fandomhigh | Fandom Gladiators; Thursday, Third Period [08/11].

"This," said Rosa, padded up herself and holding up what could best be described as large weapons with foam at the ends that in no way resembled a giant Q-tip, "is a pugil stick. That," she pointed the stick at the sets of raised platforms positioned close to each other around the arena, "is our battle ground. This," she indicated the arena as a whole, "is Joust. The rules are simple: each gladiator take a platform and one of these sticks, and the goal is knock the gladiator on the other platform off."

That was it. No acknowledgement or apologies or explanation about her absence last week. Just right to the point, because it was no one's damn business.

Besides, anything more than the basics was just wasting precious time that could be used beating each other with foam sticks.

"Simple, right? Usually, I do this tournament style, but, since the numbers are a little wonky for that this time around, we're just going to do a bunch of different rounds and different pair-ups. Honestly, that works out better, anyway, because that means you get more time hitting things even if you suck. And, because this one's a personal favorite of mine, too, I'll be joining in. That gives us uneven numbers, though, so I asked someone else to come join us."

And that would be the time when the nine-foot-tall sharkman made his appearance in the ring.

"Hello, everyone!" Sidon burst out with a bright, toothy grin, practically making the pugil stick look like an actual Q-tip in his hands. "Are you ready to do battle and swing your way to victory?"

"Everyone," Rosa, don't look so smug, "meet Leviathan, a Fandom Gladiators veteran. Have fun with that."

And, with that? It was time to get started.

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Ready to hit things with a giant stick.

Gray

Lana Beniko (Nexu)

Miguel O'Hara (Tightpants)

Billy Coen (Devil Dog)

Sniper

Cap

Just remember, the more questions you ask, the less time you have getting to hit other people with giant sticks.

Three rounds of epic, simultaneous battles. Three chances to prove yourself on the Jousting field! Behold! OCD and the RNG reign!

In our first round, the pairings are as follows:

Cap vs Sloth, with Sloth the victor
Diego vs Sniper, with Sniper the victor
Crocker vs Tightpants, with Tightpants the victor
Leviathan vs Five, with Five the victor
Devil Dog vs Exterminator, with Exterminator the victor
Annie vs Nexu, with Nexu the victor

Ping in, fight it out, and onto the next one!

"Exterminator" had been looking forward to getting in on one of these pretty much the whole session, so she was ready and eager when she took her place on her platform and took a few moments to give her pugil stick a few performative twirls before settling into a beginning stance and quirking a brow across the way at her competitor.

"You ready to go down?"

Trash talk, after all, was, like, 90% of actual Gladiator-ing.

Billy tried to stay focused and not get caught up in the trash talk. It had been quite a while since any type of training but he did remember one of the things the drill sergeants always hammered into their heads during training was to stay focused. And Billy tried, he really did, as he gave his own pugil stick a few spins of his own before taking a swipe at his opponent.

Second verse, same as the first, but with different pairs!

Deigo vs Tightpants, with Tightpants the victor
Annie vs Leviathan, with Annie the victor
Sloth vs Sniper, with Sloth the victor
Cap vs Exterminator, with Cap the victor
Nexu vs Crocker, with Nexu the victor
Devil Dog vs Five, with Devil Dog the victor

Last chance to prove you don't suck or be favored by the RNG!

Diego vs Leviathan, with Leviathan the victor
Devil Dog vs Nexu, with Devil Dog the victor
Sloth vs Annie, with Annie the victor
Five vs Cap, with Five the victor
Crocker vs Exterminator, with Exterminator the victor
Sniper vs Tightpants, with Sniper the victor

Yeah, okay, Miguel got cocky. He was spending more time mugging for Rosa than actually fighting.

If he was going to go down, might as well give her a good laugh.

Rosa won't admit it, but she's mostly disappointed things didn't work out for there to be a Battle of the Steves.

MOOD.

Edited 2022-08-11 10:54 (UTC)

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