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The heavy steel plate is meant to let a fighter shrug off long range musketry and close range pistol. It laughs at blades. It scorns the bite of bullet. In cover, with the heavy breaching shield out front, a line of vanguard breachers can take a trench line held by Aranski's finest forces or any Legion the Pytherii would like to throw down. It is not hand-me-down-armor. Commander Isenfrii has contracts with Reikan armorers and Vanadian suppliers. Ore from the high mountains north brought on Illiosi barges, alchemically treated alloy steel mixture from Kalcmiri specialists. It is the next best thing to sigil'd bondplate, and it has kept Markhan and other vanguards safe from countless harms and it *buckles like it's not even there* as the Strainsworn uses absolutely inhuman strength to squeeze -through it- and dent the plating around Markhans arm. He is in too close. He cannot swing the halberd. He throws a headbutt. It glances off. 0 damage.
The Strainsword - contempteously - perform a backkick. Crushfist rolls fluidly under it and comes up spinning around, turning the vault over the little fence into a high kick at a fragile looking piece of crystal. His foot smarts, but perhaps the Strainsword shuddered a little. Arrows made of ghostly blue light slap into the things flank and who even knows what that is about. Some of the pikeners draw shortswords and charge in and the blades glance off. A spearman yells and grabs his weapon in both ands and the tip dents as it rakes across crystal hide.
Wicklighter strikes once - bounce. Strikes again - ringing off of hardened defenses - the acid and salt and fire licks across the Strainsword. Crushfist puts the full weight of his body behind one final strike. Markhan roars like a lion and though his halberd avails him nothing he keeps smashing the heavy war gauntlets into the things pretend-face. Wicklighter cuts again.
Small cracks are appearing, flaws made manifest by the repeat strain of organised structures. Crystal is hard. Crystal is resilient.
Crystal is brittle when subject to deformation stress.
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