The Tunnel - RPG

INTRODUCTION

We thought it would be different, this tournament, we thought it would be more... civilized, you could say. Believe me, this is not a game, this is not jokes and laughs, this is an ongoing war, a fight for survival, bestial, evil, cruel, this is karzanhi in the fullest meaning of the word.

When we entered the game, all six of us, we were expecting a competition, a game, not this, we came so unprepared, it's humorous. We started losing lives right off the bat, and we learned to abuse any and all battle tactics we knew. Then, the worst came, the death of a teammate, one of us had fallen just too many times, ten to be exact, and he stayed down this time, he didn't vanish as was the norm, nor did he reappear in a new body.

We had about three seconds to mourn his death before the next wave came, unsurprisingly, we all fought like beasts... killing rage and elemental powers accompanied by a baleful hate so strong we were on the brink of insanity. As the fight blurred from beginning to end, we didn't even recall the boss fight, the five of us found ourselves stuck in that familiar circular room, with the glowing crystal clear Kanohi in the center sitting upon its pedestal.

As we all slumped to the ground, fatigue paralyzing our bodies, and exhaustion knocking us unconscious in the first few minutes we were there. When we woke up, the Kanohi grew steadily brighter and brighter, and we were suddenly back in the Tunnel, doomed to repeat the process again. None of us can go on; it's gone on too long, long enough that I don't even recall a Time before the Tunnel...

I can't let myself lose confidence, the enemy grows stronger, and the Announcer continues to put people into this game of death, we need to win, we need to finish this game, and destroy the Announcer, and his cruel game.

BREIF EXPLANATION

In this RPG, you fight against three waves of combatants, followed by a boss that always varies in difficulty. You travel through the tunnels, conserving lives, and racking up kills, just trying to survive, basically. The tunnels were made by a madman, nobody knows his name, or how he got the authority to imprison people in his ‘game’ and force them to fight against their will. But that’s not important (yet), what it important, is that you survive the oncoming waves of nasty things that want to eat you alive.

BATTLE DESCRIPTION

You have ten lives, body armor, weapons of your choice, you can transform into a Rahi, and you have a wrist mounted kill counter. Other than that, you have seven miles to run each day, while fighting all sorts of devilry along the way, three waves to be exact. Each wave is accompanied by a boss, a minor one, that should be fairly easy to defeat once you know how to.

Once you get to the end of your tunnel, you enter a large circular arena, where the real boss of that particular tunnel you just arrived from awaits. Once (or if) you kill him/it, you’ll head on into another circular room at the other end of the arena, in which you will get a night’s rest, after that you’ll be teleported to the start of the next tunnel, and the process starts all over again.

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Imagine a wooden wheel, eight spokes to this wheel, and each spoke it a tunnel, with the circle in the middle being the boss area. The circle is cut up into eight smaller rooms, each tunnel leading into one of these rooms (which are all blocked off from the others).

Okay, each tunnel (which is at least a half mile in width and height, and six or seven miles long) ends abruptly, with a large circular doorway the leads into the one of the five (or eight) circular arenas. There they combat against a boss, and once they defeat it another circular doorway opens up at the side of the arena on the opposite side of the entrance that leads back into the tunnel.

Once the get through this second doorway, they arrive in a small circular room, with a large circle made up of runes in the middle, pulsing with blue light. In the very center of the room is a pedestal with a crystal clear glowing Kanohi Avohkki sitting on it. It slowly glows brighter over time, and they are teleported to the beginning of the next tunnel in a flash of blue and white light.

A basic idea of the tunnels and the whole makeup of the game location.

CHARACTER PROFILE AND IMPRISONMENT(creation)

You awake in a circular room, five other beings scattered around you, each of them also stirring. You notice the armor covering your body, and the weapon next to you, and a weird device strapped onto your arm… however, before you can even take a look around to see where you are exactly, a circular door opens up in front of you, and as you get up and walk through it curiously, followed by the other five beings, the door slams shut, leaving the six of you to walk further onward into the mysterious field of black rocks…

No rule breakers, everyone here is an experienced Role Player, and knows what I’m talking about. Keep it real, yanno. Oh, and no Kanohi, sorry, but they’re just not here. If it’s too big of a problem, or people don’t like it, then I’ll allow Kanohi at some point in the game.

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RULES ‘N STUFF

These rules are to be read, duplicated, and followed, otherwise punishment will ensue.

One: All forum rules apply to this RPG, follow them as if you would follow these rules.

Two: You may not, at any given time in this RPG, disobey the standard way the game is played, if you do attempt to deviate from said way of playing, you’ll be warned once, and after that warning more extreme measures will be taken to stop you. /lolevil

Three: God-modding, auto-hitting, and meta-gaming are all strictly forbidden, you will be warned if you are caught doing so, and punished if further warning it needed. G-modding may sometimes be accidental, and you will get a light warning if the staff is sure it was an accident.

Four: Play fair, even though you are killing everything that isn’t your friend, you still need to play/fight/kill within reason, sense, and logic.

Five: Listen to the RPG staff, yes, even Razgriz.

STRIKES

Three strikes, and you’re out, you get one strike every time you break a rule three times, once you earn three strikes, your character(s) are killed, and you are temporarily banned from the RPG, you’ll return once the staff thinks you’ve had enough time off from the RPG.

PUNISHMENTS

These punishments affect characters only, and only temporarily, you will be given one punishment if you break a rule more than once.

One: Character is injured.

Two: Character is permanently maimed.

Three: Character loses ability to transform.

Four: Character is killed.

These punishments will be given out depending on the rules broken, and the severity of the breakage, and its impact on the RPG.

Remember: You start at the beginning of a new tunnel.

-Skar

OOC: I might as well fill this out first:

Name: Nova
Species: Toa
Gender: Male
Appearance: Normal size, light blue armor, silver undertones
Weapon(s): Sword with unusually long hilt
Power: Blue Fire
Transformation: Kane-Ra Bull

IC (Tunnel 1):

What?

The question lingered in Nova's mind as he sat up, echoing incessantly. Sadly he couldn't answer it.

He placed his left hand to his chest to make sure he wasn't wounded, felt new armor there, frowned in response to the revelation. Then he felt the odd pressure on his left wrist and raised the hand. There was something there, somewhere between silver and iron-gray, an odd shape for which Nova didn't know the name. Raising his right hand, he tapped it. Nothing.

He was in the dark, he noticed. Near as he could tell, the walls were a dark gray-brown: the color of rock. Nova stood up unsteadily; his legs were still weak. Still nothing happened.

That question came to him again:

What?

It didn't apply as well to the current situation, but still.

Then there was a hiss. Directly ahead of the Toa of Fire, a crescent of dim light was appearing, slowly reaching downwards toward the floor. A door.

Now what?

OOC: Anyone else going to join Nova?

IC (Tunnel 1):

Movement.

Nova turned to his left. He'd seen the change in shadows via his peripheral vision; another Toa?

Yes. The being stood unsteadily. And then, behind him, two more. Nova turned to his right: two other Toa stood there, too. So there were six of them.

What is this supposed to be, again? he wondered.

Dim light flooded the room, but to Nova's dilated pupils it seemed bright as sunlight. Hesitantly, almost, he took a step, then another, until he was forcing himself to walk into the unknown.

The tunnel was gigantic -- on second thought, that was an understatement. It was truly ginormous, a gaping mouth into the earth of gargantuan proportions. The rocks seemed cut out of the walls, so contrasted were the shadows from the light. Unconsciously, Nova reached to his belt and found the long hilt of a sword, a sword whose blade was tucked away in a scabbard.

As his fingers brushed the hilt, a faint recollection came: fuzzy, blurred and dark like a photograph not fully developed, but still a memory; he held onto it tightly.

He'd signed up for a tournament.

So this was the "tournament". Right?

He turned back; the other Toa hadn't moved, and so Nova said, "Um -- guys? Other Toa? Shouldn't... shouldn't we move forward?"

OOC: Lets see how I do in combat RPing...
Name: Kartah
Species: Toa
Gender: Male
Appearance: this
Weapon(s): War Hammer
Power: Elemental Power of Air
Transformation: Crystal Serpent
Bio: Same thing as PB pretty much, only without the memory block. (also, this is after PB, so he has memorys of that as well.)

IC: Kartah
Kartah looked around himself. There were six Toa in all, the closest was in light blue armor, and the tunnel streached for quite a while. He was relieved when he searched his memory, he could remember this time. Then the Toa that was nearest spoke.
"We might as well. I don't see much else to do," He said in responce to the light blue clad Toa. "By the way, I'm Kartah," he added, holding out his hand. "Whats your name?"

OOC: Yet another fail on the part of AF trying to join an RPG btw LL lets have our chars be friends (I need all the help I can get )

IC (Tunnel 1):

"Kartah," Nova repeated, taking the profferred hand and shaking it. "I'm Nova." He turned around to the others. "And you guys?"

IC (Tunnel 1):

Nova didn't even wait for the others to start walking. He walked after the aged Vortixx himself. After all, there were no doorways the Toa of Fire could see in this room; so going out of the room was the only viable option to take.

But there was still one question on his mind:

"Where are we going?" he asked of the Vortixx.

IC (Tunnel 1):

The ice blast burst apart at his feet like some odd kind of bubble. What was once rock was now a three square feet region of frozen water. With a small application of flame Nova melted the ice away and walked over the patch of ground it had just occupied, as if proving a point.

Then he turned and scowled.

"If you want to be noticeable," he said, "you could start by introducing yourself. We did. And--" He broke off, staring at the Skakdi-turned-Lohrak like he was looking over him for the first time. "How did you change into a Lohrak, anyway?"

IC (Tunnel 1):

Nova had taken a long, long step back. "Kikanalo," he said. His left eye was twitching. He didn't seem to notice. "So you -- Nektann -- you're a Lohrak, and what's-your-name is a Kikanalo, and I am..."

He tightened his hands into fists and concentrated. On what, he had no idea. Feeling a little foolish, he closed his eyes, shutting the tunnel outside and trying to catch a mental glimpse of something -- anything! -- he could focus on.

Nothing presented itself; and so Nova opened his eyes again, frowning.

Except the frown felt... different.

He looked down. His new hooves greeted his eyes.

Nova bucked in shock. A second later his mind digested the fact that he had, indeed, bucked. "What in Karzahni am I?"

IC: Kartah
"You're a Kane-Ra Bull." He looked down at himself and concentrated. He felt his entire body warp and stretch, even practicing with a Mask of Mutation had never felt like this. Realizing that his eyes were closed, and that the change was done, he looked down.
"Amazzing, sssimply amazzing."
He had to smile as he stared at his long crystalline coils. He had turned into a Crystal Serpent.
"Now you guessss what I am," he hissed with delight.

OOC: Mossst embarasssing to have forgoten that my color isss green.

IC (Tunnel 1):

"Snake," Nova muttered, his feet moving quickly to get him back with the Vortixx. "S-some kind of -- of snake."

He nearly brushed the Lohrak, took a quick step to the side to avoid the deadly-looking Rahi, and hurried forward. Snakes... his one fear. Hopefully, he thought, no one would make him out to be a coward.