Results are in, and here's the vid, and I'll pin timestamps up in a bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX7qbiU8H2YRound 3 Match Results:---------
W - L - T xzaxza: 2 - 1
jecowa: 1 - 2Game 1 - jecowa wins the die roll, getting to spawn in first. And game 1 begins with a roar from xzaxza's Adamantine Monster! The very next tick, jecowa's phoebe leaps into the air, reigniting its flame, as if fully anticipating the torrent of dragonfire and burning slade that was to be unleashed by the adamantine monster on tick 3.
Phoebe attempts its aerial assult on the adamantine monster, with the intention of barreling through the poisonous smoke, and monstrous sulfur vapor being bellowed by xzaxza's adamantine monster, it is suddenly turned into a ram in mid-air. The adamantine monster scoffs.
Phoebe, now a
goat sheep, falls from the sky and directly back down into the path of the dragon fire and miasma of deadly smoke. In just a couple ticks, the
goat sheep has melted, and xzaxza takes game 1.
Game 2 - jecowa spawns second, and the arena is consequently changed to jecowa's custom submission, and institutes a mandatory flying check for tick 1. Oh, looks like someone declined to add flying to their creature. Xzaxza's adamantine monster plummets into the abyss on the first tick, and the game goes to jecowa.
Free wins are your best and only friend in this sort of tournament
If'n you ain't fightin' dirty in this here tournament, then you ain't fightin'! - Truer words have yet to be spoken.
Game 3 - this one takes place back in the old default arena. Now, this was a pretty wild game. One would think the adamantine monster would simply turn jecowa's phoebe into a
goat sheep, and melt it in dragonfire. But for some reason, it declines to end the match quickly. It gets distracted by its other options. Jecowa's creature distracts it. Who knows what was happening here. But the adamantine stalls on using its best interaction for closing this fight. And it keeps stalling. It allows phoebe to close into actual melee combat, and the two actually come to blows. Melee action has been pretty rare so far during this event (except in the bizarre case of one particular mirror match). And when melee combat does happen, its usually just a singular blow, which closes out a fight once one of the combatants has been cursed and transformed into something tiny and insignificant.
In a strange turn of events, we actually see these two monsters actually wailing on each other for quite some time.
From what I can tell by the combat log, the xzaxza's adamantine monster's AI seems to have gone AFK for some reason, and merely sat still while phoebe set the ground aflame, reigniting her flame as she barreled toward her opponent.
The first actual melee action of game 3 is a bite from phoebe into the adamantine monster's left leg, which actually shatters the adamantine, followed by a latch. Phoebe begins shaking the adamantine monster's leg, as she continually reignites her flame. Another bite from phoebe into one of the upperbodies of the adamantine monster, followed by an immediate charge -> into knockdown. the adamantine monster is surprised by the ferocity, as phoebe bites into its right rear foot, fracturing the adamantine.
At this point, the adamantine monster's right rear foot, left front leg, "upperbodyupperbodies" have all been broken by the weird orange feathery ball of unmitigated glowing hot violence.
We start to speed up the match, and the onslaught continues as the adamantine monster just continues to sit there! How much more punishment can it possible sustain before it wakes up?! Is all hope lost?! As the match continues, the surrounding grass is set ablaze by jecowa's phoebe, whose immolating heat scorches the surrounding earth, changing the battlefield from a quiet grassy plain, into a hellish sea of burning wildfire.
Biting and shaking the adamantine monster looks like the gameplan for Phoebe, as the monster may as well be taking a nap with its eyes open. Next to break is the adamantine monster's right middle foot, then its right earhole is somehow mangled, next its right spike is bitten off, finally, phoebe latches onto the adamantine monster's "leftfang left fang" and begins to shake... and that is when xzaxza's monster woke up. A "scoff", a "stare", one missed attempt at a melee action, all fired off in rapid succession, and then WHAM! Phoebe's now sheep body slams into an obstacle. Its front right leg taking the force of the impact, which bruises it, but is then immediately healed, as phoebe continually transforms into a new sheep each tick. The adamantine monster gores off one of its hooves, but again, the transformation syndrome inflicted by the monster causes the jecowa's now rapid sheep retransforming body to continually heal itself.
After transforming into a
goat/ewe sheep 11 times, jecowa's monster is finally struck down. Its now
goat sheep body hisses and melts within the dense thicket of flames it had set at the zenith of its near-moment of triumph.
xzaxza takes game 3, winning the match.
Wolfkey: 2 - 1
Erik Blank: 1 - 2Game 1 - Wolfkey wins the die roll and is spawned in first. At the very start of the match, Erik Blank's Spellcaster Titan is enveloped by the crab's evil magic, and is immediately condemned to a life of servitude as a pile of lumber. The crab's intentions for these logs are to serve as wood for its next DIY project, which will be a little bird house. Wolfkey quickly steals game 1.
Game 2 - These are the moments every modder should aspire to. The very dream this tournament is built upon. You know, I actually thought the match was just a repeat of game 1. Why should I even bother with continuing to record? Why bother to even check the units list. This is a prefect example of what can happen, when we lose our faith in DF, with respect to how truly bizarre and buggy it can sometimes be, when we least expect it. Where it suddenly alarms us with new and unexpected behavior, which doesn't make any sense. This game, did not make sense.
And it was awesome. Tick 1, I hit "." and look, theres Erik's spellcaster titan, turned into yet another wagon. But something is strange. Why is the wagon so much further away from where Erik's titan spawned.
"Huh, that's funny, you know I wonder if... bloody Mother of Armok!" A truly wonderful thing to behold. Wagons, wagons everywhere. Exploding! 11 adamantine collosi, spawned and turned to wagons in mid-air, yet Erik Blank's titan remained. And who was now rocketing toward the crab from space.
What was happening? Why was it happening?
Who the fuck cares?! DO IT TITAN! GO! GO! GO! DO IT!
After firing a wave of projectiles, the titan closes the gap. It lands, it charges, THE ATTACKS LAND!
First a stab, then a kick, the titan collides with the crab, before it can even register what the hell is happening, the crab's shattered & broken body is blown away! Blue blood gushing everywhere, which then appears to boil in the molten liquid sunlight.
Is the match over? It should be right? NO! The units list shows the crab is still very much alive. Broken, mangled, crushed, smashed, and bleeding profusely, but alive.
Flying backwards, the crab's tiny body, shattered by the impossible to withstand blows of the titan, is still alive.
This tiny, simple, seemingly ordinary crab endures.
HE ENDURES! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, HE ENDURES! Withstanding, the immediate shock and impact impact, its body exploding in all directions, the tiny red menace clings tightly to the razor's edge of life itself. Its eyes filled with the boundless unquenchable red hate of its entire collective species, no! Of every arthropod species the sea has ever known!
Would the Titan get the kill? Or with its dying breath, would the crab wagonify the mighty titan? It was anyone's game.
The titan rushes to catch the shattered body of the crab with with one of its many hands, locking it in a hold, before, before, before, ladies and gentlemen, just before the titan can finish the match, the crab escapes the wrestling hold!
I've never seen anything like this. At this very precise precipice of eternal glory, the crab, the scuttler, the undeniable mightiest crustacean under 1ft tall to have ever spawned somehow manages to slip through the titan's grasp! Upon inspection of the combat log, it appears its body had become a kobold's, with the transformation curse uttered by Erik Blank's Spellcaster Titan occurring on the same tick the wrestling hold was placed, allowing the crab to slip to the wrestling's titan iron grip. Can you believe it?!
The newly transformed kobold's body, now only slightly effected by the curse, which will rapidly begin to take effect, is given a shining window from which to rip the rug out from under the titan, and ensure its dominance be remembered in the hall of Bay12 for all of time.
While the curse would no doubt render the crab up toward the great big stinking kobold cave in the sky in a few short moments, would its temporary new body have the strength, the WILL to take this thing 2 - 0? Will he hold out folks?! Can he hold out?! Alas, he cannot. As the kobold slips from the titan's arms, it gives into the searing pain of the curse. Never getting the single tick it needed to wagonify the titan and close the match.
Erik takes game 2.
Game 3 - The crab wagonifies Erik at the start and takes game 3.
There are two kinds of creatures in DF. Crabs that can turn other creatures into wagons. And creatures that lose.
Clearly, not all creatures are crabs. And not all creatures are winners. The match ends with Wolfkey's, The Scuttler taking it 2 - 1
Squamous: 0 - 2
FirePhoenix11: 2 - 0Games 1 and 2: Squamous gets cast into a wall of cooling obsidian. Another victory for " ".
Dikbutdagrate: 2 - 0
DPh Kraken: 0 - 2Game 1 - Kraken wins the die roll, and we spawn above water. The lord of flies gets stuck in the whirlpool of steam and mud, while Kraken's pudding slowly slimes its way over. Immediately upon closing the distance, the pudding is ripped apart and turned into a poofy cloud of goodbye, before dissipating into a cloud of steam. Dikbutdagrate takes game 1.
Game 2 - The pudding gets a case of the bad bananas and feels terrified. It is then promptly turned into a goodbye and evaporates. Dikbutdagrate takes game 2, claiming the match 2 - 0.
An Anonymous Masked Bay12 Member: 2 - 0
The Bye Creature: 0 - 2Game 1 - The Golden Kobold almost loses, despite turning into a copy of " ". For some reason, it decided to wrestle the slade angel, instead of just instantly killing it. The Golden Kobold transforms back into its original form once more, it is then beaten and bloodied by the slade angel. Before the GB can be slain however, it once again transforms into a " " , healing all of its wounds in the nick of time, and promptly uhh.... running away? Sure! I guess that's a better strategy than simply being beatin' to a pulp, I suppose?
The " " transforms back to its original Kobold State, then meanders a bit, and then turns into Erik Blank's Spellcaster Titan.
The Golden Kobold/Spellcaster Titan clone proceeds to go on a rampage and quickly wins the match from here.
Game 2 - The golden kobold slowly walks up to the slade angel, who twiddles its thumbs, before turning into a copy of Erik's spellcaster titan again, and smashes apart the BYE creature after turning into a regular kobold. The Golden Kobold takes game 2, claiming the match.
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