Agitation Monster Tournament
Part of the Agitation Arc
In Character Premise
The magical calamities in Xalious have yielded mutations in local plants and animals. Recently, a collision between the dark magic in the village and chaos magic introduced Bad Kitty (Kang’s fire tiger), has resulted in even darker, grimier, more mutated, more lethal beasts: a squirrel the size of a horse with viper fangs and noxious pus sacs on its bald back, a murderous tree with steel spikes branches and sleeping power pollen, an insect-eyes and armored dire lemming king, and so forth.
Josleen has also called for a Xalious Militia to defend the village from threats. Throughout the month of December, the militia (and any other allies) will encounter these beasts and defeat them! Or try to.
You should be imagining your character on patrol or just strolling through Xalious when suddenly, Final Fantasy monster battle music, monster fight happens! It’s a duel!
Out of Character Schematic
Throughout the month of December the Agitation arc will be hosting a duel tournament. The tournament aspect of the duels is purely ooc. IC, your characters are dueling monsters to defend the meek as described above.
Because these duels do not represent fights in a single event, e.g. a battle, people shouldn’t be getting stuck in weird time warps. These fights can happen ic any day in December.
- If you sign up, you are agreeing to duel as two characters: as your played character and as an NPC monster.
- Duels will be the standard three-round format. If you're unfamiliar with this convention, hmail Josleen for a quick explainer.
- If you place in the top three as your characteror as an NPC monster, you will receive a custom item tied to the arc and your character.
- Because with this system it is possible for a single player to place twice, as their PC and as the NPC monster, prizes will be awarded to the top three players. So this means that if the tournament ends with the top four winners as follows,
- 1st place: Hildegarde
- 2nd place: A-Monster-Played-By-Linn
- 3rd place: Linn
- 4th place: A-Monster-Played-By-Kang,
- then Hildegarde (1st), Linn (2nd and 3rd), and Kang (4th) get custom prizes.
Sign-up
I’ll be accepting entrants thru til the 9th of December. I may start pairing people off before then. You don't need to have RP'd in the arc to participate. All welcome.
Feel free to come up with your own creative reasons as to why your character is fighting monsters. For example, a narrative like "My character doesn't care about Xalious or its problems, but needs to cross the village to get to Craughmoyle, then wham bam, got attacked by this monster! Self-defense!" That is a totally legitimate justification.
Current Duelists/Monsters
Played Characters
LanaraHildegardewon her duel, then got killed in rp.EncinalKangEmilia- Reginae
AlexLinnIrthosLanlanEmelyan
NPC Monsters
Some, but not all, of the monster's will have belonged to PCs back when they were 'normal'.
Lemmiwinks, the Dire Lemming King (and Kang's accident)Cockatrice, Hildegarde's "nice chicken"- Mr. Rock, Emilia's inanimate pet rock and best friend
Pinky, Emilia's escape artist pet pigReginald Slugginton III, Reginae's clueless and lazy pet snailRadimus Prime, Alex's idea for a rat morphed into a hulk.Razor, a large, fast and brutal lizardRapideath, a black-ooze covered horse that breathes noxious gas and has a braided whip tailBob the Bone Crusher, an animated suit of armor who uses a maulEdward Mandrake, an evil, flesh-eating mandrake rootJewel, animated glass dragon statue- Arthur, the swamp-sorcerer caiman
Nebula, the chaos golem- Ulysses, the evil nutcracker
Round One
Please find your duel partners and schedule your duel on your own. Submit duels to Josleen no later than December 14th.
If you want to bounce ideas on how to make your monster balanced, but formidable, hmail Josleen for a quick brain storm.
Character | Monster (played by) | Duel | Judges | Winner |
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Lanara | Rapideath (played by Emilia) | Black Beauty the Death Horse | Hildegarde and Pilar | Lanara |
Hildegarde | Razor (played by Linn) | Lizard Brawn | Josleen and Reginae | Hildegarde |
Encinal | Reginald Slugginton III (played by Reginae) | Slugging It Out | Kang and Linn | Encinal |
Kang | Pinky (played by Lanara) | Make Kang Disappear! | Hildegarde and Pilar | Pinky |
Emilia | Cockatrice (played by Encinal) | Emilia forfeited due to real life schedule. | Josleen and Reginae | Cockatrice |
Reginae | Lemmiwinks (played by Kang) | The Ballad of Lemmiwinks | Emilia and Lanara | Reginae |
Alex | Mr. Rock (played by Hildegarde) | Scissors Beats Paper Beats Rock Beats Alex? | Pilar and Linn | Mr. Rock |
Linn | Radimus Prime (played by Alex) | Radical Extermination | Josleen and Reginae | Linn |
Lanlan | Bob the Bone Crusher (played by Irthos) | Sir Bob Mauls Drow | Linn and Lanara | Lanlan |
Irthos | Edward Mandrake (played by Lanlan) | Side Effect of Mandrake Root Include Death | Hildegarde and Pilar | Irthos |
Pilar | Darmani (played by Josleen) | Darmani The Hedgehog | *special surprise battle* |
Round Two
Please find your duel partners and schedule your duel on your own. Submit duels to Josleen no later than January 6th.
If you want to bounce ideas on how to make your monster balanced, but formidable, hmail Josleen for a quick brain storm.
Character | Monster (played by) | Duel | Judges | Winner |
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Lanlan | Mr. Rock (played by Hildegarde) | Beware of Rocks | Leone and Reginae | Mr. Rock |
Lanara | Nebula, the chaos golem (played by Linn) | Lanara forfeited due to real life circumstances. | NA | Nebula |
Encinal | Ulysses, the evil nutcracker (played by Lanlan) | Encinal disqualified for inactivity. | NA | Ulysses |
Reginae | Pinky (played by Lanara) | Lanara forfeited due to real life circumstances. | NA | Reginae |
Irthos | Cockatrice (played by Encinal) | Cockatrice disqualified for inactivity. | NA | Irthos |
Linn | Jewel, animated glass dragon statue (played by Irthos) | A vain discovery | Hildegarde and Reginae | Linn |
Emelyan | Arthur, the swamp-sorcerer caiman (played by Reginae) | A Boy and His Caiman | Alex and Linn | Arthur |
Round Three
The final countdown! Please find your duel partners and schedule your duel on your own. Submit duels to Josleen no later than February 3rd.
Character | Monster (played by) | Duel | Judges | Winner |
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Linn | Mr. Rock (played by Hildegarde) | Spontaneous Infant Combustion | Pilar and Alex | Mr. Rock |
Reginae | Ulysses, the evil nutcracker (played by Lanlan) | --- | Josleen and Linn | TBD |
Irthos | Arthur, the swamp-sorcerer caiman (played by Reginae) | Irthos forfeited due to real life circumstances. | Hildegarde and Josleen | Arthur |
Prizes
First place: +3 custom armor
Second place: +2 custom armor
Third place: +1 custom weapon