1 The Championship Cup [Hanbei/Nozomi/Sero Only] Sat Dec 02, 2017 1:10 pm
Ao Andon
D-rank
- Spoiler:
- The Championship Cup
Objective: You must defeat the other contestants in martial combat. Only one contestant may reign as the Champion.
Location: Namahage Festival Grounds
Reward: Namahage Festival Champion Title
Event Description:“Welcome contestants, to the Namahage Festival Championship Cup!”
A loud commanding voice booms out the greeting, leaving an echo of strangely whispered voices in its wake. The voice seems to surround you, leaving behind a nearly physical sensation of things crawling across your skin.
You stand in a sparsely forested area, thin sickly trees stretching their almost bare limbs up to the darkening sky. The ground is damp, with small pools of water intermingling with the dying grass and shrubbery covering the forest floor. Before you stands a grotesque looking woman, her skin so pale it appears blue in the dim twilight. Long strands of inky black hair fall down her shoulders, ragged bits sweeping across her face with the force of the slight evening breeze. A soft eerie glow radiates from the woman, making it clear that she is otherworldly. With a flourish of her bony hand, the Yokai points a finger out at each of the contestants standing before her. Her long talon like nails seeming to punctuate each sentence as she jabs her finger in the air while speaking.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]“You have passed the trials. And yet, there is still one more trial that you must undertake in order to name the true Champion. Here you will face the truest trial of all, armed combat.”
The Yokai gestures around the area, drawing attention to twenty four evenly spaced floating blue lights that have created a circular perimeter. The lights appear as orbs of fire, hovering one meter off the ground, each four meters from the next on either side.”And in the case where you believe that being a shinobi grants you some sort of advantage, I would like to introduce you to my children. They are very friendly and full of life, though be careful not to get too close.”
A wicked laugh ripples through the air as, with a malicious sparkle in her eye, she spreads out her arms and glowing energy travels quickly through the air, from her to her children. As the spokes of blue light pass near you, you feel suddenly empty, and a chilling knowledge fills your mind. Your chakra is gone.”Now young ones, fight for me. Only one of you may be crowned as the Champion, so fight well, and don’t take too long. My children are hungry.”
With her task given out, the Yokai sends out a shriek as she spins in place and fades from view.
Event Details: This trial is considered complete when only one contestant remains able to fight. The rules for combat (though listed elsewhere) are as follows;
No Metagaming or Godmodding. If you are caught doing this you will be warned and if it persists you will be disqualified.
Post within 24 hours of your opponent. As this is a timed event we want these threads to go quickly. If you do not post within 24 hours your opponent will be able to auto hit you.
The event (The Championship Cup), will last a total of fourteen [14] days. It will begin on December 2nd and end on (or by, as it may be concluded earlier) December 16th.
You may not bring in any items that are not approved at the time that the Championship Cup starts. Your lists will be considered frozen for the duration of the event.
You must keep track of your chakra at the bottom of each of your posts in spoilers (see the chakra guideline). This is to keep track of your exhaustion level.
All disputes regarding combat will be mediated by the Championship Cup organizer, and all rulings are final.
Have fun!
No contestants will have any access to their chakra pool, meaning that jutsu, KKG etc. are unable to be used. Weapons, and unarmed attacks are the only available means of combating. Furthermore, all stats for contestants are effectively removed for the duration of the event. They may not be boosted by any means, as they are considered non-existent, putting all contestants on an even playing field. The perimeter of blue fire orbs drain life essence when you are in close proximity to them. Mechanically, this causes a drain of 100 chakra per post, as long as you begin or end your post within five [5] meters of one of the orbs. The available area within the perimeter is a [60] sixty meter radius. While your chakra is currently inaccessible, the rules regarding a character's chakra pool reaching 10 or less apply, as per the Chakra Guidelines..
In the darkening of twilight, amidst the dying remains of an otherworldly forest stands a sickly and grotesque looking woman. Her unkempt deep black hair a shocking contrast to the pale blue and ghostly white of her skin and robes. She cackles gleefully as around her orbs of blue fire appear at her behest, summoned it would seem by the flick of her clawed hands. The light cast by her creations glints off of small damp spots along the ground. Patches of brown coloured grass are broken only by thin trees and the occasional ragged looking shrub. Her demonic looking features twist as she reaches her hands to the sky and calls out with loud and commanding voice.
“Come to me champions! You have completed many trials, are you brave enough to complete one more? With all your cleverness and skill you have bested the demon swine, lived to tell the tale of the Tsuchigumo. Were spared being made part of the Gashadokuro, or being lost forever at the hands of the Mokumokuren. You have proven that you are fast, outrunning the Kamaitachi and dextrous, overcoming the tricks of the Kasa-obake and the Makura-gaeshi. Impressive feats all, now it comes time to decide which of you shall be named Champion. You have faced many Yokai and now it is time to face true monsters. Eachother.”
Her malicious laughter echoes through air, as she pulls at the air around her causing streams of blue energy to leap from the orbs towards her. A swirling miasma of crackling blue fire envelopes the clearing, drawing with it the inherent access anyone standing within the clearing has to their chakra. Her smile, filled with sharp teeth and hatred, is in direct contrast to the spiteful challenge uttered from her lips.
“Give me a story, young ones. One that will chill and frighten, one that will aid me. Feed me your fear and bloodshed and struggle. Only one of you will be victorious, but who I wonder? Who among you is strong enough, brave enough, resourceful enough to survive? I will leave that to you to decide amongst yourselves. Now fight for me and don’t take too long, these” She pauses to gesture around at the orbs of fire that have created a perimeter around the area. “These are my children. They were once like you and they hunger. The longer you take the more voracious they will become. If you do not wish to be consumed by their desire for your essence then be quick. When only one of you stands you may leave and claim your prize, until then young ones. . .”
A shriek fills the air as she spins and swirls in on herself, as though suddenly made from mist. And as she fades from view a voice is heard on the breeze.
“You belong to me.”