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Hihohe posted:Armok is the god of blood and conflict. Excellent work! We now have a new image to introduce the first post. Also, I'll host this image if you don't mind (since imgur images seem to have a half-life of just four or five years, and I'd like to keep using this if you don't mind) If anyone else would like to contribute artwork, I'll put it on the first page too! Post #4 is reserved for any and all fanart.
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 Round 2, Fight somethingLineup for A Tarantino Film (Home Team) Uma Thurman is a female Human fighter managed by AnoHito. Sword, and a hosed up face are her weapons. Seriously, she looks weird, right? It's not just me? Urist McLee is a male Dwarf fighter managed by Fuubi. Layered in copper and barely containing fists of fury. Snarls Barkley is a female Werewolf fighter managed by Bene Elim. Bronze pike, oak shield, no armor. Solomon Rabinowitz is a male Serpent Man fighter managed by Added Space. Steel armor, tank. Lineup for Worker Cooperative Combat Liberalism is a female Gremlin fighter managed by Jack the Lad. Copper dagger, skillz. Unthrottle the Axolotl is a female Kobold fighter managed by Zwingley. Copper Scourge, no armor. Jameson the Unruly is a male Human fighter managed by alvie. Huge iron sword, copper armor. Albrik the Insignificant is a male Kobold fighter managed by Tiler Kiwi. Iron battleaxe, very minimal armor.   Combat Liberalism lands the first blow by cutting deep into Uma Thurman's arm. The movie star shrugs off the blow and hacks off the tiny gremlin's left leg at the thigh.  Despite missing a leg, Combat Liberalism reaches up and thrusts his dagger into Uma's chest. Her heart is torn in two! Most people would die, but Uma just passes out instead.  Jameson the Unruly slams his sword into the snakeman Solomon's chest, but is unable to penetrate armor. It manages to bruise the snake's lungs though. Snarls Barkley sends Jameson the Unruly to the floor with a well-placed pike stab to the foot in retaliation. Albrik the Insignificant avenges his teammate by chopping off the werewolf's right arm. Snarls Barkley drops the pike! A second hack puts his axe into the werewolfs chest.  Urist McLee finally manages to connect with the prone Jameson and bruises his guts. Jameson vomits uncontrollably. Albrik the Insignificant is bored of hacking at the downed werewolf, so he hacks Urist McLee's arm deeply. Blood shoots across the floor as an artery is severed. At this time Solomon finally comes back in to the fray and sinks his teeth into the punching bag that used to be Jameson. Before Jameson becomes paralyzed he slashes Snarls Barkley's leg.  Albrik is anything but insignificant in this fight. He chops off Urist McLee's left foot with another swing. Solomon the snake shakes Jameson around by the head, the paralyzed human throws up on himself and passes out from the pain. Combat Liberalism cannot get his dagger through Uma Thurman's skull and he bleeds out before he can finish the job. Urist McLee loses a hand to Albrik the Insignificant. Uma Thurman bleeds to death moments later.  Snarls and Urist are struck down with two slashes of Albrik the Insignificant's axe.  Right about now I forgot the snakeman Solomon was still alive. I wrote all this up and was like "where is the 4th dead person?" So 30 minutes after I 'finished' the fight I have to unpause it and run the rest. Ugh. Hang on, redoing the gamelog.txt.... Okay, I'm back! So it's Solomon against an unconscious Jameson and two deadly kobolds: Albrik and Unthrottle. Solomon darts back and forth between the two, but is unable to get ahold of either of the small kobolds. Unthrottle lashes the snakeman over and over, Albrik smashes his head over and over... but the steel armor proves impenetrable.  And then... Albrik slams his axe into the snakemans throat but the steel shirt deflects it. He winds up and sends his axe into Solomons stomach, and snake-guts spill across the floor.  45 minutes later Solomon bleeds to death. Winners: Worker Cooperative Kills: Combat Liberalism: 1 Albrik: 3 Combat Log
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Oct 30, 2015 15:48
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Good work, Kobold companions!
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Oct 30, 2015 16:28
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Yep, expected winner. I don't know why people thought A Tarantino Film would win, just because they're bigger and home team? Worker Cooperative made a very strong showing first round despite losing. A Tarantino Film did not, and they even went against Team Laser Explosion, who are worse than The Plump Helmets. edit: If anyone wants some amount of free money before round 3, Go big and/or go home will win against Lightly Whipped. Emmideer fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Oct 30, 2015 |
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Oct 30, 2015 16:30
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jon joe posted:Yep, expected winner. I don't know why people thought A Tarantino Film would win, just because they're bigger and home team? Worker Cooperative made a very strong showing first round despite losing. A Tarantino Film did not, and they even went against Team Laser Explosion, who are worse than The Plump Helmets.
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Oct 30, 2015 16:35
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jon joe posted:Yep, expected winner. I don't know why people thought A Tarantino Film would win, just because they're bigger and home team? Worker Cooperative made a very strong showing first round despite losing. A Tarantino Film did not, and they even went against Team Laser Explosion, who are worse than The Plump Helmets. I'm not even sure what I was thinking betting on A Tarantino Film in retrospect, yes. (Also, literally the only people who bet on Plump Helmets last fight were members of Plump Helmets  )
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Oct 30, 2015 17:10
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jon joe posted:Yep, expected winner. I don't know why people thought A Tarantino Film would win, just because they're bigger and home team? Worker Cooperative made a very strong showing first round despite losing. A Tarantino Film did not, and they even went against Team Laser Explosion, who are worse than The Plump Helmets. People are probably betting on Bene Elim
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Oct 30, 2015 17:14
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Bene Elim's fighter is not bad, Uma's player gambled by going for early steel and so far the gamble hasn't paid off, Solomon is the weak start of a very good build, but is also a gamble, since he needs teammates who can cover for him, and the dwarf is... Yeah... Sorry about being slow with the promised weapons post, something came up IRL a few days ago which delayed me a bit, I'll probably make it fairly soon.
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Oct 30, 2015 17:21
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Splode posted:People are probably betting on Bene Elim Probably that.
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Oct 30, 2015 17:28
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Don't think, just bet.
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Oct 30, 2015 17:29
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goatface posted:Don't think, just bet.
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Oct 30, 2015 18:52
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jon joe posted:Go big and/or go home will win against Lightly Whipped. drat straight. We're already dead.
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Oct 30, 2015 19:34
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 It is more like the idea of fan art than actual fan art. It is pretty bad is what I am saying.
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Oct 31, 2015 02:00
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Round Two, Fight Eight  To the left, Go big and/or go home can't go home because they're already home: Snowshank Redemption (A good poster) the yeti has iron mail and a copper dagger. Tyler Durden is Hobbes (Iunnrais) the tigerman has a leather gi and nothing else. 3 Wolf Moon Shirt (iLonie) the werewolf has an iron sword and leather armor. Slam Whale Willy (potatomanjack) the werewolf has mace and buckler On the right, the themed team Lightly Whipped! Ghost-trees (Ghostwoods) is a molemarian with silver whip, buckler, and leather armor. Trump's Viscous Discharge (goatface) is a minotaur who has dropped her whip since last fight. Grimmik (FillInTheBlank) is a gremlin with a steel helmet and an iron whip. Jupis Tooki McGannel (GreyPowerVan) is a strangler with a shield and a silver whip.  Trump rushes way out in front, and gets herself stabbed in the hand for her trouble, courtesy of Moon Shirt. Grimmik is sent flying by Willy's silver mace. Redemption's dagger smashes the bone of Ghost-trees's hand, making the mole drop his whip. Moon Shirt tries to follow up, but his blow is a glancing one. The flying Grimmik bounces off the ground, his helmet the only thing keeping his brains from literally smearing the ground.  The mole comes apart further; Redemption cuts a foot off. Moon Shirt stabs Trump again, repeatedly. Willy smashes in one of Jupis's hands. This, uh, is all going one way, folks. Lightly Whipped have yet to make a single telling blow.  Moon Shirt stabs Trump one last time, shredding the brain. One down.  Oh, hey, there's Ghost-trees's foot again. Anyway, Willy keeps beating on Jupis. The strangler falls over.  Lightly Whipped are in retreat. In the south, Willy caves in Jupis's brain. Up north, the molemarian is seriously hurt but still roughly functional save for his loss of weapon, while Grimmik is busy still utterly freaking out. These turn out to be roughly comparable strategies. Redemption removes Ghost-trees's shield arm, and Hobbes punches Grimmik in the guts, then stumbles into Redemption and falls over. Smooth, Hobbes. A bite from Redemption knocks over Ghost-trees, who is rapidly running out of limbs. Moon Shirt chopping another foot off doesn't help things. The werewolf stabs Ghost-trees in heart and brain both, and the molemarian is put down. Can Grimmik manage a come-from-behind victory and defeat all four of the big guys?  Probably not. Moon Shirt deals the killing blow as the gremlin bleeds out. That was not a fight. That was an execution.  That was all the injuries Go big and/or go home sustained. Final Score Go big and/or go home: 4 Lightly Whipped: 0 Kills 3 Wolf Moon Shirt: 3 Slam Whale Willy: 1 Combat Log ZeeToo fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Oct 31, 2015 |
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Oct 31, 2015 02:38
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Slaughtered.
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Oct 31, 2015 02:48
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1) Are we voting now on whether or not to remove Home Team Advantage? 2) Guaranteed winners this round: The Plump Helmets, Subterranean Animists. If you bet against them, you're throwing your money away.
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Oct 31, 2015 03:07
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jon joe posted:1) Are we voting now on whether or not to remove Home Team Advantage? Jazzimus Prime posted:It's still only a sample size of 14, but the home team has won at a 78% clip. That's not as bad as it was, but I was expecting the percentage to be in the 60s going into this, and I didn't have a chance to run enough tests to verify.
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Oct 31, 2015 03:24
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Ah, thanks!
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Is it the two best teams from each division that advance to the playoffs, like last time iirc, or is it determined some other way?
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Oct 31, 2015 03:57
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Ramc posted:Is it the two best teams from each division that advance to the playoffs, like last time iirc, or is it determined some other way? Matches are pre-determined. http://arenachallenge.com/dwarffort/view_schedule.php?9 Next rounds are all planned.
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Oct 31, 2015 04:04
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jon joe posted:Matches are pre-determined. http://arenachallenge.com/dwarffort/view_schedule.php?9 Ah, investing points in your "completely missing the point" skill, I see. 
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my dad posted:Ah, investing points in your "completely missing the point" skill, I see. Yes, should have invested them in reading comprehension instead. edit: As part of my horrible reading ability I seem to have mistakenly placed a lot of money on Spooky Scary Skeletons, everyone should bet on Hell's Dentists to relieve me of my cash, certainly not so I can capture all of everyone's poor pennies. Emmideer fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Oct 31, 2015 |
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Oct 31, 2015 04:11
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ZeeToo posted:Lightly Whipped: 0 I think we're conclusively proving that whips and scourges are somewhat overpriced 
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Oct 31, 2015 12:04
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jon joe posted:2) Guaranteed winners this round: The Plump Helmets, Subterranean Animists. If you bet against them, you're throwing your money away. No you're not we're actually terrible I hear one of them isn't even a dwarf. Such scandal can only mean doom and gloom for the team.
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Oct 31, 2015 12:31
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Frozen_flame posted:No you're not we're actually terrible I hear one of them isn't even a dwarf. This whole time I've been visualizing your fighter with a crude beard taped to her mandibles. It is very convincing.
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Oct 31, 2015 14:18
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It is good that the team is so accepting of my dwarf's oddities. The extra arms are a birth mark.
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Frozen_flame posted:It is good that the team is so accepting of my dwarf's oddities. The extra arms are a birth mark. Dwants. https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?t=8298
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Oct 31, 2015 17:36
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Why am I missing so many bites? I wasn't missing this much in trials I did.
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Added Space posted:Why am I missing so many bites? I wasn't missing this much in trials I did. How much dodging skill did you give your test dummies?
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Oct 31, 2015 21:17
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Ghostwoods posted:I think we're conclusively proving that whips and scourges are somewhat overpriced We just need a montage.
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Ghostwoods posted:I think we're conclusively proving that whips and scourges are somewhat overpriced I think it might be because they cause a lot of pain and pain can be super disabling? I guess we can just wait for the Mydad weapons effort post.
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quote:Slam Whale Willy (Go big) bashes Grimmik (Lightly Whipped) in the upper body with his silver mace, bruising the muscle and bruising the liver!  A full 16 rounds of combat happened while he was airborne
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Ramc posted:I think it might be because they cause a lot of pain and pain can be super disabling? I guess we can just wait for the Mydad weapons effort post. Whips used to be overpowered, breaking bones and such.
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We'll start the third round on Monday morning, to give everyone a chance to place bets, and maybe to spend their participation points as well if they wish.Ramc posted:Is it the two best teams from each division that advance to the playoffs, like last time iirc, or is it determined some other way? This is actually a very good question, and I think I failed to address this in the OP. I was thinking that we would have a three-round, eight-team playoff. The four division champions will all qualify for the playoff. But after that, I was thinking that the four best records overall that didn't finish in first place would qualify for the remaining spots. It didn't make sense to do it this way in the past, since teams would only fight teams in their own division before this tournament. However, since every team fights every other team at least once in this tournament, it's possible that one really strong division might have two (or even three) other teams that beat up on all the other divisions and end up with a good record, and those teams shouldn't be penalized for being in a tougher division if they do well. So I think it would make sense to qualify the four teams with the best non-divisional-champion records. Actually, we should probably have a vote on it. All four division champions will qualify for the playoffs. How should the remaining four playoff spots be determined? A) The four non-divisional-champions with the best overall records B) All four second-place teams, regardless of overall record
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I don't have any stake in the tournament, but I'll vote anyway. I think A would be the most fair.
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Jazzimus Prime posted:
C) The four teams with the best K-D difference score, besides the four division champions. Team A might have more wins than Team B, but I think if Team B is consistently more lethal, they are a 'better' team in terms of consistency - victories less based on luck and more based on MURDER POWER. Plus, isn't it always good to encourage more carnage? Bonus: Because the losing team always gets 4 deaths and the winning team always gets 4 kills, the overall victors should still be privileged. edit: clarification I mean best difference between kills and deaths, not kill/death ratio. Emmideer fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Nov 1, 2015 |
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Nov 1, 2015 19:49
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B - fairness? in MY Fighting League?
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jon joe posted:C) The four teams with the best K/D score, besides the four division champions. Team A might have more wins than Team B, but I think if Team B is consistently more lethal, they are a 'better' team in terms of consistency - victories less based on luck and more based on MURDER POWER. Plus, isn't it always good to encourage more carnage? Bonus: Because the losing team always gets 4 deaths and the winning team always gets 4 kills, the overall victors should still be privileged. D) Teams composed of the individual gladiators with the highest K/D ratios.
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Tunicate posted:D) Teams composed of the individual gladiators with the highest K/D ratios. Not sure if that's a serious suggestion or not - it sounds hilarious - the only reason I have a problem with it is because it warps builds to encourage individual murder ability at the cost of team composition.
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jon joe posted:Not sure if that's a serious suggestion or not - it sounds hilarious - the only reason I have a problem with it is because it warps builds to encourage individual murder ability at the cost of team composition. We'd end up with the #1 teams facing the all-stars of the rest of the gladiators. A true test of individualism vs communism.
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