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ZeeToo posted:For things that aren't 34.01, though... Vox's original download was on megaupload; can someone who didn't start thoroughly loving with the raws without saving a fresh copy (which I did) upload a copy of the arena version? I believe this should have all of the changes made by Vox, plus the Ironhand graphics pack, and no other changes. http://arenachallenge.com/dwarffort/df_31_25_arena.zip
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Damnation, everytime I see new posts I think vox might have ran my fight. Also seconding the idea to bet on tue tike between updates
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Lesson learned, next round I'll bet a small amount on every fight rather than larger amounts on a few fights. More consistently exciting that way.
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Jazzimus Prime posted:I believe this should have all of the changes made by Vox, plus the Ironhand graphics pack, and no other changes. Thanks for covering me on this. Sorry about the wait. Yeah, my free time has been going into the new version. Tomorrow I'll run a marathon of matches to make it up to everyone!
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Vox Nihili posted:Tomorrow I'll run a marathon of matches to make it up to everyone! This is fantastic news 
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 Round Two, Match TenMatch Ten, Goobert (Greedish) vs. Hans (fluppet) Goobert, dwarf, recently got his hands on some pricy gear. He wields a massive, exquisitely-inlaid steel great axe, wears an adamantine helm, and favors expensive platinum for his breast plate. He also sports some very fashionable leather high boots. The flashy dwarf comes up against Hans the molemarian. Hans has four bronze high boots which fully protect each of his stubby legs, an iron helm, and some leather armor. His weapon of choice is a steel spear. Both warriors look fully-capable of tearing their counterpart to bits! Let's see how they fare.  The match begins! Hans gets the first strike in, perhaps due to his opponent's extremely heavy platinum breast plate. The dwarf dodges easily, and soon the two are rapidly striking, parrying, and dodging to and fro.  As Hans steps forward to attack once more, Goobert lays into the molemarian with his steel axe! He slices a deep gash into the molemarian's flank, but the beast shows no sign of even noticing the wound. Hans fights back, but the dwarf deftly avoids the strike and hacks at the molemarian's foot, inflicting a shallow wound through the bronze boot.  Hans moves to skewer the annoying dwarf, but Goobert performs an expert parry and cleaves off one of Hans' arms, wholesale! The limb flops to the ground, and as Hans momentarily pauses to reflect on his misfortune, Goobert brings down his hefty blade in a massive executioner's chop, cleaving through the flesh of the molemarian's humanoid upper back! The steel slices through leather, flesh, and spine, and Hans collapses to the ground in a heap, paralyzed and defenseless. Goobert approaches the situation as a dwarven butcher would approach a carcass, hacking deeply into the slabs of flesh before him. Moments later, Hans bleeds out entirely, and Goobert claims victory.  The blood spatter on Goobert clashes markedly with his polished, almost vain appearance.  Combat Log
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All hail Goobert the Butcher! Also a picture of him, blood soaked, in his finery would be sweet.
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Vox Nihili posted:...Moments later, Hans bleeds out entirely, and Goobert claims victory. Aw, man. 25 dorfbucks down the tubes. Way to go, Hans.
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Round Two, Match Eleven Match Eleven, Shootey McShootalot (Useless Shotgun) vs. Aeiou (clanrat) Shootey McShootalot, elf, is armed with an iron bow and arrow set and fully-clad in copper mail armor. Aeiou, a human, has a platinum battleaxe, oak shield, silver helm and leggings, steel breast plate, and leather gauntlets and high boots. Why the platinum and silver, you ask? Who knows, as they certainly aren't effective metals for what Aeious is using them as! Even if the human makes it to close range, he may have trouble harming the copper armored elf.  The match begins! Shootey looses his first arrow, grazing Aeious across the leg! The human axeman continues to advance.  Shootey's next arrow flies just wide, giving Aeiou the chance he needs to get in close! Soon the gladiator is upon Shootey, but the elf dodges nimbly and manages to fire another arrow at close range- only to see Seiou leap cleanly out of its path!  Now Aeiou pins down his opponent with a relentless flurry of blows, but sadly, each strike simply deflects off of the elf's cheap armor! The platinum axe is neither sharp enough nor heavy enough to inflict significant harm. Shootey weathers dozens of blows with only a few bruises to show for it, though he is even more inept at dealing close-quarters harm than his opponent! He has trouble loading his arrows in the melee, and only gets off a couple shots- one of which is blocked, and the other only causes a tiny wound through Aeiou's sturdy steel breast plate.  The battle, as it is, drags on. Aeiou blocks the next arrow launched his way and continues to chip away at his opponent, but Shootey calmly accepts the fruitless onslaught. Finally, after much effort, Aeiou succeeds in smashing one of the elf's hands after knocking him to the ground, but only after pounding at it with his own fists rather than using his axe. Shootey loses his hold on his bow, leaving him with arrows alone to fight with. The elf finally gets back to his feet, but is now harried by terrible pain emanating from his shattered hand. He attempts a final, desperate charge, hoping to impale Aeiou upon one of his arrows, but succeeds only in tumbling to the ground with his human foe. Shootey gets up, staggers, and collapses, unconscious, only to recover a mere moment later.  The bizarre struggle rolls northward, and for minutes on end Aeiou charges, kicks, slaps, and generally harries the now-helpless elf. But though Aeiou has no real way to defend himself, his copper armor turns his opponent's blade time after time. Finally, in a bizarre turnabout, Shootey manages to stab his opponent through the hand with one of his arrows, and Aeiou drops his almost-useless platinum axe! I'm not sure who will actually benefit from this development, because now Aeiou will be forced to use somewhat less-useless attacks. The slap-fight continues, now with much biting and scratching, each competitor forced to use their off-hand in battle. Aeiou is in pain and rapidly tiring, but Shootey is even less effective in close quarters generally, though he seems to have recovered from his earlier, painful wound. Eventually, pitifully, Aeiou is arrow-stabbed in his wounded hand again, then passes out as the elf gouges his other hand. Shootey finishes the job by jabbing an arrow through his disabled opponent's skull, claiming victory, though certainly no honor. This is a fight that will probably be excluded from the annals of Arena history.  Combat Log Vox Nihili fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Feb 22, 2012 |
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Ha! Another student of the gently caress Rogers School of Armor Selection.
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Round Two, Match Twelve Match Twelve, Betty (A good poster) vs. Theseus Cheetahman (Roonespism) Betty the yeti is equipped with a silver war hammer, iron breast plate, iron gauntlets, and iron high boots. Theseus Cheetahman, tigerman, has an iron two-handed sword, oak shield, copper helm, copper mail, and steel greaves. Apparently Theseus is very afraid of being hit in the leg. Betty's armor is of the perfect level to defeat her opponent's weapon, but the coverage leaves something to be desired.  The match begins! Both gladiators rush forward, Theseus noticeably quicker than his opponent. He strikes first, but the yeti escapes the attack without difficulty.  Theseus steps forward to strike once more, but Betty immediately seizes the opportunity to barrel into her opponent, knocking Theseus to the ground and leaving him badly stunned, though otherwise unharmed. Betty bashes the tigerman's shield hand, crippling it in one stroke, then obliterates his unarmored ankle with another. Theseus is beset by excruciating pain, unable to stand, and unable to hold his shield.  The wounded tigerman waves his sword at Betty, causing her to momentarily step back. But now Theseus's tank is empty, and he surrenders to unconsciousness. Betty steps forward and pops the tigerman's skull like a ripe melon, and the fight is over!  Combat Log
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Congrats to A good poster for some efficient hammering. That's all for now, if I get off work at a reasonable hour I may run a few more tonight.
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Man, that's a hell of a difference from lazily bonking that kobold in round 1.
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Aeiou, goddammit.  I needed to win that one for my funds.
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Wow...that was some win. All according to plan? Anyway nice job Vox doing quite a few, but I did notice a few errors in yours. In pargraphs 3 and 4 you use the wrong names. I really wasn't expecting that win.
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Useless Shotgun posted:Wow...that was some win. All according to plan? Thanks, and if you see any more mistakes in the future, go ahead and quote that part of the passage so I can't easily correct them. Needless to say, I did not get off work at a reasonable hour. Not at all. I'll run a couple in the morning instead, though!
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Vox Nihili posted:Match Eight, Barrelbum (FebrezeNinja) vs. Army of Four (Bad Munki) I guess I shouldn't have been that worried about this one. I wasn't expecting the copper weapon to still be useful. In any case, 
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Pladdicus posted:Do bets pay out post fight or post tournament round? Bets pay out post tournament round.
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FebrezeNinja posted:I guess I shouldn't have been that worried about this one. I wasn't expecting the copper weapon to still be useful. In any case, Ehhhhhhhh, I hope you choke on it!
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Sweet. I bet 300 each on Shootey and Betty, making a cool 525 dorfbucks. I'm not really sure if I should be proud of my winnings from Shootey's victory, though  A win's a win, I suppose. At least it was entertaining.
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In a slightly belated fete for the loss of all this tournament's kobolds, and with Vox's permission, it's time for Kobold Krusher! Kobold Krusher is a brief side arena dedicated to everyone's favorite losingest race: the kobold. If you've ever wanted to give them a whirl, but were too worried about your chances, now's your time to shine! We're looking for probably sixteen entrants. You must make a Kobold. Standard tournament rules apply: two kobolds enter, only one advances to the next round, and the other is eliminated. However, the one to advance is the one who loses. To prevent this from being a match of unskilled wrestlers, we're going to have some tighter controls on what you create to make sure we still get some interesting fights, and hopefully make the game more about (un)optimizing. So, here's the rules: - You're making a kobold, with second-round point totals: 3000. You must spend at least 90% of them, or 2700. - Your kobold must be armed, and with more than a buckler. - You must spend at least 1000 points on your equipment. - You cannot take skills you aren't using--no dropping all your points into crossbows or something. - One of your highest-leveled skills must be a weapon skill, so no weaseling your way into incompetence by not knowing how to fight. That is, if you have a skill (say, Dodging) at 6, you must be at rank 6 with a weapon you're holding. - Important note for bowmen: your ammo count is equal to your bow skill, to a minimum of 3. So if you have bow rank 1, you only bring three arrows. Rank 10 and you'll bring ten. - No wooden weaponry, but only wooden shields - No adamantine bashing weapons - No platinum armor. We're not working this through the Arena site; either PM me or shoot an E-mail to my gmail account, SAZeeToo. So how bad a kobold can you field?
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Excellent! Sent you an email.
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I look forward to the terrible crossbow beatings fiesta. Totally in for this. E: Sent via email. Orv fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Feb 26, 2012 |
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Sent my chap via PM, whoop whoop!
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Kobold PMed.
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You guys better look out, I spent all of my points, none of this stopping-at-2700 business!
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Bad Munki posted:You guys better look out, I spent all of my points, none of this stopping-at-2700 business! As did I. Don't want it to be too easy, do we?
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I wonder how many of us will share the same build. But basically, this: Orv posted:terrible crossbow beatings fiesta
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Bad Munki posted:I wonder how many of us will share the same build. That, or using edged weapons made of silver.
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Alright. Let's do this. Time for another Bowbold! EDIT: And sent. Alright, The Formerly Deceased Reborn Undead Krying Phoenix Zombie, the Victim of the Random Number God, don't fail me now. Krysmphoenix fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Feb 26, 2012 |
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I hit in at 2805 points. I've probably still hosed myself into a win. V V Oh well.E: V - Theories like triple-layered copper mail, I assume. Orv fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Feb 26, 2012 |
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I consulted with gently caress Rogers' armorologist and he has some very exciting new theories he's been working on, we'll see how they pan out here.
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Another one spending 3000 points here. I really hope this ends up being as hilarious as it sounds.
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My dude is in. With my luck at these things I will actually win this time in some sort of reverse slade-mace Yeti-Brawl tomfoolerly where we find out that an edged silver weapon is actually the most deadly kind of all.
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Ramc posted:My dude is in. With my luck at these things I will actually win this time in some sort of reverse slade-mace Yeti-Brawl tomfoolerly where we find out that an edged silver weapon is actually the most deadly kind of all. Were-kobolds!
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My Kobold is descended from a long line of Kobold nobility and as such is blinged out in a full suit of platinum. He will be an indestructible rock. I'm shooting for death by stavation. edit: quote:- No platinum armor. Well, I'm super dumb, back to the drawing board. Edit2: Due to hard economic times, Sir Wally the Walleyed has had to sell off his platinum armor for a more practical set of bronze. Anchors fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Feb 26, 2012 |
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