(ROUND II: ROUND IX) The Grand Battling Ram

Oh yeah nah like I definitely love the end result and the overall product, I just cannot bring myself to actually read 80% of it.

My teenage earnestness is like staring into a fucked up mirror, a person that's unnerving to attempt to reconcile with me, now, despite the physical evidence.

It's cool and I'm glad it exists as a meta-concept as well as y'know, the actual story we worked on, but I've got some major feels about it maaaaaaan

Three PMs left before the STUNNING CONCLUSION to this shitshow!

REALLY schazer

are there REALLY

how can you expect us to trust you now

If I PM you three times can I single handedly save GrandSheep?

urgh, shit, i'll tackle this tonight/tomorrow, sorry for being stupid and bad

I do appreciate how thematically appropriate it is that this final round is getting so long in the tooth

the ride never ends!

I want to get off Schaz's Wild Ride

I want to get off Schaz's Wild Ride

I am so glad that even though I'm not around like I used to be, I can count on someone making the salacious wagglebrows punchlines I would have.

Sanzh is the hero we deserve

I'm tallying up the points and resisting the urge to add snarky comments everywhere! Please hold.

if i ran a sheep there would be Director Commentary attached bc im definitely very funny

Hereeeeeee we go

16: Which player character death was the most pathetic?

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Quantos "My life's work shoved down the throat of a centipede" Xodarap (3): Agent, Sanzh, Slorange
James "poptart" Raven (2): Fogel, Pinary

Poorly-attended funerals:
D. "horrific soul legion" orukomets: Laser
Samuel "deriding Shotgun" Therion: NTA
Larus "salad eats you" Mutabilis: Ix
Kracht: Solaris
Arnold "it's nbd he'll spring back" Scarlet: Gatr
Gepetto "incidental pyramid lasers" Mori: Akumu

17: Which deathpost was the most satisfying?

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Kracht's, in which we are introduced to the whorlsome nature of time, paradoxical-fittingly just in time to see it off (5): Fogel, Solaris, Laser, Sanzh, Slorange

Ace tastes:
Aeon Ferrous', in which the rare and intoxicating drug of a battle well ended was first tasted: Pinary
Ziirphael's, in which Ix can take solace in not being the only one who answered in this fashion: Ix
The Ovoid's, in which Slipsicle gets his swansong and we unfuck the timeline a little bit at least: Akumu
Arkal's, in which we reach heaven by shattering all ceilings with a hammer: NTA
Ashley+Ashley's, in which Agent joins Ix in gloriously giving no fucks: Agent
Cailean, AMP, and Gaurinn's, in which we compressed the plot and it somehow worked as decompression: Gatr

18: Who is your OTP?

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Vyrm'n/Maxwell (3): Fogel, NTA, Laser
Syvex/Tamerlane (2): Solaris, Sanzh

OneTPs:
Jen/Kath: Slorange
Vyrm'n/Gestalt: Akumu
Syvex/Eureka: Gatr
Tom and Clarice Brodeburg: Pinary
Quantos/Quantos: Agent
Adelaide/Alice: Ix

19: What is the most common secondary weapon/ability for a sword-wielding character?

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Magic (3): Akumu, Fogel, Slorange
Beard-having (2): Ix, Pinary

Character design 101:
Crippling self-esteem: Agent
Elemental Powers: Gatr
Fire magic: NTA
Another sword: Laser
Time Travel: Sanzh
Fire: Solaris

20: As a Grand Battle host, what's the most important attribute for a character profile to be battle-worthy?

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Cool/Interesting concept (2): Akumu, Ix
Potential for Character development (2): Fogel, Sanzh

Witholding Judgement:
Nepotism: Agent
"Powers": Gatr
Balanced: Laser
Potential for interaction: NTA
Username: Pinary
Personality: Slorange
Not Boring: Solaris

21: Name one incident where time travel made things more "fun".

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Kracht (3): Akumu, Solaris, Laser
R5R6 (3): Fogel, NTA, Pinary
The Kestalvian Rainforest (2): Sanzh, Slorange

No: Agent
Quantos: Ix
Everything in GBS2: Gatr

22: Who would win Season 1 All-Stars?

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Vyrm'n/the entity who survived to the end of GBII (6): Agent, Gar, NTA, Sanzh, Pinary, Slorange
Eximo Pulvis (5): Akumu, Fogel, Ix, Solaris, Laser

23: Who would win Season 2 All-Stars?

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Jennifer Tull (5): Akumu, Solaris, NTA, Laser, Slorange
Annaliese Nibbs (2): Fogel, Ix

Rogues' Gallery:
Xadrez: Sanzh
Sirius: Agent
Photographer: Pinary
Cole Aran: Gatr

24: Who would win Season 3 All-Stars?

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Saint Scofflaw (3): Ix, Solaris, Sanzh
Etiyr (2): NTA, Pinary

Challengers to the throne:
Jetsam: Fogel
TinTen and Huebert: Laser
Cedric (+Godbeard): Slorange
The Brodeburgs: Akumu
Convolution: Gatr
Not me: Agent

Aaaaaand with, that, the final points are:

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Agent: 52
Akumu: 58
Dragon Fogel: 64
Garuru/Gatr: 45
Ix: 53
NTA: 59
Pinary: 60
Robust Laser: 61
Sanzh: 68
Slorange: 72
Solaris: 65

The winner is SleepingOrange!!!!

more bronze for the bronze god

Wielding the khopeshes of Narcissism and Nostalgia, I am the Pharaoh of Awful Nerds. Gaze in envy at my underlined reign.

ngl I kinda lost it at Pins's answer for 20.

I really had a lot of fun with this, and it's neat to see everyone's opinions/metagaming. I really ought to write something.

i did horribly wow

Thank you everyone for playing! I realise the subject matter meant the game naturally favoured a particular circle of people, but part of the fun honestly was seeing what kind of answers were sent in. In true Grand Battle fashion, the points really don't matter.

It's weird, because I had sort of conceived this thread as a tasteful sending-off of battles, but if it makes people want to write (I've sure got shit that I still want to finish up) that's pretty solid too!

I have an OQ post to get done first and foremost though lmao

Congrats Slorange! You really crushed it.

I truly did stop giving a fuck after a certain point and tried to put Quantos in every question

Guys what if I did a Gram Season 2? Would people be in again? I have a handful of questions already in mind.

shitttt yeah

Yes yes yes

Two people isn't enough for a full on game of sheep but I'm enthusiastic so I'll throw out the first round of questions anyway and if you want in you've just got to PM me your answers. Even if you haven't been playing so far there's room for you in Season 2.

DISCLAIMER: I'm pretty awful at game balance and I'm totally expecting some Aces questions, but it's like the taking part that's the fun part etc etc.

Format's the same as last time: five rounds of questions focused around a specific aspect of battles. The first round is the atrociously named Battles Round.

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1. Username:
2. Which battle is least likely to ever come to a conclusion?
3. Which battle has the best overall cast of battlers?
4. Suggest a name for a new battle.
5. What is your favourite ongoing battle?

We certainly have enough people to play a game of Sheep but the more the merrier etc. That said gonna have to call a deadline: a day, two days? idk. I'm too much of a pushover to enforce a hard deadline, just, if you want in PM me and try and have some answers soonish please.