Drifting Pollen

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Doesn't quite seem like this is going to work out - at least, i'm out of ideas. But its not too big of a deal in the end, since the league is an 'every man for himself' event.

@Vordak

True. I was gonna mess you up either way, so it's not like a hypothetical prior encounter would have changed much :P

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Here's another question though: by the looks of it, Melon's character comes from an Earth where magic is existent; my character (surprisingly) does too. What about Pollen's though? Would that be a common point, or does their character come from a more mundane version of the exact same planet, without magic?

@Vordak

My character doesn't really use 'magic' (his powers are pretty mundane, mostly biological enhancements), but it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to have it exist in his world. Even if it didn't, he'd have to have gone wandering a bit to reach the GCL in the first place, so he could easily have ended up running into an alternate Earth or something by accident.

EDIT: sounds like it fits in better with Melon's... so maybe it'd work best for Vordak to be the one who ends up happening upon the Melon/Pollen Earth.

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Just climb into a TARDIS. Problem solved.

@Darth

IDK. Maybe we could do something like Looper, where Vordak's character gets sent to the past for my character to kill him, except he ends up going too far back and meeting Melon's character instead...

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@Vordak Definitely sounds like you've cooked up an interesting fighter...

Though as Melon said, linking them would have to involve weird time-shenanigans. Mine's from present-day Earth (or thereabouts).

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To @MelonHead, @Drifting Pollen and anyone else who is thinking of participating in Darth's league: what do you think of crashing in not as an assembly of a few off-site individuals, but as an actual team, with our characters having a few IC ties between them as well?

@Vordak

Maybe? It's definitely a fun idea, but I think we all have our characters more or less set up already... so it might be hard to have ties between them make sense if they end up being completely different. We'll see, though.

Black Mountain Tournament: Sigurd vs Gigue

Welp, we're on the same wavelength man. Smokebombs here, with a slight pressure blast that can unbalance an opponent if thrown under their feet.

@Vordak

*High fives* Flashbangs and tear gas for me.

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I'm really divided on the GCL thing, on the one hand Darth seems to know what he's doing and has a good system (for the most part, some things are stupid like the obvious advantages for ranged magical combat over physicality and some other funky spell effects) but on the other hand I don't like the ethics of that site and some of the participants seem like grade-A douche-bags, even by combat-RPG standards.

I'm still heavily tempted though, just to see how far I can get with a character who is quite literally just amazing at throwing stones.

@MelonHead

You should try it! I used stone-throwing as a weapon once, and won a tournament with it. You can pull all sorts of stuff like ricochets, fake throwing motions to threaten your opponent, sliding larger rocks across the ground like balls or hockey pucks to knock people off their feet, targeting terrain to do shit like knock branches off trees onto opponent's heads... plenty of fun options.

Definitely some a-holes over there, but you'll find those wherever you fight. Plus, over there you'll have competent judges to help deal with them (unlike over here, where right now it's just me doing my best).

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No.

@Rilla

Okay.

But have you considered:

YES?!

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It got started, but it never actually went anywhere. If you'd like, I could host a new one so we could get the whole personality and story thing going.

@LeeRoy

Seems like a pretty fun idea. If we could get enough people interested, it could be just the kind of thing I was talking about... Hard to predict whether it'd work or not, honestly, but if you want to try it then I'd be happy to help out however I can.

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The key might be to advertise in other sections.

Not that many people come to the arena for the reasons you all described, but one good thing to try might be making a setting, and then advertising a tournament there in "General interest checks" or somewhere that gets a bit more traffic than the arena. People would be able to RP in the tourney thread within the setting, and also fight each other... but losing wouldn't mean getting kicked out of the RP, only not going on for more matches.

I was in a thread like that on another site a while back (it wasn't in that forum's 'arena' section, but was still effectively a fighting tournament), and it ended up attracting loads of people who'd never fought before- including me. The thing ended up being hugely popular, and our characters spend as much time dicking around and bantering as they did fighting. Some of the final matches ended up being really intense, because the characters involved had become close friends IC, and yet were forced to go against each other for the sake of their goals.

So maybe if we tried kicking off such a thread and advertising it to people in the other sections... IDK. It would take a lot of time to manage something like that, and I don't have much to spare right now. Maybe sometime later, though... a forum I post on looks like it may be dying, and if it does kick the bucket, sad as that would be, I'll have more breathing room to maybe start working on something like this.