Hunger Games Simulation: Beyond the Possibilities

Bale stepped down from running because of his busy week, so Billy ran it using the Clean Save instead and sent it to Mk, but he didn't make the screens yet because he's also busy.

EDIT: And Faith sent the screens!

Edited by TroperNo9001 on Oct 26th 2022 at 1:38:47 AM

Boo!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I GOT YOU, I GOT YOU GOOD. Ya shoulda seen the look on your face, it was priceless!

Oh, uh, hey! Welcome back to the TVTropes Hunger Games Simulator/Simulation. We're currently in the midst of a bunch of holidays: All Saints' Day, Dia de los Muertos, Diwali... and Halloween! This may or may not be one of them Halloween seasons. Regardless, there's going to be lots of violence, lots of scares, frights and 2spooky4allofy'alls!

It all comes to a head this fall, when 48 tributes face the nastiest fright of the season:

...that's a fancy way of saying: each other. The nastiest fright of the season is each other.

THE REAPING, HOW GRIM! (postimg / imgur◊)

• This next costume contest is a Battle Royale. The winner will not be judged by aesthetics and craftsmanship, but will emerge through skill, cunning and over-the-top B-movie contrivances. Welcome to the COSTUME CONTEST FROM HECK.

As the tributes stand on their podiums, A GIANT SKELETON POPS OUT FROM BENEATH THE EARTH AND PLAYS TWO NOTES FROM A TRUMPET

ahahahahahahaha just kidding everyone!

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wait, where's our usual horn?

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THE BLOODBATH (with fake blood) (postimg / imgur◊)

• The Scarecrow kicks off the fall festivities with a slap to the Cornucopia! Not a very bright idea there. You don't want it to knock the stuffing out of you!
• "That's my purse! I don't know you!" the King of the Horrors crew simultaneously yell before attempting to kick the rest of the tributes in their you-know-wheres.
• Bongo Bongo needs a light in the darkness.
  • Gharnef does some dark sorcery stuff to get Bongo Bongo not one, but two pyromancy flames!
• Amy quickly runs away as soon as she is introduced!
• Oh great, Beheaded Kamikaze just farted to distract Sayaka long enough to steal her supplies. Could've been worse; he could've actually detonated!
• Halloween is about to get a lot more downsized? unpopular? Wow, look at all those tiny pumpkins!
• Part 4 Jotaro is reminded that he can win.
• FIRST BLOOD! How appropriate as Chucky chucks a clown many times his size... off of a great height somewhere.
• Monaca runs, too.
• Killer T Cell about to feast over here. Good pull!
• Milly is a cat who will bring despair upon Panem. All will soon fall to the eternal meowing of the night.
• It's great that Kintaro's keeping up with things happening right now... just don't let it distract too much from survival.
• Bandana Waddle Dee again, only this time he and his Bandana temporarily part ways.
• BTS Cookies! Aaaaaaaaand they're on the run!
• Just look at his face. Gary may or may not be bloodthirsty, but he is the scare master. Just ask the Dead Space guys!
• Jason is on the hunt, this time to shave all the hairs off of Gossamer.
• All of the Misakas threaten the NordVPN guy.
• Grand Dad vs. Galeem. One of them will PUSH START TO RICH, while the other will turn you into a stone statue. Good luck, y'all. You will need it.
• Burnet drops from the sky, ready to spin attack any mfers who dare get in his way.
• The Video Game Guy refuses to share the loot with a dead skeleton pirate. Also a Mario costume holding an XBOX? ayyyyy
• Ohohohohohohoho. You're not out yet- the FE curse has only just begun.
• Pat is actually running from Homer, who also has his own patented secret Simpson technique of "PATDOYOUWANTTOSEEMYSECRETSIMPSONBATTLETECHNIQUE!?!?!?!"
• CardboardBot does a card-wheel! Heck yeah!
• A bug who is weak to fire briefly counsels the Fire Lord. There's not much else to advise him, in my opinion.
• Michael Myers stars in the latest Nuka-Cola telly advertisement, sponsored by Halloween Ends.
• I don't remember One Piece being this real. But yeah, please welcome our shonen protagonists, Seele, Veliona, Seymour, that damned plant, and Earth Sigma.
• Who would win in a fight: seven nations vs. one mummy?
• Dracula Duck is kicking and screaming that a sea monster ate his ice cream. Dude, come on, let it go.
• Raiden Mei and Other Mother haggle with each other. It's a stalemate, and both of them get terrible deals.
• Indeed, here comes Witch Kairi! Watch out for her flying Keyblade!
• Zomgan killer Mirae On has to deal with this freaking cat first before he can resume ripping and tearing.
• Tom's not the only one with the suit! Dr. Facilier shows up all stylish, too, ready to cast a spell on the competition!
• Oh yes. Charles Lee Ray, too, came here to boogie.
• SECOND BLOOD- wait, no. Kleer Skeleton's pretending to be a mere skeleton.

DAY ONE (postimg / imgur◊)

• I dunno... I suspect it was the Beheaded Kamikaze that misheard, for obvious reasons.
• Mirae On tests his strength against a construction robot that he found in the Arena.
• Japan, Destiny Islands and ????? are now at war with each other. Great. Why can't we just focus on jumpscaring each other instead of waging war with one another?
• Dracula Scrooge's fireball is the reason why Chainsaw Homer's mask is permanently welded to his face.
• Good to know that Monaca is doing absolutely nothing noteworthy. Yup, totally inconspicuous!
• Earth Sigma attempts to give Raiden Mei a bath. Not sure how Earth Sigma being a large piece of machinery would help... maybe this bath is also a boss battle and Mei has to defeat Sigma to stop taking a bath?
• Fire Lord Ozai recommends BTS Cookies sub Later Alligator in Korean.
• Bongo Bongo, armed with the pyromancy flame(s), follows the white rabbit further into the darkness.
• Chucky has better things he should be doing right now, like being a creepy doll.
• DAMN.
• Video Game Guy is about to tell it all, about his days as a Mario ripoff, and about that one time he almost starred in Polybius...
• Dr. Facilier is now more dangerous than ever, thanks to this special gunblade he received from beyond the grave!
• Fly, Amy, Fly!
• Oh, great. Galeem's gonna live forever if somebody doesn't put a stop to its binge eating.
• A calm moment in the games, as Bandana Waddle Dee, Seele and Veliona discuss the joys of moss sorting. Meanwhile, the NordVPN guy and General Ultimax, annoyed by this conversation, have their own discussion about moss, which somehow turns into an argument that somehow turns into an advertisement for NordVPN.
• Jojo and Brook team up to stop Jason from taking another life, by distracting him in drag, long enough for the victim to escape the masked slasher.
• Gharnef sees the Kleer Skeleton and really makes sure they're dead. A bag of bones now decorates the minute hand of the local clock tower.
• Don't drink that cold stuff too fast, Gossamer.
• Kintaro learns that there is no escape. Not yet, anyways.
• Killer T Cell calls out the King of the Hill Horror gang for cooking with charcoal, despite the fact that Hank wasn't actually cooking with charcoal, he just happened to be near a charcoal grill at the wrong time. Poor Hank.
• Wraps mourns Gary's death, but [extreme close up on Gary Scarenopolis' face, followed by scary orchestral strings] THE SCAREMASTER STRIKES AGAIN!!! Excellent fake out, 10/10
• FE Curse and Lucina have yet to catch up with the latest developments in the To Aru universe. Now's a good time to catch up!
• The Scarecrow doesn't scare easily... but Other Mother... is a whole other class of 3spooky5me.
• WTF CHARLES!!! HE JUST KILLED HALLOWEEN, PACK IT UP, GO HOME, NO MORE SPOOKY MONTH
  • Witch Kairi is like, "eh, whatever. there's always Halloween Town I guess"
• Seymour sees more currency.

TRIBUTES THAT DIED OF FRIGHT: (postimg / imgur◊) Art the Clown, Kleer Skeleton, Halloween

45 tributes remaining.

NEXT UPDATE IN 6 - 11 HOURS!

Edited by Mk_97 on Oct 25th 2022 at 11:41:01 AM

Holy shit a tribute of mine passed the first update. Sweet.

Well of course Facilier joined the party. He's never not in his iconic drip.

And now he has a gunblade. Are you ready?

Good thing y'all submitted your Halloween tributes early.

Anyway, I don't blame Scarecrow and GRAND DAD for being scared of Other Mother's transformation. She's creepy. Reeeaaally creepy.

IDK, go ask Bale.

Edited by TroperNo9001 on Oct 26th 2022 at 3:18:47 AM

What? Why was Chucky name Charles lee ray?

Also good job my tribute just kill Halloween and it’s spirit too

Edited by This on Oct 25th 2022 at 12:05:35 PM

Pat’s expression in his tribute pic feels pretty appropriate for this season

Earth Sigma, wut?

So far, so good...

At least I knew not to get my hopes up just to see my one tribute be the first to die

And now I wait for my tribute to actually interact with another or else the whole reason he's here is redundant.

Nooooo, Halloween :/

I regret to inform you all that Halloween is dead, killed by that mfer Charles Lee Ray.

Nevertheless, the show must go on.

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NIGHT ONE (postimg / imgur◊)

• Killer T Cell has one of those superduperweapons that can eradicate the viruses (and the bodies hosting the viruses) with a big honkin' energy beam.
• Oh no! Let's hope Michael doesn't make Witch Kairi his next victim.
• What rubber pads? Wait... Galeem's made entirely of rubber pads????????
• Those darn art generating AI programs and their tendency to put in fake birds in chocolate fountains!
• I'd say something about it not being December yet but I've learned to just let people celebrate Christmas and the holidays whenever instead of just December.
• The Scarecrow, though he has no brain, quickly uses Bongo Bongo's pyromancy flames against it to set the tree on fire.
  • How do you fit all of those Misaka clones in the tree, anyways? What's their evacuation plan?
• Dracula Duck invests money in super fast shoes, then gets liquefied after going to Mach 1.
• "But since I am a skeleton, technically I am already dead! YOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO! SKULL JOKE!!!"
  • Jason attempts to cheer Brook up/ruin Brook's spirits by giving him that sand-witch of a sandwich Michael made earlier.
• Seymour is being told to water that plant. Don't do it, Seymour. Don't water that plant. (feed it insteaaaaaaaaaad)
• Meanwhile, Witch Kairi, who is unaware of whatever Michael has planned for her, makes a magical clone of Dracula Duck, complete with dandruff, shoes, and immortality???
• The Fire Lord cannot be beaten at running backwards with earplugs.
• Video Game Guy reads the book that Chucky skipped over earlier, and declares it an alright book I guess.
• Vampire Sora lurks in the darkness of a toy workshop, ready to strike any Heartless or Nobody that dares trespass the halls.
• NordVPN Guy finds a cannon and some other tributes are trying this zany scheme to not let him use it without even telling him to not use it, I dunno why. BUT THEN Gary kicks a flower plant pot into the cannon, and uh I guess it broke. Thanks Gary.
• GRAND DAD still has to deal with Other Mother's bullshit, but no! The Other Mother is too resilient for him!
• Milly are you okay? Milly are you okay? Are you okay Milly?
• "My name... is NOT - KUTAROOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" And then he does the ORA ORA thing and beats up CardboardBot.
• Mirae On tea is... something only for Mirae. Don't drink it if you don't wanna risk becoming a shambling undead or whatever, even if that doesn't turn out to be the case.
• The King of the Hill spooky crew kill Amy because she stole their bikes. All of them. That's pretty rough. RIP.
• Who wouldn't trust such a stylish cat?
• Earth Sigma in a school uniform! Uhhhhhh does he really need to go to school again though
• Sayaka, don't trust this old man. Please.
• The FE Curse fails to stop Chucky from getting into a worse curse that may very well affect his doll form.
• Seele and Veliona used RAINY DAY! It is now raining chocolate in the arena.

DAY TWO (postimg / imgur◊)

• Look who's talking, Milly, bringer of despair.
• CardboardBot attempts to jump on a robo-steed, but doesn't stick the landing and crashes spectacularly! Ouch!
• Dr. Facilier wants to know how much FE Curse and Derpcina value there is in each tribute. We'll call this measurement FEs, with 0, the baseline, being assigned to the FE Curse. Values can be positive, which indicates more of an effect of the FE Curse on a tribute, or negatve, which indicates less of an effect.
  • e.g. Bandana Waddle Dee is at -255 FEs. This may or may not change depending on whoever is hosting.
    • Not to be confused with Skill Based Matchmaking.
• Video Game Guy isn't winning, so he takes his anger out on Gary and the Scarecrow, who survive getting buried alive.
• Witch Kairi is confident in her victory, so she bets some munny and a bunch of Keyblade chains against Jake.
• Wow, when'd the Beheaded Kamikaze find the time to invent that? It just so happens this new invention is also Chucky tested and approved, with a lot of eldritch boilerplate code provided by the creepy doll. Maybe now they can show that Other Mother who's the boss around here.
• Gossamer is... ew... dog feces? I dunno...
• Kintaro makes a documentary of Wraps' death and post-death, rather.
• A Rushing Beat Shura go-kart game? Sounds neat!
• Jason is out here holding up General Ultimax to the crowd, complete with "Circle of Life" music, before attempting to decapitate him.
• MICHAEL MYERS OUTTA NOWHERE!!! He really is a gamer.
• No, Waddle Dee, it is not okay to destroy the world.
  • And now you're at 30 FEs.
• Oh, good, I don't know this cat. At least it wasn't Milly.
• "You mirror my style, crocodile."
• "SORADOYOULIKETHISNEWDEEPFRYRECIPETHATREQUIRESMETODUNKYOUINAVOLCANO-" [realizes too late] "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
• Tom gets 2nd in the running backwards with earplugs competition. Ozai, unsurprisingly, gets 1st.
• Oh shit. Psyche, help me out here please. What could possibly be the most terrifying amalgam of your past tributes in this case?
• Seymour breaks Bongo Bongo out of (Muscle) jail, in direct defiance of the voices in his head.
  • And no love for Galeem. How can such a tiny cell hold this force of nature?
• Gharnef recruits Killer T Cell to rescue Earth Sigma from a pesky well. Heh, it rhymes. Cell, well...
• GRAND DAD is a picky eater.
• RIP the costumed King of the Hill crew, got eaten up by five crocodiles, not including Pat, who is an alligator.

TRIBUTES THAT DIED OF FRIGHT: (postimg / imgur◊) Dracula Duck, Amy, Vampire Sora, King of the Hill Horrors

41 tributes remaining.

NEXT UPDATE IN 11 - 14 HOURS!

Edited by Mk_97 on Oct 25th 2022 at 9:14:56 AM

Let me see who nominated Jotaro real quick...

Edit: And I realized how suspicious this looks like.

Double edit: So Cardbot has nothing to track yet...

Edited by CardboardBot on Oct 25th 2022 at 5:46:54 PM

Oh man, Psyche's one of the longest-standing players, so that has got to be one heinous amalgamation.

I'm glad Misaka Network survived at least two updates, since season 212, I nominated the clones and Last order seperately, and both tributes died within the first update

Edited by Justkong033 on Oct 25th 2022 at 10:04:53 PM

Uhhh. Shit. Yeah, I've nominated quite a variety of tributes over the years (even if there are a few that I like to come back to time and time again), so... needless to say, Sayaka should be very, very afraid. 😬

oh god 💀

Edited by Psychedelicate on Oct 26th 2022 at 5:12:55 AM

Need I remind you that that amalgamation contains all the K-POPS?

In other news, where's your brain, Scarecrow? You're not supposed to be playing with fire!

[THUNDER INTENSIFIES; THE DOWNPOUR CONTINUES]

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NIGHT TWO (postimg / imgur◊)

• The cat that shall bring despair is dead- wait no! Not dead! Although the Misakas kill the cat, the Fire Lord has other plans for the recently resurrected feline. Who knew Ozai had eight lives to spare?
• Kintaro meets a brutal end from Bongo Bongo's checks notes barbed-wire baseball bat. Hey that's not how the boss fight's supposed to go!
• All the power to Gary's face, and none left for his fingers.
• Gharnef must contend with a spill only a dark mage can comprehend.
• The BTS Cookies defeat Michael Myers in chessboxing... but for how long will he stay KO'd?
• How'd Brook get a hold of that beer truck? Who even leaves their beer truck in the arena? Anyways, i guess Mei, Burnet and Waddle Dee are drunk now.
• Sayaka and the NordVPN Guy have beef against Scarecrow and the Other Mother for actually causing Jotaro good grief.
• Beheaded Kamikaze has grievances against some Youtube and Disney star... but there's like, so many of them, where to begin?
• Mirae On tells Monaca to rip and tear until it is done.
• GRAND DAD's revelation doesn't bode well for him, as the ants come out in full force to consume him.
  • GRAND DAD's final FEs at death: -777
• Seeeeeeeeeeymoooooooooooour accidentally knocks Chainsaw Homer into the pit with the most inconvenient timing ever.
• "You are obsolete, insect." [Vine Boom sound effect clipping at 20db]
• CardboardBot out here showing Charles and the Video Game Guy how to really win the Gourmet Race through super speed consumption.
• I'm somewhat surprised Galeem vaporized Jason outright instead of turning him into stone! Also screw you Killer T Cell.
• Tom farts; Gossamer notices. Somehow the cat overpowers Gossamer, instead of the stench!
  • Correction: it was Gossamer who farted. Tom will not take this fart slander.
• From the office of Dr. Facilier, who is still researching the Fire Emblem curse:
  • "HI I'M SEELE, I AM LESS LIKELY TO DIE FROM THE FIRE EMBLEM CURSE THAN THE FE CURSE ITSELF." "HI I'M SEELE'S ALTER EGO VELIONA. MY PERSONALITY HAS MADE ME MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO DYING FROM THE FIRE EMBLEM CURSE."
  • Wraps: "No amount of therapy will ever make this okay."
• Remember that book Chucky ignored earlier? The one that Video Game Guy read? Well it turns out it was a pretty good children's book, and Chucky hates it.
  • Alternate interpretation: Chucky's referring to a children's book that made him learn all the eldritch secrets ever and now he totally, absolutely, definitely hates it.

DAY THREE: (postimg / imgur◊)

• Raiden Mei strikes so many poses that they strike Dr. Facilier, Milly and the NordVPN guy.
  • All that help from Ozai... and Milly did not bring despair.
• Bongo Bongo learns how to interpret Cuneiform. Cool!
• It's time to OPEN THE GAME, as Bandana Waddle Dee, General, Jojo and a creepy doll decide on cards for the day.
• Six tributes attempt to obtain the greatest pizza ever for themselves. Michael wants to kill the pizza; Burnet just wants to eat it; the Misakas don't have enough slices for everyone; Sayaka is also really hungry; FE Curse and Derpcina maybe want to protect the pizza (from the FE Curse?); and Galeem wants to turn the pizza into stone and therefore an eventual playable character in World of Light.
• Gary's scare tactics defeat the BTS Cookies for now; but wait, what's this? A barbecue??? Oh, so they're not getting grilled. Phew!
• SEYMOUR NO
  • But the plant survived.
• Zoot Suit Tom pulls a Khaby and posts an Instagram alternative to Witch Kairi's Tiktok magic lifehacks.
• Shonen protagonist Earth Sigma, welcome to the Straw Hat Grand Fleet!
• Wraps rolls the dice with this weapon crafting system, and gets a good boon out of it.
• Other Mother strikes from the shadows, killing Gharnef.
  • Gharnef was at -1 FEs at the time of his death; Other Mother now has like... -2 or something.
• Gasp! Poor Scarecrow, murdered by Video Game Guy over a freaking Gamer Chair.
• Monaca believes that Fire Lord Ozai could be an unstoppable firebending werewolf under the right conditions.
• Later, dream-a-gator.
• CardboardBot probably got sick of all of the raining chocolate, so he somehow got hold of a weather machine and now it's raining gumballs. Heh.
• Beheaded Kamikaze is ready to rock.
• Mirae attempts to end Charles' life, but only succeeds in breaking Charles' leg.

THE DEPARTED: (postimg / imgur◊) Kintaro, Grand Dad, Hockey Mask/Chainsaw Homer, Jason Voorhees, Gossamer, Dr. Facilier, Milly, NordVPN Guy, Seymour, Gharnef, The Scarecrow

30 tributes remaining.

NEXT UPDATE IN 6 - 10 HOURS!

Edited by Mk_97 on Oct 26th 2022 at 9:42:31 AM

Misakas being bloodlust but got interrupted again, looks like RNG wants me to do pacifist run this season

Scarecrow lacked the heart to treat Jotaro nicely, and he still lacked the nerve to fend himself off VGG. RIP.

Also, our 5-day Arena forecast predicts raining dessert for the rest of the season.

It seems the bot has tracked Bale. Let's see how this goes. Wait, gonna do something real quick...

Facilier wasn't ready.

Also, how are group tributes handled?

Asking for a friend. A friend who looks like, sounds like, and is me.

They have special flags, and can allow characters on cooldown back in IF it is a MASSIVE group tribute.

Wtf lol both my tributes out in the same update