soulping | GROUP 3

Rule #1: There can be only one left alive.

There are no other rules.

YOUR FORM OF COMBAT IS: Tag. A touch the back or the crown of the head is an ELIMINATION. The touch must be done by a hand.
-Tag battles are sorted out between battlers! (eg use your own judgment for if your character would get tagged or not, though if it's a too close to tell battle RNG yourselves and whoever gets highest number wins like a champ)

-You may travel through the various locations by moving along the lines of the map (eg mountain can lead to savannah, but not tundra, etc).
-When you encounter eachother you may eliminate one another however you see fit. Losing your chosen form of combat is an instant elimination. You will be immediately ejected to endgame like the graceless loser you are.
-Jack Panther will be stalking the field! He may challenge anyone to whatever form of challenge he sees fit. If he wins you are instantly eliminated! If you manage to defeat him you gain a one time pass on elimination (eg if you lose a challenge or get on the bad end of a trap, you will get a one time save).
-Starting at 8PM EST and every 30 minutes after that one area of the field will experience an event that is an instant elimination for 1/3rd of the people in that area. (eg if there's 3 people, one gets eliminated, 2 people, one gets eliminated, 1 person, you're eliminated sorry).
-The game continues until only one person is left on the field. This will be the game winner for your group.

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[You find yourself in a dark room. It's circular and the door you came through has disappeared. There's no way out. From nowhere in particular you hear La Torre's voice:]

Today I have a story for you. Have you ever heard of Egoism? It's an anarchist theory that those who follow it have no obligation to their fellow man. Their sole duty is to live their lives to completion, taking whatever they desire. By force if necessary. If you are an egoist you are absolved of all conscience to your compatriots. Stirner himself once said: "I do not step shyly back from your property, but look upon it always as my property, in which I respect nothing."

There was a man. And he lived in a country where resources were scarce and a long life scarcer. So he resolved himself to a thing. He resolved himself that of his fellows he should be the only one to have the right to life. You see, he was the smartest, the strongest, the fastest, the most civilized and the most savage. He was the culmination and the pinnacle of human evolution. But how do you deny those around you the right to life?

You've stepped through this door of your own resolve. Why are you killing your companions?

[A piece of paper and a pencil appears in everyone's hands. There are two questions on it:

Why are you killing your companions?
What is your form of combat?]

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Everyone should submit answers to the questions (below under TURN-IN) regardless of whether someone on your team has already submitted or not.
2. The most voted form of combat is how characters will defeat one another in the arena. You can pick anything you like. Dance off, rock-paper-scissors, actual combat. Just get enough votes for what you want if you really want it. If there's no majority La Torre will choose for everyone.
3. Skills are on for this game. In the arena you may use, abuse and cheat with them as you will. Characters know this and may want to keep it in mind when choosing the form of combat for their group.

Why are you killing your companions?
What is your form of combat?

I suppose assassination would be considered uncouth.

We should choose some nonlethal test of skill. Perhaps tag?

Battle Royale. He's making us do Battle Royale.

[Siiigh.]

Tag sounds good to me.

Tag is...probably for the best.

That way we can can answer that we're 'killing' each other all in good fun and have it be an honest answer.

[looking completely and utterly disgusted at that little story though omg]

What's 'Battle Royale'?

...Sphinx?

. . tag sounds fun.

Splendid. I am glad you agree.

Indeed. It also opens up a large number of venues of strategy. Perhaps whomever touches another in the small of the back knocks out the other party?

...That wasn't a very good story.

[. . . is possibly the farthest away from egoist you can be]

. . . I would not.

I am pleased to have your agreement, then... [She's searching for a name to be offered.]

Tag?

It's a good replacement for actual fighting - harmless, but still with a clear competitive element.

It's a bit of a classic story on my own world. It basically presents a world where occasionally, a class of random teenagers is placed into the middle of an isolated area and told to kill each other until one person's left alive. All of their actions are recorded and shown to people, as a form of entertainment.

The story was at the time something of a remark about the tendency towards apathy about the government and power abuse, with the accusation that the government can do whatever it likes as long as people are entertained.

Competition is something of my specialty.

That could work as well. A tag on the arm or leg can incapacitate that particular limb for the rest of the game as well, to add some challenge to it.

Tag is definitely a good choice, yes.

A game in which parties attempt to touch each other. I would suggest making it so that we must touch the small of an opponent's back or the top of their head with a hand in order to knock them out.

Elli.

...It certainly didn't sound like one.

Will you be all right?

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