wRHG Tournament Round ONE: Evening the Odds (SCORE ARE UP!!!)

Started by: Hewitt | Replies: 231 | Views: 17,523 | Closed

blakphoenix
2

Posts: 411
Joined: Jun 2013
Rep: 10

View Profile
Jul 2, 2013 6:39 PM #1024602
OH GOD AZURE!! You scared me for a moment. I thought you were done with the battle already! I was yelling like "NO! I HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED YET!!"

By the way Mecha, This ol' wizard tower Zeno and Zero (and Cruz, but it didn't go with the first two) are fighting in, did my gems return it to it's days of glory? Also, who and or what did it used to defend itself from?

Those are two questions I have, unless you want Azure and myself to decide these factors on our own to give our stories unique twists. :D
Rochedan

Posts: 579
Joined: Feb 2013
Rep: 10

View Profile
Jul 2, 2013 6:47 PM #1024609
O no, I think I just misinterpreted something, crap i already started writing.

`The pair are taken to a Maximum Security Prison Planet beyond time and space, housing some of the most fiendish mutants to ever roam the galaxy. And guarded by seemingly harmless security drones and wall mounted turrets.`

Who is being guarded? the prison or Acel and Luther... I thought THE PRISON was guarded by the mounted turrets and drones. I already wrote like 3 pages starting from outside the prison :(

EDIT: I finished my entire story, I hope I interpreted it right. If not --->:(

Btw, If I could chose I would use a google document, because putting it on the forum kind of screwed up the lay-out, so please keep that in mind. I hope you guys will enjoy reading it!

[spoiler=Rochedan's entry]wRHG Tournament: Round 1 Battle /// Battle vs. Acel (The organization)
Rochedan’s entry:


A short woman with curly red hairs stood in the corridor, holding a clipboard and pencil. Her posture was elegant but it was cloaked by the white doctor’s coat she was wearing. Underneath the coat Luther saw that she was pretty muscular for a doctor’s assistant, and the redness of her knuckles told Luther enough.
Luther knew she was looking for him between the other twenty patients that came to visit the ‘doctor’.
“Doctor Operator” Luther mumbled to himself.

Ever since Luther rejected to join the more prestige combat group, the Operator released some pressure on Luther, meaning he’d only have to do small or special assignments. The special ones mostly involved liquidation or rescue missions. He also gave Luther the opportunity to start living on his own. The Operator’s servants rented a room for Luther a few blocks away from one of the many wRHG corporations. This corporation happened to be partly inside an old hospital, where Luther happened to be now. He’d been waiting for almost half an hour amid other ‘patients’. Luther knew all these patients were in fact undercover agents or other special forces, working for the Operator.

Luther stood up from his uncomfortable chair and started approaching the woman. The woman squinted her eyes for a moment, Luther figured she was in need of some glasses. Three foot away from the woman, Luther stopped and smiled awkwardly.
The woman looked on her clipboard, flipped some pages and then looked up again. As expected she looked at Luther’s forehead first, Luther assumed he was mostly recognized by his mark. This wasn’t a bad thing, he could understand it, but it also made him feel uncomfortable.
“Luther Wright?”, the woman asked business-like. Luther nodded. The woman turned around and started walking towards another corridor. While walking she waved with her clipboard as a sign that he should follow her.
Looking at the woman´s curves, Luther suddenly recognized her. It was one of Luther´s close-combat fighting mentors. She was famous in the corporation for her fighting technique and of course, her incredible posterior.
Luther didn’t bother to ask her what she was doing as a doctor’s assistant and why the Operator was in need of the best close-combat fighter to be his assistant. She'd probably lie to him or simply ignore him. She’d been Luther’s best mentor but also the most emotionless one.
The woman suddenly stopped and turned towards a heavy wooden door at her right. Luther was still deep in this own thoughts and would have bumped into her if she didn’t push Luther’s chest. Stumbling a few steps back Luther supressed his pain and rubbed over his chest with his right hand. He now also remembered she was one of the strongest inside the corporation.
The woman smirked towards Luther and knocked on the door. After a few seconds she opened the door and held it open for Luther. The two fighters underneath the doorpost was a tight fit.
As Luther passed the woman underneath the doorpost an elbow hit Luther’s stomach, but he had been expecting it and his tensed abs absorbed the impact.
“Working out haven’t you?”, the woman grinned.
Quickly Luther turned around and dodged another elbow aimed at his stomach. This time he managed to grab the elbow and push the woman towards the corridor. She stumbled for a few steps but regained her elegant posture within seconds. “Nice one”, the woman sounded disappointed. But Luther knew better, quickly closed the door as she charged at Luther again. A muffled bump confirmed what Luther had been thinking. “The elbow charge”, he mumbled to himself.
“Don’t mind Bellatrix, Luther. She’s been eager to do that for over a week now. The way you grabbed her elbow, impressive…” a monotone voice spoke.

The conflict with Luther’s old mentor made him totally forget who he was meeting. The Operator again sat in a big red chair, not facing Luther but the note board in front of him. Luther saw multiple pictures of what looked like prison cells and multiple photos of inmates holding up their prison number.
The Operator turned around in his big red chair, now facing Luther. “I hope you understand why you are here Luther? Please sit down”.
Luther did as he was told, grabbed a small chair and sat down in front of the Operator. He looked straight into the Operators red eyes. He could see the white teeth of the Operator as he spoke: “Luther, I have a special assignment for you”.
The way the Operator intonated the word ‘special’, made Luther feel uncomfortable.


After a good night’s rest, Luther felt ready and pretty eager to start with his new job. At first the mystery that cloaked the entire mission annoyed Luther, he felt tricked and uncomfortable. But this morning he felt entirely opposite, as if somebody had turned some sort of button inside his head. On his way to the science-wing of the wRHG facility, Luther overthought the previous night of planning and brainstorming.
Luther thought he did pretty well assembling his team of experts. His team consists of four members Luther included:

A scout, named Robert B-P, still a youngling but older than Luther. B-P (nickname) joined the wRHG corporation not long ago and was still a rookie amongst the others, but Luther had seen his sneaking and scouting skills to know that he would be needed on a mission like this.
The second member of his team, a former EOD-member and IIED specialist, named Martin. Luther didn’t know Martin that well, but the Operator ensured Luther that Martin would be a good addition to the team. Luther never questioned the Operator.
The third member was an expert gunslinger, named John W. H.. Getting the fastest time inside The Pitt, Luther knew Wes (as his friends call him) would be a good addition to his team.
“Yeah, it’s going to be a piece of cake”, Luther mumbled to himself as he pushed the metal door leading towards a corridor, which in turn leaded towards the science wing.
“What did you say?”. The voice surprised Luther and before Luther knew it he pinned the individual against the metallic wall. “Calm down man, it’s me, I didn’t mean to surprise you!”. Luther now recognized the individual, it was B-P, the scout. Quickly he removed this elbow from the man’s throat which pinned him against the wall.
“I’m sorry B-P, you really had me this time, I shouldn’t have done that. It’s the Roch I guess, it keeps my reflexes at max” Luther explained.
B-P rubbed his throat and straightened his camouflage jacket, then said: “It’s alright sir, maybe I shouldn’t have put on my high-tech boots, they’re designed to sneak, perhaps it wasn’t entirely your fault after all”.
The still young face of B-P made Luther forgive the attitude the grunt just gave Luther, but Luther knew the rookie was right.
Luther made a small growl to confirm B-P’s statement and proceeded towards the science wing. B-P was still walking behind Luther, but he heard no footsteps, only a few coughs and snorts made Luther aware that B-P was still behind him. I’m going to ask for boots like that, Luther thought to himself.
Upon opening two heavy metal doors leading towards the science wing, Luther’s ears got overwhelmed by multiple electric beeping sounds and vacuum-like noises. The room was relatively small, the ceiling was about 7 feet high, which gave Luther the feeling he was inside a box. On both his sides stood electric devices with multiple buttons and flickering lights. A corridor lead towards a small open area filled with some scientist and one mysterious device. Luther saw B-P was already standing amongst a group of scientist, talking to Martin the bomb-expert. “then who is walking behind me?”, Luther asked himself out loud “probably We—“, a friendly punch to his shoulder confirmed his thoughts.
“come on Luther, you’ve been tricked twice already, maybe B-P should be in charge of this mission man” Wes joked behind him. Luther grinned and shook his head.
The small open area at the end of the corridor was actually some sort of metal platform, surrounded by multiple metallic bars with blue flickering lights. Above the platform, coming from the roof, hang a big metal bulb, also flickering blue, but more intensely than the metal bars. Luther saw his team members were also impressed by the electric devices. Wes was still behind Luther, polishing his biggest revolver with a small white cotton handkerchief. The other revolver was still inside it’s leather holster, this revolver was smaller, but made from some sort of orange/brown metal, Luther figured it was made of copper, maybe bronze. Wes was the tallest of the team, almost reaching the ceiling with his old-fashioned cowboy hat. His wide jaw and small beard gave the expression one was ought not to mess with him.

Scattered across the platform stood multiple scientist with distinctive white coats, checking and observing the metal bars and the big light bulb above the platform. Suddenly all of the scientist went quiet and glanced at one of the corridors.
“Where’s my team!”, a monotone voice spoke loud and clear.
The Operator was still wearing his doctor’s coat, but now also wore shades and black leather gloves, his face didn’t show any emotion, only his posture showed his strong character.

Luther hadn’t noticed all of the scientist had left the platform, only his fellow members stood next to him. Wes on his left, B-P on his right, and somewhat behind him stood Martin, still busy with his explosive equipment. Martin was wearing a hat which hided his brown moustache as he was digging through his big military backpack.

“Martin, get in line”, Luther spoke sternly. Martin’s blue eyes met Luther’s forehead and Luther could see a red shimmer in Martin’s eyes.
“Calm down Luther, your mark is somewhat glowing”, B-P whispered.
Luther held his hand in front of his forehead, B-P was right, but the weird thing was that Luther wasn’t even enraged, barely mad.
“Interesting…”, the Operator observer Luther for a moment, then quickly started pacing up and down in front Luther and his team.

“Gentlemen, this mission will be extremely classified. Which is the reason only Luther and myself know what the exact mission location will be. Well, follow Luther’s commands and come back safe, it’s been a while since we heard from the Prison Colony...” the last few words were almost whispered, as if the Operator was talking to himself instead of Luther and his team. Luther was pretty sure he heard something he’d rather not have heard. Raised eyebrows from both Wes and Martin confirmed that they’d also heard it. B-P seemed strangely quiet.
“Alright, enough chit-chat. Let’s talk about how we’re getting there”, the Operator made a gesture toward a group of scientist, briefly a younger scientist came running with in his hand a clipboard with multiple documents.
Luther immediately recognized the documents. He left these in the hospital as he participated in his second Gladiator Tournament, but did not remember passing them to the Operator.

“These documents”, the Operator waved with the documents in his hands, “revealed to us, how to build a device”, the Operator made a gesture towards the platform Luther and his team were standing on, “which is able to teleport to other times and space”.
B-P’s mouth fell open wide, so did Martin’s. Wes kept his cool, but frowned a little more than usual. The Operator continued: “I will spare to you the science behind the device, but there’s one very important thing you need to understand. Your mission will take place about five or more years in the past, these are rough estimations. Also, which might be even more important, you only have ONE chance to teleport back to this time and space, in order to do that I gave Martin a device which is able to connect to ours and teleport ONCE”. Luther shivered every time the Operator intonated one of his words.

Martin began digging through his enormous backpack again. His head was almost as red as a tomato. “It’s in the front pocket Martin”, the Operator spoke monotone.
“Of-course”, Martin mumbled and grabbed a small device from the front pocket of his backpack. The device was small and only consisted of two buttons. Luther knew how it worked. The upper button was to make connection to the platform and the lower was to initiate the teleport frequency, giving the team a small 10 seconds to prepare for teleport.

Being distracted by Martin, Luther hadn’t noticed the Operator stepped away from the platform and now stood next to a handle.
“Good luck”, The operator grinned and pressed the handle down.


A darkness closed in on Luther, the air was so dense he couldn´t breathe nor see. Luther didn´t have the feeling he was still standing on something, completely disorientated he quickly shut his eyes and covered his ears with both of his hands while pressing his elbows against each other in front of his face. He heard sounds of people gasping for air. Just when Luther was about to go into a state of panic the darkness broke and Luther´s feet touched ground. The sudden impact made Luther fall on his knees. Quickly Luther opened his eyes and looked around him, it was shimmering, but he didn't know whether the sun was going down or coming up, hell he didn't even know if there was ssun. Wes, Martin and B-P all lay on the ground. Wes quickly stood up, so did B-P. Martin had more struggles with his backpack before standing up. They were standing in the centre of a dark and deserted basketball field. the vague silhouettes of litter across the field gave the impression the field wasn’t maintained or used for a rather long time. The field was surrounded by three buildings. The biggest one was three floors high. They all were surrounded by incredible high fences, all of the fences were covered with a thick layer of barbed wire. We’re in a prison alright… Luther thought to himself.

“Damn! I almost lost the device that can take us back home!”, Martin laughed, but it sounded rather forced. Wes grumbled and B-P laughed along nervously.
“Alright guys, I say we find some sort of map that covers the entire prison area. The Operator told me we needed to be in sector D-666”, Luther paused for a little while, and observed his team. B-P looked pretty nervous, but also eager to do something. Martin was still attaching his huge backpack to himself and looked completely occupied by doing so. Wes was casually smoking a cigarette with his right hand, but his left hand was constantly checking the guns on his leather belt, which showed he was uncomfortable.
“Any suggestions where we could look for a map?”, Luther asked firmly.
“I could check out the two smaller buildings on my own, I think I could do that”, B-P nodded to himself while speaking calm.
“Are you sure kid?”, Wes responded.
“Yeah Wes, you saw how I sneaked up on Luther”, a small blush showed on B-P cheek as Luther frowned towards him.
“Alright, Wes, Martin, follow me, let’s check out the big building. B-P meet us on the top floor of the big building in about an hour”. Luther waited for a response.
“B-P?”, Luther looked behind him only to see B-P rushing towards the smallest building which only had one floor. “show-off..”, Luther grinned. Wes and Martin laughed, but still kept a low-profile because of their unknown surroundings.
“Alright let’s go guys, I’ll take the lead”, Luther said while walking at a brief pace towards the entrance of the tallest building.
The entrance doors screake
Hewitt

Posts: 14,256
Joined: Jul 2012
Rep: 10

View Profile
Jul 3, 2013 12:36 AM #1024749
Quote from blakphoenix
unless you want Azure and myself to decide these factors on our own to give our stories unique twists. :D


Bingo.

Quote from Rochedan
Btw, If I could chose I would use a google document, because putting it on the forum kind of screwed up the lay-out, so please keep that in mind. I hope you guys will enjoy reading it!


The reason why I don't want anything short of a post in this thread is because I want a definite timestamp for entries. That and 90% of the time I don't have access to them. If it comforts you, you may also post the googledocs version to let everyone see the original formatting.
Chamel
2

Posts: 1,133
Joined: Mar 2013
Rep: 10

View Profile
Jul 3, 2013 1:02 AM #1024763
I should probably get started on mine >…< and ill do the GD thing like you allow Hewwy, just cause your special <3
Hewitt

Posts: 14,256
Joined: Jul 2012
Rep: 10

View Profile
Jul 3, 2013 1:05 AM #1024770
The what? What's a GD?
Azure
Moderator
2

Posts: 8,579
Joined: Jan 2013
Rep: 10

View Profile
Jul 3, 2013 3:03 AM #1024882
Here's mine:

Entry (Click to Show)
merich1
2

Posts: 372
Joined: Mar 2013
Rep: 10

View Profile
Jul 3, 2013 3:18 AM #1024903
Whoa. That was FAST.
ErrorBlender
2

Posts: 4,399
Joined: Feb 2012
Rep: 10

View Profile
Jul 3, 2013 3:21 AM #1024905
Better get moving as well.
Xate
2

Posts: 3,158
Joined: Dec 2012
Rep: 10

View Profile
Jul 3, 2013 3:25 AM #1024908
Make that two of them. Azure and Rochedan...sick. Mad writing skill AND earlybird bonus. Well, only one sentence came to my mind: "Yer screwed, mate. Be prepared for a Curb-Stomp Battle. Oh and NOOOOOOOOO. Let me get the bonus, Error! (Well...if you want to...)
Hewitt

Posts: 14,256
Joined: Jul 2012
Rep: 10

View Profile
Jul 3, 2013 3:26 AM #1024910
Oh nice, we have a troper in the room.

No hurry guys, I made the deadline extremely lax so there would be no excuse to not submit it on time. I don't expect you to submit well within 7+ days from now, and it serves merely as a buffer for when IRL shit come up.
ErrorBlender
2

Posts: 4,399
Joined: Feb 2012
Rep: 10

View Profile
Jul 3, 2013 3:28 AM #1024913
It isn't a one side battle... The Organization and blakphoenix are good writers too. Don't count 'em out just yet.
Azure
Moderator
2

Posts: 8,579
Joined: Jan 2013
Rep: 10

View Profile
Jul 3, 2013 3:29 AM #1024914
I completed mine extra early 1) Because I want that bonus and 2) because I have a battle with Cowboy Bodacious to complete as well. Doesn't mean I wanted to lose any quality here, though. Luckily, I opted for a nonlethal ending.
Xate
2

Posts: 3,158
Joined: Dec 2012
Rep: 10

View Profile
Jul 3, 2013 3:39 AM #1024927
Yes, but a bonus=4 votes. That's quite an advantage, and consider their skills...Perhaps...it might be the beginning of an ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN!
Hewitt

Posts: 14,256
Joined: Jul 2012
Rep: 10

View Profile
Jul 3, 2013 6:38 AM #1025026
Oh yeah, in case it wasn't clear the judge's blessing is individual and can stack. So if a story was really good and it caught both me and acute's eyes then you'll have both our blessings and thats 30 points right there.
Rochedan

Posts: 579
Joined: Feb 2013
Rep: 10

View Profile
Jul 3, 2013 8:59 AM #1025110
Quote from Mecha-Hewitt
Oh yeah, in case it wasn't clear the judge's blessing is individual and can stack. So if a story was really good and it caught both me and acute's eyes then you'll have both our blessings and thats 30 points right there.


Isn't that a bit too much of the `favour´?
Does there need to be a writer in "favour" each battle? Or is it just randomly when you're in a good mood or something? I don't really understand it's pretty vague.
Also, I got the early bird bonus right?