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[Event] DEATHMATCH! - Printable Version +- ORIGIN (https://origin.boreal-nights.space) +-- Forum: IC Archives (https://origin.boreal-nights.space/forumdisplay.php?fid=50) +--- Forum: Year 7 Archives (https://origin.boreal-nights.space/forumdisplay.php?fid=63) +--- Thread: [Event] DEATHMATCH! (/showthread.php?tid=10199) |
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RE: [Event] DEATHMATCH! - Draconua - Jul 28 2021 Draconua shook herself where she sat, prior animosity seemingly forgotten. Rather than submit to the mutability and power of Chaos, to find greatness where nature and Order boasted none, the beast was leaving. Turning tail away from what was destined for this nest. Signing themselves into those she'd bide her time to destroy in the end. An immediate would've been too great of a mercy to spare Maximus. Instead, an arc of thunderous lightning made to strike just a foot or two behind a cloven heel. Her head tilted in Vargas's direction, a crooked, lopsided grin on her face. Nothing like a good bit of paranoia. She hoped they would spend the rest of their miserable existence checking over a shoulder. @Maximus (for vis.) RE: [Event] DEATHMATCH! - Maximus - Jul 28 2021
RE: [Event] DEATHMATCH! - Game Master Dark - Jul 28 2021 "Oooh-hoo-hoo, DRAMA--what? You're not gonna KILL IT? HA!" Nemean broke into a little fit of laughter, kicking her feet with amusement. "Just letting it go, just like that!? You've gone soft-?" She grinned at Vargas, and yelled after Maximus in her loudest voice--echoing through the arena, and across Orion--"TELL EVERYONE HE LOOKS GREAT IN A PINK LACY DRESS! BECAUSE HE DOES!" A wink to Vargas--who did not look amused--and she whipped out her clipboard and pencil. Out of where?
Who knew. Magic. "That's another one down. And not even any bloodshed. JEEEEZ." An over dramatic sigh, and she threw both pencil and clipboard down, hovering a little higher. "Anyway. NEXT FIGHT!" she cried. The music and lights continued. RE: [Event] DEATHMATCH! - Elayne - Jul 28 2021 note: this post was supposed to be, uh, like 3 pages ago-- i just didn't get around to posting sorry-- (it would've happened after the first few gembounds trickling in) Elayne arrived to the Deathmatch just in time, it seemed. By her side slunk Ultraviolet, looking half-starved despite her attempts to feed him on the way here. Clearly his time with the Creator had not done him any favors, the magic in his body-- His Magic-- was weakened.
It made him easy enough to manipulate. He was reliant on her at the moment, and the silly fool looked up at her with wide eyes when she told him his name before he even uttered his first word to her in his new body. (She was ignorant of the meeting he had with Aethril, though if she knew, that would certainly change things.) "Master Nemean!" Elayne called out, feeling a thrill rush through her veins. It wasn't her job to kill Nemean, but Master Farina was keen to see it done. Where was Hjalmar? Useless thing. "A pleasure to finally meet you," she smiled thinly, her porcelain mask of a face barely pulling the expression, and her molten eyes burned as they regarded the little fairy. "I brought a challenger," she explained politely, reaching her paw out to gently nudge Ultraviolet forward with a hungry look in her expression. "Ultraviolet, Displacer of The Unholy Light," she offered a title and everything, sparing not even a glance toward the valkhound at her side. "Or whatever you'd like to call him, I suppose. He's not picky." Was she throwing meat out to be devoured? Perhaps. But she liked to think this was a chance for Ultraviolet to prove himself. He wasn't going to get stronger without a bit of strife, was he? RE: [Event] DEATHMATCH! - ultraviolet - Jul 28 2021
Uvio... Ultraviolet had followed Elayne like a loyal dog, halfway across the caves with a growing sense of unease and dejavu. Had he done this before? He couldn't remember. The name, the name felt familiar, felt right, but he could not understand how Elayne had known it. It gnawed at him, even in the moments where it was almost easy enough to forget. When she brought him to a deer carcass and let him eat the rotted meat from the bones until he could no longer... He had no choice but to trust her. Thus far, she hadn't forced him to do anything, and it simply felt like he was... supposed to follow her.
He had no reason to doubt her. He had only the vague fog of memories and the single crisp memory of Aethril, trying to beat his will out of him. He still had his will. He knew that he did, even as he tagged after Elayne to a different source of power in Polaris, even as she calmly told him about the Altar where they had met. He could leave any time, and he had the sneaking suspicion she wouldn't even stop him. Maybe that was why he followed her anyway. It was a good thing that she didn't force him, though. He would die trying. He was too weak now to resist, anyway, his magic was pitiful and his body felt heavy. At the rumblings of the Deathmatch, Elayne had glanced to him with curiosity. It was a look that should have inspired fear, but she suggested that he might start feeling more like himself if he won a fight or two. And if he lost, and died? The way she said, You can always surrender, had his hackles raise. There was a chrysalis with his name on it. He followed her anyway. The drumming had never stopped, after all. He heard it now, quiet and insistent, demanding blood and for his body to be scraped flesh from bone. He wanted to fight, and worse, he wanted to kill. He didn't believe that Elayne was the mastermind behind those instincts, or even that she was fully aware of them. He followed her in, and when she spoke his name with pride and confidence he felt his head rise and for a moment, his fatigue was forgotten. Yes. He would fight. He glanced up at her as she towered over him, offering him forward like a prize, but her gaze avoided his. He would have wondered, perhaps, but the second doubt started to whisper in his mind, he banished it. He would not waste his breath on fears and anxieties. He felt a cold numbness rush through him like a shock, and his claws extended to dig into the stone under foot. "Yes," he declared shortly, in case there was any doubt. "I'll fight." Let them try to kill him. RE: [Event] DEATHMATCH! - Game Master Dark - Sep 07 2021 This post takes place several hours after the start of DEATHMATCH!, and marks the beginning of the second round. To reiterate, all DEATHMATCH! fights technically take place on the same (long) day. Posts after this point are considered as having occurred after the completion of all Round One fights. DEATHMATCH
Nemean rocked back on her stone bench, satisfied with the day's bloodshed so far. Speaking of her bench, it had--at various points during the battles--slowly accrued new decorations. A string of popcorn, a gold paper crown. Now it looked more like a throne, if very gaudy; just the way Nemean liked it. She had a clipboard out in front of her, and had settled tiny spectacles atop her little cat's nose as she examined the brackets thus far. She marked off the idiots that had thrown fits and left; the ones that had died, gotten their asses kicked, chrysalized; and a couple she just plain didn't like. The rest, well--she shut her eyes, and drew random lines from name to name. When she opened her eyes again, she matched up as best she could the random lines she'd drawn: never say Nemean wasn't fair. Right. New fight matchups: complete. Next step-... She buzzed up into the air, and then down into the back room, where the fighters should (hopefully, at least) be readying themselves for round two. The medics had been working on them, of course, but a lot of the injuries had been... well, just about fuckin' fatal. Medics alone wouldn't cut it. Luckily for Nemean, she had a secret weapon. Sort of. She wasn't sure exactly how it worked, and she was pretty sure it'd have some really awful repercussions down the line but that wasn't now so who even cared? "RIGHT! EVERYBODY LISTEN UP!" she shouted, then cleared her throat. A black velvet bag was lifted before her, swept away, held carefully beneath what it had contained moments ago: a glowing pink ball of some kind. She peered at it, for a moment. "This thing on? Fuck it. HERE WE GOOO." A wash of magic spewed out, rapidly knitting the wounds of the fighters, restoring lost blood, healing broken bones... Its power pulsed, a strange, somehow sad whispering filling the air. Nemean grimaced--but whatever she'd done, had worked. The fairy peered over the combatants, and judged them ready for round two. "Okay, warriors! I'm about to read the newest matchups, in order of appearance. LISTEN UP, and remember: you either win, or you fuckin' die! YEAHHHH!" The new matchups* can be seen in the first post of this thread, but are as follows: V-Labradorite-One vs Agate Two-Three-Six Wolfsbane vs Erebos Creosote vs Draconua Kalama vs Hunter Morganoth vs Pollen Galleon vs V-Selenite-One Catawampus vs The Sentinel Aurelia vs Baokrish * updated! Players may make their threads at their leisure, and tag a GM for their link to be included in the main post. While their characters will experience any long-lasting effects that would have come from a slow healing process (scars, weakened body parts, etc.), they will now be mysteriously once again fit to fight! @V-Labradorite-One @Agate Two-Three-Six @Wolfsbane (Erebos, Pollen, Baokrish) @Draconua (V-Selenite-One, Vakornol) @Terror @Creosote @Kalama (Galleon) @Faceless @Morganoth @Catawampus @Aurelia @The Sentinel RE: [Event] DEATHMATCH! - Game Master Dark - Nov 12 2021 This post takes place near the end of the DEATHMATCH! evening, and marks the beginning of the third (and Finalists') round. To reiterate, all DEATHMATCH! fights technically take place on the same (long) day. Posts after this point are considered as having occurred after the completion of all Round Two fights. DEATHMATCH
Nemean crashed into the back room of the arena with a trail of sparkles flaring behind her. "WOOOO! YOU GUYS FEEL THAT?! LET'S HEAR IT!" she yelled, into the middle of the few remaining fighters. "WE'RE ALMOST THERE! WE ALMOST HAVE OUUUUR CHAMPIONS!" The pink glowing ball was whipped out once again: lifted into the dim light of the Understage, its eerie glow flickering over the few remaining combatants. "You've all done GREAT so far--three cheers and shit--but you've got one fight left to go! -Maybe two," Nemean conceded; she was a little drunk and counting was hard. "Anyway, here's, uhh-" (tap, tap, and Nemean winced as her tiny fingers touched the surface of the crystal, which was honestly way too big for her anyway) "-fuck--healing! Woooo! REALLY I wish I could give you ALL rewards. But you gotta eliminate one or two more, y'know? Rockin' job so far, though, all of you. Especially you, spiky fish," and Nemean fired a wink at Galleon; "-but don't worry, Draccy, you're still my fave!" Nemean took a moment to blow tiny kisses at Draconua, and then at each of the other combatants: little pink wispy hearts formed in the air, bobbing and vanishing as they reached their targets. They didn't do anything. They were just... pink. "Right!" the fairy cried, snapping back to business, turning to buzz her way back out with a marching flap of wings. "Blood, blood, BLOOD, BLOOD! BLOOD! BLOOD!" The new matchups can be seen in the first post of this thread, but are as follows: Draconua vs Galleon V-Labradorite-One vs Hunter The Sentinel vs Vakornol Players may make their threads at their leisure, and tag a GM for their link to be included in the main post. While their characters will experience any long-lasting effects that would have come from a slow healing process (scars, weakened body parts, etc.), they will now be mysteriously once again fit to fight! @V-Labradorite-One @Agate Two-Three-Six (and Hunter) @Galleon @Draconua (and Vakornol) @The Sentinel RE: [Event] DEATHMATCH! - Game Master Dark - Jan 12 2022 DEATHMATCH
The fireworks were fucking deafening. Nemean's greatest work, she thought: great gouts of bright red sparks, combined with black confetti, that plumed through the air and scattered down across the bloodied arena and the stands. The music was howling, and what had been a death metal growl became a genuinely discordant, completely incomprehensible cacophony of sound: clangs and roars and bellows, almost more like monsters trying to sing. The spotlights swept around, and Nemean yelled down. "CAN WE GET ALL OUR SURVIVORS IN HERE? COME RIGHT DOWN, HEAD OUT FROM BACKSTAGE--EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY! -EVERYBODY WHO ISN'T DEAD! -Y'know what, though, if you're dead and you manage anyway-! Hooray for you!" Her voice, magnified a hundredfold by magic, filled the arena, overwhelming even the enhanced roar of the crowd. Lights ignited like blue fire, illuminating paths down into the arena floor. All Deathmatch! survivors were being invited down. Anyone else who tried to enter would be thrown out by magical means, tossed over the walls of the arena hundreds of feet and out of sight. "FIRST OF ALL, THANK ALL YOU NERDS FOR COMING! This DEATHMATCH has been a LONG time waiting... and y'all made it great! And BLOODY! WOOOO! I think we've got a new meta in the works, folks! NOW TO ANNOUNCE OUR WINNERS!" Overhead, for each winner named, a giant fake billboard of light illuminated an image of them--and flashes of their battles. "IN FIRST PLACE, the SENTINEL OF DRACO! In second, THE HUNTER OF WILD BEASTS! And in third, stuck in her fuckin' chrysalis thanks to the sand-shark--honorable mention there, like, damn--DRACONUA! Those three, come talk to me or Vargas to get your SPECIAL rewards!" "BUT ALL OUR FIGHTERS are winners, in the end! Here's all your rewards... watch carefully, now!" Nemean buzzed over to the first person in line, then to each one afterward. She held out tiny hands, and offered a rapid, overcomplicated series of gestures so complex as to genuinely be ridiculous. It was somehow possible to replicate without fingers, and knowledge of this technique was somehow granted even at a first viewing of the motion. Nemean was, though, careful only to show the combatants! "Use THIS shit at the backstage gate any time you want, you badass battlemasters, you. There'll always be FREE FOOD, FREE DRINKS, AND AWESOME MUSIC!* Party on! YEAHAHHHHH!" The sprite spiralled into the air, higher and higher, the fireworks raining down again. "THAT'S IT! YOU CAN ALL GO HOME NOW. UNTIL NEXT TIME!" The music swelled to a climax. It was genuinely awful, really. * The music is generally terrible.
@Kalama (Galleon) @Baokrish (Pollen, Erebos) @Nemesis (Merrow, Agate Two-Three-Six, Hunter, Ultraviolet) @Edric (Aspen, Porkchop, Faceless) @Terror @Twisted (Matthieu) @Abaddon (The Sentinel) @Khavur (Balder, Pratap, Alrik, Catawampus) @Vicktor (Firenze, Sabor, Aurelia) @V-Labradorite-One (Melinoe) @Draconua (V-Selenite-One) |