Issue 1 Downtime

Rhiannon v. Talia, on Mars
The eternal battle of fire versus water, Talia initially seems to have the upper hand, as she can just generate fire, while Rhi can just control it. Unfortunately, this is Binary's colony, and one very important thing on a space colony with limited oxygen? A good fire suppression system. This is enough to turn the tide, and Rhiannon wins, via extinguishing

Alex v. Victoria, in a courtroom of the Old Bailey
Victoria gets off to a quick and rapid start here, but soon Alex is spawning hallucinogenic mushrooms. Victoria's tougher than most, and keeps it under control for a while, but eventually is forced to attack the Alex third from the left, the one with spiders coming out of his skin and hair made of the scent of grilled chicken. Alex wins via wow, have you ever really LOOKED at your hand?

Nina v. Rachel, on the tarmac of Heathrow Airport
Nina takes three steps forward--and then clutches at her throat, unable to breathe. She goes down hard from there. Rachel wins, via creepy mind-fuckery

THIS WEEKS MATCHUPS

John "Genbu" Hino (0-0) v. Bear "Closer" Cooper (0-0)
Location: The XU pool, 6 o'clock in the morning
The Bear v. The Tail. Who win this battle for Ayami's affections?

Con "Conduit" McGraw (0-0) v. Chloe "Galah" Grant (0-0)
Location: The middle of the chunnel, 3 AM
Not listed: The oncoming trains. Also, could we FIND people with less in common, personality-wise?

Calvin "Cyber" Strong (0-0) v. Ryan "Seraph" Gabriel (0-0)
Location: A farm, 1 in the afternoon
Feels like these two have some strange connection...hard to put my finger on it...

Oh god, tactics for my own character versus my own character.

Will, I hate you.

Let's see. THey both have pretty impressive accuracy.

Cal wouldn't use lightning, since Ryan would take to the air and it would be kind of pointless to try to use electricity on something that's not grounded. He'd try for a quick draw, and count on his targeting system to nail a speeding angel.

Ryan would go for a quick lightblast from his eyes to scramble Cal's electronics, take to the air, and keep at top speed, keeping the sun behind him as much as possible, and NOT charging Cal, so as to avoid giving him an easy target to aim at. He'd take sweeping shots, aimed to stun him and scramble his electronics, until his targeting was out and he could give him a finishing shot.

Tactics-

Well, Bear would be making liberal use of her flash balls to hurt John, and using her acrobatic ability, grapple ball, and the pool to keep out of his clutches.

After enough distractions with the pop balls and pepper balls, a sticky ball would hold john in place momentarily- just long enough for a solid steel ball thrown at full speed and power at his head.

Ryan-Calvin is a tough, tough call. I'm gonna say that Ryan's able to scramble Cal's circuits ENOUGH for him not to be a deadly crack shot. After that, Ryan will slowly wear him down until he knocks him down out of exhaustion--he's got the whole sky to work with, after all.

I don't see Galah pulling it off, honestly. There's only so much you can do to evade in the Chunnel at 3am.

I don't think votes should count until everyone's tactics are posted though

Bear
Chloe
Draw

Chloe's strategy would be to stay high and evade until Con got tired or ran out of 'juice' and then go in for the kill.

John's only option is to try and knock Bear out before she gets to her endgame.

With the limited height in the tunnels, Con doesn't actually need to get off the ground to hit Chloe, though he would if he needed to chase her down.

His strategy would be blast her at medium range, use shields to keep her from getting in too close if neccessary. If she did prove to be able to evade his blasts completely, he'd take her at close range. One hit with an electrified hand and it's over.

My votes:

Bear
Con
Abstain

Merle McClintock wrote:I don't see Galah pulling it off, honestly. There's only so much you can do to evade in the Chunnel at 3am.

I don't think votes should count until everyone's tactics are posted though

Votes don't count 'till I count them at the end of the week.

Wow, strategies for everyone. Cool beans.

I've got to give Bear the advantage against John--heck, she could just use a grapple ball, get up to the top of the pool complex, and rain flash balls and solid steel ones down upon him.

And I don't quite see Chloe beating Con--I just can't see her doing enough damage to put the Big Man down.

My votes remained unchanged!

I vote for Ryan and Bear.

Last chance to vote--I'm counting tomorrow!

Bear, Con, Ryan

Bear, Con, Calvin. I'm seeing Cal being much more able to dodge things than Ryan thanks to computing attack vectors in his head.

My vote.

Bear
Con
Cal

Con
Cal

Bear
Toss a coin.- This one is likely over in the first round of attacks, the question (to my mind) is can Ryan disable Cal enough with the first lightblast to stop Cal gunning him down. Tough tough call.

Cal vs. Ryan- I'll go with Ryan, due to the airborne advantage.

Con vs. Chloe- going to go with Con. He seems way too powerful and has a remorseless instinct, cramped battleground or not.