Earth Tournament

[Cain]

The suspense was awesome. Thanks for the endings Kaden.

[Kaden]

Alright, the next round is posted up and the OP of this thread has been updated.

No real changes for this round.

[Alexander Trafford]

I RPed. Thoughts, feedback, critique perhaps? This is my first serious attempt at RPing in awhile, so i need some help.

[Mal Nova]

Meh.... Hehehehe...

Like I said... My money is on Alex....

You just... threw the bar in the air, and forced John to give it his all... with his attempt... IMHO

New character.. but the greatness that made Mino Infamous... I give it a 10 out of 10

[Alexander Trafford]

Post up. Late by almost 4 hours by the original deadline, late by 1 hour and 40 minutes by Meer's revised deadline.

It's up to him if it counts or not, sorry it was late. I stated the reason in the chat.

[Jonathan Meer]

Whatevs.

[Kaden]

Does that mean it counts or it doesn't?

[Jonathan Meer]

Counts

[Jonathan Meer]

Two quotations were used in my most recent post:

First, a selection from 'The Book of Ahania' by William Blake (I, 3-4a). It is the italicized portion at the beginning of the post.

Second, a selection from The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche (125). It is Jonathan's despairing monologue near the end of the post, and it is slightly edited.

[Kaden]

So Oriole has until tomorrow at 4 am, and then this round is over.

I'll try to have results up as quickly as possible, and then we can move on to the finals.

So, something I didn't put together until a couple of days ago: I'm going to be out of town from the 7th to the evening of the 10th. There's a good chance that the tournament will end while I'm gone. What do you guys want done about that?

I can post results once I'm back if y'all want to wait. We can get someone else to do it. We can move back the final round a couple days. Or we can do something else. Totally your guys' call. I can work with whatever.

[Alexander Trafford]

Let someone else do it, i'd say. Alot of people are waiting on this to end to move on to Mercy-Sei.

[Rafael]

Bah, squeaked out a post. I've been oddly busy the last week, missed a lot of important things the week I was gone apparently.

[Kaden]

Ok, you jerks, the semifinals are done. Those were ridiculously close fights, the both of them. Probably the first time I've had to read through a thread more than once.

Sorry if the end of the Trafford/Meer fight kind of petered out there. Sleep -- or the lack thereof -- got the better of me.

[Jonathan Meer]

Good fight Alex.

[Alexander Trafford]

I'm surprised actually, very surprised, that i won. Great fight Meer. I'm holding you to an RP session soon.

Congrats Oriole.

[Rafael]

I'm also pretty surprised I won, but I won't say I'm not pleased. I like how it was done, too, with the booing crowd and everything. Thanks Kaden, I could totally visualize the whole thing as I read it.

[Kaden]

So, Oriole and Trafford, you guys want someone else to do the judging for the final round?

I'll throw the thread up tomorrow. No rule changes.

[Rafael]

Doesn't matter to me about the judging.

[Cain]

Congratulations contestants. May the final round be a good one.

[Cain]

As an OOC note, afterward: "The severely not psychotic cyborg..." line shortly following Cain's first sacrifice of himself for the audience was a parallel of Cain and Sands. It was a (poorly written) inference that, though Cain was considered schizophrenic (a psychosis), it was certain that Sands was, due to his actions, in-fact the psychotic character and Cain the caring, compassionate character.