A lone female with her cerulean tail walks out onto the arena, carrying with her a microphone as she looks around and smiles as she stepped onto the stage. "HELLO LADIES AND GENTLEMENNNN! WELCOME!" She started before suddenly one of the speakers gave feedback, which quickly got on her nerves as she shot a glare at it before she shook her head. "Welcome to the first and possibly only Tournament of Flames ever needed to be held! Your gracious host, and the best host, offers you all a chance for 10,000,000 lien and bragging rights as usual, but he does want people to follow the rules. As you can see by the size of the arena, a nicely made 90ftx90ft squared arena, you have two ways of obtaining victory in the first round." She started, walking around in the center as her hips swayed and it commanded her tail to follow as she knew she had all eyes on her.
"First, and probably the easiest way to win for all you common knuckleheads, is incapacitate your opponent. You can't kill them, but make it to where they cannot continue the battle. Whether it's by paralyzing them long enough for a 10 count or they are knocked cold, if you can get them down, you win. The second way to win, is to Knock them out of bounds. If you can't hold your own in the arena, and that includes your footing, you're not meant to be a huntsman NOR a fighter! Better to pack your things and leave in shame!" She began to laugh quite heartily into the mic as she grinned at the stunned audience just beyond the image of the arena's viewing.
"Right now, the rules remain as such, you fight, you win. You can use whatever you bring in but you are not allowed to kill your opponent, any attempts will disqualify you right in the get go. Now let's introduce our contestants to see who can handle the host at the end..." She started with a small grin and was slowly lifted into the air by way of a flying drone holding her up on some swing as she sat on it. "First up, a man with the name that holds many heads and currently carrying a look of beauty on his shoulders, he just knows exactly what to do against chumps, or so he tells us, BASHMUUUUU HYYYDRAAA!" She shouted into her Microphone as he slowly entered onto the arena from a cage on a vehicle, kindly dropping him off without knocking him onto the arena before it drove away. The crowd didn't give much of a cheer since they don't really know, but some ladies could be heard fawning over his face as it appeared on a televised screen for others to see. Drones were useful for transmitting images you know.
Once he was done with his entrance, she looked to the other vehicle coming up onto the scene and smirked as she held the mic up, crossing her legs as her elbows hooked onto the wires of the swing. "And standing as the representative of the feeble Hunters from Beacon Academy, a man who claims to be able to keep going with the best of them, give it up for Beacon Freshman... RRRRROWSSERRRR RABBLEMAAAAN" She shouted with a chaotic grin and lowered her head and continued to speak while the Vehicle carrying Rowser was a bit slow and very bumpy with lack of shock absorbers. By the time it arrived, she was speaking as the door opened for Rowser to leave the car. "I'll be giving the play by play incase you plebs aren't able to keep up with everything. Just make sure you listen to the dulcid tones of my voice~ now FIGHT!" She shouted, not giving Rowser the time to finish his entrance as she was out for blood.
Additional Rules: 1. Post counts are not being used in the resolution of this battle. 2. You both have 2 weeks to complete this match fairly. 3. If at any point a post goes 4 days without being responded to, any attacks in that post will automatically connect in the eyes of Lilli. 4. Have fun! 5. DO NOT POST UNTIL AFTER THE DAY CHANGE!
Noble Negative J3T
KevBo2099
Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2021 5:55 pm
Rowser Rabbleman Team DRMY “Silence is golden. And that's also why I'm not stupid rich.”
Rowser's heart pounded in his chest so loud he could hear it. Hell, he could FEEL it throughout his body. On his hands, in his shoes, even on his nose! Which didn't make any sense but he swore he could! Why was he even here, again? Combat experience or something. Conversations were had in various places whilst he had been working, janitor'ing and cleaning the academy. You know how kids talk and gossip and play the telephone game. Somehow or another he had been lead to believe that this was little more than a friendly competition to see how students had been progressing. Oh how wrong this poor boy was.
Lilli's voice, whilst sounding akin to music, echoed over the loudspeaker. Rowser had somewhat been listening and overheard he was fighting a Hydra? D'wut??! That couldn't be true, it was just ridiculous. Unless it was a Hydra Grimm with seven heads, each one angrier than the last, and they were all hungry?
His transport vehicle started moving, and it was quite the bumpy ride. With already shaky hands, Rabbleman attempted to load his rifle. Each bump and toss forced him to drop a bullet before grabbing another off the ammo belt strung across his chest. One after another he dropped his bullets as he failed to truly focus on his hands between his fear and also keeping his aura up to protect him against bouncing off the cage what carried him before it dumped him unceremoniously unto the arena floor. At least he had managed to load a single bullet into the weapon, but not before dropping eleven of his thirty. The fall had also accidentally forced him to prompt his weapon into its melee form of a bronze cutlass.
“Ow...” He groaned, pulling himself onto his feet. At this point, through stress alone, his wings and light had protruded from beneath his clothes. The red exoskeleton also began to creep up over his back which produced a growing bulge under his clothes for those observant enough. Rowser turned towards Lilli, his aura fortunately still up from earlier (but otherwise defenseless), and called out to her, “Hey, so...I thought I was fighting a Hydra?” He then pointed to his opponent, Bashmu, “Not that I'm complaining, but I thought they had more than one face?”
Post Count: 25
Weapon form: Melee Bullets loaded: 1 / 7 Chamber: empty Total bullets remaining: 19 Safety: on
Bashmu would lean against the cage as the transports made their way to the arena. Once there, he would get out without any care in the world. He was not wearing a mask or anything. Instead, he was just himself. Hair laid back and ready to go. Of course for the entrance he was not going to get any type of cheers except for the ladies. Not many people knew who he was which was surprising at first, but Bashmu understood this was not Atlas. In Atlas, there was infamy. Here, not many people understood truly the power of the Hydra name. His violet eyes would wait and wait before catching his prey. UHhhh, who was this? They had him beating up kids? Typical. The person in front of Bashmu did not seem impressive. In fact, he wondered if he truly knew what he signed up for.
¨They have more than one head, but I guess face makes sense... Don worry. There are more to me than you will ever know. ¨ Bashmu stated as he watched the student in front of him. He dropped his own bullets...He seemed to be scared. A dumbfounded look was on Bashmu face. Easy prey, but what was going on with the man? ¨Ummm.. Ref....¨ Bashmu would call out to the ref while keeping his eyes on Rowser. ¨I think my enemy is having a allergic reaction or something. The poor lad is swelling ¨ Bashmu commented as he noted the growing bulge that was occurring. It was not something that could hide from Bashmu. Then again, most things did not get past him in the first place. With his Heads of Hydra in hand in the pistol form, Bashmu was prepared for anything. Taking a smoke bomb, he would toss it into the air straight up but from a far it almost looked as if he threw some kind of ball. Bashmu did not seem too into the fight, but yet he was already making tactics. The smoke bomb, unless messed with, would end up falling down soon (next post). Unless something delayed it or made it go off early. ¨I must truly ask, do you know why you are here? Or did the organizer really allow for a make a wish huntsmen to enter into this battle?
NPC LEVEL: 2.00 OOC: Auto-kidnapped approved by Frosty.
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2021 6:43 pm
Lilli looked between the two opponents after having shouted for the match to begin and yet her right eye twitched as she looked at the duo. For one, the Rowser kid was showing off his greenside as she took her words literally. A cartoonish vein appeared before she shook his head and spoke over the mic. "Excuse me, but his last NAME is Hydra. Might not want to take things too seriously for this." She told Rowser before Bashmu began to speak, her eyes looking over to him as he seemed to be mostly speaking about himself at the start before speaking about how the poor lad was swelling, causing her to look and see the hump on his back. She giggled before looking back to Bashmu. "If you're worried he's sick, then you better put him out of his misery and send him flying. Same to you if you want to move forward!" She shouted at them both, slowly swinging on her swing as she watched a ball flying up, her eyes blinking as it almost reached her height before beginning to fall down. "And just like that, Bashmu starts the battle off throwing a ball into the air and.... continuing the conversation with a Kid who can't even load his gun right." She giggled as she was chastising Rowser for not being trained correctly. "Clearly the Bacon academy has not been training their runts correctly~" She called out Beacon with a grin.
Additional Rules: 1. Post counts are not being used in the resolution of this battle. 2. You both have 2 weeks to complete this match fairly. 3. If at any point a post goes 4 days without being responded to, any attacks in that post will automatically connect in the eyes of Lilli. 4. Have fun! 5. DO NOT POST UNTIL AFTER THE DAY CHANGE!
Rowser Rabbleman Team DRMY “Silence is golden. And that's also why I'm not stupid rich.”
Allergic reaction? Swelling? Oh heck! Bashmu had noticed! It certainly wouldn't help Rowser's cause as his exoskeleton had finished protruding, now fully covering his torso beneath his clothes. Likely more noticeable in the front to the observant eyes of his opponent. So distracted by everyone talking to him, he hadn't even noticed the ball Bashmu had tossed in the air. “This is a tournament for...um...reasons?” Rowser responded to Bashmu's probably rhetorical question, “I think I remember hearing that we were doing this as a progress report? Or for bragging rights? Or like...free ice cream for a year?” That last bit he may or may not have just made up.
Lilli's final comment, however, stuck something of a nerve with the boy. “Excuse you, I can load The Whozeewatz!” Novice as ever, he once again took his eyes off his enemy to shove a few more bullets into his weapon. “Two, three, four, five, six, seven!...wait.” His eyes glanced at his weapon to finally realize it was still in its melee form and gave it a little, unnecessary twirl; flicking the finger lever in the process as he shifted it into its ranged form resembling a Winchester Rifle. “Ha! Lookit! See? Loaded!” He shouted, a grin of horrendously unfounded confidence on his face.
Post Count: 26
Weapon form: Ranged Bullets loaded: 7 / 7 Chamber: Loaded Total bullets remaining: 19 Safety: On
“Noble Negative J3T ”
“KnightsRoyal ”
Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2021 12:00 pm
¨I am not against beating up kids but like...make sure he has a rescue inhaler or something. Be so boring if he died and I did not even cause it...¨ Bashmu commented, completely ignoring the rules that death was off the table. Instead, he just sighed as the s**t show continued. The boy did not even know why he was there! Progress reports? Free ice cream? He wanted to fight monsters for ice cream!! Bashmu literally looked at Rowser with a dunce face. Almost as if he caught Rowser with his hands in the cookie jar. The exoskeleton was becoming more and more noticeable to the male. He was still kind of clueless on what it was, but it did make things intriguing. A chuckle came at Lilli´s last comment.
The chuckle would continue while the ball came down crashing toward the arena while Rowser was trying to prove himself. Which honestly... wow, he never seen this before. As soon as he said to look, the ball hit the ground and the smoke screen would activate, covering around Rowser and spreading 15ft. The thick smokescreen would obscure Rowser vision unless he had something for it. Bashmu? He had thermal vision and the fun part about that, it worked through smoke screens. That is why fire fighters use it during rescues. 3 Shots would be fired towards Rowser. 2 were aimed for his hands to try disarm him of the winchester rifle while the last one was going for the chest of Rowser. Game time was over. It was time put him out of his misery to be honest. Though, Bashmu did not seem as blood lusted as he normally would. Maybe it was the rabbleman effect.
Rowser Rabbleman Team DRMY “Silence is golden. And that's also why I'm not stupid rich.”
Inhaler? Wait a minute! Rowser didn't need one of those! Although, at the moment it seemed he may have. Bashmu's smoke bomb landed near him and forced a coughing fit from the boy. The shots fired he didn't hear on account of the choking. One shot hit his left hand and forced him to release his weapon. His body spun to unintentionally avoid the second shot. The third, however, collided just off-center on his chest with a “pang!”. Fluff from his vest flew out in a puff as he found himself flung backwards and landed hard on his back. Despite his aura and his exoskeleton, it hurt like hell.
“Owwie face...” Rowser groaned as he slowly pulled himself onto staggered feet. He rotated his left shoulder to try to work out the pain before pulling his weapon in against his shoulder. “Okay, fine! If we're gonna shoot each other...” The boy squeezed the trigger...
Click!“Heck!” He shouted to himself as he realized a critical error. Once he flicked the safety off, he would pull the weapon back up. “Okay, now!” With that, he squeezed the trigger again to fire off an actual round. Whether or not his opponent remained in place was another story entirely.
Post Count: 27
TOUREY
Weapon form: Ranged Bullets loaded: 6 / 7 Chamber: EMPTY Total bullets remaining: 18 Safety: OFF
“Noble Negative J3T ”
“KnightsRoyal ”
Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2021 6:43 pm
Lilli's eye twitched even more as she listened to Rowser's greenest side show as he spoke about the tournament. She took a deep breath and let it go for the moment before her comment struck his nerve, causing her to grin. "He doesn't even know the name of his own weapon?! How predictably bad of beacon to not give his weapon a proper name~" She started to laugh, getting a few from the audience to laugh as well before she stopped and her earpiece when off. "His name is a Whozeewatz? The's just stupid!" She shouted into her earpiece before looking back as she soon saw the ball fall just as he shouted 'Look!' and Rowser was hidden by smoke. "Well unfortunately I can't look people because Rowser's visage had vanished under a cloud of smoke! Bashmu's smokeball has hidden Rowser from sight but he continues the forward motion and shoots at Bashmu thrice! Did the Beacon academy teach a kid to dodge or block?! Will we see a corpse that is against the rules of combat?!" She shouted while the Drone moved her around the Arena to get a better view.
"Also note, we don't provide free health care to people. We only provide entertainment... AND PAIN!!!" She stated as she could hear a satisfying ping, a whiff, and another pang before a thud. "Was that the killing blow?!" She shouted as she moved closer slightly only to hear Rowser speak in pain before mentioning how they were going to shoot each other. Rowser was thankfully more in the arena, otherwise, he would've been eliminated from a Ring out before even she heard the click. Her face was stone-facing right now as she looked down at the smoke before the kid realized his safety was on before firing his first shot. She brought the microphone to her mouth. "With sight blinded, Rowser fires a desperate shot while being alive still, I can't even tell where the hell he's aiming." She stated aloud in frustration before the smoke moved, following the bullet as it exits the cloud towards Bashmu's general direction.
Additional Rules: 1. Post counts are not being used in the resolution of this battle. 2. You both have 2 weeks to complete this match fairly. 3. If at any point a post goes 4 days without being responded to, any attacks in that post will automatically connect in the eyes of Lilli. 4. Have fun! 5. DO NOT POST UNTIL AFTER THE DAY CHANGE!
The pang sound was loud and it made Bashmu curious. Was he wearing armor underneath his clothes? A reversal knight? What kind of Saturday cartoon was this? ¨If you want to cosplay peteś party knight you should wear the armor on the outside of your clothing. Not the inside.....¨ He commented as he watched Rowser start his counter move. He would go for a shot but nothing happened. Taking the opportunity, Bashmu would start to move backwards in a diagonal while changing the transformation of his weapon going from pistol to sniper rifle and gaining some distance. Rowser would end up going for another shot but by time he shot at Bashmu, it was at his old location. With his weapon now in sniper form, Bashmu continued to back pedal to get space between them. By time he was done he would be about 50ft from Rowser with the male in his sights. He then began switch out his bullets to armor piercing rounds. The heat was turning up, but Bashmu was just preparing the ground work. He could of gotten a hit on me, but looks like his gun jammed or something.
NPC LEVEL: 2.00 OOC: Smoke bomb : 2/2 posts .
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 5:17 pm
Rowser Rabbleman Team DRMY “Silence is golden. And that's also why I'm not stupid rich.”
Did Rowser hit his target? The likelihood leaned towards “no” as he failed to hear a “thud” like his own body had produced. Granted the bug boi's body held much more weight than it appeared to, but still. With his wings still pinned beneath his clothes, Rabbleman couldn't pick up on any air waves to detect Bashmu's general whereabouts. Evidence only given via hearing his opponent's voice. "Yes, armor, and not something else..."
With a spin and twirl of his weapon Rowser shifted The Whozeewatz back into melee form, flicking the finger lever to load a round into the chamber in the process, and charged towards the last spot he heard Mr. Hydra's voice. Still within the smoke screen, he spun over his front shoulder and delivered a diagonal slash upwards. Very likely he'd only slice the air and perhaps clear more of the smoke away. Scared as he was, that last shot hurt like hell and he really didn't want to just eat another one.
Post Count: 28
Weapon form: Melee Bullets loaded: 6 / 7 (missed the update last post I think, but a shot was fired. He just missed is all) Chamber: Loaded Total bullets remaining: 18 Safety: OFF
With his armor piercing rounds loaded , Bashmu would aim down the site and see the temperature presence of Rowser and waited. Rowser went on the offensive but ended up not hitting anything but the air moving smoke out the way as it continued to thin out as the affects were wearing down. Bashmu would fire a shot straight for the body of Rowser. Bigger target, higher accuracy. Easy for any marksman to know. If hit, it would not ping like last time and just ricochet. Though, luckily no one got hurt in the arena. After he fired a shot at rowser, a dust cartridge would be slid into his rifle. It looked more of a darker and warm color. But it wasn´t as violent of a color. It seemed almost a burning orange. ¨Look. I fulfilled my obligation to the make a wish foundation. Now, let me introduce you to the real world sport.¨
NPC LEVEL: 2.00 OOC: .
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 5:46 am
Rowser Rabbleman Team DRMY “Silence is golden. And that's also why I'm not stupid rich.”
Another miss. Well, calling it a miss would be a little unfair as that would imply Rowser's target was actually within range to hit. No, he had simply swung his weapon at the air, and Bashmu was about to make him pay for it. Where was he? Rowser's fear crept up again as he began stepping to the side through the dissipating smoke. As “luck” would have it, he tripped over his own feet just as his opponent took another shot. The bullet grazed his side, but it being a different type of bullet felt much different. It tore his clothes and took a bit of his exoskeleton with it, forcing his light green aura to visibly wane.
Rowser hit the ground and clutched his side, a scream of pain bellowing from his lungs. He was ready to give up until a voice filled his ears. Despite all the people in the crowd and their comments and conversations, one voice stood out to him. “Damien...?” They had discussed Rowser joining the tournament, but he figured the team assumed he was joking. But his buddy, his leader, was here to cheer him on. It was enough to stroke the flames and force Rowser back onto his feet. Likely with enough time for Bashmu to have changed his ammo once again.
The boy again twirled his weapon, shifting it back into its ranged form with both tears and determination in his eyes. As quickly as he possibly could, Rowser would fire two rounds aimed at both of his opponent's feet and flicked the finger leaver after each shot. Fearing a follow-up, he'd preemptively roll to his right before attempting to line up another shot.
Post Count: 29
Weapon form: Ranged Bullets loaded: 4 / 7 Chamber: Loaded Total bullets remaining: 16 Safety: OFF
Bashmu was a hunter. He could of easily abused his smoke bombs in order to make this unfair, but he honestly felt bad for the boy. It seemed beacon was not giving him the type of lessons he needed to learn. In fact, it was not giving him anything at all. That would come apparent later on in the match though. With the dust cartridge inserted, he would wait for Rowser reaction which honestly he would of clapped if he had the ability to. Determination..or plain idiocy. Both worked just as much in Bashmu eyes. He would go to range mode again and Bashmu would aim down sight of his sniper but did not look down the scope at first. Instead, he would let Rowser have the first shot. A flurry of 2 rounds went for Bashmu´s feet before a roll occurred. The shots were about few feet from reaching Bashmu before they redirected themselves and went straight for Rowser without losing momentum. Both of them going straight for his body. However, it would be obvious Bashmu did not fire his gun at all. Bashmu´s aura did flash a little, signalling a semblance had been activated. After redirecting the 2 shots of Rowser back at him, Bashmu went for an ending shot from his sniper. The orange dust bullet would be fired at Rowser. The augmented shot would send out a 3ft x 3ft x 3ft rock that weighed 1000 lbs flying straight for Rowser in attempt to knock him out of bounds or unconscious. ¨You got spirit...but you not there yet to hang with the Hydra¨
NPC LEVEL: 2.00 OOC: .
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2021 5:15 pm
Rowser Rabbleman Team DRMY “Silence is golden. And that's also why I'm not stupid rich.”
The sight of the Whozeewatz had nearly trained over Bashmu's heart when two objects struck Rowser harder than he could have imagined or anticipated. His own bullets reflected back at him and stressed his aura to its limit. The sudden impact forced him back a few steps, close to the edge of the ring. Then came his opponent's follow-up. Rowser knew next to nothing about dust, not that he was in a position to properly defend against such an attack anyway. At this point, all he could do was brace himself and hope he could take the hit.
And take it he did. The dust-infused-rock-bullet-thingy audibly slammed into his chest and sent him hurtling several feet back. Rowser crashed hard on the ground outside the battlefield and tumbled over several times. Continuous bounces, rolls, and skids tore his vest and shirt to shreds. With the wind thoroughly knocked out of him, Rowser writhed in agony and fought to restore oxygen to his lungs. Unknowingly to him, this had exposed a good portion of his red exoskeletal “vest” which encased his torso, which had a small chunk taken out of the side from the armor piercing round. Not to mention a small dent in the front of it, accompanied by a hairline fracture. Finally, the insect-like wings upon his back. Yep, the secret was out now. This kid was no Human.
Post Count: 30
Weapon form: Ranged Bullets loaded: 4 / 7 Chamber: Loaded Total bullets remaining: 16 Safety: OFF
Lilli had been watching the battle since her last talk as she was still near Rowser as he was talking about how he was wearing armor. She watched him charge out quickly in the smoke only to hit nothing but air as he was shot at again, the bullet ricocheting off as she shouted. "OI! Bashmu! Not while I'm so close!" She warned him before she used the swing's connector to get the Drone to move away as he fired once more. This time a cry from the audience rooting for Rowser got him back to his feet as she giggled and remained in the air to watch. "Don't disappoint them Rowser~" She cooed to him while he began to fire at Bashmu once more. But the match was not long till the end as she moved away and Bashmu reflected the bullets back at Rowser.
She watched him get backed up to the ring's edge before a large rock came flying and knocked Rowser out of the ring completely as he was revealed to not be a human. She gasped before she brought her mic to her lips. "And that's match! Poor little bug boy, he had spunk but he didn't have what it takes to compete with the real adults here~" She teased as she slowly moved towards near Bashmu's airspace with a smirk on her face. "And the winner of this match-up is the man with not so many heads but certainly with many combat-tricks at his sleeves, Bashmu Hydra!" She shouted before she lowered herself down onto her feet and walked to him with the mic in hand. "Anything you want to say to your lovely competitors in the Waiting room and the audience? Or maybe something to the spectacular Host in his wonderful seat?" She asked of him with a giggle.
Additional Rules: 1. Post counts are not being used in the resolution of this battle. 2. You both have 2 weeks to complete this match fairly. 3. If at any point a post goes 4 days without being responded to, any attacks in that post will automatically connect in the eyes of Lilli. 4. Have fun! 5. DO NOT POST UNTIL AFTER THE DAY CHANGE!
