Time for the hot seat

[gamemakers]

So later this week we will be going into the arena's first round of Hell-rena.

Since it is no secret that this is a Silent Hill based arena, it is probably not going to be very shocking what happens if you are familiar with silent hill.

If you are not, here is a good clip to show what's about to go down.

Air raid sirens will go off. The fog will clear up real fast, and it's gonna get hot. We're talking 100+ Fahrenheit. With humidity.

The buildings will be easier to see, but will deteriorate as in the clip.

The creatures will become more active. Anxious, more aggressive, and faster moving in the heat.

There is constantly a loud, grinding, unpleasant metallic sound throughout everything. In the underground rooms of building and close to the town green it is so loud you need to shout over it, and you can feel it vibrating through you.

If you have been eating/drink the arena's produce, you will feel over heated, uncomfortable, and like you have had WAY too much coffee.

HOWEVER it's not all bad.

There is going to be one building every round that is safe. Cool, quiet, the creatures don't come near, and it is stocked with fresh food and water. It is easy to see because the outside does not dissolve. And powers are still nerfed inside.

EDIT: For this round, the safe space will be the Theater. More specific details about layout, etc. will be in the starting event post.

Because the other perks of this is that powers are available outside. Anyone too powerful, or with game breaking power will be muted down to reasonable levels, and feel free to direct questions about such here if you are unsure about something.

I think that is everything, at least that I can think of. Any other questions can be posted here!

Comments

QUESTIONS

[gamemakers]

Re: QUESTIONS

[sleeplessinalternia]

How many people can fit in the building?

Re: QUESTIONS

[gamemakers]

It will vary by building, but we will have exact measurements for the building when the post goes up. This one will be moderate to large.

Re: QUESTIONS

[seestheman]

Just curious, will the people who've been consuming things from the arena still feel the effects in the safe space?

[gamemakers]

The effect are directly tied to the temperature, so they will until they can cool down. Then they'll become sluggish again.

Re: QUESTIONS

[splendid_roman]

Will the walls and ceilings of the underground rooms dissolve too? How long will it last - short enough that you can just fight off the monsters, or so long that you'll get tired/need to sleep/eat at some point, so you'll die if you're not in the theatre?

[gamemakers]

They will not dissolve entirely, but they will disintegrate. Peel, crumble in some place, etc. But it'll still be a wall.

in the right place this time

[acroodawakening]

About how long will it last? I'm thinking of having Brainy getting injured during it and having it get infected, so that his friends take him to Elsa's ice palace to cool down but infection takes a while to set in. Is this like a one day thing or are they stuck a few days in it?

[gamemakers]

It is undecided right now but likely a day+

Re: QUESTIONS

[designatedfreak]

Are there any movies to watch? You know, because that's a priority

POWER RELATED STUFF

[gamemakers]

[earthborn]

What will happen if someone, perhaps with injudicious use of powers, damages the safe house from the outside-- if that's even possible.

Re: POWER RELATED STUFF

[bringinghopewithme]

Since the produce in the arena is all funky, how will nature powers affect it? Can Bunny cause some non-funky produce to grow or is there just too much nastiness in the soil/water?

Re: POWER RELATED STUFF

[bindsthedead]

Would Sabriel be able to send her spirit into Death?

EDIT: And if she condensed some water out of the atmosphere and used her magic to purify it would it be considered safe/drinkable?

[frozenfractalsallaround]

So Elsa has the power to create ice. Will she be allowed to create a building of ice to hide in and keep herself and close CR cool? She would keep it from melting using her powers.

Also would she be allowed to use her melted ice for drinking water?

[googledox]

Brainy's primary non-intelligence related power is forcefields and really hella powerful ones, ie can withstand an antimatter detonation. In canon, he can also enclose a fairly large space with it, IE maybe fit like ten to fifteen people under it. He has in the past, shielded large groups of his team and civilians during explosions with it.

I wanted to know if this would be too breaky since he could essentially act as another living safe point if he holed up in a room somewhere with people. The caveats that would already be in place would be that he'd only be able to shield, say, about 10 people, since his brain's a mess this arena, and he he'd have to sit there focusing only on that without moving the whole time. It'd take every bit of his focus and willpower.

And it'd be a miserable, terrifying time for everyone stuck in it since the monsters might be be there pounding on it and it'd be cramped and hot inside.

But since that still could potentially offer another small safe shelter for people caught out in it, I was wondering if that'd be okay.

[earthborn]

A question about the effect of cold on people who have imbibed of the arena's dubious bounty;

It sounds, the way you're describing it, like they're reacting to cold like lizards or something, a slowing, hibernating kind of effect. Would you say fairly that it's slowing their metabolism?

Re: POWER RELATED STUFF

[sithcretapprentice]

Alright, so! This. isn't super definite, since I'm still not sure if I want to do it just yet, but I'm preemptively asking.

See, at some point I want to get Starkiller into trouble. This arena seems like a good place to do that. Among his powers are the ability to create lightning. I was wondering if it would be possible for him to target the force-field surrounding the arena with his lightning, in an attempt to overload it and break out. Regardless of whether anything comes from it, I would like for him to get punished for it after returning to the Capitol.

Would it be possible to set something like this up? The reason I want to is because I'm looking for a way to get him involved in the rebellion and this seems like a good way to do it. Like I said, I'm not for sure yet but is it a possibility?

[yourmove]

I'm not sure if this counts as powers, but does this mean all of Alex's HUDs/cyborg stuff works now? Like threat assessment where he can tell if there's an impending threat from someone based on their posture and facial expression/other readings, etc. Also he'd probably be more agile/mobile BUT:

On the flipside, I was thinking he could overheat in response to the temperature because man in a tin can here. So in theory he could kick ass but he'll go down like a sack of rocks pretty soon after. Possibly need to be dragged to safety/lower temperatures.

[casaerotica13]

/BREATHES ON. I feel so behind. I had no idea about all of this.

ANYWHO! I'm sure I'll have some more questions later, but as of right now-

Will Gabriel be able to teleport around the arena? If so, how far can he go? Like will he be able to get from one side to the other easily or can he only go several yards at a time? And can he pop others around with him?

Can he sense other people in the arena assuming they don't happen to have anti-detection sigils etched into their ribs?

Can he heal injuries?

He's definitely not going to be a nuke like last time. The most I'm thinking he'll be able to do is kill someone by touching them if he so inclines. Also, I imagine that when the powers turn off again, he'll go back to as hungry and sore as before.

oops wrong thread ANOTHER

[worldsaway]

Hihi, Thor is a bit of a tough nut since I assume he couldn't summon Mjolnir without it breaking through a force field, unless that's something that could happen. I'm not sure if Mjolnir made the trip, mostly.

Even so, without mjolnir it seems like he can control the weather, but again if it's condensed in a force field I assume he can't actually tamper with the weather in there? Maybe the Capitol experiences a multitude of rainy days.

So the question I suppose is clarifying whether mjolnir and weather control are out and whether it would be acceptable for him to still be able to project lightning through a conductor? SORRY THIS IS CONFUSING.

[metalicarus]

So, hypothetically, if Jet were to fly at the dome with his shoulder and it zaps him would he damage it at all?

Secondly, if he were to hit the dome and then fall because electricity and cyborgs don't mix, could a building of mod choosing break his fall?

[blinkersoff]

Second power question but Jan's power is transmutation, warping matter, living or dead ,into whatever he wants and changing elements into other elements.

The range of stuff he can do with it is pretty ridiculous from healing tiny lesions he senses in a character's brain that might someday cause a stroke to turning the atmosphere of a planet into toxic gas.

It essentially makes him omnipotent at full power so I definitely need help figuring out what limitations to run with.

So to start with, can I assume these limits are in place?

1) He can't alter himself to permanently remove whatever method of power inhibition they use.

2) He's had his senses deadened so he can't sense whatever method they're using on the subatomic level so that he can't provide that info to anyone.

3) He can't fly like he usually can by messing with the air around him/his own density because then they'd have to worry about him trying to escape the arena

4) He can't do any grand scale stuff that alters the atmosphere. Like maybe he can turn the air into toxic gas around a person but finds the ability blocked if he tries to for the whole arena.

And then in terms of what he can do:

1) Can he transmute himself to other substances, like stone or metal to punch people/be immune to damage with with so long as he automatically warps back to flesh and blood and has his power inhibited again when the hell part ends?

2) Can I otherwise have a free range of horrible ways he can kill people with his power? (obviously only with ooc permission, but I want to know if I can basically leave the how based on the creativity of me and the player that wants their character killed.)

[gamemakers]

reading through your list, it seems like a good limit would be that he can change himself and things he is directly in contact with?That just seems to sum everything up in a neat package.

And he could fly, because there is a roof to the arena. So he'd just hit the forcefield at the top and bounce back down.

Plotting

[bindsthedead]

So who wants purified water/purified food/the arena nastiness driven out of their system? Or alternately, fireballs/lightning/whatever magical attack Sabriel can think of thrown at them.

Also, either in this round of Hell-rena or the next, Sabriel may baptize a person or two- but not explain to them what she did, or teach them anything in the hopes that they'll be resurrected with their mark, and the Capitol won't suppress their magic because they won't realize they have it. And then be rather disappointed when it turns out baptisms don't stick after arena deaths so her plan won't work. Tell me if you'd like to volunteer your character for this! Sabriel would probably try to target people who don't seem to have any superpowers.