Post by BetaWülf on Jan 4, 2016 14:35:15 GMT -6
The Hecatomb
Information and Sign-up thread
Hello all and welcome to the Hecatomb!
The purpose of this tournament is to allow members new and old to try out playing Covenant species easily. It also promotes character deaths, showing that they really aren't a bad thing. It also helps people to learn melee combat as these species, as well as helping people to learn consistent posting.
This is a Pit Fighting league run by the Kig-Yar, using a bracket system. It is called "The Hecatomb", where Kig-Yar owned Slaves fight against one another for the entertainment of the crowd. Here's an example of the bracket that'll be used.
The Hecatomb Bracket
In retrospect, I regret using red for the text, I should've gone for blue so it would be easier to read. My apologies.
In retrospect, I regret using red for the text, I should've gone for blue so it would be easier to read. My apologies.
It's set up so each set of fights takes place in a "week", of which there would be four in total.
Week One: Fade, Seraph, BetaWolf, and Goody participate in non-lethal bare knuckle fights. Seraph defeats Fade, while Goody beats BetaWolf. Any attempts to kill an opponent are met with severe handler given punishment and the equivalent of a beanbag cannon stopping them.
Week Two: Goody vs Dave, Llau vs Laxknight, Seraph vs Faclan, Arby vs Dragon Tear. These fights are to the death. At the beginning of these fights the contestants are each given access to a weapons rack, with a random selection of moderate quality spears, swords, axes, shields, knives, ect. Laxknight, Faclan, Dragon, and Goody die in the Pit. Dave Llau, Arby, and Seraph are victorious.
Week Three: Dave vs Llau, Seraph vs Arby. Operates in about the same way as the previous week, but with better and more interesting weapons on the racks. The competition is fierce, as of the four contestants, only two can continue on to compete for the title of Hecatomb Champion! Dave and Seraph die tragically, their bodies being parted out and sold to their fans as keepsakes.
Week Four: The big match of the season! Llau and Arby have survived to compete in the final match of the tournament! Fade and BetaWolf whom were eliminated in the non-lethal Week One, are pitted against one another to battle for second place, runner up to the Hecatomb Champion. Both the Champion competitors and the runners up are given access to fine quality weapons(often bearing the logo and names of sponsoring businesses). There can only be one Hecatomb Champion! And only one Second Place Fighter! All other competitors die.
(These are just examples, none of this has actually happened and I am just using individuals usernames to make it easier to visualize and )
Penalties
Inactivity: If you fail to post within a five day span of time, you by default lose to your opponent, who gets to kill you off in whatever gruesome and or embarrassing way they desire. By the time the sixth day on no posting dawns, there are no backsies. You die. The end.
Shit Posting: Two three line paragraphs ain't gonna cut it. If you shit post your opponent(assuming they aren't also shit posting) gets to wound you, nothing fatal, but it will affect your character. Shit posting includes excessive amounts of poor grammar, being incredibly short, and or including Godmodding/untouchable character nonsense.
Requirements: The only requirement is that you have a desire to actively participate in this, fully acknowledging the fact your character can and likely will die during participation in the Hecatomb. Also(fairly important) a total of ten people are required to make this bracket work out.
Here's a weapon rack, just an example, nothing fancy(the actual ones for the thread would be setting appropriate background-wise). There will be two randomly selected weapons racks per fight. A competitor may take a single one handed weapon and shield, or two one handed weapons, or one two handed weapon, or simply take a lone one handed weapon and forgo the shield entirely.
Hecatomb Weapon Rack
And here is the basic layout for the Hecatomb Arena.
Hecatomb Arena
The diamonds on the left and right sides are the starting areas. The half on the outside of the arena is where they enter from, half on the inside is where they start off at when their fight is officially announced to commence. The green circles are pillars, and the line connecting them is a massive chain; this is intended to allow arboreal species to spice up how they fight(the chain is about fifteen feet off the ground).
The green half circles are raised rocks that can be climbed, leapt off of, ect. They slope backwards and level off with the rest of the ground near the wall. The red stars are hazards, spinning bladed pillars that will wound those that get too close, and grind anyone who gets caught in them into burger. The red rectangles are the weapons racks.
Okie dokie, all you really need to do is give us a basic idea of who your character is, not expecting a whole ton since they are most likely ultimately anyway.
Name: What is your character's name?
Age: How old is your character?
Height: How tall is your character?
Weight: How heavy is your character?
Appearance: What does your character look like?
Biography: A brief history of your character's life thus far(please no "ultimate fighter" backgrounds, we want this to be relatively fair and all that).
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Height:[/b]
[b]Weight:[/b]
[b]Appearance:[/b]
[b]Biography:[/b]I(BetaWülf) will be running this, once we have everyone we'll need I will randomly select people as needed for the Brackets and then start a thread for their fights with them tagged in the intro post.
Any questions should be directed to the Hecatomb OOC
