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(( It's not control of alcohol, it's control of liquids in air-based vapors. An ordinary cumulonimbus cloud would qualify, steam might qualify, perfume would only qualify once it had gone through the business end of the spray bottle, and the alcohol you were using only qualifies because that's how 'firebreathing' works. You need to spit the alcohol into a fine mist for it to work. Wiki it. A molotov is an alcohol-soaked rag in a bottle of liquid alcohol. It wouldn't qualify as mist at all.

Also, I'm sorry, but I have to call you out on your last post. You were charging Westly when you used the jutsu, which was aimed at Westly. You dodged the fireball without even so much as losing your eyebrows, let alone most of your face. The fireball was, what, a few feet from your face? Less?

Let me rephrase: You're saying, then, that Spitting Wolf can be dodged, at point blank, while charging directly towards it?!? That is the most useless attack I have ever heard! I refuse to believe that's what it does, or how it works. You'd never have used it in the first place, if that was the case, because a paraplegic could sidestep it with his wheelchair, gods forbid a ninja like Westly. ))

(( Okay... so now you've gone from dodging a point-blank fireball you were running towards to blocking it completely with a metal bracer. Metal being a conductor of heat, and a bracer striking me as entirely too small a thing to hide behind if you were hoping to avoid all damage. Lemme put it to you this way: what would you say if Westly had parried the Fire with his katars? You'd probably have a fit and say I was auto-dodging. And a metal bracer is about the same size as a pair of metal katars.

...look, just give it to me straight: is this going to be the kind of fight where you're never going to acknowledge a hit unless a mod is sitting on you? ))

(( Why would a defensive martial arts stance make it harder for me to defend myself? Why would any martial arts stance make it harder for me to move my hands in response to attacks? ))

Westly took a few steps back and made a mental note to buy a spear or polearm of his own. "Prod it with a stick" was about the only melee maneuver he'd be willing to try on a foe trashing like that. Or a ranged attack, he supposed.

He hesitated momentarily. I don't actually want to hurt him that badly... and I don't have that many Fireworks left over from my last fight. That being said, I'll never have such an opportunity again. He made a disgusted noise in his throat. I'll never understand these people. Ninjas. What the hell did Chaos do, exactly? Set fellow ninjas of Gaioh on fire without a license? Put them through excruciating pain outside of a sanctioned arena battle? Face it: there's nothing he could have done that we don't do to each other already. This work disgusts me. But I can't change the rules of the game until I win it.

He tossed a lit Firework at Yamado. More fire for the fuel. At least this one was prettier, what with the pink and blue sparkling lights.

(( I am not Westly. To me, Yamado is nothing more than a few lines of text. To Westly, Yamado is an actual human being, and a fellow ninja of Gaioh. I'm unlikely to feel remorse over writing something. Westly is absolutely going to feel remorse over setting someone on fire.

Unavoidable? Not really. I mean, I would've accepted a partial block, like what Westly's doing below, it's just the notion of throwing your hands in front of your face to completely avoid all damage that seemed kind of silly. As for the degree of the burn, what you wrote is plausible. Anything worse than that would be silly given the heat of the fire and the length of contact. 'Worst Sunburn EVER, dear gods get me some aloe vera, STAT!'

And... yeah, actually. I suppose Westly's mist sight is very similar to the Byakugan, minus, you know, almost all of the useful parts of it. No chakra sight, no telescopic vision, and it only works when both he and what he's looking at are in the mist. I can completely live with being accused of recreating a terrible version of a good ability. ))

The mist rolled over Westly around the same time as Yamado had thrown his spear. Unless he was in the mist himself, it blocked his vision as much as it did his opponent's. This seriously hampered his reaction time. Westly moved as if to dodge, but really, it was more like shifting in place. The small spear still struck Westly in the chest, it just missed his heart. The thick vest he was wearing slowed it a bit, and his ribcage stopped it entirely... but that was kind of like saying your skull had protected you from a knife wound to the forehead. It was still hardly a pleasant position to be in.

Westly tore the spear (and a few bits of skin) out, tossed it to the ground, and performed an odd jutsu on himself. Healing himself in the middle of combat was too slow and took too much chakra. The jutsu he performed was more like a bandage: nothing was really healed, he just wasn't bleeding out anymore.

Westly kept moving as he did so, walking under cover of mist, his eyes locked on Yamado.

How the hell does he see me? He's got... something... active... I can tell that much from how his chakra feels, but... what? He sighed. I wish I had some sort of ability to see chakra signatures....

Westly dove and rolled, the sort of move that would've been excruciating thanks to his chest wound if he felt it. Auto-Hypnosis was and likely always would be his most useful jutsu: the ability to ignore pain, to maintain composure and a calm, logical state of mind when locked in battle... there was no greater power. None.

Can't attack. I attacked last time, and I nearly lost. Hell, I *did* lose, I just bluffed my way out of it. The proof was in the flames: draw him in, let him overextend himself, and counter. Parry, riposte, never thrust.

Westly threw down another mist bead to keep the mist nice and thick. He drew his crossbow, reloaded it with an acid-tipped round, and put it back. But he kept moving.

I need to test him, is what I need to do. What are the limitations of his sight? How do I fool it?

Every motion leaves eddies in the mist. Hell, that spear is large enough to have a cross-section. The smaller ones were more of a problem. Freud would have a field day with this guy. Phallic symbols and penetration all over the damn place.

Westly stepped forward. The spear passed behind him. Thanks to the wire, it spun, wrapping around Westly's midsection like a harpoon and tow cable fired from a Snowspeeder on Hoth. After a few revolutions, he caught the spear. Wincing, he touched his wound with a hand that glowed with Chakra. With his katar, Westly cut the wire at the base of the spear and held it for a moment.

And yet, I find it's not long enough. I need a proper polearm or a pike. This thing is just silly.

Westly blinked. Wait, what was it that Shin told me about his fight with Yamado?

Westly grinned evilly. He smashed the spear to splinters and dropped a paper bomb on the remains. The wire was still wrapped around his waist, but he had enough give to step away from the small bonfire."So much kindling," Westly remarked, as they burned. They were only embers again soon enough thanks to the mist, though the damage was done.

(( Oh, wow, why didn't you say so? In that case, I motion to have you disqualified.

You failed to disclose this information, and so violated the rules. You are required to explain, or make available an explanation of, every single action you take, even if you believe that your opponent has no way of knowing it. You don't get to decide whether or not your opponent has any way of knowing what you're doing or how you're doing it. Or did you forget how much flak I caught for how I initially wrote my Genjutsus? One of Kei's Jounin Exam fights, too.

First the ceiling fan in plain sight, then the clones, and not to mention how "Mantra" works... You keep hiding s**t from me. You throw a fit whenever it seems like I'm gaining the slightest advantage. And as near as I can tell, Mantra is something you pulled out of your a** for this fight and has absolutely no purpose aside from beating one of Westly's signature techniques. Weren't you whining about Westly's mist sight seeming like the Byakugan? And then you pull out Mantra. Because it's okay to have a double-standard so long as only Westly gets hurt by it.

All these little things keep adding up. It's obvious that you're too emotionally invested in beating me, at any cost, even if it takes poor sportsmanship or just flat-out cheating. This is pathetic. I'd forfeit in disgust just to stop having to put up with this, except that would mean you won the exam. If this is what you consider a well-written fight, you don't deserve to be Chuunin. ))

(( Actually, I completely agree with that mentality. I just don't trust you to do it properly anymore, and it is a violation of the rules regardless. I used to write my illusions with painstaking attention to detail but with one little "tell" so they could realize it was an illusion without me telling them flat-out that's what it was. And I got mod-slapped for it because you're not allowed to hide things from your opponent, or more accurately your opponent's author.

And yes, can a mod come sort this out for us? ))