ComicGenesis Forum ArenaBattle (resuming on page 26)

[Hogan]

Luck... was not with you my fair maid!

May their next meeting be more... intimate... though it will probably still leave her crushed on the floor!

*Grins and heads to the meadhalls and the feast in his honor*

[Rkolter]

Round 1 - Match 14 - Hagi (Joel Fagin) vs. BrownEyedCat

{Net} For this battle we have decided to change the landscape again. *Net starts to press buttons*

*The sand drains again from the arena, leaving a honeycomb patterned floor. The floor begins changing again, individual sections rotating along their axis and then clicking into place, revealing a sod covered, level field.*

*The water spigots on the sides of the arena briefly spray water, dampening the soil*

*An Ogre tied to a balloon floats over the arena with Pixie grinder, grinding up pixies and sprinkling their bits across the arena floor*

*The magic of the pixie bits causes the seeds in the sod to erupt into wild growth! Where once was bare sod, now there are fingerlings, that become saplings, that grow into full size trees. The arena floor groans as it bears the sudden extra weight.*

{ABOL} Hagi is a Tengu. One of the mythical creatures said to have taught the original samurai how to fight. At seven feet tall and bright red, with a nose like a carrot, I really don't know what to think about it.

In the other corner is BrownEyedCat, an anthropomorphic feline dressed simply, wearing bells and ribbons as well as corrective lenses.

1 - Hagi and BEC enter the forest. The perspective changes for the audience, and the trees become translucent to them, so they can follow the action. Hagi quickly climbs a tree and waits. BEC walks past, and Hagi lands behind her, slashing her brutally for 8 damage!

2 - BEC screams and... from somewhere... pulls a cactus.

{Net} That would be hammerspace. The mythological space all objects pulled from off screen come from. In the three dimensional real world, the object must be pulled from where nobody else can see it. Usually from behind your back.

BEC shoves the cactus right into Hagi's face! Little red cactus balls attach all over him, and barbed needles pierce his skin! He roars in pain and takes 9 damage!

3 - BEC whips a hammer out from behind her back but as she swings, Hagi swings down with his blade, cutting through her hammer and into BEC's side for another painful and bloody 8 damage!

4 - BEC staggers back and tries to put pressure on her side while Hagi retreats into the trees and can be seen yanking bits of cactus off his face.

5 - BEC slips further into the woods as well. Hagi returns to look for her, but only sees a blood stain leading into the forest. He moves quickly to where BEC entered.

6 - As Hagi re-enters the deeper forest, BEC smashes his foot with a rock! Hagi howls as he takes a painful point of damage, and tries to swipe at BEC, who manages to barely avoid being hit by his sharp katana.

7 - Hagi gives chase, cutting through entire tree limbs as he slashes at BEC, who in turn is running quickly, while fiddling with her choker.

8 - BEC tosses something behind her and Hagi has only a second to stop before the ground in front of him explodes! He's hurtled backwards and hits a tree, taking a massive 11 damage. Where the explosion hit, there is now a bare gravel spot, where the arena floor has been wiped clean of sod. BEC stops running.

9 - Hagi gets up with a wince, and readies his sword. BEC reaches behind herself...

10 - Hagi makes a run towards BEC. BEC runs towards Hagi, tossing bricks at him! Hagi starts to deflect the bricks, and aims his sword for BEC's throat. BEC grabs one of her bells and right in the middle they meet! There's a loud explosion, a couple trees are knocked backwards, and when the falling sod clears from the air, both BEC and Hagi are dead - Hagi impaled on a broken tree trunk, BEC with a sword through her head.

*Five robed and scholarly looking Ogres enter the field and make their way to the bit of ruined landscape that marked the end of the battle. They look over Hagi and BEC and confer*

Winner - BEC by damage caused! BEC glows, is healed, and gains a stat point. The judges help her off the field.

Loser - Hagi. An ogre, dressed head to toe in ancient samurai gear, walks onto the field. He kneels next to Hagi and says a few words to honor the fallen Tengu. Hagi's wounds fade away slowly, and Hagi stands. He and the Ogre Samurai walk off the field.

[Dotty]

TAMMY AND DUCKY WILL HAVE THEIR REVENGE!

...once our wounds heal.

[BrownEyedCat]

Vi-vi-vi-VICTORY!

*performs a short victory dance!*

[Joel Fagin]

*pays Ryan to match me and BEC next year so I can have revenge*

Oh, to heck with it...

*mails BEC a snake for more immediate revenge*

- Joel Fagin

[Ti-Phil]

Bravo Hogan and BEC!
But there is no way I'll be able to animate that.. urg.. still got that fight to finish...

[Rkolter]

Round 1 - Match 15 - Tile (enedlammaniel) vs. Ti-Phil

{ABOL} This is an interesting battle - Tile, the two-dimensional stick-figure with the ability to generate things out of thin air and interact with her surroundings as if she were in a comic panel is attacking Ti-Phil, a crowd favorite - a moogle with a magical pencil.

{Net} Now you might think this would be an entirely unfair fight with our Moogle having an eraser on that pencil, and Tile essentially being a doodle. Unfortunately, Ti-Phil is skilled in physical combat, and Tile is magical in nature, so the outcome is not self-evident.

1 - Tile reaches out and grabs a } from the above text, turning it into a shield, and a lower-case t for a sword. Ti-Phil looks at Tile strangely, and shifts his pencil around so the eraser is pointing towards Tile.

2 - Tile attacks! With a lunge, she skewers Ti-Phil with her t for 3 damage! The crowd is confused, and so is Ti-Phil! Ti-Phil swings his pencil around, smacking Tile for 5 damage in an eraser-scrub to the midriff!

3 - Ti-Phil makes another erasing jab at Tile, who manages to dodge critically by stealing Ti-Phil's "r" from his attack, turning it into a much smoother "easing" jab!

4 - The crowd starts to get into it, tossing random letters back and forth from their word balloons. A fight breaks out when Rusty Knight gets beaned with a p while CJBurgandy throws her C like a frisbee at Linkara, who loses his L and flows to the ground like ink. Meanwhile on the arena floor, Ti-Phil charges Tile using his eraser end as a battering ram, but misses.

5 - Ogre police make their way into the stands, randomly beating the audience, and this starts to settle things until someone manages to land a punch on one of them, and the ogre loses his g, becomes ore, and gold spills out onto the floor. BEDLAM ensues, until Tellurider quickly slashes it with one of her spare l's, turning into Bed Lam, which she proceeds to do with great relish.

Nanda and Tynan are fighting but only manage to break each other up into a Tyda and Nannan. Pimpette is concerned at first, but then shrugs it off as nothing more than semantics.

Tile and Ti-Phil stop to watch the audience.

6 - Ti-Phil sees an opportunity and erases Tile's legs in a critical but sneaky attack! Tile falls to the ground, taking 9 damage and is unable to fight.

Winner - Ti-Phil. Ti-Phil glows, is healed, and gains a stat point. He quickly reverses his pencil and redraws Tile.

Loser - Tile. Tile is redrawn. Both she and Ti-Phil quickly exit the arena to avoid the verbal abuse taking place in the stands.

[Linkara]

I'm melting! HEEEEEELP!

...Congrats, Phil!

[Netpoet]

Phew. Wiki is finally caught up. I have a few images left to upload now to get it fully complete, couple of images from the battles and avatars and whatnot...

... oh and I need to update the results on each person's roster. I'll get to that in a few, work calls.

But the Wiki is updated as of the current match.

>Net

[Rkolter]

Round 1 - Match 16 - Ignatius (Cuendolin) vs. G (Jim North)

{Net} Wow, I hate Ignatius already.
{ABOL} That's his power. His mere presence is annoying, and when he speaks, it annoys beyond normal comprehension. It can cause strokes. And then there's G. What's with him?
{Net} Katana and explosive dice. Sort of like a cross between Hagi and BrownEyedCat.
{ABOL} Except not nearly as cute looking. In any case, this should be bloody - Ignatius is known to be weak to technical attacks.

1 - Ignatius looks G over. "The whole 'I escaped from Columbine and all I got was this lousy trench coat' thing is way overdone." G shrugs and pulls out his sword.

2 - "And the katana thing? Did you see the Matrix a few too many times Neo?" Ignatius continues. G takes a slash at Ignatius, but misses his feathery butt by a few inches.

3 - "You really should have taken the blu-SKWAAAK!" Ignatius screeches as G shoves his sword right through his liver for 7 damage. "I don't need to do drugs. Reality is dangerous enough without them." G mutters.

4 - G pulls the sword back out for another 2 damage. Ignatius steps back and glares at G while putting a feathered hand to the wound.

5 - "So is G short for Goth? Dressed all in black, fantasizes about swords, plays roleplaying games...?" Ignatius spits back. G tightens the grip on his sword while his blood boils for 3 damage.

6 - G takes two steps forward and punches Ignatius in the wound he made earlier, for an additional three damage. Ignatius lets out another squawk.

7 - "Men have played with dice for four thousand years. You should try it." G says with what sounds like a smile. Ignatius looks down in time to see a glowing 20-sider in his wound. He looks up as there's a loud but muffled *boomph* and Ignatius takes 10 further damage from a small internalized explosion.

8 - G walks forward and pushes his sword into Ignatius' shoulder (6 damage). "I prefer my chicken cooked." Ignatius makes a faint groan, spits blood, and responds with, "Didn't your mother ever teach you not to play with your food?" G winces, taking 4 damage from the blindingly annoying comeback.

9 - G scissors his sword across Ignatius, using the point as a pivot, and decapitates him for 6 more damage, killing his opponent.

Winner: G. G glows, gains a stat point, and is healed. He quickly vanishes from the arena.

Loser: Ignatius. A dozen ogre kids run out and play kick-ball with Ignatius' head for awhile, then when their parents call them, quickly reattach the head and depart. Ignatius gets up, healed but in pain, and stumbles off the arena floor muttering about "those damn kids".

[Rkolter]

That concludes the first set of Round 1 matches. The second set starts next - those who won vs. those who lost!

[Netpoet]

Wiki updated again, and I'll be putting the battle images up next.

>Net

[Ti-Phil]

Whoa, I survived! But so much chaos and confusion due to stealing letters!

And after that I'm up against Lunar? If I lose, does it mean I'd also lose to the All Might Rock (tm) ?

[Jim North]

Corrosive Gab is no match for the Cold-blooded G!

[Hogan]

Looks like I'm up against another lucky tech fighter... wonder how much this will help THIS one!

[Killbert-Robby]

I look forward to it, Kwill

[Rkolter]

Round 1 (rotation 2) - Match 17 - Killbert-Robby (1/0) vs. Kev (KWill) (0/1)

{ABOL} If Killbert-Robby wins this match, he is guaranteed to go on to the next round; if Kev loses, he's effectively out of the competition. If however Kev wins, then both have a tough final battle ahead of them in the third rotation.

1 - Kev runs forward as Killbert-Robby is wandering out into the arena, bottle in hand. Kev smashes Killbert in the face with his wooden paddle (8 damage)! Killbert goes "wha...?" and falls down.

2- Killbert rolls over to get up, and just as Kev swings down again, Killbert reaches for his bottle. Kev misses, Killbert does not. "Shpretty pottle." Killbert says, taking a swing.

3 - Kev smashes Killbert in the face with his paddle again! Killbert falls backwards, and his bottle rolls down a small hill and starts to drain. "nooo!" screams Killbert!

4 - Kev puts down his paddle and goes for his sword while Killbert clumsily races downhill towards his leaking bottle.

5 - Killbert gets to his bottle, only to find it drained. His wail is heartwrenching and sets some of the audience to booing at Kev. Killbert turns and gives Kev an angry, drunken stare.

6 - "You spilled my beer!" he screams, pulling a gun and firing repeatedly at Kev! Kev tries to dodge, but is still hit in the shoulder twice (9 damage). He shouts and falls backwards.

7 - Killbert tries to race up the hill, but keeps stumbling. Kev manages to stand, and runs down towards Killbert, sword in his good arm. He takes a slash at the stumbling killbert, and hits a glancing blow for 2 damage! Kev is clearly tired.

8 - Kev kicks Killbert down and shoves his sword right through his skull for 8 damage, and a killing blow. Kev sags against the sword, exhausted, pushing the blade down to the hilt.

Winner: Kev! Kev glows, is healed, and gains a stat point. He pulls his sword out of Killbert's head, wipes the blade off, and still rubbing his shoulder as if sore, heads off the field.

Loser: Killbert-Robby. A stoner Ogre trips his way onto the arena, and finds Killbert, face down, dead. "Bummer man." he says, picking up the corpse. "You're like, totally dead and stuff." The ogre goes on to say. "Phew, and you smell like you drank something bad. ooh, I have something worse."

The ogre pulls out his bong, and upends the bong into Killbert's mouth. The rancid bong-water makes even the dead Killbert gag. He shakes off the damage, suddenly believing it never happened, and after vomiting his guts out, Killbert and the stoner Ogre go off to get some cheetos.

[[AlmightyPyro]]

I'm confused... Why are the winners fighting losers? What happens if every one that lost the first time win this time?

[Killbert-Robby]

I'm confused... Why are the winners fighting losers? What happens if every one that lost the first time win this time?

Then everyone has 1 point, and we go into a 3rd set, so whoever loses then is out.

Good on you K, you wiped the floor with me there.

[Rkolter]

I'm confused... Why are the winners fighting losers? What happens if every one that lost the first time win this time?

To ensure that exactly one half of the people who enter a round move on to the next round, the three sequences in a round have to be:

seq1) Random

We end up with 16 people at 1/0 and 16 people at 0/1

seq2) Winners vs. Losers

We end up with up with an equal number of 0/2 and 2/0 and an even number of 1/1

seq3) 1/1 vs 1/1 and 2/0 vs 0/2

If you work it out, one half of the total will always pull a score of 3/0 or 2/1, and one half will always pull a score of 1/2 or 0/3. That means 1/2 always moves on. Thus we go from 32 to 16, 16 to 8, 8 to 4, 4 to 2, and 2 to 1.

For example, if we have 14 people who are 2/0 and 0/2 (7 each), then we will have 18 people who are 1/1. 7 of the first group will move forward (all the 2/0 regardless of their third battle) and 9 of the 1/1 people will move forward (the winners) the result is 7 + 9 = 16 people.

The same is true if all the losers win - we would have 32 people at 1/1 at the end of seq2, and would randomly pair them, and the 16 winners of seq3 would move on.

Or if all the winners win - we would have 16 2/0 and 16 0/2. The 16 2/0 would be guaranteed to move on, and would be paired one more time vs the 0/2.

No matter how you cut it, you end up with 1/2 the original total moving on.