The Grand Tournament (OOC - Closed - Signup)

[Harthar]

This is an idea I had just the other day and I’ve been thinking about it whilst doing up bios for other threads. What this entails is basically a tourney. So its a person challenging another person to a bout of armed combat, to the death (You can’t challenge your own characters). Set in a Medievil Fantasy type genre (which means no guns and the such). Everyone gets two characters which will fight in different battles against different people each time. The winner is the character left alive. All battles will be one on one except when only two characters are left and then those two will fight the Defending Champs in a tag team round. The winners of this, then fight against each other.

Now, this is based on trust and set in a Free Form Role Play style. There are no Auto-hits, no Auto-dodging and DEFINITELY NO god moding. I’ll be approving characters before they are even given the go to fight when it’s their turn. So this basically means that if your character is in position that allows for him or her to dodge an attack, taking into account their weaknesses and strengths, they will be able to dodge the attack. The success of that dodge is also up to you. You have complete control over your characters.

Gabriel will be helping me look into your fights and determine whether you are staying true to your character bios and info, if not we will post in your fight to tell you what does actually happen to your characters.

We do not want to have to do this but we have seen many a person doing things that their characters are just not able to do, as well as shrugging off attacks that should have crippled, maimed or killed the character. If a fight runs for too long then when we think it is an appropriate time one of us will jump in and pronounce it a draw and both contestants will move on the second round. This is why we are allowing two winners, so that if the second round takes too long for the last two combatants to die, they can both be winners.

There are three Threads for this. The OOC (this one), The Brackets, were there is general role playing of mingling, drinking and challenging, and then the Arena where only fighting takes place. One fight at a time, so at the most only three people will be posting in there. Gabriel or Myself and the two combatants. No one else.

Histories for Characters are not necessary, but they do add a little depth to the characters and can give some credibility to actions during the fight that a mod might not have realized when not looking at the history. But basically its up to you guys whether you put one or not.

Inactivity is automatic disqualification and death by Champion. Either Jon or Avanthar will kill those who are inactive, and this will be done in the Fight.

Here are two characters, the first is a defending Champ, and the second will be the contestant. The first fight will be the Defending Champions fighting each other, and then the real Tourney will begin. This means there is ample time for people to get their character sheets ready and changed if need be, as well as giving us a lot of detail about your characters. The more detail, the less likely it is for us to pull you up if you stick to it, but also if you infringe upon it we will pull you up. Do not be general about your characters abilities, because then my name and Gabriel’s will be a constant in your fighting thread.

Name: Avanthar Dra`Aran (Shadow Dra`Demon)
Age: 34 (actual age is 134, but he possess the prize of the tournament which extends life span.)
Race: Shadow Dracon (with the ability to shape shift) Currently in Elven Form
Alignment: Neutral
Weight: 174 lbs
Height: 6’3”
Eyes: Amber
Hair: He is Bald
Skin Colour: Blackish-Brown (when in dracon form, also has scales.). Tanned (when in any other form with the skin showing.)
Build: Muscular, but lithe and very quick.
Occupation: Warrior/Blacksmith. Champion of the World Tournament. Former Assassin.

Abilities/Strengths/Weaknesses:
- Is able to Manipulate Shadows to do his bidding. Ie He is able to open his cloak, and use the shadow within to make a sword which he is able to then wield, it is a shadow sword however, and can be dispelled by light. However, Light makes more shadow and so one must be careful what one does with that light.
- From a century of forge work, his muscles have been tempered into such a state that he is not only very strong, but also very fast.
- He has trained in his speed as well as working in a forge and therefore is not only strong but fast.
- He is able to shape shift (a racial ability) but it takes him upwards of a day in order to do so.
- He used to have wings, as all Dracons do. But they were cut off when he was young, so he can no longer fly.
- Has trained a lot with his weapons and the use of his weapons combined with his shadow skills. He has trained with his skills also not using his shadow skills so that if he ever lost these skills he would still be able to fight without being disabled.
- Because of the Amulet he won at the last World Tournament he has not aged at all, so he is still basically 34 but is technically 134. His abilities have not been changed because of age. He is in his prime. Even though his race lives to 700 years, he is considered to be a very young accomplished Dracon warrior.

* I’m being general about this fellow’s abilities because they are basically all shown in the first fight anyway.

Equipment:
10 throwing daggers, perfectly balanced.
Two hand crossbows with sheaths at his thighs. Quarrels are attached to his thighs in sheaths, two on each thigh and one in each crossbow sheathe.
Two Elven Long knives at hips.
All black clothing.
Black leather vest with padding inside, sewn between the two layers of padding are concave discs of metal, small, but strong and able to turn away arrows from longbows. *The discs are an alloy that Avanthar took many years to perfect.

A shield of dispel magic 10’ radius. However this also has an effect on his Shadow manipulation abilities, but only a slight effect, it cuts down the amount of shadows he is able to wield at one point in time. This shield is buckler sized.



Name: Harthar
Age: 16
Race: Human - Barbarian
Alignment: Good
Weight: 175 lbs
Height: 5’11”
Eyes: Grey
Hair: Grey, short and spiked
Skin Colour: Darkly Tanned.
Build: Like a Hulk.
Occupation: Barbarian Chieftain.

Abilities/Strengths/Weaknesses:
- He is very very strong, but slow.
- He is smart, but it still takes him a while to react.
- He is an Expert with his weapons, the Hammer and Mace.
- He is also a tactitian.

Equipment:

Large Hammer (looks very much like a sledge hammer
Two Maces (sharp spikes)
Basic Wolf Skin Armour.


The First Fight in the Arena is going to be a Flash back of the end of the last tournament between Jon and Avanthar. But we will also be posting in the Brackets Thread as well.

The Winner of the event will recieve an Amulet that extends life for 100 years, allowing them not to age between Tournaments. We are hoping to see if we can get something to put in the Signature of the winner(s) of the Tournament.

All characters entered into this Tournament tat die, and are not able to be entered into any tournament here after.

[JonDrake]

Ok, this is the character I am using as a Champion. I will not be using a second character, but this one should be enough. I will also be posting as a moderator using the alt GabrielThief, which some of you may have seen on the boards lately.

Name: Jonathan Drake
Age: 37 (actually 137)
Race: Human
Alignment: Neutral
Weight: 200 lbs
Height: 6’3”
Eyes: Ice Blue
Hair: Black, worn a little long, and loose.
Build: Very muscular, but still quick.
Occupation: General of the Armies of the Kingdom of Drakan, Champion of the last Grand Tournament.

Abilities/Strengths/Weaknesses:
- Extremely well trained in the use of the longsword and shortsword, as well as using them together.
- A tactical genius, a result of and the reason behind the fact that he is the General of one of the greatest armies in the world.
- Very strong, but not the strongest.
- Very fast, but not the fastest.
- Has no magic.

Equipment:

1 Shortsword, extremely well made, very sharp, very strong.

1 Longsword, extremely well made, very sharp, very strong.

1 Suit of Armor - Breastplate, Bracers, Greaves, Pauldrons, Boots. All made of very fine materials for optimal protection and maximum movement capabilities.

History:

Jon was born to a poor family in Calla, the capital of the Kingdom of Drakan, his father a menial servant, his mother a dressmaker. Ever since he was a child Jon had been fascinated by the soldiers he saw around the city, their armor bright and shiny, their swords sharp and deadly. He and his friends used to pretend they were soldiers, acting out scenes from the Great Tales.

When Jon was 20, war erupted between Drakan and a neighbouring kingdom, and Jon was the first to enlist. He joined the army as a private, a footsoldier, never expected to survive his first battle. But survive it he did, and what's more, he was the hero who turned the tide of the battle in their favour. He had been a whirlwind, his skill with the sword unmatched by any in the opposing army. He cut his way through, his success boosting the morale of those around him, making a path right to the other army's commanding officer. Not expecting the attack, the officer was quickly defeated by Jon, and the army fled. Jon was praised as a hero, and promoted then and there to the king's elite soldiers, the Dragon Knights.

Over the next ten years, Jon participated in dozens upon dozens of battle, all of them successful, and when he turned 30, the king appointed him a general of one third of the kingdom's armies. Jon continued to fight and impress, the blood of thousands on his hands, and when he was 35, the king made Jon Overgeneral of all the kingdom's armies.

At 37 Jon received the invitation to compete in the Grand Tournament. He went, and at the end there were three combatants remaining, one of them joined the Champion, and the other, Avanthar, joined Jon. It was a tag-team match which Jon and Avanthar won easily, their strengths complimenting each other. Then Jon and Avanthar faced each other in a battle that went on and on with no end in sight. In the end, it was declared a draw, and both men were named Champion.

In the 100 years between tournaments Jon has continued his campaign, bringing more and more territory into the control of the Kingdom of Drakan until it was nearly an Empire. Now, 100 years later, Jon has once again been summoned to fight in the Grand Tournament, this time as a Champion.

[Seren Usha]

I tired RPs like this in the past, you may not find any one interested out side of me.


Name: Hale Eleora
Age: 27
Race: Human (male)
Alignment: Good
Weight: 257 lbs
Height: 6'4"
Eyes: Clear blue
Hair: Brown, cut short.
Skin Colour: Creamy
Build: Broad shoulders and very well muscled
Occupation: Holy Knight/Priest

Abilities/Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strong and powerful, he is the all that is Knightly.
His belief and will make magic less useful against him, His Goddess protects him on might say. Magic can be used against him merely with mixed results.
Train to Knighthood from birth he is excellent with every weapon he carries and many he doesn't.
He is strong and has a very high vitality and endurance. He is quite slow of body.
He has no magic.


Equipment:

Lance/Long Spear, A lance with a slash and thrust blade on the end with to narrow thin straight blades sticking out in both directions from just below the beginning of the spear head.(so the blades for an upside down T) Small spurs stick out further down the wood shaft just above where the hand in placed.

A heavy hammer like ax on his right hip and a short sword on his left. The ax was a rounded blade so it doesn't get stuck as easy in bodies.

Armor, Full armor. Full Helm, shoulder, arm, hand and leg guards. Chest plate, elbow, knee guards. A kidney bean shaped shield strapped to his left arm small enough not to hamper two handed lance work.


Appearance: Dressed in full armor with a white vest like covering. A small clear tear drop shaped jewel hanging from his left ear.

History:
Born into the Church of the Lady of Tears from the raping of one of the priestess Hale was train to be a knight and became a damn good one. After years in a Holy War on the front lines Hale took not a scratch and views himself as a blessed child of his Goddess. Seeking to be a champion for the long life and all the good he could do with a 100 extra years Hale enters believing it to be the goddesses will.


Name: Armina Einar
Age: 21
Race: Human (blessed) (Female)
Alignment: Neutral
Weight: 123 lbs
Height: 5'7"
Eyes: Brown almost auburn
Hair: curly Flaming red
Skin Colour: pale
Build: Lean and tone
Occupation: Elemental Warrior, Tribes woman

Abilities/Strengths/Weaknesses:
The woman comes from a people who are blessed with the embodiment of the elements. Armina is Fire. Very agile of hand and very short tempered. She is fast but lacks raw strength outside a burst of strength here and there that are only a breath long. She attacks fast and without warning, her weapons dance and thrust seeking blood. She has control over Fire but not enough to sustain it long enough to do any real damage. It is more useful for defensive splashes than attacks.

Equipment: Two thin dagger like weapons that are about as long as a short sword. Mostly for thrusting but capable of a good slice.

Appearance: Attractive and cocky. Vest and leathers in a shade of tan. Hair worn with bangs pulled back and tied.

History:
Grew up in a big family over shadowed by the success of her 4 older brothers, Armina fights for pride and glory.

[Harthar]

You can post in the Brackets Seren.