Doubles Tournament - Round 8: Battle thread

**Malorian** · 01-10-2009, 19:33

The eigth year of the Doubles Tournament was about to begin and already you could tell the atmosphere had changed.

It didn't help that the beastmen were still in control of the arena, but with the increase in the underground activity many of the more noble spectators had decided to stop attending leaving a more shady crowd.

If it wasn't for the fact that Morko was a massive warboss surrounded by boyz he might have actually worried about the dark strangers lurking in the tunnel that lead to the mountain craddled arena, but then again being an orc he wouldn't have minded the scuffle anyway.

Morko noted that the arena was in no better shape than it was last year. The beastmen really didn't care too much about cleaning and what ever parts of the stands were broken last year were still broken and you could even make out the blood spatters and shards of bone in and on the dusty ground.

As always the most busy part of the arena at this time was the betting ring. Man and beast yelling out odds and declaring how good or bad certain fighters were... hell the first round match-ups weren't even posted yet and that didn't stop them.

Morko never cared about betting, he was here for the fighting, and with 64 warriors from many different nations here for the sole goal of ripping each others hearts out it was sure not to be in short supply...

(Please leave this thread to be just for battles and leave any comments in the sign-up thread.)

**Malorian** · 08-10-2009, 13:54

**Malorian** · 09-10-2009, 17:07

Day 1:

T-100 and TX-1000
Vs
Marcus Grom and Lucius Faa

The first battle of a tournament is always a big event. The stands are always buzzing with spectators excited for the beginning of a new tournament and the betting circle is even busier as gamblers rush around to balance the risks and place their bets.

In a loud ceremony a dozen beastmen blew out a stirring tune on a series of horns, and when they were done the first two pairs of fighters headed towards the ring.

One pair looked like your average tournament going fighters. Two knights, a mounted warrior priest named Marcus Grom and a Bretonnian paladin named Lucius Faa, rode together towards the ring with their heads up high. Their opponents however didn’t look normal at all…

They had entered without giving their names and as they came walking towards the ring they looked like ordinary folk dressed in common cottons and neither having a single piece of armor or weapon on them.

Many thought the tournament organizers had arranged a slaughter for the first match to get things off with a bloody bang. Morko wasn’t so sure…

Looking down from his viewing tower he glared at the pair suspiciously, “Dem ummies dun’t seem normal ta me…”

Crazyface, his second in command, rolled his eye, “Youz a fool Morko. Iz got 100 gold on da knights!”

Only time would tell which of the two orc leaders would be right…

The first two combatants would be Marcus Grom, in gleaming white armor and readying his magical sword, against one of the peasants (TX-1000), and as the bray horn sounded, marking the start of the match, the warrior priest made a quick prayer and then charged forward.

Marcus slashed at the man with his sword but at the same time the man’s arm morphed into a silver spike which deflected the magical sword as easily as a solid steel shield.

“DEAMON!” The warrior priest accused. “Prepare to burn!” Pointing his hand towards the man flames erupted from the tip and flared out. So hot was this fire that it lighted the man on fire who helplessly tried to guard himself with his silver arm while giving ground and stepping back.

“Go back to your fiery hell!” The flames encircling the man all of a sudden got brighter and much hotter and the man flailed about trying to put himself out to no effect. Slowly all his skin turned to silver and then appeared to melt and eventually leaving the man as a puddle of molten metal on the floor.

This puddle then flowed out of the ring as the second unarmed man (T-100) took to the ring.

The warrior priest sneered, “Another deamon no doubt…” Once again he made a quick prayer to Sigmar and then charged forward with his sword raised.

As Marcus closed in on the deamon he thrust his sword towards the man’s neck, but even though the blade pierced the skin it then clanged off as if he had hit a steam tank. A closer look at the wound showed that underneath the skin was a metal skeleton!

For once the man spoke, “Prepare to be terminated…” and he winded back his arm preparing to punch the warrior priest, but before he could Marcus’s brave horse reared up and kicked the man in the head, knocking him over.

“Ha! Good work steed, now to finish him o…” The words were cut short as the warrior priest’s head exploded in a wash of skull, brains, and blood, and from the floor the man with the metal skeleton got back to his feet holding what looked like a double barreled handgun, with smoke still coming out from the recently fired weapon.

People in the stands couldn’t believe it… first of all that the pair of, apparently, unarmed men were more than what they seemed, and secondly that they hadn’t noticed the pool of metal that was the first of them reform into a gun!

“Fiend! I shall take her head for that!” This was the battle call as the brightly colored Bretonnian, Lucius Faa, charged into the ring. With a sir coat and helmet of bright yellow and a bright red lance he certainly stood out, and with the lance lowered and aimed at the gun wielding man he was out for a quick victory… and a quick victory he got.

His lance ran right through the man’s head, even through the metal skull within, and with a shower of sparks the man tumbled to the ground.

Crazyface smiled and shoved Morko, “Ha! Ya see! Dem knights win even wit the other ummies cheat’n!”

Morko just scowled and was thankful he didn’t have any money on the fight…

Lucius Faa moves on.

T-100, TX-1000, and Marcus Grom are eliminated.

Marcus gives himself a 4+ ward
Both fighters strike at the same time
Marcus attacks (6,4)(3,1)(S 1 rerolled to 2)
TX-1000 attacks (5,2,1)(3)(S 6/4)

Marcus fails Ld test with 10
Marcus attacks (3,2)(S 4/2)
TX-1000 attacks (3,2,1)

Marcus passed Ld test with 8 and casts soulfire doing 3 hits (4,2,2)(2)
Marcus attacks (5,3)(2)(S 4/4)
TX-1000 attacks (3,3,2)(S 4/3)
Ld passed with 3

Marcus fails Ld with 11
Marcus attacks (3,1)(S 1)
TX-1000 attacks (2,1,1)(S 5/2)

Marcus passed Ld test with 8 and casts soulfire doing 5 hits (5,4,4,2,1)(6,3,1)

Marcus gives himself a 4+ ward
Both fighters strike at the same time
Marcus attacks (4,2 rerolled to 6)(4,2)(2)(gem of blood rebounds the wound with a 2)(4)(S 6/6/1 *wow, go horse!*)
T-100 attacks (6,2,1)(3)(S 2)
Ld failed with 10 (remember it’s at minus 1) (3)

Marcus fails Ld with 11
Marcus attacks (5,1)(2)(S 4/4)
T-100 attacks (5,3,1)(5)

Lucius attacks (5,4,3)(6,5,1)

Marcus stays down with a 4.

**Malorian** · 13-10-2009, 17:15

Day 2:

Lord Kormas the dead and Lord Kormas the dead double
Vs
Darth Plagues and Inspektar Gadzet

The second day of battles was finally here, having been delayed due to the arena being flooded by wild turkeys, and Morko checked out the fighters as they made their way to the ring.

Once again Morko had decided not to bet as he couldn’t tell who was better: the weak or the weird… on one side you had a couple of zombies and on the other a couple of rats all dressed up in weird garb… it was sure to be an interesting fight though.

Of the two weird skaven fighters the one known as Inspektar Gadzet was the first to take to the ring. Covered in a large grey overcoat and covered with gadgets no one knew what to expect from him.

The first of the zombies to enter the ring (dead double) was covered in rusty armor and dragged along a rusty sword. The problem with undead things like zombies was that you never knew how powerful they were… would they attack with unnatural speed or crumble apart like an old sandwich? Only time would tell…

The horn was blown and Inspektar Gadzet raised his arm and a metal hot popped out. A crackle could be heard as energy started to build up and then BANG! It blow up, sending pieces of his hands spraying everywhere.

The rat cursed and nursed his arm while the zombie looked on not really understanding what was going on.

Inspektar Gadzet soon composed himself though and pointed towards the zombie with a finger from his other hand. On that finger was a metal rod, smaller than the previous one, that was attached by a ring and a series of wires. Once again the crack of energy building could be heard and then a tiny spark floated over and dissipated once it hit the rusty armor. Not very impressive at all…

Inspektar Gadzet wasn’t done yet! He pulled out a small green globe and… dropped it… the globe hit the ground and exploded and only by frantically jumping to the side did the rat avoid killing himself.

The zombie still looked on completely confused… normally he was used to people attacking him and yet this opponent seemed to be attacking himself…

Inspektar Gadzet once again brought himself to his feet, composed himself, and tried again. Grabbing the rod that had caused the explosion in the first place he rammed it into the stub of his forearm and aimed it forward, but then quickly had to run away as he narrowly avoided a sword swipe from the zombie.

Once far enough away the rat re-aimed the weapon and this time an actual bolt of lightning was shot out which hit the zombie in the leg, blowing it off and sending him tumbling to the ground.

Smiling at his success Inspektar Gadzet then pointed with the smaller rod, but there must have been a short circuit because he suddenly zapped himself throwing him into convulsions on the floor.

Meanwhile the zombie started crawling towards him…

Inspektar Gadzet started regaining his senses, but too late, the zombie was on top of him and once he was pinned down the zombie began to eat him alive!

His partner, Darth Plagues, wanted to run in and save him but the beastmen guards wouldn’t allow him. The rules were the rules and the next fighter wasn’t allowed in until the first one was dead, so everyone watched on as Inspektar Gadzet screamed for his life and was slowly eaten.

After about 5 minutes the screaming stopped and Darth Plagues was allowed to enter.

Darth Plagues was nothing like his partner. Covered in a robe that had been stained black and wielding a sword that glowed bright red he looked like… well like something only the twisted minds of the skaven could come up with.

Running towards the blood covered zombie Darth Plagues swung his ‘light sword’ and easily lopped off one of the creature’s arms. The zombie reared up it’s head and Darth Plagues prepared to decapitate him, but then he fell over as the zombie grabbed him and pulled his legs out from under him.

Darth Plagues hit hard and before he could get back to his feet the zombie was on him!

Once again the zombie began to feast on rat flesh and Darth Plagues frantically tried to fight him off while reaching for his ‘light sword’. Unfortunately for him it had landed just out of reach… he strained to try and push himself towards it, but that when the zombie clamped down on his throat and tore out a large chunk with his teeth.

Blood poured out from the gapping wound and soon Darth Plagues went unconscious from lack of blood, leaving the zombie to finish his meal in peace.
Lord Kormas the dead and Lord Kormas the dead double move on.

Darth Plagues and Inspektar Gadzet are eliminated.

Inspektar Gadzet miscasts with 2,1,1 and takes a wound but saved with 4
Inspektar Gadzet uses storm deamon (1 hit)(3)(5)(can be used again with a 4)
Inspektar Gadzet shoots (misfires)(2)
Inspektar Gadzet attacks (4)(6)(5)
Dead double attacks (6,6,3)(5,2,1)(4)

Inspektar Gadzet fails Ld with 8
Dead double fails Ld with 12
Inspektar Gadzet attacks (1)
Dead double attacks (3,2,1)(5)(5)

Inspektar Gadzet passes Ld with 4
Dead double fails Ld with 10
Inspektar Gadzet casts warplightning with 15 (9 hits)(5,4,4,3,3,3,3,1,1)(5,5,1)
Inspektar Gadzet uses storm deamon (3 hits)(5,5,2)(5,5)(can be used again with a 6)
Inspektar Gadzet shoots (hit)(1)
Inspektar Gadzet attacks (4)(4)
Dead double attacks (3,1,1)(5)(1)

Inspektar Gadzet fails Ld with 7
Dead double passes Ld with 4
Dead double uses hand of dust (9 hits)(5,5,5,5,3,3,3,2,1)(6,5,5,4,4,3,3,3)(can be used again with a 4)

Darth Plagues attacks (6,4,3,2,2,1)(5,2,1)(4)
Dead double attacks (5,3,2)(3)
Ld passed with 7

Ld passed with 7
Dead double uses hand of dust (8 hits)(6,6,4,4,3,3,1,1)(can be used again with a 4)

**Malorian** · 15-10-2009, 17:23

Day 3:

Ziggy Starhatt and Wildtooff Bighatt
vs
Killy McSlashy and Zappy McBlasty (RaZoR)

Morko was really excited for this match. A pair of night goblins was taking the field and this meant Morko couldn’t loose. Either they would win which would mean victory to the green skins, or they would loose but most likely in such a crazy manner that it would make him laugh for hours.

The first of the night goblins to enter the ring was Wildtooff Bighatt, already high on cave mushrooms, he was bouncing around on a cave squig swinging his sword around like a madman. Morko hoped his opponent would come soon or he might injure himself before the fight!

Luckily his opponent walked in soon after him and Morko was glad to see it was a puny wizard… well it was a Tzeentch wizard covered in armor and not some weedy empire one, but still a wizard, and so Morko watched intently waiting for what would happen next…

The bray horn wounded and the wizard sent out a bolt of lightning but Wildtooff’s cave squig hopped over it and then hopped straight at the sorcerer. Both fighters raised their swords and… SPLAT!!!

The swords never came into play as the giant cave squig crushed the wizard underneath. Of course that didn’t stop Wildtooff from celebrating and thinking he had actually defeated his foe, but his attentions quickly turned to his next opponent.

Killy McStabby was a chaos warrior dedicated to khorne and was known for his quick and deadly blows. In his hands he held a large claymore and his helm had 8 eyes! It was said these extra eyes let him see his opponents next move which then allowed him to make the perfect strike to finish them off before it even happened, but would it work on an opponent who didn’t know what they were doing themselves?

Wildtooff and his cave squig started hopping faster and faster around the ring and the odd dance culminated with a frantic leap towards the chaos warrior and Wildtooff leaning forward reach to thrust his sword into one of those eyes…

Blood went flying everywhere but it wasn’t from the chaos warrior… Killy had swung his claymore just at the right angle to cut both the cave squig and the night goblin in half, and the gore of such a blow was immense.

The halves fell to the ground and Killy swung around to face the next fighter, Ziggy Starhatt.

Ziggy too was high on cave mushrooms, but having no cave squig he made his way into the ring stumbling instead of bouncing. Covered in scraps of armor he came in with sword and shield but the most dangerous looking thing he had was a pair of jaws strapped to his head made of iron.

Morko was about to yell out, “Go get em met’l mouff!” but there was no time. The chaos warrior rushed over and rammed his claymore right into the middle of those metal jaws and the end of the blade popped out the back of Ziggy’s head along with some skull and brain.

With a huff Morko crossed his arms and leaned back. This Killy fellow wasn’t any fun as all… he killed too fast…

Killy then walked over to Zappy and helped him to his feet. Turned out having the cave squig jump on him had broken several bones and knocked him unconcious but he was still alive.

Bad day for the green skins, good day for the warriors of chaos.

Killy McSlashy (+1 attack/3+ sv) and Zappy McBlasty (1 wound) move one.

Wildtooff Bighatt, and Ziggy Starhatt are eliminated.

Battle brew grants frenzy/hatred.
Zappy fails to cast flickering fire with a 2
Both attack at the same time
Wildtooff attacks (6,5,2,1,1 rerolled to 3,3,2)(6,3)(3,3)
Zappy attacks (4,2)(3)

Killy attacks (6,5,5,3,3)(5,4,4,4,1)
EotG gives Killy +1 attack with a 5

Killy attacks (5,5,4,4,2,1)(str 5 hit fails to wound with 1)(5,5,3,2)
EotG gives Killy +1 to his armor save with a 6

Zappy stays gets back up with a 6.

**Malorian** · 17-10-2009, 14:47

Day 4:

Marie claire and Bertron
vs
Aelruil Killelyth and Saetril Killelyth

In their tent Aelruil and Saetril prepared for the coming battle. They checked over their weapons, gave their blades a last minute sharpen, and even refeathered their arrows just to be sure they would fly straight, all the while not a word between them.

They knew they were here on a mission, to final the outcast high elve noble Osiris, and this battle was just one more step towards that goal.

At the ring Marie claire and Bertron were waiting for them. Bertron, already disfigured into a beastmen, looked even odder with a jesters hat on his head, but as the crowd jeered and laughed at him his sister did her best to console him.

“Ignore them brother, they have no idea what we have gone through or what we are willing to do to get through it. Now, I’ll go in first and take care of this first lot and you just wait here.”

Bertron nodded his head in agreement and his beautiful sister, clad in nothing more than a fine dress, made her way into the ring to do battle. She wasn’t there long before she was joined by Saetril Killelyth.

The two fighters stared at each other, both seeing their opponent as just an obstacle to be crossed, and when the bray horn sounded they sped into action.

Marie cast a quick spell the sent flames flaring towards the elve, but they had absolutely no effect! Magical enchantments on Saetril’s armor simply absorbed the fire leaving the flesh underneath completely untouched.

Saetril smiled and fired three fast shots from his bow. Two of them merely bounced off the maiden’s iron like skin but one pierced her leg. Marie flinched and leaned over to pull the arrow free from her leg while Saetril drew out his long sword and moved in for the kill.

POW! As fast as high elves are, Marie landed an uppercut first that sent Saetril flying onto his back.

“Be careful Saetril!” His brother yelled from the side lines. “See what happens when you rush in.”

Saetril hated it when his brother lectured him… flipping back to his feet he thrust his sword forward and right into the belly of Marie. Knowing the deed had been done he then quickly retracted it and backed away, leaving her to fall to her knees.

Marie turned towards Bertron with tears in her eyes, “I’m sorry brother… I failed you…” Spitting out some blood she toppled to the ground and stopped breathing.

This was all too much for Bertron to handle. Slamming his hands into the ground he howled towards the sky and his body transformed into that of a massive bear (still with a jester hat on it’s head).

Slamming the gate open the beasts ran into the ring with murderous intent, and Saetril, totally shocked from the sudden transformation, dropped his bow as he frantically tried to set an arrow.

Once the bear had reach Saetril it easily knocked the elve to the ground and then raised a paw to crush in his head… but it was not to be…

The long sword of Saetril flashed up and out the back of the bear’s neck and then the elve rolled away while the bear, holding it’s neck, transformed back into the deformed Bertron and then fell to the floor near his sister.

One quest was over, and another had crossed it’s first hurtle.

Aelruil Killelyth and Saetril Killelyth move on.

Marie claire and Bertron are eliminated.

Marie casts flickering fire with a 11 but it has no effect.
Saetril shoots (6,1,1)(5)(3)(1)
Warrior familiar (4)(2)
Saetril attacks (5,5,2)(6,2)(5,3)

Bertron casts bears anger with a 9
Saetril shoots (5,3,1)(2,1)
Saetril attacks (6,5,3)(6,5,4)(2,2,2)

**Malorian** · 14-12-2009, 16:11

Finals:

Osiris (wight king)
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showpo...8&postcount=80
vs
Aggis da Git and Scratch 'n' Sniff
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showpo...0&postcount=30
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showpo...&postcount=127

**Malorian** · 16-12-2009, 16:28

Day 31:

Osiris (wight king)
vs
Aggis da Git and Scratch ‘n’ Sniff

It finally was time, time for the final fight of the tournament.

To get to this point the fighters had to overcome many hardships, beat the odds, and in many cases just be plain lucky.

The stands were packed and the atmosphere was electric with anticipation.

A cheer broke out as the horns began to blow and the fighters approached the ring. From one direction the new team of Aggis da Git, the underhanded goblin, and Scratch ‘n’ Sniff, the goblin assassin, and from the other side Osiris, the fallen high elve raised back from the dead, was surrounded by no less than eight irongut body guards!

Apparently someone feared for the wight king’s (un)life, but it worked as the hired ninjas hiding in the crowd simply put their daggers and balls of glass dust away rather than hopelessly throw away their lives for a bag of gold.

Osiris walked through the gate, drew out his magical white sword, and he waited patiently for the fight to begin.

His first opponent was the goblin assassin. No longer hiding behind costumes, Scratch ‘n’ Sniff was wearing a black gi and red head-band, and in either hand was one of his deadly blades.

The start of the battle was sounded by the bray horn and the arena got so loud with cheering that you couldn’t hear a war mammoth fart.

With a flick of the wrist a throwing star shot towards Osiris’s face, but the lightning face high elve deflected it with his white sword.

Unfortunately for him this is just what the goblin assassin wanted…

While his sword was raised to deflect the throwing star Scratch ‘n’ Sniff took the opportunity to jump forward and sink his twin blades into the wight king’s chest.

Osiris looked down at the assassin and prepared to strike him down with his magical sword, but before he could Scratch ‘n’ Sniff pulled back out his blades and used one to lop off Osiris’s sword hand and then thrust the other up and through Osiris’s jaw and into his undead brain.

The wight king shuttered and then crumbled to the floor.

Now the crowd had mixed feelings. On one side they were impressed by the show of skill by the assassin, but on the other hand they were pissed off that the ‘grand finale’ was over after all of 30 seconds!

Some boos started to mix in with the cheers but then everything went silent as someone from the crowd pushed their way into the ring.

It was Khazrak the One-eye, the most powerful Beastlord of Drakwald!

“Do I have to everything myself? Now way I’m going to let ‘champions’ such as yourselves leave so easily!”

Osiris is eliminated.

Aggis da Git and Scratch ‘n’ Sniff are the winners of the Doubles Tournament round 8.

Khazrak the One-eye is the mystery final boss!

Ninja tries to blow glass in Osiris’s eyes but it stopped (4,4,3,3,2,2,2,1)
SnS activated arm bands
SnS shoots (1)
Osiris activated talisman
SnS attacks (4,3,3,3)(5,3,2,2)*remember that Osiris is -3 WS for being a wight king*

SnS not killed by amulet with a 6

**Malorian** · 16-12-2009, 16:29

Day 32: Boss Fight!

Aggis da Git and Scratch ‘n’ Sniff
Vs
Khazrak the One-eye

Aggis rushed into the ring, “Now wait a second Khazrak, we won this tournament fair and square.”

“Fair?” Huffed the beastlord. “You yourself are only here because of riding the backs of better fighters.”

“Hey now, are you yourself not known for your cunning?”

“So I am, but I also back it up with sword and whip!” Khazrak raised both weapons up and gave the barb studded whip a threatening crack just to make his point. “Enough talk, lets see if you are worthy!”

“If that’s what you want…” Aggis said with a wink. “Scratch! Now!!!”

From behind the legendary beastlord the goblin assassin, who had snuck his way there while they talked, thrust one of his blades into the back of Khazrak’s knee and the other into his right side.

Aggis moved in to finish him off but the beastlord was quicker and jab with his sword into the goblin’s chest. The blow could have been fatal but luckily for Aggis the sword hit the chest armor given to him by Sir Gobbles, saving his life.

The goblin’s magical dagger then drew in energy from the beastlords magical armor and whip and became so powerful that Aggis sent it easily through Khazrak’s black chainmail and into his heart.

The great beastlord struggled for a moment, raised up his whip for one last strike, but when the Scratch ‘n’ Sniff held back his arm while digging his blade in deeper Khazrak gave in and fell limply to the ground.

These two goblins were certainly a force to be reckoned with and everyone in the crowd cheered with their respect as several beastmen entered the ring to give them their rewards.

Prologue:

After the arena the two goblins stuck together and although many goblins, and orcs, flocked to them to encourage them into a mighty Waaagh! The arena champions turned them down each time.

Leading an army took too much work and both goblins found more joy wondering the country side and filling their days with evil deeds and mischief.

Many babies were killed…

Many puppies were killed…

Many virgins were given goblin fever…

And even the Emperor Karl Franz woke up one day to find a flaming bag of squig droppings beside his bed…

Unfortunately the last one got them in a bit of trouble as they became #1 on the Empire most wanted list over night.

Aggis da Git was even captured, found putting nails in chocolate bound for an orphanarium, and was rushed to a local jail so he could hang the following morning.

When the jailers opened the goblins cell at sun-rise they didn’t find Aggis, instead they found the town major tied in an ungentlemanly position around the town whore…

Would they ever return to the arena? Most likely not… but if you ever see someone in a lizardman costume with an overly devious looking goblin on a cave squig nearby then hide… and hide all those you hold dear…

Khazrak is defeated.

Aggis da Git and Scratch ‘n’ Sniff are the true champions of the arena!

SnS activates arm bands.
SnS shoots (6)(4)
SnS attacks (4,2,1,1)(4)
Khazrak attacks Aggis (5,4,1,1,*3*)(4,2,*2*)(6)
Aggis attacks (6,5,5,1)(6,5,3)(5,3,3)

SnS not killed by amulet with a 4

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