open The Dark Tournament (FULL!)

[Literally Snails 2,307]

OOC: http://mlpforums.com/topic/59251-the-dark-tournament-2-slots-open/

 

The Dark Tournament. Once outlawed in Equestria, but now, thanks to shady business deals and money loans, it has come back to this once peaceful land. This brutal game pins sixteen of the lands deadliest fighters to fight to the death for entertainment and gambling, all for the purpose of becoming the grand champion and getting one wish granted by the corrupt tournament committee. However, participation is not an option for them.

 

“GOOD MORNING ALL YOU PAIN ENTHUSIASTS! WELCOME TO THE DARK TOURNAMENT! For those of you in the front rows, rain coats are available!” Topaz screamed with joy into her little microphone. She was standing alone atop a huge, circular stadium ring. The stadium seats were filled with all sorts of riled up ponies, griffons, and all sorts of other creatures. Topaz didn’t appear to belong. She was a small, fragile orange unicorn surrounded by violence and rage.

 

“My name is Topaz, and I’ll be your super cute host for the upcoming brutalities!” She announced. “It’s my first time, so be gentle, okay?”

 

“Nopony cares!” An angry fan cried.

 

“WHERE ARE THE FIGHTERS? WE WANT BLOOD!”

 

Topaz showed a noticeable decrease in energy and said, “The fighters should be coming any moment now. Don’t worry!”

 

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Meanwhile, all of the fighters who were participating in the tournament were gathered in the waiting room. It was well furnished with chairs and four TV screens that showed the tournament's four arenas so that every fight could be watched.

 

Roto chuckled and announced to the whole room, "This is all just a joke. We all know that there can only be one winner, and it isn't going to be any of you!"

 

(OOC: All of you are to stay in the waiting room until you are called to the stadium. The first fights should start tomorrow.)

Edited May 5, 2013 by Topaz

[TheBreech 91]

Cosmo's sitting on a pillow in the corner, meditating to clear his and gather magical energy for his fight. He chuckles at Roto's comment. "If you're goning to be the winner, then you're right, it really must be a joke." Cosmo tosses a few insults to other poniees in the room, "If I can distract them, I can dispatch them." He then thinks somewhat sadly to himself, "After all this time, the demon my father raised me to be still has sway over me huh...?" Cosmo checks his equipment again and glances around the room, estimating the strengths and weaknesses of his opponents and hypothesizing the various uses for the strange devices the other contestants are carrying. "All I know is I don't want the end with the hole pointed at me..."

[Senor Citizen 516]

Standoff checked and re-checked his grenade launcher. He had 8 shells, so that was two for each pony. He stayed quiet, and didn't make eye contact with any other contestants, cataloging each of them in terms of difficulty. He hoped he wasn't paired with any grade A's...

[aRegularPony 306]

"Bad news, Mr. Standoff. I know what I'm doing." Mao clapped his hooves together for no reason whatsoever. "I'm going to make you all compact." He said, lifting his chainsaw off the ground as if to demonstrate it. He disliked this room. Too many ponies. All thinking. About the fight. He couldn't even think for himself. Just a lot of other thoughts. Dangers and thrills and strategies and just too many thoughts.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

Radio looks around the room, and enables the audio-log function on her helmet. "It would appear that Celestia has let the Tournament fly again. It's operations look to be standard for this time period, though the functioning weapons differ from elegant to brutish." Her horn glows and a small section of the wall melts outward into her hoof until it becomes a screwdriver. That portion of the wall looks as if nothing happened to it. She began to work on her helmet. Weapons assessment: katanas, knifes, a grenade launcher, and a chainsaw. Alright, that should be tight enough. She puts the helmet on and goes through the start-up sequence. A blue bar scales the top of the screen, as well as a generic figure of a pony. "Warning, armor missing. Hostile combat zone imminent. Armor advised." "Yah, yah. Just scan me and put armor-warnings in text." A big 'scanning' appears across her screen. It acknowledges her and the generic pony changes to reflect her. "All systems operational. Running through memory tests and combat tutorials." She sighs and sits. Of course, what everypony else saw looked quite a bit different. She put the helmet on, and then sat in the corner silently, occasionally jerking her head.

[Nightfall 3,950]

Nightfall chuckled at Roto's remark and kept relaxing on a couch.

"Seriously, mate?"

"Over confidence kills, but I just gotta remember this: Never interrupt an enemy while he's making a mistake; it's impolite. And this guy... he's making a huge mistake and will get killed quickly."

[Undyne 1,483]

Hmph... Look at all these ponies with their silly little weapons... They don't understand what I have in store... Sure, chainsaws and swords will bruise, but shadows can pierce... Silly, little, weak ponies...

 

Lite Shade had just watched on, laying back on the couch, smirking from some of the comments.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

I wonder if it's against the rules to give them all lethal doses of radiation. Then they'll all die in the first round, and I can wish for a new timeline that doesn't involve nuclear fallout. Of course, it probably is against the rules because it doesn't present a big, bloody death. Unless you consider lots of vomiting, with blood mixed in...

[Applejack25 38]

Midnight Glow watched the other ponies trash talking each other.  Whatever.  They can trash talk all they want, but they will not get past me she thought.  She knew her opponent was about 5 years older than her, but she has beaten a 30 year old when she was 19 during the night.   She saw the avaible choices of weapons.  She grinned when she saw the throwing knives.

[Senor Citizen 516]

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Standoff decided to break his silence for a bit. "I commend you on your armor, but I also know that anypony accustomed to wearing the stuff thinks they're invincible. I've been studying the mechanism on your helmet, and I don't even need to stun you to be able to get it off. I just have to hold you still. Just a thought."

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

"I would be surprised if you managed to break the electromagnetic seal keeping my helmet on. However, should you take it off, I will assure you that you will not survive long enough to turn it on. And since this helmet is from a timeline where weapons like your own are commonplace, or obsolete, I would advise you to find a way to use that grenade launcher in a way that doesn't consume your ammo," she responds. "Also, I would consider cleaning and checking your weapon, so it doesn't blow up in your face."

[Miss Light Diamond 2,802]

As the other ponies boasted and attempted to intimidate their opponents, Slicer was standing in the corner of the room, staring at a hole in the wall...not blinking.
He had heard what the other ponies were saying but just ignored it...the dent in the wall was just too important to look away.

Edited May 4, 2013 by ~Flame Dancer~

[Literally Snails 2,307]

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Standoff decided to break his silence for a bit. "I commend you on your armor, but I also know that anypony accustomed to wearing the stuff thinks they're invincible. I've been studying the mechanism on your helmet, and I don't even need to stun you to be able to get it off. I just have to hold you still. Just a thought."

 

Topaz was handed a note by one of the tournament employees who quickly left. "Well, this is odd..." She said into her microphone. "It seems that the order has been shifted and the fight between Nightfall and Light Shade has been moved to the second seed!" She announced. "And that means the first fight will be... ROTO Versus the big stallion STANDOFF! But don't worry all you gore fans! We have four rings, and that means the other preliminary rounds will start shortly!"

 

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A speaker in the waiting room gave the orders. "Standoff and Roto, report to the first stadium floor. Nightfall and Light Shade are on deck for the second stadium. Radioactive Tragedy and Mao are on deck for the third stadium. Wind Slicer and Midnight glow are on deck for the fourth stadium." (On deck means you will be called shortly.)

 

Roto casually walked out into the stadium and stepped onto the left side of the ring. He had an oddly confident look on his face.

 

The referee for the first stadium was a light blue pegasus with white hair. "Okay fans." She said. "Once Standoff reports to the ring, I'll start the fight!" (We can't fight until the ref tells us to begin.)

 

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In the largest box seat, far above the stadium, a group of rich ponies were watching the fight. One of them was Rail, A well groomed unicorn who was the tournaments head organizer. Another was called "Penny Pincher" a nickname given to him for his betting habits. He will never risk a penny unless he's confident that he will win.

 

"Roto's got this in the bag!" Penny Pincher said. "I've got my whole fortune going on this fight!"

 

"You seem very confident." Rail said calmly.

 

"Why shouldn't I be? All the other contestants in this tournament are dark horse candidates from the four corners of nowhere! And if you want to win a tournament like this, you'll need fan support!"

 

"Roto's powers are abysmal compared to Standoff's. You do know this." Said Rail.

 

"That doesn't mean anything!" Penny Pincher said. "I gave Roto the best advantage money can buy!"

 

"What might that be?"

 

"Information!"

 

(I have very limited internet access and wont be on all day. I just want to warn you all in advance.)

Edited May 8, 2013 by Topaz

[Undyne 1,483]

@@Nightfall

 

Hearing the announcement, Lite looked to her opponent, smirking. First blood... Perfect.

 

"Looks like we're sprawling in this. Hope you're not afraid of the dark.", she taunted, adding a sinister chuckle to her sentence. She just loved to scare her opponents...

[Literally Snails 2,307]

 

 

 

 

"Nightfall and Light Shade, Please report to the second ring." The speaker ordered.

 

The second ring had about half as many fans as the first one, but aside from that, it was perfectly identical. It's referee was a blue earth pony stallion who seemed to be fidgeting with his microphone.

[Undyne 1,483]

@, @@Nightfall

 

Without even getting to hear what her opponent was saying, Lite had walked out towards the ring, taking the far side of the area. She looked around at the fans, grinning to herself. This will be swell... I finally get to try out.. The Creepers. Let's see what Nightfall has under wing...

[Miss Light Diamond 2,802]

Slicer looked up as he heard his name. He looked back at the dent in the wall. "I will return my sweet." He whispered before turning around and walking over to the entrance into the fourth ring where he sat down at stared across at the opposite bench, a crazed smile plastered across his face.

[Winona the Dog 1,984]

Silver Storm looked up as names were being announced. He was eager to learn who would be his first opponent in the tournament. He wasn't interested in the prize, no , that wasn't the reason he entered the tournament. He was blackmailed to enter because some black hearted fiend kidnapped his sister and threatened to kill her if he didn't enter the Dark Tournament.. Everyone in the waiting room did look formidable but that didn't intimidate him. In fact it excited him.

Edited May 5, 2013 by Lady Rainicorn

[Applejack25 38]

Midnight started hearing Topaz ring out names to report to each stadium.  She looked around at the other ponies sharing glances when names were called.  She went towards the back of the waiting room to stretch out her legs.  As she stretched, she saw the neon green pony.  Slicer is the name she heard people call him.  This battle will be an interesting match....

[Miss Light Diamond 2,802]

@@Applejack25,

 

Slicer looked up at the pony, still smiling, showing off his filed teeth. He licked his lips with his split tongue before looking back at the bench opposite to him. "You must be my opponent...how niiiiicceeee." *Slicer...KILL HER...SLOOOOWLYYYYY.* *I know...shut up.* He thought, still staring at the bench.

[Shift 4,272]

Bad Dreams wasn't really worried about the fight. She was worried on how her gang would hold up without her, since she knew she was going to lose. She remembered that she had to keep her mask on at all times to keep up her appearence of being a creature of the night.

 

She trotted into the room where everypony else was looking at the matchups. She wasn't up there yet.

 

"Well, we can't have everything, can we?" Dreams told nopony in particular. "Looks like i'll be in the second batch. That gives me more time to..." She trailed off. She needed to finish writing her will.

[Winona the Dog 1,984]

@, 

 

Silver Storm looked over to Bad Dream after she spoke out. Weirded out by the mask she wore ;Silver got up and walked over to her. 

 

"Hello there." Silver started. "And who might you be?" He asked. He was more curious about the mask though bu he thought it would be impolite to go ahead and ask personal questions like that.

Edited May 4, 2013 by Lady Rainicorn

[Nightfall 3,950]

@, @@Nightfall

 

Without even getting to hear what her opponent was saying, Lite had walked out towards the ring, taking the far side of the area. She looked around at the fans, grinning to herself. This will be swell... I finally get to try out.. The Creepers. Let's see what Nightfall has under wing...

 

Nightfall didn't get a chance to reply. He was called out and reported to the ring. He grinned, bringing his pike along with him. He got to the ring, and the crowds' cheers soon fell.

"Hey, Lite!"

His voice was loud, but it didn't fill the arena at all.

"Try not to scare yourself!"

He laughed.

[Shift 4,272]

@,

 

"...Captain of the Shadowbolts. You know, that gang of flyers?" Bad Dreams told Silver Storm. "I'm...known publicly as Bad Dreams. I can see why you'd be suspicious of me, but trust me, you have nothing to fear...unless we shall duel at one point or you are a Wonderbolt. You see, if you know of me and Spitfire's rivalry..." Bad Dreams trailed off. Before she died, she wanted to make a few friends.

[Literally Snails 2,307]

 

 

 

 

"Wind Slicer And Midnight Glow, Report to the third stadium ring." The speakers called. The third stadium Referee was a white unicorn mare and the stadium was almost completely full of fans.

 

 

 

 

"Standoff. Please report to the first Ring! You are on the clock!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The second Stadium Referee saw that both Light Shade and Nightfall were ready. "OKay fighters, Take your stances!" He said. "Aaaaand... BEGIN!" He gave a swiping hoof gesture and jumped out of the ring.

 

"OH BOY!" Topaz announced excitedly. "It looks like Nightfall and Light Shade are ready to spill some major blood! Don't you just love it?!?"

Edited May 4, 2013 by Topaz