Epic Clash - COMPLETE!

Originally posted on MSPA by Wojjan.

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Well, I don't want to say can't, though it's not what we had in mind here. I had pictured them with their flesh and bones and other living stuff being replaced entirely by wax, not coated in it, with the clothes and weapons and such still real. Like in a wax museum, where the bodies are wax but they're wearing real clothes. However, it was never stated explicitly, so the coating-in-wax interpretation is still a valid one. I want to encourage creative interpretations of things that still fit with the information given here. We aren't in control.

oops. I think I had a wrong idea in mind here. Still happy it's not that game-breaking.

The problem with having living people under the wax is that it would sort of nullify the intended effect of putting them in the game - namely, that it's lethal. The idea is that the contestants have to accept the fact that someone is going to die within the hour regardless of what they do, so they might as well make sure it's not them. That's not the main problem, though. It could be explained away - the chosen living contestants are returned to life for the duration of the game, and returned to death at its conclusion. The main problem I have with that particular post was that Wojjan seemed to be referring not to one of the statues, but to the rules-spouting automaton. The one that formed from wax dripping from a stalactite, and the one that Bryce blew up before she could finish. Both of those traits would contradict the notion of a living body underneath the wax.

I apparently completely missed the point Bryce blew it up. Adjusting likewise.

It's also a huge coincidence that, out of the infinite universes of the multiverse and the near-infinite planets in those universes, that Bryce and Miles happened to pick one not only containing a creature that Asteira has heard of, but an arena that creature had a hand in creating. Highly improbable, though not really impossible, so it's not a game-breaking problem.

Asteira knows her mythology. Other than that, a wizard did it.

That, and the fact that Michelle is standing atop the clock (presumably the one mounted on top of the giant dome that encompasses the whole arena, and thus not something one can stand atop without leaving) make me want to say that Wojjan's last post shouldn't be considered canon. Either Wojjan needs to edit it or someone needs to make a post that somehow accounts for the discrepancies.

Not a main problem, change clock to wall and you're settled.
Is it fixed now?