Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20161222000051/@comment-25155763-20170127014102

Ea225225 wrote:

Oceanhalo12 wrote: Omg Mark what do you not get?

Piper cant use charmspeak and fight its confirmed IN THE BOOKS!!!

This is like the fourth time I've pointed it out and every time you say what you think Piper would do, you conveniently skip over the fact. I never said she was a bad swordsman or anything of the sort, its just she cant take the offense and use charmspeak.

Lets look at it: Across the arena, Piper yells "stop!" Leo stops. Piper pulls out her sword. Immediately while she's doing that, Leo an snap out of it and put earplugs in. Then its just a girl with a sword against a boy who can build bombs in minutes. She tries to get near him, he sets himself on fire. Now Leo has time to pull whatever out of his belt and build something, assuming he takes that route and doesn't just set her on fire. Dude, Piper can just keep saying stop and stop every time Leo snaps out of it, Piper is smart, she's seen people that have snapped out of her charmspeak before so that seems like a reasonable thing to do. Also, even if Leo covers himself with fire, that won't stop Piper since she can just throw her knife at Leo. Leo covering himself with fire and dodging something that fast takes too much concentration. Also, how far do you think their apart to think that Leo can build something that fast...So sorry Leo😢 Umm an Arena's pretty big so distance isn't an issue...

No, that's not reasonable at all. For one thing, that would make fighting impossible because in between every stroke of her sword or jab of her dagger she would have to says stop. Not to mention she says the more she uses her charmspeak the less effective it is, same reason why she says she can't just keep saying drop your weapons to the Romans at Camp Jupiter and Fort Sumter. And your point that she's seen people snap out of her charmspeak only helps my argument. Aside from the fact that she stated she couldn't, its obvious she can't because as you said, "she's seen people that have snapped out of her charmspeak", so it she could continuously use it she would have in all those situations.

And Leo HAS DONE THINGS WHILE ON FIRE multiple times so that's not an issue. Even if he couldn't keep up the fire, he only has to stop the fire when she throws, which she can only do once, afterwards it would be behind Leo, who can now raise his fire shield once again.And Piper's never shown to have above-average aim so... So sorry Piper