r/whowouldwin • u/mrcelophane ​ • Nov 24 '14

Character Scramble! Character Scramble II Round 2B Fight: Musical Massacre

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adapted from a suggestion by /u/xahhfink6

Both teams find themselves transported from wherever they were to what seems to be a board room. In the center of the table that the team is seated around is a computer connected to a projector.

The following message is projected into your team's mind:

"Congratulations on your win. Please enjoy the weekend off. Everything on the table is at your disposal for the remainder of the tournament."

On the table, your team finds 5 sets of house keys, each with a room key on it as well. Also, there are 5 USB sticks, each with the name and picture of a member from your opponent attatched via key to it. And in a brightly colored envelope, you find armbands for SUPER AWESOME MULTIVERSE MUSIC FEST as well as a list of all artists that will be present. Wouldn't you know it...each of your team members favorite artists will be there!

Exploring the house you find yourself in will also reveal a stellar 5 bedrooms, each eerily suited to a different member's needs.

Knowing the competition will not resume for at least a few days, your team takes a short look at the files for each of your opponents before someone on your team reminds them that the festival is going on, like, right now, and we should totally go over there.

Of course, the opposing team is also there. So now the game begins...you really want to listen to the music, so you can't get thrown out...but you can't just let these bastards run free.

So the trick is to see how badly you can cripple your opposing team for the fight that is coming up. That can involve incapacitating them all, of course, but can also just involve making sure there valuable equipment just isn't anywhere to be found or maybe they just drank a little bit too much and have trouble focusing the morning of the fight.

Special rules:

Team Name: Please have your team come up with a team name whilst in the boardroom.

FREEBIRD!: What are each of your characters listening to? Could be as simple as a genre, or a specific band of course.

We're here to enjoy the music!: You may need to fight here, but you aren't happy about it. What you want to do is enjoy all the music... if you kill the bands, get the festival canceled, or get kicked out then you lose will the mission. Otherwise, with the crowd caught up in the music and other events of the festival, they should be pretty distracted.

Eat Sleep Rave Repeat: There are people around 24/7 but you have the whole weekend to take them out or make them leave. Try to do it quickly since it's hard to enjoy yourself with mortal enemies breathing down your neck.

I should have read the file: You got a file about the other team since you'll be fighting them next week, but you only really skimmed it. You should have the general idea what the enemy's powers are but that's it.

Be subtle!: Remember, you don't have to kill the opposing team. You just have to damage them in some way that they would lose in a straight up fight later on. To be clear, you do not have to narrate the resulting fight.

Have fun guys!

I could make more rules in order to better get across what I want to happen, but part of the fun is being surprised but what y'all come up with so I will leave it as is.

Those of you from Round 2A who may feel like you got the shaft by getting a bar instead of a house, don't worry you are getting a similar house next round.

Also, /u/xahhfink6 's scenario was slightly different and made a bit more sense, but I had to adjust it to fit this seasons narrative (as loose as that already is). So I take full blame if this seems like a clusterfuck, but this also should give you a chance to write about something other than just a straight up fight.

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u/mrcelophane ​ Nov 24 '14

Its whatever they would wear to a music festival.

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u/armykidbran ​ Nov 24 '14

So no direct fighting just sabotage but they can use their powers to do so

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u/mrcelophane ​ Nov 24 '14

You can directly fight if you wan't, but only if it doesn't really draw attention. So I can't imagine a scenario where an all out fight happens, but I'm not the one who is well researched.

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u/armykidbran ​ Nov 24 '14

Hmm this is a really unexpected round I have to say.

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u/mrcelophane ​ Nov 24 '14

In a good or bad way? Trying to decide if there should be more like it.

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u/armykidbran ​ Nov 24 '14

Its not a straight up fight and relies on the fact that you need to make a narrative for your characters to follow. Now for someone like me thats a problem since I dont have internet at home so I have to type out big blocks of text at my school library so I usually only do an analysis of what my team would do. I can still do that but it won't get voted on because it's not a witty story and for a scenario like this It would be like a story but in bullet form which would look kinda sloppy.

I like the idea but I'm not sure how it's going to turn out, I'm interested to see the other responses and see if people make sure their characters stay in character.

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u/mrcelophane ​ Nov 24 '14

While I understand the frustration, I don't think this scenario makes it impossible to have an analysis only post. You could list ways there characters are vulnerable and how your team can take advantage of that.

As for stories getting more votes, I think that takes place regardless of scenario (or doesn't, depending on your view).

In the end though, I am always accepting feedback on how to make it better.

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u/armykidbran ​ Nov 24 '14

Yea I gave it more thought after I said that and came with your conclusion as well. However, it's still not as flashy as a story. I'm still going to do it anyway since in a competition like this it's easier to debate people's points if they're in an analysis instead of a story.

As for feedback maybe getting rid of stories next competition next time might provoke people into having in depth debates that don't rely on your writing skills to make it to the next round even if you shouldn't have won. Idk just an idea, or maybe have rounds dedicated to just analysis and debate not stories which could be the later rounds.

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u/mrcelophane ​ Nov 24 '14

Banning stories is worth a thought, but one that will likely not be well received. We will see.

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u/armykidbran ​ Nov 24 '14

Yea that's what I think too. You could always do specific rounds where stories aren't allowed like in the early rounds. I don't even read the stories in the early rounds since there's so many and I have to vote for each fight and it would take way to long to read everyone. I usually skim and do some basic research on my own to figure out which team would win.

I do like the stories don't get me wrong since some are really cool but the bottom line is ain't nobody got time for all that and it becomes really tedious really fast if everyone posts one. Just my 2 cents on the matter gonna sign up for the 3rd regardless of what changes :)

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u/7thSonOfSons ​ Nov 24 '14

The problem I have, as a story writer, with banning stories is that it means that matches are made or broken based on your team selection. Some teams have almost no chance against others in A vs B debates, but if presented as a story, with a realistic scenario that shows how it could be done, they have a much better chance of showing how there team could feasibly win, and how they in turn, could pull out a victory.

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u/armykidbran ​ Nov 25 '14

You can still do that without a story though. We can also avoid that by making sure the entries are all in the same league as each other. I just think it's kinda unfair that people think that you need to write a story to make it completely fair. Also with your team I think it's not that big of a deal since your team can hold its own in a fight. I also don't have that big of a powerhouse team but I still don't need to write stories to prove my point.

Like I said earlier I like the stories but I don't think every round needs a story response.

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u/7thSonOfSons ​ Nov 25 '14

That I can agree too, especially with (Hopefully) these tourney's getting bigger and bigger. The first "Prelim" rounds don't need stories. Especially when we aren't even sure if everyone will pull through. I can see where you're coming from on this one.

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