My opponent's response to having a knife thrown at him: http://overworldrp.org/index.php?to.....sg3053#msg3053

Summary: Rather than just dodge or the like, Saladin chose to have his character block the knife by forming a shield of wind around himself, and then faded into a sort of Dream World, where he could approached the direction the knife had come from without fear of being physically attacked.

There's a bit of filler on why Saladin reacted the way he did to such a minor assault.

The GT has set time limits for responses. If you go 5-days without responding to an attack post made upon you then the opponent has the right to do a follow-up post where the intended damage or effect is written as following through. An example would be: you write a post where you say your aim is stab the other other person in the chest, they don't respond for five days, so you write a post where your character stabs theirs in the chest, putting their blade right through the enemy's heart, and they fall down spewing blood.

Saladin, you'll note by the post dates, was already close to the time-limit, and I had already begun working on a post where Ichi's knife would have buried itself in his character's skull. But he had an additional problem. Saladin contacted me on AIM and said that he'd been invited on a vacation retreat for a full week, and wouldn't be able to respond in that time. He wanted to know if I'd delay posting while he was away.

I gave him a flat 'No'. I was paired against him in the second round of the tournament, and in that he not only never posted, but he never even returned any of the contact requests I made to him after the ground rules were laid out. There was, literally, no effort made by him to either post or to respond to my contact to him on AIM or via PM. I can understand a delayed response, like sending me a message to read while I'm away, or sending an offline one, but he did neither, even while both of us were clearly online.

Beyond that, he'd also been extremely slow in this round in doing anything at all, and the round's end was rapidly approaching. I was, quite simply, sick and tired of his low activity, and not inclined to give a free pass for more of it. So I told him I wouldn't be giving him free-time without a closed-connection post being made.

Saladin's response was the block and dimension shift, in an effort to put his opponent in a position where even if I tried to make an attack on him I wouldn't be able to, since he couldn't be reached.

Sadly for Saladin, I'm an AnimeLeague Roleplayer's Realm style sparrer. I'm not going to let someone duck out of a fight when I know I can still make a decisive move, and if Saladin thought that he had to worry about physical attack alone, I'd be more than willing to show him a bit of creative thinking.

I had Ichi-gou reactivate the diffusion field that was used to nullify the reality-warping abilities of my first-round opponent, Lucius. Saladin's character had warped himself into a dimension outside that of the fight. My character's intent was to bar him from being able to return, or even extend any influence into the area, thus winning the fight by default with a sort of ring-out.