The Cage! (Advertisement and Sign-up Thread)

[Gina]

Monique female vs female

 

[Ziander Phalanx]

:: jots his name down in the M vs M and the Mixed Gender brackets, and strolls off to train ::

 

[lawler]

lawler signs his name down on the male vs male and mixed saying "let see if i can get some money"

 

[warlord]

Warlord is in on this. Sign me up for male vs male and mixed gender. Oh and OOC what level is this and can my character be a werewolf?

 

[Tharivious_Meliamne]

Warlord is in on this. Sign me up for male vs male and mixed gender. Oh and OOC what level is this and can my character be a werewolf?

Level won't matter - the actual fight will be freeform, as stated above. Each player decides the outcome of the individual attacks, but the d100 roll at the end of the fight decides the final outcome.

As for the werewolf part... I believe Pounamu will have to answer that with a yes or no response, but odds are good that a werewolf showing up in the middle of a cage-fighting tournament in New York City in 2030 would be trapped/killed in short order by the police department down the block.

 

[ku]

JKD ready

sign me (Ku) up for the Mixed Gender & Male vs. Male

 

[WizO_Pounamu]

If said werewolf could avoid detection, then no one need know the probem. After all, most people don't know werewolves are anything more than ancient fables made to scare children into behaving and those people who insist that werewolves inhabit Central Park tend to get very carefully watched by men in white coats.

However if said werewolf is discovered in the fight, it faces a couple of likely problems:

1. Most people are not comfortable with werewolves. Cue screaming and searching for weapons.
2. At this pont of history there are no laws protecting non-humans against humans except for as cruelty to animals. However there are usually death sentances for animals deemed a risk to humans and werewolves would probably fit that category.
3. With the fight held in a sturdy metal cage, the task of confining a discovered werewolf is made that much easier. The other combatant being stuck in there too may not be as bad publically than a werewolf loose on the crowd.
4. Hope that the referee isn't allergic to dogs or the odds are against the werewolf right from the start.

The same points could be made for aliens or even mutants as well. Remember, although strange cratures exist in this setting, it's still in a human city and humans are notoriously slow to change the biases and fears of many generations.

- Pounamu

 

[Ssussunriyh]

To quote myself in another thread on this subject...

In this setting, the general population does not acknowledge the existance of monsters, magic, or other supernatural phenomena. Such things are viewed as fanciful urban legends at best, or the ravings of lunatics at worst. Therefore, any creature, item, ability, event, or bit of knowledge that falls outside the scope of the modern everyday world must remain hidden or be disguised in some way. A character who openly claims to be a vampire, for example, runs the risk of being ridiculed by skeptics, arrested and detained by the authorities, or lynched by a frightened, angry mob. You have been warned...

Please understand that such things are permitted in this setting, they simply should not be touted openly. The denizens of Shadow are discreet and subtle both by nature and by necessity, and the average citizen doesn't believe in ghost stories and fairy tales. Human nature causes people to convince themselves that the werewolf they glimpsed in the alley was just a big dog, that their dwarven co-worker at the steel mill is just a short, stocky guy with a beard, or that the fire that burned down a building was caused by a gas leak, not a fireball-wielding mage...

Please help maintain the flavor of this setting by describing your character accordingly (perhaps adding an OOC tag for other players whose characters might be Aware...)

 

[Sven Wilder]

Hehe

Allergic to dogs . . . Hmm . . . That would be hilarious if either the ref or the person pitted against said, mutt were allergic. But then, I'm a highly demented individual in the first place.

 

[chilltouch]

Patricks M vs M and mixed gender if you please