This is where the journey starts to get a little...rough. Will it be worth all the ups and downs, though? That's for you to decide!
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 2:39 pm
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-- Closed for now! -- What? We're still in the honeymoon phase of the event! This mini game will open on Monday, February 10th!
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The obstacle course has been thoroughly expanded upon and added to that it's almost unrecognizable to even the most loyal gym member. Several courses lie side by side, divided by temporary but sturdy walls and manned by several gnomes (and an occasional Student Council secretary as well): each partition is fitted with a sign denoting its difficulty and extra space to enter the names of those who have conquered it. The entire area has been surrounded with vivid pink police tape repeatedly stamped with the words STOP IN THE NAME OF LOVE! to keep would-be warriors from straying too far.
The Battlefield of Love can only stretch so far, after all.
Upon selecting a course to run, the gnome in charge passes you a form that legally frees Amityville from any liability if you are injured/killed/eaten/etc. Once signed, he or she tucks it into a folder and drops a pair of white, appropriately-sized bracelets with several blinking lights. Then you are given an expectant look. "Put these on and you're good to go."
Ask what they are
"Battle Balancers. Or Fear Factors. Power Bracelets maybe? I don't remember 'cause it went through development hell, alright?"
Ask about what they do
The gnome gives you a look. "What d'ya think? It adjusts how your Fear works temporarily: knocks them upperclassmen down a peg and makes even the shrimps look competent. Before you ask, no it doesn't have side effects
that we know about and everything should be fine once they're off. Boss just said the point of the obstacle courses was to make everyone play on an even level."
Refuse to wear the bracelets
"Fine," the gnome snits with a scowl. "But you aren't going in without 'em. All's fair in love and war or whatever."
Put the bracelets on
The gnome then points you to the checkered starting line. "Just keep going 'til you find the finish line
or die trying.Try not to make a mess of it in the meantime. I hear the gym teacher's pretty scary when angry . . ."
A CHALLENGER APPEARS!
HOW TO PLAY:
Reach the end of the course and defeat the boss! If you reach 0 HP or below, then you have failed for the day. Each character can only try this game once per day regardless of what level they choose. (ie. Today you do Footsoldier and cannot play a new game of any level until the next day.) Reset follows the minisite's! (12am PST) Fears are not allowed in combat, unles you're a Reaper/Ghost (see Bonuses below). Simply rp out each post (a few lines will do) and follow the steps in order. Empty posts won't be counted for prizes! You may do this on your own or with others! You must all select the same level, however. If in a group: each individual must make it to the boss fight to have a chance at winning the prize. If one person is still standing when the boss finishes, then it counts as a victory. Only post the link to the finishing blow post please when filling out the form here! (Or your 0 HP post if that's the case) Lastly, good luck, competitors!
BONUSES: Each race has its own particular ace up its sleeve in order to survive the obstacle courses! These bonuses are a one time use per attempt:
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● Monsters may regain 25% of their full hp (rounded up) once at any point during the level. If in battle, it can be done at the same time as attacking (applied before auto damage is subtracted). ● Demons may choose to reroll any dice roll at any point twice and select which outcome they would prefer. ● Reapers may select one of their current Fears (at either T1 or T2 rank only) and use it. ● Ghosts may select one bonus and roll 1d6: if even, they are able to use that bonus for the level. ● Undead may act two extra turns/rolls after hitting 0 HP. If this leads to success, the victory still counts (just add a note about the bonus in your post if used).
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 2:40 pm
LEVEL 1: FOOTSOLDIER
SWAMP COUNTRY
The course sprawls ahead of you as a thick, almost smothering trail of trees, moss, and unstable ground. Insects hum softly from somewhere in the thickets of bush and colorful flora, and there are even a few loose bird-type minipets chirping above. It would almost seem like a walk in the park, but there’s a subtle shift in the leaves even when a breeze isn’t passing through: enough of a hint that everything isn’t quite as peaceful as the bright colors would suggest.
xxxStarting HP: 35 xxxAttack Dice: 2d8-6 xxxPost Code: (at the top of each post)
Stage 1: Stinging Slopes Your first task is to clamber up a series of ropes over lichen-loaded walls, which wouldn’t be so bothersome if some of the local bugs hadn’t taken an interest in your arrival. As you approach the first wall, you can hear angry buzzing: it seems several colonies of wasps have made their home against the panels, and they’re not keen on your presence. Best get through here quick!
There are a total of 3 high walls in this stage you must climb over! Roll 2d4 for each wall (either in separate posts, or all at once) The first denotes how the ascent goes, the second how well you manage the landing. Refer to the table below:
Wall Climb
First Dice Results
1: You disturbed a nest and a wasp zips after you! (-2 HP) 2: Your footing slips and you experience rope burn trying to stop yourself from completely falling off. (-1 HP) 3-4: You manage to climb up the rope without much trouble!
Second Dice Results
1: Your landing is a little less than graceful… (-1 HP) 2-4: You stuck the landing pretty well! Although the buzzing behind you cuts any celebration short.
Stage 2: Down and Dirty The flat ground begins to grow uneven and softer the further you trek, until eventually the squelch of mud becomes common and murky water fills your steps. The suctioning effects seems to grow stronger, however, and before you know it you find yourself in the midst of some odd combination of knee-high mud, bayou bilge, and quicksand that appears keen on swallowing you. There’s nothing around to grab onto, however, so the only option is to march forward with all your might!
To finish the stage, you must get through 20 yards of troublesome swamp mud. Roll 1d6 to travel until you reach 20 or more. Match rolls to the table below as you post:
Mud Crawl
1: Nothing happens 2: You step in the wrong spot and begin sinking into the mixture at an alarming rate! It takes effort to get yourself out. (-2 HP) 3: Nothing happens 4: You disturb a creature hidden in the mud and it takes a glancing swipe at you! (-1 HP) 5: Nothing happens 6: You step on something particularly sharp hidden in the pits of mud! Looks like some of the gnomes had used the course as a place to drop trash… (-2 HP)
Stage 3: Final Boss Past the mud lies a thick curtain of weeping willow leaves that seem to cling to you as you pass. You can see the finish line at the bottom of a gently curving hill, but the sharp series of clicks and buzzing interrupts your view. A mass of bite-sized insects with needle noses and heart-shaped wings descends to block your path!
FINAL BOSS
LOVE BUG SWARM
HP: 20 (+5 for every additional member in your group if you're tackling it together: ie. a group of three would fight a swarm of 20 + 10 = 30 HP) Autodamage: 3 Special Effect: A small, softly glowing flower might call your attention. Its nectar is particularly sweet if tasted, leaving a sticky residue on the roof of your mouth and tongue. At any point in battle you may do a onetime 5 HP recovery (applied before autodamage); it can be done at the same time as attacking. Spoils: Victors receive 4 tokens and 20 IC silver seeds to spend when they reach the finish line! Post for your redeem here!
Upon defeat: Roll 1d20: If 10 or lower, your character has contracted cooties (itchy, sort of like purple chicken pox in appearance, and embarrassing). For up to an IC half hour, you feel overwhelmingly skittish/quick to blush around people, especially those who you might have ~feelings~ for. Those currently in a relationship will find themselves devolving back into the first stages of crush flusters around their significant other.
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-- Closed for now! -- Level 2 of the Obstacle Course will open on Tuesday, February 11th!
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Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 2:41 pm
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-- Closed for now! -- Level 3 of the Obstacle Course will open on Wednesday, February 12th!
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Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 6:05 pm
Amphi bounced in front of the line for the obstacle course, her hand had yet to let go of Lou's, again in favor of not losing the vampire and for her own comfort. It seemed gnomes were about and they had some things to say about the uh..smaller and real version of the MVP student whose large busom graced their grounds in a statue form.
"Are you ready!?!?" Amphi bounced up a little, eyes wide as she looked at the obstacle course..."I hope they don't mind partners! I hope this is fun.." She smiled up at the vampire, hoping perhaps he would smile back. "if we wind, do you want anything? Spookies? Ice Scream?"
Gnomes walked by and muttered a few comments about what they would do if they won...
It was a good thing Lou wasn't warm blooded, or both their hands might be as sweaty as an orc's armpit by now.
"Yeah." Was all Lou said as he signed away his safety to get the little blinking bracelet. He, unfortunately, did not smile back at the mermaid. Nor did he really glance over the obstacle course.
The comments by the gnomes had been heard, but not acknowledged. After all, such were things he would say... Or would have said in the past. "I don't care." None of those recreational foods did him much good now that he had little interest in recreation as a whole. The vampire was just along for the ride. Nothing more.
When he didn't smile back, she didn't let hers deter away. She was determined to make him smile, at least once! She waited for the gnomes to put the bracelets on and nodded to them.
"Don't worry! I can handle this." She was the MVP after all. She could get through this. She stretched, got her game face on as they faced the first of the course....
Which was swamp....a really colorful pretty swamp. "Oh look!" She pointed at one of the flowers, plucking it and putting it in Lou's tux. A little blue color to his monochrome attire. She thought the walk would be peaceful, humming with the birds...at least till the foliage rustled...with no wind to do the rustling.
She hurried Lou on, stopping at a wall and then looking around.
"Well up we go then!" She smiled at the Vampire again, tugging on one of the vines over the stone. She started to pull herself up, using her arm strength and ignoring the bee's, clambering to the top of the first wall. "All safe Lou!" She waved down at him, "Come on up.....um....Baby?"
Oh, Lou had no questions that Amphi would succeed. His own success, however, was questionable. The boil had been putting off his studies in favor of chasing tail, after all...
He stayed silent as Amphi decorated his suit jacket with a blue flower, almost unsettled by the sudden color amongst a sea of stark black and white lines. "I'm not sure color suits me." He admitted, unable to lie even now. Not that he would take it off or anything.
An important thought crossed his mind around the moment Amphi had made her way over to the wall. Not only was she insistent on going first, but her usual scantily clad attire made for a perfect upskirt shot. A temporary upset of power took place between his brain and natural instincts, body subconsciously flattening against the wall of which she climbed.
They're blue. There was a temporary wave of satisfaction that graced over his cold, dead heart at the sight of a woman's undergarments, and a few strands of white hair on either side unflattened as if breaking free from the hair gel of oppression. It was a start, though the joy disappeared as soon as the moment passed. Yeah, your baby was on his way, Amphi.
And so as Lou began his quiet ascension, his head accidentally bumped into something... Most unpleasant. "s**t." There was a wasp, and it was angry (and most likely karma). Scowling, the boil tried swatting at it, only succeeding in brutalizing the insect after taking a few good stings himself. At the very least, his landing had been graceful. Shame for his swollen cheek.
"You don't think a little color suits you? Is it because it's different?" She acknowledge from her perch, looking down at him with her chin resting in her hands. "Different is good!"
She barely noticed his tufts rising up, watching his face more for any reactions. All she got was a angry one at the wasp and well...a swollen cheek when he landed. her hand glowed a bit, letting the healing of her fear wave over the bump.
"Sorry." She said, reaching up to kiss his cheek after touching it. "Kisses make it better right?" She stepped back and looked at the second wall, repeating the actions for the first wall, climbing up the wall like a goddamn spider. Her speed even kicked up before the wasp came and she was on the other side.
She didn't say much though, this time opting to wait and feeling stupid for taking Lou on a obstacle course that only hurt him. Seriously not the best way to cheer him up.
Different was good? Well, he was certainly different now. How good could different be?
Lou sighed when her touch graced his cheek, a long blink following when he received her kiss. Yes, kisses did make it better. More than he had expected, really.
Did the vampire repeat his perverted peeking? Duh. Even if she had scaled the wall faster this time (s**t how did she do that), he couldn't resist a second attempt.
Just like the wasps couldn't resist a second go at his face.
Once again, he landed gracefully at the other side... Only instead of just a swollen cheek this time, he had a swollen everything. "Break out the kithses, sthweetheart." What a mess.
Seriously, she couldn't even tell that Lou was starting to revert to some of his more...crass habits. Without the crude words and long winded pick up lines, Amphi was completely oblivious.
"Aw Lou..." She looked at his face, currently all sorts of swollen and attempted healing through her lips..by seriously kissing him all over. "and this one here..." She blushed as she did so, getting redder with each place she kissed. "And this one here....and one more okay..."
There! That should do it.
"Do you like red better then?" She took another flower from their last wall, sticking it in his pocket with the blue one. "Red and Blue...Like blood and water! They go well together." How that made any sense, no one would know.
"Last wall!" She stared at it and back at Lou, "Catch me if you can." she tugged on the vines one last time. She went a bit slower this time, and as such, angered the wasp nest. her fight up was terrible and well...when she was done, she kind of fell off the wall and landed on her butt with a small whine...
Was Lou enjoying the attention he was getting? Yes. Yes, very much so. Though it was hard to justify such feelings to himself. The boil was still caught up in feeling used, so to experience the emotions from his old way of thinking was both wonderful and cruel. "Thanks." He rubbed his face, peering out through his fingers when another flower was added to his ever-growing collection.
"I'm not sure.." The idea of adding color to his attire had literally never crossed his mind. Perhaps that too was due to his roots... Lou grimaced as that thought crossed his mind, only looking back up towards Amphi at the words 'catch me if you can'.
Oh no. He wouldn't catch her. Lou wouldn't even try. Let her win, because that meant that he won.
And for some reason, he really did win this time. The mermaid was the one who ended up with the injuries.
His hand reached down to hoist her up and place the ghoul back on her feet.
"You got a little something on your cheek." No matter how down in the dumps he might have been, it only seemed right to reciprocate what she had done for him. A soft peck to the side of her face from him wouldn't heal anything, but what the hell.
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