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A group of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men, who are themselves tied into law enforcement agencies and criminal underworlds alike, and who also control the international media with their billions, have devised the ultimate entertainment for themselves – simply referred to as "The Tournament" – which takes place at intervals of every seven years.

"Contestants" volunteer, but due to the nature of the tournament are some of the toughest or craziest individuals on the planet – they are expected to kill, and only the last surviving combatant will win the cash prize of £10 million offered by William Randolph Hearst. The men and women running the tournament not only view it as entertainment, but also bet high stakes on the outcome.

For each tournament, combatants are selected from the world's special forces, serial killers, athletes, trained contract killers and assassins. The last combatant standing receives not only the cash prize, but also the glory and reputation of having the title of World's Number 1, and which itself carries the legendary million-dollar-a-bullet contract killing price tag. Each of the contestants carries a tracking device, embedded under their skin, allowing the observers to monitor their movements, and the contestants to track each other. The tournament lasts twenty-four hours, and if no-one has won, then the tracking devices will explode.

The mayhem which takes place is passed off as natural disasters, terrorist outrages, accidents, or put down to rampages committed by lone madmen. The unsuspecting towns where the tournament takes place are randomly selected, and the public never know of its existence. This year, the latest tournament has come to Middlesborough, a town in the United Kingdom – the country with the most prevalent mass surveillance in the world – so that the events of the tournament can be easily followed and recorded through the ever-present CCTV as well as satellite surveillance. They also jam the communications of the emergency services, completely taking over the electronic infrastructure, and the stage is set. Each of the killers will be sedated and fitted with their tracking device before being placed in a random location (anywhere from a hotel suite to a park bench to a pub toilet) When they awake they will find their weapon of choice and a cellphone nearby, as well as a "watch" on their wrist, the blip in the centre of the watch face representing the wearer and all the others representing their opponents.

Once all of the killers are awake their phones will ring and they will hear "You have 24 hours, you have 29 targets. Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the tournament".

OOC stuff
I'm looking for 5 to 10 characters to be involved in this, though don't worry about the RP being too short, there will be plenty of NPC killers to take out too. There will be plenty of blood and gore, but I would still like to see well written posts with character development. If you would like your character to have an NPC nemesis who is also in the tournament, that is fine, just put a brief CS for them along with your PC.

I'm not going to post a long list of rules, if you're looking for a casual RP then you should know the dos and don'ts. I just ask that you keep your characters realistic.

Sample CS
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Appearance:
Personality:
Background:
Weapon of choice:
Preferred method of killing:
Theme music: (Optional for fun)

List of accepted CSs and NPCs
Thekettleison as

Darkwolf687 as

AreYouMyMummy as

TheFish as

Mach2 as

VaroniusNW as

Prycefisto as


NPCs


Who's Killed Who
You can guess what I'll be adding here :)
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Name: Seth Nathanial Monk.

Gender: Male

Age: 42

Appearance: He stands 6"1", has green eyes, and receding long hair. While physically fairly strong, Monk is beginning to show his age, his hair is greying and his gut is beginning to run to fat. He has a neatly trimmed, grey goatee and due to his being short sighted he will always wear dark tinted, wire framed glasses.

Personality: Monk was a fairly happy-go-lucky type, with a jovial if slightly odd sense of humour. This was before he was sent to prison for the rest of his life and decided that, with nothing to lose, he should "let the crazy flow". Though he still enjoys a good laugh, he is a loose cannon, quick to anger often with fatal consequences.

Background: Born into an abusive family in 1970's London, Monk was one of those kids that "never stood a chance", even before he could walk he was an accomplice to his mother's shoplifting, with her smuggling clothes or videos or even food she'd stolen underneath baby Seth. Fleeing his violent father at 15, Monk fell in with a gang of thieves and was soon helping them on big scores.

At 21 he committed his first murder, a hit on a fellow thief, when it was discovered that the man he was ordered to kill was gathering evidence for the police in return for a lighter sentence. On the orders of his boss, an east-end gangster by the name of Tommy Clay, young Seth waited in his target's home for several hours before calmly giving him both barrels of a shotgun as he opened his front door. Things were going well for Monk for years after that, he spent his day to day life managing one of the many warehouses that Clay operated as a front for his criminal enterprises. Occasionally he would get a call from Clay, asking him to deal with some problem or another, usually with bullets. But other than the odd murder, Tommy was happy to let Seth go about his business as he saw fit.

In 1999 Monk was part of a crew that were caught robbing a bank and although he wasn't the one that shot the hostages, there was enough evidence to convict him of three counts of murder, plus circumstantial evidence linking him to at least a dozen more over the previous decade. He was sentenced to life inprisonment with no chance of release. Knowing he had nothing further to lose, Monk became one of the most notoriously violent and dangerous inmates in the British prison system, culminating with him being placed in solitary confinement for an indefinite amount of time in 2010 for taking the prison warden hostage and threatening to kill and eat him. After four years in isolation from the other prisoners, Monk received his first visit. A well dressed man that he'd never met was allowed in to his cell and offered Monk a deal. "Die in a crash" during a routine transport to another prison and enter the tournament, "Win and go free, a rich man. Or die in the attempt and at least be free from your cell."

Seth agreed immediately.

Weapon of choice: Remington 870 shotgun.

Preferred method of killing: Back of the head from up close, nice and bloody.

Theme music: (Optional for fun) Violence Fetish
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Name: Alexander Price

Gender: Male

Age: 38

Appearance: Alex stands at about 5'11 with short cut brown hair and hazel eyes. He has a lopsided grin and is missing his top left incisor. He has a scar on his shoulder from a gunshot wound he received while fighting in Afghanistan and is clean shaven.

Personality: Alex can seem rather grumpy and serious, but that's just part of his sense of humour. He is ruthless and merciless in his execution of tasks but this hides a softer interior. For this tournament, he is motivated strongly for he requires three million Pounds in order to pay the ransom the IRA demand in order to return his wife and daughter safely, and doesn't care how many of these supposed scum he has to kill in order to do so. After all, their all criminals... Right?

Background: Born in England, Alexander lived a normal life until his joining of the Royal Marines Commando's. Serving in several conflicts including Afghanistan, he became well decorated and became well versed in combat. Fighting alongside his unit in the deserts hardened him into a brutal killing machine and solidified the friendship with his comrades, which only made the impact of the death of Cpl Henderson all the worse.
In 1997 he was assigned to Northern Ireland, and in 1998 he met he later to be wife during his leave, and they finally married in 2000, having a daughter in 2003. In 1999 he was the leader of a Royal Marines team which located and raided an IRA base, seizing their bomb making equipment, several members and one of their leaders in the process
In 2002 he was deployed to Iraq and in 2005 to Afghanistan. In 2006 he was wounded by an AK47 shot to his right shoulder and was returned home, but made a full recovery and returned to the warzone in 2008. Along with most British Forces, he was pulled out of Afghanistan by 2014 and returned home to the United Kingdom. Unfortunately his enjoyment was short lived. The IRA holds long grudges, and both his daughter and wife were kidnapped during a visit to her mothers house in Northern Ireland. Two days later, he recieved a ransom note from the hostagers, demanding that £3,000,000 for their safe return. After the military nor the police had any luck in locating them, and time running down fast, he was approached by a man who offered him the chance to make the money to pay the ransom/
Medals and Decorations
General Service Medal (For 30 days service in Northern Ireland)
OSM for Iraq
OSM for Afghanistan
Conspicuous Gallantry Cross

Weapon of choice: SA80 A2

Preferred method of killing: None, a kills a kill, from one yard or one thousand

Theme music: (Optional for fun) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5E1txbjwQk
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Shouldn't this go in the Arena RP section?
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I was thinking that... xD
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I don't think so, as I'm not just after a fight to the death RP. I still want a story and character development. Though if a mod wants to move it over to there, then that's fine with me.
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Accepted and added to the OP Darkwolf :)
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Bump to rescue thread from the obscurity of page 3
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Name: Aelinia Black
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Appearance: 5" 6", fair-skinned, freckled, bushy brown hair, ice blue eyes.
Personality: Kindhearted, empathetic, determined, quiet.
Background: Aelinia was born in the shires of Ireland, in a small town of only 200 people. Aelinia's father raised cattle for profit until a severe drought hit the land, making food and other necessities scarce. They had to sell the cows as a result, and could barely scrape a living from the hard, dry ground. When Aelinia's father heard of the Tournament, and the great amount of money to be given to the winner, he entered Aelinia's name in the contest.
Weapon of choice: Bow-and-arrows or a pocketknife.
Preferred method of killing: Preferably none if possible. Quick and painless.
Theme music: Safe and Sound
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Accepted Areyoumymummy, I'm guessing her dad's a bit of a prick with ties to the criminal underworld? Must be to sign his daughter for the tournament, or to even know about it for that matter lol. I'll add it to the OP once I get to my laptop.
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This looks brilliant.

Name: Dmitri Koslov
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Appearance: Eastern-European, 5'11, Dark unkempt shoulder-length hair, Rough beard, Green Eyes.
Personality: Dmitri is essentially the strong silent type. He has not spoken a word since a Russian Mafia boss had his tongue cut from his mouth in 2010. His demeanour is what some would call sour, but he prefers 'focused'.
Background: Born in 1991 in the soon-to-be former USSR, the Soviet Union dissolved a mere eight months after his birth. His mother was a cook and his father a soldier.. a soldier and a drunk. At the age of fourteen Dmitri watched in horror as his father brutally beat his mother to death in an intoxicated rage. Dmitri served four years for severing his father's neck with the axe he was forced by the old man to cut firewood with in the freezing Russian winter it would have been much longer had the crime not been in self defence. Upon his release from prison he was hardened by a further six murders and several maimings, he had become connected with the criminal underworld and began to forge out a new life as a low level hitman for local mob bosses. After recovering his incident in 2010 with Ivan Solvik - a local crime lord, he returned and slaughtered the man's entire family. On the run from the Russian mob he traversed half of Europe before finally meeting a man at an underground fight club in the Czech Republic, a man in a suit and tie who made Dmitri an offer he couldn't refuse..
Weapon of choice: Sharp objects, Axes/Blades/Shivs
Preferred method of killing: Dismemberment.
Theme music:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYM9IylxOQY
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Very good Fish, I'm sure it'll be fun if Dmitri and Seth run into each other lol. Accepted mate, I'll add it later.

1-6 more players and we can get this rolling.
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Great. I fixed the theme music link by the way.
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tentative interest
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Tearstone said
tentative interest


Any questions I can answer to make the interest less tentative mate?
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I'll have a sheet up tonight or tomorrow. :3
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Mach2 said
I'll have a sheet up tonight or tomorrow. :3


I look forward to reading it.
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For those already accepted (and anyone who wants to join) please feel free to make up NPC contestants too. There are 30 of them in the Tournament (so we don't need to launch straight into slaughtering each other) and so far, even if the two who have expressed interest add CSs, I have 24 to make up. Please help and lighten Kettle's load.

Also one more CS and I'll start the IC thread.
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Name:Argus Wright
Gender: male
Age:25
Appearance: Argus stands about 5"9, Caucasian with long jet black hair and light blue eyes. He looks quite ordinary, except for the S shaped scar on the back of his right hand, and his constant, empty stare.
Personality: Argus is what you would call insane, he isn't talkative, only ever making noises when he is killing someone, and even then its only a light whistle. Argus is highly smart and logical, even if he seems like a mindless psycho, always thinking his murders through, so his victim, or should i say, prey, only knows whats happening when they draw their last breath.
Background: Argus' murderous tendencies came about during middle school, 3 months into the school year. He had stopped talking, and his parents said he stopped eating. Argus would never let his parents into his room, and would always stay secluded. He stopped talking to his friends, and made sure they didn't talk to him. There were 4 disappearances from the school over his time their, and the students never went home. Argus was responsible for all of them, one of them being his own. Argus was a cannibal, killing his victims before eating their flesh, his room was covered with their gore.

During his 8th grade year, his parents looked into his room. Argus killed them and ate them before they could call the police. but before that, he raped his own mother.
Argus spent the rest of his years as a contract killer, who always got to eat his victims. Argus thought human flesh was delicious, and all other food tasted like rot.
He found out about the tournament from one of his employers, before he killed them for not paying him. Argus joined the tournament for the flesh, not the money.
Weapon of choice:a pair of butcher's knives, freshly sharpened, as well as his own teeth.
Preferred method of killing: Mutilation/eating alive.
Theme music: Ingenious Forms of Torture
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Thekettleison said
Any questions I can answer to make the interest less tentative mate?


Its not a matter of questions... it's a matter of personal free time, and whether or not I would be over-stretching myself as far as RP goes. I'm kind of waiting to see how things start coming together before I decide whether to jump on the bandwagon or not.
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