r/whowouldwin • u/LetterSequence • May 20 '16
Character Scramble VI Week 3 Loser's Bracket: Mystery of the Backstage Banshee
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Sup, losers. Phane’s pretty busy today, setting up a second universe and traveling soon. He’s probably so disgusted by your defeat that he’s trying to get as far away from you guys as possible. Anyway, this Round will contain Matches 20-27. The winner’s bracket will go up in a few days, so that once the voting for this round ends, the voting for the next round can start. Have fun and try not to lose again.
“You idiots! You can’t get anything right!” Phane looks at your team with anger in his eyes. “Your very first match in this tournament and you don’t even put on a show for the audience! You just get demolished!” He paces the room and rubs his temples, unsure of how to deal with this.
“One more mistake like this and you’re all going to become jobbers! You know Zack Ryder?” The team nods nervously. “You’ll be even worse off than him!” Panic begins to set in, but before they can say anything, Phane speaks up once more. “I suppose though… I can give you one last chance. You need to do one simple thing for me.”
Phane sits back down in his chair and looks at the team. “In recent days there’s been… an issue I’ve had. The wrestlers have been too scared to fight. Some sort of monster has been invading the arena. A few wrestlers say it looks like a banshee, and others claim it looks like a spooky ghost. I need you to find this monster, and bring him here! If you do, then maybe, just maybe, I’ll consider keeping you in the big leagues.” The team nods in understanding as they leave Phane’s office. “Oh, and one last thing. I’ve sent another team out already to go catch it. Whoever brings it here first won’t have to put Roman Reigns over.” The door closes, and the team gets to work.
They search everywhere they can for hints. They look in every corner, interrogate as many people as they can, examine every surface, and when their investigation is up, they finally reach their big conclusion of the monster’s location. The Locker Rooms. Sneaking inside of the locker rooms to get a jump on them, what do they see but the other team already there, with the Banshee tied up in a rope.
How are you going to get out of this one?
Normal Rules
Team Preview: 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.
You Always Go Over: Wrestling is totally real and the fights are legit, never staged at all, promise. In your write up, your team needs to win. Even if you think your team would lose 9/10 times, mention that in your post, then say how your team wins 1/10 times.
Well, It’s the Big Show: The arena will always be able to hold all the wrestlers inside. No matter if you’re a giant robot, monster, or alien thing, you’ll always find a way to fit in the ring. The ring is also indestructible, and won’t be destroyed because someone super strong jumped on it or anything like that.
Not Your Gimmick: 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 Triple H of his Sledgehammer 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.
I Guess Every Superhero Needs His Theme Music: You can’t be a wrestling team without an entrance! Give your team a song that fits them. Doesn’t matter what type of song it is, as long as they have some sort of entrance music. It is common for there to be theme music for both each wrestler individually and one for the team, depending on who they are representing when they make their entrance.
Due Date: Your writeup is due at Tuesday night, assuming I don't completely forget about this due to Overwatch and studying for finals. There’ll probably be an extension too since it’s Finals season, and I can’t expect all of you to devote your life to this scramble.
Please Vote: If you don’t vote, then you don’t win. It’s that simple. Not voting means you get kicked out of the tournament, so you should probably do that shit ASAP rocky.
Heroes Never Die!: Or villains. Whatever, I really like Overwatch. Either way, if you were killed during your opponent’s write-up, assume that through the kindness of our hearts, Phane and I brought you back to life for one last chance.
Round Specific Rules
Find That Banshee!: The entire point of this round is to bring the Banshee to Phane’s office so you won’t become jobbers. Keep in mind that Phane has sent out another team to find it too, and the first one to bring it to him wins.
Got a Clue?: Your team should find at least one clue that leads them to finding the Banshee. So, what is it? Some kind of slime trail? Wrestlers backstage giving them testimonies to work off of? Either way, you need to have some reason that you get led to the locker room. That means that if you have some sort of manager who would instantly know where they are with some sort of power, they won’t be able to use that power and would need to actually do some thinking.
Match Type: Investigation + Locker Room Encounter! The first half of this takes place in the entire backstage of the arena, so there’s lot to work with. Of course, once your investigation ends, you’ll be in a locker room. Lockers, TV’s, and water coolers and weights will litter the room, but no one ever said the fight had to stay in the Locker Room. In fact, you can approach this in a non-combat way if you so wish.
Manager Involvement: Detective. Your manager is the one in charge of leading this investigation. Using their intelligence and powers, they’ll be required to make reasonable conclusions as to where the Banshee has gone. Of course, after that, it’s back to Ringside for them, to help their team out in the fight where they can.
Flavor Rules
Walk of Shame: So some of you lost nowhere near the arena due to the DeLorean fight. So, how did you find your way back to Phane’s office? For those of you in the John Cena fight, how did your team deal with losing their match?
Old Man Jenkins!?: That’s not a banshee at all! That’s just a man in a mask! Who could possibly be underneath that mask and causing all of this trouble?
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u/galvanicmechamorph May 26 '16 edited May 27 '16
Drac was disappointed in his team. It seemed like he was the only one doing his job. Yuna had run off with no word about what he was doing, Raiden had quit and turned of his com, and Gary... well Drac wasn't even sure what Gary was doing at this point. He said he had a plan but nothing more. The one time Gary could help instead of just spectate in a challenge and he kept his team in the dark about it. Well right now Drac had to focus on the task at hand. Gary had sent the vampire to a local monster pub to check out the supernatural angle of this mystery. Dracula was never one for drinking(having stopped drinking real blood for a long time now), and this place was just so mopey. It was filled with heels, Drac feeling like the only good guy in here. He tried to hang out with some ghosts but they were so secretive. He asked the skeleton bartender what he knew but he seemed to be in the dark almost as much as Dracula was.
"Banshees? Never seen one. If you ask me," The bartender looked around and gestured for Darc to come closer, when Drac did the bartender leaned in and covered the side of his mouth with his hand. "I think there a myth." Drac has an annoyed look on his face and knew he was wasting time. Many banshee families had come to his hotel before, they surely were real. But the bartender didn't seem to take a hint. "Yeah, I've seen many vampires in my time. Phane's scrambles give me good business. But never a banshee. Werewolves, vampires, mummies, fairies, giants, demons, centaurs, orcs, even aliens. But never a banshee." The bartender said while he waved a finger at Drac, as if he was schooling the monster.
"I've lived long enough to know that for everything you haven't seen, there's ten of them in the woodwork." A voice that Drac didn't see said. He was so busy trying to ignore the skeleton bartender that he didn't hear the door to the establishment open. "My name is DIO. All caps." The new face said as he extended his hand to shake Drac's. The vampire shook it.
"Well, mister DIO all caps, care to tell me why I've never seen one if they exists?" Said the bartender, ignoring down second DIO's outstretched hand.
"Maybe because you have no eyes?" DIO said. The old skeleton must have been offended by this as his mouth opened wider than Drac had seen in all his time at the bar.
"Well mister DIO, I will NOT be talked to like that in my very own bar!" The skeleton smacked the table with his hand. He pointed to the exit. "There's the door, do I need to have my bouncers show you out or do you get the idea?"
"Gentlemen, Gentlemen, relax. No need to kick anyvone out." Drac tried to calm down the situation.
"Are those fangs I see? You're a vampire, aren't you?" DIO asked Drac, not even paying attention to the skeleton anymore.
"Vhy yes I am. Small vorld, huh?" Drac said, happy that he meant someone like him.
"So you both must be in here for the scramble, huh? Why seeing as the bus left a while ago, you guys must be the losers Phane talked about, looking for one last shot. Good luck to you both, and may the best team win." It was right after that line did Drac start putting the pieces together. The vampirism, the Japanese accent, the stupid clothes, the hair, the golden aura, and of course, the name. The team had fought against Jojo characters before, before their real first round. Then Gary had scanned them and between those entries and the after-fight talks Gary had learned about DIO. He had told Drac some helpful notes. The first thing Drac did after finding out was jump across the bar. DIO attacked as Drac jumped, smashing the stool where the count once was.
"Nice try, but you'll have to zink twice before catching me zat easily." Drac taunted as DIO missed.
"HEY! Those stools aren't chea--" The skeleton started before he was cut of by DIO.
"Za Warudo!" The blond vampire shouted, stopping time. He passed by the skeleton and punched its head, shattering it. He tried to attack Dracula but couldn't. "Curses, he's out of range. I'll just have to get in range." After that the effects of DIO's powers wear off.
"Ha, I knew zat you vouldn't be able to attack..." Drac notices the bartender and his destroyed head. "...me." Drac remembered his own wife and how she was killed, and that consumed him with rage. "You monster!" He rushed DIO before the man could react and tackled him, sending them both outside the bar. Dracula kept on hitting DIO but he retaliated with a punch that sent Drac into the outside wall of the bar.
"Zu Waru-" DIO started but before DIO could stop time again Drac used his own time stopping powers, freezing DIO in place.
"Vell, zat should keep him from killing anyvone else." Drac heard the huge clock in the nearby bell tower strike eleven. He looked at DIO. "You're a killer, and you give monsters a bad name. I zink it would be okay for you to wait here for about six hours, until your final moments, unconscious. Like zat man you killed today." Drac ran back into the bar after that, realizing that he would have to calm down the patrons. But we he got back he saw the mess of skull pieces from the skeleton start to move, combined and reattaching itself to the rest of the corpse.
"Well, that was a pain. What happened to that DIO guy?" The reformed bartender asked, like nothing was wrong.
"Vat? Vat happened?" Drac asked, amazed by the monster's resurrection.
"I'm a vampire too, see." The skeleton unsheathed its fangs to show Drac. "Or at least, I was. Skeleton vampire now."
"Vell, now I've seen everything." Drac said, relieved. But now he felt bad about DIO. He thought about unfreezing him but the other vampire almost read his mind with his response.
"Don't worry about him. He wanted to kill me anyways. And you would have to fight him no matter what. Besides, he died in his last round too. Doesn't matter, Phane'll bring him back." And with that Drac no longer felt any guilt. He smiled a fangy smile when Raiden reported something on his com.
"Drac, I found something, report back to the locker rooms soon. I'm calling the others too. Raiden out." The cyborg said before hanging up.
"Vell, it's been fun. Bye." Drac said to the barkeep before paying and leaving.