[center][img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v496/U9B/Thezones1.png[/img] [b]Duel League[/b] TZDL2017 [b][color=lightblue]Vorka City[/color][/b] [img]https://i.imgur.com/qG61ADL.png[/img][/center] [center][b]Information[/b] [b]Time:[/b]3:55PM [b]Location:[/b] Vorka City, Chukotka. [b]Date[/b] January 3rd. [b]Weather:[/b] Cloudy, mildly windy. [b]Temperature:[/b] 19°F [b]Special condition[/b]: Characters know of each other's names and that this is the conclusion of an event. [b]Distance:[/b]To be determined by player starting locations. [/center] [b]Posting format:[/b] After both fighters have posted, the initial poster will be allowed to make the first strike in their second post. [b]Format of the fight:[/b] The battle ends when one fighter cannot actively fight any longer. [b]Rules:[/b][list] [*]The surrounding buildings vary in dimensions and role. [*]The only structure with any solidified dimensions is the center tower at the Town's Square. [*]Players may describe the environment as they like based on the flavor provided. [*]The Power-Station center of the town will not be destroyed by this fight with any one attack. Not even small portions or pieces of it and neither the actual Vorka Tower [*]The Station's Generator has no power or material in it for power. [*]Power-Station's trusses and struts are coated for erosion and electrical resistance rated up to more than 3GW. [*]Characters may only know each other's name and reputation of their bouts up to this point. They [b]cannot[/b] ascertain any sensitive information related to the profile sheets of involved parties. [*]There is to be NO building greater than the Vorka Tower in size. [*]You are disallowed to edit your post without permission from Mobius and/or acknowledgment from your opponent. Once your opponent has posted, the previous post YOU make shall remain untouched unless authorized. I will immediately disqualify you if you edit post after your opponent post (with some exceptions) [*]All other structures other than the Vorka Tower is free-game. [*]Vorka Tower's spawns are as followed: P1A, first level 200' from the concrete platform below the tower; P1B, 2nd stage 394' from the platform facing west; P1C, anywhere near the tip at ranges of 1300' to 1500'. [*]Player 2 starting locations are: P2A,middle of the road south;P2B,roof top south across P1.B;P2C,roof top south closer to the tower. [*]Diagram is [url=https://i.imgur.com/7IDU6TV.png]here[/url] [*]Theme [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnvqcSKho5w]here[/url] [/list][hr] [center] [b][color=lightblue]Flavor Text[/color][/b][/center] The Chukotka Autonomous Okrug sat north-east of Russian Federation's mainland, and wasn't a federal subject of Russia until 1991. A region loosely populated with a history of mineral mining from tin, gold, and graphite industries in the past, but by-large wilderness inhabits this immense province. Chukotka shares its population rank with Nenet Autonomous Okrug in least populated federal subjects at 82th and an estimation of 50,000 living inhabitants according to their census. A region divided by an arctic desert, a taiga, and a tundra. These segmented parts of Chukotka are administered by 6 districts, but Anadyrsky stationed a particular unregistered city during the soviet union despite being an oblast. A site which aided mineral and mining prospects with expansion unto exotic technological possibilities, and suddenly snuffed away concurrently of the Soviet's fall. Vorka City was a metropolitan mega-city developed specifically for industry involving rare metals composites several miles north from city limits into the crag. Soviets started development in 1950 but didn't accelerate their progress until 1970 when a German expatriate named Volker Ziegler divulge prospects of a new type of generator. Prospects for an entirely new processing facility using a high power non-nuclear facility seemed enticing, but the creation of Vorka Tower off of Volker's schematics and notes suggested greater possibilities into space exploration. 1978 saw completion of Volker's 1500' tower reminiscent in design to the Eiffel Tower in France, but with exception to a distinct edifice nestled perfectly within its lattice construction. A brass colored support building offered integral support up to 2 platform levels out of concrete, but ended at the upper 3rd and tip. These subsequent levels coordinated with heavy machinery took brunt weight of hundreds of tons worth of man-made power. Inspiration from Paris' landmark was not purely coincidental given the intention of Volker's project in collaboration with Soviet intelligence. The city, and tower, was named adequately for what could be considered not revolutionary to sciences, but evolutionary to physics itself. Vorka tower housed a deeper secret. A clandestine operation of maximum importance to utilize a specific energy or rather channeling the transmission of one. Volker posit that reality, even at an estranged super-physical level, held an emission of undetermined energy; however, this phenomenon was only conceivably detected in red shifting radio waves and was not capable of physical interaction since the cosmos was, in fact, the incoming radiation of said energy. It would be dubbed "Radaeon" these red-shift radiowaves could potentially generate mechanic possibilities beyond what could be humanly attainable. Volker proved his findings back in Germany during World War 2 by his mentor, but no workable mechanism existed until 1948 with pioneering understanding of Cosmic Background Radiation that deviated from the theory of Radaeon. This research offered beneficial insight into its rediscovery in the 1960s, but Soviet Russia panicked by the likelihood of Western interest into investigating Radaeon. France's Eiffel tower's open-lattice design allowed only micro-readings of Volker's red-shift waves but needed a generator that would either draw or conflict with any tangible forces. Vorka City, originally named Анатолий, would be proposed as a suitable exclusionary site from Western intelligence in the infancy of spy satellites with Volker given width for maximum coverage. Citizens were informed the tower served as a land-mark of Soviet technological prowess since its antenna array provided bandwidth range further than any building to date, and that such a feat would be a momentum to national pride. The antenna, apex of the tower's constricting coil tip, would broadcast globally unlike any man-made edifice before it; however, they were only told a half-truth since Russian security classified the site until the fall and even then was forgotten by time. The city's derelict state was not a consequence of negligence, but a product of awry. 1989 and Vorka Tower conducted several test proving conclusively the existence of Volker's Radaeon; albeit, no practical utilization came to and the Soviet's budget began to tank. Space exploration along with missile development sunk most of anyone's fiances and their investment in Radaeon to break their technological barrier proved insufficient let-alone fantastical. Military involvement rushed experimentation stages in a fruitless endeavor to any meaningful advance in beating fossil fuel engineering as this power projected to even change gravitational constants. With one stroke of genius did a brilliant magenta spark illuminated the entire province. A small surge with enough luminescence to be seen from orbit, but dim enough to be admired for what appeared to be answer to futility. For a brief moment the generator inside of the brass-colored building ran at absolute to spec efficiency, and for a few seconds would a splendid fuchsia shift into a radiant red luster that all machinery activated on their own with no intended purpose. Electricity malformed in conformity with Radaeon and all witness with uncertainty what the future held until a singular dash beamed outward. A translucent red ray streamed north and carved onto the crag a sharp horizontal line which bisected it. For a moment it seemed that harnessing the red-shifting energy of the universe was too much for man, but it was knowledge he lacked is what truly killed him. What stood of Vorka city now is buried in ruble, snow, and ash as a result. Vorka's town-square that centered its greatest attraction remained relatively in tact, but every other building all throughout decayed under ruin from partially destroyed buildings. A war-zone became what was a mega-city offering to surpass Jakarta now rest abandoned. Residential portions annihilated, skyscrapers strewn across, leveled business districts, and deeply scarred terrain is its only denizens. Survivors described armageddon with God vengefully cleaving heaven and earth with electricity coiling around swords of light. The Soviet Union will fall in 1991 along with any prospect in Radaeon. Vorka City became lost in Chukotka's various mountain ranges, plateaus, and even steppes to the arctic wasteland. Snow and ash occupy once prosperous ideas of a powerful Soviet future. Many surrounding buildings either crumbled or its guts exposed and buried under a dirty dark white. This former mining town that was no stranger to dirt-storms now couldn't discern ash from snow peppering the ground in a grueling pattern of black and white from soot. Fires extinguished by natural forces that happened upon them and it seem even certain skyscrapers were dissected, striped, or lathed with symmetrical holes bore into them. Their prime would not tower over Vorka Tower but what devastated this city proved why they had no chance of doing so. Surveying from a bird's eye view one could determine where beams of Radaeon struck and drew across the city. Buildings, floor, and everything caught in its path completely obliterated and these large trenches now filled with debris and snow. No human is permitted access to this remote settlement for sink-holes and "trench" traps make it unsafe even for excavation. Anyone alive rather forget and any possible coordinates can only be obtain from satellite with all roads eradicated or entombed. Most of the copper, aluminum, and salvageables stripped in 1995 render this place "no man's land". Federation Scientist are frightful of atmospheric damaged caused by the incident correlating the city's temperature even during winter to be uncharacteristically high, and believed any ray escaping earth's gravity may have permanently damaged this side of the globe. Communist Russia's collapse and its ambition could be attributed to happened here: the totality of a true cold war made manifest. For the tower itself? It remained unscathed since its construction. It rested on a purely concrete pedestal 9' high with its south facing facade sloping to the large road that allowed trucks and other convoys to pass security. The southern road had no intersection for a mile and the square traffic circle bused industrial cargo or business depots off the side around the premises. The concrete platform under the tower raised its elevation only 9' feet with no other possible entrance except the south road. Any provisional checkpoints are gone or left abandoned with a large empty space of sullied snow between a city and its monstrosity. The first upper level will not be for another 200' with an additional 194' to the 2nd stage above it. The intermediary stage, not supported by the Power-Station, is 264' after the 2nd stage with the final upper platform at 262' above that. For simplistically: 200' from the ground level, 394 2nd stage, 658' intermediary, final upper platform 920', upper sup-station check point 1300', and the antenna apex at 1500'. The power station inside Vorka's tower is 500' up with its roof acting as a closed off walking area only accessible through climb or the station itself with surrounding trusses camouflaging its interior. Said power-station's width matched the tower's inner dimensions (224' 6 15/64th" all sides) with each level having 2 mega-doors facing both North and South sides. These doors have been sealed since the 1990s with possible means of entry. If one were to explore the station they'd find the remains of only catwalks and an empty basin where a large generator once rested. Vorka's tower struck semblance of the Eiffel in all but its upper levels. A coiling lattice of steel gave the sup-section checkpoint an interesting aesthetic much akin to a coil which bulged. It seems the only age befallen Vorka was rumor. [i]~ Mobius - TZDL2017 Finals[/i]