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Post by Katerina on Aug 18, 2022 6:47:56 GMT
Okay the doppleganger of me has named the not Merlin. Kat thinks to herself. It wasn't who she thought the not Merlin to be, but on the plus side that was good news too.
"Honey, if you are going to try and impersonate me at least get things right. I am Princess Katerina of Alswyck and I certainly don't ride a dragon beast. You have other things wrong too when it comes to that. I'm surprised that some of the army of Eshanta didn't notice, but then I guess you just had them killed if they noticed didn't you? If you don't decease from using my form I may have to kill you or worse and I'd rather things didn't lead to that kind of unpleasantness."
Kat didn't specify what or worse was, but she had something in mind.
[Note - added that she is right handed to my notes in case that is important]
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Post by Admin on Aug 22, 2022 0:57:37 GMT
"Poor thing, I really have no idea, do I? I wasted too much time in Amber rather than learning what I could in my homeland." she says while striding forward.
"But if I wish to play the game then why assume that I am the impersonator and not you? How much do you truly know of your past and who you are now?" she says with amusement.
Beauregard stands and half draws his sword.
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Post by Katerina on Aug 22, 2022 6:46:45 GMT
"Because I know I'm me. Your very words there give the indication that you are the imposter. If you have done the modicum of research, which is seems you have you will know that I went to Amber seeking help for my homeland. I have been very consistent in that. It is my birth that I do not fully know, but I do know some things of it. Everyone else seems to know far more than I do about that, yet I was too young to remember. One of these days I will find out why my father left me a sword with an inscription on it that I cannot read."
"So either your my twin sister or a shifter impersonating me. If your my twin, then stop using my name. If your a shifter, which seems fundamentally more likely, then stop using my form and name and maybe we can have a sensible conversation. It only takes one power word to prove the situation should someone know it and I am not afraid of it being used. Given that this imposter has given away your identity Jurt, perhaps you will not be as afraid of using it now should you know it?" Katerina says.
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Post by Admin on Aug 28, 2022 6:28:47 GMT
" Because I know I'm me. Your very words there give the indication that you are the imposter. If you have done the modicum of research, which is seems you have you will know that I went to Amber seeking help for my homeland. I have been very consistent in that. It is my birth that I do not fully know, but I do know some things of it. Everyone else seems to know far more than I do about that, yet I was too young to remember. One of these days I will find out why my father left me a sword with an inscription on it that I cannot read."
"So either your my twin sister or a shifter impersonating me. If your my twin, then stop using my name. If your a shifter, which seems fundamentally more likely, then stop using my form and name and maybe we can have a sensible conversation. It only takes one power word to prove the situation should someone know it and I am not afraid of it being used. Given that this imposter has given away your identity Jurt, perhaps you will not be as afraid of using it now should you know it?" Katerina says.
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Post by Admin on Aug 28, 2022 6:43:32 GMT
"You're close."
She draws her sword.
"Tell me: does this not look identical to the sword you carry? I am me but smarter. While you-I wasted your time in Amber, I-me found us more powerful and better allies."
Even from a distance, Kat can see that the sword is identical except for the order of the inlaid gemstones and other identifiers reversed from her sword.
Edmund speaks up.
"Hammett isn't here, so he must not have fallen under the control of the Maze as you had hoped. No need for me to remain here any longer. Go knock yourselves out."
He crosses his axes in front of him and a moment later disappears.
Jurt leans back against the hump of the hill and settles in, preparing to watch the Kat and Kat knockabout cross-talk act.
"You both will not have any opportunity to use my name while clobbering one another and when it's all over and you are both injured, I can easily excise the memory of it from your minds."
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Post by Katerina on Aug 28, 2022 20:52:08 GMT
"Don't worry Mr X, I can be quite tight-lipped when I want to be, but you might straggle with the exercising bit. I'm not weak minded like my doppleganger." She gives Just a wink.
A mirror copy then. Kat wondered how that worked.
"If anyone can read they'll know that you have the words on your sword is backwards, just as you are me backwards. That makes you Tak and also vey Tacky. Joining up with the Demon Lord Malficious just screams tackiness and goes against everything that I've ever stood for here." She baits the mirror image further. What she had in mind might not work well against a miror version of her, but there were other possibilities. How it was created she didn't yet know.
Her mirror image also made a mistake. She'd told General Beauregade that she was the copy and not the one who'd been in Amber on the side of Amber.
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Post by Admin on Aug 30, 2022 17:31:38 GMT
"So you think, so you think," Kat sighs. "I suppose the reflections fall far from the mirror.
"My city will soon fall to my demon army; I chose most poorly in going the long way to Amber when so much power is so close at hand. My army can't hope to reach Mytorrean before my demons control it, and from there, the demons can easily hold out while my people die of starvation or desert. A mercenary army has no stomach for a long siege.
"Worry not! I won! Playing both sides means I can't lose."
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Post by Katerina on Aug 30, 2022 19:35:30 GMT
No doubt this mirror copy of herself was created when she completed her walk of the Mirror Maze. She certainly didn't exist here before that, and her walking of the Mirror Maze was the delineating event between what she knew and what the copy had time to achieve here without her. How did Prince Bleys know about this copy of her though? She'd learnt that the Mirror Maze was partially a Borken Pattern and such copies had flaws in them when they were walked. Here was one such flaw and she wondered now if Hammett had his own negative self running around now that he had walked the Mirror Maze. The big difference between the real Kat and the copy was that she had actually mastered the Mirror Maze and the copy hadn't.
"I so hate talking to myself. Especially an evil mirror copy of myself. Half the time I know what I'm going to say and the other half I'm repelled by it. I'm sorry Tacky, but you're not a flattering reflection, you can't get your pronouns right, and its time to go back into the mirror whence you came from." Kat replies opening her cloak up showing its mirrors and began concerntrating on the power of the Mirror Maze lens from behind her to draw the copy back into being trapped inside the mirrors.
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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2022 4:03:22 GMT
Kat looks on bored as Kat attempts a trick with her cloak.
"You do realize that none of those tricks will work on me since we are the same person? Even if you could trap me, you'd be imprisoned yourself," she says while looking at her nails.
"I will try to stop confusing myself with the correct pronouns. And I still don't understand why I - I mean you continue to assume That I am somehow not a real person and you are."
"Let me kill her, Princess," Beaureguard pleads.
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Post by Katerina on Sept 13, 2022 18:45:06 GMT
"You're an evil reflection of me. My worst half if you like. You fight with the wrong hand, you have the name on my sword backwards and you have a very annoying way of trying to pretend to be me, Tacky." Kat replies moving to draw her own sword. She figures that her mirror image will do the same. Only one way to break a mirror image is to break the mirror and that would involve killing her twin, alas. On her own she might not defeat herself. Though her lessons with Xu Liang should give her an advantage, since he taught her techniques that the mirror Kat would not know as she was created before the lessons occurred. Plus she had a plus one on her side.
"If you can kill her, be my guest General Beuregarde." Having told the General about the differences she was more confident that she wouldn't be stabbed by her ally.
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Post by Admin on Sept 14, 2022 7:03:40 GMT
"If you feel this is necessary to prove what I say.." Kat says, reluctantly drawing her sword and striking an en grade position identical to how Kat was taught as a child.
The General is bathed in a blue glow, his body freezing still.
"I think not, mister B," Jurt says. "This confrontation amuses me, and it would be a shame to mar it with outside interference."
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Post by Katerina on Sept 14, 2022 10:35:03 GMT
"More than necessary." Kat replies, not wanting to get too distracted by Mister X's freezing of the General.
Kat takes the identical stance to her doppleganger, but this time the correct way around, hoping to leave her surprises until later. She attacks fully expecting the parry and counter move from her twin. Whilst copy-Kat has been getting others to do the dirty work for her, she had been learning other fighting techniques. Ones that Xu Liang had caught her out with in practice and that she knows will catch out the copy-Kat. For now though she is content with lulling Tacky into a false sense of security.
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Post by Admin on Sept 17, 2022 4:08:34 GMT
Tak meets Kat's blade with her own. She fights defensively, giving ground slowly.
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Post by Katerina on Sept 17, 2022 8:45:41 GMT
Trying to suss me out eh?
Kat tries some attacking moves that she knows that Tacky will know. No point in using the big guns straight away, she knows that neither of them will wear each other out quickly, and she knows that Tacky is jut doing what she is doing She is therefore preparing herself for something to come out of the blue and hoping to be able to counter it.
If nothing comes for a while, she will put it one of Xu Liang's moves to catch her mirror twin off guard.
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Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2022 15:48:05 GMT
They fight for a time. Over the sounds of clanging swords she hears Jurt say something and another voice, a woman's voice.
Tak still is totally fighting defensively.
[OOC: Haven't dealt with the Xu moves in case the other voice changes Kat's plans.]
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