Hmm sometimes i have no time to come up with witty romanticized phrase for engaged or engaging. When someone is attacking you without warning all i can say is "Engaging" because fighting a gunboat in anything less then another gunboat you have to stop typing and start evading like hell.
so really if the person gives me a chance RP they i take it up but 90% theres no chance in Hell i'm going to be allowed RP when all the person wants is to kill me