[ACRO] Crazy Ol Magtok's Battle Arena of Terror! (COMBAT! I)

[Lord Magtok]

Crazy Ol Magtok's Battle Arena of Terror!

Now open to the public is Crazy Ol' Magtok's Battle Arena of Terror! Finally, at long last, you can kill or watch people kill each other, and stinky Emperor Vyrn can't do anything about it! Not true. He's recording all of you on MagSat right now, there's already a team of officers on their way to lock you up.

Though designed with bickering HATS members in mind, anyone and everyone can waltz in, sign themselves and a friend up for a duel, use the elaborate system of holograms and visual simulations to make the carrying out of their personal vendetta as bloody or artificial as they'd like, with limitless settings, weapons rules, and miscellaneous options available to ensure that each and every confrontation is different from the last. Battles typically last only one to two rounds and involve two teams, with one contestant each, (although these rules can be adjusted at will) with the ending of a round decided by impartial judges that either accompany the contestants or are provided by the arena.

A large, transparent Magtinium shield offers protection to audiences, and a variety of snacks, drinks, merchandise, and match-gambling venues ensure that non-contestants will have things to do in between matches. There's a MagDonald's stand offering sloppy burgers and greasy fries, MagPlushies of everyone's favorite cyborg (and a few star contestants), white sandwich boards left blank so you can scrawl your own message and cheer for your favorite duelist, delicious fruit to either eat or pay professional hecklers to throw at combatants. The best seats are specialized hover suites that loom almost directly above the action, but come with a huge price tag and a waiver absolving MagCorp of any and all liability if a stray fireball breaks through the upper shields and eats you alive.


Note: The only permanent rules of COMBAT are that no godmodding, meta-knowledge, or player-based cheating, whining, or bickering occurs. Other than that, have fun, and please leave your OOC luggage at the door.

[Creed]

A handful of goblins in suits rush into the arena and grab seats. They all either have sketch pads or laptob computers. They are jabbering incoherently, but a few words that are heard are "Master.....Wulfen....eat.....killing."

[happyturtle]

The PA crackles, and an announcement starts up.

"And now... now ... now... now...

We have a new challenger... challenger... challenger... challenger...

The Flame Horseman... Horseman... Horseman... Horseman...

vs.

Our defending champion, Fluffy... Fluffy... Fluffy... Fluffy!"

The defender is already waiting in the Arena for his challenger to be telewarped in.

[XtheYeti]

Ark sits in a floating box thing which he has paid for.

[XtheYeti]

Ark sits in a floating box thing which he has paid for.

Ark gets bored, and back flips out of the box onto the arena floor.

Actually I will be fighting fluffy thank you.

[UncleWolf]

When the challenger appears, things go quiet and the scene zooms in to the Control Box...

"Cue Dexter?"

"Cue Dexter."

On the other side of the arena, a little red light blinks, and a man in a white suit with a small well-kept mustache smiles before turning on the microphone.

"Ladies and Gentlemen! We're gathered here today, not in Matrimony, but to slake our thirst for BLOOD!"

The crowd cheers, but he holds up a hand to quiet them down. "Tonight, we have quite the show for you." Giant spotlights pivot to land on Ark. "In this corner, we have the Challanger, Ark!" He hears a voice in his earpiece. "Psst! Juice it up!"

"Or as we prefer to call him, The Eviscerator of a Thousand Suns!"

Dexter gestures the other way. "And in this corner..." The spotlights move to show what looks to be a large boulder. "Is that a mountain? NO! It's the defending champion, Fluffy!" The crowd cheers and the lump moves at the mention of it's name. "Fluffy, Slayer of Champions! Fluffy, Destroyer of Foes! Fluffy, model of the second best selling Magplush in our gift shops! Rise! We call for you to fight your enemy!" With a earthshaking roar, the creature rises, spreading it's colossal wings, showing a massive apeish body covered in dense muscle and scales. It's meter long claws flex, preparing for a fight.

"Ark..." Dexter says with a touch of sadness. "I wish you best of luck against our local Half-Dragon Dire Rancor Beast. You're going to need it."

He breathes in deeply and turns his microphone onto the max setting.

"Let the blood...BEGIN!"

[XtheYeti]

Ark cracks his knuckles. Then hears what fluffy is.

Rancor? WUT!!!!!!????!!!!

He looks panicked.

[UncleWolf]

Fluffy turns his massive head at the challenger and snorts in distaste at the thought of something so weak coming to challenge him. He sets his monstrous black scaled fists onto the ground to brace himself before opening his jaws wide, revealing razor sharp teeth and noxious green smoke at the back of it's throat, readying his breath weapon.

[XtheYeti]

Ark grins. And he fades from view.

Breath on me mighty fluffy! If you can.

Breath on me mighty fluffy! If you can.

Breath on me mighty fluffy! If you can.

His voice comes from all around.

[UncleWolf]

Fluffy seems a bit unimpressed at the invisibility, but unleashes a noxious cloud of acidic gas at the part of the arena Ark had been. The cloud is very large and quick, making blob of moving gas about 15 meters wide. It wouldn't be too hard to dodge, but the air currents of the Arena let it move.

[XtheYeti]

Fluffy should feel a tap on it's shoulder.

Behind you big homie.

Ark tries to round house kick the back of Fluffy's head.

[UncleWolf]

Speaking that an average normal Rancor is about 10 meters tall, trying to kick the back of one's head is an extremely difficult feat.

But since this one is much larger, about 20 meters tall(He's dire, give him a break), covered in spines and armored plates, a kick isn't going to do anything at all except make the person's foot hurt.


Fluffy feels someone tapping against the back of his head, and assuming that it wasn't his handlers washing him (really, he liked them. Just because he's a "wild monster" doesn't mean he's brute. He enjoys long walks on the beach...), he rolls over.

Lets hope Ark doesn't get stuck underneath him.

[XtheYeti]

(I guess Ark jumped?....lol)

GAH!

Ark Leaps out from under Fluffy, and rolls to his feet, loosing the invisability. And runs about 20 steps. Then turns back and begins chanting a waving his hands around.

[UncleWolf]

Fluffy rolls back onto his arms and legs and growls at the chanting. He's fought wizards before and thinks them to be cheaters. Not that many wizards actually accomplished much against him of course. He lunges forward at Ark, easily crossing those 20 paces and attempts to backhand him before he finishes the spell.

Maybe he's quick enough, maybe not.

[XtheYeti]

He's just a bit too slow. Ark finishes his spell and suddenly there are 14 of him to choose from. They all leap backwards and land another 20 paces back.

All righty then. now...how do I actually hurt you?

[UncleWolf]

Fluffy gives a sound of rolling thunder, which Ark may realize as laughter before it spins quickly, letting his long tail swipe at the multiple images.

There is money changing hands in the crowd, betting not on who was going to live, but on how long Ark was going to last.

[XtheYeti]

Ark's got 8 images left. They all start making hand motions again.

The bigger they are. The harder they fall.

A tiny dart shoots from the palm of each Ark at Fluffy's eyes.

[happyturtle]

Acacia is in the crowd with a MASSIVE tub of very greasy popcorn.

"GOOOO FLUFFY! KICK HIS ASS!!!!!" she yells.

What? She has a fondness for beasts and dislikes magic. You didn't think she'd root for Ark, did you?

[Gnrlshrimp]

Ba'al, without his armour for once, is also watching the fight, with an amused grin on his face. "Go on, ya big brute! Squash the little bugger!" Yes, Ba'al is also rooting for Fluffy. Big thing looks kinda cute to him...it'd probably make a good pet!

[iElf]

Yamako is crouching hidden in the shadows, assembling a sniper rifle.she turns the smartgun zoom setting on her contact lenses on, in case the fight goes the way her contractors don't want it to go
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Din plotclone is in the audience wondering how she got there "be careful ark!"

[UncleWolf]

Yeah, sure, Pet.

Fluffy ducks his head, none of the darts hitting his eyes, and most of them bouncing off his hide, but one does find a soft spot and barely sticks in. Lowering his shoulder, he charges, trying to ram his massive bulk at the others.

Furball sits next to Acacia, tearing into a roasted leg of venison as he cheers with her.

[XtheYeti]

The Ark images stand their ground And hold out a single hand. And when fluffy gets to the image it will ram into the real Ark. But his hand should be able to stop Fluffy dead in it's tracks. And Ark should be immobile.

Magic has to be good for something eh beasty?

[Falgorn]

"COME ON YA BIG BEASTY! SMASH 'EM UP NICE AN' GOOD!" The Ork yells, from somewhere in the stands, also rooting for Fluffy.

[Darkcomet]

There seems to be an off-duty squad of Imperial soldiers in the stands as well, though these guys seem to be bickering amongst themselves about the fight.

[iElf]

Yamako takes aim, ready to blow the head off the opponent her contractor told her to get rid of

[UncleWolf]

Is the spell able to stop a multi-ton beast from knocking a mage off his feet?

If so, then Fluffy will simply breathes in deep, ready to unleash another cloud of acid.

[XtheYeti]

Is the spell able to stop a multi-ton beast from knocking a mage off his feet?

If so, then Fluffy will simply breathes in deep, ready to unleash another cloud of acid.

Yes. (I'm not going to have Ark start hurling giant appoco-blasts around, I want him to go toe to toe with Fluffy in regular combat, so he's using his magic to enhance himself instead of OMGGODKILLERBLASTINGS!)

As Fluffy takes his deep breath Ark tries to toss a big bag of pepper into his mouth. (it's an open bag)

[happyturtle]

Yes. (I'm not going to have Ark start hurling giant appoco-blasts around, I want him to go toe to toe with Fluffy in regular combat, so he's using his magic to enhance himself instead of OMGGODKILLERBLASTINGS!)

Yay! says Happy, ooc.

"BOOOOOOO!!!!!" yells Acacia, IC "That bastard's using magic! He's cheating!" she grumbles at Furball.

[Gnrlshrimp]

"Heheh...magic is cheating? I don't remember seeing that rule anywhere." Ba'al chuckles quietly, finding Acacia's protests rather amusing. "He'd be nothing but a red stain on the floor by now if he wasn't using magic..."

[Darkcomet]

One of the off-duty Imperials glances over at where Yamako is and looks confused for a moment before turning to one of his squadmates. "Hey, did you see something over there?" He points at the hiding place.

Not going to outright say she's spotted yet, of course. That'd be rather mean of me. <.<