Not my poor skull! I demand a replay!, at least tell me was I valiant and noble was I bearded? I love beards..
Okay, so I am not going to be able to upload most of the commentary vids for Round 1 until after the holidays, but I will be recording and uploading Round 2/LB 1, etc. over the holidays and the bracket has already spoiled the results of Round 1 anyways. Instead of video commentary (which I will eventually upload) I will leave you with a description of the notable rounds. Match A - Round 1 - Lighthouse v. BurGroBro Equipment - Iron longsword, iron platemail, iron helmet, undershirt of iron chainmail, iron shield Skills - Basic fighting abilities, talented swordsman Other - None So in match 1 we had an exactly equal match up between Lighthouse and BurGroBro. Lighthouse took an early lead by pummeling BurGroBro with his sword, dealing minor bruise damage and one break to BurGroBro's shield (left) hand. Despite this, BurGroBro still managed to parry most of the blows and got in a couple of good ones on Lighthouse's ribs/stomach, doing some intermediate bruises. The broken hand, however, proved to be a big weak spot for BurGroBro, as Lighthouse sliced off several of his fingers on that hand and managed to also sever a few of BurGroBro's toes in the same swing. Losing blood, and taking an increasingly heavy beating, BurGroBro was slowly pushed down onto the ground and stunned. For a brief while, he was rendered unconscious while Lighthouse wailed on his plate helm (doing minor head bruising in the process). Then, by the grace of whatever Dwarven god that BurGroBro worshiped, he got his second wind. Still clutching his shield in his mangled and mutilitated offhand, BurGroBro charged Lighthouse and smashed his shield against Lighthouse's parry. The charge was ferocious and both launched BurGroBro's shield into the back of the room and crushed through Lighthouse's defenses. With neither arm now protecting his chest, BurGroBro began a powerful frontal assault and did major damage to Lighthouse's ribs and lungs. Lighthouse eventually regained his senses and tried to manage a defense, but was effectively powerless against the enraged BurGroBro's violent onslaught. The two tossed and tumbled, knocking each other onto the ground, where in a brutal melee, BurGroBro kicked Lighthouse hard enough in the face to smash his skull in and pierce the brain. A very brutal fight with a very unexpected turn of events. Match B - Round 1 - card (esac1122) v. noelsoong Equipment - Iron longsword, iron platemail, iron helmet, undershirt of iron chainmail Skills - Basic fighting abilities, expert swordsman Other - None This match began as an entirely even showdown between Card and Noel, with both sides being quite proficient with a blade. Card opened up the fight by using the pommel of his sword to bash noel in the face, knocking loose a few of Noel's teeth in the process. Noel's reply was a succession of blows against card's left arm, dealing moderate bruise damage and slowing card's punching arm down considerably. Card, apparently seeing a gap in Noel's defense as his non-sword arm underwent a beating, struck out with precision and sliced right between the shoulder plates in Noel's armor, separating Noel's left arm from his body. Noel, obviously in shock at losing an arm, staggered backward and tripped onto the ground. Bloodloss and shock gripped him as he tried to parry card's blows from the ground. Eventually, however, Noel blacked out and Card proceeded to strike viciously at Noel's helm with his longsword. All this rattling around may have shocked Noel back up to life, as he was spirited back up into a fighting stance. One arm gone, he sought to pay back Card in kind, and did he ever. Card's defense was broken by noel's sudden awakening, and one rapid sword-drawn charge was all it took to sever his already weakened left arm below the elbow. Noel, sensing weakness, decided to push his attack immediately. And that's when Card sliced off Noel's sword arm. I suppose running at your opponent, sword in the air, without any kind of defense at your mid-region isn't such a great idea. Noel's arm flew across the room, sword still in its grip, as Card laid into the maimed warrior. Taking a knee to the stomach and a sword pommel to the neck, Noel was forced onto the ground in a prone position before Card's feet. Even armless, though, Noel was not about to give up. He desperately rolled between the crushing blows of Card's longsword. For a time, Noel was able to dodge Card's attacks in this way, but it wasn't long until his bloodloss began to overpower his adrenaline rush. Once Card landed the first blow to Noel's chest the fight was effectively over. Noel succumbed to the pain and blacked out while Card bashed his iron helm over and over again in an attempt to end the fight for good. A stab between the helm and neckguard in Noel's armor was what finally sealed the deal, leaving Card the victor. Another intense, brutal battle with surprising turns on both sides. Match F - Round 1 - Imperial1917 v. xXxLKxXx Equipment - Giant Cave Spider silk robes, alpaca wool sandals Skills - Expert combat skills, grand master fighter, grand master striker Other - None A hand-to-hand duel between LK and Imperial, with both sides being unbelievably good melee combatants was sure to be a wild one. Beginning the battle from across the room, LK immediately broke into a sprint towards Imperial, who stood in a defensive stance and ready to parry anything his opponent threw at him. It was no surprise for Imperial to see LK in the flying in the air before him, one leg extended in a kicking posture. It was a surprise to see the back of his own neck. Match G - Round 1 - teremaster v. The Shaw Equipment - (teremaster) Iron warhammer, iron greaves, iron low boots (The Shaw) Oaken bow, 3 adamantine arrows, 1 steel arrow, 1 golden arrow Skills - (teremaster) Basic combat skills, talented hammerer (The Shaw) Basic combat skills, expert dodger, high master archer Other - The Shaw is an elf, while teremaster is a dwarf An archer versus a hammerer. An elf versus a dwarf. Elegant precision versus brute force. The Shaw versus teremaster. Starting a few dozen paces from each other, The Shaw and teremaster were each proficient in their chosen profession, though The Shaw much more so than teremaster. Still, teremaster had the advantage of armor and time on his side. When the battle began, The Shaw immediately loosed one of his adamantine arrows at teremaster, and managed to pierce his left shoulder with it. And then he ran. Like a little girl. Dropped all of his arrows, holstered his bow, and ran away. Needless to say, teremaster wasn't about to let The Shaw flee. Their dueling room was positioned on one of the mid-level floors, and connected to the other areas via a series of ramps on the far side. The Shaw had a decent head start, but in a dead sprint teremaster was considerably faster. As soon as he caught up to The Shaw, teremaster swung his hammer horizontally, crushing The Shaw's stomach and sending him flying towards the downward leading ramp. The Shaw tried feebly to crawl down the ramp, vomiting up blood along the way. Teremaster was in full pursuit this entire time (the blow he gave Shaw earlier had actually transported the elf across a good portion of the room) and the moment he came within striking distance he crushed the leg bones of The Shaw, who at this point was screaming in pain and vomiting obscenely. Teremaster took his sweet time ending the torture, however, choosing first to smash both of the Shaw's arms and hands into dust, and give his lungs a good rupturing before bringing down his warhammer on The Shaw's forehead and putting an end to the elf. Match J - Round 1 - RonaldRaygun v. mdhookey Equipment - (Ronald) Steel battleaxe, Giant Cave Spider silk robes, alpaca wool sandals, leather gloves (mdhookey) Iron longsword, iron chainmail, iron greaves, iron low boots, iron gauntlets Skills - (Ronald) Talented combat skills, expert axeman (mdhookey) Talented combat skills, proficient swordsman, expert armor user Other - Ronald is an elf, mdhookey is just a standard human RonaldRaygun, the personification of death itself, pitted against mdhookey, an archetypal paladin with a penchant for heavy armor use. mdhookey made the opening move, attempting a full on charge against Ronald, knowing full well that his armor was superior and his opponent only marginally better trained. Ronald, however, sidestepped this initial charge with ease, and in the process brought his axe along the entirety of mdhookey's torso. The chainmail, while good at deflecting smaller blows and absorbing most of the impact from blunt weapons, could simply not stand up to the fine edge of Ronald's battleaxe. mdhookey stumbled to the ground, blood spraying from his abdominal region, while Ronald repositioned himself behind the man. A swift kick to the back of the head not only strongly disoriented mdhookey, but it jostled his body enough to cause his intestines to start spilling from the gaping wound in his torso. Focused more on gathering up his organs than killing his opponent, mdhookey wasn't even aware when Ronald used the edge of his axe to sever his spinal cord and leave him dead. Match P - Round 1 - Karakoran v. Benerfe Equipment - Iron maul Skills - Expert combat skills Other - Kara and Benerfe are both male trolls The battle of the trolls, one so filled with meatheaded antagonism that it had to be relocated to the open-air coliseum. Both Kara and Benerfe wielded massive iron mauls and lacked any kind of other weapons or armor, making this nothing more than a straight-up slugfest. And indeed, the battle opened up with an attempted punch at Kara by Benerfe. Unfortunately for Benerfe, Kara simply took the blow and brought down his iron maul on his opponent's elbow. Benerfe's punching arm was shattered completely at the elbow, and was functionally useless except as a primitive club. This was hardly the first thing on Benerfe's mind as he entered shock and was stunned by the extreme pain. Kara, not wanting to miss this opportunity, took a massive horizontal swing at Benerfe, shattering the troll's ribs and crushing one of his lungs. Needless to say, Benerfe was not in good shape. As Benerfe convulsed on the floor, Kara raised his maul and destroyed his opponent's maul-wielding arm in similar fashion as to how he had crushed the other arm. Finally blacking out from the extreme pain and nausea, Benerfe was unaware when Kara smashed his brain into mush. There were a few other mildly interesting battles that took place in Round 1, including the one between Romulus and Lennins Beard which involved metal whips and no clothing, but I gotta leave some fun for the coming rounds. And oh boy, will there ever be fun.
I lost to Kara, according to the Kali's records of the battle, I didn't even get a decent hit on him! Y i No use mah iron maul, troll fist for the lose!
The naked whip fight was extremely gory and even though LB won it was a close fight. For the record you were going to be #48 but then I remembered that Noel was a mod at the last second.
It wasn't really a fair fight if it was a naked whip fight. Lennins Beard is much more experienced at whipping naked men than Rom is.
