itself, do you want to fight about it

Let's go, blob of wax! (You can call him Carlotta - I think that's his actual name.)

Okay, I want you to start with a Safeguard. Keep your eyes closed and your ears, if existent, plugged, while doing so - ignore whatever she's doing. It doesn't matter, got it? Just get that Safeguard up. Hopefully she can't attract or hypnotize you this way! Then go for Toxic and then Hex. If she Protects, Magic Coats, or has a Safeguard or Substitute or clones when you're trying to use Toxic, go with Calm Mind instead. If she's not statused on your third action, use Toxic if the above conditions don't apply, otherwise Calm Mind. Also Calm Mind if you're trying to use Hex but she's Protecting or has clones. If you're attracted, use Calm Mind to try and get over it. If you end up asleep, I will be upset >:( But just Sleep Talk on the first and second action.

Safeguard / Calm Mind / Sleep Talk ~ Toxic / Calm Mind / Sleep Talk ~ Hex / Toxic / Calm Mind

After hours, in Asber's little-known business district. Far from the central hub of Asber League administrative offices lies a block of smaller office buildings for non-League business. Work in these offices is over for the day, the employees long having clocked out and left to blow off some steam with a battle or just kick back at home, but light still shines from one office; the one where the trainer Arylett had her day job.

Only once his party had returned from their third scout of the building to make absolutely sure no security personnel were going to walk in did the referee, sitting with his feet up on the boss' desk, finally give the order for the trainers to send out. Arylett, with a sadistic fervour betraying the lack of thought she had given to what destroying her office would mean for her employment status, sent forth a Fennekin, which appeared in a bright flash of red light into the circle of floor which had been cleared of desks and other paraphernalia for the Pokémon to duke it out in. Eifie, her attention finally torn away from scooting gleefully across the floor in an office chair by a stern whistle blast from the referee, cleared her throat with a compromised air of professionalism and submitted her own Pokémon into the ring. The referee gulped as a Litwick materialised opposite Arylett's Arylett, timidly commanding the trainers to submit their commands while searching the room rather urgently for the nearest fire extinguisher...

Okay, blob of wax, time to step things up! Start with a Trick Room so you can move faster and I can command second again next round! Then, since you'll be faster, target and destroy that radio before Arylett's Arylett can! BAM! Actually, you know... I was gonna do something different this third action, but you might as well just kill that cellphone before Arylett can, too. I do like brute force.

Trick Room ~ TARGET RADIO AND DESTROY IT ~ TARGET CELLPHONE AND DESTROY IT

yeaaaaah blood what do you mean that's not blood

Snapping out of her bout of mental calmness, Arylett looked around the office with an air of great dissatisfaction. So many things to burn and smash, and she wasn't burning or smashing a single one of them! Even the blaze started by that computer had all but petered out, thanks to that meddling referee, laying there with an empty extinguisher in his hand and his face against the side of a filing cabinet. She scanned the area for a suitable hunk of technology and spied a fax machine sitting with tempting precariousness on the edge of a desk. Do people even still use those? Surely they're thinking of disposing of it, and just haven't found time to go through the proper channels. Well, she could certainly help there! Another belch of flame knocked it off its perch and sent it spinning through the air, the cord snapping with a fizzle before the contraption jerked down and exploded into a thousand pieces over Carlotta's head with a satisfying kpjrrrrkzkt.

With a squeal of protest, Carlotta rubbed his head where the archaic device had hit, and was rewarded with a painful jolt of static for his efforts. It was time to turn the tables; not literally turn tables by grabbing them and hurling them at the Fennekin's stupid face, but make the flow of battle, and indeed time itself, rather more beneficial to his cause. He raised his arms, and a psychic aura spread out from him and covered every surface in the office with a strange, undulating pink glow. The hands of the office clocks began to chug around the faces more and more sluggishly with each passing second until they clunked to a halt and then began turning anticlockwise, the digital ones resorting to flashing strings of nonsense digits before crashing altogether.

Unperturbed, Arylett turned towards the radio her trainer had pointed out and took a step towards it, but was surprised by the effort it took her just to put one paw before another; it was as though the air had been replaced by scentless, tasteless, breathable, invisible jam she was attempting to wade through. Carlotta grinned at her from across the room, swaggering toward her, careful to demonstrate how unhindered his movements were. Oh, having trouble reaching that radio over there? he chuckled deviously, possessing it with a dark purple aura of ghostly energy. Here, let me pass it to you. With a sweep of his stubby arm he cast the radio across the room, sending it flying into Arylett's forehead where it blew apart for no discernible reason, much like all the electronics that preceded it.

While she was being flung back by the blast, Arylett noticed she seemed unaffected by the jam-air; landing and struggling to her feet, she tried to capitalise on this sudden re-reversal of physics, but discovered to her annoyance that any motion on her part was still affected by it. Half-heartedly she struggled toward the mobile phone she had been ordered to obliterate next, knowing merely by the smug look on Carlotta's face that he intended to get to it first. Sure enough, just as she reached the desk on which it perched, it soared away behind her. Hey, Arylett, it's for you, came Carlotta's cheesy quip as he hurled a fireball into it, sending it plummeting to the ground and erupting against her side, blaring an irritating, warped gurgle of a ringtone from whatever components of it still remained relatively intact.



Referee's notes
~ Trick Room is in effect (3 more actions).
~ since Arylett was technically commanded to target specific devices, I opted not to let her go for another one after Carlotta got to them first, meaning she did nothing on those actions.

Calculations
~ Target Fax Machine and Destroy It: 13% damage, 3% energy
~ Trick Room: 5% energy
~ Target Radio and Destroy It: 11% damage, 1% energy
~ Target Cellphone and Destroy It: 11% damage, 1% energy

Next round
~ Arylett Charnoa attacks
~ Eifie attacks

Yes, destruction!

Could I ask why targeting the radio and cellphone only did 11% damage (as compared to the 13% from the fax machine) when Fennekin's Special Defense is only 5 higher than Litwick's and Carlotta had +2 Special Attack to Arylett's +1 Special Defense? Am I missing something with how these things work?

Arylett has an Eviolite. I'm assuming Throw Desk and Destroy Appliance should count as "moves" for its purposes.

Oh, duh. Totally forgot about that. Thanks!

Nuh-uh, man. We don't need to wait for action three. Target and destroy the fridge right now, before she puts up a Light Screen! Then give me a medium Substitute so that potted plant won't do a thing to you. Finally, express your utmost RAGE at the Light Screen in your way by THROWING A FREAKING DESK.

TARGET FRIDGE AND DESTROY IT ~ Substitute (15%) ~ LOB A FREAKING DESK

Carlotta listened intently to his opponent's commands, plotting wickedly to work out how best to ruin them. The Fennekin was still struggling around like she was wading knee-deep in preserves, so she clearly wasn't going to get to carry them out any time soon. Why let them go to waste? He noticed her looking contemplatively at the door to the break room as she plodded forward, and promptly rushed ahead to wreck the place before she got the chance to use anything there might be in there. She cried out after him in protest as the sounds of smashing appliances echoed out of the break room, breaking into a slow-motion sprint in desperation to prevent this wanton vandalism, but her advance was halted by a fridge hurtling through the doorway and exploding as it landed squarely on her head.

The door of the burnt-out fridge creaked open, a dazed Arylett flopping out of it along with a shower of workers' charred lunchboxes. She shook her head to clear the stars out of her vision, wincing from the pain of the impact. This appliance bombardment was getting out of hand; she needed something to soften the blows a little. She focused, expelling mental energy that formed around her in a faint blue sphere, shielding her from special attacks.

Secure in her bubble, Arylett felt safe to start upping the ante, looking for something nearby to lob at Carlotta as he hopped gleefully back into the office proper. The closest thing to hand was a potted plant, which she swatted deftly into the air with a kick of her hind leg before leaping up and batting it across the room with a sweep of her tail. Acting quickly, Carlotta gathered up a pile of smouldering electronic parts and moulded them into his likeness as best he could, infusing them with a spark of his own life energy. The scraps began to writhe of their own accord, drawing themselves up into a candle-like cylinder, a flaming wire poking from the top to complete the effect. Not a second later the plant met its mark, shattering against the golem in a shower of noxious purple spores.

Already saddened by the failure of her pot-throwing tactic, Arylett's face fell even further as her third commands came, looking forlornly at the burnt-out remnants of the office fridge. How she'd looked forward to blowing it up, by far the largest machine the office had to offer, and now she'd never get to play with it ever again. It wasn't fair, damn it!

While she stood uselessly contemplating the cruelty of life, Carlotta snuck behind a nearby desk, slipping his nub arms under it and straining to tilt it forward. Pushing it onto its front legs, he let out a grunt as he tossed it, sending it rolling end-over-end across the room and slamming into the despondent Arylett. She wailed as the lump of furniture crushed her, straining to push it off with the lack of momentum slow-motion-world cursed her with. To her relief, the bizarre field dissipated soon after, and she manged to wriggle free, running happily in full-speed circles to celebrate.



Referee's notes
~ no mention was made of the energy cost for throwing a potted plant, so I just went with the standard 4% for a status-inducing attack.

Calculations
~ Target and Destroy Fridge: 11% damage, 1% energy
~ Light Screen: 1% initial energy cost, 1% upkeep cost per action
~ Substitute: 15% damage (self), 8% energy
~ Toss Potted Plant: 4% energy
~ Toss Office Desk: 16% damage, 8% energy

Next round
~ Eifie attacks
~ Arylett Charnoa attacks

I'm not so cool with the huge advantage of Trick Room letting me go second three times in a row, so I'll command first, if that's okay?

i'll have no chivalry here thank you very much

Sure, go for it.

Hmm, let's take a short break and go for some status. Try a Confuse Ray first; if there's something that'll stop it from working (Protect, Safeguard, Sub, blob of fox has left the building...) then uh... Payback if you can still hit your opponent, otherwise just Calm Mind I guess.

I CHANGED MY MIND JUST THROW SOME DESKS. WHATEVER DESK YOU CAN FIND. IDEK. SEEK AND DESTROY. If your opponent's Protecting away or otherwise unhittable (subs are fine), just Chill I guess. Throwing desks must be exhausting. Oh, but if there are clones, feel free to kill them with Clear Smog which apparently never misses.

Confuse Ray / Payback / Calm Mind ~ (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ / Chill / Clear Smog ~ ┬─┬ノ(ಠ_ಠノ) (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ / Chill / Clear Smog

Carlotta regarded his foolishly cavorting opponent with a disapproving pout. Who did she think she was running circles around him like that? It was supposed to go the other way! Grumbling, he watched her movements carefully, trying to sneakily calculate a way to take advantage of this new development. A nice Payback would... hang on a tick. In the midst of his pondering, he saw Arylett had mysteriously come to a halt, and squinting, he could just make out a shimmering, protective veil of energy around her. He rolled his eyes and shrugged; no point worrying about trying to get to her now. In fact, he may as well just zone out and take it easy until that shield came down. He did just that, his eyes sliding shut serenely as he unfocused his thoughts and meditated until Arylett's protective bubble dissolved into ether.

She was annoyed that she failed to make Carlotta waste a turn, she had to admit, but Arylett still had tricks up her sleeve. She sauntered toward her opponent, gingerly stepping around the sharp shards of metal littering the carpet, and stopped just before him, fluttering her eyelids and winking. Hey, hot stuff, she purred in a sexy half-whisper. Nice save there. I like a man who can strategise. And it was amazing how you threw that desk like it was nothing, by the way... you're such a big, strong hunk~. Carlottta's only recourse was to jabber sheepishly and blush, a huge grin spreading across his face. Maybe he should toss another desk to impress her... no, he wouldn't want to risk hurting her. She was too precious for that.

Silently retching at the saccharine tripe she'd blurted out, Arylett scurried off to find something to beat the lovestruck candle's face off with. He'd done a pretty sound job of burning the break room to a crisp, but perhaps something in there could still be salvageable. Testing this theory, she dived into the piles of rubble and charred appliances for a few moments before her head popped up like a periscope, nudging a reasonably-intact microwave out into the office. She blew a small stream of fire onto the power cable, lighting it like a fuse before kicking the contraption into the air, where it hurtled end-over-end and crashed down on top of Carlotta's substitute just as it went up with a spectacular bang.

Its intended target was pushed back against a desk by the force of the blast, chunks of substitute scattering all across the floor and leaving the artifice barely holding itself together. Though unhurt physically, Carlotta was wounded by Arylett's apparent betrayal after all but professing her undying love for him (such as his sentimental little mind took it, anyway). His lovestruck mind flustered to fabricate some excuse for her to cover for this glaring red flag, and he soon decided she must have just been trying to set off an improvised fireworks display in honour of their relationship which had simply gone horribly wrong, and there'd really be no need to terminate the relationship with a desk to the face, as was the custom of his people. Arylett grimaced as she looked on at him, sappiness practically dripping off him, still cringing in humiliation at the nature of her ruse.



Referee's notes
~ Carlotta failed the attraction rolls on both of the latter two actions.

Calculations
~ Protect: 4% energy
~ Calm Mind: 2% energy
~ Attract: 4% energy
~ Target Microwave and Destroy It: 12% damage, 3% energy

Next round
~ Arylett Charnoa attacks
~ Eifie attacks

Okay, blob, I really need you to be faster, so Trick Room please and thanks. You don't want Arylett running off on you, now, do you? You've got no chance of chasing after her with your speed as it is. >:( Then murder the air conditioner and murder the Nintendo DS. By which I mean, kindly pass them to Arylett as you did earlier, yeah? If you're too busy daydreaming to Trick Room, try until it works. If you don't manage to execute both of your first two actions properly but Trick Room's already up, just Clear Smog to get rid of those stat boosts Arylett stole from you. I mean, you aren't quite in the what's mine is yours stage yet. Way too fast, man.

Trick Room ~ Trick Room / target air conditioner and destroy it ~ Trick Room / target Nintendo DS and destroy it / Clear Smog

Shaking off her embarrassment, Arylett returned her attention to the task at hand. Cringeworthy as they were, her flattery tactics seemed effective last round, and everyone knows imitation is the best form of flattery, so she set about buttering her opponent up a little more by forming a psychic link to his mind and adopting his mental state. The serenity conferred by all his earlier meditation was copied over to her, fortifying her own inner peace twofold.

While this was going on, Carlotta merely stood still and watched her, noting every facet of her gorgeous body as she sat concentrating austerely. How he loved just to gaze at her. How he wished there was a way he could halt time and just sit and watch her forever! Halting it was a little beyond his means, but he could certainly stretch it out a little. He spread his arms again, slowly filling the room with the same clock-bewildering pink aura as before, returning the oppressive jam-air that held Arylett practically motionless.

He let out a dreamy sigh, but his lovesick daydreaming was interrupted as an overheard snippet of his beloved's commands crept into his mind. Blow up that air conditioner?! Out of the question! His dear, precious Arylett might hurt herself! Flustered, he ran to the machine in question and lifted it into the air with ghostly energy, planning to hurl it through the window into the street below to save his dear Fennekin from herself. In his panic, however, he misjudged the direction of his throw. The article crashed into the wall a foot to the left of its intended target, bouncing off and clattering to the floor, rolling along the carpet and ploughing directly into Arylett as she struggled to step out of the way. He let out a horrified wail as it blew apart, electrocuting Arylett and burying her under a jumbled pile of twisted metal and electrical parts.

The pile rustled lethargically while Arylett struggled her way to its surface, finding the debris rather a chore to shift in slow-mo world. Eventually she rolled free of the mess, dusting shards of metal out of her fur and glowering at Carlotta resentfully. Look at that idiot, she thought to herself as she spat up a bundle of wiring that had somehow made its way into her mouth. He actually thinks I give a Dedenne's arse about him. Pathetic. Indeed, Carlotta was so consumed with shame about hurting her that he had absolutely no attention to spare for anything else that was going on. Just rooted to the spot fretting, probably on the verge of tears. Arylett decided to take advantage of his distraction, slinking silently across the room and creeping right up behind him. With a glove of dark power cloaking her paw, she swiped at him in a lightning-quick motion, upon which his body promptly collapsed to the ground and fell apart.

She let out a horrified squeal, pawing at the chunks of Litwick now littering the floor as if trying to reassemble them and bring him back to life. She never meant to hit him that hard. She never meant to kill a man! Sweat running down her face and a hot sensation of guilt ballooning in her head, she jerked her head around the office looking for the referee, noting with a sigh of relief that he was still laying senseless against the filing cabinet. It was okay. She was off the hook for now. She just had to get out of here. Couldn't stay in Asber, they'd find her eventually. She'd get the first flight to Unova, change her name, dye her fur, get some plastic surgery and start a new life as a Zorua. This was all gonna go away. Just as she was working out the last kinks in her getaway plan, she heard the unmistakeable dreamy sigh Carlotta let out every three minutes on the dot, and whipping her head around in surprise, saw him standing quite well and very much alive behind the remains of his substitute. She chuckled to herself sheepishly, in her relief barely minding she hadn't actually got to slap him.

Oblivious to this storm of dramatic tension, Carlotta snapped out of his daydreaming and went back to being obsessed with Arylett in a somewhat active manner. He would give her a present, he decided; something to really show her he cared. He looked around the office for any valuables he could commandeer, his gaze resting on a Nintendo® DS™ system laying on a nearby desk, craftily concealed beneath some papers from the disapproving eyes of draconian employers who would prefer their employees to work during work hours rather than play video games. He retrieved it with ghostly telekinetic energy, turning it in his hands and studying it. Yep, just a basic DS system. Not even a 3DS, just a goddamn original phat DS. Who the hell even still has those? It's 2015 dude, get with the times. He figured taking it off its owner's hands would be a service to them just as much as to him, and with a joyful cry he tossed it across the room toward its intended recipient. Slowed by Carlotta's timey-wimey bullshit, Arylett moved too slow to catch it, and the thing smashed into her face and blew apart, imparting its remaining battery life directly into Arylett in a rather painful jolt. She howled and held her face with a paw, an orangey aura radiating from her body as her inner store of elemental power rushed to the surface to aid its ailing master. Carlotta, meanwhile, was distraught at his continued defilement of his dear Arylett, almost too much so to appreciate the beauty of her warm orange glow. He didn't even react when an infuriated Arylett upturned a desk on him in fury, phasing through it as it skid through his body as though he wasn't even there.



Referee's notes
~ Trick Room is in effect (3 more actions).
~ Arylett's Blaze activated on the third action. Now Carlotta can absorb even stronger Fire moves!
~ Toss Office Desk did no damage owing to Carlotta's type immunity.

Calculations
~ Psych Up: 4% energy
~ Trick Room: 5% energy
~ Target and Destroy Air Conditioner: 10% damage, 3% energy
~ Thief: 7% damage, 3% energy
~ Target and Destroy Nintendo DS: 10% damage, 3% energy
~ Toss Office Desk: 0% damage, 6% energy

Next round
~ Arylett Charnoa attacks
~ Eifie attacks

Thank you Carlotta and the RNG <3 Arylett should have tried to toss a desk action three, right? I mean, it doesn't affect Carlotta because he's a ghost type, but.

She should! I'll just rewrite the flavour for that last action and pay attention to the conditionals properly this time.

(Sangfroidish, can we do the ~chivalry~ thing where I disregard command order and command first next round after Trick Room wears off?)

You did good, Carlotta. I want you to take some time off with a Calm Mind and think about how Arylett's totally not worth it, man. Go into zen mode or whatever, I don't really care about the stat increases, because the main purpose of this is to get over your crush, k?

I really don't want to take any chances with more status, so next let's put up a Safeguard. Your opponent's gonna taunt you after, so if you weren't over her already, you should be after that! >:( Finally, Clear Smog never misses, so you should be good to destroy her clones and get rid of her copied stat boosts with that. If for some reason Clear Smog won't work to destroy the clones, use Heat Wave instead.

Calm Mind (get over infatuation) ~ Safeguard ~ Clear Smog / Heat Wave

Eifie said:

(Sangfroidish, can we do the ~chivalry~ thing where I disregard command order and command first next round after Trick Room wears off?)

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(sure thing)



Carlotta took a deep breath. He had to calm down. Arylett wouldn't want him to beat himself up. He exhaled and took a deep breath again, pushing his guilt and sorrow to the back of his mind and emptying it of all thoughts, while Arylett hid meekly behind another energy shield guarding her from any of the harm she wasn't being exposed to. As she dismissed it, Carlotta's eyes slid back open, and he regarded her with a rather uncharacteristic indifference. She was almost relieved to realise that his meditation appeared to have completely erased his infatuation with her from his mind.

Now once again regarding Arylett as an active threat, he thought it prudent to protect himself from any underhand tricks she might try to pull. A pale green light appeared around him, shielding him from any unwanted afflictions. Arylett, however, had little interest in being a threat to him for now, and was instead awkwardly attempting to dash around the room as fast as she could with time itself dragging her down, but nonetheless she achieved a blinding speed such that once she ground to a halt three after-images of her remained.

Carlotta looked from one Arylett manifestation to the other, pondering which one he should aim for. His ultimate decision was to go for all of them, exuding noxious fumes from his flame that sank to the floor, forming a thick, clear grey mist. The smog spread across the floor and soon shrouded around Arylett's feet, wisps of it rising into her throat before she could react. One breath of it clouded her senses, numbing her mind and sending her into a light stupor. The mind-altering gas wiped away the serenity appropriated from Carlotta throughout the battle, and as it thickened she was left spluttering for fresh air, her clones vanishing one by one with each rough, ragged cough she produced.

Once she could breathe properly again, Arylett looked about her, incensed to realise the clones she'd worked her tail off to produce had been dispelled. She snarled at Carlotta and began barking abuse across the office, venting her pent-up frustration and trying to make him as wound-up as she was. It clearly had the desired affect as Carlotta's temperament formed a complete 180 from how it had been at the start of the round, Arylett's tirade having put him in a state of absolute fury and leaving him determined to cave her face in without further ado.



Referee's notes
~ Carlotta's infatuation was cleared by Calm Mind.

Calculations
~ Protect: 4% energy
~ Calm Mind: 2% energy
~ Safeguard: 1% setup cost, 1% energy per action
~ Double Team: 3% energy
~ Clear Smog: 5% damage, 3% energy
~ Taunt: 4% energy

Next round
~ Eifie attacks
~ Arylett Charnoa attacks