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Post by vastrix on May 22, 2022 11:32:40 GMT -5
The XHF Network Presents:
A CALL TO ARMS 3
Live from Thessanora Island
June 12th, 2022
Quarter Final Matches  VS  BOSS RUSH VS Team Gladiator
(Bloodied Fox, Cross Recoba, Pepe Morales, Nathan Cage & Brad Kane) VS (Niko, Tong Fairtex, Psychotic Goth, Phantam Fairtex & Kono)  VS  Team Reign VS Team HKW
(Rat Basrard, Esmerelda von Krauss, Donzig, Blaze Freya & Death Trap) VS (Cyan Komar, Alexander von Blankenship, The Shiek, Jackie Wetzle & Evan Valentine, Jr.)  VS  The Guardians VS Team NLW
(Natalie Burrows, Johnny Maverick, Adrien Cochrane, Adam Sanders & Danni Anderson) VS (Keahi Sparks, The Thespian, Felix, Tuna Meltzer & Grimgor Ironhide)  VS  BANG! Bros VS the Icons
Charlie Velez, Steve Awesome, Curtis Kanyon, El Combatiente & Spike Kane) VS (Dylan Black, Bobby Barratt, Jack Diamond, Jason Long & JFK)
RP Limits: 1 RP per Participant @ Unlimited Words
RP Deadline: June 6th @ 4:59 AM GMT / June 5th @ 11:59 PM EST / June 5th @ 10:59 PM CST / June 5th @ 8:59 PM PST
Bonus points will be awarded for using the Thessanora Island setting.
I think that's it. If you have any questions, be sure to holler at me. |
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Post by Dylan on May 22, 2022 18:22:57 GMT -5
Show date is June 12th
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Post by vastrix on May 24, 2022 18:03:44 GMT -5
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Post by edwarddubin0604 on May 24, 2022 19:52:50 GMT -5
Dear vastrix,
Would I be able to use Thamptis's spirit in a promo? Just aksing.
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Post by vastrix on May 24, 2022 19:57:40 GMT -5
Dear vastrix, Would I be able to use Thamptis's spirit in a promo? Just aksing. Bold, bold. Lemme just answer that in a DM |
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Post by vastrix on May 24, 2022 20:09:12 GMT -5
And this goes out to anyone else. If you have ANY questions about the setting, ask and you will get an answer. Even if I have to make something up on the fly.
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Post by Venom 🕷 on May 24, 2022 21:55:13 GMT -5
And this goes out to anyone else. If you have ANY questions about the setting, ask and you will get an answer. Even if I have to make something up on the fly. Can you please post the wording on the graphic in a regular post. I’m having a hard time reading it. |
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Post by vastrix on May 24, 2022 22:52:39 GMT -5
In the aftermath of the Rumble, we move on to the next. The prize is five positions in Overheated to see who will go on to Night of Champions to take on the X*Crown champion. It takes a lot of courage and team work to answer the call. A Call to Arms.
This is the third year of the tournament that takes place in one night. Five people teams will go into this and face off in elimination matches. The survivors go onto the next round until one team stands above the rest. All five of the surviving team (even if eliminated early on) will go on to Overheated to face the fed reps in matches.
Last year, teams spent two weeks living in Eastern State Penitentiary before the event. Looking at ghosts and generally working to bind together as team mates. This year will be different. This year we are going to a little island off of the coast of Tunisia. An ancient island untouched by the footprint of mankind in decades. A land of forgotten ruins, a cursed castle, endless beaches, an abandoned resort, caverns, and more. The show itself will take place in Thamptis Castle with a host named Nebiryau, a secretive multimillionaire that lives in Tunisia. What secrets will you uncover at Thessanora Island?
Those participating in this year’s event will select a place to begin their two weeks. They will be allowed to go anywhere on the map. Large details about the places will be detailed here, but you are free to make up your own as you explore the island. Dangers lurk around every corner as well the possibility of wealth and glory.
Port City of Ozirwell
We will begin with the port city of Ozirwell. It’s the ruins of an ancient city that have been undisturbed for over a hundred years. Once upon a time it was a naval base and trading post for Carthage. A major defeat here that went unrecorded during the First Punic War that led Carthage to its downfall. Researchers and adventurers have tried to study the port city, but only one man ever made it back alive. In his final moments, he described a brutal race of near human beings with grey skin, sharp claws, ragged teeth, and a cough. Described in comparison to gollum, the creatures were named the Gol. Though later study of a single picture would come up with a very different name for the race. Asanbosam. Sharp iron claws that allow them to hang upside down from trees and iron fangs that allow them to drink the blood of their victims. They would slaughter any team that lands on the island. XHF Management knows that there “could be” conflicts and will supply those who go to the island with mace, tasers, wooden stakes, and hammers. It is assumed that a stake through the heart will at least subdue a asanbosam like a “regular vampire”. Actual trials have not been carried out.
Official research on the creature: The asanbosam is a vampiric creature found in West Africa. The general shape of the asanbosam is human-like, but the similarities end there; its iron fangs are designed to drain the blood of its victims, and the iron hooks that serve as its feet allow the asanbosam to hang from trees like a bat does. Typically, the asanbosam is a forest-dweller, and it only attacks trespassers who unwittingly invade its territory. A closely related creature is the sasabonsam; only its wings distinguish it from the asanbosam.
The Forest of Linas
Admiral Linas of the Carthaginian Navy was wealthy from seizing Roman shipments during the First Punic War. Once the Roman Navy had broken his fleet on the Ionian Sea, he fled back to Thessanora Island and abandoned his post to hide in a thick forest. Roman legionnaires claimed the island and chased Linas into the forest. Linas was found, but his treasure was not. Linas was tortured for days to try to get him to give up the secret to his treasure before he died of his wounds. His death made the forest itself come to life and attack the Romans. Few made it out alive. The spirits of the Romans still quest for the treasure while the spirit of Linas and the forest are locked in immortal combat. Mortals who wander in the forest often get drawn into the conflict on one side or the other, but it never ends well for those poor, unfortunate souls as few escape the forest alive.
Thamptis Castle
Legends tell of an Egyptian wizard named Thamptis and two of his friends. They saved Egypt from an evil army led by a dark god that came from a portal that led to another realm. Thamptis drove the army back through the portal and sealed it. For their troubles, they were driven from Egypt by nobility that feared them for their power. Thamptis allied with Carthage and helped defend his new home from the Roman Republic, but was sealed away by a brave band of adventurers with a spellcaster from China. Soon after Thamptis and his allies were defeated, Carthage itself was defeated by Rome at the end of the First Punic War.
This is the castle where the event will take place. It’s a massive castle with many twists and turns that contains its own deadly secrets. Who will be brave enough to set up camp here?
Dark Caverns
Pirates who operated in the Mediterranean Sea between the 15th and 18th centuries used these caverns in the cliffs as a base of operations. They did not go into the rest of the island in fear of the island’s denizens. Four caverns exist that are large enough to hide nearly a dozen ships total with tunnels that connect the caverns where a bustling underground pirate city existed until being exterminated by a Spanish fleet. What secrets exist underground?
The Black Lake
A cursed lake where no life exists. A black sludge like substance crosses the lake, devouring all life that it comes across. It seems to operate off of animal instinct, though no one has determined what its limits are. An area around the lake is blighted from the tainted waters of the lake. It’s said that to touch the black ooze floating on the lake is to become attached to it and quickly consumed. Those who escape have limbs that have been partially digested from the effects of the ooze. Do you dare the dangers here to attain a sample of the black ooze for scientists to research? Or are you…sane.
Golden Veil Resort
Back in the 70’s, a man named Oskar Black had the Golden Veil Resort built to access the Endless Beach and become THE party place for all of Europe and North Africa. It ran for almost a year before the weight of missing tourists became too much to be simply swept under the rug. It became abandoned and left to the creatures of the night to claim any treasure hunters for their own.
Endless Beach
The Golden Veil Resort was built to take advantage of one of the most pristine beaches in the world. The only thing that the builders of the resort had to do was clean up the bones of people. People who were at first presumed to have been slain during the Punic Wars, but it soon became clear that people were vanishing on the beach. Bodies had to be hidden and families either given hush money or vanished as well. People would just be sucked under the surface of the sand without a trace. It is thought that the same vampiric creatures that hunt the port city also hunt the beaches like bloodthirsty antlions. The same protocols that apply in Ozirwell apply here. XHF Management have authorized mace, tasers, wooden stakes, and hammers. We really haven’t tried to kill any of these things so…be careful out there.
That is the long and short of Thessanora Island. Now, you are not required to use this setting, but we should sure love it if you could manage to do so. It’ll reflect on your score in the end. Collaborative efforts would be encouraged in this event since you are all on an island without a way off for two weeks before the tournament. The sign ups for teams will be in mid-May and once roleplaying starts there is one roleplay per team member with no limit on words.
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Post by Mongo the Destroyer on Jun 1, 2022 22:47:25 GMT -5
As per the REIGN results, Aiden Merric has been replaced on the REIGN team by Death Trap
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Post by Venom 🕷 on Jun 2, 2022 10:37:09 GMT -5
As per the REIGN results, Aiden Merric has been replaced on the REIGN team by Death Trap Eww |
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Post by mosler on Jun 2, 2022 12:52:57 GMT -5
As per the REIGN results, Aiden Merric has been replaced on the REIGN team by Death Trap Eww I hear you - not releasing a full team line-up until days before rp deadline is gross. Oh wait... |
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Post by Venom 🕷 on Jun 2, 2022 13:54:38 GMT -5
I hear you - not releasing a full team line-up until days before rp deadline is gross. Oh wait... Hey now. It’s not that we’re not releasing it, it’s that, we uh, we… oh shit I’m out of time. |
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