Lugubrious

The Crucible - Winner Take All

After a fair bit of worrisome ambiguity, I have returned to the web from across the seas. Now that I can access the thread, I will start work on my next post. Some good stuff so far...keep it up!

The Crucible - Winner Take All

Time to tell a story...

Name: He'd prefer to not tell you.
Alias: The Author
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Class: Dreamweaver
Equipment:

• The Notebook of Fate
  - Contained within the pages of this notebook are the exact stories behind an incredible variety of characters, two of which were found in the tournament. The Notebook is also able to properly mimic any of the powers of the characters that had been chronicled (although it's limited to one power at a time and the power is slightly weaker)

Abilities:

• Shadowmancy - Granted by Xix Slevryn, the Author is able to hide and run within the shadows.
• Strength of Bears - Granted by Ursaren, the Author possesses the strength of a young bear, and is able to catch fish just as efficiently.
• Precognition - Granted by Ruben "Overlook" Manhattan, the Author is able to predict the movements of his opponent, but not their thoughts.
• The Light - Granted by Jennifer Light, the Author is able to pursue the answers to any riddles or seek guidance from an otherworldly entity known as 'The Light'.
• Chloromancy - Granted by Bonesword, the Author is able to animate plant life to do his bidding, but it is severely limited to only including only fruits and vegetables.
• Deathgrip - Granted by the Expendable, the Author is able to create a spectral arm to root something into a specific spot, but the spectral arm is far weaker in strength.
• Electromancy - Granted by Tibulus Sepitan, the Author is able to send a controlled shock through his appendages and deliver a weak jolt to whatever he wishes.

Fighting Style: There is no set style to the way the Author fights, but if one were to describe it as anything, the best they could manage to describe it as would be "Controlled Chaos". The Author wants you to be stumped in a fight, and he loves seeing you suffer as you try to beat him down into the ground.
Personality: Let's take a dash of actual genius, add a slight hint of idiocy, a pinch of craziness, and a whole cup of creativity, and you have yourself a potpourri of absolute chaos. His personality is normally very relaxed with anything you do, despite having a large dose of ADHD added to the mix, but he'll normally be chill with whatever's going on. The Author loves to write and draw to his heart's content, and he's quite excited to see how well his two combatants will turn out in the end of this tournament.
Bio: N/A

Appearance

Frenzy: N/A
Inventory: Aside from the book, he really carries around a large amount of blank paper and a series of pencils and markers.

Here's my Guest Character. I shall adjust if needed.

@Banana

A bit too meta for my tastes. I'll mull it over further, but the chances aren't good.

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@Lugubrious How is my guest NPC?

@ProPro

Oh, sorry for forgetting. The guy's really powerful, but also interesting, and I imagine you've already come up with a good use for him in your character's ongoing story. He's accepted, and can be put into the Characters tab.

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No no I didn't mean more posts, just sort of...uh more substance I guess? I'm not sure how to explain myself, I suppose it just felt like the encounter was pointless. The soldiers just showed up and then went away, with barely any impact from encountering a carnivorous blob-demon.

Anyway I will get to posting soon, sorry I've been silent in the IC, wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do next.

@Sentel

It did foreshadow this morning's explosion, set up future events, and introduce the new faction, but I see what you mean.

Project Crossover [SMASH ARENA - Only PXO members allowed]

Since you guys' fight hasn't continued for 6 days...Is someone yielding here? I know Rokku needs to post for Steve, but if you guys aren't going to actively finish each other and drag this on...I'm just letting you know that the survival match will continue for as long as either of you is still conscience lol. Or until enough participants yield. I've been reading it and it hasn't reached a point to where I would have a force-yield with GM judgement.

@Holy Soldier

Oh no, I'm not yielding, just patiently waiting. Though slow progress may be mildly annoying, I have no problem with it continuing until it reaches a satisfying conclusion.

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hmm, that last update post left me in a bit of an awkward situation.

@Lugubrious, would it be fine if i wrote in a bit about sitting down and all that rot, then skip to the morning? Or would it be perhaps possible for a collab to do all the doctor interaction thing before i write that morning part?

@GreenGoat

I was expecting that most characters would have a pre-night and morning section, actually, so that'd be fine. As for the doctor, he'll be helpful and unassuming, not very talkative, so feel free to take liberties with him.

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@Lugubrious Before I forget to ask, how big would you say that the Pot of Greed actually is? Is it scaled to the relative size of Tyrant or is it just some human sized pot making it pretty small in his eyes.

@The Wild West

The Pot is about the size of a classic urn, two feet tall and about as thick I think, making it a touch large for a human but pretty small for Tyrant.

@obliviousRoadie
You're going down! >:D

@kapuchu

That's the spirit!

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@Lugubrious Damn, I apologize for my far-too-long hiatus. To be completely honest, I had lost interest in writing the fight for Rose Cythla, mainly because there were only so many attack patterns I could write without either getting confusing or just outright repetitive (Dodge tentacle, slice. Dodge beam, slice. Dodge limb, slice). Also, not having much at stake (an NPC battle) didn't help much as well. But yeah, since I will actually be writing against another person this time around, I am certain that I'll finish it this time. But when I do write a post, do you want me to include the Cythla fight as a flashback, then continue on with the current events?

@Roughdragon1

Including the end of the fight would be best, but if you're utterly disinterested in it, moving on would be best.

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@Banana, I do not want to revive Stride for use as a guest character if I can help it. My preference would be to pull in someone else.

Out of the two people who nominated themselves as co-GMs, my choice is @Sentel.

@RoughDragon1, it's been almost a month since your hiatus began. You said that you'd finish your NPC battle, but that ended up not being the case. There's no better time to get back in the game, though, and I want to see you in action again.

Matchups:

@Lazo's Lade in White vs @Hostile's Gaben's Chosen in the Administrative Block

@GreenGoat's God Hand vs my Knight Sylvestre in the Residential District

@Banana's Fungal Knight vs @RoughDragon1's Blood Devil in the Port District

@ScreenAcne's Smiley vs @Deadnaut's Blackjack in the Commercial District

@Sentel's Sentinel vs @The Wild West's Tyrant in the Grassy Expanse

@Kapuchu's Inari vs @obliviousRoadie's Angry Dragon in the Industrial District

@Propro's Cereal Killer vs @BCTheEntity's Book Keeper in the Historical District

@DracoLunaris's Seraphim vs @FloodTalon's Sunspot in the Whispering Wood

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I'll have an official matchups list available in short order. I toyed with the idea of putting it in my most recent post or waiting for a round of posting before doing so, but just putting it out in the OOC should be fine.

Aw man i was hoping to see a bit more out of smiley's encounter

@Sentel

Well, there wasn't much more to it than that, and I did say we were making hard progress in about a week about a week ago.