Battle Royale Event Information

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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: Condition Prize Killed during the event They 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 kill A rubber chicken. Survived, and killed between 1 - 5 PCs An item from, or similar to items on, the "Mod Permission" list on the Supplies post. Survived, and killed more than 5 PCs An 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 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.

Comments

[mellowyellow]

You would make me very, very happy if Masaomi Kida were to be inside the mall for the event.

Also, for plotting purposes, he'll be killing Duo. Have fun with that, guys.

[temperm]

My paid account ran out and I won't restore it until I'm back but imagine Gau's screaming and charging icon here

Because that is a thing that will happen

[mellowyellow]

Ack, sorry for late.

I would love for that to be a thing that happens.

[temperm]

screaming emotions fight round two now with murderous intentions y/n

[mellowyellow]

VERY YES PLEASE

He'll be exhausted and overemotional and panicking at his own actions, WHICH WILL MAKE IT EVEN BETTER. So I don't know how you'd want the fight to go, but I'd actually be pretty okay with Kida dying that way.

[temperm]

ACTUALLY THIS COULD WORK if you want him to die this way.

We save it until towards the end of the event- Gau finds out that Duo is dead, and later finds out that Kida killed him. Gau assumes Kida did it simply to win instead of protecting his friend (sort of) and combined with the unresolved frustration of their last fight and the despair over...the whole everyone is killing each other thing, attacks him. in the screaming, crying and tearing at everything possible sort of way. aka the best way.

He's not strong enough to kill Kida outright with a weapon, so it'd be a very long and damaging fight for him too. no matter what Gau'll barely make it out alive :vb five bucks if kida dies by getting his head smashed into the wall/ground/a rock again

[mellowyellow]

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.

[temperm]

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.

[mellowyellow]

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]

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.

[mellowyellow]

This is going to be the best, goriest event. I still love this game so much. Kida vs. Gau is definitely on.

[temperm]

So glad I suggested this, man. LET THE FIGHT BEGIN

and just imagine how super awkward it'll be after the event ends

[mellowyellow]

"You smashed my head against a rock."

"...I was trying to make sparks for a fire."

[temperm]

there was no cooked food so... killing two birds with one stone there!!

[mere_shopkeeper]

I kind of want some sort of teacher/student interaction during this. I'm not sure what though :|a

[mellowyellow]

Ooooh, that could be very cool. Um, I think Duo's death was going to be the 24th? And Kida's is the 26th. So there's plenty of time beforehand to fit something in. Hashing out what's going on and maybe coming up with plans that Kida ends up unable to follow through with?