The Namekian announcer stepped forward onto the arena, giving the crowd a short wave before bowing. "Hello and welcome, everyone, to the land of the wildcards, those who have been eliminated thus far are now given a chance to prove themselves and fight on!" The crowd cheered, more than ready to see who would be up to the plate first out of all of those exciting fighters!
"One of our returning fighters will be Captain Salvo, a tricky fighter with her cutlass and rifle!" The crowd cheered for Salvo, and in a noticeable less reserved manner given her reputation, it would be safe to say that her efforts (plus adherence to the rules and conduct of the tournament) has earned her some respect! "She will be facing off against the portal slinging giant, Terium!" The crowd cheered for Terium as well, wondering if he had a few more tricks that he was capable of using.
The announcer then took a step back, and addressed the two fighters directly before clearing the arena. "Okay, you two! The winner of this fight will be decided by either knockout or ring-out. If the match has not naturally concluded by the time limit, then our panel of judges will independently determine a winner. The only other rule is that no form of flight may be used in the bout. If I am understood, then... Let the battle begin!"
The preliminaries of the Loser's Bracket begin! This fight will end and be judged on Monday, May 1st if a winner has not yet been decided by either ring-out or knockout by then!
Post by Captain Salvo on Apr 23, 2023 4:54:01 GMT -5
SALVO'S PL: 67,000
PL MULTIPLIERS: None
Although Salvo's battle against Zhalla hadn't exactly gone her way, there was still the saving grace of the losers bracket, which, apparently, meant a second chance at climbing up through the ranks towards victory. So long as nothing went too poorly here, she still had a very solid shot at taking home the gold! She'd spent the last short while resting and doing some light practice to keep herself spry for the next battle, and when the time came, although she was slightly late to arrive, having overslept, Salvo jogged onto the arena floor, ready and raring to go for her upcoming battle against... What was his name?
"Tedium?" Salvo mouthed to herself as the announcer declared who her opponent would be. What kind of name was that? Well, stupid names aside, pretty soon, the only thing this bloke would be was dead in the water before her Heran might! She sent a small glare towards the crowd as they quite audibly less enthusiastic about her arrival on the scene than her opponent's, but whatever. Let them jeer! Their hatred only made her stronger!
As she made her way onto the arena floor, Salvo stared across the field at her opponent, this 'Tedium' fella. And he was... Unique looking. "Wot th' 'ell are you s'posed to be?" Salvo asked him with a raised eyebrow. She'd never, er, seen anything quite like this fella before. And he sure was big... A little bit too big for the arena, even. Eh, whatever. It just made him an easier target! "Well, let's git this show on th' road, then," Salvo stated as her lips morphed and curled back into a grin. "Come on, then! Give me yer best shot, ye oversized garden snake!"
Terium slithers into the stage and uses his usual stance. He has an annoyed air about him right now, as not only does he still have to put up with this disadvantage he's been put into, but also he got basically one punched out in the last round and he dislikes that he didn't get to experiment with his portal abilities more. Still, perhaps this little captain here will give him a more entertaining experience. "Yes, I am Tear-ree-um," he decides to help her with pronouncing his name, because why not. "I am a Wyrm, draconic sort to be exact, and if it a show you desire..." his bioluminescence glowed, "Then a show you shall get, just try not to fall, it can get quite...holey if you understand my meaning." He decided to try something new today with his portals, namely, since he's stationary anyway, he doesn't really have much reason not to do this.
As to what he just did, he just opened up a done of portals throughout the arena, leading to the grass, meaning one wrong step and it's a ring out. "This should be a sufficient challenge for a little captain such as you hmm?" He casually taunted the woman, before an idea hit him just to make things even more convoluted. "Oh and do watch out for projectiles." He states before opening portals on either side of him and then proceeding to unleash hundreds upon hundreds of blasts through them, with their exits being on the sides of the arena going upward with the blasts also going through yet more portals creating a loop of endless blasts, with said portals too small for Salvo to go through.
"I do believe the humans would call this a....ah yes, Bullet Hell, as you said before, I'm a big target, simply get through this gauntlet, and you may yet reach the next challenge." of course if she does get past the gauntlet and attempts a melee attack he'll simply use a portal to attempt to put her on the grass out there as he did to Amara. As for if she uses ki, well he's got an idea on how to deal with that as well. If she somehow gets passed that a well, then he's kind of screwed due to his immense size, not that he'd tell her that of course.
WC: 396
KP: 6/6
MP: 0/6
And thus it is that Terium decided to be theatrical when Salvo made used of the term 'show', while also taking advantage of the rules to have said obstacle course be made with a healthy use of portals and ki blasts.
"Behold the Star of Arcose, my grand Vessel that shall take me beyond Arcose and into the depths of space. With the Star, I can now simply acquire the DNA I require myself!" "I wonder where my curiosity shall take me next? What specimens shall I find in the vastness of space?"-Terium
Post by Captain Salvo on Apr 28, 2023 22:28:58 GMT -5
SALVO'S PL: 67,000
PL MULTIPLIERS: None
"Tear-e-yum?" Salvo echoed as the worm thing opposite her on the battlefield corrected her pronunciation of its name. "Wotever ye say, boss." She didn't really care too much about this creature's name. In just a few moments, he'd be little else but a distant, burnt up memory. It claimed that things were about to get 'holy,' although that only confused Salvo further. Was he about to pull out a holy book and start preaching some spiel about pacifism to her? ...Oh, no, he was just going to spawn in a bunch of holes in the ground.
Salvo glanced over at the tournament organizer and furrowed her brows with a frown as she wasn't sure how strictly legal this was in the tournament rules, but decided not to raise any sort of stink about it. It wasn't like she very often operated within the confines of the law herself, anyway!
"Mighty impressive, ye oversized caterpillar," Salvo stated as the wyrm summoned forth portals that also sent hundreds of projectiles flying at her and around the tournament grounds from all directions. She'd be mighty scared if she couldn't tell each of those blasts was rather pitiful in power. Though she oddly couldn't sense much out of the wyrm itself, it was either stretching itself far too thin by attempting to use so much magic and ki all at once as some sort of intimidation tactic, or it was just pretty damn weak.
"But instead, how's about I just stand here and make ye dance around a bit for me, aye?" she declared as she drew forth her pistol and took swift aim across the battlefield at Terium. Salvo allowed her power to flare up, her coattails blowing back and her hair flowing as if a constant wind blew at her, all the while she grinned madly as her power rose. She wouldn't go all out on this creature, for the sake of having a little fun first, but like hell she was going to dance around like some monkey for it. "Bullet 'ell, ye called it? I like the sound of 'at, t' be honest. 'Ere's my bullet 'ell." And with that, Salvo blasted off a cacophony of explosions, each of which sailed through the battlefield and immediately overwhelmed the many blasts and portals Terium had placed all around, and each of which was headed straight for the wyrm!
Salvo powers up to her Buck (x4) form, putting her PL at 268,000! She then fires off [Light] Hearty Blow at Terium for a 53,600 (20%) PL attack coming for him!
Terium watched as she once again butchered his name, he more or less expected it from a pirate, oh well. Then she called him a caterpillar, which sounded like some sort of bug, something to look into later as for now he didn't really understand it. And then he sensed her powerup, deciding to do her own bullet hell with actual power put in, which to be fair he could've done as well but he wanted to be nice. "Here's my rebuttal," So before she could unleash it, he was going to need to powerup as well, which...is difficult considering the circumstances, but not impossible to pull off. The portals all mostly vanished as his power began to grow along with his body.
As he powered up he unleashed more ki blasts and portals, this time with the portals aimed at each other so as to make the ki blasts hit and create a smokescreen, then he activated Anti-Sense in order to hide his latter actions. He moved more to the center of the arena as he grew, mainly so that he doesn't end up touching outside it upon completing his transformation. As Salvo's bullet hell came at him, he unleashed one massive portal to take all the blasts in, then another to fire all those blasts back at Salvo, mainly to further distract her from his actual plan.
As he continued to grow in size massively, Terium wasn't really sure what Salvo would do in this situation, she might choose to jump upward and try to land on him, which would be rather bad, there'd be nowhere to jump to the side considering his entire body would end up covering the entire arena with his transformation so, yeah, her only avenue of escape would be to go upward. So he decided to have a set of portals set up above her with the other ends leading to the grass, just like he did with Amara. After all, it'd be getting pushed into the grass by his sheer size, or attempting to jump on him, which may end with her going into the portals and ending up on the grass anyway.
WC: 362
TWC: 758
Terium transforms into Wyrmling form (120,000 PL) in order to attempt to push Salvo off the ring, while throwing her attack back at her with portals as a distraction for said plan
2/6 KP
0/6 MP
Technique Type: Medium Defensive
Technique Name: Reflective Wormholes
Description: Terium unleashes his psionic wormholes in a different manner, this time for defense rather then for increased agility. Should an Energy attack be used against him, he'll use these to absorb the attack, and then use another wormhole to unleash said attack right back at his opponent. Similar case for physical attacks.
TP Allocation: 2 TP used for increased power, 2 for Reflective
"Behold the Star of Arcose, my grand Vessel that shall take me beyond Arcose and into the depths of space. With the Star, I can now simply acquire the DNA I require myself!" "I wonder where my curiosity shall take me next? What specimens shall I find in the vastness of space?"-Terium
Post by Captain Salvo on May 1, 2023 16:37:47 GMT -5
SALVO'S PL: 268,000
PL MULTIPLIERS: Bucko (x4)
As Salvo's blast ripped through the portals and pellets that Terium had sprinkled throughout the arena, she found herself wondering whether her next opponent would be less odd than this one. In spite of the wyrm's massive size, it seemed rather reluctant to actually engage her in any way, instead choosing to rely on these cheap parlor tricks that only a moron or a half-pint would actually fall for. All in all, she couldn't say she found the idea of her opponent attempting to form an obstacle course to score a cheap victory rather than facing her directly was very fun, although it did betray the fact that, in all likelihood, this snake was weak as all hell if it was this afraid to fight her itself.
And for its 'rebuttal,' it merely opened another portal that sent Salvo's blast flying around and back at herself. Well... Good thing that was just about the weakest sort of blast she could manage in this form. "Ye really put th' 'butt' in 'rebuttal,' ye bonehead," Salvo taunted her opponent as she wound up her arm, her shoulder joints cracking satisfyingly before she clasped her hands together in front of herself. Her gloves palms were then rubbed up against each other as a grin spread between her lips, and she then spread her hands wide. "I do applaud yer tenacity, though!" she declared before she slammed her hands together, the force of which was so great it sent a massive, powerful burst of air current that ripped ahead towards Terium.
It tore through the meager amount that remained of Salvo's attacks, and as Terium had willingly made itself a much bigger target, it was certainly going to be hard for it to avoid this one without accidentally ringing itself out! That being said, getting hit by such a powerful blast was liable to send it flying and have it be rung out regardless, as well... "Heh, I seem t' be somethin' of a master tactician meself!" Salvo proudly declared as she dusted herself off, having anticipated that the battle would not be continuing after this attack had resolved.
As Terium's barrier was fizzled, it would not have been able to reflect anything back at Salvo. Salvo attacks with [Medium] Clap of Thunder, sending a 187,600 (70%) PL attack at Terium! HP: 0/250 KP: 5/6 > 1/6 MP: 3/6 > 5/6
The clash was short, but goodness was it wild; Terium getting fireblasted by Salvo's gun pretty hard, sending debris all over the place— maybe even Terium himself if he didn't manage to defend himself. Fortunately for the crowd, the force-field that protected them held strong in the face of this, handily doing its job.
"Time!" The Namekian announcer once again braved the chaos of the arena to stop the fighters from doing anything further. "We will have to defer to our judges for this one, so please give us a moment." It didn't take all too long though, and the announcer returned with a prompt verdict. "Our winner here in this bout is Salvo!" He declared, holding a hand up towards the Heran. "This means Terium has now been eliminated. So, lets give our fighters a hearty round of applause!" Thus, the crowd did so, curious to see what would come in the next few rounds of this new bracket.
Salvo is the official the winner of this match, and will move on to the next round, whereas Terium has been eliminated.
Terium slowly got up after bouncing off the forcefield and landing on the grass. He slowly looked at Salvo and narrowed his eyes before just sighing in defeat. She both outplayed and overpowered him, the latter being expected considering her powerlevel but outplayed was the more interesting, yet still somewhat unsurprising part, afterall in order to get to her level she's bound to have been in plenty of battles and likely gathered plenty of experience, experience which is clearly lacking in. The Wyrm gave a slight bow of respect before phasing through the ground and into a portal, exiting the tournament.
Terium looked at the Colleseum the Arena was in from outside, it was an intriguing experience, and he managed to get further than he ever could have expected considering his disadvantage, so following Patchwork here was indeed worth the effort in his opinion. He kept note of each of the fighters he fought, Amara, Dosu, and Salvo, perhaps he'll meet them again someday? Hopefully on good terms though he somewhat doubts it with Dosu considering that didn't last long, nevertheless he seems to have at least gained the respect of Amara and Salvo, so there's that.
With these thoughts he turned to the horizon, and narrowed his eyes as his expression became serious. He has a potential Mind-Bending Namekian to hunt, whether he can capture him for study, or perhaps even on the off chance, recruit him, is another question entirely. With this thought in mind, he sunk back into the ground, and entered a portal, leaving the city to begin his search for the Namekian named Shroom.
With Terium out of the tournament, he now begins his search for Shroom, thus leading into him entering an AT(EXIT)
WC: 269 TWC: 1024 Total Tournament Word Count: 2813
"Behold the Star of Arcose, my grand Vessel that shall take me beyond Arcose and into the depths of space. With the Star, I can now simply acquire the DNA I require myself!" "I wonder where my curiosity shall take me next? What specimens shall I find in the vastness of space?"-Terium
Post by Captain Salvo on May 9, 2023 14:31:09 GMT -5
SALVO'S PL: 268,000
PL MULTIPLIERS: Bucko (x4)
As Terium was blasted out of the ring and the match was ultimately called in her favor, Salvo felt mighty proud of herself, Sure, maybe she couldn't quite manage to cut it in the main tournament, but at least she didn't lose to this... Thing. And there was every chance she'd still manage a win somehow at the end of all this! Surely there'd still be a decent prize for whoever took home the gold in the losers bracket. "Thank ye, thank ye!" Salvo exclaimed, bowing with bravado towards the audience clapped and cheered for it, even if they had to be specifically asked by the announcer to do so.
So far, she'd had two relative curb stomps, and a fight that could have gone either way, had she chosen to fight a bit smarter and faster. Perhaps the next bout would be a nice, even slug fest between her and her opponent, whoever they'd be.
The worm creature lowered its head at her after the result was declared - presumably, that was it bowing - before it slithered away into the great beyond. Frankly, Salvo could not say she was the biggest fan of whatever that thing was, but it had some nifty tricks up its sleeve with those portals. She'd never admit it aloud, of course, even if she had a gun to her head (the bullet would just bounce off her skull anyway), but if she hadn't had as much of a power advantage in that battle as she had, the wyrm might have given her a real run for her money with how much trickery it had tried to employ.
"A'right, then!" Salvo declared, puffing her chest out as she confidently strode off the stage and back towards the tournament grounds' exterior. "I'll do me some little warmin' up, and then pound th' next bloke's skull in just like that!" No one was gonna be stopping her at this rate - she'd bring home something for the rest of those Novas to be proud of!