Putting up a little RTD lite based on a fun idea I had. The spaceship manufacturing game isn't dead, I will update it today or tomorrow, upon my dubious honor as someone who reliably meets deadlines.
THE PREMISEYou have by whatever circumstances, been entered in the
ULTIMATE PAN-UNIVERSAL FIGHT TOURNAMENT. This is a fight in which various beings are put into an arena* and must fight to the death. The fight is over when half of the entrants are dead. Those surviving continue to the next round.
But there's a TWIST:
Your souls and bodies will be randomly switched around before the fight. You might find yourself, for better or for worse, in the body of any of the entrants. If you die in this form, you are still quite dead.
HOW TO ENTERSimply say that you are
IN, and you are in. I will attempt to accommodate all comers, which is why I will be keeping this game simple. You must also post a character, which you may find yourself controlling but more likely will end up being an opponent.
There are some rules regarding characters you may create:
-All characters must be sentient or semi-sentient.
-All characters must have some means of locomotion, equal or greater to Stephen Hawking, or be able to fight while stationary.
-Characters may have ONE weapon, and ONE utility item or armor. A multi-function item (such as a fighter-jet, which flies and has weapons built in) counts as both.
-Characters must be smaller than the moon.
-Characters may NOT be capable of: Time travel, inter-planar travel, destroying the universe.
-No duplicate characters.
Examples of valid characters include: Superman, Chuck Norris, a three-legged cat, a sentient monster truck.
Examples of invalid characters: A sea anemone, abrahamic God/YHWH, the concept of Pessimism, a dead body.
Lastly, try to keep characters relatively simple and don't write a whole ton. They're going to die.
THE RULESOnce enough of you have made characters, I will randomly assign a character to each of you and describe the upcoming fight in more detail. You will say how you intend to go about fighting and/or who you intend to target. There is no numeric system for the fights, except the standard Roll To Dodge rules for actions. Characters are considered to be dead when they are actually dead, or no longer meet the requirements of being sentient and capable of perpetrating their will (for example, if a sentient car had its gas line cut, even though it's not "dead"). The fight ends when half the characters are dead, which will always be one post from me (you won't get another action during the fight). The fight might also end when all the characters are dead.
After a fight, we will go through the old process of making characters to replace the ones who died. Characters surviving will be used in the next fight, but players will be shuffled again; if you survive, you'll still end up with a different character next time. I will keep track of the number of fights players have survived.
Get started making characters, everybody!
-Kyle Johnson: A modern mage. Couldn't win a knife fight with a hydra.
-Vander Allens: Crossbow badass. While enchanted into dancing by Tom Bombadil, had a lethal fall down the stairs.
-Poundatron: An artillery-based Decepticon. His guns misfired and exploded due to Electroman's shock attacks.
-Tom Bombadil: 1 Kill. The enchanting guardian of the forests of middle earth. Eaten by a hydra.
-Electroman: 1 kill. Kung-fu fighter with electric powers. Got 'sploded by Rex Splode while sky diving.
-Billan: 1 kill... on himself. Blood mage of modern times. Sucked his own blood out in a freak accident.
-Jade Harley: Science-minded girl with a rifle. Shot herself in both feet and got totally dissolved by the Hydra's acid breath.
-Dante: Scythe-wielding crime against poetry. Got his head whupped clean off by an attack from the Venomancer.
-Ada Lovelace: Mary sue. Also got exploded by Rex Splode. Her ennui made the explosion greater.
-Schizophrenic Hydra: 3 kills. Can breath fire and acid.
-Rex Splode: 2 kills. Suffers from sword-through-the-chest-itis.
-The Venomancer: 1 kill.
-Dr. McNinja
-Optimus Prime with a Twist (has not yet fought)
PLAYER: Kills/Deaths/Rounds Survived
kj1225: 2/0/2
Xantalos: 1/2/0
Greenstarfanatic: 2/1/1
SomeStupidGuy: 0/2/0
GreatWyrmGold: 2/0/2
flabort: 0/2/0
IronyOwl: 0/1/0
Gamerlord: 0/0/1
Borno: 0/1/0
ExKirby: 1/0/1
*Anywhere.