Mage vs. Mage

In the shiny corner, we have Pasifika, lvl 75 whm/nin!

She's wearing her Noble's tunic and crown, and dual wields clubs, Brass jadagna and Deae gratia.

In the shadowy corner lurks Romidiant, a lvl 74+ rdm/nin!

He's wearing the Tactician magician's cloak and wielding, err, a shiny dagger.

The match is about to begin, but let's rewind a little to see where this is coming from. How could Romidiant turn against his best adventurer friend?!

Romidiant has always been ready to adventure with Pasifika. Always ready and willing to help, always polite, never telling white mages shouldn't melee... Such a perfect adventuring fellow.

Just a while ago he saved Pasifika from those quadavs, when yet another one of Luto's schemes backfired.

Pasifika is always happy to help him out, too, with investigating the emptiness or whatever needs to be done. Every now and then Romidiant bakes her a loaf of homemade bread they can share while on the road.

Romidiant has been steadily improving, both becoming more powerful and wearing nicer clothes. He has come a long way from wearing the useful but plain race specific vest. :D He's starting to catch up with Pasifika. And... it seems he'd like to surpass her.

That's understandable, but a duel? With Pasifika? But... but... I blame it on that mithra, Luto always has such twisted ideas... @_@

And so Pasifika had no choice but to duel with Romidiant. He always looks so impressive and intimidating with the great katana Pasifika got for her, although Luto probably took credit for that... but he would prefer a dagger?!

It's a nice one, though, pretty handle, decorated blade... but totally useless against Pasifika's stoneskin. And no en-spell on it, until near the end?

Romidiant made a valiant effort to sleep/nuke, but looks like no one told him casting poison first wasn't such a good idea. Romi clearly hasn't practiced soloing enough! Perhaps it's time for him to do things on his own, maybe take some more of those 30m a piece jobs from Luto he's been doing lately. >_>

He might like to avoid Pasifika for a while anyway, after that last Hexa Strike. Got a little carried away, sorry about that. ._.