iamnuff said:
welp, we ran into melee against a guy who is probably impossible to cut with a melee attack.
Flaming sword against a guy vulnerable to heat and close to being evaporated. Normal melee weapon, no, wouldn't have done much. Flaming sword, different story. Didn't work, but for reasons I at least did not expect since I didn't think he'd still be able to pull those tricks or that we'd be able to dodge with him with his back to the wall.
uju32 said:
My thought exactly.
Apparently not
If I remembered this, I would have voted for pegging him with Fireballs.
I'm leaning towards off with his arm.
Huh, so he can be dismembered but not permanently? Good to know. I was a bit worried aout village relations if we chopped off a successor's arm and set a more vicious tone for the exam, but if Suigetsu CAN recover from chunks of his body ripped out....well, okay, it still makes him a bitch and a half to put down and we're likely need to hurl everything we have at him, but we might be able to win without causing an international incident.
It also occurs to me that if we had broken his sword or sent if through the window he'd have just pulled this trick earlier, and we wouldn't have had a flaming ceiling. So....yeah, I got no excuse for not considering that. Shoving the sword into a wall was actually a pretty good move, we just didn't choose to fireball his position. :/
More speculation and trying to refine an idea that would let us get away here. Supposing we took a shot at his arm and laid down a tag. Suigetsu is letting us go one way or another, we get a bit more ground, hopefully take less damage. Unless we need to hold onto the tag, then there's nothing to be done.
When Furiko is being mysterious it usually means something worthwhile or interesting is there which is why her hints towards surrendering is the only reason I'm considering the option, but.....I straight up hate conceding defeat. I'm not a very good loser, at best I just put on a good show. I'm trying to keep myself in check here and consider what's best.