Team: Round 1 - Match 1: EC v Guardian

[LordPsycho]

*Both groups from the Guardians and the Evil Council enter the arena facing each other. They march until they are feet away from each other, then stop, waiting for the Judges to speak*

DP: LADIES AND GENTLEMAN, I GIVE YOU THE FIRST MATCH OF THE COVETED TEAM TOURNAMENT: THE EVIL COUNCIL VERSUS THE GUARDIANS. UNDER THE SPECIAL RULES OF THE TEAM TOURNAMENT, ALL JUDGES WILL BE RESIDING OVER THE MATCH, AND THE WINNER WILL BE SELECTED FORM THE SUM OF THE JUDGES OPINION. ALL 8 COMPETITORS WILL BE IN THE FIELD DURING THE ENTIRETY OF THE MATCH, AND THE POSTING AND TIME LIMITS HAVE BEEN DOUBLED. NOW IF YOU WILL SHAKE HANDS WITH YOUR OPPONENT, THEN PROCEED TO OPPOSITE CORNERS OF THE FIELD.

*The Guardians and the EC (begrudgedly) shake hands, then proceed to opposite corners*

FOR THE FIRST MATCH OF THE TEAM TOURNAMENT, I HAVE SELECTED THE SUBURBAN ENVIROMENT!

*Identical looking houses pop up everywhere on the field, as streets push up from the ground in twisting and confusing patterns. Android pop up, supposedly representing the average suburban population, complete with mechanical dogs and ice cream men. Cars rain down precisely from the ceiling...and then silence*

IF BOTH TEAMS ARE READY.......LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED!

[GBE]

((I'm posting first then? Oh dear....... Good luck to everyone, may the Gaurdians win ))

Jho'Lhak, after shaking hands, steps into the Gaurdians corner, looking at his teammates. Knowing full well that this was not a mere game, he knew tactics would be the most important. Tapping his ear, "Ensure all of you have your ear pieces, they will be useful."

Again, looking at the terrain, he'd seen not identical, but partially similar civilisations. "Sekhmet, this may be your element, try to keep moving. Goron, use all of the shadows that you can. Is there a possibility of you firing from one shadow to another. If not, keep moving."

Turning to Whiteoak, "We should provide them with protect spells, and prepare offensive spells. If we get into bother, we all must come to a signal, you will know it when you see it. We will converge our energies. I have several reserve tactical points that will be of use in an emergency."

Gesturing towards the arena, "Be careful, and remain fully aware. This will not be an easy fight. If you are unsure of anything, speak now. Otherwise, let us win this...."

All the while he was talking, his aura was getting used to the arena and the situation. He was gaining a feeling for it. He would soon be in his element....

[Shine]

Whiteoak nods, acknowleging the instructions from Jho'Lhak and procedes to bring up and strengthen both his "Harmony and Balance" field and his "Full Protection and Integrated Response" field. He makes sure his handheld device is operating and, after clipping it by chain to his belt and returning it to his pocket, centers the weight of his staff, making sure the control panel is under his fingers, ready for action. He then scans the area, both visibly and mentally, looking for signs of his opponents. There is a strong feeling of evil in the air, but then, this is suburbia...

[Goron40]

Goron nodded. This element was perfect for him. He turned his full attention to the arena. His visibility was limited, due to the vast amount of houses in his way. A mechanical dog wandered by, followed by a "human".

"DP's really outdone himself this time eh?" Goron said to his comrades without taking his eyes off the arena.

His attention on all movement, every motion of the androids caused Goron's heart to skip a beat. An android opened a door and Goron's eyes snapped to it.

~Calm yourself Goron, it's just an android.~

"Have you got anything that'll be helpful to us Jho'Lhak?" Goron said, his voice shaking with a combination of nervousness and excitment.

[Shadowveil]

Sekhmet sniffed the air and scanned the arena, her cool green eyes taking in everything. Her ears twitched as she listened for any sound of their opponents. Though she appeared calm, her mind was buzzing as the sights and sounds of suburbia brought back her urban combat training. Yes… there is much to my advantage here. The winding streets and rows of houses should provide plenty of cover.

She is slightly annoyed to see that the pedestrians are robotic. Well, that takes the fun out of it. Real civilians are much more useful. A few growls from the shadows, a half-seen predatory shape, and they panic like chickens. Ah, well. She would have to make do with what was available.

Hearing Goron’s question, she turns to Jho’Lhak. "Our opponentss will be likely be well armed. Anything that could help uss would be much appreciated."

[Netdroid9]

((Alright team, time to kick some ass! I've always wanted to say that .))

*As Net entered the arena, he felt a strange feeling, as though a fire inside him had been quenched with a bucket of ice. He'd only felt this feeling once before, and he'd almost died shortly after.*

...I thought the gods weren't allowed to strip immortals of their power, 'Du-Pay'...

*He surveyed the area, weighing up it's various advantages and disadvantages before pulling a large, experimental looking weapon out of his backpack.*

Rightio, suburbia. Very nice arena. Perhaps even incredibly nice.

*Net raises the device to his eye (presumable, as his face is obscured by his cloak). A flick of his finger, and all hell breaks loose. A white... Wall of destruction emerges from the weapon, leaving a mile-long crater where there used to be a central business district. He then pulled a metal bar out of his cloak and stabbed it into the ground, shuddering as the remnants of the blast were pulled down to earth.*

Come on out, the water's fine!

((The RPers involved in this tournament should be able to do what they like to the arena IMO, no matter how destructive .

The weapon used here, known as the Electron Accelerator, draws in electrons (the basic partcle of electricity) and fires towards an opponent them in an extremely concentratrated beam via a negativly charged electromagnetic field.

Now, this may seem awesome, but it's not. It's main purpose is to demolish large areas of building, as the electrons spread out over an incredibly wide area and disscipate before it can reach an opponent. A metal beam must be placed in the affected area after firing to draw out excess electrons.

Theoretically, the Electron Accelerator could be used in conjunction with a rail-gun or other projectile weapon to 'electrify' the ammunition and enhance it's offensive properties. However, such claims have yet to be verified and could result in disfavorable results.

Note to The Guardians: Don't complain about this weapon being too powerful. As noted before, it discipates to quickly to be effective over long distances. You won't hear the weapon, but you might be able to see it depending on your location and field of view.))

[Goron40]

((If it dissipates over long distances, how'd you manage to make a mile wide crater without incinerateing your entire team?

And what business district? This is a suburb, not a city. That means residential.))

[Netdroid9]

((Mile-wide? It's called exageration .

Replace 'Central Business District' with 'some place located roughly in the center of the arena', if you're going to be nit-picky about it. My PhDs in Geography are all mail-order ones I got from sending in corn-flakes barcodes .

My team weren't incinerated because... Umm... Rubber suits? Well, you pointed out the flaw in my plan. Although it's safe to say that the EC would've figured out some way to influence the direction of the blast, otherwise Net wouldn't have the guts to use it .

This all seems to be a bit nit-picky to me, so lets stop this OOC talk and get on with the RP! Little less conversation, little more action, as Elvis once said .))

[LordPsycho]

((Enough OOC talk....I want to see competition!))

[3kul]

((My turn then ))

HollowEyes had made sure to put as much distance between himself and Net the moment the match had started (as they'd planned), and for the past few minutes he'd been talking about nothing in particular to a hot dog salesdroid. Their debate about whether a single cloud quantifies a day to be cloudy or not was cut short when Net's wave of devestation was suddenly unleashed upon the quiet suburban arena.

Within minutes, every android in the vicinity began to run about in terror once they realised what had happened, fearing for their lives ((or the android equivalent of life)). This pleased HollowEyes greatly, as not only did it mean that Net's move had gone as planned, but he'd also gotten a free meal. He wasn't a huge fan of cooked meat, but you can't go winning a tournament on an empty stomach, so he finished up the last mouthful of his meal and brushed the remaining crumbs off of himself. Now it was now his turn.

He slapped a Locust Fiend charm to the ground, hoping that his team mates had remembered the Fiendish that he'd taught them. A small energy burst escaped from the charm as Locust Fiends began to swarm out of the charm, and they quickly filled up the suburban street that he was in. However, these creatures seemed slightly different to his usual Fiends. They were much quieter than usual, managing to restrict themselves to hushed shrieks and clicks to communicate, and they actually stayed put - in short, these Fiends actually knew what they were doing. He was glad that the Locust spirit had stuck to his word on giving him some capable Fiends this time around, rather than the usual rabble that he was given.

He shrieked out a couple of orders, and the Fiends buzzed off in a hurry, all splitting up and flying off in different directions through the streets. They made sure to keep low whilst they flew through the streets, as they'd been instructed, so as not to attract too much attention. To any onlookers, the Fiends would obviously come as a surprise, but they were clearly preoccupied with their current orders, and wouldn't just randomly attack anyone.

"And just for good measure..." He tapped a Charm of the Reflective Waters onto one of the storm grates on the side of the road and torrents of water began to flow up out of them and spill into the street. The water swirled into a large orb before splitting up into dozens of identical copies of HollowEyes - there was almost no telling the difference between these copies and the real thing, so they'd be perfect for the job HollowEyes had in mind for them.

The copies bounded out into the streets, being much more careless about their movements than the Locust Fiends had been, and only moved about as individuals. Some took to the rooftops for a little while as they began to spread out around the suburbian area that hadn't been wiped out, looking to see if they could find anybody.

[Shaon]

Paranesia was on the rooftops surrounding the center destruction of the surburbia, keeping watch for any of their enemies, keeping light on her feet.

She was keeping in mental contact with her fellow teammates, as she was elected to keep all the items on hand. Any mental request, even an idea, would be responded to within seconds.

Looking off on another rooftop. Someone climbed onto it.

Holloweyes?

No, Holloweyes was still on the ground.

A clone.

The Holloweyes clone quite suddenly morphed into a decent replica of Paranesia, and just as suddenly leaped off the building, speeding off into a random direction.

[Shine]

Whiteoak had not ventured far into the arena, moving carefully, and trying to sense the arrival of their opponents.

He was startled by the bright flash and was equally surprised at the dissapearance of many of the builldings in the center of the arena area, leaving a wide empty space surrounded by a ring of buildings and suburbia.

In the distance down a street, there seemed to be a haze slowly moving in his direction, but his attention was drawn to the appearance of Holloweyes behind the haze. Except it was not Holloweyes, he'd fought the parasitian before, had even taken a sample of Little Sisters "hair" . He new the mental signiture of his opponenet and he knew the spiritual resonance of his species, He could sense that he was about, but that which he was seeing was not Holoweyes.

Then he saw another, sort of across the street and emerging from between houses.

He sent a blast of magic fire at the first one, and immediately repeated the attack on the second one as well
(the first blast should have passed quite close to the advancing haze)

He used the communicators to alert his comrads."In case you hadn't noticed, they're here. and it looks like Holloweyes is using his clones. Keep sharp.)

[Shaon]

On the rooftop patrol, the vixen noticed several blasts in a nearby alley.

Landing on a store, she had just caught Shine's communication between the other Guardians.

~HollowEyes. The Guardians are aware of your clones.~

The morphed clone changed direction, now heading straight towards Whiteoak as the original Paranesia hopped onto another roof, continuing her survellience.

[3kul]

The first water clone burst in a hiss of boiling water, alerting the second to the attack. It almost managed to dodge the fire blast, but wasn't quite quick enough and met the same fate as the first clone.

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HollowEyes smiled a little - it was slightly quicker than he'd anticipated, but this was exactly what he'd been hoping for. The quickness also helped him to guess who might've spotted the clones, although that didn't really matter now. ~Thanks for the heads up Shaon...~ He pondered for a moment, then continued. ~There should be another three water clones near you, use them to help keep the Guardians guessing.~

HollowEyes then ran forward into the building across the street from where he was, shutting the door quietly behind him. One important thing that he'd learnt from the movements of the water clones and the Locust Fiends as well as Shaon's position was that at least one of the Guardians was obviously on the streets, and not currently focusing on the rooftops ((where Shaon was)) or the houses. This meant that the safest route of travel was therefore by avoiding the streets.

He quickly made his way through this house and hopped over the fence, making his way into the neighbouring house. More often than once he came across a small group of Locust Fiends moving things around as he travelled like this, but the only thing he had time to squawk at them was <hurry up!> before he moved on.

After he reached the end of this row of houses, he peered over the fence to see where exactly he was in relation to the rest of the arena. 'Almost there... Good' he thought to himself. He'd need to wait here a little bit before moving out once more, so he checked his surroundings to make sure that this place was safe. The presense of a pool in this backyard was a lucky bonus, since it would be sure to help him if he needed to escape, as were several other things.

[Shaon]

The fox grinned. ~I will.~


Two clones quite suddenly became water again, reforming into something other than they originally were: One became an exact replica of Netdroid9, the other of Raven. The goddess took extra care in editing these clones, making sure that instead of having the mark of her, she forged a demonic resonance for Raven, and a weakened version of her own resonance for Net.

The morphed clones met up with a third clone, and began to head towards Whiteoak.