Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-26892768-20190104042326/@comment-26892768-20190107233730

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"It's good." Miles replies, sounding somewhat detached. "Been doing this for a few months now. Getting the hang of it."

Rather than reply to the lengthy speech of Johnny, the figure rather blatantly ignores it, putting his efforts into answering the questions.  "Well, to answer your questions..."

 "I never said you have to kill people - in fact, you can go this entire competition without killing someone..." The figure looks at Peni as he says this, and then turns his attention to the general crowd.  "BUT! There will be death, and I'm quite certain that some of you would be rather willing to help it along..."

He's looking at Tricky when he says that bit.

 "Now, without further ado, allow me to enlighten you regarding the competition you'll be in..." With a raise of his hands, the ground behind the figure bursts into massive pillars of flame, illuminating him from behind.  "THE UZDAILJ DEI UMALIO!"

With a wave of his hand, the fire disperses, reforming into various images of previous competitors and the challenges they had to go through - notably, all of them appear to be of the same species as the crowd, and wearing some kind of chain. All the images have the chain go outside the image or behind something, making it so that one can't tell what's on the other end due to it being obscured. One image shows a competitor running through a maze as they attempt to avoid getting by a wheel with a rim made entirely of blades, another shows a competitor in zero gravity, trying to propel themselves away from some unseen creature with tentacles that have spikes rather than suckers, and the last shows a competitor facing off against a creature framed in shadow, making it difficult to make out any details.

 "In the Uzdailj Dei Umalio, you'll go through a series of various deadly challenges to prove your mirth and woo over the audience!" The figure explains.  "Of course, the challenges I'm showing you are only to give you an idea of what your challenges will be like; they'll naturally be quite different, seeing as you're all from different universes..."

"That's it? Doesn't look that hard..." After a moment of thinking, Beowulf, grins, flexing a bit as he yells, "YEAH! Bring it on! I can handle it, even with a ball and chain!"

 "Oh? Is that what you think it is? Ah, I'm so shortsighted; I forgot to angle this correctly!" Speaking in a smug tone that makes it seem like he planned this the whole time - which he probably did - the figure causes the images to change a bit, revealing what's on the other end of the chain...another competitor.  "Because, as you can clearly see, what you're actually being chained to is another competitor. All of you will be chained to someone else - allow me to demonstrate."

He snaps his fingers.

Suddenly, there's a cuff made of some type of stone with glowing runes on it attached to Beowulf's arm, with a corresponding cuff appearing on Peni. With a glow, the two bond with a link of energy, and pull Beowulf and Peni together, causing them to slam into each other somewhere in the middle of the crowd.

 "And you're going to need to keep an eye out for each other, too...if one of you dies, so does the other. That's how it works." The figure explains with glee in his eyes.  "...so, to recap - you go through the challenges with a partner, whoever remains afterwards goes to the next challenge unless all the survivors of the previous challenge survive the one that just passed, in which case we have the audience decide who dies, and this will keep on going until there's two competitors left, at which point they're uncuffed, the audience decides which one of them wins and which one is the final casualty, and that person wins. Also, I'll occasionally pull in new competitors just for kicks. Any questions?"