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The Character Scramble is a bloodmatch tournament where people compete to analyze unique matchups and scenarios and write the best story they can. At the beginning, everyone submits characters that meet the guidelines, then those characters are randomized and distributed evenly. From then on, each week there's a new writing prompt for everyone to follow. At the end of the week, everyone votes for who they think should advance, until we have our winner at the end. The winner at the end of the tournament gets to choose the theme, tier, and rules of the next scramble, along with a sweet custom flair as their reward. The current theme is based on the mobile game Fate: Grand Order, and the current tier is anywhere from 2/10 to 8/10 DCEU Wonder Woman, using only feats from her standalone movie
Without further ado, here we go!
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[Pairings and Road to Redemption]()
The Semi-Final Round will be the following matches: /u/CalicoLime VS /u/TheMightyBox72 and /u/GlowingNipples VS /u/Voeltz
Well, it was coming to an end. All your trials and tribulations, all your triumphs and conquests, now reaching their apex. The organization your team has found themselves working for is ready to come clean. Ready to admit what this was all about: retrieving the Holy Grail. An omnipotent wish granting artifact, lost to time and space. But while you were off sun tanning and playing around in pirate days, they were doing REAL work: locating that precious goblet. Now there was only one issue, and that was finding an artifact that resonated with the grail.
Which was, apparently, more difficult than one would think. Sure there was 'The Sword of a Sun God' and 'The Spear of the All-Father', but you weren't exactly equipped to handle something on that scale. No, no, instead they'd be sending you somewhere far less dangerous, at the cost of being far more difficult to explain. And before you had a chance to argue, you were whisked back to the past, with the express direction of "Recovering the Relic"...
The Garden, Cradle of Humanity
And as your team comes to, they surrounded by the most magnificent sights and sounds. Whenever you are is breathtakingly beautiful, every tree, every blade of grass, every gust of wind so crisp and clear you'd swear it was the first. The world around you is so vibrantly alive, megaflaura and megafauna passing you by without fear or care of where you'd come from. This was a paradise, well and truly.
And as you make your way through the woods and forest, you'll notice a distinct lacking. No buildings, no walls, no... people. You were well and truly alone. Until you reached a massive clearing centered around an immense apple tree, bearing only a single golden apple. And it is here you meet your opponents, others who seek this "artifact". But the moment you pick that apple, everything changes. It is as if the world has turned against you. Wicked storms blow in seemingly from nowhere. Those same plants and animals that had seemed so idyllic a moment before were now doing everything in their power to kill you! The world was falling apart around you, and the only way to get out was to deal with the other treasure hunters. Better hurry, time is most definitely not on your side!
Normal Rules
Who Art Thou: 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.
Crit Happens: The Scramble is a game, and in the end the player always wins the game. This time the player is you, champ! That means that when your write your story, your team always comes out victorious. Even if the odds of you winning are 1 in 100, explain those odds in the analysis and then show us that 1 miracle run.
Unfamiliar Arms: 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 Wonder Woman of her lasso if you beat her 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.
Thou Art My Master: Such powerful servants and such fragile masters, how could the master hope to survive? Well, they had better, at all costs. If the master dies, all their servants go with them. So like it or not, your servants might have to put in the extra work to protect the master. But those command seals on their hand are a powerful tool...
Due Date: March 24th: Get it done you scrublords.
Round Specific Rules
Round Goal: A Single Apple: That's all it takes. All you need is to procure that apple, beat the other team, and you're done. Nothing too wild except...
The World's First Treasure: It would seem every single thing, living or otherwise, is hellbent on making sure neither your, nor the enemy, team makes it out of here with that apple. Anything that could inhibit you, will inhibit you.
No Survivors: In the beginning of time, it is kill or be killed. There's no way out of this place without killing the entire enemy team. Or letting The World itself kill them for you. How tragic.
Flavor Rules
A New World: Everything in this singularity is so clean and wholesome and fresh, untainted by time or outside influence. Is it much the same as your team knows it, or is it more akin to an alien world?
The Butterfly Effect: They say every time a butterfly flaps its wings, an angel gets its wings. Or something. With such a long gap between the present and this singularity, there's no way to tell what kind of effect your tampering is going to have on history... does it effect history?
One Last Job: This is your teams last mission together before you go on to claim the Holy Grail. What will they wish for, I wonder? And how does this fact influence their comaraderie (if there's even any left)?
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