Open Challenge: The Rockies

[Hera Ledro]

This is a challenge open to anyone who wishes to accept it. If you do, please state and post a link to your bio.

I will be using my Jake bio (http://www.finalfantasyforums.net/galbadia-garden/hera-ledros-characters-1783.html)
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The Rockies

A large mountain range extending for hundreds of miles along the western coast of Canada. There are plenty of ledges and trees along the mountains for the combatants to make use of.

The wind roars along the mountain, ever so slowly stripping away at it, atom by atom. The trees bend and flow with the wind, pine needles flying everywhere like little green bullets. Only the truly harsh can survive this environment.

There is a small, circular patch of dust around 40 feet in diameter where the battle will begin. The combatants may use any of the elements available to them to fight in this battle.
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Jake flew along the mountains, coming to a stop by the arena he was to fight at. His grandfather, Hera Ledro, had told him to meet somebody who wanted to face him there.

The wind ruffled against Jake's red sweater, and his pink tail waved along, aggravated by the constant wind. It's blade was sharp as ever, and the rocks that blew his way were cut in half in an instant by the bade.

"Man, I knew I should've wore warmer clothes," Jake said, shiverring and rubbing his legs. His jeans were ripped and had holes in them where the wind seeped through and made his skin crawl. Jake fingered the long Soul Shredder blade that hung on his back, eager to get into a battle. It was the Kariyu-shina blood in him. He just wanted to fight so bad.

Suddenly, he heard something move behind him. Jake jumped forward, flipping and twisting around in the air, drawing his sword, and landing in the opposite direction he faced before. "Who's there?"

 

[FireFrenzy]

OOC: I am down man I'm playing Nova Carmine but concidering the vast difference in powerlevels i might be "getting" my future rifle or some orbital barages to support the war effort. I assume this is okay? its THE BOTTOM one of the 2 nova's i forgot to delete my other version when i updated and did some minor tinkering.

Nova had been getting bored waiting for her opponent to arrive on the scene, clad in thick layered Goretex clothing with a snow cameo print she was close to invisible at even at close range. Nova didn't like the fact that it was just “close to invisible” it added variables she didn't like, however she had about 2 kilometers of distance between her and her target so she figured that even if he was as powerful as she had been told he was there was noway she could be exposed.


Nova suppressed a giggle as she was looking through her binoculars and saw her opponent was clad in little more then a pair of ripped jean shorts that were fashion relics 3 years ago, probably hand me downs from his older sisters by the way they had been made. Picking up her Rifle she loaded a HE round and took aim for the base of his skull, and squeezed the trigger. The raptor silencer muffled the explosion and the subsequent muzzle flash almost into nonexistence, the odds she was compromised were close to nonexistent. The bullet took just a shade over 2 seconds to arrive at its target and Nova was always surprised how long this took even though she was armed with state of the art kit.


When the bullet was wizzing past her opponent she noticed that she had forgotten to calculate for the wind speed increasing when she was out of the relative lull behind the mountain she was on. She however noticed that she hadn't missed by a lot as she could hear her opponent yelling something like “who's there” through her directional microphone. Nova could barely restrain her laughter when she noticed that he was only carrying a small sword, and that in his effort to check behind him he had totally left his back exposed to her follow up shot. It'd be rude to not take advantage of such a marvelous opportunity, quickly correcting her scope to factor in the wind speed she reloaded her rifle and fired again this time aimed at his center of mass. The raptor silencer one again preformed marvelously, and besides the bullet was traveling faster then the speed of sound anyways, when he heard the shot he'd be long dead or dying even without the gizmo. Counting off 2 very long seconds Nova waited until she would see the impact followed a split second later by the round explosion cutting his body in half.

 

[Hera Ledro]

OOC: Could you post a link to your bio? And BTW, no matter what you use from above, it won't be of any help. And you'll see why (unless its got as much power as a nuke). The rifle's fine as long as its not a 1-hit kill or anything cheap like that.

IC: Jake held his sword front of him, it's golden blade glinting incandescent in the sunlight. He could sense somehting nearby, something not so secret, but couldn't see anything.

Then he felt something fly through the air. he moved just in time to see a bullet fly past his head. Bent away as it was by the wind, it still would've struck him in the ear. Another shot came from behinds him, and he dodged and rolled, feeling the air pushed away as it whizzed past his head. He got up facing the opposite way and stared towards the source of the bullet. There was a faint outline of someone or something in the distance, not two kilometres from where he was. That's the advantage of being part Dragon. Excellent eyesight. He stepped behind a thick tree, hiding himself from view, shouting: "So, I have to face a coward do I? Show yourself, or I will find you. You don't want me to find you." He silently grabbed on to a pine-branch and flipped up onto the branch, making not a sound as he landed.

Jake use this vantage point and jumped up into the air, high above the flat ground they were meant to fight on. Using his Earth elemental abilities, he raised a large cylidrical arena wall and fell through the hole in the ceiling. The walls were 4 feet thick and 30 metres high after he landed, as they still rose till then.

He called up through the hole in the ceiling, "Come and face me in a fair fight!"

 

[FireFrenzy]

OOC: Do i get this right? What i think your doing is raising a wall around the entire arena which is high and nice 'n' thick... (i'll assume that Nova's hight isnt that mutch higher to just watch over the wall as that would make this kinda pointless).

BIO: here

 

[Hera Ledro]

OOC: The wall is as high as it says. I'll edit it though and make it about 30 metres tall. That way you can jump over it after jumping off of the trees. And from now on, only post in the thread if you have a good IC post to go with it please. Don't wanna clutter up the thread. OOC posts go with IC posts only in RPBs

IC: Jake landed with a satisfied grin. Only a nuke could blow up that arena. And once his opponent came in, he'd seal the top to make it a fair fight. No one could escape and no one could run. This was a battle. You don't flee from battles like a coward.

"Come on!" Jake called. "Are you coming or not? Don't tell me you're to scared to come after me." Nobody except Grandpa has been able to beat me in a fair fight yet. I wonder how this person will fare. God, I wish he'd hurry up.

Jake took the time to raise a series of spikes from the ground. Each spire had sets of spikes rise up on it in random positions along the spires, and each was ranging from ten to 25 feet. It was a forest of spires.

Jake transformed into a Dragon immediately. His clothes disappeared in a burst of flame as red scales erupted all over his body. Green spikes shot along his back and green claws grew from his hands. His underbelly flashed gold. He'd grown to more than 6 feet and his muscle mass increased greatly.

Jake waited in anticipation for his opponent, the blood in his veins boiling in anxiety.

 

[FireFrenzy]

OOC: the above OOC was so I had a clear picture of what you were doing for your own post… I prefer to make a small OOC post and then forgoe the effort of writing a whole post if I’m not sure… the amount of posts I’ve had to edit and/or delete is getting to epic proportions…
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Nova was mildly amused by her opponent’s measly attempts at hiding… like a wall only 4 feet thick was going to stop a bullet… She would need a way to tell him that… Hmmm she was hearing something, quickly looking over the wall she could hear something like “come and fight like a man” which she had no intention of doing. Now she ahd the upper hand, her opponent had locked himself into a tight drum and it would be like shooting fish in a barrel, she’d need to change guns though… .300 would never penetrate a wall, even the technocracy enhanced versions of the rounds… Quickly sending up a small code pulse she felt her rifle vanish to be replaced by a more powerful one. Her own c-20a Canister rifle she loved its slightly heavier weight, it felt more “real” some how. Now for he issue of communication, she could hear him with the directional microphone that wasn’t a big issue but now to send HIM a message, he did make a nice and big wall she could use that. A few seconds of pondering later she got an idea, that movie with Simon Says and Sylvester Stalone, they had those cool graffiti bots… She bet she could do something similar, quickly explaining what she wanted to her ships AI. She had a few seconds before “the package” would be delivered; now all she needed was a way to see the look on his face… That wall would need to stay in place for about half anyways otherwise she wouldn’t have enough of the wall to tag left. But the other half was expendable, flipping her laser sight to target identification mode she looked through the scope and aimed slightly underneath where the wall joined the mountain, she hoped the mountain could stand this, it’d be a BITCH to have to explain where a whole mountain went if she accidentally blew it up, taking only one of her AFC’s and dialing it way down to 10% output she triggered the cannon.
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At first nothing really clear was happening, then a dot of light appeared in the sky, a few seconds later it grew to match the suns size and intensity before growing even further and connecting with the mountain and thinning down as the lenses focused the beam to a thin lance to remove a section of wall rather then demolishing the whole mountain peek. When focus had been attained you could see the beam’s color changing from a golden yellow to an ice blue tone, suddenly the clouds in the sky started swirling around the beam of light and then the light flashed down. Nova’s visor closed its aperture against the sudden flash of light and when it opened again she could see into the dome. It had been 10 seconds max since she had targeted the cannon and she had demolished half the mountains peek and about 2/3rds of the wall had collapsed. For sheer damage this could be rated in her top ten… It was nowhere near as damaging as when she had blown up an entire mountain with a TAT but this time she didn’t need the natives to think of her as God. She also noticed that her package had arrived and was opening a few nozzles from its top. A few moments of flurried spray painting later the wall said something to the extend of “Why would I bother this is like shooting fish in a barrel and besides this is more fun” then a single spray mount added a line underneath that nova assumed would be “this message will self destruct in 5 seconds, 4, 3, 2, 1” with the later digits being added as the count down continued.
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Indeed when the timer reached zero the paint bomb exploded in a flurry of shrapnel and quick drying paint. It probably wouldn’t do a lot of damage on the dragon wannabe but it might just paint his eyes shut. Did she say DRAGON WANNABE?? Quickly checking she was unable to see with the aperture closing she certainly hoped she hadn’t just failed to save some kid from being eaten by a pissed of dragon…

 

[Hera Ledro]

Jake felt the explosion and covered his front with his wings, closing is eyes. So that's how its gonna be eh? That's fine. I can play. Jake re-extended his wings and slashed with his sword, sending a slate of stone streaking towards his opponent. He was delighted to see that the flash was gone.

Jake jumped up over the wall and shot towards his faint opponent, moving at near-sonic speed and easily shooting through the air with no resistance whatsoever. "You brought this one yourself," Jake whispered. Jake jumped back on top of the trees and blasted a fireball straight towards his opponent. The fireball streaked towards her, threatening to scorch her alive.

Jake used this opportunity to shoot after his foe. He took his sword and slashed downwards, straight towards her head...

 

[FireFrenzy]

OOC:

moving at near-sonic speed

... In order to find out just how fast this was I did some looking on line and I found that at 3,954 meters above sea level (the highest peek in the Canadian rockies) the speed of sound is 324,22 meters per second (or 725.25 miles an hour) thus the time your character would be requiring to cover the 2 kilometers that separate our characters would be just a shade over 12 seconds call it 12,5 to take into account that your character isn't traveling at exactly the speed of sound. I'm not doing this to show off how smart i am or anything its just that i have rpbed versus some very “ruleslawery” people in the past who didn't take into account that the speed of sound doesn't get you where your going immediately. So this is kinda like a “preemptive strike”. Okay back to the topic at hand.
IC:


Nova noticed that after her flares went open that her opponent was speeding at her, a quick check with “Calculate Kinetics” told her she had 12 seconds before he'd be on top of her... All Nova knew she'd have to do was issue the okay to send him into a decaying orbit from which there would be no escape even for her opponent and his seeming recourse fullness and skills. Nova pondered the issue for a split second. Her AI would already have a “transporter lock” and his transfer to a destabilized orbit would only last a split second, afterwards she'd only have to wait until the orbital friction reduced him to his core molecule components. Just as he was so close she could see the whites of his eyes Nova sent the okay.

 

[Hera Ledro]

OOC: Try to avoid making uber long post please, kk? Try to keep it stuck to a PM so that we don't waste time in this thread trying to explain things.

This transport thing is visible though right? If not, it would be major god-moddage cuz we can't see or hear it coming and we get no time to dodge.

IC: Jake heard something above him as he shot after his foe. He looked up and saw a beam of light coming towards him. He rolled to the side, just dodging it by a hair...

OOC: Ok, I just noticed this now: we can't continue this battle. Your bio isn't recorded in FireFrenzies Coplete Stash (your character bios thread).

Sorry, man, but this is technically an illegal battle. You may have provided a link into your bio from another site, but it has to be on this site and approved (all character bios have pending approval cuz the mods won't get their asses in gear here . So all people can play with their bios right now until the mods get into the approving thing).

Man, I really am sorry. I wanted to RP you, but we're illegally battling here. I apologise if I've offended you or made you angry at all.

Best Wishes,
Hera Ledro: The Eternal Dragonic Allsie

P.S. If your bio is posted on the site and everything, maybe we can start a new battle. Thanks for it while it lasted.

P.P.S. If I've made any mistakes on this, please contact me via PM (or ask a mod about this, cuz I have no doubt that I could be very wrong) and inform me as to this. If I have made the mistake, I will edit this post and continue our RP.

 

[FireFrenzy]

OT: No biggy, i've just taken to believing that my bio's will get automatically approved noone bothers to read them all anyways people tend to think that 80 pages is a bit mutch and the transporter thing there the startrek equalivent so you probably wouldnt see it... although they never show someone unwilling beeing teleported...

And besides if that wouldnt have worked my next post would have seen enough anti matter directed your way to obliterate the very molecules you were built out of Nothing personal but a supersayjan wanna be deserves death

 

[Hera Ledro]

Whaddaya mean Super Saiya-jin wannabe I like DBZ, so what. I aint no Super Saiya-jin wannabe just cuz i like them. But I'll ask for the deletion of this thread. It's basically pointless, so I'll request its deltion. See you in LoD

 

[FireFrenzy]

So i like alot of shows but i dont go around making a character that "isn't" a SS and then have him have yellow pointy hair and other shit when one can clearly see where you got the inspiration...

Now i do need to admit i have a patchant for ripping stuff off but i tend to integrate them into a more original whole (i am ofcourse not refering to My 3rd bio who was basically Phantom renegade from medabots)