IBR Arena Zero A: testing ground

[jester_of_god]

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TIME OUT

...wish, you are on the top stair of a floating staircase levitating hundreds of feet above a floating island suspended in an infinite space, whose surface is entirely covered in an ant hill like spray of foliage, except for a small area which is a waterfall made from an outcropping of concrete. The ground is untouchable it's tree foliage as far down as you can go. And you cannot dig a trench into a giant stair, and where did you find mud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

[jester_of_god]

at least make an attempt to get off of the staircase, like blain...I don't know what your characters thresholds for pain are, but I still think that most of them wouldn't be able to survive a three mile fall to the bottom of a forest with leaves as hard as rock while being chased by a swarm of giant man eating mosquitos.

[Philote]

Firing blasts of ice to blind the oncoming mosquitos, Blaine slides down and drops the rest of the way towards the ground and starts heading towards the waterfall. He sends his orb of light out to guide bob to him.

[jester_of_god]

you guy's are ignoring me aren't you...I called an official time out due to the first posts ignoring the structural design of the challenge.

1. You do not start on the forest floor, there is no forest floor, you start on a giant stair case constructed of giant concrete rectangles that are floating seperately from each other above the ilsnad one. You start on the top staircase which is three miles above the surface of the forest.

2. I cannot stress this enough. there is no forest floor it's shaped like an ant hill, the top of the forest has several tunnel openings into the interior, you have to go through those.

3. Before any of you say that this challenge is too tough I will now explain how I survived in my dream.
   a. I ran like heck, dodging the mosquitos as those next to me wer picked off.
   b. Almost snagged by a mosquito, and escaped by punching, kicking, and biting it.
   c. released by mosquito, which resulted in a sky dive, got out of that by landing on the steps again, I think someone may have broken by fall.
    d. ran like heck again.
    e. Ran until I was on the last few dozen steps and juped off into the forest, luckily falling into one of the holes at the top of the foliage hill.
    f. Hid, from creatures, and strangled one of them to stop them from screaming, just as the whistle to signal the end sounded, it kicked me against the back of the wall and ran off.

[jester_of_god]

I realize that I may be sounding a bit "Insert insulting word here that is synonimous with pushy and/or annoying", but it gets annoying when the design of the challenge is entirely ignored...maybe I should have included some pictures, or a more complex design of the challenge, so for that I am sorry.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Um, perhaps a more detailed layout is in order? (he said, hoping not to warrant a facepalm moment)

[Philote]

Just to be clear by floor i didn't mean rocks or anything i just meant the first solid thing i could walk on so that i could get to waterfall.

[jester_of_god]

the only solid thing is the staircase.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

crud, what's the layout again? I thought you mentioned something about the forest full of all manner of weirdo plants and trees...

[GreenDay]

I understand the layout.

[Philote]

I cant walk across the trees?

[jester_of_god]

You can walk across the trees but there three miles below you, and the water fall is above the trees. besides the surface is covered in hallucinogens

[Wish]

Alright then.....Parachute time.

CARLA jumps off the stairs and starts to skydive to the bottom to reach the forest

I'm sure that's allowed.......

Oh please don't tell me there is an invisible forcefield preventing skydiving.

Then they reach the forest.

Their gas masks prevent the hallucinogens from working

[jester_of_god]

No, they just get attacked by swarms upon swarms of mosquitos which are trying to rip holes through the paracutes with razor sharp claws and syringe like mouths. As still more of themm try to drain your blood. I'd advice a spartan shield manuever with cuns facing the outer edges, an EM pulse might delay them as well.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Fine, well, if Bob's not understanding the layout, then let's try this again.

Bob sees the Mosquitos. Bug-eyed. Wuh-oh. Hammerspace. Pulls out donut-hole. Throws it at nearest mosquitoes. Catches about two or three, giving him just enough time to escape ONTO the forest top. Argh, that's confusing, but I'll keep it in mind.

Mkay, so now, time to start batting away the ones that I DIDN'T evade.

"Hammer time!" Bob does his best MC Hammer impression, before proceeding to bash a few more mosquitoes. After having done that, goes into cartoon-run mode off across the forest.

[Philote]

You said the bottom of the stairs were just barely close enough to make it to the trees below then i used chain to get even closer (like bungee jumping, it is liquid metal after all) and then fell rest of way.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Luckily my cartooniness allows me to jump and survive...

[Wish]

Skydiving as in not using a parachute until the end-----they are using flying squirrel suits so they are more like gliding down

They get attacked as they are gliding down. Square root of 400 get attacked but 47 orders the others to launch a teargas grenade

The teargas acts like an insect repellant driving the mosquitoes away.

[jester_of_god]

While CARLY is being quickly devoured by a plauge of mosquitos, sorry it's just an incredibly bad idea to make yourself a giant slow moving target in a situation like this, that leaves Blain and bob to get into the tunnel network below them before they die from posionous hallucinogenic gas.

Not really sure what Greenday's character is doing at this point.

[Wish]

Umm hello.....teargas grenade and flying squirell suits(wingsuits)

They do not use their parachutes until they reach the forest. At that altitude the mosquitoes aren't a problem due to the rising gas