Sorry been out of action with bronchotis. I will have something up tonight or tomorrow.
Sorry been out of action with bronchotis. I will have something up tonight or tomorrow.
"Hello all you happy people...you know what? I'm the hero."
DROOPY
-unassuming looks/personality belie his actual abilities and cause his adversaries to underestimate him
-decades of experience defeating adversaries attempting to best and often harm/murder him
-ability to remain calm in extreme situations
-incredible strength, speed, agility, intelligence
-teleportation
-army of clones
-experienced in using firearms
-telekinesis
-hypnotism
-often defies the laws of physics
-inexplicable good fortune
-hammerspace
-master detective (globe trotting adventures against a variety of foes, some supernatural)
Hiryu from Strider
Weapons/Equipment: Cypher (plasma sword-main weapon of choice)
-Cypher Features: Boomerang throw, Power up abilities (blade can be extended), “Plasma Arrow” where the Cypher can be released as a projectile. Cypher also has ability to block enemy projectiles, Burst Cypher power (products fire, explosive attacks), Ultra-Cold (freeze ability) and Magnetic.
Climb Sickle (climbing tool but can also be used as a weapon)
Boots that can walk on water, magnetic walls
Glider that silently flies at a high speed
Abilities:
Super-human speed/above normal strength
Extremely agile with multiple jumping techniques (Cartwheel, Acceleration, Triangle, etc)
Master of Superhuman Taijutsu
Slide In-Signature sliding kick attack
Savage Slash- jumps in mid-air and does several slashes in quick succession all around him
Plasma Catapult- can travel in the air like a bullet by ejecting plasma energy from his feet. This technique requires recharging after each use
Down Strike- A powerful downward thrust with concentrated plasma on the Cypher. It releases a shockwave upon landing that destroys nearby enemies, and can break through specific floors
Matches will go up tonight
And when do the lighters go up?
Other characters I had considered:
-Swamp Thing
-Vision
-Tony the Tiger
-Universe Man (from the They Might Be Giants song "Particle Man")
-Sharktopus
Since nobody picked Brat Wyatt....Originally Posted by Hero!
If you can't do this week due to sickness, let me know
@VoidKitten
Need that write-up please
I will have something up today or tonight. I can this week. Just got districted with a couple other things. I have it partly written up.
ok I for sure think we should all pick cereal mascots next time.
my other options were:
raphael from TMNT
ash Ketchum (wasn’t sure how this would work)
mega force silver ranger
optimal Optimus primal
cyclops from x men
I considered:
Quailman
A Temple Guard from Legends of the Hidden Temple
Olmec but I couldn't figure out how to make that work
Krumm from Ahhh! Real Monsters
My other consideration was Aiden Caldwell from Dying Light 2.
With voidkitten's ok, I am posting his choice:
Regina George
Leader of the Plastics
Skilled Dancer
Master Strategist
Most Popular Girl in School
Highly Proficient Manipulator
Rich
Successful Athlete
Able to destroy confidence with a single utterance
Can take a full-speed impact from a bus, win prom queen a few weeks later, and become a star field hockey player by Fall
Regina George will bully you, degrade you, destroy your confidence, define your social place.....and you'll end up thanking her for it.
Get ready to join the club
@Donald
I think you have Scott Steiner? Do you want to write-up your selection?
If that's not who you wanted, no worries
Anita Blake Vampire Hunter
Animator and vampire hunter who is trained in many forms of hand to hand combat and several types of firearms. Her preferred firearm is a Browning BMD. Anita also has multiple strains of the lycanthropy virus that include wolf, leopard, lion, hyena, and several colors of tiger.
Knowledge and abilities
Necromancer: Anita is one of the most powerful living animators in St. Louis at the beginning of the series, with her powers eventually making her one of the strongest animators in history. Her level of ability has been shown to exert power over both vampires and the undead, with her being capable of raising lifelike zombies.
Combat Training: Anita has a black belt in Judo as of the first book. In Obsidian Butterfly she is also studying Kenpo Karate. Later (Affliction) she started MMA training. She works out regularly, first with her best friend Ronnie "to be able to outrun the bad guys" when she needs to, then with Circus of the Damned guards. She credits Edward (Federal Marshall Theodore "Ted" Forrester, The Death) for much of her training in weapons, primarily handguns and knives. She is primarily right-handed, but she can fight with her left hand.
Detective Training: Though she rarely uses these skills in later novels, Anita has been involved with many investigations with RPIT and in the later books with the FBI. Her police contact, Rudolph Storr, routinely requires her to engage in independent crime scene reconstruction in order to obtain an analysis—Anita's reconstructions are almost always correct and frequently include insights that the police have missed. Anita thinks like both a cop and a monster, according to some, which is what makes her so insightful.
Supernatural Experience: Anita holds a bachelor's degree in preternatural biology and is a trained Vampire executioner. She is able to resist the mental influence of Jean-Claude's, a vampire who is also her love interest. In the later books Anita has given Damian, her Vampire servant, the fourth mark. This does not interfere with Jean Claude's marks. It is uncertain if this unconventional fourth mark grants Anita immortality.
Triumvirate Member: Anita is a member of a "triumvirate" with Jean-Claude and her additional love interest Richard Zeeman (The Killing Dance). At first the only effect is their powers boosting when they are together, even more so when touching. (The usefulness of the triumvirate varies with the interpersonal conflicts between Richard, Jean-Claude and Anita.) In later novels she creates a secondary triumvirate with Nathaniel as her wereleopard to call and Damian as her vampire servant.
Vampire Powers: The combination of her necromancy and her membership in the triumvirate has caused Anita to develop a series of powers formerly seen only in Vampires, which includes the ardeur, a sexual power that allows her to feed from other supernatural creatures and humans.
Vampire Marks: In the Anita Blake world Master Vampires can create a mystic link with a human or with an animal to call. The creation of such a link is a four-step process; steps are called marks and it is understood that a Master Vampire "gives" the marks to subjugate a human or wereanimal. A human which received all four marks is a Human Servant to Master Vampire; a wereanimal (or siren, or ghost, or selkie, etc.) which received all four marks is The Animal to Call (as opposed to an animal to call). Each mark gives both sides of the marking process new abilities. Without any mental precautions a pair Master Vampire - Human Servant may become one personality in two bodies (Kiss the Dead, Chapter 45). Anita Blake received unknowingly the first two marks from Jean-Claude in Guilty Pleasures, then the third mark in Circus of the Damned; then Master Vampire Alejandro took her over with all four marks, which made her capable to kill Alejandro with her bare hands, thus wiping all marks. In Killing Dance Anita Blake accepted voluntarily the first three marks from Jean-Claude to save his life and Richard Zeeman's life. In Incubus Dreams, Chapter 13 Anita Blake, acting as Master Vampire, accidentally gave all four marks to both Damian and Nathaniel Graison, thus forming her own Triumvirate of Power.
Power Mimicry: "It was almost as if the more often I was used by, or borrowed magic from, someone else, the more likely it became that their magic would become part of my arsenal." Anita discussing this ability in Chapter 47 of Danse Macabre.
Classic. MTR comes in after match ups are announced and sees that I have picked a Vampire and picks a Vampire Hunter.
I had already made up my pick before you posted but just was slacking on doing the write up before I got sick.
Can we not have outside quotes count against the word limit (like videos and images)? Seems biased against literary characters.
Mind you, I had issues hitting word count last year.
MTR's pick was the second time I misunderstood the meaning of animator.
Just giving you shit. Good luck.
I had already made up my pick before you posted but just was slacking on doing the write up before I got sick.
I briefly considered Darth Vader, just so I could post this picture:
@Mazer I forgot to list one more ability in my post. Is it too late to add it in?
Not as long as it's Canon.
Love that issueI briefly considered Darth Vader, just so I could post this picture:
There were dark days in the past where people posted full articles of Meltzer, etc in debates
They should have been docked points for failing to summarise the salient and cogent points of their arguement.
Hell, I might even use Harvard referencing for my quotes.
@Jitters your turn
I tried to have my video start part way through but it didnt work.
Meant to get my second post up yesterday but was in a bad headspace. Had a shit sleep and busy work day today so needed to just chill tonight. Bulk of the post is already written in my brain though, just gotta write it, which I will do after work tomorrow. Apologies for the delay.
Sorry for the delay. Post is up and your up, @Kneeneighbor
Are you still good @Nash Diesel ?
I will post today.
Sorry I spaced this off. My youngest daughter's mom was in a brutal motorcycle accident and I just had tunnel vision. I'll get something cooked up very very soon!
Oh no. Hope things are alright.
Sorry to hear about that, Nash. Hoping she's ultimately gonna be ok
She broke 5 ribs, punctured lung, small brain bleed, broken collar bone. The fact is, they weren't wearing helmets either so the fact they're alive is a fucking miracle. Some POS car leaked oil all over an exit ramp they took and the fire dept had just laid down that sand looking shit but it didn't matter they didn't see it and wiped out. Madness. Thankful they're alive but holy shit.
Next batch will go up tomorrow
Will get my last post up tomorrow.
I have responded.
Side note I thought this was more of a debate format but apparently MTR and I are just typing a narrative? IDK fun either way.
You can go different ways with it. I mean we are still debating in a way. I will have my final post up later today at some point. If not during lunch after I get home.
No worries this works for me. I am not overly competitive in these things but like to participate and fill out the brackets.
The only limit is your imagination.
Also the word count.
And some other rules.
The only limits are your imagination, the word count, and some other rules.
The time limit? Jitters hasn't responded, or even been on recently.
Hope he's okay.
Yeah. Me too. I reached out. I'm probably going to punt to you vs. VK. Since his didn't show up either. I might see how this round goes first.
So you either get lucky by default or have a glorious first round match. Let's see what my hopes for a feasible bracket bring.
@FutureHold I'll have my first post up this afternoon. If you can get a response in today I'll try to get my next response before the night ends.
I'm going camping this weekend so after Friday I'm not sure I'll be able to post anything until Monday night
@Mazer is this fight happening during Twine Ball Day?
Yes.
The Ball of twine is about 2 hours from where I live.
Do you use your place as an AIRBNB during Twine day? Make that Twiner cash?
Clarification on the Shire:
The Shire is set during the time period after the Hobbit, immediately before Fellowship of the Ring.
First one will go up sometime this evening
Edit: got a bit sidetracked after rehearsal but I'm off tomorrow
Last edited by Kdestiny; September 18th, 2024 at 11:43 PM.
Post is done and ready to go but keeps being blocked because I have more than one video. What should I do?
Never mind, I swapped out some of the videos for GIFs It worked out great. I hope.
I’m pretty busy this weekend But I’ll definitely have time to participate the next two days. Not sure how busy badger schedule is, but if it hits the weekend and we’re still going, I won’t be able to post until next week probably.
Finished reading the 1st match... have some initial thoughts but will wait til later and have a full reread. Gonna let it digest some for now and should have a judgement in on it later today, possible after my wow raid
I’ll have the opener up after work tomorrow. Working Friday so should get the second one in then.
Working Saturday as well so I’m cool with extending til next week if you’re busy too.
Last edited by Badger; September 18th, 2024 at 6:27 PM.
Work was busier than expected and haven't had a chance to breathe yet since I got home. Working on my post now
I think we can bang this out by Friday, if not, we’ll just finish up next week. This is definitely easiest for me to do during the workday. I’m just so busy on weekends.
It’s up now my good man.
Will be tomorrow after work before I can post again as heading out soon but if you can get your two in by tomorrow night, I can finish off over the weekend.
@mth it wouldn't let me rep you because I needed to spread it around so apparently I've spread it all over you too many times recently lol. This is not an excuse I just wish my head was in the right place to sink my teeth into this but regardless I always have fun playing as Hiryu/Strider!
Good job fellas
@FutureHold My post is in. Sorry it took me so long, last night provided another distraction just as I started writing and I've been working on stuff for on-boarding of a new job. I'll do what I can to at least get my first rebuttal up over the weekend.
Got a tricky situation escalated to me at work, will have my post up by tonight. Don’t feel like you need to rush your post on the weekend if you can’t because you know, I won’t be able to respond till at least Monday.It’s up now my good man.
Will be tomorrow after work before I can post again as heading out soon but if you can get your two in by tomorrow night, I can finish off over the weekend.
No worries man.
I can edit it out. I thought it used to be you can mention them just not respond to their points directly in the first post.
DQ me if you want, don't see much of a point for an opening post if you are just straight up not allowed to mention them at all.
I personally don’t care either way. I’ll get my post up either later tonight or after work tomorrow.
I think the idea is take the time to establish your character's strengths and maybe prep for potential counters to your opponent
But don't think this is DQ-worthy personally, especially if Lists doesn't mind
Mazer's running it, he can make the call. Not trying to make a stink about it, I just didn't want you to get in trouble if you missed seeing it in the rules.
Post is written just got to add in the pictures and videos and we are Gucci
An edit will be fine in this case. I'm a little forgiving as we get the dust knocked off in round 1
Got sick with pneumonia, will get a post done tonight or tomorrow morning
I don’t want DQs either but Jitters hasn’t even turned up for this.
I know shit happens in real life but yeah fear this tourney is gonna drag on way past time limits like Wilfred’s. I had this problem gamerunning as well.
Last edited by Badger; September 21st, 2024 at 1:41 PM.
Pretty sure Mazer already said he's considering options of what to do in the case the absentees don't show up.
Aye my rant was nothing to do with Maze. I was just really venting general frustration as a fellow gamerunner about folk signing up but suddenly not being able to do the time. It’s nothing new around here but don’t sign up if you can’t commit or at least take the time to inform the gamerunner if you can’t rather than leave them hanging.
post is up, my dude! appreciate the patience!!
I’ll get to it tomorrow.
@Psycho666Soldier I got my post up, I'll see about responding to a rebuttal either later today or tomorrow
I really hate how some images show fine in my laptop, but not when I check again on my phone. Sorry for any broken pics, my dudes
@Kdestiny Your turn.
@Mazer sorry about that reply. I was quoting my post to see if the images were showing up and meant to hit preview post, not post reply.
Your turn @Hero!
You fuckin Legend! I’ll get my last post up tomorrow afternoon or so.
@FutureHold You're up. If you can get something out tonight, I'll try to slap something together tomorrow morning for you to get a final post in before the deadline. I'm back from camping now so I should be more available.
@Psycho666Soldier you're up, also, for you and everyone else, I'm sorry I couldn't get the gifs to fucking show properly and I wasn't going to ship of theseus those things 50 times until I got it right this time. Will get the last post after yours, and hopefully have less issues.
I still owe a post. I will get that done.
Couple are near done. We have two votes in for nash/mth. I'm driving to Illinois tonight, but will try to get the update out tomorrow morning if all are in.
I'm about done with my final post. Trying to find/make gifs of my evidence since there's nothing but wiki text that I don't think I can fit into my post.
@FutureHold You're up. Great fight, dude.
@Mazer Can I edit my most recent post to add spoilers to the pics for readability? My screenshots end up being so large. No worries if I can't, and either way I'll just make a note to do it in the future before I make the post.
Hoping to get something up this evening
Sorry for the delay my dudes. Had issues with our kids’ school district, plus they all got sick. Been a heck of a week lol. I’m hoping to get my last post up tonight.
I think I finally figured out why my pictures keep disappearing
Most of them I upload to my discord server because it's an easy place to upload them without the hassle of imgur and sites like that. But I think the links change when I add more messages to the server. So I add more pictures, and the previous ones change links
Annoying
Depending on when you get yours up I'll either do mine tomorrow night after my plans to Friday after work.
Yeah, sorry, got very sidetracked. This is why I said I would be in if needed.
I'm off during the day tomorrow so that should be doable
My trip went longer than expected. Just got back and getting caught up
But seriously hope all is okay with the family dude. I may manage a reply tomorrow night my time if you can otherwise Sunday as out at the football all day Saturday.
Mth wins via split decision.
Looks like a couple more should be wrapping up next week.
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