05-06 TOA R3: Liquid Shadow v. Samurai Kenji I

[LocoColt04]

Round technically starts tomorrow, but I encourage any sort of posting which begins today. Think of it as a day's extension. The round ends on Saturday, 15 October 2005, and there's no variance there. Any posts after that date (if I don't close the thread for some reason) will be discounted.

Anywho... as always, keep a keen eye on the rules, check out your opponent's character, and enjoy yourselves. It may be a tournament, but that doesn't mean it can't be fun. Remember to have descriptive attacks! It's an issue some of you have been having.

RAH!

[Akira]

((OOC: I’m not sure if the environment was descriptive enough so if you have any questions, just PM me and Ill try to help you further.))

Again, Kenji found himself bored out of his mind, lying on his bed in the dorm appointed to him. Since he didn’t feel like eating or jacki...which was a first time thing for him, he started to read a nudey magazine. While this was quite amusing, it quickly lost his attention as well.

'Might as well wander around this place...I don’t even know what facilities they have here. Never know when I have to go take a major dump in the middle of the night or something.'

He walked over to his coat hanger and took his red leather jacket. He made sure to also take his wallet, in case anything caught his eye. If all else failed, he could always leave the building and explore the city.

Once again, he found himself in one of the many hallways of the center where the tournament was being held. This time however, he went in the other direction, avoiding the rooms where the holodecks were. Although going in a completely different direction, everything still looked the same. He eventually stumbled upon the Ramen dispenser, which had accommodated him numerous times throughout the tournament when he found himself with a sudden appetite...which was extremely often.

Suddenly, an all too familiar sound was heard. As if a thousand lions had been forced to bellow and growl; that is what his stomach sounded like. Although tempted by the soups, he decided to get something in town later on.

Arriving at a dead end, he decided to make his way back again, since nothing of interest could be found here. Passing by a small room, he could here some of the staff talking to each other.

"Hey, did you see the fight with that Patient Number something or other?"

"No, but I heard he has had some impressive fights thus far. He is also winning the tournament as far as statistics are concerned." replied a small Middle Eastern man who was wearing a gray uniform, the same one that the staff in the holodecks had had on.

"Who is your favorite fighter so far?" the Middle Eastern man asked his colleague.

"I don't know, kinda hard to say. I can tell you who I don’t like though...Its that stupid Kenji guy and his gay Samurai alter-ego. I hear that guy thinks he going to be able to hook up with Keiko. You know that famous swimsuit model?" his colleague said.

'Hey, what the hell? These guys sure are loud mouths...' he thought as he listened in further.

"What, with Keiko?!?! What a nut job? That guy doesn't stand a chance with a monkey, much less with a famous model. Talk about a "realist" hehehe..."

'Man these guys are pretty harsh. What makes them think that they can talk about the great Kenji Matsura that way?'

"Also his clothes...they are so unoriginal. As if he watched "Akira the movie" and decided to dress like Kanida. What a pathetic chum?" the Middle Eastern man said.

"And he's also so damn clumsy. It seems like he tries to hard...be..baahahaha."

As this verbal rape was going on, Kenji's face turned white and then as red as a cherry. There was little holding him back at this point, yet he refrained.

"I wonder if that guy will ever amount to anything...maybe he'll make it as a janitor...but then again, he's probably too clumsy and stupid for that as well hehe."

'These guys are lucky that I have enough will power to refrain from unleashing a world of pain on them. It's just because their jealous of my beautiful face no doubt. Actually, they're more pathetic than me since they can't realize how cool I really am. Yeah that's it. I mean it's also not for nothing that my last opponent didn't even show up. Probably scared shitless of my incredible strength.'

After giving himself a dose of badly needed self-esteem, he ventured back to his room. This was due to a loss of interest of exploring more of the faciltiy, no doubt to avoid any further random conversations between staff members. Who knows how much more verbal abuse the little guy could take?

Before entering his room, he saw the same man who had taken him to his fights the revious times. This time he decided to startle the man.

"BOO...what's up? Am I up for my next fight?" he yelled.

The man let out absolutely no reaction and merely said: "Please come with me Mr. Matsura."

'Sheesh, what’s up with this guy? He acts like a freakin' robot all the time. He should get laid more often.'

Kenji soon found himself strapped in the same seat which had sent him into the virtual world the last two fights. Again he would have the advantage of picking the terrain/environment.

"What environment would you like contestant no. 3?"

"Hmmm...I'll take the close confines of a dojo training center at night. Oh, and I'll be using set 3."

An all too familiar feeling was suddenly bestowed upon Kenji, as he felt almost weightless. He found himself waiting in the white endless plain of, when suddenly bits and pieces of the virtual world came into place. A massive structure suddenly protruded out of the whiteness followed by a few boulders. Eventually everything had collected to form a quiet and tranquil scene. There was a small pond full of fish that was connected to a small river that led into a small crevice in the side of a nearby mountain. It seemed the training grounds were at the foot of the mountain and were made up of four buildings that formed a square while still leaving a sort of plaza in the middle. This so called plaza was a small garden full of lush green vegetation and the small pond which was inhabited by large golden Kois.

Curious about the inside of the four buildings, Akira decided to wander inside and get a feel for his environment. He slid open the frail paper door which led to the innards of the building. Each had a different arena to fight in, all with their own weapons and fighting mats. It seemed one was a spear fighting arena, another a sword arena, and yet another used for staff dueling. The last building didn't have any apparent weapon paraphernalia in it which led one to think that this was the martial arts room. Here they could test out variations of fighting styles using nothing but their bare hands and feet. Even the middle where the small garden was could be used to fight, which ultimately made any area in the training center optimal. It would all be a question of which arena they would want to fight in first.

He decided to lurk in one of the four buildings, which would hide him from his enemy and give him the advantage. There would be no way of his enemy knowing which building he was in and once he did find it, he would launch an immediate attack.

[LocoColt04]

It's pretty obvious where these two fights go.

Samurai Kenji I +2
Liquid Shadow -1

ultima_trev +2
Mugetsu -1


I don't know where Liquid went, but I'm hoping we see Mugetsu back for the next round. I caught him on TFF yesterday, so I'm assuming that means he's got a new keyboard now. I hope.

I'm going to leave the Raine v. Belle fight open a bit longer, in case they decide to get a couple more posts in today, so if you're wondering... yeah, that's why their thread is still open. That, and I'm a bit too busy to read through their whole thread at the moment.