The arena is at least a hundred yards square, bound on all four sides by the wooden palisade.  There are no spectators in the arena, but dozens of holovids and crystal balls stud the walls, and spy cameras slide back and forth over head on nearly invisible cables.

Brawlers spread out across the arena, pacing and stamping, some blustery and glaring, others slyly sizing up the other fighters.  Many cluster around the tunnel mouth, circle for position, but you note a few jogging toward the corners.

"GENTLEMEN AND AMAZONS, THE BRAWL WILL COMMENCE IN 12...11...10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1!"  A gong crashes, and the arena seethes into ACTION!  Fists, elbows, and knees smash chins, bellies and shins.  

[Since I'm moving ahead briskly feel free to take any last preparatory actions.  Here's my suggestion for handling combat: post your Melee Attack (or roll for any other ability you wish to use), damage if you hit, and Saving Throw all at once.  If your attack takes your foe down I'll throw back to you to narrate the cool knock-out.  Aside from quick questions I'll probably wait till most or all of you have taken your actions and then update all at once.]

Did we have to take our armor off?  It's not a weapon, magic, or psi power

Quote from: ttagxamm;251124It's a fairly standard changing room: benches, lockers, showers.  You might be able to squeeze into your locker, but it would be tight as sardines.  There is a supply closet you could try getting into [Dex check on d20].

I try and fail.

Creature's rolls:

Melee Attack: 98% (Make)
Unarmed Damage: 9
Saving Throw: 45% (Fail- either without or without my armor/shield )

I try to change my hologram clothes to look like anyone working here that I've seen.

Buck hovers close to Quazzer and Daryl if possible.  I'm particularly keeping an eye on Daryl, since all of our lives depend on that...!

Roll: 41....made it.
Damage: 2 (1-3 bare hand)

Quote from: wulfgar;251135Did we have to take our armor off?  It's not a weapon, magic, or psi power

[Shoot, you got me.  You can guarantee there'll be controversy over this Brawl, and heads will roll in the front office, but as it wasn't expressly forbidden in the final draft of the fight regulations armor is ok.  I'll warn you though: everyone will think you're a pansy for wearing it.]

Quote from: wulfgar;251139[Creature and Buck's ATT rolls]

I take it you fellas are just swinging at the nearest targets then?

Quote from: Age of Fable;251140I try to change my hologram clothes to look like anyone working here that I've seen.

You look like a tool in the uniform, but the disguise takes effect.  There is an orderly about, you've noticed.

(Sorry, things hectic on this end right now: how often you want us to chime in with attacks or defense?)

[Special combat note: for the purposes of the Brawl all damage is subdual.  As Rondo noted, it's 1-3 for everyone but Warriors, who do 1-6.  Add STR bonus to damage if any.

[At 0 hps you are staggered.  Your bell's been rung but you can continue fighting if you wish.  However you must make a Survival Roll each round to stay conscious.  If you drop below your STR score in negative numbers you will die. ]

I'd rather be a pansy and live then macho and dead.  (Creature's saving throw is a NEGATIVE 1% without armor, 42% with)

Yeah, he's swinging at the nearest entinty that isn't part of the group or Darryl.

By the way, this is really neat.  For some reason I was thinking there was going to be a March Madness/Karate Kid style tournament with brackets and 1 vs 1 bouts.  Everybody going at it at once is a nice twist.

Quote from: Rondo;251155(Sorry, things hectic on this end right now: how often you want us to chime in with attacks or defense?)

[No worries.  I'll be placing an update once per round covering everyone, so you're done for now.]

(cool.  What Rondo wants, and how Buck acts may be two different things...I too would like to stay alive and not macho, but Buck lives for this sort of thing, so he'll probably stay in it for the long haul.)

(Oh!  I get my +2 Damage bonus, so it's "5"...thanks, Max for mentioning the melee bonus!)

..er "4"...sorry

Quote from: ttagxamm;251153You look like a tool in the uniform, but the disguise takes effect.  There is an orderly about, you've noticed.

When the orderly's not there, I'll try to pick the lock of one of the lockers (a big one if they're different sizes).