DAY 1
Active Events: Blood Pit Arena (Qualifying Round), Dread Metal Destruction Derby (Qualyfing Round)

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BLOOD PIT ARENA SCOREBOARD
A.K.A. Who's surviving and who's dead.

BLACK LOTUS EMPIRE
Phoebe - Charizard
Vekker - Ursaring
Grec - Gengar
Vurden - Volcarona
Unloc - Luxray
Janos - Breloom
Shandal - Passimian
STEEL SCAVENGERS
Grand Lady - Tsareena
Gloria - Goodra
Kaytoo the Toxapex
Iolande - Gastrodon
Unnamed - Manectric
Ioseph - Beheeyem
Durkon - Clefable
THE GRACIDEA ORDER
Athena - Decidueye
Perceval - Serperior
Axiom - Hakamo-o
Shiva - Medicham
Saber - Lurantis
Jackson - Alolan Ninetales
Masamune - Braviary
THE PRANKSTER PLATOON
Laura - Umbreon
Xavier - Luxray
Kirrun - Claydol
Aria - Mismagius
THUNDERCRASH GANG
Dycee - Alolan Raichu
Cartaka - Sylveon
Modkus - Hydreigon
Vink - Watchog
Voris - Alakazam
Ryke - Swellow
Soland - Excadrill
SENTINEL CORPORATON
Vesh - Tyranitar
Lotec - Mawile
Marsha - Salazzle
Decca - Torracat
Swill - Glaceon
Eki - Lampent
Julver - Kommo-o
THE SHADOW MASK
Muno - Swampert
Burrin - Accelgor
Zill - Mimikyu
INDEPENDENTS
Bax - Togedemaru
Goreg - Nidoking
Zengar - Noivern
Jabis - Vikavolt

Phoebe Helsden the Charizard
Black Lotus - Onyx Circle
Blood Pit Arena, Lytala City
Affected RPers: @Death's Spook, @Noblejanobii, @LKWayvern

Already, the Blood Pit had turned into a complete slaughterhouse. And there was no telling when the mayhem would stop, but there were still many survivors. That number, however, was going to drop faster and faster.

Phoebe had noticed the fight was going to end up being a three-way between Black Lotus, Gracidea, and Sentinel. While she would have loved for both Sentinel and Gracidea to slaughter each other and make her job easier, there was no guarantee that would happen without the proper "engineering."

As Phoebe noticed, Gracidea was fighting aggressively. Down below, her squad had encountered Perceval the Serperior unleashing the leaf storm attack upon their position. Several of the sharp leaves struck the group, forcing the Black Lotus squad to temporarily break formation. Most of the wounds struck off the armor while others did cause several lacerations that definitely caught the squad's attention. In response, Janos the Breloom and Vekker the Ursaring laid down suppressing fire on the enemy position while Vurden took to the air and targeted the grass type directly with a Heat Wave attack, cornering and smothering the grass snake with fire. With nowhere to run and now suddenly surrounded by fire, it gave Grec an opportunity.

With a dark and devilish grin, he caught the Serperior in the sights of his EinCaliber sniper rifle, and fired. The round blasted from the chamber and seared through the air before burrowing in and out of the snake's head, leaving a massive hole. The sheer anti-material force of the round also caused almost a quarter of Perceval's head to be blasted off as well.

Perceval the Serperior (Gracidea Order) has been eliminated.

All the while, the bloodshed and the mortal carnage was simply orgasmic to the enthralled crowd...

In the sudden chaos, Phoebe tried to redirect her squad away from the bottleneck, but at that moment, Athena had attacked the flying fire lizard with a Brave Bird attack. To Phoebe, she had to give the Decidueye credit. It was a well-played distraction and she knew she wouldn't be able to dodge out of the way entirely.

The strike was brutal and Phoebe could feel it slam even past her armor. It was a painful grazing blow that stole a breath out of her hot, fiery lungs, but she was far from finished.

"Clever kakó b***h, aren't you?" Phoebe snarled menacingly with a dark smile. "I hope that was worth dying for!"

Knowing the Decidueye was at too close of a range to consider shooting at with the rocket launcher, the Charizard knew there was more than one way to burn the owl down to nothing. She opted for an Inferno attack, hoping to shoot down the Gracidea Order's squad leader in a fireball of death.


Sotka Aldaros the Weavile
Black Lotus - Onyx Circle
Concealed Technical Operations Post, Lytala City Underground
Affected RPers: @Death's Spook, @Noblejanobii, @LKWayvern

Sitting before a large array of computers and video screens in an underground bunker beneath the city, Sotka watched admirably as she had a view of everything going on in the Blood Pit arena. So far, things were going quite well. Black Lotus seemed to be enjoying themselves while everyone else, especially the notorious Thundercrash Gang, was being brutalized.

She had watched Goreg the Nidoking attempt to lay an ambush on Sentinel Corporation's squad, which she thought was amusing. She wasn't sure whether to watch more of the Thundercrash Gang get brutalized, or see what was going to unfold here, but she was glad when she got to witness live on her console screens just how the heavy Nidoking had taken what looked like a large, custom-built shotgun and fired right at Vesh, the Sentinel Corporation squadleader. Sotka was actually amused and taken back how the explosive slug round hit the Tyranitar on the back of the head and caused it to explode into chunks, instantly putting Vesh to death.

Vesh the Tyranitar (Sentinel Corporation) has been eliminated.

Swill the Glaceon had immediately tried to respond, but before she was able to strike at the Nidoking, Goreg took aim at her and fired, instantly blowing apart the Glaceon's lower jaw and neck, nearly decapitating her in the process. Immediately, she couldn't breathe and couldn't do anything except become instantly horrified at the fact she would be dead in less than a minute as her blood was spilling out at a traumatic rate.

Swill the Glaceon (Sentinel Corporation) has been eliminated.

Sotka smirked at the rage that had fired up in the rest of the squad. They ignored everything and everyone else as the rest of them were overtaken by sheer madness and anger and had all attacked Goreg at once, diving on the Nidoking like an angry swarm of voracious zombies. Marsha the Salazzle was furious enough to rip the Nidoking's arm off and even beat him to death with it before Decca incinerated him and had to force everyone to step back as the fiery consuming flames devoured the mangled carcass of Goreg.

Goreg the Nidoking (Independent) has been eliminated.

But she decided she wanted to have some more fun with it. She could see why some Pokémon really enjoyed this. It was brutal. The stakes were the highest they could be. But she knew there was one thing that wouldn't change.

She turned back to her screens and used her tracking devices. No one would see this coming. And yet, it was still so exciting.

She tracked down where the Steel Scavengers were and the infamous Grand Lady that had decided to actually partake in this slaughterfest. Sotka was quite intrigued the Lady would actually subject herself to this kind of madness, but she wasn't the slightest bit fazed by it. It was her mistake and it would be even better if the Grand Lady was actually killed in this. Just as the Steel Scavengers squad had pulverized Jabis the Vikavolt, she decided it might be good if... a few more of them would just go out and die.

She pressed a button and suddenly, the ground beneath Kaytoo the Toxapex and Ioseph the Beheeyem suddenly exploded from underneath them as if a landmine had gone off. Instantly, both of them were reduced to nothing more than a gored shower of blood and body parts.

Kaytoo the Toxapex (Steel Scavengers) has been eliminated.
Ioseph the Beheeyem (Steel Scavengers) has been eliminated.

The crowd went wild, but the truth was, no one in the stands could tell if it was a landmine that went off or a remotely detonated explosive charge. It certainly wouldn't have been the first time the Blood Pit had been rigged with traps. But it wouldn't be the first time they had been engineered to strike at everyone except Black Lotus's finest.

"You could have waited on that one," Willow the Lopunny spoke to her on her headset. "A few more seconds and you could have killed the Grand Lady with that."

"Psh, there's better ways for that kakó to die," Sotka smiled. "I know what I'm doing."

As the fight went on, she saw that the Shadow Mask team was closing in on the Prankster Platoon, which seemed to have stopped fighting for a moment. As soon as the smaller squad of Muno the Swampert, Burrin the Accelgor, and Zill the Mimikyu spotted them, they pushed forward to attack. Sotka decided to let them have some fun with each other. She instead focused more on the Gracidea Order, which seemed to have something definitely out for Black Lotus. Well, of course they would. Liao's infamous band of eco-terrorists were always up to something interesting. As soon as Sotka checked her surveillance computers and the arena location they were at on her heads up display, she grinned as her claw hovered over a blood-red square button.

"Just squishing a bug," Sotka smirked as she pressed a button on the console.

Underneath Axiom the Hakamo-o, the remote explosive charge had detonated, instantly dismembering him and causing blood, sand, and debris to blast into the air.

Axiom the Hakamo-o (Gracidea Order) has been eliminated.

Once again, the crowd would be hard-pressed to distinguish a bad luck booby trap with an engineered explosive device that had gone off remotely, especially from their distance. Meanwhile, there was so much going on at once that even if anyone did care more about the nature of the death rather than how it happened, it wasn't like anyone could head down there to do investigative work.

"Where's the fun in playing fair?" Sotka smirked.


DREAD METAL DESTRUCTION DERBY SCOREBOARD

BLACK LOTUS EMPIRE
RIPFIRE [Armored Truck]
Jaze - Conkeldurr (Driver)
Jucden - Raticate (Gunner)
PEACESLAYER [Monster Truck]
Vorkot - Scrafty (Driver)
Xed - Arcanine (Gunner)
BLACKOUT [Armored Hearse]
Sevren - Dusknoir (Driver)
Mevvan - Krookodile (Gunner)
PRANKSTER PLATOON
SCREAMING TALON [Lightweight Zippy Vehicle]
Jones - Heliolisk (Driver)
Tony - Incineroar (Main Gunner)
Cheshire - Meowstic (Support Gunner)
STEEL SCAVENGERS
THE IRON GIANT [Armored Tank Car]
Julia - Weavile (Driver/Gunner)
THE HORNET [Armored Motorcycle]
Juan - Furret (Driver/Gunner)
THUNDERCRASH GANG
LIGHTNING STRIDER [Nitro Roadster]
Sorton - Eelektross (Driver)
Latchy - Pachirisu (Gunner)
ELECTRIC WILD [Assault Motorcycle]
Rash - Whimsicott (Driver/Gunner)
SENTINEL CORPORATION
THE BRIGADER [Armored Military APC]
Koya - Cacturne (Driver)
Yandali - Infernape (Main Turret Gunner)
Vunder - Delphox (Support Gunner)
Kolm - Blastoise (Support Gunner)
THE NIGHTMARCH
ENIGMA ZERO [Armored Bulldozer]
Baladax - Beartic (Driver)
Olock - Aggron (Main Gunner)
Jugnul - Tyrantrum (Support Gunner)
ZOMBIE SQUAD
THE RECKONING [Armored Junkyard Hulk]
Fazi - Cofagrigus (Driver)
Slugz - Snorlax (Main Gunner)
Vulk - Skuntank (Support Gunner)
INDEPENDENTS
SLAYER'S RIDE [Armored Buggy]
Khilter - Dragalge (Driver/Gunner)
DESTINY'S END [Speed Motorcycle]
Kikel - Pancham

LOCKDOWN [Armored Pick-up Truck]
Rudy - Rampardos (Driver)
Gile - Sandslash (Gunner)
DEVIL'S HEADHUNTER [Armored Semi Truck]
Durakan - Alolan Marowak (Driver/Gunner)

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Jucden Tarblack the Raticate
Black Lotus - Onyx Circle
Aboard the Ripfire, Lotus Den Slums, outside Lytala City
Affected RPers: @Velocity, @Morzone

Jucden wanted Gile's head on a plate, or at least blown up into chunks and pieces. However, just as he prepared to launch another grenade at the Sandslash, the Enigma Zero bulldozer tore its way through a row of derelict concrete buildings and headed right for the pickup truck, throwing torn stone and rubble in all directions like a confetti popper.

"DAMN YOU TO-" Gile shouted just moments before the bulldozer slammed into the truck. Gile was instantly ripped in half from the shovel, but would still survive for a few more minutes. However, moments later, the Enigma Zero crushed and flatted the remnants of the Lockdown, permanently making Gile and Rudy and their vehicle into one inseparable pancake of crushed metal, flesh, and sinew.

Gile the Sandslash (Independent) has been eliminated.

"He was mine, you pissing prick!" Jucden snarled angrily, knowing he had Gile sitting like an intoxicated Psyduck just wanting to be blown up. "I'll murder you and your whole family for stealing that!"

Despite wanting to just slaughter everyone in Nightmarch and Jucden's feverish thirst for revenge, Jaze knew better than to send the Ripfire right at the Enigma Zero. Dread Metal was also about endurance and they needed to last as long as possible. While he drove away, Jucden launched a flurry of grenades as the pursuing bulldozer. Meanwhile, Nightmarch was fully intent on making Jucden another victim. Olock and Jugnul had opened fire on the Ripfire, causing bullet hole scars in the vehicle's armor as the bullets tore and bit away at it.

Explosions from the grenade launcher did some damage to the Enigma Zero, but not enough. It was frustrating to Jucden, because to the psychotic Ratticate, Nightmarch was a bunch of nobodies and he didn't want to waste the more admirable ordinance on just them. Had it been Gracidea, the Scavengers, or the Platoon, he would have loved to make short work of them with some of his more special toys, but this was different. This was using your best ammo to kill just a pesky Zubat. No, no, he needed to save the good stuff for something special.

"Let someone else hassle with these bastards!" Jucden snapped at Jaze as he took cover to dodge the incoming fire from Olock and Jugnul.

Meanwhile on the other side of the slums...

Sevren had caught sight of the Screaming Talon and Mevvan's dark eyes lit up when he spotted the first target that would make for a handsome slaughter. Mevvan licked his dark, crocodile lips as he readied his machine gun. All the while, Sevren sped the hearse toward the zip car. It was going to be a very fast, high speeds pursuit, but it was not something Sevren and Mevvan were strangers to.

"Platoon," Mevvan laughed. "Start a timer. I wanna see how long this takessss."

"Gladly," Sevren replied, pressing a button on a skull clock sitting on the dashboard to log in how quickly Mevvan could obliterate his next target. This had always been one of their favorite pastimes.

A loud, hammering and thrashing raged through the slums as Mevvan's machine gun spat one high-velocity round after another at the Screaming Talon. And all the while, he laughed and laughed.

As the mayhem raged through the slums...

Varkot's smile never left him as the Peaceslayer rampaged its way through the slums, stopping at nothing as the massive, armored monster truck could not be stopped by even the larger shanties and concrete buildings. Everything was crushed under the massive treads, leaving rubble, debris, and destruction in their wake.

"Less slums, more enemies!" Xed demanded, thinking the only thing Vorkot cared about was just flattening the whole slum sector.

"Pipe down, I'm allowed to have some fun with this, you oversized psycho puppy!" Vorkot laughed.

Out of the blue, Kikel the Pancham had been driving by, trying to avoid crashing into the buildings and shanties as his Destiny's End motorcycle sped through the cities, trying to hunt down the next target. However, Kikel didn't bank on running into a monster truck of all things. Just to add insult to injury, Vorkot slammed his foot on the accelerator. There was nowhere for Kikel to run and it was too tight to turn around. His only choice was to abandon the motorcycle to survive... but it was a choice that came too late. Both the Pancham and the motorcycle could not escape the massive treads of the Peaceslayer, and both of them were reduced to nothing but a pile of squashed metal and crushed body parts.

Kikel the Pancham (Independent) was eliminated.

Xed never even knew they ran over a competitor even though Vorkot was laughing the entire time.

Soon enough, after rampaging their way through another inner city street and running over a market stand in the process, they spotted The Iron Giant. Vorkot's eyes lit up with anticipation as he imagined the satisfaction he would get after he got to try crushing something with a little more substance than Kikel's useless crotch-rocket.

Slamming on the accelerator, the Peaceslayer raged toward The Iron Giant while Xed, perched happily on top, unleashed a preamble torrent of flamethrower fire at the armored tank car. He could just imagine the flaming husk of the car just seconds before it was squashed like a bug under the heavy treads of the Peaceslayer.

"Death's gotten sick of waiting for you, kakó!" Xed shouted with psychotic glee as the frizzled Arcanine spat fire, flames, and blazing hot carnage at The Iron Giant.

Tonight, truly the reaper of Pokémon would be hard at work.