Literally Snails

I'm gonna wait for @dragon4111 @Snow Frostflame and @reader8363 before I start @Arid_Blitz fight.

@dragon4111 @Snow Frostflame Tricis watched Snow and Draco bicker while taking a long sip of her tea. She placed the cup back on the table and waited for Snow to finish talking. @Unicorncob @Dynamo Pad @reader8363 "You all have several hours tomorrow morning before your next round starts. I was planning on taking the five of you out to work on controlling your powers in that time," She said, "But since the two of you can't stand each other, I'll only take out Dynamo, Rose and Jade. The two of you, I think, would better spend your time together." "Um, Tricis," Shining attempted to interject, but Tricis raised a hoof and continued talking. "Yes, I think the two of you should have a bit of a sparring match tomorrow in the forest with no rules or oversight. You'll either come out a better team or only one of you will come back. Either way we can finally stop wasting our time with this bickering." "Tricis, the match between Crimos and Cleave will be starting soon." Shining Armor said. Tricis looked back at him and nodded. "Right, I almost forgot." She got up and started walking out of the room. "Those of you who want to watch the fight in the arena, follow me."

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team lockdown? You wont see them till tomorrow. The next thing you need to do is watch Arid Blitz fight.

@Arid_Blitz Once everyone has either turned on the TV or gone to the arena, you can do your fight. I'll let you control topaz to write your posts. Be sure to color her quote text

"Probably the same way you just did," Tricis commented. Shining Armor clapped his hooves together in a sudden realization. "Oh, that's right! I forgot to mention something about their team. Their owner is Big Shot. He's a tournament committee member and the second highest shareholder in the tournament. He's got a lot of connections too. That's probably how he was able to build a team like this." "Well, she left in a hurry..." Shining Armor said, confused. @Unicorncob@dragon4111 @Arid_Blitz "There's a bit of information she might have wanted to stay around for," Tricis added. "The fight with the Shadow Beasts versus team Tsunami is already underway. Hell, with the way things are going now, it might already be over. But we can still watch Team Crimos fight Team Cleave. We might even make it to the arena to watch."

I dont know about that.

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Three bad winghorses, but one of them might not be so bad.

yeah, mid afternoon.

@Unicorncob @reader8363 @Dynamo Pad @dragon4111 @Snow Frostflame Shining Armor picked up another scroll and opened it. "I'm just gonna go through these quickly. You can have time to discuss after." He said. He placed the document on the table. This time there was a yellow pegasus mare with short black hair. "Zerra Stormstride. Age twenty-three. Taken in for attempted assassination of Prince Blueblood, and that's just what she was caught for. My guess is she had a successful but short career before that." He opened the next scroll. This next pony was a brown earth pony who looked more like a typical thug with heavy scarring on the left side of his face. "Garnethoof. Age thirty one. Now this one's your run-of-the-mill crook. It'll be easier to list the laws that he hasn't broken on his record. Nine counts of murder including one bounty hunter. Some connection to organized crime, though they didnt step in to help him during his trial." The next document showed a rather ghoulish looking pegasus with sallow cheeks, yellowed teeth and black tattoos under his eyes. "This one was harder to get information on. He was arrested in griffonstone and they're not very forthcoming with sharing information with us. The official charge was domestic terrorism, apparently, he was making some kind of chemical weapon, but that's just the charge. He's a mystery. Don't even have a name." The last file was a young looking tan pegasus with red hair. "Cumulus Daybreak, or as he's better known by the less cute nickname, the butcher of Trottingham. Age twenty-four. This one's their captain. Forty counts murder, countless aggravated assaults. He was serving nine life sentences. Thing is, some people see this guy as a hero. All of his murder victims were connected to a crime family in Trottingham called the Fallen Hooves. Claims he's never killed an innocent, but that defense didn't exactly work when he was caught."

@reader8363 If you want to have rose recognize one of the crooks, that's fine by me.

"Has it occurred to you yet that the powers that be aren't interested in making this fair for you?" Tricis asked. "You're not gonna get anywhere by complaining. We've still got a day till the next fight." "No, Tricis is right. This year's competition is different. They've already changed the schedule after your fight with Tatterhoof to make sure you had the second fight tomorrow. you were supposed to get a longer time to rest, but there isn't much I can do about that now." Shining Armor explained. "It seems like a lot of the teams are mismatched this year. It's shaping up to be the most competitive Dark Tournament in recent memory." Tricis commented. "Alright Pad, slow down! All I know is what's in their criminal records." Shining Armor explained. @dragon4111 @Unicorncob @Snow Frostflame @reader8363 Shining Armor placed the scrolls on the table and picked up only the first one. He unwrapped it and reviewed its contents. "Alright, you three can pick fights after this meeting," Tricis said to Pad, Draco and Snow. "We've got a rare opportunity to know our opponents before we fight them." Shining Armor placed the opened scroll on the table. There was a head picture on the file of a green unicorn with heavy facial piercings bellow his eyes, on his cheeks and ears and on his lips. The piercings were made of gold, steel, and zinc and were of various sizes and shapes, and his ears had large hoop piercings with smaller rings looped inside the hoops. "This one's name is Patchwork, age 34." Shining Armor explained. "Believe it or not, this guy used to be a surgeon. Had a pretty good record too. Until two years ago when he started losing an alarming amount of patients. Turned out he was doing some 'experimental procedures' as he called it. Medical malpractice is what the courts called it, and the charges were upgraded to murder when he all but confessed that he knew the risks and didn't inform his patients. The problem is that they never found out the nature of those procedures or what he was trying to accomplish, but he only did it to his unicorn patients, and it seemed like he was trying to experiment with them."

@Dynamo Pad@reader8363 @dragon4111 @Snow Frostflame "That's just the thing," Shining Armor said, "You're fighting again tomorrow. There are two more matches today, Team Tsunami versus the Shadow beasts, and Team Crimos versus team Cleave, but the team you're up against tomorrow already won their round in the time it took you to get back to the hotel room! We don't have a lot of time before you fight again tomorrow afternoon, but we lucked out on one thing. The next team you'll be fighting was very easy for me to research." He placed the scrolls down on the coffee table in the center of the couches. "Team Lockdown is your next opponent, and their team is made up entirely of criminals serving a life sentence or worse. If they win this tournament, they're set free! But that's not the worst part. This is a rough bunch. I had contacts from Canterlot pull all their files and I had to warn you as soon as I could."

@Unicorncob @reader8363 @Snow Frostflame @Dynamo Pad @dragon4111 The members of Team Lotus returned to their hotel room. Rose had to be placed in bed and Snow Frostflame was now feeling even stranger than before after their encounter with Team Rokata, but they still all reached the room without incident. Shining Armor wasn't expected to return to their room. He had his own private room to stay in where he could watch the fights and do business, but before the four of them could even turn on the TV to check the progress of the tournament, the prince came barging through the door. "I have information about the next team you'll be fighting!" He said hurriedly. with a pile of scrolls floating next to him/

@Dynamo Pad @reader8363 @Snow Frostflame @dragon4111 @Unicorncob Can all of you have your characters go back to the hotel room or at least leave the ring when you get this message? I suppose we can decide post order based on who goes first.

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Should I be making a new post for the time jump or something? Are you guys waiting for me?

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alright then, I'm just waiting on you guys for now

@Unicorncob @Dynamo Pad @reader8363 @dragon4111 @Snow Frostflame Alright guys, I'm thinking we can do a time skip here. I'm planning on having Shining armor do some exposition to you guys once your in the hotel room. After that, you can watch @Arid_Blitz 's team do its first fight. Everybody alright with a time jump to the hotel room? If so, just go ahead and make a post of your characters being there. One of you may have to carry rose and lay her down on the couch if she's still unconscious.

@dragon4111 @Dynamo Pad @Unicorncob @Snow Frostflame @reader8363 o3o

You know that if you beat Lotus in the semi finals your just going to get killed by rokata right? :3

@Unicorncob @Snow Frostflame @reader8363 @dragon4111 @Dynamo Pad The green tattooed stallion reached a hoof out and pointed at Jade, holding it out for several seconds while the tension grew. You... "He's pointing at Lotus!" "Just can't wait to kill them, can he?" He pointed to himself with a smirk on his face so deep that Jade could see it from across the stadium. ...and me. A fight to the death soon enough, Jade. Team Rokata turned around and exited through the doors behind them, disappearing as suddenly as they arrived. The strange, overpowering feeling in the air quickly went away, as if it was caused only by them being present. "Well, now, I hope you enjoyed that guest appearance from the resident badasses of the tournament," Topaz said, stepping away from Draco now that she no longer needed his protection. "But now we'll have to ask for Team Lotus to leave the ring and get some much-needed rest, the next round between team Lockdown and Team Griffonstone is about to start!"