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Game Master Jehova

Sounding off!

Ready when everyone else is!

Level: 3 (unchanged LOL)

Sound off. Level 3.

I'm here. Level 3

Sound off. Level 3

A win-less Bruno is sounding off for us both. Esmeralda is sharpening her teeth. :P

Crosses fingers for my battle against you Bruno! :p

Dayum..Vatale and Gin are still in their first battle.

I have a new submission I'd like to get in if possible but if I am not in in time then Durgrosh will be good to go as soon as I update his equipment. I will have the new submission ready in about 1 hour.

Shigeharu, level 4 sounding off. I may be submitting a level 3 guy tonight as well.

Well now that my first battle is done I guess I'm ready for another. Pending the official ending by the Master of the Pits of course. I have some equipment changes but they should be in momentarily.

Sound Off
Level 3

Zouh is ready

I am Level 3 finally lost

Liane is there, level 3 waiting for official decision in pit 8.

Sounding off, level 3.

Level 3.

Rolg's ready @ level 4

Arian ( the Suboptimal) sound off for Level 3

Sounding off for level 3 but I really need to redo his equipment.

I think the Ballista build wins for least optimal build submitted thus far. :P

That Ballista build kept it's name. YEAHH BALLISTA!! version 1.0 is ready for combat and has been submitted to Pit Admin for clearance as the Half-Time show. :D

Round 1 ballista fires. Round 2 ballista gets sundered *aww*.

Round 1 ballista fires. Round 2 ballista gets sundered *aww*.

That's about what I'm expecting. :P

Thanks for your patience, everyone. Looks like these are our contenders for the upcoming round:

I'll give everyone a few hours to make sure their gear is up-to-date, and this is the pit fighter they wish to be using. Once opponents are decided, gear decisions are final (those who are level four should already have updated character from their increase in level).

Also a reminder to Eben that you're welcome to toss in a 3rd level challenger if you feel like it. Opponents will be decided this afternoon.

I'm considering a few entries. If you don't hear from me about a 3rd level entry, don't hold the next round of matches up. :)

Thanks for the heads up, though.

Hi every one.

I've had some family issues in the last hours which means I will not be as available for posting. As Liane fights are usually long, it will not be fair for my opponent to wait too long for my posts. So, I will retire Liane from the running this time. But I will surely come back. With the three fights I've been in and all those I've observed, I learned a lot on the rules and the mad builds that can be made.

You can now all go an resell your bows/reach weapons and continue your normal nail-fighting. :-)

Gnasher's teeth and claws ache for blood.

Rolg's teeth also ache.

... but I'm pretty sure its because he got rabies from Gnasher's teeth.

Esmeralda's teeth ache as well, but that's because she just got done filing them into points. Yes, you read that right, she did it. Bruno's not sure how either.

Gnasher likes to share.

I posted a little about this in the test thread, but Jehova--would you be willing to "deputize" someone to setup the matches in your stead when you're too busy? I can wait, and I'm sure most people can, but it seems it'd be a good idea for instances like this where there are no more challenges or randomized matches going and we're just waiting for the pairings. The pit threads are already up, so we'd just need someone to randomize the pairings.

If you picked two people to be "deputy arbiters" or whatever, they could assign the matchups and pit numbers and while you're away kind of monitor the matches to answer minor rules questions and whatever. If the fighters were still dissatisfied after a ruling they could appeal to you and wait it out.

This way it takes some of the burden off you and keeps the matches going when you're busy.

I'd nominate Choon and Eben, for example, due to their rules knowledge and solid availability. I'm willing to help out too, if need be.
I definitely don't want to step on your toes, I just know how much work this can be.

I appreciate the vote of confidence, mbauers. ANd while I think it's generally a good idea, I'm not sure I'm confident about stepping into that role.

My rules knowledge is okay (not great; just ask Hirtz about the whole grapple sequence thing). But most importantly, I'm at the top end of my pbp capacity right now. I think i'd struggle to monitor all the fights the way they deserve.

I'm not against it; I'm just hesitant currently.

I'm in about the same boat as Eben, but have run fights before in the test arena. I'd be fine for minor stuff and clarifications, but would have to defer to Jehova if something more than slightly grey came up. Still, I appreciate the nomination. :)

Yep, and that's what I envision, too--just minor clarifications and things that require an arbiter but not necessarily interpreting vague rules. For example, just rolling for matchups-- that's something anyone could do and probably free up a good chunk of time from Jehova, you know? I'd do that if he didn't mind. I could even post the rolls here.

Hey everybody, super sorry about the delay, this does happen more frequently than I'd like, especially when I explicitly say "I'll have them up by yadda blabba" and then don't follow through.

My dear mother took somewhat ill this weekend (not super seriously, just enough that the last few days got rather jumbled around from what I had planned), and a few responsibilities fell through the cracks.

I would be totally down with deputizing some people, but I think that those roles would look more like doing randomizations and setting up fights (as mbauers said) as opposed to arbitrating matches (which really requires statblocks and such and thus can't be done by anyone who is involved in fights).

I'd prefer it if combatants didn't start their own challenge bouts without some sort of authorization, but I realize that I haven't been super consistent with getting them up, so I will count the battle between Vironus and Zouh as legitimate, but let's figure out how the deputization will work before any more posting of challenges by anyone besides me.

Anyhow, I'm exhausted at the moment, but let me get these fights up! I shouldn't be too absent for the next few days, but even when I can't check in constantly the fights seem to often run rather smoothly. I'm really appreciating the level of sportsmanship I've seen so far.

First off, we have our inaugural Level 4 bout, with Rolg vs. Shigeharu in Pit 1. I'm sure everyone is anxious to see these undefeated champions clash :D

As four our 3rd level fights, we have the following match ups. Arian will fight the next available combatant.

Elinora vs. Gin // Pit Two

Vironus vs. Basha // Pit Three

Johnny vs. Vatale // Pit Four

Bruno vs. Jezebel // Pit Five

Zouh vs. Falcon // Pit Six

Trihedron vs. Gnasher // Pit Seven

Arian vs. ??? // Pit Eight

I totally understand, Master. Life can really screw with you sometimes.

Off to my fight!

Is it normal that I fight Vironus again?
Sure in a truly randomized pick such things can happen, but thats bad for Vi.

Yup, two hits and I'm done for with you. ;)

@BASHA/Vironus, the fights were totally randomized. I hesitate to interfere personally with the randomization, although if I had noticed I might have swapped you. I'll make sure it doesn't happen a third time, but I think just go through with it for now.

Already posted. ;)

I don't think even BASHA could have stood up to the beating Bruno just took in pit 5. Good build, Jezebel.

Yeah I was wondering when someone was gonna drop the Master Summoner hammer. :)

Can I challenge Jezebel with my new guy? I haven't fought anyone yet, so I believe the needing a randomized match first before challenging doesn't apply, right?

Very fun fight Choon. I got a couple of good rolls but you were still more dangerous than I was expecting without Esmeralda. Very nice.

mbauers Jezebel is good for a challenge if it is allowed. I need to update equipment a bit before we get going though as I have a tweak or two to make.

I really hope I can get little Gnasher up to level 4 soon. He'll be so much more interesting at that level.

So will Bruno. ;)

Is anyone available to face Arian in pit 8?

In other news, Shigeharu crit Rolg for 75 damage :-/

Bruno has finished his fight, if you want to fight him, but I think Jezebel has dibs on you.

Bruno you can go ahead. I'm going to be offline until tomorrow for the most part so that way you both don't need to wait.

Hmm, Jezebel do you want to just face me in Pit 8? It should be allowed, since The Pit Master did say I was in Pit 8 vs the next available. If it ends up to be considered "unofficial", I'm cool with that. You?

I thought Jezebel was a summoner, not a ninja ;-)

Bruno, I repeat my above post except I direct it to you, not Jezebel.

What say you?