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As his detached arm reeled in, the fingers folded backwards around the end of one of his feet, gripping it.

What is he doing now? Detaching one of the blades to use as a sword? That doesn’t seem worthwhile, though, especially if it messes with his balance.

He retracted the blade at the toe of the other foot and dropped that foot flat on the ground.  The motion seemed to unbalance him, and he teetered, almost falling over.

Yeah, like this but on the other foot. But if he does this, he could detach the other blade and not get the balance issue I was talking about.

But I stand by what I just said. It doesn’t seem worth it to switch to detached swords when he can do all the stuff he can do with his body.

Then in one sudden motion, he righted himself and thrust out with his other leg and the three-foot blade that was now attached to it.

…alright. Couldn’t he do that without detaching the other one, or did the pointy end just not give him enough foothold to do it?

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As the blade bounced off my baton, he reversed the direction his upper body was turning to start spinning like a top.

By putting one arm forward first, he increases the distance the other arm has to build momentum for the sledgeblade. This next hit is going to be even harder.

His one attached arm hurtling around him, he sprung at me.  I threw myself back and away, escaping by a mere two inches.

Watch out for the arm! Presumably he took into account Skitter backing away from the body lunge when aiming his arm swing.

Unless I’m reading this wrong and Skitter just avoided the arm swing rather than the lunge.

His spinning upper body had, with his right arm spooled out, caused the chain to wind around his body.  He began reeling it in, the arm and blade drawing a lazy circle around him.

!!!

Ooh, I think we found his weakness. Too much spinning and such, and he risks tying himself up, leaving him open to attack while reeling in, or even so tied up that he can’t do much. That sounds like it would be a glorious way to defeat him.

I backed away, thinking I finally had a chance to get my bearings.

Right, leaving him open to attack and giving the opponent time to do other things.

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Mannequin lunged for me, his bladed toes biting into the ground for traction.  He moved fast enough that his arms trailed behind him like twin ribbons in a strong wind. 

He stopped several paces away from me, turning his body to swing at me with his right arm and the three foot long blade that was attached to it.  If I hadn’t known better, I would have thought he’d fall well short.

Much like Jack’s blades, the extra reach lends itself to more powerful hits in open spaces. Better watch out!

But his arm extended on a chain, giving the swing just enough reach to put the blade on a collision course with my head.

I’m not sure whether extending the reach in the middle of the swing rather than before it is a good thing, though. It’s useful if you’re in an enclosed space and risk hitting things otherwise, or if you need to hit more quickly with reach, but I think that comes at the cost of impact force?

I parried it with my baton.

Nice.

The hit was heavy, more like trying to fend off a sledgehammer than what I’d expected.  I almost lost my grip on my weapon.

Yeah, it may be a blade, but he’s using it like a sledgehammer. Much like how, even though it’s shaped like a sword and has the same cutting edge advantage as a sword does over an axe (more cutting edge means you don’t have to hit as precisely to do damage), a greatsword is actually a polearm because of how you have to use it.

Plague 12.7

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Howdy! Welcome back to the liveblog! 🙂

Last time, Skitter did an excellent job organizing the relief efforts in the immediate wake of the Shattering in her territory, right up until Mannequin stopped by to unorganize them again. Even if he’s chased off now, he’s killed at least four people, probably more, including the paramedics, so he’s already put a serious spanner in the works for the relief efforts after he’s gone.

Now Skitter is pissed. Well aware that Mannequin’s power offers him a potentially even stronger advantage over her bugs than all the other enemies who were strongly defended against them had, she’s still challenging him to “make him regret” what he’s been doing.

I want to clarify that while I used this at the end of the last chapter:

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…that was just to represent Skitter’s attitude. I do not think it will actually end in death for Skitter or even Mannequin, though I wouldn’t be surprised if Mannequin takes out a couple more civilians while ignoring Skitter’s attacks.

One thing’s for sure: In order to have any chance of winning this (on her own, anyway, but backup ex machina here would be less acceptable than it was in Gestation, where it counted more as setup – if anyone’s going to help, it should probably be one of the civilians or Charlotte), Skitter is going to need to be clever. I’m sure she has what it takes to come up with an effective strategy here, though I’m not clever enough to think of one myself at the moment. It’s not like we didn’t know Skitter is smarter than me in many ways. 😛

I’m looking forward to seeing what she comes up with, so without further ado, let’s go play with our action figures!

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Howdy, everyone! What’s up?

Oh, you’re waiting for some guy to start liveblogging chapter 12.7 of Worm? Sounds like a good time. Well, have fun with that whenever it starts! See you later 🙂