The Adventurer's Battle (Round One: Room 1-0A)

Whilst the others found themselves jammed into Room 1-0A, Princess Midgardsormr appeared on the stage at the head of Room 1-OA. The room was dimly lit and filled with unfamiliar people seated around tables. They were all dressed for a fancy occasion, the guys in tuxedos and top hats and the girls in sparkling evening dresses with their hair up. It was lucky for Mid that she just so happened to be wearing one of her fanciest black evening dresses when she had been snatched up for this battle. Hung all around the room were fancy dark red and black curtains with the logo of an Eagle emblazoned upon them.

For a moment Mid thought that the crowd was staring at her, expecting her to do something and she struggled to think precisely what that was. Luckily she quickly realized she had appeared in front of the host’s podium and stepped out of the way. The host was a tiny red imp who actually had to stand on a stool to peer over the podium.

he said.

Suddenly one of the curtains around the room went up to reveal a beach scene with a group of women holding spiked metal balls. There was a witch in grey robes holding a red balloon, a girl with long black hair wearing some fashionable clothes and pouting, a female police officer who looked perpetually angry, a black and white woman with curly hair and a cardigan, and a woman with pale green skin and a disturbing tentacled face.

An announcement echoed across the crowd. “And the nominations for Best Playable Female are: The Witch from Magpies, Ataya… I mean Atasha from Sparkklechix, Sergeant Fiona Twombly from You Are Sgt. Twombly, Eva Braun from Mein Kampf and Kgth’goth from Fanglesblath!” There was a slight pause before the voice returned sounding slightly confused. “…And Princess Midgardsormr from Midgardsormr Visits Hades?” There was a confused muttering from the crowd and Midgardsormr herself raised an eyebrow as her name was read out.

She opted to just go with it, and made her way on over to the dodgeball stage. The announcer announced the rules, something he was more confident about. It was more or less just an ordinary game of dodgeball, but with a little more incentive to dodge the balls. As the game began, a train burst through the wall and through the group before crashing off through another wall. In the chaos it seemed that The Witch had vanished, and also that Midgardsormr had used the opportunity to score hits on her opponents who now lay bleeding on the ground.

“And the winner of Best Playable Female is… Princess Midgardsormr I guess…?” The Announcer announced. Midgardsormr held her trophy aloft and grinned.