Mutant League 01/16/2008 AM Game 6: Jessica Drew & twilight vs. CTD & Vic. Borkowski

[mattbib]

Greeting fight fans! Welcome to the second fight of the day!

Please review the rules on voting here.

And now on to our fight...

In the first corner we have Jessica Drew & twilight's Electric Eliminators:
Psylocke, Polaris, Blaquesmith, Pulse, Deadpool, Boost, Wolverine

vs

In the other corner is Come_To_Deathstrike & Victor Borkowski's IcyBlinkyBoomySpottyPurplyDustyDebrii:
Iceman, Blink, Gambit, Sunspot, Persuasion, Dust, Debrii

Both participants have submitted strategies:

Please do not post or vote until both strategies have been posted and read.

[mattbib]

Stage One

• Blaquesmith mentally overtakes Blink, causing her to go to sleep. If she’s already teleported—or if the following move doesn’t keep in our opponents — especially Dust (or Dust/Persuasion combo) — then Blaquesmith puts a TK field around him, Boost, and Polaris.
• Psylocke completely surrounds opponents with a TK forcefield (and if Blaquesmith telepathically tells her that Blink has teleported, then she puts a tight TK field around herself and Pulse).
• Boost jumps into Polaris.
• Polaris defends Blaquesmith—and others if need be—against any incoming attacks. Polaris—now that she’s boosted—should be alert to anyone teleporting in, due to the change in the immediate electromagnetic spectrum. If necessary, (a boosted) Polaris will summon strong waves of electromagnetic energy to clear any to clear any incoming attackers (if Blaquesmith doesn’t get Blink) out of the area.
• Deadpool (and Wolverine) teleport to the other team and knocks out (in this order): Persuasion, Dust (if Dust is not in Dust form), Debrii, and Gambit. If the other team has already teleported by the time Dead pool and Wolverine teleport to the opposite side of the field, then D & W teleport to Blink and take her out.

Deadpool: “Wheeeee! You guys are just like M&M's, and I do mean the delicious bite-sized candy treat and not the misogynistic fat, rap guy, you’ve got a hard, glossy shell but underneath you’re just milk-chocolate cry-baby, dundeblitzens with dull, lifeless hair”

• Pulse stares at the other team, depowering as many as possible, but aiming first for Persuasion, Dust, and Iceman.

Stage Two

• Blaquesmith mentally overtakes Dust, Persuasion, and Debrii (in that order), if Deadpool or Wolverine haven’t already taken them out. Neither have shown to be adept at blocking telepathic onslaughts, and Blaqusmith is a particularly skilled telepath. If Blink has teleported before Blaquesmith had the chance to attack, then he attacks her before he attacks the others.
• Deadpool and Wolverine continue their melee attack, and in close range, he should be able to take down Gambit without too much of a fuss.

Deadpool: “Hey Jim-jam, if you’re gonna go “Snikkety,snikt snikt” is it okay if I go “sliccety,slice slice”? I’m gonna give Gambit a colonoscopy in the face!"

• Psylocke and Pulse fly toward the other team on a (front-shielded) TK wave, as Psylocke lifts her shield and slams Bobby with a whammer of a TK wave.
• Pulse looks to depower Sunspot and Gambit and Debrii (in that order), and Polaris causes all the metal in the immediate area to wrap around Sunspot and send him flying into Iceman.

Stage Three

• Blaquesmith continues his mental assault, focusing now on Iceman, Sunspot, Debrii, and Gambit (or whoever is left).
• Psylocke continues to TK hammer at Iceman and Sunspot, with Pulse (shielded) by her side, doing what he does best.
• Polaris defends Blaquesmith.
• Deadpool an d Wolverine melee attack whomever needs attacking, bodysliding when they need to.

Deadpool: “We’re the ultimate team, just like Ike and Tina!”

[mattbib]

PHASE ONE

The initial actions made by each member of the team during this phase be considered to happen simultaneously at the beginning of the match,with the intent of scattering so as to avoid being locked onto and sneak attacks by Deadpool.

Blink begins by teleporting herself, Gambit, Debrii, Sunspot and Dust to individual locations:

Dust immediately shifts into sand form as Blink teleports her to appear amidst the opposing team. (Morrisons New X-Men #146 Dust transforms from human to sand in a split second, as “Xorn” shouts a fake warning to Xavier.)

Dust proceeds to encompass the opposing team in her cutting sandstorm. (In the aforementioned issue, Dust fills the entire Cerebra chamber and encompasses Xavier and “Xorn” in seconds. A couple of panels later she encompasses Angel, Beak, Basilisk, Ernst and two of Beak and Angels offspring, filling a room). If any of the opposing team have managed to scatter, her primary targets are Polaris and Blaquesmith.

This move serves the purpose of obstructing the vision of the opposing team, providing cover for our teams opening moves/ teleport locations and distracting/engaging members of the opposing team so as to hinder their power usage, in particular stopping Polaris from maintaining a forcefield or Blaquesmith from being able to concentrate on detecting Blink, or mind-linking his team mates.

Dust should be safe from attack during this assault as the only things that have been shown to harm her in sand form are water and magical energy. Blaquesmith would be unable to halt her attack telepathically as she has been shown to be highly resistant to telepathic intrusion in sand form. (Morrisons New X-Men #133, Jean has to use the X-corps Cerebra unit to locate Dust who is in the same room as her and in New X-Men #146 even Xavier has trouble - “I thought I felt someone nearby. Your telepathic presence i s almost undetectable in granular form…incredible.” And in the same issue during her assault on Basilisk etc Xavier is trying to halt her “It’s almost impossible to grasp her consciousness in this form”

Gambit and Blink appear from the teleport around the side of a smaller shack building close to the opposing team.

Debrii appears from the teleport around the side of building a couple back from where Gambit and Blink are.

Sunspot appears from the teleport in the air behind the opposing team, nicely charged by the Australian sun! He targets Deadpool with a volley of heat blasts, aiming for the teleporter on his belt and his guns, hoping to render them inoperable. If Deadpool has already moved out, Sunspot flies high and monitors the battlefield with the intent of apprehending Deadpool whoever he targets.

Iceman rides out high on an Ice Slide, taking Persuasion with him. He launches a powerful blast of project ile energy ice spears toward the opposing team, targeting Blaquesmith, Pulse and Psylocke. (Uncanny X-Men #422, from up high, this attack knocks over Earthmover, smashes apart one of his rock golems, slams Puck to the floor and and crushes the bonnet/boot of three police cars).

This also signals for Dusts to release Polaris and Boost from her attack (if Boost hasn’t body jumped a team mate yet) so that Persuasion can target them with her pheremones (which have a range of several miles and have taken control of the entire Alpha Flight team before).

Under Persuasions’ suggestion, Boost takes possession of Polaris (if Boost isn’t there, then just Polaris). Polaris plucks Wolverine from wherever he is and yanks him towards her, slamming him into Blaquesmith on the way, as she floats gaily towards the shack where Blink and Gambit are lying in wait, dragging Wolverine behind her.

(Defeated – Blaquesmith)

PHASE TWO:

Sunspot continues to keep a vigile on Deadpool, flying wherever he catches sight of him and attacking with concussive heat blasts from up high, targeting Deadpools weaponry and head, trying to stop Deadpool from taking anyone out with his guns.

Gambit begins kinetically charging the wall of the shack that he and Blink are down the side of as Boost/Polaris approach with Wolverine in the magnetic grip.

Blink targets Wolverine with a teleport stick, teleporting him INSIDE the building before teleporting herself and Gambit away.

The shack wall explodes, causing the building to collapse with Wolverine inside and Polaris right by it, who is knocked out by the explosion and flying rocks. The explosion also takes out the wall of the neighbouring shack.

Iceman slides past the collapsed shack containing Wolverine and encases the entire thing in an ice tomb.

Debrii levitates out from hiding and begins manipulat ing any rubble that hasn’t been iced up, including the fallen second shack wall. If Boost somehow separated from Polaris and is still conscious, Debrii smacks him upside the head with a couple of rocks.

Persuasion, dismounts from the Ice Slide and now targets Pulse with her pheremones.

Debrii joins Dust who has switched her sole focus to Psylocke, enshrouding her with cutting sands, demanding her concentration and dulling her reflexes.

Blink emerges from the teleport next to Persuasion.

Gambit appears from the teleport to engage Deadpool, who should have had trouble getting any hits in with everyone either on the move or hiding and Sunspot tailing/blasting him.

Iceman heads towards Gambit, Sunspot and Deadpool on an ice slide.

(Defeated – Polaris, Boost, Wolverine, Blaquesmith)

PHASE THREE

Gambit extends his bo staff and engages Deadpool in physical combat, backed up by Sunspot. If Deadpools’ teleporter is still active, Gambit uses an acrobatic manoeuvre and charges the teleporter, blowing it up and winding Deadpool.

Sunspot takes the opportunity to deliver a double fisted slam to Deadpools back.

Gambit then swiftly charges his bo staff and sticks it into Deadpools mouth, blowing up his head.

Iceman arrives to put the dirty slab of meat on ice, before he has time to heal.

Psylocke, is now having to contend with a barrage of whirling rocks from Debrii as well as contending with the constant cutting sandstorm – quite problematic for a tk who excels in power but not finesse.

Blink teleports with Pulse (still under Persuasions suggestion) as Dust reverts to human form, exhausted.

Just as Psylocke thinks she has an opening, Blink appears in front of her with Pulse, who instantly de-powers her. Blink then lets go of Pulse and drops him, as Psylocke falls to the floor (if she’d been airbourne).

If Psylocke wasn’t in the air or is still conscious, Persuasion uses her pheremones to take control of her. Debrii then directs her barrage of rocks at Psylocke, knocking her unconscious.

If Pulse is still conscious, Blink takes him out with an acrobatic kick to the head.

(Defeated – Deadpool, Psylocke, Pulse, Polaris, Boost, Wolverine, Blaquesmith)

Team IcyBlinkyBoomySpottyDustyPurplyDebrii celebrate with lame victory poses!

[Diablito]

I gave my vote to Twi and Jessica Drew. They seemed to be prepared for the whole Dust attack (with the setting up of forcefields). The individual taking down by Wolverine and Deadpool should end up being successful, as both are particularly skilled and powerful. The use of Pulse as a dampener to the other team, and Boost, uh, boosting people should make Twi and Jessica Drew's team much more impressive.

[Brian M.]

Originally Posted by Diablito

I gave my vote to Twi and Jessica Drew. They seemed to be prepared for the whole Dust attack (with the setting up of forcefields). The individual taking down by Wolverine and Deadpool should end up being successful, as both are particularly skilled and powerful.

I think that's where I'm leaning, I'll talk to Beast and I'll let both sides respond to the strategies before submitting a vote.

[pryde15]

Originally Posted by Diablito

I gave my vote to Twi and Jessica Drew. They seemed to be prepared for the whole Dust attack (with the setting up of forcefields). The individual taking down by Wolverine and Deadpool should end up being successful, as both are particularly skilled and powerful.

see by I thought that even if force fields were set up, wouldn't Dust have been teleported inside the fields? since Blink teleported admist the opposing team.

I'm still very unsure, I need to reread, usually one team really really jumps out at me, but both did this time, so I can't decide.

[RickyD410]

Go Team IcyBlinkyBoomySpottyDustyPurplyDebrii!!

[Diablito]

Originally Posted by pryde15

see by I thought that even if force fields were set up, wouldn't Dust have been teleported inside the fields? since Blink teleported admist the opposing team.

I'm still very unsure, I need to reread, usually one team really really jumps out at me, but both did this time, so I can't decide.

The thing is that Blaquesmith tells Psylocke to tighten the forcefield if Blink teleported. That way, I don't see how Dust would get into these force fields.

[pryde15]

Originally Posted by Diablito

The thing is that Blaquesmith tells Psylocke to tighten the forcefield if Blink teleported. That way, I don't see how Dust would get into these force fields.

I see your point, hmm... I am stuck.

[Josef F.]

Originally Posted by mattbib

Stage One

• Blaquesmith mentally overtakes Blink, causing her to go to sleep. If she’s already teleported—or if the following move doesn’t keep in our opponents — especially Dust (or Dust/Persuasion combo) — then Blaquesmith puts a TK field around him, Boost, and Polaris.
• Psylocke completely surrounds opponents with a TK forcefield (and if Blaquesmith telepathically tells her that Blink has teleported, then she puts a tight TK field around herself and Pulse).
• Boost jumps into Polaris.
• Polaris defends Blaquesmith—and others if need be—against any incoming attacks. Polaris—now that she’s boosted—should be alert to anyone teleporting in, due to the change in the immediate electromagnetic spectrum. If necessary, (a boosted) Polaris will summon strong waves of electromagnetic energy to clear any to clear any incoming attackers (if Blaquesmith doesn’t get Blink) out of the area.
• Deadpool (and Wolverine) teleport to the other team and knocks out (in this order): Persuasion, Dust (if Dust is not in Dust form), Debrii, and Gambit. If the other team has already teleported by the time Dead pool and Wolverine teleport to the opposite side of the field, then D & W teleport to Blink and take her out.

Deadpool: “Wheeeee! You guys are just like M&M's, and I do mean the delicious bite-sized candy treat and not the misogynistic fat, rap guy, you’ve got a hard, glossy shell but underneath you’re just milk-chocolate cry-baby, dundeblitzens with dull, lifeless hair”

• Pulse stares at the other team, depowering as many as possible, but aiming first for Persuasion, Dust, and Iceman.

Stage Two

• Blaquesmith mentally overtakes Dust, Persuasion, and Debrii (in that order), if Deadpool or Wolverine haven’t already taken them out. Neither have shown to be adept at blocking telepathic onslaughts, and Blaqusmith is a particularly skilled telepath. If Blink has teleported before Blaquesmith had the chance to attack, then he attacks her before he attacks the others.
• Deadpool and Wolverine continue their melee attack, and in close range, he should be able to take down Gambit without too much of a fuss.

Deadpool: “Hey Jim-jam, if you’re gonna go “Snikkety,snikt snikt” is it okay if I go “sliccety,slice slice”? I’m gonna give Gambit a colonoscopy in the face!"

• Psylocke and Pulse fly toward the other team on a (front-shielded) TK wave, as Psylocke lifts her shield and slams Bobby with a whammer of a TK wave.
• Pulse looks to depower Sunspot and Gambit and Debrii (in that order), and Polaris causes all the metal in the immediate area to wrap around Sunspot and send him flying into Iceman.

Stage Three

• Blaquesmith continues his mental assault, focusing now on Iceman, Sunspot, Debrii, and Gambit (or whoever is left).
• Psylocke continues to TK hammer at Iceman and Sunspot, with Pulse (shielded) by her side, doing what he does best.
• Polaris defends Blaquesmith.
• Deadpool an d Wolverine melee attack whomever needs attacking, bodysliding when they need to.

Deadpool: “We’re the ultimate team, just like Ike and Tina!”

As tempted as i am to give them the win for their Tina turner reference, there's a few things.

They seem to rely a lot on our team standing around, with the whole telepoting Deadpool to where we are, whereas we made the team in constant motion for such an eventuality.
And as we're all over the place, I see deapool and wolverine getting one maybe if they're lucky. Gambit and Blink and Bobby aren't exactly weak fighters. And in the strat, Deadpool loses said teleport ability anyway.
And i also don't thinnk that Blaquesmith is THAT 00ber.
I don't see him mentally overtaking Dust debrii and persuasion all at one time (And he can't get dust anyway)
And without Blaquesmith, their strategy falls apart slightly.
The little green freak

It's quite tight though, I did enjoy it.:D

[Shyft]

i dont think Drew/Twi's strategy flows well, or makes that much sense. First they have DP&Logan take out Gambit, Persuation Derbii and possibly Blink..

But then Blaquesmith has already "taken out" Blink, and the just casually follows up by taking out Persuation Dust and Debrii?

So within the first half of the fight Blaquesmith, Deadpool and Wolverine have taken out Dust, Persuation, Blink, Gambit and Debrii, all with two sentences of "Takes over XYZ in that order" and "beats up YXZ in that order".

That doesnt sit well with me.

[Diablito]

Originally Posted by Come_To_Deathstrike

As tempted as i am to give them the win for their Tina turner reference, there's a few things.

They seem to rely a lot on our team standing around, with the whole telepoting Deadpool to where we are, whereas we made the team in constant motion for such an eventuality.
And i also don't thinnk that Blaquesmith is THAT 00ber.
I don't see him mentally overtaking Dust debrii and persuasion all at one time (And he can't get dust anyway)
And without Blaquesmith, their strategy falls apart slightly.
The little green freak

It's quite tight though, I did enjoy it.:D

If he's not uber already, Boost should be able to bring him to these levels.

[Shyft]

Originally Posted by Diablito

The thing is that Blaquesmith tells Psylocke to tighten the forcefield if Blink teleported. That way, I don't see how Dust would get into these force fields.

how can she tighten the forcefield to the point where Dust Cant get in? Surely if she made it more or less skin tight, she and those she were protecting wouldnt be able to move?

[Shyft]

Originally Posted by Diablito

If he's not uber already, Boost should be able to bring him to these levels.

they have Boost boosting Polaris, not Blaquesmith

[pryde15]

I think Drew & Twilight overused Blaquesmith alittle too much, from what worstblogever's recap of the draft said, Blaquesmith has a host of powers but he is not "uber" and it seems he is written that way, but its ok I did the same thing with Mindee Cuckoo and I still pulled out a win, so maybe people will overlook that aspect of your strategy.