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Yes, this is from the last round, but I really like this concept and it never got used. 
Arena:
Restrictions:
Arena:
You are in an office building. A maze of cubicles spans the entirety of the twenty-ninth floor, where you will begin. Frosted glass panels substitute for the walls that separate the executives from the middle management; they edge the perimeter of the office. Ordinarily, office drones flutter in and out of the workspace; however, the time is 1:00 AM, and you are the only two remaining in the building -- save for the voice emanating from the speakers commanding you to fight.
It appears one of your colleagues is a bit of a psycho and spiked your afternoon coffees with a slow-acting sedative that peaked at 4:49 PM. You both collapsed when everyone else left work, whereupon he stripped you of all communication devices.
Your incentive to entertain him is simple. He currently sits inside the security office on the ground floor where he controls all electronically activated doors, alarms and sprinklers, and watches your performance on CCTV via the office building's myriad security cameras. The office building is locked over weekends, and if you choose to ignore him, you will not leave the building until security returns on Monday, reopens the building to discover two employees who have died from carbon monoxide poisoning (from an apparent malfunction in the ventilation), and then carries your bodies out, head first, in black plastic bags.
So heed his commands if you wish to escape alive.
Special Conditions:It appears one of your colleagues is a bit of a psycho and spiked your afternoon coffees with a slow-acting sedative that peaked at 4:49 PM. You both collapsed when everyone else left work, whereupon he stripped you of all communication devices.
Your incentive to entertain him is simple. He currently sits inside the security office on the ground floor where he controls all electronically activated doors, alarms and sprinklers, and watches your performance on CCTV via the office building's myriad security cameras. The office building is locked over weekends, and if you choose to ignore him, you will not leave the building until security returns on Monday, reopens the building to discover two employees who have died from carbon monoxide poisoning (from an apparent malfunction in the ventilation), and then carries your bodies out, head first, in black plastic bags.
So heed his commands if you wish to escape alive.
- The objective is to keep the psycho in the security office entertained. He likes a good fight, so put up one.
- He credits unique attacks that use the environment and props in it. You're in an office: think of the wonderful possibilities of stationery weapons -- biro pens, staplers, even photocopying machines.
- Destroy your opponent without killing them.
- You will also be judged on your writing quality. I have deliberately left the details of this arena vague for you to design it as you see fit.
- You will be penalized for logical impossibilities, such as using a power drill without finding an electric socket to power it first, and though we will intervene during the battle and ask that you edit it, mistakes made will feed in to our final decision.
STRICTLY NO MAGIC OR POWERS. This is melee-only combat.
Creation period:When both of you indicate that you have read the mechanics of this battle by posting in this thread, I will post a barebones template with a prescriptive list of 'weapons', from which you may choose a maximum of three. This is to prevent one character from overpowering another and to credit your battle technique rather than your ability to conceive an indestructible character.
We are happy to take any questions.
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