Mountain Tournament

[Nyxlie]

Nyxlie watched as Shinzui walked out of the room followed closely by the sound of a small explosion.

Hrm, not exactly the most friendly sort.

Nyxlie finished her apple and got up herself, looking around her.

Let him train. I'm going to take a nap first.

[Dove_CG]

OOC: Wow. I spend the night playing D&D and everyone has already posted about ten times. Btw, it would be nice if you responded to my OOC comment, Shinzui, so that I at least know you read it and acknowledged it in some way.

IC:

"You DO know that destroying the stonework could cause a cave-in, right?"

A raspy, masculine voice comes from somewhere behind Shinzui. The owner of it is a white cat, should he look to see.

Back in the waiting room, a small, colorful cat appears, jingling slightly and carrying a plate with some very crisp, burnt fishies on it. He smiles at the rabbit and curls up in a free seat.

[DaiRraito IS, FurryLAE.]

"I know..." I went back in the training room.....
I walked over to the destroyed wall, clapped my hands together and placed them on the hground, then the wall reformed.....
I walked out "Problem solved...." I said as I walked over to get something to eat......((im also a full-fledged alchemist....how surprising ))

[Dove_CG]

OOC: Shinzui, you're still not responding to my OOC comments. I consider that impolite at the least and offensive at the worst (because it would suggest that you just don't care what I'm saying and think that I'm a joke.) Your in character personality can, of course, be whatever you want (within logical reason) but your out of character actions reflect on you as a real person.

IC:

Jibe followed him, tail swishing side to side.

"It's not that simple, wolf. The mountain is right behind the wall there and it's all limestone. Did you check it for damage too? And what you do  could affect the rooms around you, if you hit hard enough to knock the roof off. So unless you really want to destroy the arena in record time, I wouldn't try that again," Jibe says.

[DaiRraito IS, FurryLAE.]

(( what question?  +++2 ))
I stopped....."I know...." I said to him...
"Tell it to someone who cares, I checked for damage!" Is what I was thinking....  +++2
I continued walking to the kitchen, when I got there I a banana....
"Yum, bananas..." I thought to myself as I ate it....
I walked back to the waiting-room and sat down....

[Nyxlie]

Nyxlie looks over to the smiling cat and grins back, "Well hello there little one. And what might you be doing here?"

She raised an eyebrow, tilting her head at the small cat and chuckled, "Surely you're not part of this tournament."

At that moment Nyxlie looked up when she heard Shinzui coming back to the waiting room.

Didn't train long, she thought to herself.

[Dove_CG]

OOC: I didn't have a question before, per say, and I am sorry if I sound irate.

My initial out of character comment was simply a suggestion, for your own sake, and I simply wanted to know that you had read it. Basically, I was noting that the Thousand Needles attack could provoke disqualification, if your character has no control over where each wind needle goes, since such a large amount would most likely hit the entire body indiscriminately.

But here is an actual question... Does your character have anything they can't do or aren't good at? From here, it looks like you're not following the setting, as stipulated in the initial orange text, if only because your character seems to have no limits.

IC:

Jibe watched the wolf continue onward and shook his head. The criminal negligence this wolf showed weighted heavily on him, more heavily than he normally would have anticipated. Such an act of knowing possible life-endangering outcomes and then ignoring the potential anyway was downright disgusting, even to someone who usually wasn't so worked up about safety. He had no idea that Shinzui could read minds but he wouldn't have cared if he did. With his hands in his coat pockets, he wandered away to see his father.

Jester, in the meantime, continued smiling at Nyxlie. He set his plate in his lap and thumped his chest with one hand.

"I might be... not as tall as some but don't underestimate me!" he said, "Which would be very important to keep in mind if we're in a match together."

Of course, his high-pitched voice (a little lower than a child's but still high enough to be considered uninspiring) isn't the best for impressing anyone else with such a statement. Not knowing or not concerned with this fact, he then jabbed a fork into one of the very charred chunks of tuna and stuffed it into his mouth. He didn't grimace at all, upon tasting it, and quickly prepared another bite with his utensil. Then, remembering half of his manners, he tried speaking around his mouthful.

"Oh! But forgive me... I'm Jester. And who might you be?"

Whenever Shinzui arrived in the room, Jester looked over and nodded a greeting, but most of his attention was on Nyxlie because she had spoken to him first.

[Nyxlie]

Nyxlie looked back at Jester. "Ah, Nice to meet you, Jester. I'm Nyxlie," smiling, "And I can't wait to see your... fighting techniques if you're indeed entering the tournament."

Yawning, Nyxlie leaned forward, resting her elbows on her knees, "I really need to get some sleep. That trek was pretty tiring. But before I do, I wanted to know when exactly this starts."

She looked out a window with a curious look on her face, "We've only really been given an idea of the time this starts. Is there something special we don't know about?"

Plus it looks like I came a bit earlier than what I intended, she thought, wondering where others were at the same time.

[DaiRraito IS, FurryLAE.]

(( weaknesses: anything earth elemental, silver weapons, light magic, I can only take 3 arrows until i'm worn out a bit, at twilight i become a demon making me a killing machine that good? ))
I walked into the waiting room...."Jibe is becoming increasingly annoying..." I thought to myself....
"Hey.." I said sitting down...staring at the ground....
"When does this tournament start?" I asked, not knowing that Nyxlie had already.....

[Dove_CG]

OOC: Thanks. Normally I wouldn't ask for anyone's weaknesses because I want there to be surprises in battle. I was growing concerned and I'm glad you had some to list. Let me go over them though.

Anything earth elemental, silver weapons: Perfectly reasonable
Light magic: Sounds okay except that I'm not certain what was meant. Just anything involving the creation and usage of magical illumination?
3 arrows: I don't understand how exactly the arrows would differ from a dagger, for instance. If there is a distinction then I am simply ignorant, so please enlighten me.
At twilight i become a demon making me a killing machine: ... Umm. If this actually has some impact on the tournament, your character would end up disqualified, because homicidal tendencies=getting kicked out. Even if the reason is that your character turns into a demon, that is still the case. And if he transforms during any match, a killing machine is going to intentionally go for the areas that are against the rules to hit (especially in a lethal manner, which is also against the rules) so he would get disqualified then too. You'll have to come up with something different for that last weakness, just for this RP.

Btw, you already went into the waiting room and sat down before. Please pay closer attention to your own prior posts. If you need to refresh your memory on what you already did, there is no shame in rereading what you wrote last time.

"Yum, bananas..." I thought to myself as I ate it....
I walked back to the waiting-room and sat down....


IC:

"I imagine they'll wait another day or two, to see if anyone else joins up."

[Nyxlie]

((The problem I'm having is that your character has too MANY abilities. You fight, you use magic, you can run at a super speed, you read minds, you heal, you use alchemy and now you turn into a demon at twilight. It gives your character a very.. unreal feeling about him. I don't say this to be mean, I just tell you this because it takes away from a RP.

For instance, take a look at my character. I only claim to have a street fighting technique and a great knowledge of guns. If I can't deal with it with my wits, speed and agility, then tough luck for me. I'm not saying make your character as err... normal as I've made mine but if you want your character to be believable by other RPers, you just simply can't have all these abilities. Even in pen and paper RP, a character can't use fighting skills and magic and be extremely good at both. You're claiming the age of 19 and already Shinzui has all these abilities? And can use them fairly well?

Once again, I don't say these things to be mean or rude. I just think these are things you need to think about when you RP. And I mean any RP you join in. It's hard for a RP to be as enjoyable or as believable with so much going on with your character. Unless you've written some kind of back story that explains these things in greater detail about your character. If you have, I'd love to take a look.))

IC:

Nyxlie blinked slowly and yawned, "Hrm, alright. I'm going to take a nap then. Wake me if you need me."

[Takuya Hakumei]

Name: Tekai Kurosaki(prefered name: Squall Okami)
age: 19
Species: Arctic Fox
Apearence: A tall thin boy of sevevteen, he isn't very strong. He has a score of longish(medium length) icey blue hair, usually very messy or jamed into a ski cap. He wears long, tight, dark blue pants, a black longsleeve shirt and a blue board vest with icey blue flames up the sides. He always has boarding gogles around his neck and is never seen without his snowboard, wich is black, with (you guessed it) icey blue flames on the front, exept when he is in bed,(wich he hopes that no-one has seen him in omg) he wears skintight, leather black gloves that go halfway to his elboes, to protect him from the cold.
Personality: He is a fun loving, thrill seeking snowboarding pro, and is very friendly. Although trying to make friends with evryone has caused trouble for him in the past, it doesn't discourage him much. He is very determaned, wich is some times viewed as stubornness.
Abilities: Has great (but limited) control over ice and snow, and, being a boarder, is very fast. He has somewhat decent fighting skills, but, relying greatly on his power, it is very limited.


The wind was flying in his face, pushing particles of ice into it, cuting him lightly, rushing down at speeds thought inhumanly possible, Squall Okami was about to atemp a trick previously just out of his grasp. It would have been a succes too, save the piece of paper that flew up at him, sticking tohis goggles
"What the?" he exclaimed, swerving to his left, into a tree.
"Shit!" he exclaimed, brushing the snow from his legs "What was that?" He grabed the paper and examined it, it was for a turny in the town near his current location. "Hmm..." he thought, "this would be a great oppourtunity to improve my skills..." decicion made, he hopped back onto his board, turning righ, towards the village.


Walking into a bar he ordered a straight firewhisky from the bartender, a large, balding man cleaning a clean glass with a dirty rag. He sat down across from an older bunny. "Hey, I'm Kai, but call me squall, nice ta meecha!" he indroduced, holing out his left paw

[DaiRraito IS, FurryLAE.]

(( If im asleep i don turn all....homicidal.. and yes light as in illumination.....and when i said I WALKED OUT i never said i went back to the waiting room i said i went to GET SOMETHING TO EAT and when i walked outta the room to FIX THE WALL if you want me outta this RP ill commit Seppeku and be off your hands  +++2  +++2 and fine ill take out magic and healing plus healing is considered magic....except for the ability to send an eletrical current thru my arm thats my signature move...ive used it in ther rps and plus it dosnt kill the person if theyre strong enough...it just is basically if the other char. hasnt taken any damage it will wear them down to where they will have to forfiet that is if the hit landed..))
"Another day or two?" I thought impatiently...."In that case I'm off to bed as well..." I said as I stood up..."Where exactly are the beds first of all.."  :umm: "No one really ever told us.." I continued....

[Dove_CG]

OOC:   ^._.^

Sorry for the really huge post but I felt it was necessary to address various things before the plot moves along much further. First things first...

Stelthninja21, please understand that what I have been saying out of character, I have not been saying to be expressly annoying. We may have started off a bit on the wrong foot but I assure you that I am only trying to be helpful and make certain that everyone has a reasonable amount of fun. If my comments make you angry, then perhaps this thread isn't for you, as I am only trying to abide by the setting and rules I stated when I started this thread. I will not make exceptions for myself and I will not make exceptions for other players. (It isn't fair to the people who are playing by the book.) Note, I am not trying to pressure you to leave or to stay. I want you to do what is right for you. I will respond to your post in full, in case you would prefer to stay, since I must stress that these are relevant and important issues regarding the in-character plot.

---

(( If im asleep i don turn all....homicidal..

The problem is, this is a really awkward weakness for this plot thread. Twilight is by definition from daybreak to sunrise or, more commonly, from sunset to nightfall. It's the transition between day and night, it is not the entire evening. So if sleeping for an hour (or even him sleeping through the night, since the matches are being held during the day anyway) keeps it from being an issue, then it impacts nothing and it would be better to drop it for a different weakness. If he doesn't sleep and ends up in a homicidal state, then it will have an impact but it will get your character kicked out of the in-character events. This means it will hinder you to the point that you will be able to use it for a couple of posts and then have to drop out of the thread. If you want to leave the thread, in character, without going through the whole tournament, this is certainly an option. But if you would like your character to stay in it and try to succeed, you do not want this weakness. It's a viable weakness for any other thread. It just doesn't work out very well in this one.

and yes light as in illumination.

Kind of an unusual weakness but it can certainly work. I still want to know how arrows are really distinctive weaknesses. Are they a bane to him, the way the silver items and earth magic is? If so, that is fine. But if they are not, I can't wrap my mind around how it works.

+++

and when i said I WALKED OUT i never said i went back to the waiting room i said i went to GET SOMETHING TO EAT and when i walked outta the room to FIX THE WALL

This is the biggest problem I see right now. In a fighting RP, it is very important to keep up with the details of what has been going on. Mistakes can happen and are easy to make, particularly in large posts, but when something like this happens regarding a set of very short and uncomplicated posts, it sets off my worry meter. Let me quote exactly what was posted by you. I have omitted the out of character comments, and all of the posts written by other players, but the order in which Shinzui did things is still apparent.

"I know..." I went back in the training room.....
I walked over to the destroyed wall, clapped my hands together and placed them on the hground, then the wall reformed.....
I walked out "Problem solved...." I said as I walked over to get something to eat.....

I stopped....."I know...." I said to him...
"Tell it to someone who cares, I checked for damage!" Is what I was thinking....  +++2
I continued walking to the kitchen, when I got there I a banana....
"Yum, bananas..." I thought to myself as I ate it....
I walked back to the waiting-room and sat down....

I walked into the waiting room...."Jibe is becoming increasingly annoying..." I thought to myself....
"Hey.." I said sitting down...staring at the ground....
"When does this tournament start?" I asked, not knowing that Nyxlie had already.....

So unless Shinzui walked towards the waiting room, sat down on the ground before entering the waiting room, then stood up and finally entered the waiting room before sitting down again (on a chair or on the ground; as nothing specific was mentioned it can be assumed he sat on the ground, I guess), it doesn't make sense. If you believe I have fabricated anything that I quoted above, reread the thread. Incidentally, when you are typing up a post in the input box, the thread below it is shown in reverse order.

I am not doing this to be a jerk. Like I said, we all make mistakes. I am simply concerned because, if this happens frequently in future posts, it could become extremely confusing as to what is going on during in-character matches.

+++

and fine ill take out magic and healing plus healing is considered magic....except for the ability to send an eletrical current thru my arm thats my signature move...ive used it in ther rps and plus it dosnt kill the person if theyre strong enough...it just is basically if the other char. hasnt taken any damage it will wear them down to where they will have to forfit that is if the hit landed.

Nyxlie brought up a reasonable point and I would agree to maybe shaving off a few things. However, I will note that a character can be a jack of all trades, master of none. If you wish to be a master at all these things, you would have to remove some. You could keep more of the magic, if you have some clear limitations on how it is used. I'll give an example (though I really wanted most of this to be a secret, until Jester was in a match, but no matter.)

Jester has the ability to use magical fire but this is limited. His fire runs on his body's energy, which can wear him out if he uses up too much of his body's nutrients, and unlike magical fire from some fantasy stories/games, it really does burn. In fact, it burns him and it can latch onto others and burn them as well. (They can stop, drop, and roll, naturally, as well as douse themselves with water.) Jibe is also very resistant to fire, because of the way it feeds off of him like a parasite, so it only burns him enough to keep going. He can, for that matter, leave small balls of his fur (or skin flakes or claw clippings, but the fur is easier to see and intentionally remove) for the fire to thrive on, for longer than one might expect (since anything removed is going to become dead and no longer a part of him), but it isn't anything like a twelve or twenty-four hour period.

He can also wear gloves  or carry something flammable that he can easily hold in his hands, when he knows he needs a brief boost for a really big, strong flame. (Jester's day-to-day clothing is all flame-retardant material.) He is not able to hurl the fire, unless it is attached to something that he can throw, so nothing like a huge fireball-type spell coming from him (unless he has a catapult...) If he wants to set someone on fire, he generally has to get close enough to touch them with it first or else hit them with a thrown, fiery object. He can conjure fire up only as long as he has the energy for it, so he has a limit to how often he can conjure it and how long he can keep it going, once conjured. He also has to split his energy up between maintaining a fire or any other spell (he has a few more, equally limited) and running around, doing physical things. These may be small increments but it adds up fast and a very hungry belly is a deterrent for wanting to continue any battle.

Those are the limitations of Jester's fire spell. They can be nasty but they're very easily controlled and routed. And people can take normal, logical methods to avoid, prevent, or stop the fire. Stealthninja21, since you don't seem to have an expansive amount of RPing experience, I would just recommend avoiding the other forms of magic. Your character is still a sizable force with just the pressure point fighting, the alchemy, the speed, reading minds (a very handy ability in a fight), and the electrical currents.

Though, with regards to the electrical currents (and any other ability that anyone may have), if the ability can kill someone by chance, then you can't use them, unless you can control their deadliness to a very high degree. This is really the key to any ability. You must be able to control how lethal any capability is and guarantee that your character can maintain a non-lethal version of it throughout an entire match. The people running the tournament don't allow for "if they're tough enough, and haven't been hit, they won't die." Their goal is for absolutely no one to die (if at all possible... the group running the tournament can be held accountable for manslaughter too.)

Let me explain why this is so important. The character's goal is to win against the other characters. So his first attack would always be the lightening pulse, until it hit or until he gave up and tried another attack, which would either knock them out or injure them considerably. If the other character subsequently becomes injured from another attack that landed, then the character with the lightening pulse can no longer use it because it's rate of lethality has just sky-rocketed. This is a restrictive and predictable strategy. And even if the lightening pulse does land on the other character, without them having been hit first, if they aren't very tough then they could still potentially die. Most people aren't going to allow their characters to die, because they don't want them to. And if they do die, then the character with lightening pulse is disqualified. So the logical reaction for the other player is to never let that attack touch their character, since it constitutes an automatic loss for them, or else brush it off, which isn't realistic given the parameters listed for its strength.

This is why the character who uses an ability is supposed to be able to control the variables attached to it. Not the opponent character, who will want to avoid an uncontrollable attack at all cost (but who must allow a few hits to land on them throughout the match, as a matter of realism and keeping things interesting.) If the referee or the on-hand medic can easily keep the character alive and safeguard against death, then the ability is also valid.

For instance, if someone went unconscious just shortly after Jester sets them on fire, the referee can put the fire out fairly easily and the medic could see to the burns and help to heal them. If the character panicked and was clearly being badly burned in the arena (or the fire was spreading very quickly), the match would be paused, and this could still be done. (If the burnt character, after being attended to, still felt like fighting, then the match would continue. If they concede at that point, then Jester would win. If the fire spread to any of the illegal areas, Jester would risk disqualification, but he could also try to put them out if his opponent didn't put them out before that.) These are all things that that character and other characters (even Jester) can help to control the outcome of, so that the character would not automatically end up dead.

Does that make sense?

---

Now. Onto the plot itself. Jester said the tournament would begin in a couple of days, in-character. There are some out of character options to go over with everyone involved.

If everyone wants to go ahead and start as soon as possible,  we can say some time has passed ICly and go ahead with the actual tournament. My personal preference would be to wait a few more days, in real life, and see if anyone else joins the thread. If we wait, we can bring a gentle close to the pre-tournament in-character interactions, leave the thread alone for that time, and then start up with the tournament immediately after. We could also keep going with the pre-tournament interactions while we wait, if you guys would prefer to do that instead. I'm open to any, just say what you want to do.

There is also the issue of how we'll handle the matches. We can do one match at a time, if that is preferred (though the characters not in the match will be idle or doing random interaction while they wait for their turn), or we can have all of the first set of matches at once. Choose either or suggest another option.

Also, we need to decide who will face who for the first set of matches. As it stands, we currently have five contestant characters. Jester and Jibe are both in the tournament. I'm going to let everyone vote for who they want their opponent to be. I will not vote, since I have two characters, but they are still up for selection by the rest of you.

Admittedly, five contestants is not an optimal number. The original hope was for there to be an even number of characters, so that everyone would have someone to fight and no one would fight twice in the first set. There are several options we could go with, though.

If we wait for at least one more player and/or character to join (feel free to make a second character, by all means), we will have an even number and there won't be an issue (anyone who joins after the matches have started, must wait until at least one match has ended and an opponent chosen.) But if we don't wait, we will have to determine something else. I could drop a character from the tournament (most likely Jibe, as Jester has ICly professed his intent) or one character could face two characters in succession (but not in the same match) or three characters could fight in a match (but this could be awkward and the most likely outcome is that two would gang up on one. Then those two would fight each other, once the third opponent drops out.) Everyone decide what you think would be best and we'll see if there is any option that got the most votes.

Last one is a question I have for Tekai. Were you introducing your character to Nyxlie? She's currently at the ancient ruins arena, with the other contestants. If you weren't, I'll be glad to RP the NPC rabbit for as long as you like.

Now for something completely different!

:squish:

IC:

The image of the torch-lit hallways and rooms flickered quickly through Jester's mind, once he finally remembered what he'd been sleeping on the past few nights. It was a very spartan, not especially comfy sort (collapsible for easy transport), made out of thick, heavy cloth and metal poles. They were useful but he would have preferred a proper bed. Still, he wondered why everyone was so sleepy all of a sudden.

"Beds?" he asked, "Beds... Turn right from the doorway, down the hall, keep straight, third door on the left. There's a bunch of cots in there. Should be a pile of folded blankets and pillows and stuff on a table too."

Then he started working on his fish a little further and blinked at Shinzui and Nyxlie curiously.

[Nyxlie]

OOC:

I'd say wait a few days and see if anyone else happens to enter the RP. Can always hope. And I'd prefer 1vs1 matches myself. As for how many go on at once... well, my first thought is to say one at a time. That way, other contestants can watch and put in their own comments during the match, make assessments and such. If we did this though, that would mean that no match could go on for a horribly long time. It's a tough call on that.

IC:

Nyxlie smiled at Jester and nodded, "Thanks. I can't wait to see you in the arena."

Nodding to Shinzui and Jester, Nyxlie got up and walked out of the room.