Board 8 > ~CUBE!~ Olin, Erin, Mahagony, Yoshikage, Hiccup/Toothless, Voldemort

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Gerald Olin, Erin, Mahagony, Yoshikage, Hiccup and Toothless, and Lord Voldemort
have been trapped in the Cube! Location of the fight: The Cube - The structure as seen in the original Cube film. All mercs will begin in the starting chamber with no information provided to them and no knowledge how they arrived.. Who will escape?

Guidelines

- The fight will occur in real-time (like an FMV sequence), focusing on how the characters would function in a real-time environment.

- "Broken" refers to a lot of things, including insta-death, auto-effects, a variety of status effects (e.g., Imp, Silence, Stop, *not* Poison), and revival. Unless stated otherwise, nobody has them, though do use your own discretion.

- There may be SPOILERS from all of the shows/movies the characters are from.

Rules for Voting

- Bold your votes (using bold HTML tags).

- You do not need to require justification for your vote, though the admins reserve the right to disqualify votes in the advent of obvious alt voting and other similar scenarios.

- Leaders cannot vote for their own teams, but they are free to argue their case.

- If you want to switch your votes simply bold the change; there's no need to delete your post, though you may if you wish.

- This match will end in 24 hours.

There are no teams in this scenario. Each merc will work at their own discretion to escape, and may cooperate as suits them. Vote for which mercs you think would escape the Cube alive.

Gerald Olin is as he appears in 1408, a normal hotel manager.

Erin is as seen in You're Next. She is armed with a crossbow, a pistol, a butcher's knife, and a blender.

Mahogany is as he appears in The Midnight Meat Train carrying his hammer and a nice suitcase.

Yoshikage Kira is as he appears in the Sheer Heart Attack chapter of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable.

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III and Toothless are as seen in the How to Train Your Dragon films, as well as the spinoff show Dreamworks Dragons. Hiccup comes to battle in his flight suit, and comes equipped with his sword Inferno, his spyglass and his multi-purpose shield. In battle, the two will work together as a single unit whenever possible.

Lord Voldemort is as he appears throughout the Harry Potter film and novel series. He comes equipped with his Phoenix feather wand. He cannot use the Imperius Curse. He does not need to be defeated by the Chosen One, nor does he need to have any Horcruxes destroyed.
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Gerald

No one else here possesses any critical thinking skills.
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I disagree, Erin is a clever bugger
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Kira

He is like the most pragmatic shounen protagonist who is actually a villain. No real impulses, actual skillset that will let him get through, willing to let others make his mistakes for him, literally has an invincible toy car thing to test out traps with, just wants to get out of here so he can go to bed on time. I mean, he'll let everyone else die and totally sacrifice them as necessary, but I don't see him really making any mistakes. Hell, even his Luck stat is super high. This is his challenge to lose based on the personalities of the others.
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ooh I love this matchup

Gerald Olin is a weird case because he's certainly gonna be wary of the Cube and what horror might lie in it... but that doesn't mean he's actually going to be able to escape it, since he never really sets foot in the room 1408

Erin survives, 100%

Mahogany I don't think could really survive the Cube, but I also don't know that he'd try to. In all reality, he'd probably try to kill Erin or something. He'd probably succeed, but lose to either the Cube or Erin

Kira I'll wait for someone else to argue

Hiccup is smart, and can probably escape eventually... but Toothless isn't. Then again, is Toothless strong enough to just blast through the walls of the Cube? My gut says maybe, but he'd probably be reckless when trapped in a small, dangerous metal box, since he basically has the mentality of a large dog. Need to think on this one

Voldemort scoffs at your puny muggle traps. I also don't think he'd bother trying to kill any of the others. As evil as he is, he's the type to get more pleasure out of apparating himself out and leaving the muggles to die

Erin and Voldermort survive.

Maybe: Hiccup/Toothless
Probably not: Mahogany, Gerald
No idea: Kira
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Eddv posted...

Gerald

No one else here possesses any critical thinking skills.

DeathChicken posted...

I disagree, Erin is a clever bugger

yeah, that's like Erin's whole thing.

Hiccup is also very smart, and the Cube traps are about in line with his inventions technology-wise

Voldemort doesn't need critical thinking skills because magic
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I dunno, would Voldemort immediately go "AHAHA APPARATE" and then launch himself out into the darkness of space?
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To give a briefing on Kira:

Yoshikage Kira is the main villain of the fourth part of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. He is a serial killer who just wants people to leave him alone and let him kill women in peace, and has been doing it for 15 years without being caught. He has the special ability of a 'stand', known as Killer Queen. Killer Queen can punch things good and anything it touches turns into a bomb that Kira can detonate at will. This can be as powerful as exploding an entire block, or as specific as exploding a person except for their hands so Kira can fetishize them, or at one point, he explodes out a bullet made out of air traveling through his veins with minimal interference.

He has a secondary ability known as Sheer Heart Attack. It is an invincible, remote-control bomb on tank treads that will follow a chosen target. It is completely separate from Kira, and he can be kilometers away and have the thing still go after people. It will return to him after fulfilling its chosen task. After finding its target, it automatically pursues the greatest source of heat in sight and explodes it. If it determines its target isn't dead in this explosion, it'll go after them again. Kira cannot use Killer Queen's bombs while Sheer Heart Attack is active.

Kira is supremely pragmatic. He successfully evaded detection or any level of suspicion for over twenty years, deliberately getting second or third place in competitions so he appears skilled, but not overly so. He has cut off his own hand in order to escape capture before, and then successfully fled evasion from a guy whose literal power is taking a photograph of people he's trying to track from long distance by completely concealing his identity. He also has incredible luck, betting plans on a very unlikely outcome that will most benefit him and almost always succeeding in them. He also threw a bullet of concentrated air with a bomb inside, calculating the trajectory needed in his head based off of the football passes of professional football player Joe Montana.

He also really, really likes women's hands, wears purple suits, and looks like David Bowie. Direct confrontation he sucks at, and his durability is "regular salaryman who believes in himself".

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DeathChicken posted...

I dunno, would Voldemort immediately go "AHAHA APPARATE" and then launch himself out into the darkness of space?

well doesn't apparating just require them to know in their mind where they're apparating to?

I mean they're in sort of an alternate universe here so I don't know exactly how it'd work but I'd think at the very least it would get him out of the Cube?
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So personality-wise, how would Kira react to Erin, a woman who looks like every other slasher victim who ever existed but actually has an assload of survival training specifically dealing with serial killers?
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DeathChicken posted...

So personality-wise, how would Kira react to Erin, a woman who looks like every other slasher victim who ever existed but actually has an assload of survival training specifically dealing with serial killers?

Are her hands really ugly? Because he is very dedicated to his fetish. If she's got dirty hands she's fine. If not... yeah he will probably want her to die at SOME point.

But if he could, say, help her survive and then kill her afterward, he'd do it. He's resisted temptation before, just as long as there is eventually payoff.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p4_x7EeUw7Y/hqdefault.jpg

And he's just... really unsubtle about it when there's not payoff.
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???
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I admittedly am not sure I know how to judge the sexual merits of a hand adequately.
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I feel like it might depend on what Mahogany tries to do. Is he in psycho killer mode? Is he in Creepy Businessman mode? Because this scenario goes to shit very quickly if like, Mahogany immediately tries to kill Erin. We'd end up with a weird scenario where Kira might or might not try to save her before the butcher man inevitably carves her pretty hands up
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Kamekguy posted...

I admittedly am not sure I know how to judge the sexual merits of a hand adequately.

Mercs I love you so fucking much for giving me this

Also Voldemort is super duper dead here

like

The cube has a trap made of invisible razor wires. Voldy is NOT going to spot it before it ginsus him up. He has the power but not the understanding of subtlety to make shit happen here.

Kira, Erin and Hiccup, though? They got a chance. Olin has a small shot too if Erin and Hiccup play ball with him. This could be a very survivable cube if people decide to work together.
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So I'm leaning toward the idea that Mahogany wouldn't just immediately fly off and try to kill people. For whatever motivates that guy, he always seemed perfectly okay hanging out in disguise before trying to drop the hammer. We're probably going to wind up with an oddly cooperative bunch of dudes here, as if we assume Kira wants Erin to survive long enough to do...whatever the fuck he does, everyone has reason enough to work together. Except Voldemort. I think Voldemort would get himself killed being an arrogant shit

Erin obviously makes it to the end as she's essentially slasher movie Macauley Culkin, this is her bag. Kira sounds like he makes it to the end. I don't think Olin or Mahogany are nimble enough, even if the latter doesn't flip his lid. Hiccup I'm unsure of, it depends on if he gets killed trying to reign in Toothless.

...this feels like it comes down to whether Erin can escape Kira at the very end with Kira playing the part of Quentin
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DeathChicken posted...

So I'm leaning toward the idea that Mahogany wouldn't just immediately fly off and try to kill people. For whatever motivates that guy, he always seemed perfectly okay hanging out in disguise before trying to drop the hammer. We're probably going to wind up with an oddly cooperative bunch of dudes here, as if we assume Kira wants Erin to survive long enough to do...whatever the fuck he does, everyone has reason enough to work together. Except Voldemort. I think Voldemort would get himself killed being an arrogant shit

I really don't see Voldemort getting killed by a muggle trap like the ones in these

I am going to definitively say Hiccup does not survive. Trying to navigate Toothless through those tiny corridors would be enough of a challenge on its own. I think it's gonna be too much.

I agree Mahogany might hang around at first, but would pick anyone off if he's alone with them. Too bad that probably doesn't happen?

I'll say Kira survives too
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I'll say Kira and Erin. From everything said about Kira, he'd probably be turned off by how grody Erin will inevitably be by the end of all the murder
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Kira and Erin
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How does nobody else think Voldemort survives this

literally the biggest threat to the magical world who can teleport
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Depends if we count Horcrux resurrection as winning
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Yeah, he can teleport. I'm just not sure if he's too arrogant to do it before he dies. If this were Dumbledore I'd easily vote for him.
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Johnbobb posted...

How does nobody else think Voldemort survives this

literally the biggest threat to the magical world who can teleport

Because you can only teleport in response to what you can see. And if you mean 'just teleport out of the cube', you need to know where you're apparting to to not splinch. Voldy is stuck in a place he doesn't know. Teleporting out will kill him, most likely, and he's not stupid enough to take that risk.
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I usually figure that teleporters need to have an idea of where they're teleporting to, so that they don't telefrag themselves if they teleport into a wall or something. Voldemort doesn't have the luxury of knowing how large the Cube is.

I'll say Erin survives too reading stuff up. Kira'd likely not kill her until afterward, probably ask her out for coffee or something to talk a week later, and then kill her. It's normal to take your girlfriend on a date first before you get intimate, after all. Voldey I see getting impatient, and Hiccup I easily imagine Toothless getting caught in some trap and Hiccup refusing to leave her. That's, like, dramatic writing 101 when you bring your pet in. The others, from what I can tell, just don't seem capable of surviving traps unless someone does it for them or keeping their cool, respectively.
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Didn't Hermione apparate to random forests in the seventh book? While bringing Harry along? If she can do that I don't see why Voldemort can't just apparate to Malfoy Manor or something.
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Mewtwo59 posted...

Didn't Hermione apparate to random forests in the seventh book? While bringing Harry along? If she can do that I don't see why Voldemort can't just apparate to Malfoy Manor or something.

Limited terrains for mercs due to mercs magic, mostly

like, what happens if you apparate into a place that is conceptually banned? Do you go boom, or do you (in this particular case anyway) win instantly?
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It doesn't actually say that anywhere is banned. Usually that's in the terrain writeup but it's absent here.
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Mewtwo59 posted...

It doesn't actually say that anywhere is banned. Usually that's in the terrain writeup but it's absent here.

Yeah in that case I think Voldemort, Erin, Kira and Olin survive the cube. I give Voldemort credit to do something that's at least mildly practical and bug out.
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Mewtwo59 posted...

It doesn't actually say that anywhere is banned. Usually that's in the terrain writeup but it's absent here.

Oh shit. Voldemort gets through after all!
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Voldemort, Kira, Erin
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I'll go with Voldemort, Kira, and Erin survive.
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Mewtwo59 posted...

It doesn't actually say that anywhere is banned. Usually that's in the terrain writeup but it's absent here.

my argument is that there by default has to be an "outside the cube" in the terrain, or nobody could escape

now what happens if a character tries to teleport to a location that doesnt exist in thus world? That's up for debate but I think they'd at least hit the outer "wall" of the terrain, which for the purposes here I would think means outside the Cube
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Well yeah, but we know what is outside the Cube. A nondescript and apparently infinite drop into nothing

Now granted Voldemort can fly and stuff, but yeah
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