Count Daniel Smith | Billcosby

**Alfred Blackwood Nods lightly towards the Count, pulling the sword outwards from his back with a 'Shink', puling it overhead and unwrapping rolls of cloth from his pouch, beginning to slide them along the blade, then wrapping thema round completely.
Alfred Blackwood says "How do you usually do it?"
**Count Daniel Smith He'd draw his blade, and step out from the middle of the road. He holds the weapon in a low guard and replies. "I am trying to train my ability to halt attacks. Just try to strike me with the flat side of your blade and I will block it."
**Alfred Blackwood Nods lightly as he positions himself infront of the Count, holding a high guard as he prepares his footing to strike towards the man, "Prepared?"
Count Daniel Smith says "I am."
**Alfred Blackwood Nods delicately at the Count, stepping forwards as he shifts the blade along the ground to his left side, jolting aheads and slashing the blade widely at the man's side with it's face.
**Count Daniel Smith As the man came in with the brash attack, the lord lunges back somewhat, but with a swift turn of his blade he swings it into the oncoming strike, just enough to take the momentum and deflect it with a quick block. Grinning at the lucky start.
**Alfred Blackwood Scrapes the blade against Daniels as it's redirected upwards, his force bringing it back along his side as he backsteps, repreparing his overhead guard. Afterwards, charging forwards again to smash down onto the man's shoulder with the face of his blade.
**Count Daniel Smith Taking the time to watch the mans action as he charges, focusing on his defense, the count raises his weapon up and twists it. He uses his exceptional experience with the specific weapon to bring one of his hands against the flat side of the blade, holding it up and blocking the incoming strike. albeit with some rough vibrations going through his arm as he'd step back and replace his hand on the grip.
**Alfred Blackwood Continues the blade downwards into the Count's block, a thud being pushed down the blade as he laughs lightly, preparing his guard again and pointing the blade forwards at a low angle. He pushes it foward to stab the blunted tip into his stomach.
**Count Daniel Smith As he was waiting to spot the next attack coming, he had been unable to stop the thrusting stab in time. But the blade plinked harmlessly off of his armor as he grunted and backed up. "Oh good one! Keep going." He commented as he raised his guard again.
**Alfred Blackwood Smiles at the comment, switching around his guard as he holds it against his side, lightly stepping forwards against at a face-first slash at his leg.
**Count Daniel Smith As the nobleman would come in, swinging a low slash at his leg, Daniel bent forward and swung his blade down to face the downward position, swinging it aside as he leaned over to knocked the hit away.
**Alfred Blackwood Continued the simple swing as the blade came down upon the blade, stressing the hilt as it's bashed into the ground with another crash, laughing heartily, "True. How much further?"
**Count Daniel Smith As the blade was knocked into the floor, it gave him time to regain his guard. Standing upright again and bringing his sword up he nodded and replied. "We can go until you do not feel like continuing."
**Alfred Blackwood Shrugs lightly, pulling the blade upwards as he begins to unwrap it, "I didn't feel like doing it much in the first place."
**Count Daniel Smith Lowers the sword slightly and chuckles somewhat as he speaks. "Very well. Shall we hold off on it then?"

**Ser Hideo nodded. He made a bow and began to step forward, bringing the gladius to his front. He started the dance first, starting slow, albiet this may be seem as fast to the others watching. With a simple overhead strike towards the right shoulder, and down to the left hip, he swung his sword. But he was intentionally spaced too far away for the attack to land, even if it wasn't parried. He just expected Daniel to try and meet steel with him.
**Count Daniel Smith Watching the man approach him with weapon ready, he held up a weak guard with the sword. And as Hideo swung the gladius down overhead in his direction, he brought his arm up. Raising the sword in one hand, in a stiff, and untrained motion he would connect his blade with the equally as unskilled swordsman in this style, parrying him just enough.
**Ser Hideo placed his left hand on his hip and stood almost sidewards to Daniel, stepping back right after the first strike. The two had exceptionally high dexterity, so their attacks were coming quick and fast- even hard for the spectators to see. But you could see their form lacked refinement. At the very tip of his step-back, he lunged forward just a bit, with a forward stab to the center of Daniel's chest. Again, the lack of confidence in his sword handling skills caused him to thrust from a safe distance.
**Count Daniel Smith After facing the first strike with swiftness, he would back off, maintaining his slight distance from the man, and as he came in, attempting to thrust the weapon towards himself, Daniel would tilt his sword inwards and to the side, and just by the skin of his teeth, he blocked it by raising the sword up, as akwardly as he was rapidly pushing on a lever, just able to deflect it.
**Ser Hideo placed his left hand on his hip and stood almost sidewards to Daniel, stepping back right after the first strike. The two had exceptionally high dexterity, so their attacks were coming quick and fast- even hard for the spectators to see. But you could see their form lacked refinement. At the very tip of his step-back, he lunged forward just a bit, with a forward stab to the center of Daniel's chest. Again, the lack of confidence in his sword handling skills caused him to thrust from a safe distance.
**Count Daniel Smith After facing the first strike with swiftness, he would back off, maintaining his slight distance from the man, and as he came in, attempting to thrust the weapon towards himself, Daniel would tilt his sword inwards and to the side, and just by the skin of his teeth, he blocked it by raising the sword up, as akwardly as he was rapidly pushing on a lever, just able to deflect it.
**Ser Hideo was forced to retract his blade back after it was deflected. He knew that good training came from good effort, so he tried to force it out of Daniel. He took another step forward, not stopping in the onslaught of attacks for him to parry. But he made sure to go steady enough for him to react to the swings. Instead of a slash towards his right shoulder, from the beginning, he immediately followed up with a slash to his left. It was out of range, again, but was still able to be parried. The force behind this swing however was noticably higher than the last few-- Daniel would seem to notice that he's putting up the gauge with the more blows he deflects.
**Count Daniel Smith Watching the incoming attack, and the increasing fury of each strike, he had best decided to back up and prepare so he could effectively swing the weapon in his single unwieldly hand. He allowed Hideo to swing at mid air, then turned the handle in his hand before he swatted it out, turning his forearm robotically to try and smack the gladius aside in a guard breaking manuever with the end of his longsword.
**Ser Hideo 's sword was swatted by the longsword, but his hand was awkwardly as stiff as a mountain as his weapon hand was barely brushed off to the side. This was less of a training issue and more of the fact that he had twenty four strength. However, he knew that in any other scenario the attack would've worked, so in the split second, he threw his guard way off and forced himself to back up.
**Count Daniel Smith Seeing the opponent back up in defense he would move in, extending his sword out at a slight angle with his hand stiffly gripping the blade. Once he came within range, he attempted an attack, quickly bringing his arm straight outwards, and attempting to swing it in at a diagnol low angle, attempting to slap Hideo on the side of his leg with the broadside of his sword in a long process, hoping he could get past the knights low perceptive abilities.
**Ser Hideo saw the swing coming and wasn't able to judge whether or not if it'd hit him. He suddenly lunged back as far as he could with the full strength of his legs, as if he was some Dark Souls boss. It seemed he knew where to compensate where he was weak, but it honestly seemed more like a sub-conscious reaction of anything. The tip of the sword just barely smacked against its intended target, due to his poor perception but insanely high reflexes, the latter resulting in a late launch.
**Count Daniel Smith After the opponent had backed off, he came in further in a quick marching advance. His weapon held inwards with a guarding stance, the lord swung a brief attack, attempting to swipe at Hideos arm with the broad of his blade the moment he came in close.
**Ser Hideo raised his sword in a more pro-active manner, trying to parry the attack further away from him to allow more use of footwork. If he was successful at all, he'd flow the parry into one complete motion, bringing his sword back around to smack the flat against the top of Daniel's weapon hand.
**Count Daniel Smith Watching hideo move his weapon to counter attack, stepped back once on his own. With his quick defense, he brough one wrist backwards, catching the gladius against his handguard. He was unagile enough with his one hand to deal with it correctly, and began to pull and try to shake the gladius off of his handguard with some quick and heavy motions.
**Ser Hideo pulled his gladius away anyways, suddenly pressing onward with his movements. He continued to dial up the power between the strikes of the flat as his swings kept on, throwing a flurry of random strikes at Daniel. They weren't clumsy, and came from good posture, but were all in bad taste with untrue technique. He didn't know how to use the sword properly at all.
**Count Daniel Smith With the sudden return of attacks, the count would begin to retreat with some crafty footwork, circling around as he backed up. While sending some rapid swings of his own blade, he basically half met hideo with his sword, a loose and blurry string of metal clashing against metal occured as he sloppily swung his blade in one hand to tire out the assault brought on by the knight while keeping distance.