WELCOME TO THE SEVENTH ARENA THREAD!!!!!
— erm — Sorry for the incoming panel of words, but I have to explain rules and provide exeamples, to help newcomers.
What is the Arena?
In short: The Arena is basically pretend fights online. You put on an Avatar, throw he/she/it into the thread, and have he/she/it fight other avatars to see who comes out on top. Simple dumb fun, worked for many years, and will probably be worked for many more.
So, The Rules: (don't blame me for recycling the examples from the last edition, I had no inspiration for this)
- Standard Tv Tropes rules apply! Most of them apply here anyway (etiquette and such) and I'm not responsible of what happens to you if you breaks them.
- Play as your avatar. Everyone will assume your avatar is who you’re playing as, as it should be. This isn't such a severe rule: if you break it once, it won't be a big problem, you will only be reminded, but if you do several times...
- Be reasonable. If your character’s likely going to take a hit, let him take a hit, please. If whatever character’s getting shot at by a machine gun, he/she/it is PROBABLY gonna take a bullet or two even if its nonlethal. Example: Steve Austin lost track of Geese Howard in the middle of a fight, when Geese suddenly comes up with a kick to the back of the head. To be fair, it's pretty unlikely Steve’s gonna see it coming, unless Geese gives a warcry beforehand, or another indicator of his presence.
- Ghosting and Autohitting. This is when you either dodge attacks continuously to the point of ridiculousness, or write posts as if your attack is absolutely guaranteed to hit. While normally an easy to understand rule, sometimes there’s a bit of confusion. Let’s take the move Aerial Ace from Franchise/Pokemon for example. Ingame, it never misses, no matter how evasive the enemy is. Instead, of that, however, you could write that the Pokemon using the move is instead “slicing at an incredible speed”. Still highly likely to hit, but it gives room for the character to dodge if they’re able to. As for ghosting, sometimes characters might do a thing where they turn invincible, example being the Medic and whoever he’s paired with’s Ubercharge. For this, I’d say decide on a post limit for how long it lasts, and don’t abuse it.
- Original Characters: If you wanna play an OC, just notify the mods first, and then try to inform other players.
- The Fourth Wall Rule: The fourth wall’s always had a bit of negative history in the Arena, but in this generation, it'll pass it this isn't too much relevant to the battle. If you want to have a character who is already an established “wall breaker” character make a quick little remark on the “Almighty nerds who run this showbiz”, go ahead. If this gets out of hand and people start using it to give these characters advantages (Example: Franchise/Deadpool is facing off against Crocodile. Deadpool suddenly looks at a wiki page to learn that Crocodile is weak to water, before tossing a bucket of the stuff at him), there will be consequences and the rule will be thightened. If anybody uses this to complain about other players unironically, there will be severe reactions from the mods.
- Character Balancing: I’m not gonna make people unable to play characters they like for whatever reason, but if you’re worried that a character might be TOO powerful, message me! We can work out checks and balances together. Example: Report Siht wants to play Superman, but he’s concerned that he might be a bit too busted for the Arena (which, well, he’s right by a wide margin). He messages me, and we work out a few checks and balances to make him a fair character (in this very case, it'll involve kryptonite, for instance).
- Character Bans: Please no religious figures, unless it’s either a fictional representation (many Shin Megami Tensei characters, as an example), or a sillier take on somebody else (Jesus Christ, except he’s ripped and has guns and smokes, or stuff like that). If, however, you abuse this to soapbox, or even intentionally try to piss off other people about something (Jesus Christ except he’s an insane normal man who gets put down easily), this rule will be restricter further. No one likes a bigot. Characters who fight in an explicitly sexual manner will also be banned. This includes stuff such as Senran Kagura characters, unless you ignore the “they get stronger with less clothes” thing and just play them with their other abilities. I wanna keep this at a relatively low level in terms of sexual themes. When it comes to gore and such though, well... unless extreme cases, go nuts.
- Gun Laws: If you’re playing a character that can easily tank attacks that aren’t excessively powerful, then at least let them take SOME damage from those things in this thread. I’m using guns as an example, because it’s a good one. Say John Rambo is fighting off against Goku. In Dragon Ball, characters far weaker than Goku can take bullets without flinching, so for fairness sake, reduce the durability to a semi-reasonable standpoint. You don’t have to have your normally invincible character die to a single pistol shot, but it’s gonna ‘’hurt’’ a bit still. And about guns, small concealed guns are allowed, btw. Don't abuse it, please.
- Entry Rule: If there’s a fight going on, and you wanna jump in, don’t have your entry post be “My Character comes in and attacks Your Character”. Instead, try something more like this: “My character appears in the Arena, looking around confused a bit, until he sees [[Videogame/Overwatch Reaper]] maniacally laughing as he shoots at Franchise/Kirby. Readying his gun, he rushes to assist the puffball”. This helps get your character involved, and gives the other players an opportunity to react to the new guy.
- Mind Control! This is a really fun and interesting idea, but it can also be abused. So if you wanna have your character possess someone and make them do something they wouldn’t otherwise, try having some sort of “inner battle” type deal. The exception, of course, is if the other player allows it to go through easily anyway.
- Snipers: If you’re playing a sniper character, it is recommended to give the other players a warning that something is off. A strange glint in the distance, an odd red dot moving around, or even, the sniper takes a shot, but either misses or grazes. This makes a sniper fight go from horrible one-sided to far more entertaining. Now the sniper has to be on the move to keep his target from closing in, while the other character is now aware that someone is after their head, and has to stop them without being taken out by the next shot.
- If the setting allows it, nameless NPCs may be used as simple props (if you want a psycho murderer to start a fight by murdering innocents, go ahead. If you wanna have someone drain another NPC’s life to get a little energy back, go ahead, within reason of course). Of course, if this is abused, I might have to remove this, but that’s unlikely to happen.
- Bosses: These are mostly gonna be GM controlled, but if a player really wants to try their hand at playing a boss-like character, this can be negotiated with mods. I’ll go over these at a later time. Don’t expect to see them often, though.
- Looting. This has never really been a concern in the Arena, so to make it quick: If a character dies, another is allowed to take their stuff, with permission from the player. A character respawns with their stuff if they haven’t been played for a little bit, but if the character respawns immediately after, try playing around with them not having their toys (or at least not those they used in the previous fight), might be fun.
- If a player has been absent for long enough that the action stalls out significantly, feel free to continue on without them and have your character do something else. Preferable wait time is a full 24 hours.
- If you want to talk about something, in order to differentiate this from the usual battle text, use spoilers to show this has nothing to do with the fight currently going on.
- No nukes pls.
The current setting is a ruined post-apocalyptic city in the modern era. Settings change when a significant number of players want a new setting, and a vote is held on what setting that is. This should take a week or two, which realistically translates to months, but I won’t stop action during the vote.
If anybody has any questions, ask to the mods, I only copied and rehanded the rules from the previous version. Without further ado… Let's start!
Edited by azerty04 on Jun 7th 2025 at 11:11:36 AM
call this popcorning but i do have an idea: make it so that somewhere either the book or wand is left somewhere in the arena, and ganon tries to keep people away from it when he finds out
"And for one night only...you can get your revenge." / NEW(sarcastic tone) That's nice from you to inform us about your Kryptonite Factor.
Starts to fumble in the ruins around
Give me books! Give me ALL YOUR BOOKS!!!!!Whatever they should be used from...
slams the book straight into CD-I Ganon's face
Give me books! Give me ALL YOUR BOOKS!!!!!(otis is still at a loss at what the hell is going on.)
am i in purge-atory
"And for one night only...you can get your revenge." / NEWwHAT THE FUCK
(the very funny boi immedeately grabs his AK-47 and begins firing at his new adversary.)
"And for one night only...you can get your revenge." / NEW(running dry on ammo...otis decides to go practical, reloading...with the added instance of throwing the spent magazine directly at oika, hopefully to stop her attempt at attacking-!)
"And for one night only...you can get your revenge." / NEWOicazzo punches the magazine back to otis.
Sorry, I forgot the Dub Name Change and used the French version.
Give me books! Give me ALL YOUR BOOKS!!!!!ah ok but can you please let my fellow have a chance
(seeing no other option...he just steps to the side. about 4 yards away.)
"And for one night only...you can get your revenge." / NEW

: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Are you sure about that?
Oicazzo's back from Inventoria and ready to violently smash CD-I Ganon's face with his skill Combo Spirit Fist: Flame Crimson
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Give me books! Give me ALL YOUR BOOKS!!!!!