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Nov 4, 2017 7:47 PM #1485356
Who will come out on top?

Today's battle is between two powerful gladiators: Fell, the Mean Lean Viking Machine, and Jason, the True Father of the Earth!

CnC is always appreciated for both stories, which you can find below!

PitchEnder:
One Hell of a Show (Click to Show)

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GreekGladiator:
Worthy (Click to Show)
izens moved their way across the various busy roads. In one of these roads walked Jason. He wasn’t going somewhere particularly, he was just strolling, wanting to find something new and exciting. He looked around and he saw all kinds of people. Shops that popped at each side and shop owners trying to attract the most customers they could. Everything was going just good, all the people seemed like a part of machine that perpetually moved.

Jason was in an exceptional mood today. He had much energy and wanted to spend it somewhere. He was hyped and he wanted to do something. He wanted a battle. He wanted a fight.

Amongst the happiness and warmth of t
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Nov 4, 2017 8:33 PM #1485357
Let's see how this goes. Finally after nearly two months my first battle!

EDIT: Pitch you have to make the link public. It currently requires for you to request permission to view from Google Docs.
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Nov 4, 2017 8:46 PM #1485358
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Let's see how this goes. Finally after nearly two months my first battle!

EDIT: Pitch you have to make the link public. It currently requires for you to request permission to view from Google Docs.


I just checked. Both of the links are the "anyone with the link can view" link.
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Nov 4, 2017 8:57 PM #1485360
I recommend people to read my story from Docs because there it has all the different fonts and stuff that I put. In this thread, although the text was copied, the things like italice or bold fonts weren't transfered.

EDIT: Still unable to enter through Gdocs. I requested permission though :)
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Nov 4, 2017 9:03 PM #1485361
EDIT: The formatting for the In Thread version of Greek's story has been edited to closely resemble the Google Docs version.

EDIT EDIT: The Gdocs link is fixed.
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Nov 6, 2017 1:45 PM #1485391
Seriously. What two days have passed? One and a half? And yet nobody has even voted. This is both hilarious and sad.
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Nov 6, 2017 2:02 PM #1485392
Skimmed through both of the stories real quick.
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Nov 6, 2017 2:16 PM #1485393
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Seriously. What two days have passed? One and a half? And yet nobody has even voted. This is both hilarious and sad.


Patience is a virtue
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Nov 6, 2017 10:09 PM #1485397
For a battle with no votes this surely is a busy thread.

Anyways, vote goes to Pitch. Both stories could be better in many ways. Pitch's suffers from a complete lack of tension or life. It just reads like a battle that sort of happens, any kind of dialogue is filled to the brim with exposition. The lack of time invested really shows here.

Greek's starts off with a bit more colour and life to it and I certainly appreciate that, however all tension in this piece is manufactured. Fell acts very out of character. I imagine if I were Fell and I had an idiot like Jason following me, I'd just put up my middle finger, sit down at the bar and get myself a drink and not give a fuck. Here, though, Fell falls for the most predictable, cliché'd insults even though falling for such insults goes against his character, then follows a fight that's just as plain as the one in Pitch's battle and then Fell goes "Oh I really underestimated your power you're so strong and big and strong" and I roll my eyes.

So yeah that's why Pitch gets my vote. I'll do a proper, in depth critique later.
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Nov 7, 2017 7:50 PM #1485430
my vote goes to pitch though both were engaging stories though i have to say that pitch's was just that much more engaging.
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Nov 7, 2017 8:49 PM #1485435
Lol, I forgot to do my CnC! I don't know how that missed me, but here it is.

Ma first CnC (Click to Show)


Hooh. That was short and low-effort. I am expecting CnC from you guys now. I really want to see where I can improve my writing and general style.
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Nov 8, 2017 12:34 AM #1485437
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I am expecting CnC from you guys now.


Ask and you shall receive.

My main problem with your passage is, like Vern said, I don't think that Fell was portrayed correctly. Fell is indeed the type of person who wouldn't succumb to insults. When Jason said to him "I bet you can't even lift that big sword on your back!" Fell would have just reached back, grabbed the sword, lifted it up, and then put it back just to let him know that he could. Also, once Fell deems someone "worthy" then there is only two options for him: His opponent steps down and allows Fell to "surpass" them or he kills them. His quest is to be considered top dog once again, so being considered "worthy" wouldn't necessarily be a good thing. My only other major gripe would have to be that portion in the middle where they strike each other and enter this odd flashback state. I feel as if that part came out of nowhere and I frantically checked your character's profile to see if he had some sort of psychic ability or something. But, the conclusion I came to while I wrote was that something happened that triggered Fell's dream walking. That's probably not true and, if I'm wrong like I think, could you please explain?
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Nov 10, 2017 3:49 PM #1485494
Vote goes to Pitch because his battle was overall more flowing for me.

CnC for ya'll bitches.

>>Pitch, your battle was well written from a technical standpoint. Overall, though, I was never engaged. Also the whole "there weren't many monsters in the wRHG" thing is far, FAR from true. Also Also, in many ways people like Altaer and Abra are more monsters than Fell, and far more worthy of being regarded with horror and tension. Fell seems odd but really chill (literally, lol), so the tension about him seems manufactured. The wRHG handles people and beings that have slaughtered people on a whim. Fell's just another dude to them, him being special is just snowflake syndrome.

Also, Pitch, we go back to what Vern's said. Fell doesn't have anything to engage the reader, which could be fixed somewhat easily with this character. I like the concept, but he needs meat to go beyond an odd guy who fights people.

Also also, I do have a problem with how you presented Jason. Super Saiyan mode isn't even what I pictured when I asked Greek about that power. I read that and the first image was the "poop steins" animation by Richard Longflop.

>>Greek, your battle started out pretty good, but the conflict was manufactured. At least Pitch used a feasible means of conflict. Yours is the absolute horrible generic barfight. I don't know about you, but I got to bars. Shit like this doesn't just happen. There have been rowdy people at bars. Shit like this doesn't just happen. Bar tenders (at least where I live) legally have firearms they can access if this got really shitty, as well as the cops on speed-dial. This might be SP City and all, but no bartender is gonna be like "oh, hey, two freaks are ruining the joint and running off customers. Lel" I always have an issue with this trope.

Now, again, what Pitch said. Fell is super fucking chill. You seen oldfucks? Chill. This dude is 1k years old about. Serious oldfuck. And then see the point I just said to you above.

Now, onto the battle. This I just "I punch Sam. Sam shits his pants. 'Goddamn,' said Sam. A pencil flies through the air and hits me in the ass. A #2 pencil. 'Fuck no' I said." etc. I've read the notes from business meetings that have more flavor text than this. No no fuckity no no no.

Then you finally do some flavor text after I've been bored and disoriented for a bit now. Great. Except it slaps me upside the head like a hall full of horse dildos. Flashback like a flashbang to the balls. I had no clue what the fuck was going on, and the only reason I do now is I went an researched the chars again, and I'm still not entirely sure what's going on except that I'm pissed for wasting more time.

Also, you have these really fucking odd typos/malapropisms. For example: "grunted his fists" and "sat on his waist." Like, the fuck? Does this mofuggah have mouths in his palms and an detached prehensile ass on his chest?

And the conclusion. Gahfuckinglee this conclusion. I'm going to open your mouth with a carjack and shove an infinitum of NO's in with a shoehorn made from walrus dickbones. I cannot emphasize NO enough. I literally could choke a jelly fish with the amount of noping I'm doing, and jellyfish don't even have any organs I could choke in the first place that's how fucking noping this is.

Shit like this doesn't happen. People don't just make buddy buddies after a fight like this -- not these people. I don't fucking get why Jason was saying this was his fault. Like fuck no dude, what'd you think would happen when you goaded a giant sword-wearing Viking bastard? Cupcakes for breakfast? Suck it up pantsface. And Fell might be chill, but he's a warlord who's only single personality characteristic and reason for existing at all is to be the best either by surrender or death of his opponents. He's not some twankassed Hollywood hero that's too good for his own farts. Someone better fucking be crying uncle like hamlet's sexy mother.


So yeah. There you have it.
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Nov 10, 2017 5:25 PM #1485497
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"grunted his fists"


AAAAAAAAAH. OMFKSDOIDOIASJMOCXG. I JUST SAW IT. HOW THE FUCKING FUCK DID I MAKE THAT MISTAKE.


*Alphaeus' review*


I see some of the points you make and can understand why you think that. I have a really good story on my head and can't put it on paper(or in this case, computer screen). I might from time to time use phrases that make sense only to greeks. This is on me. I also recognise that I misrepresented Fell, but in my defence I had little to work with(personality-wise) except from "he's like, really chill, and like, he like never gets mad, like, never". Finally. I know realise just in what extent my name choice was bad AF.

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I'm going to open your mouth with a carjack and shove an infinitum of NO's in with a shoehorn made from walrus dickbones.


Come at me daddy.
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Nov 10, 2017 8:43 PM #1485507
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>>Pitch, your battle was well written from a technical standpoint. Overall, though, I was never engaged. Also the whole "there weren't many monsters in the wRHG" thing is far, FAR from true....Fell's just another dude to them, him being special is just snowflake syndrome.


A couple of things to say to this since I am a bit confused.

1. I was referring to actual monsters. Like, The Handyman.

2. I was referring to the arena aspect of the wRHG. The part where people participate in scheduled battles. I think you may be thinking that I'm referring to the entire wRHG as a whole.
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