{"id":469,"date":"2015-05-26T23:53:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T04:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2015-06-04T22:01:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T03:01:57","slug":"champions-of-battle-tales-of-glory-lost-and-found-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"Sons of Sword: Tales of Glory – Lost and Found #15"},"content":{"rendered":"

After what seems like a few minutes, Metcalf started getting slightly impatient.\u00a0 From her screen she sees that Lance is<\/em> steadily filling out the contest criteria on his platform.\u00a0 It’s just taking a lot of time.\u00a0 Watching them from across the thirty foot squared pit she sees that each selection is met with a great deal of discussion mostly among Lance\u2019s companions.<\/p>\n

Most of the time, Lance was staring at the computer as though it would fill itself out.\u00a0 He would turn to ask a question from time to time.\u00a0 His friends would respond.\u00a0 Perhaps telling what they knew about the point trade system.\u00a0 Lance only submitted information when his face showed some hint of confidence.\u00a0 He was a guy that wanted to know exactly what he was getting into.<\/p>\n

Every now and then Lance would point down into the pit at the river stone.\u00a0 They were too far away for Metcalf to know what they were talking about.\u00a0 However, his pointing into the pit never got a positive response from his friends.<\/p>\n

For all she knew it was Lance\u2019s first drill, ever.\u00a0 It made sense that it would take him more time to understand what to enter into the system.\u00a0 Though it was trying, Metcalf tried her best to be patient.<\/p>\n

After about a decade, filling out the drill criteria was second nature for her she finished in a few seconds.\u00a0 She remembered back when she first started gambling Academy Points.\u00a0 Naoh and Koh filled out the criteria for her to “make things faster.”\u00a0 The criteria they set didn’t always benefit her.\u00a0 So, she understood Lance’s desire to know everything about everything.\u00a0 This was taking a bit of a long time though.<\/p>\n

After another few minutes, Lance was finally<\/em> ready.\u00a0 His face didn’t beam confidence she was used to seeing but his light was green.\u00a0 That was good enough for Metcalf.\u00a0 She had waited long enough, quite long enough to strategize.<\/p>\n

After checking the competitors one last time, the drill guard sounds the bell.\u00a0 It was time to put her strategy into play.\u00a0 Gripping the railing tightly she stares at the stone from her platform.\u00a0 The air in the Training Center slowly stills, replaced by the grinding screech of the river stone sliding on the pit’s cement floor.<\/p>\n

Metcalf traded the motion in the air flow to move the stone.\u00a0 Not to push it back or forth but to twist it so that more of the large imperfectly shaped stone would be in Lance’s territory.\u00a0 Then it was time to counter Lance’s attempt to twist the stone back.<\/p>\n

After just seven seconds, Metcalf started sweating and got a minor head ache.\u00a0 Lance had to be struggling too; she knew better than check.\u00a0 She had to keep her focus on the stone if she wanted to win.\u00a0 The stone was steadily moving the way she wanted it to.\u00a0 As in any contest, it was a struggle.<\/p>\n

This push drill felt very different than the others.\u00a0 She seemed to have more ambient motion to work with.\u00a0 She was using all that she could.\u00a0 The air was borderline stagnant.\u00a0 Even with the extra resources, the stone was barely moving.<\/p>\n

Her plan was worked; to a point.\u00a0 The twist was too much for him to counter and now more of the stone was in his area.\u00a0 She didn’t have to get the whole stone into his zone.\u00a0 Just end the time with more of the stone on his side.\u00a0 Granted, she gets more points if the stone is further in his territory.\u00a0 She had no time to think of that now though.\u00a0 She only needed to push harder.<\/p>\n

With twenty of the thirty seconds gone, her head was beginning to pound.\u00a0 Her focus was weakening.\u00a0 Her temperature was rising; she\u2019ll be sweating a while after this contest.\u00a0 All the effort she was putting in and almost nothing was happening.\u00a0 She started to wonder if she was doing anything at all; then the stone started to crack a little from the pressure.<\/p>\n

At twenty-five seconds, the time for strategy was ending.\u00a0 Fancy tactics at this point only caused trouble.\u00a0 This was where champions thrive.\u00a0 It was time to refocus her strength and push as hard as she could.\u00a0 Again, the stone moved oh so slightly but it stayed Lance’s area.\u00a0 Good enough for Metcalf.<\/p>\n

At the final bell she had won.\u00a0 The large stone almost moved three centimeters into Lance’s area.\u00a0 Her prize was about three hundred of his Academy Points; plenty of points to end the day.\u00a0 After the hardest thirty seconds of her life she needed a rest.<\/p>\n

Resting by the platform she sees Lance talking to his friends from across the pit.\u00a0 He wasn\u2019t very upset; then again they were definitely disagreeing.\u00a0 It doesn’t seem like they come to an agreement but Lance sends a message to Metcalf\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n

Metcalf answers the page and hears, \u201cCould we go again?”<\/p>\n

#1<\/a> \u2013 Lost and Found #14<\/a>\u00a0– Lost and Found #16<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After what seems like a few minutes, Metcalf started getting slightly impatient.\u00a0 From her screen she sees that Lance is steadily filling out the contest criteria on his platform.\u00a0 It’s just taking a lot of time.\u00a0 Watching them from across the thirty foot squared pit she sees that each selection is met with a great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,75,26,88,87,2,82,58,170,81],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-koh-lai","tag-lance-da","tag-metcalf-luo","tag-naoh-lai","tag-push-drill","tag-sons-of-sword","tag-steve-jia","tag-training-center","tag-uncategorized","tag-william-wei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}