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Chapuz · « **on:** May 11, 2014, 07:06:28 pm »

Thus end's Brawl!

Brawl #3 - Round 6 - Voting

Spoiler for Task:

Spoiler for Whispers in the Dark:

Spoiler for Silver Ferns:

Spoiler for Cuckoo's Nest:

Spoiler for Divine Light:

Spoiler for DDD:

Spoiler for Hidden:

Spoiler for Whispers in the Dark - 1/2 points, late submission:

Spoiler for Divine Light:

Spoiler for Cuckoo's Nest:

Spoiler for DDD:

Spoiler for Silver Ferns:

Spoiler for Task:

Spoiler for Whispers in the Dark:

Spoiler for Silver Ferns:

Spoiler for DDD:

Spoiler for Cuckoo's Nest:

Spoiler for Divine Light:

Chapuz · « **Reply #1 on:** May 11, 2014, 07:07:26 pm »

Spoiler for Task:

Spoiler for Divine Light:

Spoiler for Whispers in the Dark:

Spoiler for Cuckoo's Nest:

Spoiler for DDD:

Spoiler for Silver Ferns:

Spoiler for Task:

Spoiler for Whispers in the Dark:

Level quest system
Every four arena levels, players in game would unlock a new level quest. In the quest, players would have to defeat three opposing decks (built around a theme such as Graboid decks, Denial Decks, Voodoo decks, etc.) using the same deck. Quests would become more difficult as levels increase, both by the strength of the decks faced and by restrictions on what cards the player is allowed to use. If they succeed, they complete the quest and win one or more cards. Lower level quests would have expensive commons like dragons as the rewards, and higher level quests would have rares or upgraded cards as the rewards. The highest of quests, such as those at level 76 and 80, could even offer nymph codes as rewards. Players being able to earn 2 nymphs wouldn’t entirely break the game’s nymph rarity.
In-client tournaments.
A new mode of PVP called Tournament PVP could be added to the game. Players would pay a fixed amount of electrum to enter, and would see a bracketed tournament seeded by score once the appropriate number of players have entered the tournament. Players would play in Best of 3 matches, with 1 minute between matches allowed to change decks. These tournaments could include automatically coded card restrictions or no restrictions at all – it would be best for retaining player interest if the restrictions varied from time to time, and some tournaments were unrestricted except for forbidding upped cards. The players would receive an electrum payout based on their finish, and possibly an additional bonus for the winner, such as an upgraded special spin.
“False God” PVP
Everyone has seen the false gods, but what if you could be a false god? In this new PVP mode, players get 2x deck size, 3x mark, and 200 HP. This mode can only be entered if your entire active deck is made of upgraded cards. This mode would give new and old players new challenges to design decks around, and gives new players something to grind towards.
Linking of Game Account with Forum Profile
Players should be able to link their in game account with their forum profile. When they do so, the IGN and score of their account will appear next to their post count and reputation bar next to their posts. Additionally, they can earn achievements in game that will display on their profile, such as an achievement for defeating every False God once, winning 100 total matches in Platinum, winning 30 straight matches against Bronze, and so on. Players could view their own progress toward achievements on their forum profile.
Score Leaderboards
Along with the above feature, both the forum and the game should have leaderboards for the highest score, and for the most score gained within the last week. The leaderboard for highest score would serve as a long term goal for newer players to aspire to, and the weekly score gain leaderboard gives players a challenge to vie for in the short term. Players love seeing their name on leaderboards!

Spoiler for Cickoo's Nest:

Spoiler for Divine Light:

Spoiler for Silver Ferns:

Spoiler for DDD:

Spoiler for Task:

Spoiler for Whispers in the Dark:

How can you create a Black Hole?

A Black Hole is, in basic terms, a super-dense particle, that is one with a huge mass and yet tiny volume. The resulting effect is that the gravitational pull of the particle increases until the point that all kinds of matter are attracted to the object. This however, increases the mass of the initial particle, increasing the gravitational force produced by the black hole.

Now then, how could we create one? Well, if we look at the card art, we can see that the Black Hole (or at this point, a super-dense particle) appears to be suspended in some kind of glass bottle. Of course, this isn't simply glass; it is a material of such tensile strength that the particle has no effect outside of the bottle. Inside, the super dense particle is suspended in a vacuum, kept away from contacting the side of the container by its out gravitational forces. Because the force is applied equally in every direction, the particle remains in suspended equilibrium.

However, by opening the container, the equilibrium is broken. The super-dense particle is able to move and make contact with the container. At this point, the material that comprised the container falls to the forces of the super-dense particle, increasing its mass. At this point, the particle has become a Black Hole.

Now, the Black Hole's gravitational forces affect all entities in the battle. However, since this Black Hole is still tiny and weak in comparison to those in our solar system, these forces are still very minute. Most entities can remain in place due to the gravitational attraction of the Earth and the frictional forces of the ground. The only objects that can be physically moved are quanta. Since they have so little mass, the gravitational force of the planet is weaker than the pull of the Black Hole. The quanta is attracted to the Black Hole and moves closer to the centre particle. The quanta fuses with the centre of the Black Hole to increase its mass.

However, the nature of an artificial Black Hole is generally unstable. After a brief period of time, the Black Hole will disperse its mass, whatever this is at this point. Mass absorption (through quanta) can also speed up this process. This is why only a maximum of 36 quanta can be absorbed. The initial mass of the Black Hole will at this point will be dispersed to the atmosphere. Yet, any absorbed quanta will be unable to do so. The immense gravitational forces change the physical composition of the quanta particle. The newly formed quanta cannot perform their original function. The energy they were exposed to now means they possess healing qualities. These particles are generally collected and used to heal the player.

Spoiler for Divine Light:

Spoiler for Cuckoo's Nest:

http://youtu.be/RAjCb_hm3BM

Spoiler for transcript:

Hi folks, on this episode of elemental science I'm going to explain how fractals work. In a nutshell, fractal works because every creature has 2 different representations. The physical representation with which we are all used to and the so called self-similar representation, that resides in the mathematical, or as some scholars like to call it, the aetherial plane.

Now, when we cast fractal on a creature we force the self-similar representation upon it, by making it collapse to the aetherial plane, which hurts a bit ... but whatever. Now, a cool feature of the self similar representation is that you can break it into several bits and still get the same thing. However, the free copies are unstable and the collapse only lasts for an instant, so the spell has to pull the copies to your hand for it to work. It also creates a mommentary whipeout in the aetherial dimension ... oh well.

But lets take a closer look on the self-similar representations. Unfortunatelly, most creatures have quite boring represntations. Take for instance Ball Lightning. That looks like this. You can see how to break and get copies, but meh. The same thing happens for Ray of Light. Look at that, just plain boring. But there is one case that looks really cool, dragons and that's what I want to talk about now. To show how cool dragons are I'm gonna use this strip of paper. The first interesting thing about fractals and dragons is that you can get their representation just by folding paper and not only that, but all dragons have the same representation, no matter what their element is.

To show how this works I made this fold here and I'm going to keep repeating this pattern. Keep the fold to the left and fold up. If we do this once we get this. Now, if I keep doing it, fold up, to the left, up, to the left, infinite times, or for as much as the paper allows me, you get a very complex pattern, that looks pretty impressive when we have an infinite number of folds and all the angles are right angles, as I'm going to show now

Picture this as an infinetelly thin piece of paper, where we made an infinite amount of those folds and we are unravelling the folds one by one. The pattern tht starts to emmerge is the self-similar representation and is called the dragon curve. The pattern is not obvious at first, but after just a few iterations we get to something that looks like a dragon. Check it out.

We just have to colour all the squares where the curve touches itself, add a bit of scales, some claws, fire and there it is a dragon. Well, thank you all for watching and see you all next time.

Spoiler for credits:

Spoiler for DDD:

Spoiler for Silver Ferns:

Chapuz · « **Reply #2 on:** May 11, 2014, 07:07:52 pm »

Spoiler for Task:

Spoiler for Silver Ferns:

Spoiler for Whispers in the Dark:

The arena is ready, exultant shouts from both sides waiting for the 2 knight to appear. The rules are easy. Only one of them allowed go out on it's own feet. And now, one of the knights came into the circle. The luminous knight, the noble lord of Time, andretimpa appeared. Loud hail spreads through the thin air. But the other knight doesn't lets them wait for too long, dim fog appears and soon it's cloaks the whole Arena. A silent whisper in andre's mind warning for the battle.
~You should better prepare your sword, we'll start soon.~
Andretimpa slow down the Time around him, gained enough to pull out his sword and prepare for the attack.
~You've wasted a lot of effort to delay my first attack, but I haven't planned to attack you until you have nothing in your hand... But soon you will find out how useless that lifeless shape of steel really is.~
The shades moving forward to andretimpa and a a forming hand from the darkness reaches him. He swiftly cuts through that shade, but there wasn't anything under.
~And now let me to prove it.~
The Megron, the Darkness knight using up his opponent tilting with windmills, taking a precise attack under it's shoulder.
-Why do you hiding from me, are you fear or what?- says the noble knight.
~I have nothing to fear from, I just want to defend you from publicly shamed by losing against me.~
The shades are circulating again around the Time knight, but now he doesn't want to defend, just actively waiting for the real attack to make a counterstrike in that second. It not takes long, but more interestingly the second attack is for disarmament. Defended and hit back instantly, but his sword stopped and the sound of steel hitting steel hit both if their ears.
~Why would you use one weapon, if you can 2?~
But now that he's defenseless, a second, but more clear and vicious attack, and rips apart his mail. The sword is short, it reduces the power of attack greatly, but still makes enough damage to determinate the end of battle. It would, but andre has one more trick in his pocket. Collecting all of his remaining power to change the whole procession of battle. The spell actually works and the cogwheels of time starting to turn backward. He replays the battle in a second, but changing every little thing and mistake in it. The cloak falls down and Megron is lying on the ground broken and lifeless.

Spoiler for Cuckoo's Nest:

Andretimpa vs. MegroN, Radio Announcement

Welcome to the 4th Round of the Brawl three. Today we have a challenge from the Cuckoos to the Whispers in the Dark. They gotta paint an elemental without any digital help. Yes, you heard right, they have to do it in real life, with their own hands. I can already hear the bones cracking folks. This gotta be a glorious mortal combat of two giants!

And here they come! In the yellow corner, Andretimpa just entered the ring, his pencil is already whirling between his fingers, clearly he's full of adrenaline and can't wait to get started!
In the black corner, MegroN ... is still missing. What happened? Did he get lost? - Ah no, there he is! Sory folks, I couldn't see him with his cloak still on, but he was already there who ever knows how long! Now, he's laughing, pointing fingers and taunting his opponent. Guess he's trying to confuse his opponent to get an advantage before the fight even started.
I'm not picking any sides here folks, but let's hope the rude one gets his butt and back pinned to the floor!

The gong rings, the fight starts, who's gonna land the first hit?
Both contestants immediatly picked the pencil and started scribbling something. I can't yet see what they are trying to do. Some random squigly lines in the yellow corner, maybe he's trying to do a water elemental? Not the best choice in my honest opinion. While there are still no clear forms for the Cuckoos, the Whispers already have a face, and hair! It might become a fire elemental. Great choice there, fire is stronger than water and will surely give them the win! MegaroN doesn't let up and takes out his colors, Yellow, Red and even some Blue! A strong combo!

But what's that? Andretimpa transformed his squigly lines into a mountain! Uuuugh! What a cheap shot! The referee was admiring the black corner's work and didn't even glance at what the yellow corner is doing! What an amateur. Andretimpa is already shading and finishing his work, and there is no time for MegaroN to counter that move. Just a few seconds are left, but MegaroN doesn't give up so easily. I can't even see his hands anymore, it's insane!

There it is, the gong, the battle is over! What a match, folks. What a match! I'm sweating oceans here!
Let's take a look at the results. Wow, so painting, such perfection, much art, wow! Clearly both should be deemed the winner. But as we all know, earth is stronger than fire and that leaves only one winner: Andretimpa of the Cuckoos!

Thanks for listening, we'll be back next time when it's again brawl time!

Spoiler for DDD:

Spoiler for Divine Light:

Bonus Task!

Spoiler for Task:

Spoiler for Whispers in the Dark:

Spoiler for Divine Light:

Spoiler for Cuckoo's Nest:

Spoiler for DDD:

dark ripper · « **Reply #3 on:** May 11, 2014, 07:35:01 pm »

Well that was it. I wanna thank both BMs for their awesome work, and the other four teams that made this event very interesting. May the best team win!

ARTHANASIOS · « **Reply #4 on:** May 11, 2014, 07:37:30 pm »

^
Indeed! That was a very awesome brawl and it will be a pretty interesting final!
Btw, our Writer task lies within our Off-Topicker's one.

And one more thing, DL's writer is just pure epicness and so hilarious it made me cry! Superb work!

MyNameIsJoey · « **Reply #5 on:** May 11, 2014, 08:11:42 pm »

boss task :
SF - This really made me laugh

Well thought.
CN - meh. I don't know. It did not attract me, really.
DL - You really disappointed me there. After 6 rounds of brawl, I'd expect a little originality instead of coming with crusader over crusader over crusader.
DDD - Pretty well made, but not enough for my vote.

Vote : Ferns.

artist task :
Cuckoo's got my vote here.
I also liked DDD's work, but it was a little bit under cuckoo to me.

CD task :
I might be picky, but there always seems to be a task where i dislike the submissions, and this is one.
SF : Playing 2 sky blitz in one turn? no thanks, thats definitely op to me.
DDD: make a blessing in other? why that? why would you want to overshadow blessing?
CN : that was the obvious thing to do. Joe had this idea at first and I told him it wouldn't get votes for it being so unoriginal.
DL : 6 fire bolts. 6 scrolls. you see where I'm going?

deckbuilder :
Now, this may sound bad but :
DDD gets my vote easily for being the only team who chose a hero I know.

FE:
I really love DDD's idea, something I had not thought of myself. That's really something that would be a great adding, definitely gets my vote.

OT:
True science between animated weapons ... that's genius right there. very very tiny armagios got me to do a very very tiny vote more towards ferns.

writer : my vote goes to cuckoo

Bonus:
For divine Light, I really loved the first 30 seconds. I was disappointed with what came next, it could have been truely wonderful, has lots of potential.
cuckoo: As i said in chat, i truely love the melody. It is great work.
DDD : personal opinion maybe, but i simply did not like it. I listened to it ocne and wouldnt listen again.

ARTHANASIOS · « **Reply #6 on:** May 11, 2014, 10:11:35 pm »

My voting (not neccecarily final):

BOSS: Divine Light & Silver Ferns (I love the whole effort put into the Crusader. I also like Nel's work; it is funny in a nice way.)

ARTIST: Silver Ferns & Cuckoo's Nest (I actually like both of these submissions, because they are both extreme but with a totally different way. The first one, which is the work of Shining Heart, represents simplicity and uses hand-written sketch to its extreme. On the other hand, Adretimpa's work represents complication and digital drawing to its extreme too!)

CARD DESIGNER: Cuckoo's Nest & Silver Ferns (Cuckoo's Nest idea just blow me out of the water. Terro's idea may be proven OP with some cards but it offers a great amount of many new deckbuilding possibilities, so I can forgive that.)

DECK BUILDER: Whispers in the Dark & Silver Ferns (Very good usage of the underused Web/Wings combo and an obviously true representation of Spiderman in WitD. As for SF, it gets my vote for perfectly matching every single card type, even pillars/pends, with the represented hero.)

OFF-TOPICKER: Silver Ferns & Divine Light (Just personal preferation, nothing more, nothing less.)

FORUM EXPERT: Death Dost Dominate & Whispers in the Dark (I believe both of these submissions were great, suggesting awesome new stuff to the game!)

WRITER: Divine Light & Silver Ferns (Both of these tasks made me laugh, but I am probably ultra-biased here, since I am between the protagonists.)

BONUS: Cuckoo's Nest & Divine Light (Excellent song for CN, excellent music for DL.)

{Okay, I am probably a little biased with my team's submissions. I may try to fix that.}

At a sidenote, I would love to see more Challanges and Wagers at FBrawl#4. It is a shame not to use some of the most awesome Brawl mechanics to spice up the event a little bit.
Other than that, excellent work everyone! See you all at FBrawl#4!

OldTrees · « **Reply #7 on:** May 11, 2014, 10:31:58 pm »

Quote from: ji412jo on May 11, 2014, 08:11:42 pm

CD task :
I might be picky, but there always seems to be a task where i dislike the submissions, and this is one.
SF : Playing 2 sky blitz in one turn? no thanks, thats definitely op to me.

Quote from: Notes

Mechanically it works as expected. The full effects of the spell cast will still go through, so Fractal/Blitz/ect. will still drain all remaining quanta of their element.

theelkspeaks · « **Reply #8 on:** May 11, 2014, 10:36:24 pm »

Quote from: OldTrees on May 11, 2014, 10:31:58 pm

Quote from: ji412jo on May 11, 2014, 08:11:42 pm
CD task :
I might be picky, but there always seems to be a task where i dislike the submissions, and this is one.
SF : Playing 2 sky blitz in one turn? no thanks, thats definitely op to me.

Quote from: Notes
Mechanically it works as expected. The full effects of the spell cast will still go through, so Fractal/Blitz/ect. will still drain all remaining quanta of their element.

Still possible. You play a regular sky blitz, then this card, then a second.

OldTrees · « **Reply #9 on:** May 11, 2014, 10:51:49 pm »

Card Design: Vote
Death Dost Dominate followed by Divine Light

Card Design: Informed Opinion
This round was a bit disappointing. Good design for Other cards but little innovation.

WitD: Elitism
Mass creature buff.
You have 2 mechanics to prevent rainbow OP: 1) It only affects 1 element, 2) It harms other elements.
Good note on a potential mark of chroma.

SF: Prismatic Might
Play expensive Mono cards in a Rainbow.
Seems rather limited in utility.
Good note on the "drain all" spells.

DDD: Harm|Bless
Blessing is in the game and Harm is a very old card suggestion called Curse.
I like your design intent.

CN: Behemoth's Construct
Scaling Other creatures have been done frequently. Although you version uses a different scaling mechanic.

DL: Scroll
Echo beat you to it. Still it is a nice idea.

MyNameIsJoey · « **Reply #10 on:** May 11, 2014, 10:57:00 pm »

Quote from: OldTrees on May 11, 2014, 10:31:58 pm

Quote from: ji412jo on May 11, 2014, 08:11:42 pm
CD task :
I might be picky, but there always seems to be a task where i dislike the submissions, and this is one.
SF : Playing 2 sky blitz in one turn? no thanks, thats definitely op to me.

Quote from: Notes
Mechanically it works as expected. The full effects of the spell cast will still go through, so Fractal/Blitz/ect. will still drain all remaining quanta of their element.

He can play sky blitz, and then use his card to use another skyblitz. It doesn'T matter that all air quanta has been drained since the 2nd sky blitz is used for free.

artimies7 · « **Reply #11 on:** May 12, 2014, 01:53:46 am »

Boss: Probably Divine Light, just because of how much work you put into the scroll art and etc.

Artists: Cuckoo's Nest for their nice work, though the out-of-board cards are kind of lame. I will also list DDD for their familiar yet sensible re-imagining, thought I'd want you to distinguish between the creature field and the permanent field a bit more, too. and silver ferns are you even serious right now

Card Designer: Whispers in the Dark gets my vote for their extreme thematics and Divine Light also makes a very nice point with their fourth-wall breaking idea. Good job to just about everyone in this category, it was a close race here.

Deckbuilder: After some deliberation, I'll have to go with Whispers in the Dark again for their thorough testing and well-built deck. Good show all around.

Forum Expert: Whispers in the Dark again(!) for their helpful suggestions, though Cuckoo's Nest gets a prize as well for what seems to be sensible.

Off-Topics: Silver Ferns get the nano-cake for their pseudo-logical thinking and big blue text. Nice job, you guys.

Writer: Divine Light gets this one, you (not so) sneaky reference-ers you.
Also, while I grant that Silver Ferns and Cuckoo's Nest are both good, they'll have to fight for my affections here. No dice, you two teams.

Bone-us Time: Cuckoo's Nest in a landslide. That was really good, and I mean that.

Zanz	Come in.
Crusader	Good morning.
Zanz	Good... Is it a statement or question? How do you know it's good for me? I'm glad it's good for you. Perhaps. Nevemind. Sit Down.
Crusader	Uhm, yes, thank you.
Zanz	Soooo, you're looking for a job, crusie?
Crusader	Excuse me, but, isn't it awkward to sit with your back to me, sir? I know we should not maintain long eye contact with strangers, but I can't even see you, where is the handshake stuff and...
Zanz	Enough! Silence! I'm the boss here and that's how it looks like. Privacy is my policy. Do you want this job or not?
Crusader	Oh, I'm very sorry, it wasn't my intention to make you angry...
Zanz	Relax, now, let's get down to business. Do you know why I used my secret _MACHINE^TM to bring you here from your Middle Ages?
Crusader	Because you was searching for someone with a good knowledge on weapons and Light?
Zanz	Exactly. Your resume looks interesting. And as a guy from Middle Ages you kinda fit my Elements realm. In a nutshell, you'll have to learn how to wield 11 weapons from 11 different elements, and the funniest part, you can't wield weapon that belongs to Light element :3
Crusader	Why?
Zanz	Because nobody can touch it! Hands off! It's my preciousss...
Crusader	Have I heard someting similar before?
Zanz	Nonsense. But nevermind. We can start from now. Here are the weapons, examine them, have fun and tell me when you're ready. If you have any questions just e-mail me...
Crusader	E-mail?
Zanz	Oh, well... Send it to me by pigeon post... Oh, and the most important part, you have 7 days for that.
Crusader	Only 7 days?
Zanz	Yeah, BMs taught me that. No mercy, meet the deadline or bye! Cya. And good luck.

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