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Killing newcomers? Sounds like you want to rack up some points the risk-free way. That doesn't sound very respectable.

People are testing the waters they make a guy, so when no one challenges they think no one bites so they walk away. It's about bringing them back, and I don't particularly care if you respect that or not.

And for the record, there's a battle without a poll right now because I don't plan on doing this for points. If they want scored that's fine, but I'm offering spars

Delor's a good writer, if I recall. I'd rather we encourage the newcomers to fight it out between themselves. Curbstomping people isn't the best way to encourage them. Even if there's no points, it's like picking a fight with Andre the Giant.

But who knows, they could be masochists.

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But who knows, they could be masochists.

Hehehe.... *proceeds to look at his own list of opponents and win/loss ratio*
...heh.

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Delor's a good writer, if I recall. I'd rather we encourage the newcomers to fight it out between themselves. Curbstomping people isn't the best way to encourage them. Even if there's no points, it's like picking a fight with Andre the Giant.

But who knows, they could be masochists.

Then you're free to encourage them to do so. If you see something you don't like or think can be improved, take action. There are still 25 people on the list I have of people who either haven't fought, or don't have any pending battles that I know about. You're free to PM them, but if they don't see any support or feedback when all is said and done, then it doesn't matter how grueling or one sided the battle was. It just makes us the wasteland they suspected

Just to make this clear, I'll try not to infract people for bumping threads. But only if the user they wish to fight has has been on recently. If they haven't been online for a month or a few weeks then please just PM the person~

Thanks dearies~good luck and have fun~
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Is there any kind of a canon, or at least a consensus on what SP City's deal is that it even has the wRHG? Shadowkirby seemed to have done a bunch of worldbuilding...I think it was for the Suicide Sisters' demo (or at least brought up quite a few questions), but since there's never been an official description as far as I know, I thought I'd see if we could start a discussion on what kind of a scene we think our battles are occurring in.

Battles have happened in quite a few places. I burned down an old church with Bul against Lobo. Lobo and Hewitt had a fight outside of a bar, if I recall that fight correctly. A lot of urban fights, I think.

I guess the first question I'm interested in is: How does the common population react to the sudden outbreak of bloodsport?

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Is there any kind of a canon, or at least a consensus on what SP City's deal is that it even has the wRHG? Shadowkirby seemed to have done a bunch of worldbuilding...I think it was for the Suicide Sisters' demo (or at least brought up quite a few questions), but since there's never been an official description as far as I know, I thought I'd see if we could start a discussion on what kind of a scene we think our battles are occurring in.

Battles have happened in quite a few places. I burned down an old church with Bul against Lobo. Lobo and Hewitt had a fight outside of a bar, if I recall that fight correctly. A lot of urban fights, I think.

I guess the first question I'm interested in is: How does the common population react to the sudden outbreak of bloodsport?

I actually have a version of that explained in my character's story section. In which, the react to it just like ancient roman citizens reacted to roman gladiators. This is just my representation though and their reactions as well as how the system works is entirely up to you.

Now back to the actual reason i'm here. I don't want to pick on newcomers, but i also don't want to get creamed. So, I need to know who is at or near my level. About how good am I?

Yeah, it's always been really open for interpretation. Personally, I view it as free publicity for the RHG so long as no one gets hurt, but if people do it starts to come into question whether or not you're worth their profits. You are asking about the general population though, do personally the way I see it is like any other fight. A small crowd may gather to cheer them on while other people are going to freak out. Maybe there'd even be a superfan that could bother everyone

That being said, that also depends a lot on how far their going. It's all fun and games until someone gets hut, so when people start bleeding, a lot, and it gets real, people are going to get spooked

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Now back to the actual reason i'm here. I don't want to pick on newcomers, but i also don't want to get creamed. So, I need to know who is at or near my level. About how good am I?

The only person I can think of that's close to your level is Impious. I'm pretty sure there's others, XxScatterxX might be slightly above you but I think you could still beat him.
I would suggest not poking the big bad bears like Hewitt, Lobo, Errorblender, Waffles, etc. and sticking to... everyone else. Granted, I suppose that's hypocrisy coming from me.

I'm not a big bad bear. I've only got one win, and that's against you, Mal. :P

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I'm not a big bad bear. I've only got one win, and that's against you, Mal. :P

Yes, but i'm measuring my opponents in terms of talent, not wins.

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I'm not a big bad bear. I've only got one win, and that's against you, Mal. :P

And there's gonna be a loss added soon bruh.
They gon' look at you like the scared little cub you are.

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Yeah, it's always been really open for interpretation. Personally, I view it as free publicity for the RHG so long as no one gets hurt, but if people do it starts to come into question whether or not you're worth their profits. You are asking about the general population though, do personally the way I see it is like any other fight. A small crowd may gather to cheer them on while other people are going to freak out. Maybe there'd even be a superfan that could bother everyone

That being said, that also depends a lot on how far their going. It's all fun and games until someone gets hut, so when people start bleeding, a lot, and it gets real, people are going to get spooked

It just seems like that is something that just gets reached eventually. Has anyone thought up some kind of a taboo system? Or thoughts on the manner of compensation?

The way I envisioned it, the RHG is both a system and some sort of entertainment complex. The building itself etc would sport fights between two Rock Hard Gladiators, and I've drawn the line all the way back to it being similar to ancient Roman gladiator fights, but in my thoughts it spreads even further. Above all the RHG is a system in which fighters can enlist in order to gain the privilege to challenge other participants. Alongside this comes opportunities to acquire fame and money through prizes if your character would be a prize fighter (I can imagine the RHG being quite the spectacle, thus being quite famous and probably an international phenomenon), but by enlisting you'd also be allowed to use the RHG's equipment to train, research, meet others and whatnot : Shortly, be given access to highly advanced technology.

This all comes at the stakes of being eligible to be challenged by any other fighter at any given time. As far as ethics go the RHG is little concerned with its participants, meaning that your opponent may or may not as well kill you after defeating you. There's no way to know for sure what's coming for you other than the fact that there will be opponents, and there will be blood, be it on your terms or not.

As for world building, I'm not entirely sure if there's anything canon on that? I just imagine this universe being situated in a world that looks like ours, but has several other features too, like the fact that aliens, magic, superhuman abilities and highly-advanced technology are an apparent thing, and that there is a plethora of fictional locations, such as Stickpage-City where the supposed RHG building is situated, but also whatever locations that users' characters may originate from.

In the end it's all just simply up to oneself to decide what is canon and what is not. One is the master of their tiny universe, and this is where we show these to the others. How else are we supposed to explain our characters surviving if they've explicitly been killed by the other in the winning battle? Again, in the end it's all up to the writer.

So in short : The RHG is a system comparable to the old gladiator spectacles, where people can enlist themselves to gain access to the RHG's plethora of tools and materials, at the stakes of being eligible to be challenged anywhere at any given time by any one person also enlisted in the system. As far as moral standards go, the administrators of the RHG are not concerned at all with the mental state of their participants, as long as they make for a decent show and thus provide profitable income to the system.

...But that's just my view on all of it ;)

My wRHG canon. Damn. I could make a whole thread on that. I've already made a message on the thread about people's personal versions of wRHG, but I could make a whole thang and slap it up in OLit.