Kholdstare
Nightmare Weaver
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OBJECTIVE
Fevers, colds, chicken pox… those all came and went without a problem. However, when Pika Flu came along… let’s just say neither you nor your medicine cabinet were prepared…
The city where you live was suddenly overcome by a mysterious sickness called Pika Flu, and when anyone catches Pika Flu, they instantly find themselves permanently transformed into a Pikachu. In order to win this game, you need to be the last human standing. In addition, you get to laugh at the twenty-two people who are now looking up at you from four feet below as yellow, fuzzy Pikachus.
If you become a Pikachu, you must have the following avatar and change your Smash Character icon to Pikachu to remind you and everyone else you are a Pikachu!
The insanity of this game is where the fun really is.
HOW IT WORKS
At the beginning of the game, everyone gets a number. Then, every day a randomized roll will be made to see who becomes a Pikachu due to Pika Flu. If your number is rolled, congratulations! You’re now a Pikachu! That’s not a good thing if you’re trying to win though.
What makes it even more exciting is that the daily roll isn’t the only way you can become a Pikachu. Slow Action Pika Flu, which contestants can use against each other, works the same way. Once a person is infected with Slow Action Pika Flu, they have only three days (exactly 72 hours from when it was contracted) to get a Gold Elixir or Blessed Cure to remove the effect and remain human. If you don’t get either before the time limit is up, those red cheeks, yellow fur, thunderbolt tail, and shiny black eyes should be a clear indication of what happened.
Meanwhile, to protect yourself against the randomized roll, there are items such as Immunities and Guards that offer protection from it. However, remember that they won’t permanently protect you, their effects wear off and you need a constant income of protection if you want to make it to the end. Also, despite the effect of items, the randomized roll will keep going until someone becomes a Pikachu.
CHALLENGES
To get your hands on protective items (or weapons to turn others into Pikachus!), you need to participate and win challenges, which are based on trivia questions that can come from any subject. As for Blessed Cure challenges, these are 100% Pokémon related questions. That will be your only hint. Also, the more powerful an item is, the harder its questions will be.
There are two ways to submit answers to these trivia questions. The first and best way is to VM them to me. The second way is to post them in this thread. Whoever submits the right answers first out of both methods gets the item. Remember to answer fully also, as people can lose out on items for forgetting to put details in their answers, or only answer one part of the question. Also, if you submit answers and at least one of them is wrong, I’m only going to tell you your answers are not 100% right. I won’t say which ones, you need to find that out on your own.
In the rare case of two people getting the challenge correct at the exact same time, there will be a sudden death challenge for the two participants. Only then will you post your answer instead of VMing it. That way, whoever posts the right answers first wins.
Challenges will be offered in a series (which means you’ll sometimes have multiple challenges at once). When two challenges appear, you may only submit answers for one. Please, please, please, don’t submit answers for both challenges, because I won’t be able to take them and you’ll only find yourself missing out on both. You will need to select one of the challenges to go for and submit answers for it. If you win that challenge and you get the item, you will need to ignore the other challenge and let other people go for it. This is done so that several people have better chances to get an item, rather than allowing one person to nab them all. But, say you submitted answers for Challenge 1 and someone else got it before you did, you can still try your luck at Challenge 2, and vice-versa.
IMMUNITIES
Immunities last for a short while, but they give you infinite protection against Pikachu rolls for the time they last. Your number could be rolled a million times, if you have an active Immunity for the day, you’ll be fine. However, once that Immunity’s time is up, it’s gone, and you’ll have to get a new one to continue the effect. Also, I’ll label the days the Immunity will be active. “ACTIVE IMMUNITY” means you possess an Immunity that will still protect against future Pikachu rolls. “EXPIRED IMMUNITY” means you had the Immunity for today’s Pikachu roll, but it’s been used up and it won’t be there tomorrow. Also, toward the end of the game, Immunities become more powerful and valuable than they were in the beginning.
Also, it is possible to extend an already existing Immunity by earning another one.
Weak Immunity – Weak Immunities protect for one day. Considering there are 24 people in the beginning, these will be next to useless toward the beginning of the game. However, when the numbers start thinning out, expect to see more of them.
Strong Immunity – Strong Immunities protect for two days. Other than that, they behave like a normal Immunity.
Mega Immunity – Mega Immunities protect for three days. Some will be offered in the beginning, but later on, they will stop appearing.
GUARDS
Guards have no time limit like Immunities and last with you until you need them. However, they only work once per Guard. If you have a guard and your number is rolled, you will be protected for that one shot. They will save you from becoming a Pikachu as long as you have them with you. It is also possible to have multiple guards at once.
Power Guard – The Power Guard will protect you from one Pikachu roll. However, if your number is rolled, the Power Guard is used up, and the roll takes place again.
Avenger Guard – The Avenger Guard will protect you from one Pikachu roll. However, if the Avenger Guard is used, it becomes an Immunity for the day and triggers a second Pikachu roll! Just note, these will only be offered in the beginning. Toward the endgame, I will stop having challenges for them.
If you happen to have Immunities and Guards at the same time, the hierarchy of what goes first if and when your number is rolled goes like this:
Immunities > Avenger Guards > Power Guards
Which means your Immunities will protect Guards, but if you have no Immunities, your Avenger Guards will be used first before your Power Guards are. Power Guards are pretty much your last stand before becoming a Pikachu.
WEAPONS
These are all fun devices to use against other contestants. If you’re trying to win, why not take a few of them out to make it easier for you?
Spear of Revenge - Whoever wins the Spear of Revenge gets to select three people who they think would make really great Pikachus. After they’ve been selected, the next Pikachu roll occurs only between those three people, while everyone else gets to watch the pleasure. However, if any of these three victims have Guards or Immunities, they are still counted. This can be used to your advantage though if you’re clever with who you pick.
Make sure you’re the one using the Spear of Revenge, not one of the people that are going to become a cute, fuzzy, yellow, electric mouse.
Also, the Spear of Revenge can not be held, it must be used instantly.
Slow Action Pika Flu Syringe – Getting this allows you to give another player Slow Action Pika Flu. Give it to a friend, or an enemy! They’ll become a cute Pikachu if they don’t a Gold Elixir or Blessed Cure in three days time. Also, it must be used instantly, and can not be held to be used later.
The Grudge Hammer – The Grudge Hammer allows you to target another contestant, and put two more numbers on them, greatly jacking up their chances of one of those numbers being rolled by the randomized Pikachu Roll. So say if they were #10 on the list, they’re now #10, #11, and #12, and any one of those three numbers being rolled will count against them! But hey, the greater chances of someone else’s number being rolled, the lesser chance your number is rolled.
The Challenge Trap – This is a mean, mean trick you can use on people that just seem to be winning too many challenges. If you get the Challenge Trap, you can use it at any time you like, but once there are only three people remaining, it will disappear. This is definitely one of those things that can’t be taken into the endgame. When you want to use your Challenge Trap, you will silently and quietly create your own challenge with your own created questions and answers, and then secretly PM it to me. When Challenge time comes around, your challenge will be up there and look like a very authentic one, but anyone who goes for it and submits the answers… will find themselves becoming a Pikachu instead. This works better if you make questions similar to mine, rather than doing something totally different.
Immunity will be your only protection against someone else’s Challenge Trap, whereas Challenge Traps kill guards and turn you straight into a Pikachu. If you submit correct answers via PM to a Challenge that’s actually a trap, but you have immunity on, you’ll get a message from me that the challenge is a fake (but it leaves the trap open to spring on someone else). However, if you post your answers in the thread itself, Immunity won’t matter, since if I give any warning or do anything to the post, it will give the trap away.
Also, DO NOT alert other people to the trap if you have Immunity on you and you got the fake challenge warning. If you give it away, everyone will thank you for volunteering to set the trap on yourself. You’ll become the Pikachu instead.
So if you have Immunity and challenges are up, use PMs. Otherwise, you’ll be one very silly Pikachu when the trap goes off.
Pika Flu Weapons of Mass Destruction - Pika Flu Weapons of Mass Destruction is the ultimate item for the insane, the psychotic, and those that want a little more attention. Its also for those people that love Pikachu almost as much as I do, or just joined to get the Pikachu avatar, and felt like taking out a few people with them.
When you get Pika Flu Weapons of Mass Destruction because people overestimated your sanity levels, you set off a massive detonation and launch an enormous mushroom cloud of Pika Flu into the air. Because you’re at ground zero, you instantly become a Pikachu. Congratulations! But, that’s not all! You also get to choose two other people to become Pikachus with you, as a little extra company. If they’re wearing guards or immunities, it doesn’t matter from the overwhelming, MASSIVE exposure to Pika Flu. And if that wasn’t enough, two other people in addition to that get Slow Action Pika Flu! Cool, eh?
Also, you can’t get it to keep it away from other people. It’s also used instantly.
CURES
Okay, so you don’t want to be a Pikachu after all…
But you weren’t able to help it, or some mean or nasty psychotic person hit you with Slow Action Pika Flu and you’d like to get rid of it before you find yourself having to use your hands to climb a staircase. These are how you get cured!
The Blessed Cure – This is undoubtedly the best item in the game, and it’s the only way to get back into the game after becoming a Pikachu. If you win the Blessed Cure, you become human again, and you can get back into the game. Or, if you have Slow Action Pika Flu on you, this will get rid of it just in time.
Also, Blessed Cure Challenges only have Pokémon-related questions. That’s the only hint you’ll get. Also, you can’t participate in a Blessed Cure Challenge unless you’re a Pikachu or have Slow Action Pika Flu on you.
Gold Elixir – If some nasty person hit you with a Slow Action Pika Flu Syringe or a totally insane psychopath used Pika Flu WOMD and tagged you with Slow Action Pika Flu, this will help bail you out in time. Don’t wait too long to get it, or you will become a Pikachu. Also, only people who have Slow Action Pika Flu can participate in Gold Elixir challenges.
CLOSING
WARNING: If you become a Pikachu and you take off your Pikachu avatar, that’s considered forfeiting from the game and you will be unable to come back (Again, it’s a part of the game!) Just keep them on and wait for Blessed Cure challenges. They’ll come!
And lastly, if you win this massive PSG round, you’ll receive a free download of any Virtual Console game less than 2000 Wii Points. Also, you’ll get to laugh at the twenty-two Pikachus that this crazy game threw into action. Now who wouldn’t want that?
So, ready to gamble your humanity for one heck of a prize? Let’s do it!