Gwen Guthrie
Gwen had texted Kiana and set up a meeting in an old warehouse. No one was going there except for some homeless or teens up to no good. Nothing she couldn’t handle so it fitted her purpose. She parked the car a few blocks away, in a better part of town. She made her way to the meeting point on foot, dressed in running shoes, sweats, racer back tank top and a hoodie with a zipper up front and gloves. Her long dark hair was pulled back in a ponytail.
She enters the warehouse thirty minutes before the appointed time, breaking the lock and stepping inside. Since she doesn’t need to breathe for the moment, she doesn’t smell the dust, the scent of stale air and rusting metal.
She finds a place to sit and waits for her possible fighter to arrive.
Kiana Knowles
She’d received the text, and if she were the type to mutter, she certainly would as she extracts herself from the tangled sheets and the other body buried within. He groans his dismay, and she just shakes her head, and starts to get dressed. It doesn’t take long before she’s made her way to the warehouse – using backstreets and alleys that she knows like the back of her hand.
She arrives on time, a backpack slung over her shoulder, dressed in sweats and a tank top under her hoodie. The hoods up when she arrives, but it’s very likely she misses nothing as she looks around.
and she’s smelled worse.
Gwen Guthrie
She moves up in a fluid move, offering a smile to Kiana “Good evening, I’m glad you could make it. I think it’s time to test your mettle. Unless you have found another backer?”
She moves closer, gracefully, looking quite different in that kind of get up than the nice clothes she’s usually wearing. “So how have you been by the way? Got into any good fights?”
Her breath is even, regular. There is no one else Kiana could see so it probably meant her opponent will be her backer. The young woman looks relaxed for someone who might get pummelled in a few minutes.
Kiana Knowles
Unless she’s found another backer. She shakes her head, slightly, and finds place to set down her bag. She pushes her hood back, and wraps up her hair in a ponytail, before she peels out of her hoodie. She’s slender, but wiry, strong. curvy too – the kind no one would think would step into a ring, let alone an underground one.
any fights, yes. good ones? she wrinkes her nose and shakes her head no again.
Gwen Guthrie
She nods, unzipping the hoodie and placing it over a fairly clean flat surface. The statuesque woman was fit, with a slightly define physique but nowhere near fitness models.
“Well tonight you will have a pretty decent one. The goal is not to defeat me though if it happens, the better for you. The goal is for me to see you fight, judge the way you move, know how hard you hit…stuff like that. I don’t trust another person’s opinion on this so I’ll be your opponent. Better not pull any punches for I won’t.” Well not true. She will pull hers or she’d end up breaking the woman. That would be unfortunate and kill this business opportunity.
“Is that satisfactory to you?”
Kiana Knowles
she nods, slightly. She understands the rules of this game all too well – it’s not her first attempt at a backer, just hopefully a successful one. She rolls her head, stretching her neck, and shakes her arms out to loosen them, slightly.
She tucks her tank top into her sweats, form fitting and close to the body, without much to grab on to. She takes a moment to kick off her boots, and digs in her bag for what looks like water shoes – and is something similar. It is better than bare feet on a warehouse floor, and lighter than the boots she was wearing. They’re slipped on, easily, and then she grabs her mouthguard and sets it aside – during a trial she’d rather not lose her teeth.
She lifts her gloves and tape and arches a brow in question – she’s willing to fight with or without.
Gwen Guthrie
She watches Kiana get ready. When the gloves and tapes are raised, she shrugs “Get comfortable. Either way are fine for me.” She shrugs slightly. She really didn’t mind as she keeps standing there, bare knuckled, without a mouth piece.
“Maybe I should have thought about bringing gloves and tape myself, So I don’t hurt you too much..Should I go get me a pair?”
She continue to watches Kiana, getting ready to fight if her future fighter doesn’t mind that she goes bare knuckled.
Kiana Knowles
She tosses the gloves back into the bag, and then does a quick taping job on her knuckles. She’s sparing, not fighting for real, and why bust up her hands if she doesn’t have too. It’s quick, and she slaps each fist into her palm, testing the job, before she nods in satisfaction.
Then she turns her dark eyes to Gwen and shrugs. Doesn’t matter to her either way. she pops the mouthguard in, and then stands away from her things, and shakes out her arms again.
Ready.
Kiana Knowles
She tosses the gloves back into the bag, and then does a quick taping job on her knuckles. She’s sparing, not fighting for real, and why bust up her hands if she doesn’t have too. It’s quick, and she slaps each fist into her palm, testing the job, before she nods in satisfaction.
Then she turns her dark eyes to Gwen and shrugs. Doesn’t matter to her either way. she pops the mouthguard in, and then stands away from her things, and shakes out her arms again.
Ready.
Gwen Guthrie
She nods “All right then” She chooses the basic kung-fu combat position to start the fight (init +7)
Dice: 1 d10 TN6 (4) ( fail )
Kiana Knowles
[Inits +6]
Dice: 1 d10 TN6 (5) ( fail )
Gwen Guthrie
(init+7)
Dice: 1 d10 TN6 (8) ( success x 1 )
Kiana Knowles
[Again! +6]
Dice: 1 d10 TN6 (9) ( success x 1 )
Kiana Knowles
Declare: split action
1a: punch
1b: punch!
Gwen Guthrie
Declare:
1A punch
1B delayed action, block
Gwen Guthrie
(punching)
Dice: 5 d10 TN6 (3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10) ( success x 4 ) Re-rolls: 1
Gwen Guthrie
(damage)
Dice: 7 d10 TN6 (2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 9, 9, 10) ( success x 5 ) Re-rolls: 1
Gwen Guthrie
Dice: 7 d10 TN6 (3, 3, 5, 6, 9, 9, 10) ( success x 4 )
Kiana Knowles
[Soak: 3]
Dice: 3 d10 TN6 (5, 6, 10) ( success x 2 )
Kiana Knowles
1a: dex+brawl=7-2 for split=5 diff 6
Dice: 5 d10 TN6 (3, 6, 8, 8, 9) ( success x 4 )
Gwen Guthrie
(blocking)
Dice: 4 d10 TN6 (4, 8, 8, 8) ( success x 4 ) [WP]
Kiana Knowles
[Blocked – 1b]
1b: dex+brawl=7-3 for split=4 diff 6
Dice: 4 d10 TN6 (5, 5, 7, 8) ( success x 3 ) [WP]
Kiana Knowles
Damage: Strength + [Suxx-1] +1 [merit] = 3+[2]+1=6
Dice: 6 d10 TN6 (1, 3, 6, 7, 7, 9) ( success x 3 )
Gwen Guthrie
(soak stam+ fort)
Dice: 6 d10 TN6 (1, 1, 4, 4, 7, 8) ( success x 1 ) [WP]
Gwen Guthrie
The two women circles each other, studying each other, for some time, feinting, backing off, feinting again until Gwen punches Kianna and his her square on the shoulder. Kiana doesn’t waste a moment and strikes back, the blow deflected by the taller woman’s forearm but it left Gwen open for a hit to the ribs. She let out some air, placing her arm where the punch had landed, a slight smile on her lips.
“Not bad at all” She says before straightening up “Again”
(init +7)
Dice: 1 d10 TN6 (4) ( fail )
Kiana Knowles
She nods, slightly, having taken note of the woman’s stance, the way she hits, the way she blocks. She rolls her shoulder, and then they begin again.
[+6]
Dice: 1 d10 TN6 (6) ( success x 1 )
Gwen Guthrie
Declare
1A punch
2A punch
Kiana Knowles
Split:
1a: dodge
1b: punch
1c: punch
Kiana Knowles
1a: will be dodging her 1a
so – 1b:
1b: dex+brawl=7-4 for split=3 diff 6 [rerolls]
Dice: 3 d10 TN6 (5, 7, 8) ( success x 2 )
Gwen Guthrie
(soak)
Dice: 6 d10 TN6 (1, 2, 4, 5, 5, 10) ( fail )
Kiana Knowles
Damage: Strength + [Suxx-1] +1 [merit] = 3+[1]+1=5
Dice: 5 d10 TN6 (1, 2, 2, 5, 7) ( fail )
Kiana Knowles
1c: dex+brawl=7-5 for split=2 diff 6 [rerolls]
Dice: 2 d10 TN6 (6, 6) ( success x 3 ) [WP]
Kiana Knowles
Damage: Strength + [Suxx-1] +1 [merit] = 3+[2]+1=
Dice: 6 d10 TN6 (1, 1, 2, 7, 8, 10) ( success x 1 )
Gwen Guthrie
(soaking)
Dice: 6 d10 TN6 (1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10) ( success x 3 )
Gwen Guthrie
Gwen’s 1A punching
Dice: 5 d10 TN6 (1, 2, 6, 8, 9) ( success x 2 )
Gwen Guthrie
(damage)
Dice: 5 d10 TN6 (1, 2, 5, 8, 10) ( success x 1 )
Kiana Knowles
1a: dex+dodge=7-3 for split=4 diff 6 [rerolls]
Dice: 4 d10 TN6 (5, 7, 8, 9) ( success x 3 )
Gwen Guthrie
1B punch
Dice: 4 d10 TN6 (5, 6, 6, 8, 10, 10) ( success x 6 ) Re-rolls: 2 [WP]
Gwen Guthrie
(damage….hopefully not crazy like)
Dice: 9 d10 TN6 (1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 5, 8, 9) ( fail )
Gwen Guthrie
The two women go at it again, Kianna strikes fast, hitting Gwen twice but each blow was absorbed by the woman and the it was the Ventrue’s turn but one blow was easily dodge and the other glanced Kiana not doing a bit of damage.
(init +7)
Dice: 1 d10 TN6 (9) ( success x 1 )
Kiana Knowles
[+6]
Dice: 1 d10 TN6 (9) ( success x 1 )
Kiana Knowles
Declare:
1a: Punch
1b: punch
Gwen Guthrie
1A dodge
1B punch
Gwen Guthrie
1B since 1A is delayed..punching
Dice: 4 d10 TN6 (3, 3, 5, 5) ( fail )
Kiana Knowles
1a: dex+brawl=7-2 for split=5 diff 6 [rerolls]
Dice: 5 d10 TN6 (4, 4, 5, 6, 8) ( success x 2 )
Gwen Guthrie
(dodge)
Dice: 5 d10 TN6 (2, 2, 5, 6, 7) ( success x 2 )
Kiana Knowles
Damage: Strength + [Suxx-1] +1 [merit] = 3+[1]+1=5
Dice: 5 d10 TN6 (2, 2, 3, 6, 7) ( success x 2 )
Kiana Knowles
1b: dex+brawl=7-3 for split=4 diff 6 [rerolls]
Dice: 4 d10 TN6 (4, 6, 8, 9, 10) ( success x 4 ) Re-rolls: 1
Kiana Knowles
Damage: Strength + [Suxx-1] +1 [merit] = 3+[3]+1=
Dice: 7 d10 TN6 (1, 5, 7, 9, 9, 10, 10) ( success x 4 )
Gwen Guthrie
(soak)
Dice: 6 d10 TN6 (2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) ( success x 3 )
Gwen Guthrie
(nit+ 7)
Gwen Guthrie
Dice: 1 d10 TN6 (3) ( fail )
Kiana Knowles
[+6]
Dice: 1 d10 TN6 (10) ( success x 1 )
Gwen Guthrie
Declare
1A block
1B punch
Kiana Knowles
1a; Punch
Kiana Knowles
and 1b: punch
Kiana Knowles
1a: dex+brawl=7-2 for split=5 diff 6 [rerolls]
Dice: 5 d10 TN6 (2, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 10) ( success x 4 ) Re-rolls: 2
Gwen Guthrie
(block)
Dice: 4 d10 TN6 (1, 3, 7, 9) ( success x 1 )
Kiana Knowles
Damage: Strength + [Suxx-1] +1 [merit] = 3+[3] – 1 blocked+1=6
Dice: 6 d10 TN6 (1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10) ( success x 3 )
Gwen Guthrie
(soak)
Dice: 6 d10 TN6 (1, 3, 3, 4, 6, 10) ( success x 1 )
Kiana Knowles
1b: dex+brawl=7-3 for split=4 diff 6 [rerolls]
Dice: 4 d10 TN6 (1, 2, 6, 7) ( success x 1 )
Kiana Knowles
Damage: Strength + [Suxx-1] +1 [merit] = 3+[0]+1=4
Dice: 4 d10 TN6 (2, 2, 5, 9) ( success x 1 )
Gwen Guthrie
(soak)
Dice: 6 d10 TN6 (1, 4, 4, 6, 7, 10) ( success x 2 )
Gwen Guthrie
1B punch
Dice: 4 d10 TN6 (1, 2, 8, 9, 10) ( success x 3 ) Re-rolls: 1 [WP]
Gwen Guthrie
(damage)
Dice: 6 d10 TN6 (1, 1, 1, 2, 9, 9, 10) ( success x 1 ) Re-rolls: 1 [WP]
Kiana Knowles
[..soak?]
Dice: 3 d10 TN6 (6, 8, 10) ( success x 3 )
Gwen Guthrie
(damage)
Dice: 6 d10 TN6 (3, 5, 5, 6, 7, 9) ( success x 3 )
Gwen Guthrie
They go at it again, hitting, blocking, glancing blows, some hitting squarely but not doing a lot of damage but Kiana was the one who got more often under the other one’s guard.
After some time, Gwen takes a few steps back “All right, I think that’s enough.” She says, breathing slightly fast, watching Kiana “You’re pretty good. It seem like we can have a very good business relationship you and I.”
She smiles slightly as she offers her hand “What do you say? Partners?”
Kiana Knowles
They aren’t trying to hurt one another, not really. She strikes quickly, and connects more often than not, glancing blows that don’t do much in the way of damage. One hit to her shoulder – the first one – will be alittle sore, but all in all, she makes a good showing for herself.
In the end, Gwen’s impressed. Kiana lifts her chin, slightly, like she’s unsurprised – because she is. Then she nods, slightly, and takes the other woman’s hand and shakes.
Gwen Guthrie
The handshake is firm and brief, Gwen’s hand soft and warm. She let go of Kiana’s hand and move to pick her hoodie and puts it back on. “Well we definitely should go down the Pits and put your name up for the next fights. Let me know when it’s a good time for you and we’ll do that.”
She zips it up “So is there anything you want to discuss about our arrangement?” She asks, looking at Kiana
Kiana Knowles
She nods, slightly. about getting her name in for the fights. Theres a little grin on her face as she pulls her sweatshirt back on, spits out her mouthguard, and changes her shoes.
When asked if she has any questions. They’ve already discussed the split of the winnings, and that’s the only option for Kiana in her own mind anyway.
Winning.
So she shrugs, slightly and shakes her head again.
Kiana Knowles
[fade]