Wrestling Not Extreme Enough for You?!?!

From: "\"The Badger\"" <tyranth@execpc.com>

Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:01:54 +0000

Then enter the world of Mystic Arena where you'll find all of the
attitude of a professional wrestler wrapped up with a selection of large,
extremely sharp weapons!

The GWNL (Great Wild Northern League) is currently searching out new,
fresh roleplaying talent to join it's league.  The GWNL is housed in the
city of Northtown, it's arena being a huge draw for the local community.
Here, some of the finest warriors have assembled to compete for the ultimate
prize, the GWNL Heavyweight Title.  The GWNL is essentially a "real time"
setting. No futuristic twists and turns, or ancient civilization revisited.
Here, we're trying to stay true to the origins of Mystic Arena, which is a
lot like professional wrestling, only with large, extremely sharp weapons.
The main reason we're here, the crux of the game, is of course roleplaying.
Interaction with other characters is essential to the game and the flow of
any good league.

Visit our website for more information about the league and how to
create your character!   http://home.graffiti.net/gwnl

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Imagine Wrestling - only with weapons - that's ARENA. Well, sort of.
ARENA is a combat simulator, basically. It requires players and human input
to turn ARENA into a real game, but it's a lot of fun if done so. The
setting can be almost anywhere, I prefer a near-future or contemporary
setting where (this is the only important thing!) gladiator fights are still
common. Modern time settings have the advantage of television and other
broadcasting technology, which is vitally important for those parts of the
game not depending on the program.

Each player is one Gladiator (or his manager or whatever) and there are
two parts to this game. Part one is the fighting itself. This is done with
the ARENA program, that takes the Gladiator data files as input and
simulates their fight. It also takes charge of the daily maintenance and
other stuff, but more of that later on. Now the fights have to come from
somewhere and that is part two. Part two is the communications part. Via
e-mail, echomail on FiDOnet or newsgroups, via whatever, the players have to
communicate. As in the WWF and other wrestling leagues, they insult each
other, claim to be heroes and of course much better than the rest, and -
very important - challenge each other to fights. Once two Gladiators have
agreed upon a fight, the GameMaster aka Commissioner starts the ARENA
program and then publishes its output. Sometimes, he will also have to send
a Gladiator a private mail, as Gladiators can increase their skills with
experience and buy new equipment with gold won in fights.

All other details of the game are in the hand of the GameMaster. He may
schedule fights himself, introduce titles or tournaments and much more. The
program doesn't care how the fight was arranged. Fighters also heal with
time, not automatically. ARENA runs maintenance once a day, where all
fighters regain Wounds and Fatigue. Most Gladiators will not be able to have
a fight every day, or not even every other one. The game is designed for
around 2 fights per week per Gladiator, but if someone gets really hurt, it
could well happen that he'd better stay out of the arena for a week. Oh,
yes. Gladiators CAN die in this game. It should happen seldom, but it is
well possible. The program doesn't kill (erase their data files) anyone
automatically, but I really recommend that anyone with less than 0 Wounds is
considered dead. Gladiators with 0 Wounds should be considered very
seriously injured, taken out for two weeks or even more, and also get one or
two of their attributes decreased. As usual, this is in the hands of the
GameMaster.