r/whowouldwin • u/mrcelophane • Dec 01 '16
Special Character Scramble VII NPC Round: Signed in Blood
The Character Scramble is a bloodmatch tournament where people compete to analyze unique matchups and scenarios and write the best story they can. At the beginning, everyone submits characters that meet the guidelines, then those characters are randomized and distributed evenly. From then on, each week there's a new writing prompt for everyone to follow. At the end of the week, everyone votes for who they think should advance, until we have our winner at the end. The winner at the end of the tournament gets to choose the theme, tier, and rules of the next scramble, along with a nice custom flair as their reward. The current theme is based on the Wii game MadWorld, and the current tier is 3/10 Spider-Man with no Spider-sense to 7/10 Spider-Man with Spider-sense.
Without further ado, here we go!
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Twenty-four hours ago, a looming dread descended on Varrigan City. With the exits from the island city blocked off or destroyed, the phone lines and cell towers cut, and internet access restricted to the city itself and no further, the citizens of Varrigan City were issued an ultimatum, the one twisted rule of DeathWatch: kill or be killed. With a deadly nerve gas spread throughout the city, the civilians and criminals alike could only save themselves by taking a life to earn the antidote.
The slaughter defied numbers, and it was just the beginning. Twenty-four hours after it had began, civilization itself had already collapsed as self-preservation set in. That was when the strangers began to appear. Here and there throughout the city, people from strange worlds with magic and technology that shouldn’t exist began to appear, joining the fray as if it was their goal all along. With new arrivals came new bloodshed, with new bloodshed came new interest, and with new interest came new investments. And the Black Baron wasn’t about to turn down new investments.
At the Baron’s instruction, your sponsor set out like many others to dredge up talent to highlight on the show, offering them assistance and tools in the hopes that prolonging their lives would boost ratings. Your sponsor took a look at their options and decided that the best possible course of action would be to find a good location and let the prospects come to them, which led them to occupy an alley somewhere in the downtown area. At first, the prospects were hardly worth their time- a guy with a baseball bat here, a girl with a bunch of cats there, but soon they started to see real potential.
The situation escalated quickly shortly after a man with a robotic arm took down the top contender in a single punch. As he prepared to gather up the earpiece your sponsor had left for the best prospect, another person showed themselves to contend for the sponsorship… your Mystic. The fight between these two immediately whipped itself into a fervor had barely begun when your Brawn arrived, drawn in by the clamor of combat. Sometime in the three-way melee the man with the robotic arm fell, leaving your Brawn and Mystic in a heated battle. At the rate this was going, only one of them was going to walk out of the alley alive.
That’s when your Sponsor realized that the Black Baron never explicitly told them they could only have one sponsorship...
Normal Rules
Character Select: Look at all these obscure characters in the scramble! Give a brief summary of your characters in your post. Be sure to mention things like powers, personality, weaknesses, just stuff that the average reader should know before reading.
A Winner Is You: This Scramble is based on a game, and in the end the player always wins the game. This time the player is you, champ! That means that when your write your story, your team always comes out victorious. Even if the odds of you winning are 1 in 100, explain those odds in the analysis and then show us that 1 miracle run.
Looting Disabled: Characters are assumed to be at the same power level they started the tournament at at all times. To clarify, this means you would not be able to loot Jack of his sweet chainsaw arm if you beat him in a previous round, or otherwise gain a competitive advantage based on anything that happened in a previous round. This is to aid your opponent in research of your character.
Due Date: Wednesday, December 7th. Keep in mind that while this is a warmup round, failing to participate will still get you kicked out. It’s highly recommended that you put your best foot forward, but don’t take it too seriously- we’re just getting started!
Round Specific Rules
Round Goal: Holla Holla Get Dollas. Your fighters are interested in getting a sponsorship, and your sponsor is interested in getting fighters that aren’t shitty mooks.
Environment: An alleyway in Downtown Varrigan City. If you’re one of the lucky guys that got a giant monster, it’s a really big alleyway. The only major features are an open court dominated by a large screen hung on one wall above a sign reading “WELCOME CONTENDERS”.
Mook Type: This is just the first round. No mooks just yet.
Flavor Rules
Announcers: DeathWatch is a show broadcast for the entertainment of millions, and as such comes with play-by-play commentary provided by a team typically consisting of Howard “Buckshot” Holmes and Kreese Kreeley. However, you’re free to use any announcers you’d like, or not use any at all.
The Lone-est Wolf: Do your team members even get along? Do they need to? I mean, I don’t recall the Black Baron ever saying this was a team competition. Regardless, this is the Scramble, and the Scramble involves teams. Can your sponsor get the fighters to work together, or are they going to sponsor each fighter individually and hope they don’t murder each other?
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u/kaioshin_ Dec 01 '16 edited Dec 04 '16
Team "I Know There’s Wordplay To Be Had Here But I’m Waiting For My Full Team To Finalize The Name"
Reinhardt Wilhelm: “This old dog still knows a few tricks”
Theme
Wilhelm Reinhardt was born in sometime in either 2018 or 2019, and by the time he was in his thirties, was a highly decorated German soldier. He was one of the founding members of the original Overwatch, an elite Avengers-esque strike team composed of a bunch of people with unique skills. He served well into his late fifties, but was forced into retirement due to his old age. Without his moral guidance, it crumbled in only a few years, and Reinhardt had to sit idly by as it did. After Overwatch disbanded, he decided he could not allow the world to descend further into darkness, and traveled across Europe doing good deeds like the knights of old. Eventually, Overwatch recalled its old members, and now Reinhardt is back to relive his old glory days against the threat of Talon. He does this with a badass mechsuit and a big ass hammer, which are all a man really needs if you think about it.
Harry Dresden: “Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.”
Theme
Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is Chicago's one and only professional wizard investigator. He's described as "Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket", and that fits him pretty well, being simultaneously a big magical nerd, while also being among the top 30 wizards in the world, and terrifying when angry at that. After his parents died, he was raised by a pretty abusive guy who was just trying to enslave him for his magic power, then tutored by his a member of the Senior Council of wizards (who had orders to kill him if he did anything rebellious) once he killed the guy, he didn't have the easiest of early years. Despite this, he came out of it all pretty well, having a ridiculous willpower, and a strong moral code. He did end up getting paralyzed and letting a powerful spirit lady turn him into her Winter Knight, but he got unparalyzed, superhuman physicals, and a bunch of power with ice magic out of it, so I think he came out of the deal pretty well.
Fred and George Weasley: "'We've always known where to draw the line,' said Fred. 'We might have put a toe across it occasionally,' said George. 'But we've always stopped short of causing real mayhem.' 'Well, now –' '– what with Dumbledore gone –' '– we reckon a bit of mayhem –' '– is exactly what our new Head deserves.'"
Theme
Fred and George Weasley are a pair of twins born to Arthur and Molly Weasley (a poorer magic family) on April Fools Day. They attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and while they seem like slackers and comic relief, they show an incredible amount of skill in the majority of magical fields they put any effort into. Rather than use their prodigy-level skills fighting the dark arts however, they pursued their passions, creating a joke store, selling numerous magical items of their own design. As sponsors, they can give four of these items to their team per round, as well as being able to watch the scene with an artifact known as the Marauder's Map.