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

[closetshark]

And? It wasn't anything personal. You people and your good/evil moralities, survival means killing other things that threaten you and UGH WHY DOES HE EVEN BOTHER WITH YOU PEOPLE. (lol)

I'm all for it, but... if she comes at him during the event he's going to actively try to kill her as quickly as possible.

How strong he is depends on how you measure it?

Physically he's pretty strong and fast, though he goes more for fast and brutal with how he fights. He also has literally over 40,000 years of experience in fighting and surviving things, he took out more than a few entire planets back before he crashed to earth and the Guardian's aren't chump change when it comes to opponents.

He's actually pretty dangerous, he simply hasn't seen a point to trying to kill anyone for the most part during his entire time in Adstring.

[feel_nevermore]

What moralities? It has nothing to do with that (for once XD). It's completely personal and selfish. You killed Alex. Period.

Oh, I see. Also he's probably twice Raven's size, at least XD. What are the chances for her to be able to sneak up on him and try and stab him in the back? Because Raven's not foolish, she'll probably instinctively know she's not strong enough to win a fair fight against him. So she'd totally do that XD

Also I'm all for them fighting but I have other plans for her during the event too, so she can't on the same day Alex does. But she's fast, so she can probably escape without too much damage? And then they can meet again later, if you want so that he can maim her a bit more? If you want XD

But an interesting thing for Pitch, he'll know Raven's fear. Raven doesn't fear her own death, she fears to lose other people and not to be able to do anything to prevent (well what she actually fears most is to be the cause of their death, but he might not see that unless someone tries and rescue her...).

[closetshark]

Oh, he doesn't fight fair either XD

She's more than welcome to wound him, but I've actually got a lot planned out for him during this and he's getting shoved in a freezer friday afternoon/night.

I don't want him to die during this because I want him to be seen as a threat to people beacuse... he is.

[feel_nevermore]

Well no one expects him too, he's not a hero XD

Shoved into a freezer... That's interesting XD Sounds something Lucifer would have done. Except he's gone.

Oh Raven already knew he was a threat, but I get what you mean :D

So shall we go for that? Raven tries and stab him and then they fight. But since she failed to kill him on her first hit, she'll quickly understand she can't bring him down on her own. Especially since he can pretty easily send her flying into walls whereas she can't XD She'll back off pretty quickly as soon as he manages to wound her. And will go play hero somewhere else ;)

If that sounds good to you? If you have other ideas, I'm all ears ^_^

(I'm wondering if I'll have Raven end up dying at the very end, from all the wounds she got, the blood loss, the exhaustion... Because I'm mean like that XD I'd just have to figure out what I'd put on the tee-shirt XD)

[closetshark]

Seems legit, he won't have his fear reading powers until after the event but he will know that she's afraid of being the result of someone's death because it's his thing, knowing what people are most afraid of.