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Tourney of Random Events 2017- Round 1, Pool 2
« on: June 25, 2017, 11:40:09 PM »
Event Four- Battle of the Bands

A traditional event, the battle of the bands throws four strangers into the classical rock band roles of Lead Vocal, Guitarist, Bassist, and Drummer.  Winner is determined by crowd vote, so ability to sway an audience has a bit more weight than pure technical musical ability.

Sebastian, Okosan, The Angry Sun, and Papyrus form the first band.  Sebastian is already a composer and singer, so that's a big get, but Papyrus is a charismatic son of a bone, so how they decide to shuffle their strengths matters quite a lot.  And of course the Angry Sun is just the worst, total asshole, so he may torpedo the whole affair.

Second band comprises Katsuya Suoh, Sharena, Max Caulfield, and Scrooge McDuck. This isn't really Scrooge's biggest strength, but he is a duck of infinite wealth and almost as many talents, so perhaps he can whip the rest into shape.

Hillary Clinton, B-MO, Donald Callahan, and Captain Nemo all make up the third band.  While music isn't really their defining trait, I could certainly see all of them having some background in instruments, and could easily shuffle around everything to make something functional.

The last band is Booster Gold, Pollyanna, Angela, and Cersei Lannister.  Booster of course will relish being the front man, but I wonder if people might not mostly be waiting to see how badly Cersei manages to sabotage herself for this one...

Event Five- Clinicals

Four lucky participants have to partake of one of the biggest trials for aspiring nurses: demonstrating the ability to draw blood well.  This event tests fine motor control, knowledge of anatomy, bedside manner, and all sorts of delightful x factors.  So y'know, perfect for our purposes.

Tristan... y'know, I have no idea what the canon Tristan is like.  He no longer has super strength though, so that's a downer.

Isaac is a literal infant, but perhaps his intimate knowledge of his mother's anatomy will translate into effectiveness here.

As a wily old vet, it's plausible Gafgarion has some knowledge of field medicine.  He better hope so if he wants to move on here.

And so Julius has become a blood sucker.  What a terrible night for a random event.

Event Six- Jet Grind Radio

Our teams of hooligans have to roller-skate around a furturistic city and spray awesome grafitti tags while evading the cops.  They will be ranked by: A) Don't get arrested, B) Get all the marked locations graffiti'd up within the arbitrarily short time limit, C) Quality of Art, and D) Looking stylish while doing so.

Morgana and Megaman.exe seem like a great pair.  Morgana is all about evading capture and disrupting society, and megaman, as an entity of the MMBN Internet, is surely versed in all sorts of subversive and brilliant images.

Sir Galahad meanwhile seems at odds with the entire concept here, but his partner is Elodie, and her capacity to survive and thrive in a hostile environment by manipulating everyone around here is not to be underestimated.

Ivan and Mogu... I got nothin'.

Captain Falcon is surely the best here at evading police and going fast, so if his partner Romeo can pick up the artistic slack, they ought to do well.

Event Seven- The Horror House

The old story.  Someone built a house on native burial ground, held rituals to honor the Old Gods, buried a little girl alive in a well, fed those adorable little critters after midnight, and worst of all, two consenting young people... HAD SEX *shudder*.  And now, the old house is awake, all manner eldritch things are awake, and odds are, of the four survivors still left, only one will actually make it out alive.

Professor Layton never truly deals with the supernatural, but if there's any way to appease these angry spirits, he might just be able to figure it out and make it out of this alive.

The Dark Adonis Vyers is a proper demon, not some undead thing, so these certainly aren't his people.  But his capacity to survive amusing injuries is high, and he's an expert in getting his enemies to underestimate him.  A longshot, but not to be dismissed outright.

Eldritch location beyond mortal ken?  Yeah, this is old hat for Gilgamesh.  Then again, he may or may not have actually, technically SURVIVED his original trip to the Void, so who knows.

Labrys is used to a universe where axing elder things in the face is an effective way to get ahead in life, which probably won't work so hot here.  Still, if she's better adept at surviving encounters with the horrors than her opponents, well that's victory be default.

Short Form

Battle of the Bands (vote for ONE team)-
Sebastian (The Little Mermaid), Okosan (Hatoful Boyfriend), The Angry Sun (Super Mario Bros. 3), and Papyrus (Undertale)
VS Katsuya Suoh (Persona 2), Sharena (Fire Emblem: Heroes), Max Caulfield (Life Is Strange) and Scrooge McDuck (DuckTales)
VS Hillary Clinton (Saturday Night Live), B-MO (Adventure Time), Father Donald Callahan (Salem's lot/Dark Tower), Captain Nemo (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
VS Booster Gold (DC Comics), Pollyanna  (Eponymous), Angela (Seiken Densetsu 3), and Cersei Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Clinicals (vote for ONE winner)-

Tristan (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Isaac  (Binding of Isaac)
Gaff Gaffgarion(Final Fantasy Tactics)
Julius Belmont (Castlevania)

Jet Grind Radio (Vote for ONE team)-

Morgana (Persona 5) and Megaman.exe (Megaman Battle Network)
VS Sir Galahad (Arthurian Legend) and Elodie (Long Live the Queen)
VS Ivan Vorpatril (Vorkosigan books) and Mogu (Breath Of Fire)
VS Romeo Montague (Romeo and Juliet) and Captain Falcon (F-Zero)

The Horror House (vote for ONE survivor)-

Hershel Layton (Professor Layton)
Mid-Boss (Disgaea)
Gilgamesh (Final Fantasy V)
Labrys (Persona 4 Arena)
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Re: Tourney of Random Events 2017- Round 1, Pool 2
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2017, 12:16:30 AM »
Battle of the Bands (vote for ONE team)-
Sebastian (The Little Mermaid), Okosan (Hatoful Boyfriend), The Angry Sun (Super Mario Bros. 3), and Papyrus (Undertale)
VS Katsuya Suoh (Persona 2), Sharena (Fire Emblem: Heroes), Max Caulfield (Life Is Strange) and Scrooge McDuck (DuckTales)
VS Hillary Clinton (Saturday Night Live), B-MO (Adventure Time), Father Donald Callahan (Salem's lot/Dark Tower), Captain Nemo (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
VS Booster Gold (DC Comics), Pollyanna  (Eponymous), Angela (Seiken Densetsu 3), and Cersei Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Team 1 has Sebastian, who seems to be the best of this lot by a considerable margin.  Unfortunately Okosan and the sun are pretty much active liabilities here, so the team might concieveably lose this despite having a Disney Musical Character if Papyrus less than competent in this area

Team 2 seems okayish.  Scrooge has probably played the bagpipes at some point and for all I know Max actually knows how to play an instrument, Katsuya and Sharena probably aren't active liabilities.

Team 3 seems like it'd require knowing who B-MO is and I haven't seen that much in the way of Adventure Time.

Team 4 is probably out completely due to Cersei.

Abstaining for now but leaning Team 2 unless someone wants to make an argument for the other teams.

Clinicals (vote for ONE winner)-

Tristan (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Isaac  (Binding of Isaac)
Gaff Gaffgarion(Final Fantasy Tactics)
Julius Belmont (Castlevania)

Probably.

Jet Grind Radio (Vote for ONE team)-

Morgana (Persona 5) and Megaman.exe (Megaman Battle Network)
VS Sir Galahad (Arthurian Legend) and Elodie (Long Live the Queen)
VS Ivan Vorpatril (Vorkosigan books) and Mogu (Breath Of Fire)
VS Romeo Montague (Romeo and Juliet) and Captain Falcon (F-Zero)

Good question.  Team 1 seems like it'd be great at this... if we assume the contest takes place inside the Metaverse/Internet and utterly wretched at it otherwise due to Morgana presumeably lacking important things like -hands-.  Granted making that assumption against them would probably not be in the spirit of the tourney so yeah, sure, cat gets to carry here.

The Horror House (vote for ONE survivor)-

Hershel Layton (Professor Layton)
Mid-Boss (Disgaea)
Gilgamesh (Final Fantasy V)
Labrys (Persona 4 Arena)

Probably finds some way to logic himself out of this mess.
« Last Edit: June 28, 2017, 08:17:27 PM by Random Consonant »

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Re: Tourney of Random Events 2017- Round 1, Pool 2
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2017, 12:23:59 AM »
Sebastian (The Little Mermaid), Okosan (Hatoful Boyfriend), The Angry Sun (Super Mario Bros. 3), and Papyrus (Undertale)
VS Katsuya Suoh (Persona 2), Sharena (Fire Emblem: Heroes), Max Caulfield (Life Is Strange) and Scrooge McDuck (DuckTales)
VS Hillary Clinton (Saturday Night Live), B-MO (Adventure Time), Father Donald Callahan (Salem's lot/Dark Tower), Captain Nemo (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
VS Booster Gold (DC Comics), Pollyanna  (Eponymous), Angela (Seiken Densetsu 3), and Cersei Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Sebastian and Papyrus should be able to win this just the two of them. But....the Angry Sun I cannot imagine doing anything other than just ruining everything. Unless. UNLESS. They hold their concert Under The Sea, as Seb is a crustacean and Papyrus is a skeleton and thus does not need to breathe(I assume?) they can do this without interference from their two useless bandmates.

Also, iirc, according to the comics Scrooge plays a mean set of bagpipes, so I'd be willing to give his team 2nd place since I don't think any of his teammates are active hindrances.

Clinicals (vote for ONE winner)-

Tristan (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Isaac  (Binding of Isaac) - Isaac is very good with bodily fluids. O_O
Gaff Gaffgarion(Final Fantasy Tactics)
Julius Belmont (Castlevania)

Jet Grind Radio (Vote for ONE team)-

Morgana (Persona 5) and Megaman.exe (Megaman Battle Network) - This is a slaughter.
VS Sir Galahad (Arthurian Legend) and Elodie (Long Live the Queen)
VS Ivan Vorpatril (Vorkosigan books) and Mogu (Breath Of Fire)
VS Romeo Montague (Romeo and Juliet) and Captain Falcon (F-Zero)

The Horror House (vote for ONE survivor)-

Hershel Layton (Professor Layton) - I'm actually gonna give this to professor Layton. From what horror games I have been exposed to, being able to defeat the horror is never the right answer. At least not without solving whatever puzzle makes it vulnerable first. The other three all try to take on the plot armored horror monster, whatever form it takes, head on. Layton solves the issue the in-genre way.
Mid-Boss (Disgaea)
Gilgamesh (Final Fantasy V)
Labrys (Persona 4 Arena)
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Re: Tourney of Random Events 2017- Round 1, Pool 2
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2017, 12:46:36 AM »
Battle of the Bands (vote for ONE team)-
Sebastian (The Little Mermaid), Okosan (Hatoful Boyfriend), The Angry Sun (Super Mario Bros. 3), and Papyrus (Undertale)
VS Katsuya Suoh (Persona 2), Sharena (Fire Emblem: Heroes), Max Caulfield (Life Is Strange) and Scrooge McDuck (DuckTales)
VS Hillary Clinton (Saturday Night Live), B-MO (Adventure Time), Father Donald Callahan (Salem's lot/Dark Tower), Captain Nemo (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
VS Booster Gold (DC Comics), Pollyanna  (Eponymous), Angela (Seiken Densetsu 3), and Cersei Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire)
  I feel this team is overwhelmingly mediocre in technical ability but I'm casting my vote for them as I think they rate highly in their ability to please the crowd.  Booster fronting, Pollyanna's cheer and optimism, Angela's sex appeal (she's played a drum in her universe too), and Cersei (hopefully) being an entertaining disaster seems like a winning combo.  Somehow.

Clinicals (vote for ONE winner)-

Tristan (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Isaac  (Binding of Isaac)
Gaff Gaffgarion(Final Fantasy Tactics)
Julius Belmont (Castlevania)
Gafgarion and Julius both seem technically competent with field medicine.  However, Gafgarion lacks those intangibles empathy and bedside manner which will cause him to place behind Julius.

Jet Grind Radio (Vote for ONE team)-

Morgana (Persona 5) and Megaman.exe (Megaman Battle Network)
VS Sir Galahad (Arthurian Legend) and Elodie (Long Live the Queen)
VS Ivan Vorpatril (Vorkosigan books) and Mogu (Breath Of Fire)
VS Romeo Montague (Romeo and Juliet) and Captain Falcon (F-Zero)

Ruling out Galahad and Elodie.  Plate mail is so not suitable to this event and hitting things with swords isn't a useful skill here.
The universe likes to dump on Mogu so he'll have luck nearly as awful as Ashton.
Romeo feels like a liability who will get distracted by someone who looks a lot like Juliet.
This leaves the last pair, which doesn't appear to have any handicaps relative to the rest.

The Horror House (vote for ONE survivor)-

Hershel Layton (Professor Layton)
Mid-Boss (Disgaea)
Gilgamesh (Final Fantasy V)
Labrys (Persona 4 Arena)

All survive because Layton is the one who figures out how to break the curse.  This looks like a better outcome than summoning powerful angelic allies to purify the place (Mid-Boss), being left alone because the damned prefer keeping him alive as a buttmonkey for their entertainment (Gilgamesh), or making pacts with demons powerful enough to protect you from other horrors (Labrys).  Much as I would prefer to vote anyone other than Layton as he keeps showing up in these random tourneys and placing well to boot, believe he's clearly above the others here.
« Last Edit: June 27, 2017, 05:33:42 AM by DragonKnight Zero »

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Re: Tourney of Random Events 2017- Round 1, Pool 2
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2017, 01:34:39 AM »
Battle of the Bands (vote for ONE team)-
Sebastian (The Little Mermaid), Okosan (Hatoful Boyfriend), The Angry Sun (Super Mario Bros. 3), and Papyrus (Undertale)
VS Katsuya Suoh (Persona 2), Sharena (Fire Emblem: Heroes), Max Caulfield (Life Is Strange) and Scrooge McDuck (DuckTales)
VS Hillary Clinton (Saturday Night Live), B-MO (Adventure Time), Father Donald Callahan (Salem's lot/Dark Tower), Captain Nemo (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
VS Booster Gold (DC Comics), Pollyanna  (Eponymous), Angela (Seiken Densetsu 3), and Cersei Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire)

If Papyrus, like, kills the non-Sebastian others beforehand, team 1 has a shot.  (I'm not even sure birds or suns can really play instruments to begin with.)  I...  don't think he has it in him, though.
Team 2: I don't know Max very well, but the other two seem out of their element, and I'm not sure Scrooge can carry.
Team 3 is...  actually not terrible.  Nemo canonically plays the organ!  B-MO probably has access to a wide array of fantasy electronica.  Father Callahan...  well I don't know him, but churches have music services so he can't be completely lost.  Hillary is not amazingly useful but might work as the drummer or something.  They're gonna be stretching the classic 4 definition a lot here if they try and put on an electronic keyboard show or something, but they can probably make it work.
Team 4....  yeah, Angela is a solid asset for drawing the crowd solely because of her "blow a kiss which explodes the enemies" special, but Pollyanna will refuse to believe that Cersei is plotting against her.  People might like watching Team 4 but maybe more in a Kardashians trainwreck way than a huge cheering way.

Gonna go Team 3, but all these teams have problems.

Clinicals (vote for ONE winner)-

Tristan (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Isaac  (Binding of Isaac)
Gaff Gaffgarion(Final Fantasy Tactics)
Julius Belmont (Castlevania)

Friends with Gendo, who is probably extremely accomplished in the art of drawing blood.

Jet Grind Radio (Vote for ONE team)-

Morgana (Persona 5) and Megaman.exe (Megaman Battle Network)
VS Sir Galahad (Arthurian Legend) and Elodie (Long Live the Queen)
VS Ivan Vorpatril (Vorkosigan books) and Mogu (Breath Of Fire)
VS Romeo Montague (Romeo and Juliet) and Captain Falcon (F-Zero)

Team 2: Art is a dump stat for Elodie (except when checks like this come up) and Galahad is horrible.  They will probably both die in hilarious ways.
Team 3: There is some beautiful art in the sewer system underground at least, but nobody looks at it there.
Team 4: This team is actually kinda decent, a fast car could help a bit, but....
Team 1: Godlike at this event.  Painting Phantom Thieves logos everywhere is something Morgana has experience with, and Megman can hack the cops' systems or something while also being pretty maneuverable.  For extra fun, if they somehow get caught by the cops, they can just escape into the Metaverse / Internet.

The Horror House (vote for ONE survivor)-

Professor Layton
Mid-Boss (Disgaea)
Gilgamesh (Final Fantasy V)
Labrys (Persona 4 Arena)

Well this one is easy.  Mid-Boss & Gilgamesh will come back in the sequel as a surprise after getting sent to another dimension, but they still lose here.  Labrys is okay but has the wrong problem-solving skillset.
« Last Edit: June 26, 2017, 01:50:39 AM by SnowFire »