Epic Clash - COMPLETE!

Originally posted on MSPA by Babel.

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Really sorry guys, won't be able to post when I reserved. Turns out there's more going on than I thought would be tonight.

Originally posted on MSPA by Odinod.

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So many reserves. [img]images/smilies/mspa_reader.gif[/img]

I didn't know you could reserve after someone else, when there's a spot already reserved. I'll just wait until everyone's done posting, I suppose.

Originally posted on MSPA by bobthepen.

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Really, there should be a limit to the number of possible reserves. This recent chain of reserves has gotten rather confusing, especially with a three hour reserve limit. What you end up risking is that someone reserves, and forgets about it, three hours later, the next person in line isn't able to update, so the person who is ready to post has to wait 6 hours before they can go. Posts on the first round are generally pretty short, compared to the others, as people get used to how certain characters behave (the exceptions being GB2 and The Battle Majestic). For this thing to get going, the initial reserve time limit shouldn't be more than 1.5 hours, and no more than 2 reserves at a time. (It doesn't take too many posts to figure out who is going to be eliminated the first few rounds). Course, Baph, MyW, and you guys have the final say.

Originally posted on MSPA by suomynonAyletamitlU.

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I didn't know you could reserve after someone else, when there's a spot already reserved. I'll just wait until everyone's done posting, I suppose.

Frankly I don't think we SHOULD, as this incident kind of shows. Alice took several hours, at which point anyone further in the queue will have to be waited on whenever they're gotten to even if they've moved on to something else. I was waiting for her, so immediately after she updated, I jumped on it, but Babel was away.

I would suggest never having more than two reserves, preferably only one.

I was ninja'd by bobthepen, but we mostly agree anyway

Originally posted on MSPA by Alice.

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I'm sorry guys [img]images/smilies/icon_sad.gif[/img] I had school today, and a really cool lecture to go to.

It's okay, it's just that I had something I wanted to immediately reply to, so I kept checking. I think if I hadn't had that I wouldn't have minded at all.

The three hour limit is there for a reason anyway.

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I did update in three hours. I posted "RESERVED" at 4, and posted a few minutes after 7, like 7:03 ^_-

Originally posted on MSPA by suomynonAyletamitlU.

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I'm sorry guys [img]images/smilies/icon_sad.gif[/img] I had school today, and a really cool lecture to go to.

It's okay, it's just that I had something I wanted to immediately reply to, so I kept checking. I think if I hadn't had that I wouldn't have minded at all.

The three hour limit is there for a reason anyway.

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I did update in three hours. I posted "RESERVED" at 4, and posted a few minutes after 7, like 7:03 ^_-

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Trust me, I know [img]images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]

Originally posted on MSPA by Alice.

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Trust me, I know [img]images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]

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Just sayin' ^_- So, what's the verdict on Michelle? Knight, Nut or nightmare?

Originally posted on MSPA by suomynonAyletamitlU.

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Trust me, I know [img]images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]

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Just sayin' ^_- So, what's the verdict on Michelle? Knight, Nut or nightmare?

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Frankly more of a Neutral. The rest had pretty fair indications that they went one or more of those directions, but a zombie survivor? Not so much.

You could certainly GO in one of those directions, but there's no real indication that you have yet.

Originally posted on MSPA by Pinary.

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I didn't know you could reserve after someone else, when there's a spot already reserved. I'll just wait until everyone's done posting, I suppose.

Frankly I don't think we SHOULD, as this incident kind of shows. Alice took several hours, at which point anyone further in the queue will have to be waited on whenever they're gotten to even if they've moved on to something else. I was waiting for her, so immediately after she updated, I jumped on it, but Babel was away.

I would suggest never having more than two reserves, preferably only one.

I was ninja'd by bobthepen, but we mostly agree anyway

I agree- this whole chain of reserves is getting away from the point of the reserve mechanic- to prevent posts being interrupted.

I'd say keep it at one reserve at a time. That way, it does what is intended and doesn't create a long chain of waiting.

Originally posted on MSPA by Babel.

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Honestly guys when suomyon reserved a reserve I just figured that was how people played. But yeah I guess I lacked foresight for not seeing that it could have taken as long as it did.

Originally posted on MSPA by suomynonAyletamitlU.

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Honestly guys when suomyon reserved a reserve I just figured that was how people played. But yeah I guess I lacked foresight for not seeing that it could have taken as long as it did.

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It's my first time in GB too, otherwise I wouldn't have a slot, remember? Also, I thought I saw someone else doing it before me as well. I forget who now. It doesn't matter; I won't do it again.

For now, since Lighing is offline and it's been a while anyway, I say we just consider the entire reserve queue empty and all of those reserves cancelled.

Originally posted on MSPA by Alice.

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Honestly guys when suomyon reserved a reserve I just figured that was how people played. But yeah I guess I lacked foresight for not seeing that it could have taken as long as it did.

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It's my first time in GB too, otherwise I wouldn't have a slot, remember? Also, I thought I saw someone else doing it before me as well. I forget who now. It doesn't matter; I won't do it again.

For now, since Lighing is offline and it's been a while anyway, I say we just consider the entire reserve queue empty and all of those reserves cancelled.

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I agree! I apologize, again. I'm used to the other GB's where there is a 3 hour period. I apologize again for taking so long.
Let's just clear this queue!

Originally posted on MSPA by MyifanW.

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I'm going to have to suggest about a two reserve maximum. No particular reason, it just seemed to work in BR.

Also, Lighing. Your last post, with a poptart or something. It isn't canon. It may be worthwhile to delete the post.

Originally posted on MSPA by Pinary.

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I think two reserves is still too many- a reserve should only be for when someone is actually writing, and two people writing simultaneously would leave it open for contradiction. I say if someone's got a reserve, no-one else should have one. Other people can still call a reserve once the other person has posted and/or their reserve time is up, but this way, the canon hierarchy is as clear as possible.

Also, I agree- let's flush the queue.

Originally posted on MSPA by McBatman.

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...So where are exactly then? Also, is it alright if I give Glere a clearer over view of his capabilities so if someone were to try and write for him it might be a bit easier for others to do so?

Originally posted on MSPA by Pinary.

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Well, getting back to the game then...

Eric was caught off guard for a moment- that wasn't the kind of question he'd expected, not by a long shot.

He blinked, straightened up a bit, and fixed his now-brown eyes on Spender. "An admirable sentiment," said Greg. "We do not fear death- it is merely the end of life. It is, of course, undesirable, but it is not something to be feared. Merely avoided. Life is-" He broke off, staring intently at the wall. "Life is..."

He looked at the other wall as well, then back at Spender. "Some say the rocks live in this cave. That may be truer than we were led to believe- there are several beings of stone heading towards us." He turned to look behind him, and when he turned back, he saw a wall of stone directly behind Spender.

"Look behind you- we are being walled in. We need to move. Immediately." Greg blinked, and Walt started moving back the way they had come, into a relatively open area, with tunnels branching off in nine other directions, one of which was the one he had started in.

Originally posted on MSPA by Lighing.

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James heard someone or something moving on the ice, he followed the noise and found a lot of rocks. He wields his sword and slashes them to bits. "Haha that was only to sharpen my blade!" James picked up one of the rocks and started to sharpen his sword again, only this time his sword is black, nothing but black. He heard a noise come from behind him, he turned around to see some melted ice in a footstep shape, he followed them and it seemed that they weren't his. He found Thomas and Spender. He grinned and followed them unknowinly. He jumped in front of them stopping them from moving any further. "You know if you where running from the rocks they are gone. I would like to as if you guys would let me join your alliance? Or you aren't in one, just found each other and started running? If you where in an alliance I would be happy to join and behave, I promise I won't kill either of you." James stands there and awaits an answer.

Originally posted on MSPA by Odinod.

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Lots of posts! I was not expecting this to move so quickly.

I'm not getting any warmer. This place is terrible. Who the hell kind of person would live here, anyway- Mr. Nothing tripped on a rock. He caught himself, just barely, with the help of a few flaps of his wings. He looked down at where the rock should have been and didn't see anything there. This place is giving me the willies...

He continued forward, trying to ignore the faint giggles he could hear coming from every direction. When he came to a split, which was often, he always took the leftmost path. That was the best way to get out of a maze, or so he remembered. I wonder when I'll see another- He stopped. There was a distant noise; an explosion. Then, soon after that, another blast, though this one sounded closer. The fighting's already started, I see.

Nothing rested one hand on his scythe (still collapsed), and crept forward more cautiously. The others, it seemed, were more violent than he had thought. Wait.

He grew very quiet and very still. He could hear the echoes of someone walking down the cave toward his location. From the sound of it, they were big. Nothing crouched down behind one of the bigger formations of rock and ice, hoping that it would serve well enough as cover. The person was getting closer...He unhooked his weapon from his belt and prepared to extend it. It's a last resort...it's a last resort. Only if he tries to get me first, only if-...what.

It was that girl, uh...Michelle? Yeah, that sounded right. She wasn't anywhere near gigantic, she was just stomping around with her goggles on. He watched her for a moment. What could she be doing? He supposed it didn't really matter; what was important for now was collecting information, staying out of sight. He crouched down back behind the rock, hoping she wouldn't see him. That gun she was packing looked like it could do some serious damage.

Originally posted on MSPA by Lighing.

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Lots of posts! I was not expecting this to move so quickly.

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Well this is a grand battle, they are popular.

Originally posted on MSPA by Baphomet.

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I don't see any reason for more than one reserve at a time. My intent when I wrote the rule was that you could not reserve a post until the previous reservation's time limit had expired or the person posted.

Also, I had a question PMed to me about someone altering their character sheet after the game started. I'm allowing it in Wojjan's case in one instance, just to add the missing data. In any other cases, it's too late. However, if you want to establish some facts about the character that aren't on the character sheet, It's up to you to have those facts come up in a post and write it well.

Originally posted on MSPA by McBatman.

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"♫Tick-tock,tick-tock, hands continue round the clock. Keep on walking whilst I keep talking, the floor is letting me iiiiiin♫-wait, what?!"

Glere looked down at his feet as the cave floor suddenly began to give way as the old passageway collapsed beneath him. He clawed furiously at a rock jutting out of the wall, but was met with a rather harsh reality of its sudden retraction into the wall, coupled with a giddy laughter.

"I'm going doooooown, mayday! Mayday!" he whined as he fell with a thud, head first. The noise echoed disturbingly loud along the passageway.

CRASH.

He hated that noise. Lamented it, despised it, reviled it, did not like it one bit no sir no way no how. His bowl shattered into a thousand pieces on a hard rock. His headless body lay there motionless for a moment, the left leg twitching. Darkness... then a disembodied groan. He stood up, dusting off his clothes. Surprisingly, however, his cape still remained perfectly intact.


"Stupid stupid stupid! This whole passageway is stupid!"

He grumbled quietly as he rummaged around in his cloak, finally producing a... weathered skull from deep within the dark recesses of the folds of fabric. He placed it on his neck, gave it a quick twist. A disgusting popping noise filled the air as he cracked the jaw a few times.

"Like this? Or... this?" He tried making some expressions, but all of them were the same skeletal grimace. He grabbed the skull and gave it sickening SNAP, dislocating it from his neck and shoving it back into his cape. He rummaged deeper and pulled out a new fishbowl. He polished it with the edge of his cloak, before placing it on his head and spinning it around. It glimmered slightly in the dark passageway, as his familiar eyes and mouth reappeared on the glass.

"Ah, so familiar, so tantalizing, so friendly." He fiddled with its placement a few times before another sickening crack and pop filled the air, indicating it had successfully attached to his neck. Suddenly, he turned his gaze to his right. He could hear... footsteps.

Originally posted on MSPA by Wojjan.

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The plan worked. Every treaty is bound to once fall, and drag along the people with it. It was perfect. She learned that long ago.
Asteira wasn't vexed by the sudden treaty, it just applied more possibilities. With a pen and piece of paper she started writing, desperate to hide her own font in the capital letters.
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MICHELLE

SPENDER AND THOMAS HAVE FORMAD A PACT.
JAMES IS POSSIBLY IN ON IT ASWELL.
WATCH OUT, THEY ARE POWERFUL.
IT WOULD BE BEST FOR BOTH OF US IF WE AIMED TO STOP THIS POWERFUL TEAM

- GLERE

Asteira didn't care about forgery, treason, and lying, so she might as well put those three to good use, she thought. The result, this letter, was to be proud of. She quickly slips the note somewhere near the already suspicious Michelle.

Originally posted on MSPA by Dragon Fogel.

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Amusing sidenote.

When I was looking to fill the last slot in Intense Struggle, I PMed Knask. He said he was interested, but too busy at the time.

I PMed him again when this started. He just got back to me, after everything was underway. And it turns out he could have joined this one if he'd noticed earlier.

Interesting coincidence, given the setting for the first round.

Originally posted on MSPA by suomynonAyletamitlU.

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"Alliance?" Spender looked a little taken aback for a moment. Then, he smiled, a little sadly. "My dear boy, I think you grossly misunderstand."

Thomas turned to look at him, now a little suspicious, but Spender went on, a little steel in his voice.

"Alliances happen in times of war, you see. They are nations trading on each others' strengths to protect that which they hold dear. They occur because one nation cannot raise enough of an army to stand against a threat. They are used to defend what you hold dear, in the face of unconquerable storms of blood and steel."

"What you must understand" he continued, his eyes losing a little determination, "is that I am in no alliance because I am in no war. I am not a nation, with things to lose. I make no alliances because I have nothing to defend."

"That is why I will defend what anyone--everyone--else holds precious."

He stepped into the center of the corridor, making a sweeping gesture, as if to invite not only Thomas and James, but the walls themselves, and whatever beyond, to listen. His voice was less emotional, now, and more like a professional actor, full and loud. "I am a soldier! I have seen the Darkness. I have fallen into despair so deep my heart drowned, and the Light itself could not revive me. And though you may never understand it, when that same despair rose again to threaten others, it was I, who had felt its horror and knew that fear-beyond-fear, who stood against it once more."

His voice held a quavering note, as though he were particularly enraptured by his own speech; it seemed to drown out his own feelings.
Thomas saw his eyes, and he began to wonder exactly what the man was really saying.

Spender turned with a flourish to point at James. "No, James," he said, his voice still wavering with excitement, but his eyes cool, guarded. "I see in your heart a nightmare, and I will not stand in its defense. I would stand against greater evil with you, or with any, but I do not call myself your ally."

Originally posted on MSPA by Pinary.

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Minor correction: Your post seems to imply that Eric is in control, which he is not. "Walt started moving back the way they had come".

Walt stood still, watching, his face controlled and neutral.

An actor, Greg thought, This man is an actor.

A skilled one, Eric agreed. That speech was passionate, moving, and completely opaque. He appears to mean and feel what he says, but at this point, there is no way to know.

Then we have a choice- do we trust the feeling that invaded our minds, or do we assume it is part of this act?

That choice must be made later. For now, we've only got one option.

Indeed. For now, at least, we must act as well.

The interesting thing about thought is its speed- not half a second after Spender's speech ended, Walt blinked, and Eric stepped forward, not standing next to Spender, but an equal distance from him and James.

"We must agree. While we can claim no knowledge of your heart or soul, we can know your words and your actions. You claim to come as a peaceful agent, but your actions bely your true nature. You demonstrate your prowess at destruction, then offer to spare us the same fate in exchange for an alliance? That is not the act of a peaceful man. That is not a peace offering. That is a threat. You have no interest in peace, no interest in co-operation. You only care for yourself, and we will not help you advance your own selfish goals.

"That said, we are a peaceful person. If you wish there to be peace between us, then there will be peace. If, however, you attack, we will not hesitate to retaliate. It is your choice."

"Choose."