The Challenge: Season 7 - Chronicles of Challesia takes place in the generic western fantasy world of Challesia ruled over by Queen Athena VII. Contestants are competing for her favour and/or to win fabulous prizes. The overall theme of the game will be generic fantasy and will likely reference and spoof off many related works, such as fantasy novels, movies, TV shows, video games, role-playing games, etc.
- 16/20 people will be divided into 4 teams.
- Teams will participate in various challenges that will vary throughout the course of the game and require reading comprehension, creativity, dexterity, cunning, intellect, humour, dedication, and/or flattery.
- Winning teams may be rewarded, whereas losers will face the horrors of elimination.
- Although for various reasons not all challenges will end in elimination, there are no phoenix downs in this game, so once you're KOed, you're gone.
- Eliminated parties must sever all game-related ties to remaining participants, but may have the opportunity to influence the game still, so they are recommended to continue following the game.
- Once the number of players has dwindled significantly, the teams will be disbanded and competitors will be left to working on their own.
- The last player standing is crowned the winner!
There is one major mechanic that will follow through the course of the game, the magical item Scroll of Summon Magical Assistant. Each player will start a number of these scrolls and they can be used for various things throughout the challenges. Additional scrolls may be won as prizes throughout the game. More information about the Scrolls will become apparent as the game continues.
For some flavour-related information, feel free to read the introduction below:
As you walk down the... (*rolls d20*) 12th avenue of the Violet District in the Capital City of Challesia, you happen to see a small crowd forming at the square up ahead. Curious, you walk closer, and you happen to see a Royal Proclamation posted up at the center. Unfortunately, the press of bodies (and the smell of those same bodies in an era where most people bathe once a month at best) closes in on you before you can get too close, and all you can make out is this:
However, you happen to be rather bright, and you choose at this moment to temporarily break the fourth wall. You hover your mouse cursor over the small image and... huzzah! There's a link to a larger image! You quickly click on it and open the proclamation in a new tab so that you can read it in its entirety.
"A Challenge, eh?" you think to yourself. It's been over a hundred years since the last Challenge, back when King Aurcolis IX was in power. Sure, he beheaded everyone that lost, but overall it was quite a lot of fun for most people involved. And Queen Athena is much too pleasant and kind to do anything as horrible as that. She would likely hold fair and honourable challenges, with lavish quarters provided for all contestants, wonderful meals at night... and to win! While all of the prizes are temping, the lifetime supply of pie and/or cake is the most enticing.
The more you think about it, the more you realize that you've already decided. You must enter! Your personal skills and talents (whatever they may be) surely make you quite capable at competing. Hell, you think you might even have a shot at winning this thing!
Quickly, you race back to your house/hotel room/apartment/dungeon cell/castle and make preparations to leave. Spots will be filling up quickly, and you don't want to leave Queen Athena hanging...
However, you happen to be rather bright, and you choose at this moment to temporarily break the fourth wall. You hover your mouse cursor over the small image and... huzzah! There's a link to a larger image! You quickly click on it and open the proclamation in a new tab so that you can read it in its entirety.
"A Challenge, eh?" you think to yourself. It's been over a hundred years since the last Challenge, back when King Aurcolis IX was in power. Sure, he beheaded everyone that lost, but overall it was quite a lot of fun for most people involved. And Queen Athena is much too pleasant and kind to do anything as horrible as that. She would likely hold fair and honourable challenges, with lavish quarters provided for all contestants, wonderful meals at night... and to win! While all of the prizes are temping, the lifetime supply of pie and/or cake is the most enticing.
The more you think about it, the more you realize that you've already decided. You must enter! Your personal skills and talents (whatever they may be) surely make you quite capable at competing. Hell, you think you might even have a shot at winning this thing!
Quickly, you race back to your house/hotel room/apartment/dungeon cell/castle and make preparations to leave. Spots will be filling up quickly, and you don't want to leave Queen Athena hanging...
bbninjas- Eliminated after Challenge
Celever- Eliminated after Challenge 15
TGK- Eliminated after Challenge
Keeper- Eliminated after Challenge 2
Yeowie- Eliminated after Challenge 2
Vom- Eliminated after Challenge 8
Luispipe8- Resigned after Challenge 13
BV- Eliminated after Challenge 14
Mr.Muffin- Eliminated after Challenge 6
Green- Resigned after Challenge 6
- Vracken
- Jabberwock
Cypher- Eliminated after Challenge 4
mordacazir- Eliminated after Challenge 9
- Skyleaf
Xerneas- Eliminated after Challenge 3
Spectators: Ice Espeon, double o squirtle, steffenka, Mora, Reinforce, PhantomHaze, Joveran, simsands
Teams have been disbanded! You're all on your own now. Good luck!
SoSMA 1: Negative Elimination Vote: Every time there is an Elimination, all current players may choose to use one scroll to act as a "negative" elimination vote on a player of their choice. This will subtract a vote from that player's total number of votes. If a player reaches 0 votes in this manner, they cannot be eliminated. In negative votes override all of the votes for a given team, that team becomes safe and none of their players will be eliminated.
SoSMA 2: Summon YPPY Participant (Challenge 3): Your team may choose to hire a non-challenger PokéBeach member to participate in the YPPY challenge and help you. This user will effectively count as a member of your team for the purposes of posting in the game and creating chains. Hiring a helper in this matter costs 1 Scroll from every member of your team.
SoSMA 3: Summon Games Helper (Challenge 6): Anyone who is scheduled to play in any of the game rounds for this challenge can spend a scroll to let another member of their team also play the same game. Both players will be allowed to play the game and submit scores for the win.
SoSMA 4: Create Another Dish! (Challenge 7): A player from your team may choose to use a SoSMA to enable your team to design and submit 1 extra dish for any category. This may be a good idea if you have 2 ideas you can't choose between, or to make your team more likely to have a chosen answer, since you have a larger market share of options, so to speak. Each team may create up to 3 additional dishes in this manner, if they wish.
Prologue Challenge
All players must submit a D&D-like Character Sheet for their Challenge competitor. [results]
Challenge 1
All players have now been split into teams. They must decide on a mutual form of communication and come up with a team name. Once the team name has been decided, they will make a banner for their team. [results]
Challenge 2
Each team must make up answers to a series of fake trivia questions to help create and establish information about the country of Challesia, its surroundings, and its history. [results]
Challenge 3
Teams must work together to create the longest posting chain in a YPPY style game. The team with the longest chain earn an advantage, while the team with the shortest will have to eliminate a member. [results]
Challenge 4
The Create-A-Challenge challenge! Teams must work together to create a challenge of their own that will be used later in the game. Winners will be safe from needing to the compete in the challenge when it arrives. [results]
Challenge 5 - Intermission Challenge
The teams, they are a-changing! Each team and all individual competitors much each submit a questionnaire to determine the composition of the new teams. [results]
Challenge 6
Players from each team will compete in a series of rounds by playing online games. The winner of each game earns a SoSMA for themselves, and the team with the fewest wins faces elimination. [results]
Challenge 7
Each team will design a number of dishes for an 8-course feast held in the castle during the winter festival of Reveillak. Once the dishes are submitted, challengers will vote on their favourites, and the winning team will have an advantage in the next challenge. [results]
Challenge 8
All challengers are playing a game of Kitsune Hunter! This is effectively a WW-like game that will be played in the thread. Team members are allowed to discuss amongst themselves, but they don't know if a kitsune might be hiding in their team! [results]
Challenge 9
In this final team challenge, each team must design and create a Fakemon based on their tram mascot including art and game info. Entries will be judged by the host's husband. [results]
Challenge 10
In the first single challenge, players will be competing in a random battle tournament over Pokémon Showdown. No elimination, instead advantages for the next challenge will be awarded to the top 2 participants. [results]
Challenge 11
In this challenge, competitors will each write a short story about their characters, with the winner earning a rather powerful prize... [results]
Challenge 12
Two teams chosen by the winners of Challenge 10 will compete head to head in the game of Codenames, a word association forum game. Best of 5 rounds wins the match, with the losing team forced to eliminate a member. [results]
Challenge 13
The challengers must all compete in the Rope Picking challenge created by the winning team from Challenge 4. The loser of the challenge must forfeit all of their SoSMA to the winner or be eliminated. [results]
Challenge 14
Challengers will be playing a game over a course of multiple rounds where they must guess which image in a series of images is Queen Athena's favourite. Winner gets a prize, loser is eliminated. [results]
Challenge 15
All challengers must choose and submit an online game for other challengers to play. Part 1 involves game submissions, and the game itself will be played in part 2. The challenger who submits the chosen game is safe, while the player who performs the worst in the game will be eliminated. [results]
Challenge 16
Challenger compete in a light-hearted Pokémon-themed game to win a piece of originally artwork by a totally amazing and talented artist. *cough* [results]
The Final Challenge
The last three challengers will be competing in a series of mini-challenges to win it all!
[Round 1] [Round 2] [Round 3] [Round 4] [Round 5] [Round 6] [Round 7]
The End!
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