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Starflame13 -> =EC 2025= Fountain Arena OOC (7/19/2025 20:58:31)
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Welcome, Fountain Participants! This thread will be your Out-Of-Context forum for the competitors of the Fountain Arena to discuss tactics, collaborations, and plots, as well as to ask questions of your fellow combatants and to provide any additional details necessary to clarify your character or your actions. It should also be used for necessary communications with the Director in requesting extensions. As a reminder, you are required to post every 4 days. While I will do my best to provide 24 hour warnings, please do not rely on these. I must be informed in advance if an extension is needed.
Each of the combatants in this arena will be placed at an equidistant starting point. The order in which you are listed in the roster is the relative location you enter the arena in, with the first competitor entering at the North-East (top right) of the arena and moving clockwise around the edge of the arena. Alternatively, you can view this as the competitor listed above you will be on your right and the competitor listed below you will enter in on your left. All contestants are assumed to enter roughly at the same time, regardless of posting order.
Feel free to ask me questions within this thread, via PM, or via the AEF RP Discord Server if you have any details you would like clarified. Our Discord Server can be found here.
This was the music inspiration for Fountain: Submerged.
The Roster
Captain Jezara Argentia, created by nield!
Marrow of Ulve, created by roseleaf320!
Allysciel Stranz , created by Oddball!
Calamitina Explodinita, created by Starstruck!
In addition, I will be editing in any questions that may be useful for all combatants to read. Beginning with:
What are the dimensions of the arena? From the geometric center it is 35 feet (10.7 meters) of terrain until reaching some sort of barrier - a wall or a lethal hazard in most cases. Entrance ways vary by arena in terms of design, but consist of eight equidistant points starting from cardinal North. Fountain’s ocean ceiling is 20 feet (6.1 meters) high.
But we have fewer than 8 in the arena!
While arenas are designed with a maximum occupancy of eight contestants, we'd rather let people spread out and have more arena variety than to crowd everyone into a single arena. This year, the ever-changeable Fountain has shifted such that the contestants are evenly spaced throughout the arena.
Do the gates out of the arena remain open?
Yes, and the waterfalls originally blocking them are dried up. If you exit the arena, it will be considered forfeiting the fight.
Where are the pillars?
There are four pillars of ocean spanning the height of the arena. They are roughly at the halfway point between the entrances and the center of the arena. (Alternatively, they lie on a circle that is 30 feet / 9.1 meters in diameter). Each Pillar is 10 feet (3.0 meters) in diameter, and they stand at the four cardinal directions of the arena. Like the natural oceans of Lore (thank you, Dragon Fable), the water is breathable - but otherwise it retains all the properties of seawater. The pillars have globes of floating white lights in them - almost reminiscent of moon jellyfish were it not for the fact they actually shed light and that you can pass through them as if they were just water. The same lights are in the ocean ceiling, leaving the arena bathed dimly in a constantly wavering light.
We’re getting judged now right? What are you looking for?
Each Director has their own writing elements that they look for and their own methods for selecting the Paragons (and, later, the Champion). I do not use an official point scoring system of any kind, but I do look at seven key criteria. In no particular order, they are:
Combat Activity (Use of Abilities, Reasonable Physical Actions, Pacing of Actions)
Character Interactions (Accounting for Opponent Actions, Dialog, Environmental Awareness/Acknowledgement)
Consistency (Writing Style, Mana/Stamina Usage, Cross-Post Awareness for Injuries/Actions/etc.)
Storytelling (Complimenting the Action, Relevancy to Combat, General Worldbuilding)
Character Personality (Growth/Development, Passion/Emotion. Show me why they want to win).
Technical Writing Ability
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