Are you still willing to have me helping as a tourney judge?
Ah. Well hopefully they'll post soon... Using Adrian was probably a bad call on my part. Probably would have been more effective to use a more melee oriented character; that would have left me an easier use in battle. But then, I guess Adrian will manage. Honestly, there's only one person involved with this that I'm truly interested in fighting.
Has the number of competitors been reduced to two?
With the inevitable lack of activity between rounds finally sinking under his skin, Adrian began pacing the corridors in thought. There wasn’t all that much to do before the time to turn in came, and there wasn’t even the slightest sign of any of the other competitors lurking about (whom he’d have certainly struck a conversation with if the opportunity were there). Eventually, his thoughts lead him around to a final conclusion: if he wasn’t going to be doing anything, then he might as well pull out something to do before he got too bored. Where he was, he leaned back against the wall, and gently slid himself down to a seated position on the floor. His hand dove into an interior pocket of his overcoat, and, without very much trouble, claimed a small, neatly folded stack of paper from its contents. There was only a scarce amount of space on the papers that had been spared the mark of ink or pencil and a mere glance at the ruffled mass indicated a very rough penmanship, and some considerable weathering that only age of neglect could have caused. Carefully, Adrian unfolded the papers at the deepest seam, revealing them to be decent compellation of short notes. All of them were in the familiar writing of his brother, a semi-chicken scratched style. It was only barely decipherable, and even then, Adrian had to reread the words very carefully to make sure he understood it all correctly. Yet even after all of the reads of his brother’s trail of one way correspondence with his mother, Adrian was unable to glean anything other than the hope that somewhere along the way, his brother had managed to survive for at least a few years after he was presumed dead. For a time, it had been all the hope he needed to know that Dmitri was still well and good somewhere in the worlds; whether in his home timeline, or another one completely different, it was a comfort. But as the months had waned on and on, and no clue as to his whereabouts at the last letter, or at any of them, was to be found, Adrian’s frustrations had mounted. There, sitting upon the cold floor of stone, Adrian’s disappointment in his brother’s lack of clue dropping reached a peak. Papers still in hand, he waved his hands out, releasing every sheet and torn fragment about and exhaled in a loud groan or grunt. “Useless!” he spat at the falling drafts. “All of you! Useless!” He flung himself to his feet, and drove the palm of his hand into the wall before him. With another loud grunt, he expelled a fire spell, which sparked briefly as it struck the stone surface, and let off a distinguishable flash of light down the otherwise dim corridor. “How hard would it have been?” he asked himself in a whisper. “How hard would have been to just leave a hint or two so you could just come home? We could have fought our way back.”
That probably means that you're perfectly sane in all definitions of the word. Were you insane, you would probably be under the impression that you were perfectly normal. I digress. Welcome, Void of Self. Enjoy your stay.
Yeah. You're probably gonna be told to develop this idea more.
That's true. But we, the RPers, aren't directly engaged against one another. There's that fourth wall that separates us from our characters, where even if we as the RPers know what our opponents' characters are capable of it would be against the rules to play through as though our characters already know everything about them.
Save that that's of no use in a battle. I'd rather have the confidence of knowing what to expect from a character in their combative abilities.
Either way then, I intend to pull my character as soon as the tournament comes to a close. Will the character sheets all be made public at some point? It'd be mighty fine to understand what we're all looking at as far as competition.
Being that my preference towards hack-and-slash games comes into severe play when I play through KH, I go with the sword and let the staff get dropped. I really don't use magic too often other than for its auxiliary purposes, and find that I do best when I can just hulk smash my way through most battles.
((I'm assuming, since I never heard otherwise, that my character is alright for use)). When Adrian Savona had caught wind of the tournament, his intrigue had caught the best in him, and lured him out to the distant world run by sin itself. What was there to be gained in sticking around in some backwater worlds as though the law was pursuing him around every twist and turn? The truth of that thought made him laugh inside, for in another world, the law was probably still pursuing him, only finding all over the place that he was nowhere to be found. He wondered, very often at that, whether or no they were really still looking for him at all, or if they had dropped it all when they couldn’t find him anywhere amongst the worlds. He wondered, even more so sometimes, whether or not they had even registered the idea that he managed to slip from their clutches into a completely different timeline of their reality, hiding behind a paper thin veil of space-time that separated one strand of existence from all others. The whole debacle might have seemed inconsequential to those that had surrounded him over the passed few days in the tournament. Yet the bottom line of the matter was that if it weren’t for him having been a fugitive in his timeline, he probably wouldn’t have found out about the tournament. And he most certainly wouldn’t have been able to advance so far into it as to be recognized in any sort of ceremony. As he walked through the poorly lit corridors, his thoughts shifted from his criminal status to the tournament. It had promised a rush, and a challenge to boot. Thus far, it hadn’t disappointed him to any extreme length. But for some reason, he wasn’t fully satisfied. Something about the tournament had been missing. He thought it might have been the lack of truly strong opponents, but that wouldn’t have been true, as there had been many tough comers. In the end, he had pinned it on a combined lack of his favorite opponent, and the steadily conditioned apathy towards the fierce and frightening that was becoming more and forward in his demeanor. He was accustomed to the bloodshed, having killed plenty of times before to get out of sticky situations, and thus the deadly aspects of the combat had meant little to him. The last bit of satisfaction that he clung to as he paced through the corridors within the bowels of the arena was that he had, quite literally, emerged from nowhere within this particular competition. He had entered as a zero, an unknown quantity whose worth as a whole was being stacked against many names and faces that had already made themselves noteworthy in this reality. Having come from the depths of obscurity to achieve such victory, and possibly shaken a few of his opponents-to-be up enough to give himself an edge was more than enough to get him looking passed the dissatisfactions, and towards the prospect of a successful run at whatever title the tournament would bestow. “Now if only I knew what the Hell there was to do while I waited,” he muttered under his breath.
If it was in the scope of a larger RP, I'd agree with you completely on that. But it seems superfluous when it's on the grounds of a stand-alone tournament.
My question is what are we supposed to do with a full out RP when the only real basis for plot advancement is fighting? Are we expected to participate in activities planned out in between the actual combat? If that's not the case, then, a traditional tournament style of operation would be preferable, so long as we could cap off at least four competitors.
Yeah. I think Option 2 is the best. Though I must admit, it's looking more like a straight RP, than a traditional tournament.
You seem to be a bit late to the party. At the moment, I believe they're looking into installing a plug-in that will count posts on the basis of a character count. Basically, RP posts counting would be able to moderate itself to a degree. Speaking of which... how's the look in on that idea going?
I'd imagine that the Organization Nobodies, having been strong enough of heart to retain the bulk of their original appearances, might have had Heartless that were unique and easier to identify from others. I've often contemplated the possibility that some of the Heartless bosses that were fought (like Trickmaster in Wonderland) could correlate to members of the Organization.
In my eyes, loyalty, tolerance, and honesty are the key ingredients to a true friend. Everything else is completely flexible. A true friend is someone who can put aside the fact that maybe you're a bit different from them and find favor in the common ground you share; the won't let differences get in the way of being friendly. A true friend is someone who's loyal. If someone's gonna be there one minute, and gone the next just "because," then they're not really friends in the long run. At that, a friend is someone who's not gonna just spoon feed you the compliments and praise you're looking for. A true friend is someone who's gonna speak up and tell you when you're being ridiculous, or when one of your ideas or schemes isn't worth going for. Likewise, if they think you're on the money with something, a true friend WILL compliment and support you on it. That's my take at least.
The short on people problem can be solved by activity on the OOC thread, just saying.
You really need to just take a deep breath and remind you that this is a video game forged by the minds of Disney and Square Enix. There's no real point worrying about and overthinking the things that are so trivial as this. Honetly, there is no reason for "why" other than that that's what the game designers decided they wanted. It's a minor detail, and really, if doesn't do anything to saturate the gameplay, so why bother fretting?
Ehem... if I might inquire again... what's going on with that tournament?
