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Adstringéndum Mods ([personal profile] adstringendummod) wrote2013-06-30 07:44 pm

Battle Royale Event Information


BATTLE ROYALE
The Animus may have been quiet recently, but now they're returning with a vengeance. Near the end of July, some of Adstringéndum's residents will find themselves trapped inside the earthquake-shaken and partly collapsed remains of the old mall... with a few additions: deadly weapons litter the ground, and there's a voice on the crackling PA system telling them that they have only two choices...

Kill or be killed.

OUTSIDE THE MALL

- Characters who are not inside the mall (and therefore not combatants) will be able to view anything happening inside as an ongoing video feed over the network. Video will resemble surveillance cameras; there will be some sound, but it may be staticky or hushed. Different areas of the mall will be visible on different feeds, so characters may have to switch the video they are viewing if they want to keep an eye on their friends.

- Announcements made inside the mall will not be audible to those outside, but the Announcer will show up on the main network occasionally during the event in order to tell everyone who is still alive.

- Characters outside the mall will discover that it appears to be entirely surrounded by a transparent barrier. Physical force will have no effect against the barrier. Trying to use supernatural powers to break it may result in backlash (comment here if your character would use magic or other powers to try and break in, and we can plot out the result!)

INSIDE THE MALL

- If you want your character to participate in the event as a combatant inside the mall, please let us know via a comment on this post before July 20th.

- Characters who die within the mall during this event will not need to pay death prices. Instead, they will remain dead (complete with all the nasty decomposition side effects) until the end of the final day of the event, at which point they will return to life. Fatal wounds and post-mortem injuries will be completely healed, although other wounds suffered during the event may remain. However, characters will not ICly know that they will not have to pay a death price; in fact, the Announcer may lead them to believe they won't be coming back at all....

- There will be no supernatural powers working within the mall, including magical senses or psychic abilities such as telepathy/telekinesis. Natural physical abilities greater than human (for instance, alien or vampire strength and speed) will be reduced to the human maximum -- Superman might be at the fitness level of an Olympic athlete, but he wouldn't be running faster than a locomotive or leaping tall buildings. Shape-changing or shifting abilities will not function, although other natural attributes of non-human physiology, such as bloodlust, enhanced senses, sharp claws and sharp teeth, will remain.

- Characters inside the mall will not have their PCDs. They will not be able to access the network for communication or to view any of the video feeds or announcements visible to characters outside. Characters outside will be able to send messages to them (as though they were lost in the Wastes) but those messages will not be received until the end of the event.

- A variety of weapons can be found within the mall, from simple (knives, brass knuckles, baseball bats) to technologically advanced items such as handguns. High explosives or long-range items such as sniper rifles will not be available. All weapons will appear real and functional, but some (at random, and at players' discretion) may transform into harmless foam, Nerf, or squirt guns when used on another player.

- Food and water will be available at certain locations within the mall (indicated on the map). This food will be canned or dry (e.g. stale crackers in plastic, cans of ravioli or beans) rather than fresh or already prepared.

- Some NPC characters will also be present within the mall, armed, and dangerous: these are NOT the scientists or other named NPCs, but rather the nameless characters, also from other worlds, who comprise part of the Adstringéndum population. PCs may not team up with NPCs, nor count them among total kills for the purpose of determining prizes. You may, however, use the NPCs to pose a threat to your character or have your character kill them at will. (Need an excuse to be blood-spattered? Murder an NPC.)

- There is no limit on the number of "winning" characters -- any character still alive inside the mall at the end of the event will be considered a winner. Every character participating in the event will receive something for their trouble:

ConditionPrize
Killed during the eventThey will return to life wearing a neon-colored T-shirt with a cartoonish red blood splatter at (or as close as possible to) the location of their fatal wound and the text, in black Comic Sans, "[Name of Killer] Murdered Me, And All I Got Was This Shirt." The first PC to die will also get a dead rat.
Survived to the end, but did not killA rubber chicken.
Survived, and killed between 1 - 5 PCsAn item from, or similar to items on, the "Mod Permission" list on the Supplies post.
Survived, and killed more than 5 PCsAn item that appears to be from their home world (within reason -- an iPod full of music, for example, or a favorite tea set.)


MALL MAP


AFTERMATH

- At midnight on July 28th, the barrier around the mall will go down.

- Character powers will be restored the moment the barrier goes down. Characters who have died inside the mall will be restored to life wherever their bodies happen to be at that moment.

- Their PCDs and their prizes will be found in their pockets or near them on the ground. They will be able to view the past week's video feeds in full detail.

- All weapons found in the mall during the event will be transformed into useless foam or Nerf guns, including ammunition. Weapons not currently in a character's possession will disappear entirely.

OOC ORGANIZATION

- Event logs for characters inside the mall will be posted on July 20th on the [community profile] adstringendumlog community.

- Please feel free to use the comment section of this post in order to plot with other players or ask any questions that are not covered by the information in this post.

- An OOC post will go up at the beginning of the event for players to leave comments if their character is killed inside the mall. These deaths will be announced ICly by the Announcer NPC, and will be used to determine which characters earn which prizes. Since battle logs often take a while to finish, particularly if players happen to be available at different times, we strongly recommend plotting OOC in order to determine the outcome of fights and make sure that death tallies are as accurate as possible.
temperm: (angsty icon)

[personal profile] temperm 2013-07-09 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Would it be harder to kill a human that is offering no resistance?
mellowyellow: (beers ago)

[personal profile] mellowyellow 2013-07-09 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
Pfff, haha, I would be very down for this, actually.

He'd probably use the same knife he used on Duo. So it'll be nice and bloody to hammer the point home. Like hard enough to snap his neck? Or slamming into the edge of a wall or a sharp rock enough to split his head open? 'Cause that could be fun.
the_stand_cometh: (Default)

[personal profile] the_stand_cometh 2013-07-09 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. Not so long as this happens after he gets in a few fights, even with NPCs. It'd be a little less fun, but not harder.

It'll just be harder later.
temperm: (with this pen i will execute justice)

[personal profile] temperm 2013-07-09 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
I'm a wonderful influence C:

welp wakachi justice is a go. Gau would definitely desperately grab for it in the fight and fail- Gotta love that terrible and painful symbolism. Yep! Like, the kind where the attacker takes the victim by the shoulders and repeatedly slams their head into the ground/against said sharp rock. It's all in very good fun.
temperm: (Let's reunite the Shimizu siblings!)

[personal profile] temperm 2013-07-09 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
Want to help a guy out trying to dispense justice in a desperate situation before he himself gets offed?
mellowyellow: (blah blah blah)

[personal profile] mellowyellow 2013-07-09 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
He'll just slice your finger off Gau. No big.

Your mind is a beautiful place. I should vacation there someday. Let's do it.
temperm: (OH THE HUMANITY)

[personal profile] temperm 2013-07-09 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
Good to know! :D
the_stand_cometh: (Default)

[personal profile] the_stand_cometh 2013-07-09 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
o7

He's just going to be kicking himself later for going so wild.
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[personal profile] feel_nevermore 2013-07-09 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Absolutely. Justice shall prevail! Titans go!

Also I'd love more CR between those two. :)

...So I take it Gau will get killed during this event? ;;
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[personal profile] feel_nevermore 2013-07-09 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Wanna do something? Don't know what exactly.

Raven is a good person but she has a very dark demon soul. XD Though since her powers will be nullified by the event, she'll almost feel like a normal human.

She's sparred once in the past against Frau and his scythe and it ended in a draw. So she'd be willing to team up with him unless he feels the compulsion to attack her? I don't know?
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[personal profile] battleformysoul 2013-07-09 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Frau is going to run into Tony at some point and Soren at another. I think we're kind of winging both until we get closer to the event. Raven is welcome to join the party though, or could meet up with Frau before?

He's not going to be doing much attacking, I don't think. More just avoidance and rescuing people unless someone is really trying to take him out.
temperm: (OH THE HUMANITY)

[personal profile] temperm 2013-07-09 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Your mind is beautiful as well because he should totally do that. They'll both have souvenirs!!

Unless you count the t-shirt and trauma.
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[personal profile] temperm 2013-07-09 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Justice always wins!! except when it doesn't.

Same here!! He'd definitely like her as an ally C:

Yes ;; He's losing his head in the battle. Literally.
temperm: (I'M IN DESPAIR)

[personal profile] temperm 2013-07-09 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Boys Gone Wild: Adstring Edition
feel_nevermore: (Fight)

[personal profile] feel_nevermore 2013-07-09 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Both work for me!

A bit like Raven, then.
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[personal profile] feel_nevermore 2013-07-09 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
...Right.

Good :D

...Oh wow. Poor Gau. Raven's going to feel bad about it. o.O Who's gonna do this?
temperm: (angsty icon)

[personal profile] temperm 2013-07-09 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Wellll to be fair he is going to sort of. smash kida's head in. BUT HE THINKS IT'S FOR JUSTICE until he realizes kida wasn't 100% guilty oops.

Either Rip or Asagi, I have to decide which makes sense ICly! but it will happen do not fret
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[personal profile] dragon_of_echigo 2013-07-09 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Also, if you have any preferences as to how this could go down, let me know! Kagetora will probably stick to blades.
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[personal profile] battleformysoul 2013-07-10 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Awesome! Hopefully when it gets closer and we have more specifics meshed out for other things we can plan more.
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[personal profile] fishdouche 2013-07-10 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Huh, not really, lol. I'm not very picky, and I don't really like planning everything out beforehand. So whatever you want is fine.
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[personal profile] the_stand_cometh 2013-07-10 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
It's appropriate. Adstring brings out the best worst in people.
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[personal profile] mellowyellow 2013-07-10 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
This is going to be the best, goriest event. I still love this game so much. Kida vs. Gau is definitely on.
temperm: (TUMBLR SPOILED THE NEXT DR WHO EPISODE)

[personal profile] temperm 2013-07-10 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
So glad I suggested this, man. LET THE FIGHT BEGIN

and just imagine how super awkward it'll be after the event ends
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[personal profile] mellowyellow 2013-07-11 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
"You smashed my head against a rock."

"...I was trying to make sparks for a fire."
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[personal profile] feel_nevermore 2013-07-11 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Well I don't have a plurk either, so feel free to PM me on Raven's journal if needed. ;)

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