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!

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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.

[u/xahhfink6]

Here are this week's matches. Some really cool teams so it is weird to think that only one of them is going to get the chance to face me. Good luck to everyone!

Round AC - /u/Crashwho (bot) vs. /u/Gaibon85 http://i.imgur.com/WPqzal0.jpg

Round AD - /u/armykidbran (bot) vs. /u/angelsrallyon http://i.imgur.com/LpABv9j.jpg

Round AE - /u/Dat_Bass1 (top) vs. /u/NewWhiteFeather http://i.imgur.com/BPDbudz.jpg

Round AF - /u/Cainhelm (top) vs. /u/Drosslemeyer http://i.imgur.com/23OdciL.jpg

Round AG - /u/Wandering_Librarian (bot) vs. /u/U_DONT_KNOW_TEAM http://i.imgur.com/2dsyjl4.jpg

Round AH - /u/reasonshallprevail (top) vs. /u/madsciencer http://i.imgur.com/iC9T0zM.jpg

Round AI - /u/osama_bin_downloadin (bot) vs /u/7thSonofSons http://i.imgur.com/LzM0qK1.jpg

Round AJ - /u/venicello (top) vs. /u/chickennuggetfandom http://i.imgur.com/nW0ksYC.jpg

[u/7thSonOfSons → u/[deleted]]

Whoa now, mah boi John Constantine has his fair share of trickery as well. He's escaped hell, the Presence (God Himself) took his threat of Usurping him with utmost seriousness, as well as outsmarting Merlin, Gabriel, and The Three Most Powerful Rulers of Hell, that last one all at the same time. Plus, playing dirty and underhanded is DEFINITELY one of Johnny Boys strengths, if not his greatest strength. This isn't just a battle of wits, this is a battle of a manipulation and subtleties.

[u/mrcelophane → u/[deleted]]

It took this long to realize we aren't talking about the Boy Wonder.

[u/7thSonOfSons → u/[deleted]]

Gabriel is low level trickery compared to what John has gone about. Demons? Johns got that in Spades, it's his Job to deal with those tossers, even working immortality out of the deal. Geniuses? Johns been on the Mafia, Serial Killers, and a being who took over all of Human Unconciousness. And while he hasn't had to trick his evil twin (that I know of), the Threat of Constantine stepping up to the The Presence (Not just Creator Level, but just flat out Creator).

And yeah, his Leadership skills are great, but look at what he's working with. You think Ganondorf is going to listen to Robin? You think Evil Cole is going to listen to Anyone? John has accomplished his feats almost all by himself, his team just makes it easier.

The First of the Fallen, a near omnipotent servant of God, who exists in all places at once, and has millenia to scheme and plan, was outdone by Constantine on numerous occasions. John doesn't play dirty in the way that he sacrifices others to get what he needs, he plays dirty in that he always has an ace up his sleeve, and when you whip out your own ace, you'll find that John already took it, replaced it with a get out of jail free card from Monopoly, and now has two Aces.

Every advantage you think you posses just makes you that much easier for John to take advantage of. That's what he's best at. Even if you think you're smarter than he is, hell, even if you are smarter than he is, there's no way in Heaven or Hell that you're as tricky or as cunning.