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UTAlan · « **on:** August 31, 2012, 02:21:47 pm »

Deadline: Time is up!

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NAME:	Pariah
ELEMENT:	Light
COST:	5
TYPE:	Creature
ATK\|HP:	4\|6
TEXT:	Deals spell damage, but attack inverts at start of every turn. Outcast: Switch to enemy player's side for 1 turn.

NAME:	Pariah
ELEMENT:	Light
COST:	5
TYPE:	Creature
ATK\|HP:	6\|6
TEXT:	Deals spell damage, but attack inverts at start of every turn. Outcast: Switch to enemy player's side for 1 turn.

ART:	-N/A - not allowed in brawl card design submissions
IDEA:	-Omitted to protect the ~~guilty~~ innocent
NOTES:	Designed to be a versatile heal or attack card. Can also help make mirror shield more useful. The attack power inverts at the beginning of whatever player's field it currently occupies. Example To get healing, you would switch it while it has a positive attack, that way it turns negative on your opponent's turn and heals you, then returns to you… then at the start of your turn, it turns back to positive attack… so you switch it to the opponent's side again and so forth. Because the attack switches back and forth, you can use buffs like blessing in order to increase the amount healed. With fractal, or blessing + PU, you could achieve some very good healing. Spoiler for Card Lore: The Story of Ormis the Pariah, Savior of the Lionheart Legion "Why are you such a freak?" Crusader Jasiah chided Ormis the Pariah. "Why can't you be like a normal wizard and actually KILL the things you shoot with lightning. Not HEAL them." Ormis's countenance sunk lower with each verbal blow. Dejected by the derision of Lionheart's crusaders, and unable to stand their mocking and ridicule any longer, Ormis abandoned the camp. "They'll be better off without me" he grumbled to himself as he trudged away. As Ormis wandered, alone and dejected, a light from the heavens shown upon him, and an angelic voice whispered: "Go and infiltrate the enemy camp this day." The divine being spoke, its voice echoed off the wind like the ringing of wind chimes and harps. "Do not be afraid, for the light will protect you, wear this shining cloak and the enemy will believe you one of their own. Fight alongside them for one day and then return to your true friends in due time." Saying this, the Lionheart's angelic messenger departed. Ormis did as he was instructed. To his surprise, his attacks, normally chaotic and unpredictable now consistently healed his opponents. The enemy stood dumbfounded as the foes that fell to Ormis' lightning would then rise again fully healed. The enemies of the Lionheart soon succumbed to the legion's newfound tenacity and the legion prevailed. Upon returning to camp, Ormis cast off his disguise. His fellow warriors soon realized what had happened and he was hailed as a hero. Jasiah would never ridicule him again. And so, the order of the Pariah's was founded. To seek out the downtrodden, the freaks and the outcast and reshape their abilities to help their allies, even from within the midst of the enemy themselves. To be a shelter for the alienated and a boon for the followers of the light.
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We're all told greed is bad. But many aspects of the world we live in (capitalism being the most obvious example) only work thanks to self-interest. What would the world be like if everyone always put the community first whatever the cost to themselves, and self-interest just wasn't part of human nature?

At first glance it seems like this wouldn't change the world much, except for everyone being a bit nicer. But the changes would go much deeper than that. Just as an example, if you believed overpopulation was a serious problem, you might even kill yourself to try to help others.

The human outlook on society would change as well. Attachments to specific other people (aka love) would be ill-advised, as you might find yourself compelled to hurt those people for the good of all. Families would exist then, not for love and companionship, but solely as a way of creating new citizens. Respect could be a virtue, but friendship as we know it wouldn't likely exist.

Another major difference in this world would be its laws, or rather its lack of them. Since any sane person would act only for the good of the community, laws against murder, robbery, etc. wouldn't even be needed. Death - whether by one's own hand or another's - might be tragic for a short time, but everyone would know it had been done for the right reasons. The only exceptions to this rule would be insane people, who would necessarily have to be put to death, since taking care of them would use up vital resources, and while free they would be the only ones with both the will and the ability to commit damaging acts.

One might ask whether the people in such a world could possibly be happy. Answer - they wouldn't be happy for the same reasons we are. You can look at our popular music to see what makes us happy - 9 out of last year's 10 most popular songs (in the U.S.) are about either love or partying. On the other hand, in the alternate world you're happy when the community is happy and thriving. There might be parties, but not at the expense of working, and as already mentioned, love would likely exist only in a very different form.

All in all, the society of this world would be stable, but any individual person would be temporary - merely a brief impulse of electricity flashing through the nervous system of the community. Everyone would have an important job to do, and no desire to do anything else. It seems like it might be boring to live in, but that's only because we live in such a different world. At other times it might seem cruel - yet is the planet Earth any less cruel today? Regardless of which world you'd prefer, the society without self-interest is undoubtedly inaccessible to us. Only time will tell whether the world we live in is good enough.

Spoiler for Team Darkness:

Imagine a world, much like our own. It has Elements the Game. It has McDonald's. It has everything our world has. Except for one not-so-small detail: Music. Imagine a bleak world with no music. You can't, can you? Music is so integrated in our world, our lifestyles, that this would cause a huge difference. But how big? I wonder...

Since as far as documented man goes, music and song has always been with him. Lullabies parents sung to their children. Huge symphonies and operas. But in this world, there is none. Mankind is a race worst off without it. To begin with, some of history's most renowned celebrities, like Beethoven, Hadyn, and Mozart, would have never composed their huge symphonies. There never would have been a Baroque Era of music. These composers may very well have starved without their beloved musical pieces supporting them.

Fast forward to present day. Music is more around us than ever! From commercials on TV, to songs on the radio, to even our beloved game of Elements. Radio would likely have never been invented. And if it was, it would now be completely obsolete, with it's usage having been limited to sports broadcasts, now replaced by TVs. And speaking of TVs, the commercials and television shows would be less interested, without little jingles (like McDonald's' Ba-da-Ba-Ba-Baa), theme songs, and even that background music that makes everything slightly more mysterious, slightly funnier. But that wouldn't be all!

Would Youtube, the famed website of cat videos, have ever existed without music? Would a keyboard cat - wait, no, there's no music, and no keyboards! - would a 'funny' cat video be enough to sustain the site? And then there's the games. What game have you played where there wasn't any music at all? They'd be forever changed - imagine Mario without his signature theme songs! Also, think of schools. Studies have proved that musical students have a better chance of entering medical schools than non-musicals students.

This universe would be very bleak, very dim, and very boring. Many of today's famous musical artists and bands and composers would not be famous. Television would suck, especially the musical shows and channels. Though, on the plus side, we'd have no MTV, and thus, no Jersey Shore, but that's one of the only advantages this universe has on ours. All in all, be glad we live in a beautiful world with music.

Spoiler for Team Flying Air Pigs:

From Icarus to airplanes, flight has been one of mankind’s most cherished fantasies. What would it be like if we had been able to fly(with wings) from the start? What would change?

Civilization would have come about in a completely different manner. While mankind would still settle next to rivers for easy access to food and water, there would be no ziggurats or pyramids built to try and reach the gods, for humanity would know all that which is in the sky and not have false hopes of reaching out to one god or another. Houses would be built open-roofed with a ceiling that could be put back on if it started to rain, hail or snow. Weather would have a much more profound effect on warfare, as lightning would be deadly and accurate. Children would have to be ‘roofed in’ to make sure that they didn’t run off into trouble at a young age. Buildings would not only be created on the ground, but also in treetops. Defending an important person would be incredibly difficult, and defense would probably be in the form of a sphere of protectors or an air-based vehicle. Land vehicles would be used only for long-range transportation or moving heavy equipment, and as such roads would be both less well-maintained and less busy. Lighter materials would be used for almost everything, as heavy materials could not be carried whilst flying. Shoes would not even exist, as they would be unnecessary when any material that could not be walked on barefoot could simply be flown over. There would be cultural myths and stories about the origin of wings, as there are for the rest of that which we take for granted today. And sports would drastically change, as a traditionally two-dimensional battlefield would instead be three-dimensional at all times. Races could have perilous obstacles that had to be avoided by going above, below or through them, horizontal hoops for scoring as in basketball would be vertical and blocked by a goalie as if it were a hockey net as height would no longer be an obstacle to scoring. Water, however, would be much more deadly as the additional weight on the wings would make it much more difficult to swim or even float. Even humidity would be dangerous as something that could weigh a person down heavily, and so rainforests and other heavily humid areas would be much more sparsely populated. Every person would be much more dark-skinned from increased exposure to UV rays, and so skin color would be less of an indicator of race than facial construction or other important physical attributes. The world would be an incredibly different place if humans could fly, and I honestly don't know whether it would be better or worse.

Spoiler for Team Time:

How can you say you are mortal? Do you know that secret of immortality is encoded into our DNA? We have a gene, Chr. 5 p15.33, which activates telomerasys, the enzyme able to extend telomeres, useless part of DNA sacrificed to defend useful code, since every cell that duplicate lose a phragment of DNA when duplicating it, it'll initially lose telomeres, and then essential code, making the new cells useless or dead. Said gene is inhibited in mankind, but, if activated, will unleash the power of immortality, extending the piece of code sacrificed in every mitosis, and therefore a cell will never lose essential DNA and can duplicate forever...But, what will happen to this immortal mankind?
It can result in one scenario, in which we start growing in number, until we realize that Earth can't provide enough food for all of us, so many will suffer hunger and start to fight for food, resulting in a total war which will shorten average lifespan from infinite to something not much different from now...
Another scenario is: we know we are immortal, we know that not infinite people can live on Earth, so we stop growing in number, forbidding new births and condemning any sexual activity; and then what will happen? We'll have a loveless flat mankind that only lives for food to live longer, but women are having their normal menstrual cycle, they'll eventually fall into menopause, and we, refusing to reproduce, fail in a siuation in which we can't reproduce, which will lead to our extinction, due to the fact that we can still die from injuries or sickness.
Otherwise some sort of "Illuminati" realize that mankind is condemned to one of the previous and decide to systematically kill people, to have an average lifespan like it actually is in our world, in order to avoid total world or mankind extinction; be part of that group is very difficult, since they jelaously hide their secret and pull the strings from behind, and do not need to increase their numbers, since they are immortal and stay widely away from the other people.
Due to third scenario, how can you say that this is not our world, that you are not mortal, but forced to die someway to prevent extinction or total war?

Spoiler for Team Gravity:

Imagine being in a parallel universe. At first glance, everything appears normal: cars are still carrying people heading to work, the wheels of governments are still slowly churning, and life seems to be going on as usual, right? Wrong. The cars don't carry radios, the workings of governments is known only through what could be described only as an impersonal text, and houses seem to be missing a magical box that seems to make all of your cares go away. This world, this parallel universe lacks one key thing that seems to make humans, well, human: there is no need for entertainment. One might think to oneself about how entertainment isn't that big of a deal, but it is. Without a need for entertainment, much of life as we know it becomes nonexistent. The two major causes of no need for entertainment would be no television and no newspaper (except for some dull, facts-only articles).
Let us consider the first issue that this brings about: no television. No television means also that there is, oddly enough, no television programs. This immediately costs the jobs of would-be producers and actors. But it's larger than that... no television means that any and all factories to produce such things are also gone, as are any and all components needed for televisions. Without televisions, who needs movies? Actors, actresses, and people who specialize in sound effects, visual effects, and even set/costume designing are unneeded. Without this one simple source of entertainment, you already have possibly hundreds of thousands of people who do not have jobs.
Secondly, there is hardly a newspaper, and what is left of it is not even worth the time to read. Getting news in a dull way may play down any major catastrophes, but it may also play-up a minor occurance, as the language usage will be uniform. With less of a newspaper, the amount of paper mills will be greatly decreased, which in turn decreases the amount of people needed to harvest the trees used for paper. The lessening of the newspaper also affects the would-be writers, as less and less are needed, and the companies that produce any and all ink needed to print said newspaper. This would also mean no delivery of the newspaper, canceling out even more people. Even though it is not as popular now, newspaper still affects many.
As one can easily see, without a need for entertainment, the whole world would be drastically different. Even just two results of no entertainment would greatly affect the world, getting rid of possibly millions of jobs while at the same time lowering the standard of living. Entertainment is something that is often overlooked, thinking it is extraneous, but the mere fact of the need of entertainment shapes everyday life.

Spoiler for Team Water:

It is difficult to imagine if elves, dwarves, and all those creatures found in Lord of the Rings, lived alongside humans throughout history till now in the 21st century. This would obviously have a profound effect on human civilization and society, being very different from the way the world is today.
One major differecne would be racism and nationalism. All the casualties and injuries in every battle and war in history's annals would be twice or tenfold. There would be more divisions among intelligent life than ever seen, and with so many different races, human beings will barely have time to squabble about whites, blacks, asians, or any petty racial differences among themselves. The conflict at hand would be man versus dwarf or elf versus orc. City-states and nations would be frequently divided by race. If people react so negatively seeing that their neighbor has a different skin color, the reaction they would have to a neighbor of a different race would undoubtably cause plenty of unresolved tension and animosity.

The second change would be how labor works. Each race has its own specialties: dwarves are crafters and miners, hobbits are farmers, elves are hunters and scholars, and orcs are major sources of muscular strength. Humans really don't really have a place in physical labor. Almost anything that humans can do can be done better by another race. Humans will often be skipped over for jobs simply because some other race can do it better, and often for less pay. Humans will end up filling in the cracks, doing jobs such as shop-keeping and machine maintenance that don't really gain a benefit based on race. The only thing that human beings have over other races would be their intelligence, the true trait that man has sharpneed and tempered over the many years of evolution.

Evolution too, will inevitbly change. Despite there likely being social, moral, and religious repercussions for mixed race marriages, mixed children will inevitably appear. Over time people will become tolerant of mixed race families. As a result, the races will first begin to blur along the edges; Is this man human even if his great grandfather was a dwarf? This step would only happen after the serious racist and speciest issues mentioned above had been solved. Eventually, all the races will mix together and there will be few if any pure bloods left. The remaining pure bloods will almost surely be of a higher class and likely claim to be superior. However, because of their minority roles in society, they will often be disregarded as cults or racist bigots. Eventually, inbreeding will eventually cause even these last pockets of pure bloods to die out, ending in a semi-homogeneous new race. There is no telling what this new race would look like, how long it would live, or even what traits it would carry from each of its parent races, but the trivialities of wars and battles fought between the races earlier will now have ceased, making all future wars literal civil wars, for all members of society will be somehow mixed and related.

Having these fictious creatures living alongside humans in the world today would definitely diversify the population, creating numerous wonders. This improbable parallel wouldn't be ideal for humans, for it would cause inevitable strife and conflict at first, but eventually, perhaps the mingling of races, cultures, and species just might create something wonderful for the world. It would be very shocking for humans to find themselves losing the throne of ruling over the earth and to see themselves fight, and love other intelligent creatures.

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UTAlan · « **Reply #1 on:** August 31, 2012, 04:54:33 pm »

A 6th Deckbuilding entry has been added. It was missed due to an oversight on my part. The deckbuilding vote has been reset, so please re-vote (taking into account the final submission) if you already voted.

ARTHANASIOS · « **Reply #2 on:** August 31, 2012, 05:18:57 pm »

Why Forum Expert has only 5 submissions instead of 6? Is there a team that didn't submit a wiki article? Asking due to curiosity.

OdinVanguard · « **Reply #3 on:** August 31, 2012, 09:43:44 pm »

Not trying to be picky, but since boss task was about coming up with a the least expensive bronze killer possible, it would be easier to rate Boss Task if the total cost was displayed for each...

(Xenocidius Cost Calculator)

I can post it up using Xeno's cost calculator, but I don't want to overstep my bounds here.

UTAlan · « **Reply #4 on:** August 31, 2012, 09:44:54 pm »

You are welcome to use the calculator yourself, and even post it in this thread to help others decide their votes. It wasn't a requirement to submit that as part of their submission, though.

OdinVanguard · « **Reply #5 on:** August 31, 2012, 10:01:23 pm »

Quote from: UTAlan on August 31, 2012, 09:44:54 pm

You are welcome to use the calculator yourself, and even post it in this thread to help others decide their votes. It wasn't a requirement to submit that as part of their submission, though.

Ah, good... thought it best to check before going through with it...

Call me weird, but I kinda enjoy crunching data…
...hmm... Maybe I should look into writing an AWK script for BASH that converts a tabbed table to this forums format... I seem to use them alot... but i digress.

Annnywhooo…
Here are the results using the calculator on the bosstask decks

number	buy	buy (rare included)	Sell
1	1088	1088	748
2	905	2524	1712
3	1395	1395	955
4	777	777	539
5	750	750	522
6	961	961	661

-P.S. special props to entry 5 for their section on build order. It could be quite helpful to players who are looking to first start grinding at the bronze level.
(Its not my team's entry btw. but I like to give credit where it is due, and this was really cool imho… wish we had thought of it)

Rutarete · « **Reply #6 on:** August 31, 2012, 11:17:21 pm »

I really enjoyed reading the FG conversations.

Vineroz · « **Reply #7 on:** September 01, 2012, 01:10:57 am »

It would be really nice if a little bit of detail of the tasks can be included just above the submissions, so that we don't need to find the round's thread again. For example, I have absolutely no idea what the boss task is while looking at the submissions.

UTAlan · « **Reply #8 on:** September 01, 2012, 02:11:10 am »

Quote from: Vineroz on September 01, 2012, 01:10:57 am

It would be really nice if a little bit of detail of the tasks can be included just above the submissions, so that we don't need to find the round's thread again. For example, I have absolutely no idea what the boss task is while looking at the submissions.

The task is briefly described in the polls.

Vineroz · « **Reply #9 on:** September 01, 2012, 04:13:36 am »

Oops didn't notice that

thanks

Annele · « **Reply #10 on:** September 01, 2012, 07:33:50 am »

Keep calm
and
vote for Gravy.

Absol · « **Reply #11 on:** September 01, 2012, 09:07:52 am »

Quote from: Annele on September 01, 2012, 07:33:50 am

Keep calm
and
vote for Gravy.

Yeah, like we know which one is Gravy.

Poll

1. BOSS: Which submission had the best cheap deck that can consistantly beat Bronze?

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2. CARD DESIGNER: Which submission had the best new healing card for Light?

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3. DECKBUILDING: Which submission had the best deck using ONLY forum cards and Pillars/Pendulums?

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4. ARTIST: Which submission had the best new card art for an existing, in-game card?

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5. WRITER: Which submission had the best "conversation" between at least 2 False Gods?

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6. OFF-TOPICKER: Which submission best described a parallel universe with 1 major change (compared to our universe), and how it would alter every facet of society?

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7. FORUM EXPERT: Which submission was the best Wiki article?

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UTAlan

Brawl #1 - Round 2 [Voting Phase] https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43161.msg537791#msg537791

UTAlan

Re: Brawl #1 - Round 2 [Voting Phase] https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43161.msg537819#msg537819

ARTHANASIOS

Re: Brawl #1 - Round 2 [Voting Phase] https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43161.msg537824#msg537824

OdinVanguard

Re: Brawl #1 - Round 2 [Voting Phase] https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43161.msg537910#msg537910

UTAlan

Re: Brawl #1 - Round 2 [Voting Phase] https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43161.msg537912#msg537912

OdinVanguard

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Rutarete

Re: Brawl #1 - Round 2 [Voting Phase] https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43161.msg537932#msg537932

Vineroz

Re: Brawl #1 - Round 2 [Voting Phase] https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43161.msg537958#msg537958

UTAlan

Re: Brawl #1 - Round 2 [Voting Phase] https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43161.msg537968#msg537968

Vineroz

Re: Brawl #1 - Round 2 [Voting Phase] https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43161.msg538048#msg538048

Annele

Re: Brawl #1 - Round 2 [Voting Phase] https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43161.msg538088#msg538088

Absol

Re: Brawl #1 - Round 2 [Voting Phase] https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=43161.msg538096#msg538096