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Starflame13 -> =EC 2024= Finals OOC (8/19/2024 22:41:27)

Welcome and congratulations to all who participated in the 2024 Elemental Championships! Welcome to the Heart of the Arena!


A huge round of applause to all of our entrants this year - I especially appreciate everyone’s determination in making this a year worth reading and worth enjoying even with our smaller number, and everyone’s flexibility to ensure we could hold a full event with those who were able to enter. Thank you sincerely to everyone who participated.

Now, due to our smaller number, only four entrants will be joining Finals this year - as the Chosen of the Arena. So, without further ado, I am proud to present to you:



All chosen finalists, PLEASE READ THE REST OF THIS POST IN ITS ENTIRETY. Anyone else, feel free to skip to the final paragraphs after the line break, with information as to where you can go from here! You are also welcome to continue fighting in your Paragon Arena, join in the Spectators thread, or write an exit post.

All of the same rules from the initial OOC thread apply. Any extensions that were made in the first round have been reset as well, meaning that each writer starts with 36 hours in extension, in 12 or 24 hour increments. Note that for Finals, you CANNOT request all 36 hours as an extension for a single post. The maximum extension per post is 24 hours. I will do my best to continue to give people 24 hour idle-out warnings, but this is the Finals. You are ultimately responsible for posting on time, so plan your posting schedule accordingly.

Once your character awakes in the Finals Arena, you start with a clean state. Writings from the Paragon Phase will be evaluated again only if a tie-breaker is absolutely necessary. Here is where you truly need to focus. Communicate and collaborate with each other, ask questions when needed, proofread your posts, and have a blast showing off your writing skills and abilities.

The Arena will open at 11:59 pm EDT on Wednesday, August 21st. I intend to speak with the four finalists before confirming how we will handle the pacing of the Cuts, given our decreased size this year. As of now, I do not intend to make any cuts for the first week and half - or until Saturday, August 31st at 11:59pm ET.

When a Finalist is Cut, they will have some sense or awareness that the favor of the Arena has been withdrawn, and a gate will materialize beyond their initial starting point for them to exit through. Once Cut, a competitor has three choices. They can Submit, recognize the will of the Arena and exit through their gate. They can Surrender, and allow an opponent to slay their character through a collaborative effort. Or they can retaliate with Spite, and make one single, final attack in the arena. If you choose this last option, your character will then be left to the mercy of those left in the arena, with no further outlet for collaboration. As such, to any competitor targeted by a Spite attack, please treat it with the appropriate severity.

As with the Arena OOC threads, I will be editing in any questions about the Heart of the Arena here! Starting with:

What are the dimensions of the Arena?
The Heart of the Arena is smaller than the Paragon arenas. From the geographic center, it is 30 feet (or 9.14 meters) to the edge of the sands. The first entrant listed above is at Cardinal North, the next at Cardinal East, and so on. The statue of the prior Champion of Wind, Vosta ver Vostadteir, is in the center of the Arena. The plinth is roughly 5 feet (1.5 meters) in diameter and 10 feet (3.05 meters) tall. The entire statue is made of silver, and is carrying a long boar spear. It is unbreakable, appearing and acting as normal statues during the combat. As there are no Paragons this year, no one has additional grace or risk from coming into contact with the statue - but it is painful to come into touch with, as if the nerves aren’t sure to react as if they are experience burns, frostbite, shock, or all at once.

How do our characters get transported to the Arena?
All Combatants experience the transition from Sky and the entrance into the Arena at the same time - but what you do with the space in between is up to you. This year is a little different as you are not traveling through the physical arena complex, but you are still welcome to have memories, visions, conversations with your Lord’s representative, or similar in this space between transitions. While not required, each combatant has the option of a full heal/restore to the point they were upon entering the Paragon Phase, as well as the restoration of any ammo/armor/weapons that were lost or damaged in the first round, enacted however they wish in the transition. Please reach out to me if you have specific questions about this mechanic.



Once again, thank you to everyone for participating in the Elemental Championships! Even if you did not make it through to the Finals, stick around to watch and cheer on your favorites either here or in the Discord server! Additionally, you can move your characters to the Spectators Thread - where anyone can enter the stands and interact with Bren post-combat, or comment on the fight in Sky! As stated prior, Spectators is treated similar to the Yulgar’s Inn Roleplay, where characters do not need extensive (or any) bios, you can include as many people as you’d like in your conversation or simply just observe, and no fighting is allowed. It is entirely for fun (or for practice), and anyone can join in whether or not you participated in this year's ECs. Keep in mind: Any conversations or activities here DO NOT IMPACT those fighting in the final arena. It is for the spectators' enjoyment only.

For anyone who would like to continue improving their own role-playing skills, I encourage you to check out either the Role Playing Academy or the Combat Training forums, or else swing by the casual Role-Play Yulgar’s Inn. Additionally, keep an eye on the Role Playing General Discussion for any future, member-led RP’s, or feel free to look into creating your own!

Lastly, I am happy to give feedback on individual performances in the Elemental Championships. People are welcome to PM me to ask for said feedback, but please be patient if it takes a while for me to respond as I will be slightly busy judging the Finals Phase.

I hope to see all of you return for our other annual RP competition, Where Powers Collide, in January, or to the Elemental Championships of 2025!

Best of luck to all of our Finalists!




Starflame13 -> RE: =EC 2024= Finals OOC (8/21/2024 0:10:46)

Given the unusual format that Finals has taken this year, and the hard work and collaboration all of our writers have put in to make this year a success despite its lower turnout, I have decided to modify one last part of Finals.

I do not feel right removing only one writer out of four to give us the Traditional Final 3, but nor do I wish to have two Cuts down to a Final 2, and turn the free-for-all format that the Elemental Championships is known for, where allies and opponents change by the post, into a single duel for the Boon.

As such, all four of our Finalists will have the chance to take part for the entirety of the fight at the Heart of the Arena, enabling them to weave their stories to completion around each other, and from that composition a single Champion will be named.

The four day format for Idles and the procedure for Extensions will not change.

The expectation of significant collaboration will increase.

The Arena will open tomorrow and remain open for two and a half weeks, closing on Sunday, September 8th.




Chewy905 -> RE: =EC 2024= Finals OOC (8/26/2024 8:46:08)

Posted with approval from DragonKnight!




Chewy905 -> RE: =EC 2024= Finals OOC (8/29/2024 23:51:52)

Posted with approval from DragonKnight!




roseleaf320 -> RE: =EC 2024= Finals OOC (8/31/2024 14:56:30)

Hoping to take a 12-hour extension, please!




Starflame13 -> RE: =EC 2024= Finals OOC (8/31/2024 20:35:18)

@roseleaf320 - Granted. Your new deadline is 7:37pm on Sunday, September 1st. You have two 12 hours extensions remaining.




roseleaf320 -> RE: =EC 2024= Finals OOC (8/31/2024 22:11:46)

Actually, sorry, going to request a second 12-hour extension so I can post late Sunday night. Thank you!




Starflame13 -> RE: =EC 2024= Finals OOC (9/1/2024 11:10:32)

@roseleaf320 - Granted. Your new deadline is 7:37am on Monday, September 2nd. You have one 12 hours extension remaining. Note that you are not allowed to stack this one on top of your current extensions.




Dragonknight315 -> RE: =EC 2024= Finals OOC (9/4/2024 12:49:33)

Requesting a 12 hour extension!




Starflame13 -> RE: =EC 2024= Finals OOC (9/5/2024 2:47:28)

@Dragonknight315 - Granted. Your new deadline is Thursday, September 5th at 10:00am EST. You have two 12 hour extensions remaining.




Starflame13 -> RE: =EC 2024= Finals OOC (9/27/2024 21:31:58)

And with much appreciation for everyone's patience and flexibility.... let's have a drumroll! We have reached the conclusion of the Finals! (For anyone curious about the delay - I always ensure to speak to the finalists first prior to the announcement, and it took a few tries for the stars (and our schedules) to align!) A huge round of applause for our Finalists - you four had a modified format thrown out you without much time to prepare, and you took the challenge and ran with it to give us all an absolute masterclass in collaboration and creativity. You all have my thanks for the hard work and effort put in to make this year happen.

Now, as several of our finalists bleed out upon the sands in the Heart of the Arena... a Decision has been made, and a Champion shall be crowned:

Please offer your congratulations to Chewy905, the 2024 Elemental Champion! Witness Camellia Dictari, Champion of Darkness!

=The thread will soon be unlocked for Chewy905, and by extension the other finalists, to make their final exit posts. I have no flavor text for the actual granting of the boon, but that of the announcement will be posted in the Arena thread. Chewy905, please run the concept of the boon with me prior to posting, to ensure it's something the Lords would be willing to grant and to receive approval for how they grant it.

Once again: a huge round of applause for our Champion, our Finalists, and each and every writer this year! All of you contributed to an absolutely wonderful event.

If you enjoyed the format of the EC's and want more practice in that style, go check out the Combat Training forums! If you'd like more general practice, check our our Role Playing Academy. For those who would like something more story-driven, look into which RP's are recruiting in the OOC section. You can either join another RP that is welcoming new characters, or create and host your own!

Thank you once more to all who competed, and I sincerely hope to see most of you around the RP forums, and all of you returning for next years Elemental Championships!

And, be sure to stick around to join in with Where Powers Collide this coming January!




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