EVENT: The Berserker Tournament

[zenderael_mods]

Who: Open
When: Friday, June 3rd to Friday, June 10th
Where: Pakerion
Before/After: --
Warnings: Violence.

[ This is a catch-all post for tourney shenanigans throughout the week. Use the subject line to indicate when a particular scene is taking place.

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Interview thread!

Friday & Saturday brackets.
Sunday & Monday brackets.
Tuesday & Wednesday brackets.
Additional brackets forthcoming. ]

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[unlikelypets]

"No shit. I didn't know that'd sever the connections like that," Chisaki said. She glanced to the side, before she glanced back at him. The fight unfolding was not of particular interest to her. "How'd you find out you were controlled? I assumed, y'know, you just kinda... were a puppet or whatever."

She shrugged.

"I never played the game. Didn't like games like this," she said. "It's like I woke up in another world."

[transfer_student]

"When you wake up, you realize the things about you that don't make any sense. And you still remember the people you spoke to who were in the process of figuring it out about themselves."

He glanced back at the arena, where the pummeling was still in full swing.

"Zenderael is more dangerous than earth, isn't it? What did you do before?"

[unlikelypets]

"I was a mechanic. Repaired... uh, you ever seen a bulldozer?" Chisaki asked, looking sideways at him. "It's way more dangerous. I never shot a bow and arrow until I got here. Or had a monster try to fucking eat me."

She muttered in annoyance, then lifted her beer stein. She tried to drink from it -- and discovered it was nearly empty.

She glared down at her mug.

[transfer_student]

A bull dozer? Does it... put bulls to sleep?

No, he decided not to ask that.

"I haven't seen one. What does it do?"

Nearly all earth professions seemed to sound closer to alchemy than anything else. But he doubted she was an alchemist.

"Did you materialize in the wild?"

She had complained about monsters several times. Sounded like trauma, to him.

[unlikelypets]

It was not trauma! (It totally was.) Monsters did not exist on Earth. No one had been eaten by wildlife in forever, as far as she knew, unless they were an idiot that provoked grizzly bears as a hobby or the like.

Zenderael lost that race.

"Yeah," Chisaki said. "Ragefang Vale." It was a rather infamous, dangerous area with a number of very strong, very hungry large cats. She looked distant. "I barely made it out of there. Probably shouldn't have, strictly speaking."

[transfer_student]

Ugh, he'd heard of it. Buying the components that came from the monsters exclusive to that place instead of hunting for them was always worth the cost.

A bit of impulsive sympathy, then, even though he usually didn't care about earthers. Probably because she was right here in front of him, looking gloomy about it.

"The merge is pretty merciless."

[unlikelypets]

A berserker in the stands ahead of Chisaki bit down into a lamb's shank. Her face paled slightly and she looked away.

"No shit," she said. She looked at her empty beer stein and tried to will alcohol back into it.

She looked back at Nova. "That's absolute bullshit, about your creator," she said. "I didn't realize they could fuck it up like that. I mostly saw it as -- no offense -- another way to get my ass killed."

[transfer_student]

"It probably is. It might be a good idea to get new shoes."

Of course, soon there would be so many earthers it wouldn't even matter. Maybe there would be a war...

[unlikelypets]

"Yeah, I figured a bunch of you would wanna kill me for where I'm from," Chisaki said. She sounded grumpy with the idea.

"What about you? You wanna kill people from Earth?" she asked. It was almost accusatory.

[transfer_student]

Not all of them...

"I'm a little resentful, sure, but you don't need to worry about me. Even if you did spill beer all over me."

[unlikelypets]

"It's the people who built the arena's fault," Chisaki grumbled. "They made the seat at a funny place. It was easy to walk into you."

This was, to put it nicely, complete bullshit. It was not unlike any other seating, on Earth or Zenderael.

"Good to know, though, I guess," she added. She looked at him, almost smiling, and caught herself. This was still a sprite -- still someone who was part of the world ripping hers apart.

[transfer_student]

Same to you, earthgirl! These worlds rip both ways, you know!

"Right, that is the beer-spilling seat. All the other seats are regular."

His hair was drying, but in sticky clumps.

[unlikelypets]

"Someone's gotta take the hit," Chisaki said. She reached over to the untended bowl of the person next to her -- who had vacated the seat -- and grabbed a couple of hardened, spiced pieces of bread from it.

She tossed one at Nova. It stuck in his hair, in one of those wonderful sticky clumps. She grinned at him.

"See?" she asked. "My beer made your hair into an awesome pub game."

[transfer_student]

WOW, SOMEONE JUST GOT THEIR ENDEARINGNESS REVOKED.

He plucked the bread out (ahh it was like tangled up that is the worst) and hurled it out into the stands.

"What's the matter with you!"

[unlikelypets]

"It's right there! It's got a fucking target painted on it!" Chisaki said, with a big grin on her face.

The worst part was she saw nothing wrong with this.

At least this time, though, Nova could see her aiming a second pepper-encrusted bread piece! She tossed it right at his hair.

[transfer_student]

Was she really still doing it? Really?

Too bad for you, Chisaki, Nova came into some money and nice components recently, allowing him to brew up a few more exciting potions he didn't usually have on hand.

He pulled a cork and flicked a vial at her, splashing out the contents toward her face.

Shrinking potion!

(thanks for the inspiration, Yonca)

[unlikelypets]

"What are you--pffflaaah!"

Chisaki got a mouthful of potion halfway through her vocalized protest. Thankfully, the potion's effects were uniform across her entire body. She suddenly diminished notably in size, shrinking down until she stood about foot high.

Her clothes thankfully shrank with her.

The result was an angry, glowering Tinysaki that stared up at Nova with a murderous yet adorable look in her eyes.

[transfer_student]

Arms folded, he looked down at her.

"I was hoping to use that on a monster, but no regrets."

A pause, before he moved a hand behind his head to check for more bread in his hair.

Stupid earth girl.

[unlikelypets]

"What the fuck!" Chisaki squeaked up at him in indignant rage. "I just ruined your long, luscious hair! You just made me pint-sized!"

She charged down the length of the bench, which was now much longer relative to her size, and threw her foot out like a karate kick. It looked ridiculous -- she was tiny and flying at him and shrieking in an absurd high pitched sort of way -- but it had its own dangers.

Such as the fact that she kept the same mass, which meant about one hundred and ten pounds of furious girl was flying at him like a cannonball.

[transfer_student]

Nova had already learned his lesson from Yonca about kicks and tiny people (or frogs), and stepped hastily to the side.

Please enjoy your flight through the air, Chisaki.

[unlikelypets]

"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOOOOU!"

Chisaki's high pitched shout of protest vanished as she landed in the stands below, with a small puff of dust shooting up to mark her distant landing.

[transfer_student]

It was too bad dispatching Heimdall probably wouldn't be that easy.

"Completely your fault!"

...Were there still bread crumbs in his hair? Ew. There were. Never forgiving you, beer-flinging earth girl.