The Tournament: Redux

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

For the record you can PM and prod me if ya need me to post.

The catcus jumped into the arena from his stance, he was ready for this fight. He armed himself with his blaster and prepared himself.

 

[Lore]

Meg, still unaffected by unwanted magic, saw the time warp from Bed coming, but sensing the Bed's benevolent intent, she let it wash over here.

Nanoseconds later, everything and everyone returned to the present time. Only Meg and perhaps the pirate remembered anything, and shocked expressions on their faces showed how harrowing the experience was.

Meg, for her part slowly came out of her shocked state, but she still shook all over.

 

[#HBC | Ryker]

OoC: Time is science. : / And when paradoxical time pocket divergences are involved, even time voyagers are left out of the loop.

 

[Lore]

OOC: I meant the blast that caused the wave then the blast that changed memories. That part was magical in origin.

Of course, I may have misread all of that. I read that as everyone going off to fight the evil, something happens, then everyone warps back with wiped memories due to Bed's influence. If it's just a different time branch, then lemme know, haha.

 

[#HBC | Ryker]

OoC: You need to check stuff. Magic was used to amplify the science of time crystals taxing them past their limits to create a temporal distortion resulting in a paradox space continuity.

 

[Lore]

OOC: Oh, well, crap. Hold on, will use the power of coffee to solve it.

 

[DtJ S2n]

Comfort Man blinked for a second, then looked back up to see the coffee now nearing it's target, which had apparently not been there before. Yes, this coffee would destroy his opponent in one clean blow, he was sure of it. Comfort Man laughed.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Cacti readied himself for the man who seemed very comfortable, he prepared his blaster arm to fire at Comfort man. It wouldn't kill, but it would sure hurt if it hit him.

He charged his cactus blaster and fired it right at the Comfortable Man.

 

[DtJ S2n]

Comfort Man gasped. This cactus could move! And not only that, but he seemed entirely ignorant to the hot coffee which should approximately be right in front of his face at this point. That coffee was awfully slow moving. It was then he saw the CACTUS BLASTER being shot right at him. Quick on his feet, Comfort Man turned to run away.

The world began to rise from beneath his feet. Comfort Man had just relocated the world to move from under his feet to beneath his back. Or rather, he had just slipped on a stray ice cube and landed flat on his ***. Upon tripping, Comfort Man lost his grip on his cold beer from his other hand, which also began to fly towards Cactus. This is exactly what he wanted. The coffee would set him up to get hit right in the face by the beer, which would drench his fighting spirit! Comfort Man watched intently from his new found position.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Catcus was suprised by this kind of trip.

Confortman avoided his shot, and seemed to have a flying beer sent right at him. He needed his distance, he jumped to the side slightly sliding on the ground, he aimed his blaster at the beer. This would be a harder shot with him flying in the air, but one he needed to take.

With his Cactus Blaster he fired a shot off at the flying beer.

 

[DtJ Glyphmoney]

RR re-read what sold said

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

I amended the above post.

 

[DtJ S2n]

Comfort Man's mouth hung agape as the cactus jumped. How agile! Comfort Man rolled over and began to get up. This was no time to be rolling around in dirt.

MEANWHILE in the perspective of the beer. Beer was flying at approximately 20 miles per hour, everything is going good. All systems are in perfect condition. Closing in on target. And suddenly... a counter attack! Beer immediately need to take evasive actions. Adrenaline pumped through his veins as he swerved hard to the right. Sweat, or perhaps condensation, rolled down the ridges of his body. He wasn't going to make it. Realizing his timely death, Beer began to despair. He had lived a good life, but this was the end of the road for him.

"Goodbye world... tell my life I loved her."

Beer braced for impact as he approached the shot. Darkness. Goodbye, Beer.

Comfort Man finished getting up and non-chalantly brushed the dirt off of himself.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

He saw the shot go for the beer, then looked at Comfort man.

Cactus was wondering, "who was this guy?" Such an awkward style and seemingly goofy attitude. Cactus was agile with his magic armor, good to help him keep distance. He needed it too stay that way, keep the advantage he had over the other guy. That is what mattered, as he thought in his head.

He changed weapons, Laser Attack to Air Tornado. Now his blaster would shoot a high powered wind cyclone.

As he said it in his head, "Air Tornado!" he pointed it at Comfort man and fired the burst of wind at him.

 

[DtJ S2n]

It seemed this Cactus was trying to test Comfort Man's knowledge of air currents. What would a Cactus know about being comfortable? Comfort Man would teach this rookie a thing or two about air circulation. The temperature around Comfort Man began to fluctuate before settling on a mild 70 degrees. The temperature spread swiftly across the field.

"Cyclones rely entirely on a difference of pressure, which is closely related to temperature, to exist. With the temperature stabilized like this, you're just blowing a fan at me."

And by all logic, he was right. The cyclone would dissipate to a strong but harmless wind. Comfort Man IS a genius when it comes to this kind of thing, you know. Comfort Man began to run at this Cactus Man to close the distance.

"This will be a breeze for me."

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Cactus kept blowing, but, it seemed that the Comfortable Man was enjoying the attack? How could this be? It seemed the air current was changing from his weapon. He stopped for a moment and thought, "Maybe my weapon isn't strong enough? Maybe I should charge it?"

He raised his arm again at Comfort Man, this time he held it to charge the weapon up again. This time he thought it would work

"Air Tornado!"

The Cyclone came out much much stronger than before, would it work?

 

[DtJ S2n]

This cactus was more persistent than any cactus Comfortman had ever seen before. Did this cactus not understand the physics of cyclones? Did he not go to high school?

"You foo-WAA"

And at that moment, the massive wind from the Cactus's cannon had just met Comfort Man. In specific, it was getting caught in his blanket that he was carrying on his back, almost cape like. The wind pulled at his cape, causing Comfort Man to fall backwards. But this is exactly what he wanted, because Comfort Man was a scientist. The physics here was a little fuzzy but what eventually came of it was that Comfort Man's momentum was all carried into a freaking beautiful drop kick while his cape gave him some awesome lift.

This was the legendary Comfort Missile.

 

[#HBC | Ryker]

"Ahoy, it seems that maybe I was wrong about which of these blokes was nothing but hot air."

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Cactus was caught off guard, "What the heck is that?!"

A kick from out of nowhere was coming right at him, was he a wind elemental or a magician? Even with a body of part metal, the kick landed right ontop of him smashing the Cactus into the ground. The force was huge, he felt it, and his energy levels went down a bit.

He was still moving but, what kind of man was he dealing with?!

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Terywj watched intently. Things were going to be very interesting after all.

 

[DtJ S2n]

He heard the clanking and clinking of the Cactus's body, if only for a moment. Holy balls, that Cactus was made of metal! He took note of his opponent's metal body, and made a mental note to search the internet for occurrences of metal cacti.

And then his mind returned to the matter on hand. Comfort Man was once again on his back. This seemed to be a favorite position of his. The Cactus was nearby and must still be re-cooperating from his vicious attack. Comfort Man swelled with pride for a moment. He was sure that scene would appear on a calender somewhere. And then he prepared himself for his follow-up.

Comfort Man lifted his back off the ground with his arms backwards, and lifted his legs with... well his legs. He scuttled at the cactus, lashing out kicks at random! This was the legendary Comfort Crab Stance!

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Cactus watched as he approach and came with kicks, he could flee, but at the same time he could pull a trick out the comfortable man might not have known. Right now he was a bare cactus, but with his magitech armor he could bring out his needles.

He curled up and extended his bodies needles to hopefully poke and hurt comfortman when he kicked the cactus.

 

[DtJ S2n]

Comfort Man continued his rampaging crab attack. There was no escape, and there would be no survivors. His spinning leg machine came right at the Cactus! The needles pierced through his shoes, and pricked his skin for a period of time not even Tealbeard would be sure how to measure before bending to his Comfort willpower.

Kick after kick, Comfort Man continued the assault until he ran out of breathe. Which was not too long, it is an awfully energy consuming attack. In the heat of the moment, Comfort Man hadn't noticed his shoes being ripped apart. In fact, at this moment he wasn't even wearing shoes, only ragged scraps of leather on each foot. It struck Comfort Man like a punch to the jaw.

Comfort Man was disheartened. Comfort shoes... He wept deeply. He shook as he got up and walked towards the stands. He did not raise his head the whole time. Tears rolled down his cheeks. He did not waste time, he immediately slugged his way up the stairs and found a corner. He did not look back. He did not care for the mortals in the stadium, nor his new friends, nor the cactus.

Comfort Man was a man who had just lost his shoes. It was a time for despair, and despair he did.

 

[Lore]

Ooc: Kudos on handling Comfort's invincibility, Sold. ^_^

 

[Evil Eye]

Drall watched this "Comfort Man" from the shadows. Could this really be the strength of the man who'd nearly killed him not an hour earlier? He wondered what the deal was with this tiny, weeping man. He'd assumed the man to be a bounty hunter, or a very eccentric Blip. Now, he was beginning to think the man was just mentally unstable and in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Still, Drall grinned as the quilted man sobbed. This apparent and unforeseeable misery was payback enough.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Cactus got up after feeling the pain from the kicks, even though he used needles it still hurt him to be kicked.

When he looked up, slowly getting up he noticed the Comfortable Man was in the corner, what happened? Why did he suddenly stop an go over to the corner, and even then, apparently he couldn't see any injuries on him. Who was this man? How could he do something like this an not be bothered so much by anything he sent at him? He needed a new plan. Three weapons didn't harm him at all so he needed to rethink why.

The Cactus laser just didn't hit him, so maybe he could try it again.

The Air Tornado was useless, he seemed to have control over the air itself so using it on him would either result in him sending it right back at him in the form of an attack or neutralizing it.

The needle body was something that didn't seem to harm him, so what could he do?

He thought of an idea, maybe immobilization. If he could stop him from moving he could force a possible surrender if he had no method to win with. But at the same time that would be difficult and he wasn't sure if all his weapons were worthless. So option one, try other weapons, or option 2, immobilization.

He concluded since he had no weapons on him that could effectively do it, he would go for option one.

He grabbed his sombrero after he retracted his needles, time for some Cactus power!

But, he hesitated. It seemed Comfortman was emotionally not well, maybe he should wait. He didn't want to hit a not mentally well opponent. So he waited to see what he would do.

 

[DtJ S2n]

ooc: obv I forfeited.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Judging by Comfort Man's emotional state, the staff decided to step in. "Cactus is the winner! Next match up: Meg Kasrani vs. Khanz Whittmore!" People in the audience applauded and cheered for both participants of the first match as they left the arena.

OOC: I forgot the healing situations / lack of in terms of what everyone wanted. Fully restored? None at all?

 

[#HBC | Ryker]

OoC: NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Evil Eye]

OOC: I think more people wanted healing prior to loser bracket. So I guess Comfort Man gets some new kicks or something? Also, you should probably PM Werekill and... whoever was Khanz. So we don't have a repeat of Sold and RR's glacially paced fight.

 

[DtJ S2n]

OoC: Emotional reconcile would be nice. Don't make me get over this alone. Also make people get no healing so that I have the easiest freaking losers bracket ever. In all seriousness I don't care one way or another since it applies minimally to me.

 

[Lore]

OOC: Yeah, in character post coming soon, busy tonight, lol.

 

[Asdioh]

Spencer has been prodded.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

OoC: Sorry I was busy for the most part with the time of my posts.

Cactus Walked over to Comfortman, he was displeased that it resulted in a forfeit. He did want to win, but he felt like he did something really wrong here. And he needed to fix this. He retracted his spikes, and offered to help Comfortman up.

He couldn't talk so he hoped Comfortman would understand he felt sorry about...whatever it was he did wrong.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

OOC: Time to send out some prods.

 

[Lore]

Hey, I think I found a replacement for the guy I'm facing since he hasn't shown up yet. Tery, want me to tell the guy to make a character?

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Hey, I think I found a replacement for the guy I'm facing since he hasn't shown up yet. Tery, want me to tell the guy to make a character?

Might as well.

 

[Lore]

I decided that the replacement guy wouldn't be too good since he's brand new to RP's. Want to just make this a win for Meg and move on?

 

[Evil Eye]

uhhhh. No?

How would that solve the problem when we have a double elimination bracket, meaning we'd just push a nonexistent slot back and have them disrupt the game yet again later on? Seems pretty obvious to me we should just find a replacement for you to fight.

 

[Lore]

Ugh, ok, I'll talk to the guy. I forgot it was double elim.