NPF Avatars 5 - BEYOND PEDRODOME

[POS Industries]

Everyone was getting ready for the start of the first round and Pedro and Phoenix, having arrived in the private box overlooking the main arena, took their seats as Pedro opened a bottle of merlot and poured himself a glass.

"Would you like some of this?" He asked Phoenix, reading a second snifter, "It's good stuff."

[PhoenixFlame]

"Oh, please." She smiled, gently extending her glass for the suave capitalist to pour her a drink.

"It's times like this you can't help but smile. Good food, excellent wine, and a bunch of NPFers ready to fight to the death for our amusement. Ah, good times..."

[POS Industries]

"Here you are," Pedro nodded, giving her glass a fair amount of wine, "Yes, I really think this is going to be the best day ever. Cheers!"

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Meanwhile, Rei hovered above the open arena as people began filing in to begin the battle royale. In the upcoming solo matches, she intended to use her holographic forms to officiate, but for this she decided it would be best to present a solid physical presence.

The ring itself was simple in its design. A round, flat central fighting area that, while looking to be made of marble, was in fact constructed from materials that were designed to be resistant to even the most powerful impacts. In fact, the whole arena was made that way, from the black out-of-bounds area surrounding the marble ring floor to the outer wall that was plastered with numerous advertisements for POS Industries and assorted other sponsors.

There had been some additions that were considered to add yet more danger to the event, but it was concluded that, with two dozen crazed superheroes filling the place, there was enough danger for everyone as it was. The upcoming rounds were a different story, but the public would find out about that in due time.

[Bailey]

Keyman looked around and sighed. What with the lack of anything suitable to hide behind, he was going to have to expend all of his magic before the match even started, and then who knew how long it would be before he got enough back to cast anything useful. All three of them raised their keyblades over their heads, and then slammed them into the ground, using the keyblades to channel the Hide spell. Several castings later, there was 48 cardboard boxes on the ground in various locations throughout the arena, and no Keyman in sight.

[Flarecobra]

Before I went in, I decided that it's be to my advantage to be able to be above the competion, so I shifted to dragongirl form. "Geez, havent seen this much corperate sponsership outside of a NASCAR race.." I said, looking around.

[Demetrius]

Striding into the Arena, Demetrius decided to ask Rei when the fun could start, "Hmmmm, but how to get up there. Aha!"

With that exclaimation Demetrius grabbed his belt and lifted himself up until he was even with REI, "Soooo, when do we start? Do I have to wait for everyone? Who do you think will win? What do you use for a power source?" After a few more questions he became bored with the stoic android... and forgot to hold himself up. This resulted in yet another fall, this time onto the hat of Nikose...

"Terribly sorry about that, I forgot what I was- Carp!"

Was Demetrius' exclaimation a faux pass or was there something having to do with fish that frightened him into silence?

[Nikose Tyris]

Nikose yawned pronouncedly, holding in his hands the strange looking belt buckle for now. His cape fluttered slightly in the wind, as he stretched out his arms, acting exaggeratedly tired. He looked to Fenris and his friends, and made a mental note to watch them during the entire fight.

"Now then.., Flare is there, Uganius is there... Arhra is there... Krylo is there..." Nikose murmured, marking people's locations off mentally. Then, a thought occured. He flicked the strange belt buckle into a short sword. "Nenyel, We'll use the Venom Technique later," he said to the blade quietly. "For now, I think I'm fine. Let us dance, and let is be brilliant." He sheathed the blade- it creathed a hip sheathe for him as he laid it at his waist, taking dagger form as it did. And then, he let his smile begin again. But this time, his eyes were glowing blue, with sparks shooting from his fingertips, and his shadow was moving on it's own. his steps lifted him higher with every footstep.

"This is going to be fun." he thought to himself, before a feminine whisper announced in his mind, "This shall be bloody, and you shall need to hurt this day. Do not enjoy it- but do the deed as you have agreed to now. Be artful, be quick, Be yourself." Nenyel finished, before falling silent.


Nikose watched the antics of Demetrius falling onto K36, and couldn't hold back a smile. "I won't harm him," he thought to himself.

[Fenris]

Fenris walked into the arena cooly. He held up his banstick, light bouncing about through the prism.

He decided to start off the festivities with a bang. He waved the stick, grabbing a random thread from a particular subforum for speed purposes, and in the center of the ring, a giant fortress wall was raised, creating a large dome whose slope was shallow enough to act as though it were a hill.

"Those Creativity Convention threads always look the most interesting," Fenris muttered. He was hoping for something more impressive, like a fortress of doom, but he was satisfied with the dome. Gripping the sword, he looked around the ring.

"This will get interesting."

[Long-Haired Narcissist]

Narc McGee finally made it to the dining area. He would've made it sooner if he wasn't kidnapped by some nuts in a black van. Narc looked around only to find nothing at the buffet table except for some half eaten sushi. He decided to stick them in his trenchcoat and headed toward the arena.

When he came close to the arena, he overheard someone mentioning how much alcohol Pedro had in his private box. Narc decided to sneak into Pedro's box to try to get some liquor.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Hawk looked around the empty expanse around him. Or it was empty until a shit load of cardboard boxes appeared all over the place and a dome rose up in the middle.

Pretty basic, he thought to himself, no advantages for anyone, we're all on an even footing.

Hawk now pressed the button of the weapon summoning device he had been given, and it promtly turned into a large, silver hammer. Hawk recognised it as Fenris'.

"Could of been worse I suppose, I can work with this."

He hefted the hammer, getting an instant feel for it's weight, before giving it a good swing to get a sense of its power. He then examined it more closely, noticing that the shape of it meant that if thrown, it would boomerang back. Could be useful.

He looked again as more forumites piled into the chamber, trying to formulate a battle plan. I think close combat might get a little hectic in this first round, maybe I should utilize a more widespread set of abilities.

Hawk swung the Boomerhammer over his back, into the sling which usually was reserved for one of Hawks own weapons, before shrinking back down into his cursed form and taking flight, all the while keeping an eye on his competition below.

[Raiden]

Raiden scratched at his wrist, the Modded Mod-Bracelet he had received making his skin itch.

"Krylo needs to shower more. Or get his rash looked at. Seriously, this is starting to piss me off..."

It also didn't help that the ambient electric god energy coming off his body was making the Mod Bracelet go nuts, strange symbols and glyphs scrolling across the material.

"I heard I could ban people...but that'd take up way too much energy. I don't know if I want to risk that. I suppose I could just...move things." His electric eyes darted around the arena, staring at the other fighters.

"I don't like these odds...I can't take all of them at the same time without pulling the big powers out. And that would involve killing them. I wouldn't want to kill any of them...they're my friends."

He stared back down at the bracelet.

And he smiled.

[IHateMakingNames]

After the buffet had ended, the stray ran off into the building. Later, above Pedro and Phoenix in their booth.

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[POS Industries]

The bear, now somehow wearing the Amulet of Protection around his neck, ran straight into the center of the ring, sniffed around, let out a mighty roar, and then went to sleep.

[TheBlindMime]

TBM stood in the center of the ring atop the bear with the amulet of protection, he was but a single man amidst gods and other superbeings. He had no powers to speak of, any mime work he did was just that, the work of an ordinary mime. He was not a cat made of flame, a dragoon, a god of thunder nor was he an obfuscated man. He was just one man standing amongst the super powered legion of NPF.

For a moment he thought he saw an old friend and moved to wave, thats right he thought sadly, I can't see. Returning to his more lazed leaning pose he wondered what to do with himself. Should he return home and take over the carpet business from his father, journey on to college, become a monk, maybe stop being a mime? No.

None of those were viable options. Guess I just have to tough this out... whatever this is. Speaking of being blind he wasn't quite sure where he was, but everything sounded bad so far.

He held a heart shaped object in his hands, he still wasn't quite sure what he was going to do with it. IT was kind of heavy and he was beginning to think clubbing other people with it was a pretty good idea.

[Krylo]

Krylo walked out into the ring, sizing up the others and deciding who he cared to keep alive, and who he could leave to their own devices. As he mulled over his options he pressed the button on the silly little device Pedro had explained earlier, receiving Inbred Chocobo's boomerang... thing. He didn't really have a use for it, as that he wasn't particularily well trained in boomerang combat.

His eyes scanned the crowd of other NPFers until he noticed Inbred himself, and decided he'd just see what happened when the thing was thrown at its real owner. After all, Krylo didn't want the blasted thing.

Of course, before that, he'd have to wait for the battle to start.

[PhoenixFlame]

Phoenixbot strode onto the battlefield with little in the way of snazz or box-summoning. Scanning the field, she selected her first target. Hawk seemed to be taking his chances in the air... Shifting the ethereal blade to her right hand, Phoenixbot extended her left, and... it changed.

At first, the forearm and hand became a sort of highly reflective silver... and then, the features and details began to fade away. Fingers fused into a sort of stub-like configuration, which gradually took on the features of a Subach HL-7 Xaser rifle, in convenient arm-cannon style. Raising the weapon skyward, she began to lock onto Hawk, holding her fire until the match began.

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"Oh look." Phoenix points out her creation to Pedro, "A Xaser. I haven't seen one of those in months. Curious choice... It's per-shot damage is sort of weak, but I'm sure she intends to exploit the high rate of fire and superb accuracy. After all, that hawkman is trying to fly. Ah, silly hawkmen..." she giggles idly, sipping her merlot.

[Sithdarth]

Just about that time Raggy wandered in with a nice selection of cheeses. The plate was promptly set between the two spectators and Raggy wandered back out again. All this happened of course while Raggy was still clearly visible in the ring holding the sign waiting patiently for the match to begin so he/she/it could get the hell out of dodge.

[Fenris]

Fenris aimed his banstick at the ground between Phoenixbot and Hawk. A slanty thread that loomed over Phoenixbot would emerge as soon as the round began, in an attempt to save his boomerhammer from utter disintegration. It was a gift, and he'd like to see it come out in one or two pieces, but no more than that.

[Nikose Tyris]

Nikose was flexing, and bent himself into a crabwalk position, before backflipping gently onto his feet again, and continued stretching. "I might as well limber up- I don't want to pull a muscle." He giggled at the thought.

[POS Industries]

Pedro nodded as attentively as he could toward Phoenix as Raggy came in and set down a cheese platter between them. As difficult as it was, POS didn't need today ruined by a "Hey, I'm up here" comment from anyone.

The cheese was good. Went well with the wine, of course.

[Long-Haired Narcissist]

While trying to find a way into POS's booth and get drunk, Narc is distracted by a woman with a huge bouncing rack walking by. After staring for about a minute, Narc snaps back into reality and sees a cat in a hole in the ceiling of POS's booth and comes up with a plan.

Narc finds the nearest vent shaft and crawls through it until he reaches the booth and crawls out of the vent.

[Wizardcat]

Wind rippled across the field where battle was already taking place. A purple clad figure raised the small device they all had been given and black furred paws gripped it. Violet eyes eyed the strange machine before a tail moved closer to it, hesitated, and quickly pressed the button. All of a sudden, a large thing appeared out of nowhere and fell to the ground narrowly missing the feline.

Upon further inspection, the thing turned out to be a large gun of some kind. "What the heck am I supposed to do with this?" the cat mage asked the empty air. "I'm thinking I can't lift it or move it..." Suddenly, he caught sight of a large red button on the side of the weapon. "Ooh."

Wizzle pressed and held down the button and the weapon began making an irritating noise. He promptly pulled his paw away and a large explosion hit the crates that had appeared out of nowhere, sending them flying or completely destroying them. Or some mixture of the two.

[Astral Harmony]

Armored Bishoujo left the bathroom for the second time out of many to come. Seeing all those who had arrived made her nervous, and that apparently had the effect of reducing the size of her bladder. She held her sword instead of keeping it sheathed to make her feel a little braver and her breaths were deep and slow.
"I wonder if all NPFers feel like this before their very first arena match?"

[POS Industries]

"Yikes!" Pedro jumped up at the explosion caused by Wizzle's energy cannon and moved to the window, pressing a button and speaking into the intercom.

"You in the robes. Put down the weapon of mass destruction," POS said drolly, "At least until the fight's started, anyway. I'm sure there's a rule about killing your opponents before the bell rings somewhere..."

[TheBlindMime]

TBM listened to every chunk of wood fall to the earth after the ground shaking explosion. Is this what I'm up against? He asked simply in his mind, he could not see the aftereffects of destruction but assumed them to be quite bad. As he stood atop a live bear TBM began to wonder how things could get any worse, if only he had some power.

Superpowers.... TBM thought boldly, completely unaware of the fact that his Sundered heart of chaos was now glowing brightly to usher in any GM choice effects.

(ooc: that seemed as good as any option. Though for a minute I thought about stealing the katana from ugainus.)

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

"I'm sure there's a rule about killing your opponents before the bell rings somewhere..."

"Damn, that ruins 2 of my plans..."
Looking around the Arena K36 still couldn't decide on his first target, So he went on the defensive. He grabbed his shotgun, and stood ready incase someone charged him when the fight started.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC was standing around, the sword on his back. It seemed heavier that most weapons, but then agian, with IC's training it didn't surprise him it was easy to weild. He did want that huge gun from the WizardCat, so he might be a good person to start to beat up. Then again, he may play it defensive, this weapon did have defensive abilites that were nice.

Though, he was ready for that damn bell already.

[Bailey]

As the boxes were struck by the high powered blast, most of them simply got thrown about the arena, being more resilient than the average cardboard box, as they were, but one of them exploded in a shower of fish, getting herring all over IC, the bear, and Wizzle, among others.

Amalgam, up in the stands, snickered.

[Incendius]

Incendius was floating, interspaced evenly inbetween a crowd of folks, his weapons were no where in sight, or at least where no wear a normal person would try to look at on a male orientated persona. (Whether or not this applied to Incendius was up to debate)

[Fenris]

Fenris moved a thread over his head and promptly moved it back, along with the fish that landed on it.

The Discussion forum would not smell the same again for weeks to come.

[Astral Harmony]

Armored slung her Slashing Shard over her shoulder. "We're fighting all at once? I thought this was duels? Man, I should've read the sign ups more carefully."
She brought her fists together and light from below tore away her clothes, but she was hidden by the light emanating from her body.

If it's a battle royale, then speed is what really counts, I think. I'd better get fast, then.

"Cosplay Transform!"
Her body was wrapped in a dark green bunny suit. Armored Bishoujo had transformed into her Bunny Girl form, designed for kicking action and high jumping thanks to its powerful legs. Armored figured she could conjure up some serious speed from her fishnet stocking wrapped legs. Her Slashing Shard vanished with her original clothing. She quickly scanned for a weapon she could wield.

[Jeneralissimo]

The Jeneral re-entered the arena just as a strange-looking man dropped into POS'S private booth. Thinking quickly, she sent a bolt of lightning streaking out of her staff. The man fell to the ground. Well, it wasn't a big bolt. Hopefully he's just stunned a little. She smiled up at the booth in a way that she hoped said you can thank me later.

Then she hurried back to her box to make sure she wouldn't miss any of the action.

[PhoenixFlame]

As Jeneral's bolt struck the intruding man attempting to steal Pedro's... and, by extension, Phoenix's wine, the latter turned her head toward the stunned man. Ah! An intruder. Sadly, Jeneral failed to kill him, so Phoenix quickly resolved to rectify this. Unslinging her HL-9 beam rifle, she fired a short burst at poor Narc's head.

"Well, we had an intruder." She shrugs to Pedro, and shoots a thumbs up to Jen from over the box window.

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Phoenixbot noticed something terribly peculiar. The Alpha HEPT possessed by wizardcat failed to destroy some of Newb's otherwise mundane cardboard boxes. Apparrently, this obviously meant the boxes were made of a remarkably resilient material. Sheathing her ethereal blade, Phoenixbot picked up the nearest cardboard box as a form of makeshift shield.

[The Kneumatic Pnight]

“Minions, to me!” KP called forcefully, and despite their individual propensities for inanity, they came with trained organization, even Jane Doe, who made a small allowance to insanity by yelling the word minion the whole way. With the three minions, and two skeletons, gathered around KP, he put on the technological bracelet and activated it early. A knife appeared in his hand.

“Not... what I was hoping for, but it’ll have to do,” KP mused as he turned the thing over in his hands. He tossed it to Laura. “I’m starting out with 902, give that to her,” he instructed, as the white confinement beam flashed down onto the group, and with an electronic hum the three minions were gone.

KP wandered thoughtfully to his box, to get a good, safe view of the competition. His pick was somewhat untested, and he hoped she’d be able to handle this. Meanwhile, in the ring, the SepT Beam appeared again, and the amalgam of white lights formed into a heavily cloaked figure, cloaked by demand from KP. She twirled the Über-Longknife between her black fingers.

She giggled giddily. “This is going to be fun.”

[POS Industries]

Pedro quirked a brow at the steaming pile of Narc that lay in his private box. "That is probably going to start smelling real bad real fast. Rei?"

"What's up, Pe-chan?" the cheery digitized voice of Rei came up from nowhere and everywhere at once.

"I need, uh, that disposed of as quickly as possible, if you don't mind," he responded, motioning his glass towards the debilitated intruder.

"Okeedokee, you got it!" A small hyperlink portal opened up under Narc and he fell into it, being sent who knows where. Were he still alive, he would eventually wake up to find himself somewhere on the south side of the RaiRO forums.

Were he dead, however, it wouldn't really matter where he ended up.

[IHateMakingNames]

Ceiling cat saw it all, and now..

http://rofl.wheresthebeef.co.uk/You%20Make%20Kitty%20Scared.jpg

[Rhiya Ravenwing]

As Rhiya wandered into the arena, it was clear that something was wrong about her appearance. After a while, people managed to figure out that a flaming ball of fur was nestled purring atop her head.

Pyros was hitchin' a ride in Rhiya's comfy hair.

Rhiya looked around, smiled vaguely and waved at everybody in an absent-minded way. The ball of fiery fur shuddered slightly in her movement and fell off Rhiya's head, landing in her arms. She hugged Pyros some more, uttering baby noises as she tickled the cat behind his ears and did all the things a cat loves.

[PyrosNine]

Ah yes, this was truly la copa de vida, in snuggling form. This made up for Pyros's absence in NPF AVA 4, this made up for Willy the silly prinny getting put into a home, and this made up for Raiden's existence in Pyros's life.

It didn't make up for POS and Krylo's existence in Pyros's life, but eh, what can you do?

"OH yes....right behind the ear there. Say, try lopping off someone's head whilst you do that."

Pyros noted that there was something in his forepaw, but he dared not touch it. Who knew what madness lurked in the hearts that put in the device he might be using? For all he knew, it would transport him to someplace lacking in the Rhiya and the snuggling.

And that...That would be bad...

[CheshireThief]

CheshireThief grinned as he dodged the roll thrown by Flare. Truth was, she -was- part of the reason he picked this particular event to mark his return to NPF City. It was good to see so many old friends and acquaintances after a long absence. He chuckled to himself at POS' response--not everyone was going to make it easy for the Bard to reassume his former role.

Not one to let minor details get him down, CheshireThief decided to put his improvisational skills to test. CheshireThief then got a little plan... (http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_59/898000/898553/1/preview/nodrummer.mp3)

Upon this final realization, he set his guitar down and fiddled with the Plot Device for a moment. He grinned as he heard a knock on the front door. UPS had mistakingly delivered him a portable hovering private box meant for some other venue. He gleefully signed for it and hopped in, flying to hover around the spectator's stands of the arena.

[Melfice]

Melfice had been furiously trying to get that damned pirate hat off.
Without much luck. It seemed to have clamped down on Melfice's head.

"Nikose, you sonova... GET OVER HERE AND REMOVE THIS BLASTED HAT!" he shouted across the stadium. "I'll not have your insanity!"
Melfice walked over to the man in purple, and decided to calm himself.
If he was... with it enough to hand him this infernal device. He might make a go- 'thmatch. Not "Team Deathmatch", or "Team Fortress", or even "Team Capture the Flag". You're going to be fighting them, the other people, and there is no 'them' in 'team'. Thank you for understanding.' ... right."

Still, he decided to keep Nikose rather close to him. After he removed that bloody hat!

[Ugainius]

Ugainius looked around "Okay looks like most of them are here, remeber back off until the others start to weaken." He looked down on to his sword "Slightly Better Sword, don't fail me now."

[Red Mage Black]

(Damn I hate how fast these threads move. Guess I can't help it when there are so many participating.)

Black kept an eye on his sly teacher, Nikose. After receiving a rather generous gift from Nenyel and Nikose it would be a waste not to try it out. He let the jade pendant dangle around his neck, keeping ready to transform it when he needed to. "Today's your big debut Latis, in front of a crowd I mean. Not like I haven't called upon you before. But I may not need to use you for a while, I'm getting use to hand to hand combat."

Black gave a firm shout to Nikose who wasn't too far away. "They say if you play with fire you'll get burned. I guess that doesn't apply to me anymore does it?" He stretched his arms and legs, knowing today he was probably going to be using them to dodge and parry more then attack.

[Nikose Tyris]

Nikose, without a smile, reached up, and tugged on the hat, watching as it didn't budge. "Hm. It seems your ego has given you a bloated head. Until you can accept that the people present are at least your equals, it's not coming off, unless we cut it off."

He turned to Black. "Remember today- Today is the day that Lapis and Nenyel fight side by side again. You ready for it?" Nikose called, his hand resting on Nenyel's hilt.

[Melfice]

Melfice sighed.
"Bah, such foul treachery. However, I admire it's effectiveness. Well played, Nikose. Don't expect me to go easy on you though."

Melfice turned around, hitting Nikose right in the ass with the scabbard of his blade. "Sorry there, my good man... no hard feelings, right?" He smiled.

[Red Mage Black]

"Always. Remember who I was taught by." What was more true was the fact he was ready to take blow after blow while shaking it off. After all, the training had literally hardened him. Even Black was amazed how household chores paid off.

"Hey Nikose, how bout a little game before the match?" Black held out his right palm. A fireball no bigger then a baseball appeared above his hand. "You up for a game of catch?" He grinned, tossing it up and catching it a few times.

[Nikose Tyris]

Nikose let out a little laugh. "We'll see how everything goes during the match, Melfice. Stay by us- This way we don't get surprised with gunspray or other crude weaponry. With Fenris nearby, he'll stop blanket fire. That's why I'm standing close to him."

He turned his head to Black. "Better not, we might get in trouble. Still, better keep Latis at the ready- she'll prove more valuable than you know."

[Melfice]

"Hmm... maybe not such a bad idea, I agree. However, what of the 'no team deathmatch'-rule?" Melfice asked.

"Still, I shall hang around, if only because I want to be the one who kicks your behind for putting this hat on me." Melfice stopped walking, and looked at the item that had been granted to him.

A ring of purification...? To make naive rubes out of nitwits? Sounds like it would do Nikose some good, although he looks rather intense right now.
Still, if it actually stuns the victim's mind, like it says it does... it would have some uses.

[Nikose Tyris]

"Oh, we're not a team, Melfice. However, stragety wise, Standing near the person who can stop ranged attacks would be clever." Nikose shrugged lightly, and sparked a bit. "Personally, I'm waiting for someone someone else to make the first attack for now."

[Melfice]

"Naturally. However, has the tournament even begun yet? As of yet, I see a disturbing lack of violence," Melfice said, but quickly added: "Against each other that is."

Melfice shrugged and hung around Nikose and Black.

[Ugainius]

"So when does this thing start?" Ugainius asked nobody in particular. He'd also have to talk to that Newb guy when this was all over. After all there was benefits to exploit.

[Fenris]

Fenris called back to Melfice. "It's all good. Nikose and I have an understanding. He's superpowered, I can deflect most attacks. We have uses for each other and when it comes down to it a mutual understanding is vital to my own non-superpowered survival. I may help run this place but I'm far from the most powerful here."

Fenris twirled his banstick with his right hand, the energy sword with his left.

When the bell rang, walls would form, and generally all hell would break loose. Fenris readied his first line of defense, and had the "Move thread" completely lined up, he had the thread he wanted to use at the ready for his current needs.

When the fire began to come his way, a mighty thread would appear around him and those mooching off of him. Moving threads wasn't very full of finesse, after all. The thread would reach to the ceiling of the dome.

Those rule threads are fortresses.

(OOC: This thread moving happens as soon as the bell rings. I'll be at school off and on today due to semester testing, so I'm just getting things ready for in case I'm not available when the time comes.)

[Red Mage Black]

"You're no fun." Black said disappointingly as the fireball vanished into thin air with the obligatory 'poof' sound effect. He now decided to pay attention to Melfice.

"I hope you won't go down too easily. Last thing I need is to be is bored for the whole match. But then again... Flare will make a lovely opponent. Lets hope it doesn't come down to just me and Nikose. That would be one disastrous fight."

Black of course was referring to how his and Nikose's spars were always so intense, they always went in with the intent to kill. Though Nikose was always more relaxed about it. He probably always won because of Black's carelessness in a fight.

[Demetrius]

Demetrius squinted as he scanned the arena, making sure to mantain the idiotic grin the whole time. It looked like an arena full of nigh on invincible, bloodthirsty psychopaths, just like his home plain. A couple of them reminded him of good old Welby, thank any god but Xaos he still had half his mind. The other half really didn't like cats, especially big ones. Rubbing his helm (made of the enchanted skull of a large cat) as he looked about for who might have his swords, Demetrius spotted a large cat with a large gun, and his grin turned from idiotic to more than slightly homocidal.

"Here kitty, kitty, kitty..."

[POS Industries]

Rei dropped down to a non-bear inhabited place near the center of the ring and addressed the assembled contestants (who were all totally here already, why not, and who are you to question it?).

"Okeedokee, everybody!" the perky android called out, "Let's go over the ground rules for this fight. The first way to be eliminated is to be knocked unconscious. Being asleep or in any docile doesn't count. The second is by ring-out, in which you make contact with an area outside the ring while your whole body is outside. You may fly above any area you choose if possible, but landing outside will end you part in this competition. The third and final method is to lose a life. If you have a respawn ability, we understand that death is but a doorway, however that doorway leads out of this fight. Those of you with only the one life might want to be more careful."

Satisfied that they knew pretty much all they needed to know, Rei began to raise herself back into the air, "All right... Everybody ready? Get set, and.... LET THE PAIN BEGIN! WOO!!"

As if to get the point across further, a bell rang from some unknown location.

[Fenris]

The thread fortress wall went up, quickly followed by the slanty thread over Phoenixbot, shielding Hawk from battle while he was out eating.

Fenris listened as mayhem erupted outside the thread wall. He waited and waited.

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Nikose laughed giddily.

[Melfice]

Melfice looked on in awe.
"Very impressive magicks, my man. Very impressive, indeed."

Melfice still braced himself, hand on his sword, in case the walls might be breached.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Soaring high over the soon to be bloodied and quite possibly anhialated arena, Hawk initiated his first attack.

"Just to get everyone warmed up, here's a hurricane for you all. Deal with it."

He then made good on his promise, as a mini twister spiraled down from the cieling, engulfing the dome in the centre and rapidly spun into a frenzy.

[Ugainius]

Ugainius went into a defensive stance. "Time to unleash some ass-kick"

[Fenris]

Fenris listened as the thread wall was battered by the force of the winds.

"Thank you, Melfice. This should hold up for a while," Fenris said.

"This is the most boring part, waiting for the initial blows to clear."

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Nikose began skipping around in a circle.

[Bailey]

One of the boxes near Nikose lifted slightly and a rope came out, tied in a snare.

[Fenris]

Nikose missed the rope barely, and looked at it quizically.

"Nu." He stepped away and resumed his more somber demeanor.

[Sithdarth]

Raggy immediately vanished the second the battle actually began. At the very same instant every empty seat in the arena was suddenly filled by him/her/it. After all it would be bad publicity for this event not to look sold out.

[Melfice]

Melfice had noticed the snare as well, and decided to lift the box to see what or who was hiding underneath it.

"Gentlemen, I believe caution would be wise, for I do not know what might happen next."

He propped his sword underneath it, and gently lifted a side.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

K36 noticed that he had been standing next to a box, instead of opening it he rammed his shotgun through the side and pulled the trigger. "Those triplet guys are in three of these, and at least a few of them are traps. We should make a pile and blow them all up at once."

[Bailey]

Lifting the box revealed that there there was a small mechanical arm made out of K'Nex and Legos.

The arm waved.

The box which had been shot turned out to have been full of Nikose's laundry.

[Fenris]

Nikose went over to K36 and looked at this laundry.

"Eh, no big loss. I have like 50 uniforms of those anyway."

[Melfice]

"Hmph. Such a mockery, but intricate construction. Still, it proves a hazard."

Melfice kicked the arm, but decided to run away fast, in case there were any more booby traps in this box.

"Such a poor fighter, to rely on such trickery to beat an other person."

[Ugainius]

Ugainius stabbed a nearby box with his sword. Nothing happened.
Helifted up the box and saw... You decide, Newb

[Fenris]

"Do not diminish the place of quality trickery in battle, Melfice," Fenris said. "It's how I get around these days. Why fight with your body when you can make them fight themselves? Why fight when you can outhink your opponent?"

Fenris was still waiting for the explosion that signaled the end of the initial blows.

[Bailey]

The box Ugainius had stabbed turned out to have been full of 50 dollar bills.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC kicked a box off the stage. He had nothing better to do.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

"If you can open holes in your wall we could use hit and run while they're fighting each other"

[Bailey]

The box IC had kicked stubbornly refused to move.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC gave it a good kick then. And by a good kick, he meant enough force to probably move a truck. He wasn't sure, he hadn't kicked a truck yet with that much force.

[Fenris]

"I could, but then they could hit us. Plus with that damn hurricane out there, the boxes are being hurled against this wall. I really don't want to allow more of those things in."

[Ugainius]

Ugainius stuffed every last cent into his wallet. "I am so going to have to talk to that guy when this is over" he yelled with glee. Now to business.

[Bailey]

Fenris' words were shortly followed by a large BANG as two boxes struck each other, revealing that they were filled with bags of water and potassium chunks, respectively.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

"I could, but then they could hit us. Plus with that damn hurricane out there, the boxes are being hurled against this wall. I really don't want to allow more of those things in."

"Thing I can see about that, the boxes with one of him in them are either not going to move, or he's going to leave them eventually. Or else the Hurricane will knock him out of the Arena."

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC stopped caring about the box that wouldn't budge. So he sat down on it and had tea. This hurricane he was standing in was making him thirsty.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Seeing the effectiveness of numerous semi-invincible boxes filled with a variety of potential hazards, Hawk upped the power of the twister, expanding its lateral area of effect while keeping it small enough so as not to swamp the arena.

It was now at Force 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujita_scale) level speeds. The only problem was he didn't know how long he could maintain it at this speed.

[POS Industries]

As the bear slept, the pendant around its neck began to glow brightly as it was triggered by some unknown force. Suddenly, a protective aura formed around the bear, providing it protection from the storm.

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Rei, on the other hand, was having difficult navigating the torrential wind and downpour as she flew over the arena. Forming a forcefield around herself, she moved her way over to the airborne Hawk. "Heya, I just want to make sure you aren't putting our audience in danger with this. If you can't keep control of it to that extent, I'll have to issue a warning..."

[Inbred Chocobo]

The wind was really starting to piss IC off. He ended up shoving his giant fucking sword into the ground to hold himself steady, but he already spilt his tea. Well, there was the box still. So IC stood to one side, then lifted it up, so that it opened away from him.

Then he kick the box into whatever or whoever was under it.

[Bailey]

As it turned out, there was a very confused chicken under the box.

"Squawk!"

[Fenris]

Fenris flipped through the settings on his banstick. "Edit Thread" caught his eye. He added some stairs ascending to the top of the thread he was currently in, and added another locked door to the top of the thread, to complement the locked door already at the bottom. Fenris ascended the stairs and sat on the top of them, feet dangling off the side. He considered heading out to see what was what, but he decided to wait for a little longer, still waiting for the real explosion, instead of the Potassium/Water one.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC grabbed the chicken and threw it at Hawk. No way in hell it would hit him in these conditions, but it would be somewhat fun to see who it hit.

[Bailey]

A roasted chicken promptly hit IC in the back of the head.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC promptly grabbed the roasted chicken. "Well, at least I got some lunch." IC said, which would be impossible to hear in these winds, so he started eating. No since to fight on a somewhat empty stomach.

[Red Mage Black]

Black simply stood by Nikose and awaited his order, figuring that his teacher would tell him what to do, even in the middle of a fight. "I wonder what fun we can have in here." A big smirk appeared out of nowhere on Black's face. He was planning something.

[The Kneumatic Pnight]

The giggling girl’s cloak flapped melodramatically in the wind force of the twister, so she released the tangling thing. What was revealed was a paragon of an eyestrain: one with silver-white wings and an absurdly bright turquoise top. She gazed into the windstorm, hair and clothes flapping—she was strong, but not necessarily heavy enough for this.

Raven spoke an invocation, short, quiet, and unheard amid the wind. The eyestrain she produced worsened as she seemed to glow... except the inverse: an impossibility of an image, and utterly eye-twisting. A goddess-figure, a transparent apparition of one anyway, sprung up protectively over Raven, and a barrier of ephemeral sheen flooded into place between Raven and the twister.

With a few more unhearable words, the goddess apparition fell onto Raven’s form with a crimson glow. Raven’s entire body seemed to take on a reddish sparkle, and her nervous motions seemed exaggerated and quick.

This was just what the people looking at her needed.

[Melfice]

Melfice was getting just a little bit tired of waiting for things to really happen.
He decided waiting for quieter storms was still the most profitable option, and remained at his position, ready to defend himself, should something serious happen.

[Bailey]

TEN looked around. "I wonder if there's any place I can buy popcorn."

Amalgam shifted to golem form, opened his chest cavity, and pulled out a bag of unpopped popcorn.

"Got a microwave?"

Amalgam pulled out a microwave and a generator.

[Red Mage Black]

"Fenris, are we going to do something besides stay in here? Cause frankly, I'm ready to jet out of here." Black concentrated fire magic down by his feet and sent it shooting downwards, floating up like a pair of rocket boots. "Whenever you're ready chief."

[Incendius]

Incendius floated, unswayed by the winds, half the radius away from the center of the arena, not acting, but preparing. As he floated inches above the ground, the entity of thought expanded itself. As it was an entity of thought, it expanded its own mind to include that of all the other participants. Though, at the moment he sought not to influence, only to find any signs of focused aggression towards his form. Until then, it would be better to no drawn undue attention to himself; the others could knock each other out.

[Fenris]

Fenris opened up the door and dove out, surveyed the area, and dove back in, locking it behind him.

"The coast is clear for now," Fenris called down. "You fly on up towards the top as fast as you can."

Fenris waited until just the right moment, and created a hole in the ceiling, allowing Black passage out. Fenris closed the hole behind him.

"Now let's hear some explosions. Everybody move towards a door, any door, doesn't matter which."

[Nikose Tyris]

Nikose ducked out the front door in a forward roll, towards the next door, and dived through it.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

"Heya, I just want to make sure you aren't putting our audience in danger with this. If you can't keep control of it to that extent, I'll have to issue a warning..."

"Hey no prob, so long as I concentrate enough on it I can maintain it, and it won't-"

Fwwoooooooooooooffff.....

"die on me unexpectedly..." He looked rather surprised, "Goddamnit REI, you distracted me!"

Now he needed a new plan, and to avoid danger until he got some of his energy back.

[Bailey]

The hand pulled its box back over itself, then thrust the box off again. This time it had a piece of paper and a thumbtack in its hand.

It tensed up, ready to spring.

[Flarecobra]

I took off into the air as soon as it started, and when Hawk started to generate the windstorm, I flew in close and said "Well, we got Water and some wind...might as well throw in some fire as well...." I doubted he heard me, but I started charging up a Firestorm, intending on taking out several at once. It was obvious the storm clouds would be contained to the arena, and I wondered why POS didn't put in some kind of protective shield to protect the audiance.

[Melfice]

Melfice also dove out the door and did a roll on the ground. After surveying his surroundings very briefly, he noticed WizardCat had been standing there, doing nearly nothing as of yet.

He decided this would be a very nice target, as he'd most likely be caught unaware. He made a dash for his chosen target, sword drawn and ready to deal some damage.

((OOC: I'm out for today... if somebody attacks me, don't expect me to react any sooner than in 10 to 12 hours. You are warned. I chose WizardCat, because he hasn't done anything in this thread either, as far as I can tell.))

[Fenris]

The leaving of the other two left him and K36 in the thread.

"I'll go last, you go."

[Bailey]

The hand shot out quickly, extending to place the piece of paper on the wall of the thread.

Every Friday will be Casual Nudity Friday. In order to foster the sense of a friendly environment and increase closeness in the community, we ask that every Friday everyone log in completely naked.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

K36 Jumped out of the thread, heading towards the dome in the center of the arena.

[Fenris]

Fenris closed the thread.

He deleted the new post, but thought to discuss it in the Mod Forum at a later date.

He went out the top of the thread, and gathered his banstick's power again. A huge ceiling began to spread slowly across the arena. Those able to see it clearly noticed sprinklers dotted along the ceiling, along with bright lights.

He was glad that he had made a few threads in the mod forum that were huge and unused since their first purpose.

He jumped off the top of the smaller thread and moved it back, drawing his sword and rolling as he landed.

"Now let's have some fun!"

[Nikose Tyris]

Nikose stood behind Fenris, crackling with electricity. "Dammit, I can't turn it down with this pendant on!" He griped, before his shadow stood up to pat him on the back. With a only a momentary stare, he grinned wide. "I forgot it magnified THAT power too! We have a method of problem solving here!"