The Winch Duelling Championship

[perlyboy]

After participating many duelling championships and considering the nature of duelling championships itself, I, Perlan proudly present:

The Winch Duelling Championship

Background:

I stumbled one day on a platform in the winch, which I found very interesting and to my liking. Thoughts and visions about duelling went wild and ideas popped in my head. I reckoned this platform to be the utmost excellent place to hold a duelling championship of a different order than the normal preceding ones. Having carefully inspected this battlefield three things came to my attention:

1 The platform is above mid air and you can fall off
2 One big pillar and 4 smaller ones are on the platform
3 It is not a particularly big platform

Therefor this platform gives the opportunity to have a duelling championship of a different kind on. Having tested the platform, my conclusion is that duelling here will be a mix of normal duelling with "hide and seek" and the awareness of the very edges where you can fall off.

Having had various conversations with the Octarchy, the Octarchy supports the idea of a Championship being held here and will place fall nets underneath the platform!


Date and time:

The Winch Duelling championship will be held on the following dates:

Friday 5th of February from 1900 hrs GMT
Saturday 6th of February from 1300 hrs GMT
Sunday 7th of Februry from 1300 hrs GMT

Duels will go on till very late at night since there will be many duels to be held, if due to any reasons not all duels can be held in that weekend remaining duels will be held at another time regarding the duellers and the time they can fight again


Classes and entry fees:

For this Duelling Championship there will be two classes, so many duel loving people can enter:

1 Amateurs

[Anyone having an endurance level above 150 can enter] Amateurs buy a ticket for 10,000 trias

2 Experts

[Anyone that has a weapon level above 60 and/ or armor level above 60] Experts buy a ticket for 25,000 trias

All participants will be scanned, tickets available from now and can be bought from me, Perlan


Price pool distribution is as followed for each class(amateur and expert):

First place: 60% of all entry fees

Second place 25% of all entry fees

Third place 10% of all entry fees


Duelling rules:

All weapons are allowed [that means people with an axe level of 150 can also use their axes if they like]
No magic allowed whatsoever
No killing allowed
No foul language 
No making out in public
Any other misbehavior can result in disqualification as well
The duellers fighting each other will let the other know he/ she is ready by jumping once or twice
All duellers in their class will fight each other for two rounds. Falling off of the platform counts as a loss for that round. Two wins = 3 points won, a tie = 1 point for each fighter, Two losses = 0 points
After all duels,  points will be counted, and first, second and third place will be made public


So, get your b*tt training and practicing, bring friends and come join or watch the Winch Duelling Championship!

With regards, Perlan aka Perlyboy

[dragonistrypsis]

I'm in, and just so everyone knows, no stat increasing things, like rings and amulets, bare nekkid, weapon and armor only.

[verden]

If you are wearing armor, then you are not "nekkid".

[zanzibar]

I'd be interested to watch this from a safe distance.  Given how secure the winch area is, I fully expect the guards to rush in and incarcerate everyone in the area at the first sign of violence, confiscating any notes of access in the process.

[Jarexia]

Having had various conversations with the Octarchy, the Octarchy supports the idea of a Championship being held here and will place fall nets underneath the platform!

Looks like it`s been cleared with the Octarch, Zanzibar, though I`ll admit to being a bit surprised they`re letting people fight in/on/around such important machinery. Let`s hope no stray blows do any damage.

1 Amateurs

[Anyone having an endurance level above 150 can enter] Amateurs buy a ticket for 10,000 trias

2 Experts

[Anyone that has a weapon level above 60 and/ or armor level above 60] Experts buy a ticket for 25,000 trias

[Presumably for Amateurs it`s anyone with an End of over 150, but weapon and armour skills of under 60? You might want to make that clear in the post, perlyboy.]

[perlyboy]

how is that difficult to understand, it's what you said..

[zanzibar]

The concept of the event should be so silly to our characters that anyone told about the tournament should react to it like it's a joke if they wish to stay in character.  First off, no one should believe that the Octarchy would allow it.  The idea of finding enough people with access to the Winch for a tournament should also seem far fetched to our characters.

I just don't see a way people can participate in this without going OOC.

[perlyboy]

then maybe duellers are a different kind of breed... 

as to allowance of the octarchy, i have negotiated with them very long, and they support it

as to finding enough people, the people who want to duel or test fighting skills will surely find their way to this tournament, as they always do

[zanzibar]

then maybe duellers are a different kind of breed... 

I agree!

[perlyboy]

then i s'ppose we won't be seeing you there.....

this article states very well it's about a duelling championship

no offence intended

[Vannaka]

then maybe duellers are a different kind of breed... 

I agree!

I r not! wut? sorry pearl anne, i'm out for this one... there's just no way i'm fighting on that scary contraption.  safety net or not.

[Tuxide]

[Going with godmode or prank here, or maybe Perlan-the-character has just gone insane.  I don't know about this Octarchy thing until we hear something from Settings team.  Although it sounds interesting game mechanics-wise, I can't imagine the Octarchy allowing the winch contraption to be used as a fighting pit.]

[Xillix Queen of Fools]

This event is not approved and if it wishes to have approval it will seek dajoji's thread about octarchal propositions or it will be fail.

Sending a private message to me and misconstruing it does not imply consent.

There are laws against this sort of event within the boundaries of the city.

As it stands now the Octarchy wouldn't approve it because falling off the edge of the winch results in death, the Octarchy can't and won't support people falling to their death.

If the event were to be approved, it would require a means for those who fall off to survive, this cannot happen without a gm helping the event; being as gms aren't permitted to help player events, this event cannot be approved unless it embraces the methods we provided via dajoji's event thread for a player to receive gm/dev help.

If there was any confusion due to a conversation with me that is unfortunate.

[perlyboy]

i am not gonna openly speak my thoughts about how this went or speak my frustrations... i just announce another tournament that can be held withing all laws and rules 

just check here:

http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=34570.0

[Prolix]

I was writing a post when this got locked, now that it is unlocked I will try again.

It seems to me that there is a kind of event where this could take place and that is as a militia war games exercise. This would be last defence of the lower levels from insurgents above or vice versa. Certainly such an important installation would have some sort of plan for its control. I hadn't considered falling to their deaths as a factor due to that not actually happening, I believe it generates an out of bounds teleportation but I have not tried it recently. If this were the case it might well be a magical safety feature of the winch. Surely the Octarchy does not allow its citizens to easily commit suicide and litter the lower levels with their corpses.There ought to be a fence the entire length of the precipice in accessible areas. I wonder too about how skittish pack animals are prevented from jumping to their deaths.