It's a jungle out there, poison in the very air we breathe

[lucetimods]

Okay, those details! Quick reference. Draft starts on Friday the 3rd and will last until the 6th. There, with that out of the way, let's look at our list.



ACCEPTED

Akimi Chouji - Dani
Albert Silverberg - Athena
Alexei Denoia - Taisa
Amelia - Tad
Ange Serena - Jena
Archie - Tori
Ayumu - Griff
Ayumu - tiassa
Batman - Triad
Buffy - Aly
Caroline Forbes - Rumi
Casey - Laenavesse
Cecil Harvey - Hecate
Ciel - Mori
Claude Kenny - Trap
Daisy SPARTAN-023 - Jaydee
Derek Bliss - Silverthorne
Dhaos - Northeastern Wind
Donatello - Ami
Draco - Ty
Duke Pantarei - Mandee
Fox Mulder - Lisa
Frederic Chopin - Umi
Freyjadour - Alisa
Ginko - Kat
Gold - Kyo
Haine Rammsteiner - Mika
Hakuren Oak - Dea
Haruhi Suzumiya - Zero
Hei - Mandee
Helios - Levy
Homura - Tad
Homura Akemi - Marion
Hope Estheim - Allie
Ian Treedude - Ashlee
Ion - another Sarah
Jack Sparrow - saralinda
Jacob Black - Shikki
Jade - Aza
Japan - Kaze
Jay - CrypticGirl
Kain Highwind - Lisa
Kaori - Alsenei
Karai - KJ
Kouki Wakahisa - Doji
Kurt Wagner - Masa
Kyouko Sakura - Kattu
Labrador - Namika
Leonard McCoy - Sarahdeux
Ling Yao - Masa
Luffy - Essem
Luke blah blah long name - Kukki
Mami Tomoe - Rift
Marica - Boba
Masomi Kida - Zero
Mewtwo - Holo
Mia - Vilya
Mikado Ryugamine - unkie
Mithos Yggdrasill - Kathleen
Naruto - Zane
Nataku - Sra
Nicky d. Wolfwood - Ashlee
Nox - Stormcrow
Paprika - Marion
Piers - Nadia
Raine Sage - Sapphire
Ranka - Zephy
Raven - Kazzi
Riku - Meega
Robo-oy - Zane
Ron Wesley - Janet
Roxas - Ty
Rupert Giles - hickumu
Rydia of Mist - Rydia
Ryoga - Aster
Saleh - CrypticGirl
Sanji - Marie
Saten - Kim
Selphi Tilmitt - Jay
Sheena - Vilya
Shikamaru - Pi
Shino - Essem
Shuri Oak - Shikki
Smellerbee - Dani
Smoker - Wolf / CC
Sora - Diane
Soul Eater Evans - Charlie
Spade Belforma - Jaclyn
Stahn - Kyo
Tear Grants - Alsenei
Terra - Athena
Tia Dalma - Sceadu
Uchiha Sasuke - mji
v-13 (Nu) - Misa
Valvalis - Zappa
Vash - Zigzag
Ventus - Mega
vivi - Jessie
Winry - Batty
Xion - Emily Ishkabibble-kun
Yellow 13 - Triad
Yuber - Nadia
Yuri Lowell - Kyio
Zack Fair - Akai
Zann'en - Aza
Zelgadis - hedi


DECLINED

Ceasar Silverberg - Trap
Joh Watson - Sarahdeux (swapped for Leonard McCoy)
Kirsikka - Ishka (swapped for Xion, then brutally dropped)
Link - Naomi
Raenef (swapped for Zelgadis)
Saber - Marion (swapped for Homura)
Sheik - Trippie
Sokka - Masa (swapped for Ling Yao)
Terra - Rydia


PENDING RESPONSE

Damon Salvatore - Sarah
Kamina - Rem
Leo - Dynast
Ramirez - Carmen
Rogue - Shira
Satoshi Joujou - Carmen
Uriko Nonomura - Zappa

What a list! If you haven't accepted yet, what are you doing here? Go to the PREVIOUS POST and sign up already!




Concerning the battle:

You know how these draft posts are always obnoxiously long, even without the lists? Well, all of the info you need it up at the Nitpicker's Guide.

DRAFT AND ENEMY DETAILS CAN BE FOUND HERE

• First and foremost, MOST -IF NOT ALL- OF THE FIGHTING WILL BE ASSUMED; in other words, without mods playing the NPCs. If you absolutely must -MUST- play out something of great importance, please let me know and I'll provide an NPC, we can set up a log, something. But please, unless you need it for a specific purpose, don't ask for NPC battles. It will be largely uneventful and full of your character kicking ass and taking names and knocking down buildings and enemies, etc etc. This is to give you guys some freedom as well as keep us from a) getting overloaded and/or b) holding you back.
  
  
  
  
• Hey now... that's not a map! Well this time, there isn't one. The battle will be taking place in a thick, steamy tropical rain forest that not even the Malnosso have ever mapped. It is massive and dangerous, being one of the natural habitat of weld Shift Hunters, familiar creatures from the previous AU Event. But even they are not the most dangerous creatures present. Wild animals include a variety of large jungle cats, massive snakes, poisonous bugs and frogs, crocodiles, piranhas, and all manner of horrible creatures. There might even be a few jungle-related monsters from other canons running around out there.
  
  
• The forest is quite massive, but there will be three drop off points, each five miles from each other, in a triangular deployment. Among the many sights will include massive waterfalls, dangerous rocky rivers, swampy marshlands, and at the center of it all (around which the deployment zones are) is one massive tree, with a diameter of about a hundred feet across its base and standing over a thousand feet in height. The roots from the tree extent outwards for hundred of feet all around. Several other large sequoia sized trees are also present, many tangled together from the overgrowth of branches and vines.
  
  
• Signs of civilization exist amongst the branches of these large trees, including the largest one. These include crude tree houses, connected by rope bridges. They seem to be abandoned, but only recently. Buried or covered under overgrowth are the ruins of a past civilization, though the stony surfaces are long since worn away. What little writing remains is reminiscent of that in the old desert temple. Unfortunately there is too little left to be of any use. Some of these ruins may prove to be adequate shelter, but little more than that.
  
  
• Oh yeah and the Third Party is here. There is no specified number for how many there are. Despite being deployed for four days, the draftees will not be able to wipe them all out. In fact, on the last day, the draftees will be withdrawn from the battlefield once the enemy begins to overwhelm them in strength and numbers. Amongst those included will be a large host of normal soldiers, more Elites than previous battles, plenty of Shifters, and trained Shift Hunters.
  
  
• The Third Party are well accustomed to combat in the rainforest and will make great use of it in their attacks. They may even use elements of geurilla warfare to attack, as well as crude traps (such as nets, pits, snares, and other such things) against the draftees. They will be as comfortable fighting on the ground as they are in the treetops and may attempt to lure draftees into dangerous areas, where wild animals or other natural dangers can endanger them. On the last day, the forest will be receiving a monsoon, which will result in a massive downpour and flooding and raining and... yes, quite miserable.
  
  
• As for the IC announcement, the actual draft announcement will be handled differently. Expect that post to be on Monday-Wednesday.
  
  
• ALL IS NOT LOST. Because of how dangerous this all is, Bil has arranged to provide our heroes with some help. Namely, he'll be enabling them to use Filial Magic outside the barrier. It will be twice as potent (due to the lack of a power cap), though it will run the risk of attracting Shift Hunters. There will be a Bil post about this where he will allude to it.
  
  That's about it, then. Questions, comments, plotting? All of it goes here.

Comments

[all7seas]

Sooo Jack is going. Does anyone want to plot anything with him? There will be lots of swinging from trees I think.

[herotypical]

...monsoon day shenanigans. please.

[all7seas]

[herotypical]

tonight we fight in the mud.

[all7seas]

ALY THAT'S FILTHY

[herotypical]

NO YOU'RE FILTHY FOR TAKING IT FILTHILY.

MUD OKAY.

[corrinesbell]

YES.

HIM AND THE MONKEY.

[all7seas]

I'LL TAKE YOU SWINGIN' ON A VINE, BEAUTIFUL SHEENA

[corrinesbell]

You're just after the melons.

[all7seas]

...............maybe

[consultmybooks]

...Jack should save Giles' life.

It will bug him.

[all7seas]

Oh God. HAHAHAHAHHAHA. It would make everything so awkward later. XD

JACK HAS BEEN TRYING TO BE MORE BETTER TO HIM HAVE YOU NOTICED?

[consultmybooks]

Giles has noticed. It's...kind of hard not to. And he does not get it. Seriously, it's freaking him out.

[all7seas]

HE IS DOING IT FOR BUFFY. Have to make nice with Giles now. Somehow.

[consultmybooks]

Somehow. Someone has to bring Giles around to the idea of making nice with Jack.

...finally calling him "ex-Watcher" is a very good start, jsyk.

[wise_maiden]

We should probably do something....? I dont know what though ._.

[all7seas]

Raine, darling.....

[wise_maiden]

On that note, maybe I should tag his post. :| but there probably are a few options to fiddle with.

[all7seas]

aaaaand I should tag Raine's. XD ALSO WITH OPTIONS BUT I NEED TO GO TO BED NOW. I'll leave a placeholder.

[wise_maiden]

Allrighty o/

[goldenglasses]

I think one of these two should happen to stumble upon the other swinging upside down with their foot in a snare.






...or honestly, what I really want is to have Vash watch as Jack rolls by on a giant waterwheel as he sword fights with third party members. And by Vash I mean me. And by watch I mean I'm going to see Pirates 4 tonight and I've gotten myself pumped by watching part of the second movie last night.

[all7seas]

I THINK THIS CAN BE ARRANGED, VASH-LAD. XD

Have fun at the movie! I WANT TO HEAR WHAT YOU THINK.

[goldenglasses]

I think I should really learn not to go to the movies with my sister.

Sister-person: Who's that?
Me-person: Barbosa.
SP: That tentical guy?
MP: No, that was Davy Jones.
SP: So that's Davy Jones?
MP: NO! That's Barbosa!
SP: Yeah, the guy with the tenticals?
MP: No! Davy Jones is the guy with the tenticals. He died last movie.
SP: Oh. So that guy isn't the guy with the tenticals?
MP: No. That's Bar-bo-sa.
SP: Oh.... who's Barbosa?
MP: He was the villain in the first movie!
SP: Oh, I thought you said he wasn't the tentical guy.
MP: He wasn't! The tentical guy was in the second and third movie! He was the zombie badguy from the first movie!
SP: Oh? He's a zombie? I thought he died.
MP: Well, not anymore. He was brought back from the dead by Tia- [...] The black witch in the movies.
SP: Why'd she do that!
MP: ...did you see the other two movies?
SP: Yeah. I just don't remember.
MP: *head smack* She's was the human embodiment of a fearsome god of the sea and wanted to be free of her human form. But she needed the seven pirate lords to do it. He's one of them. So she brought him back to life so that she could get him to free her.
SP: Oh.
...
...
...
...

I'm just going to pretend like I know what's going on and watch Jack do stuff.
MP: Sounds PERFECT!




And then we watched Thor... and she thought the first 8-10 minutes was a pre-view. I knew I was going to have a lot of explaining to do when about thirty minutes in she was shouting: HEY! We already saw this preview!

MP: What preview?
SP: The part where they were chasing that storm and hit a guy!
MP: ...that was the beginning of the movie.
SP: No! It was a preview! ...wasn't it?
MP: HOW much vodka have you had!?
SP: Not that much! Yet. I may need more for this movie.
MP: *smacks head*
SP: Just tell me what side I'm suppose to be rooting for.
MP: The one who just got a shot in the ass.
SP: Oh.
*An hour an a half later - characters are sillulated by sunlight looks all "aaaaaaahhh!" like*

SP: Is that Thor!? How'd he get down there!?
MP: ...that's a girl. A very tiny, thin girl.
SP: Oh, it is? I have no idea what's going on.
MP: I can see that.

[all7seas]

...........So in other words you barely got to focus on any of the movie....

To anyone reading this THERE BE SPOLIERS IN HERE ARRGH!

[goldenglasses]

Actually, after that she was pretty good. Usually she asks what's going or how she doesn't get it. Besides asking me about five times in under a second what the Pearl was doing in a bottle and that she apparently didn't understand ANYTHING Barbosa was doing she actually kept her word and just enjoyed Jack being silly.

AS FOR MY THOUGHTS ON THE MOVIE!

It was nice to see more hi-jinxs from Jack. I felt the first big escape was a bit TOO obvious that he set that up. I've always enjoyed the guess of: Did he plan that? Or is he just getting really freaken lucky? It was so entertaining I can forgive it, but for how grand it ended up being it will probably be one of my least favorite Jack escapes from trouble scenes.

At first I was pretty damn entertained by the mermaids, but that Priest guy (did we even get his name? I don't know anymore, my sister was so confused by him and Barbosa and she kept calling him the Priest guy and asking me about him that's all I remember now.) was SO one dimentional that I just couldn't get into it past the major fight scene.

Also I was disapointed that Blackbeard didn't really do more. He's mother fucking Blackbeard! EVERYONE knows Blackbeard is the motherfucker of all pirates and I just felt they focused more on him going: GRR! I'M eeeeeeeeviiillll! That his potential was a bit wasted. A threat, but I think they could have made him into any other pirate and it would have been just about the same thing. I just wished they had saved the idea that this was suppose to be Blackbeard for another movie.

And I can't put my finger on it, but for some reason Barbosa disapointed me just a little in the movie. Like his crazy was just a bit too crazyor maybe it was I was all: OOOH! He's missing his fucking leg and still attempting to kick ass! HELLZ YEAH! But for some reason when he just sat there and watched Jack escape disapointed me. Yeah, he's missing a leg, but still! :( BUT! I'm calking this up to the fact that Barbosa has been my favorite character in this and I just wanted to see a bit more from him. My fangirl is probably blinding me just a bit on that.

ALL THAT SAID I STILL REALLY ENJOYED IT AND HAD FUN WATCHING IT! I just got the negatives out of the way first while my brain can still slightly articulate any sort of thought. My squeeling takes less work. *breaks this up into two comments*