Origin's Fifth Olympics
Welcome back, one and all, to one of Origin Cave’s most iconic events! Credits to previous GM Briar for developing the original version of this event way back in 2015! This year is being organized by Jaymie - if you have any questions, feel free to ask her or any of our GMs for clarification. We’ve got a bit of a twist this year, and an extra special finale, so stick around to see the fireworks!
What is the Olympics?
The Origin Olympics are a set of three competitions -
Magicka Show, Wrestling Tournament, and Obstacle Course, showcasing the skill paths of magical, physical, and others, respectively. Characters are free to enter regardless of their chosen path or level - results are based on a combination of rolls and your in-character creativity! So come and show us what you got!
This year, the Olympics are being sponsored by Overseer Tectus and will take place in the caves around Orion. The purpose of this year is to find our most worthy candidates to face the NPC
Saran’zol, the Unbound Champion in a raid-style boss encounter!
Events
The
Magicka Show will take place by the Spire in Polaris. Each character will have three turns to give a display of their most impressive and creative magical abilities! The results will mostly be based on RNG, but creativity may win the judges over - so show us the most creative and spectacular uses of your spells that you can think of!
— Using spells on anyone but yourself is grounds for disqualification - nobody is getting hurt here!
The
Wrestling Tournament will take place in the Forum of Orion. This is a bracket style tournament where you fight your way to the end in a series of 5 round battles. These are intended to be
wrestling matches, not full-on fights - intentionally causing damage or injuries or using magic is grounds for disqualification.
— For fairness sake, age bonus will be capped at +5
— Characters are expected to post rather quickly to keep the fights moving - you should respond within 3 days or your character will suffer an automatic loss.
The
Obstacle Course will take place throughout the cave of Monoceros. This is a display of your character’s speed, agility, and problem solving, through a marked dash across the cave. Characters are not permitted to fly, use magic, or otherwise skip sections of the course to get them to the end. A successful roll will move you to the next section of the course. Failing a roll will hold you back - you should continue to roll until you have successfully moved through each part of the course.
— Characters physically incapable of going through the course cannot place or win prizes, but they can still participate for the fun of it!
Rewards
Each character can only claim
one placement reward across the entire olympics. Characters may enter as many competitions as they want, but they can only win placement rewards once. They can still earn medals and all character can claim participation rewards!
— First place in each Event will receive ʡ 400
— Second place in each Event will receive ʡ 300
— Third place in each Event will receive ʡ 200
— All placing characters will receive a medal achievement!
— Participation in each Event will net that character ʡ 50, regardless of placement. May be redeemed multiple times on the same character, per Event.
— Successfully helping to set-up, judge, announce, et cetera will net each character ʡ 75. Redeemable once per character.
Magicka and achievements will be handed out automatically at the closing of each event.
The Unbound Champion
The finale of the Olympics will feature a raid-style boss encounter with the NPC Saran’zol - the top three winners of each event will be eligible to participate.
This is an optional event. If you do not want a specific character in the fight, please make it known and we will select the next placement to participate instead.
All characters that fight against Saran’zol will earn an achievement for their bravery. Be warned - while this is not a deadly fight, Saran’zol is a powerful NPC that can, and will, knock characters into their chrysalis if they are reduced to 0 HP, and apply a
modified minor chrysalis consequence. These are slightly different and less punishing than your typical consequence - more details will emerge once we get to that!
Any characters still up at the end of the fight will receive a special spell and ʡ 100, and the top 3 fighters will receive additional, and very special, IC rewards!
Roles
Participating in an event means you are actively competing in an event. Players may only have a maximum of
two characters per event.
Helping is taking a secondary role in the Olympics - setting up the Obstacle Course, being a stand-by medic, judging, announcing, etc. When signing up to judge, its recommended that the character stick to the event corresponding with their level path, but if a particular event is overflowing with judges, we may move some elsewhere. You will be asked beforehand.
Spectating means a character is posted watching the events, cheering for participants, etc. and does not require signups. Spectating will not yield any extra magicka, besides typical thread claims.
Unfortunately, due to circumstances,
Ordered characters will not be allowed to participate but Mother may have something extra for them to do in the meantime, so keep an eye out!
Dates
Registration will close on
June 30th and the events will begin on
July 7th! Once the events begin, late entrants will not be accepted, unless in the case of new or returning members.
Setup threads should be started or joined no later than
June 30th and should aim to be complete before the events begin.
— There is no hard requirement for setup, they are just for fun and flavor, so go be creative!
Signup Form
Code:
[b]OOC Name:[/b]
[b]Character:[/b] Please use [character=username] to link to their profile!
[b]Role:[/b] Participating/Helping?
Copy and paste this form for however many characters you're entering!
