Plot A group of villains labeled "Big Bad" is considered too dangerous to be left to their own devices or else they may pose a serious threat to the multiverse. A call for assistance in eliminating them has been accepted by 100 diverse individuals, most of them heroes but some being other villains who have their own reasons for wanting Big Bad out of the picture. They gather together at Big Bad's base on a planet that's otherwise deserted. Unfortunately it turns out to be an evil labyrinth that has many tricks up it's metaphorical sleeves, splitting up the 100 individuals into much smaller groups and forcing them to fight the Big Bad members in waves. Big Bad still has the odds stacked against them, but the battle is not over until the fat lady sings! (Is...is the final boss going to be a singing fat lady?!) Rules 1. This battle is mainly for fun (and testing out my numerous characters to better figure out their capabilities in actual combat) rather than simply winning at any cost. Therefore, we're not going to go into high levels of scrutiny to analyze our every move. If you believe your character should be able to move fast enough to dodge the attack, go for it. Come up with a cool power (that makes sense for them) mid battle? Go for it. We don't need to post any character sheets for this, explaining everything relevant to the current situation as it comes up in the IC. However, you can post character sheets if desired. 2. Besides #1 making things far more lenient, standard arena battle rules still apply such as not controlling someone else's character, unavoidable attacks, or doing the damage from an attack in your post (unless the person you'd be doing these things to gives you the power to do them to your post). You post what you expect the attack to do such as saying "I swing my sword at his arm to try and cut it off" rather than saying "I swing my sword and cut off his arm". The other person explains if the attack managed to connect and the results. This means that each post would first start with a reaction to your opponent's post (if they did anything against you) and then your own action (likely in retaliation but your own action could just be running away crying if you want). You can post your actions to take as long as you want, such as saying you do cartwheels for five hours, but in your opponent's post, if at any time during those five hours they would do something to interrupt them, the rest of your cartwheels after that point would not have taken place. Your next post would be reacting to this new information rather than continuing the cartwheels unless you say you will do them again after being interrupted...for some reason, and if you are still able to. 3. Sci fi, fantasy, realistic, etc. is all allowed. Just make sure your character isn't so powerful it makes most of the characters pointless. This means that we should start out with max power of around able to destroy a small village single handedly. We can slowly up the stakes as time goes on as we all agree it would be a good thing to do. There could be a mix of weaker characters as well who could fight each other or team up to take down the more difficult threats. 4. Any number of you can join the group Big Bad with any number of characters, and by "character" they can be generic cannon fodder or even very weird like a swarm of evil butterflies. They don't have to all be involved at the beginning. We can claim that they were simply somewhere else in the labyrinth until they managed to show up. I'm controlling all 100 of the heroes/villains sent to fight Big Bad. You might think they will be the 100 characters (at the time of this writing) posted in my Character-A-Day, but you'd be wrong! I will indeed be taking heavily from there, but I will also be using more characters I'm planning to add to my list of character sheets at a later date. That being said, prepare for a ton of surprises from never before seen characters! 5. There's no set number of opponent's you guys will fight in each wave and when a new wave shows up; it's up to my discretion to make it an interesting fight by pushing you guys harder with each wave. Due to me wanting to get a chance to use all of them, or at least most of them, you guys should be able to defeat most of the waves even if it will seem like it would be a very close call or even against you. You guys can pull a lot of insanely lucky maneuvers to help you get through this if you'd like. 6. You guys as a team can decide on posting order and then I'll get my own post in once everyone has made one post. Your decided posting order can change for each round of these postings depending on situation. For example, some of you might not be able to post for a couple days so let others post before you, or perhaps are wanting to see what one character will do before making an action of your own. 7. If members on your team have not posted after 5 days in inactivity, the inactive people will have their turn skipped unless they provided advance notice for us to wait for them. This skip of their turn will be represented in battle as them simply not reacting quickly enough to current events for whatever reason. If everyone else on the team agrees then they can skip that person's turn before 5 days is up, or if the person themselves says to skip them. In the event that a turn is skipped and they were under attack, I can post the attack connected and it's damage. The same can be said if I'm inactive for 5 days once everyone has made their post. 8. No R rated love making randomly thrown in for whatever reason. This is not only impractical to do mid battle (like...seriously...how?!) but it's also distracting for everyone involved. 9. Although I have the final say on things, this is a roleplay for fun so I will do my best not to be a dictator to crush you guys underfoot. Please feel free to bring to my attention any ideas or criticism you have to make this roleplay better and fix problems. Maybe I haven't thought of it yet so won't hurt to bring to my attention if I missed something important. 10. Have fun!

this sounds like fun @ImportantNobody I'll post a cs soon Edit:Do the characters have to have a backstory or anything like that or can they just be a person with a name and powers?

Edit:Do the characters have to have a backstory or anything like that or can they just be a person with a name and powers?

Name, appearance, and powers would be the only thing they'd truly need.

The character sheets are taking longer than I thought they would, but they should be done by tonight. I'll start posting them as they are completed.

Name, appearance, and powers would be the only thing they'd truly need.

An addition to that, it would be important to mention equipment.

I'll start posting them as they are completed.

The date of the roleplay, as questioned in your characters, has nothing to do with Earth time. They use a new calender for the multiverse as a whole. Timelines get all mumbo jumbo'd up where some alternate realities of Earth you could visit would be experiencing different events in a different time. In our Earth time, year 0 of the multiverse calender likely takes place around the year 2020 or something. This roleplay will be the year 30 in the multiverse timeline. (I just pulled that number out randomly). As for your head hunter, good luck for him bringing 100 heads back like this. Or maybe he just needs one to prove he was at the battle at least. Or a specific rival character of some sort.

No, I always put that for the immortal characters I have. The year in question doesn't particularly matter to the roleplay as there really isn't much character growth for LeeRoy or the other immortals. I just assume LeeRoy's 400 years old and go on my merry way. The "I dunno, what year is it?" Is an inside joke with myself.

Third character posted, the last one will take a little while because I haven't updated her character sheet in an incredibly long time.

Interesting to see LeeRoy's new iteration. What made you decide to give him giant hands?

I'm thinking of letting you guys make your introductory posts before I have my guys come in to start the battle so I can make them more matched to what I think your characters can do, although I could just edit their powers to match after the fact.

Don't edit their powers, that's breaking the formula! Just bring in last-second reinforcements if the bad guys are too powerful. Like 7 people post in the interest check, 1 makes it to the OOC. Typical. I suppose i'll put in a character as well then. Soon.

Editing powers breaks what formula? If I come up with a good new power then that's one of the reasons I'm doing this.

LeeRoy has always had phenomenally large hands, it has always been overlooked when writing his character sheet though. The last CS is taking a while due to a series of unfortunate events, I WILL have it up tomorrow evening.

Did you get stuck in a Lemony Snicket book? *badum tshh* I meant don't change the powers for the sake of matching our power level. Do if they actually fit well.

Maybe not changing the powers, but the power level of the powers. For example, still shoot out a flame but have it smaller and weaker, or they move slower than originally envisioned.

Like 7 people post in the interest check, 1 makes it to the OOC. Typical. I suppose i'll put in a character as well then. Soon.

I've been here. Just been contemplating on which character to use. Or which character to finally make and test o 3o.

Maybe it would help to inspire people if I start things off, I guess? I'll just hope the people I send out will be a fair challenge without too much wiggle room. I could also come out with a character in Big Bad who may be more or less useful depending on necessity. How about an evil overlord fairy queen? If not needed she can fly around outside of danger but can also take part in battle to help you guys out. She will have special vision powers to be able to look up traits of my characters for you guys.

I'll gladly take your offer of entering without a character sheet and post as soon as the fun starts. I will however offer a brief description of the character's powers in form of an introduction, since that appeals to me so much more than a CS.

this is cool

I'll enter with evil Shen. Gotta consider whether i wanna patch up his old CS or just go CSless like Vordak.

I have to eat dinner. I might start working on the IC when I come back.