Agitation Monster Tournament

From HollowWiki

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

  • Lanara
  • Hildegarde won her duel, then got killed in rp.
  • Encinal
  • Kang
  • Emilia
  • Reginae
  • Alex
  • Linn
  • Irthos
  • Lanlan
  • Emelyan


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 pig
  • Reginald Slugginton III, Reginae's clueless and lazy pet snail
  • Radimus Prime, Alex's idea for a rat morphed into a hulk.
  • Razor, a large, fast and brutal lizard
  • Rapideath, a black-ooze covered horse that breathes noxious gas and has a braided whip tail
  • Bob the Bone Crusher, an animated suit of armor who uses a maul
  • Edward Mandrake, an evil, flesh-eating mandrake root
  • Jewel, 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
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
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
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