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RUBY

You sit on the other side of the stage now, in an auditorium full of cracked and dusty stone chairs. It's cold and uncomfortable, but the stage before you still commands your attention, with the curtains now drawn back and shadows flickering upon it.

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You are one half of a story to be played out today: either a hero or a monster. You must invent a backstory, motivation, set of powers, and anything else necessary for your monster or hero to defeat its opponent. Both consistency and creativity will be factored into scoring; for best results, tie their powers into their archetype as well as the backstory and motivation you give them.

The players in this show have been created! Now it's time to plan your attack. You can see what your opponents designed; give an explanation of how your hero or monster attacks it.

"Every year, the Dragon comes to terrorize the village. This time, a Knight has been sent to slay it."

You will be designing The Knight. Sapphire will be designing The Dragon.

Ages ago, a woman captivated by the allure of dark magic was cast out of her home village. In her time away, she nursed both her grudge and her skills, and taught herself even to tame dragons. Soon, she returned - in order to send her strongest dragon, imbued with her own power, to wreak havoc on the hometown which had rejected her.

This dragon is immense enough to crush its adversaries with its weight alone. Only its own powerful wings can carry it. This hinders its movements, especially in smaller spaces, but unless matched against a particularly agile opponent, capable of evading it, merely a swing of its tail can topple a grown man with ease. And, though its legs can be tied down, any attempt to bind its wings should prove futile against their sheer brute strength.

By the sorceress's power, this dragon's scales are impervious to any normal blades- only the inside of its mouth, if someone dares to approach its sharp teeth and fiery breath, is vulnerable to the edge of a sword. By the design of its own master, however, who wields a whip of flame in training her creatures, a flame of great heat can melt through its scales and scald its skin beneath.

It possesses no weakness to water, or to water magic, but due to the influence of its unholy master, blessed objects and weapons can deal fair damage against it.

Edited 2014-09-10 02:00 (UTC)

[GUESS WHO LOVES STORY TELLING.]

Hand me the metaphorical quill! Let's get started!

You look excited.

Ooh, Loki's all fired up!

Such is the way of these games. Now, designing a great hero to triumph over the nefarious Sapphire team ...

I'm burning with ideas! Sapphire won't know what hits them! We'll attack them where it hurts!

[ He laughs a little. ]

Alright then, where do you want to start?

They're prudes, so we must include flatulence! Crude humor always takes the cake.

We've already got the advantage over them of being cooler. Our hero needs to be a super high level one.

If that's the case, we may wanna make our guy fireproof, just in case the dragon breathes fire.

Aye, so I agree. We'll need to utilize their faults with our strengths. They're terribly prude. Did you know that? Something nefarious within the confines of that sort of scheming ...

Surprise butts!

Do you think they'd do something so predictable? ... hm ...

Oh, a secret low-brow attack! Dragon's are very proud creatures too, it would be put off by that.

I don't know much about them, honestly. It seems like a typical thing to do, and if they're prudes, maybe they're not creative.

Hold up! Don't you think we're in danger of underestimating the enemy?

A fiery bear riding knight fond of the rising moon.

[here comes the euphemisms.]

Maybe. Does that mean we shouldn't fireproof the guy?

Perhaps something more broad ...

We mean to turn the story our way so the hero wins, right? Then our hero should be clever.

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