A Guantlet of your Verse

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Can you run a guantlet of the characters in your story? If so, how far would you go?

You’d have peak physical conditioning (however far that scales in your verse), access to all the treasures, tools, and artifacts of the verse, 2 weeks prep time, and a choice of locations for each match.
 

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My gaze brings light in darkness,
My slumber are the dark ages.

My words are the ultimate truth,
I'm the nurturer, I'm the destroyer.

My affection is their sustenance,
They are but a passing dream,
One among the myriad I churn.



It is beyond futile for my creations to fathom to even gaze at my brilliance without crumbling to non existence.... Let alone face my wrath.

For my wrath is not the thundering tempests,
Nor the incinerating inferno.
Mine is not the coldness of abyss.

It is...
 

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You’d have peak physical conditioning (however far that scales in your verse), access to all the treasures, tools, and artifacts of the verse, 2 weeks prep time, and a choice of locations for each match.
This is very generous. I'd still lose probably, but it might go either way.
 

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My MCs? Yeah, probably I could take em. Isekai heroes with systems tend to be a little bit overly reliant on external power sources and power ups. If I have access to external power sources and power ups and I understand how they work better than my MCs? No contest.

Every character in the story? Gets a lot dicier

Also in question is when in their plot I show up? Like, if I show up in Azeroth at the same time as Erich (the mc of my WoW fanfiction) and have to fight him at the end of week 2 when he’s still wandering around the human starting area I have pretty great odds of taking him out. If I show up at the end of the story and he has 330 chapters worth of wish fulfillment power scaling under his belt, my chances are pretty bad with only 2 weeks of prep time.
 

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Can you run a guantlet of the characters in your story? If so, how far would you go?

You’d have peak physical conditioning (however far that scales in your verse), access to all the treasures, tools, and artifacts of the verse, 2 weeks prep time, and a choice of locations for each match.
Id maybe win one match
 

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Can you run a guantlet of the characters in your story? If so, how far would you go?

You’d have peak physical conditioning (however far that scales in your verse), access to all the treasures, tools, and artifacts of the verse, 2 weeks prep time, and a choice of locations for each match.
I won't. My story is still on intial stage, but my MC can unleash an energy release equals to a Sun. Even one of the strongest entity in the world he's situated at got oneshotted in just a second of exposure on that energy.

But if we're talking about side characters, I still can't. There are multitude of overpowered abilities on that verse (which I didn't revealed yet) so no amount of prep time would suffice.
 

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I'd have to fight the two mightiest creatures in my writing Universe - myself and my severe procrastination issues. Fuck that shit
 

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No. I wouldn't even make it to the deities. Captain America or Batman would only make it so far. Purely physical training only takes you so far, and the same can be said of any other training regiment. Also, channeling power requires power, so a powerful artifact is limited by the power of its wielder.

Further growth is gained by tempering your will and soul against challenges that matter, with the fastest gains in raw power usually being seen in combat. But an Elementalist throwing themselves against the weight of the world to try to divert a tsunami enough to save their home village or such would also grow, assuming they survive.

While CA and Batman have gained some portion of that edge, they haven't done it in a world where gathering enough might and notoriety can make you an ageless immortal.

Come to think of it... yeah, the Captain would do well with the way immortality can happen in this world. He'd easily slip into the role of wandering hero, ever learning, growing, experiencing, and just simply enjoying life. That last bit is really important.

Batman, not so much. His, um, issues would begin to warp him. Sure, he'd probably gain supernatural shadow-based powers and stuff, but he'd become this immortal creature haunting the city, seeking out lawbreakers and evildoers. And if that city ever became abandoned, he would haunt it still, driven by what he'd made the purpose of existence. And should explorers come his way, well, the moment their curiosity caused them to enter an abandoned building, they'd be trespassers. Especially if they had to force their way in.

Anyway, back to the original point: No amount of physical training and equipment is going to get me past the likes of the various hidden, wandering immortals. The sci-fi equipment available on the more technologically advanced planets would help me more than magical gear, especially the genetic, cybernetic, and bionanonic upgrades available, but there is a breaking point. An immortal swordsman is doing anime-tier BS like cutting through the space between him and his foes thus making the distance irrelevant, etc.

Think of Bleach and the more physically oriented Bankai that don't have special rules or weird shit going on. The ice-boy captain's 'dragon form' is a good example.
 
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No. I wouldn't even make it to the deities. Captain America or Batman would only make it so far. Purely physical training only takes you so far, and the same can be said of any other training regiment. Also, channeling power requires power, so a powerful artifact is limited by the power of its wielder.

Further growth is gained by tempering your will and soul against challenges that matter, with the fastest gains in raw power usually being seen in combat. But an Elementalist throwing themselves against the weight of the world to try to divert a tsunami enough to save their home village or such would also grow, assuming they survive.

While CA and Batman have gained some portion of that edge, they haven't done it in a world where gathering enough might and notoriety can make you an ageless immortal.

Come to think of it... yeah, the Captain would do well with the way immortality can happen in this world. He'd easily slip into the role of wandering hero, ever learning, growing, experiencing, and just simply enjoying life. That last bit is really important.

Batman, not so much. His, um, issues would begin to warp him. Sure, he'd probably gain supernatural shadow-based powers and stuff, but he'd become this immortal creature haunting the city, seeking out lawbreakers and evildoers. And if that city ever became abandoned, he would haunt it still, driven by what he'd made the purpose of existence. And should explorers come his way, well, the moment their curiosity caused them to enter an abandoned building, they'd be trespassers. Especially if they had to force their way in.

Anyway, back to the original point: No amount of physical training and equipment is going to get me past the likes of the various hidden, wandering immortals. The sci-fi equipment available on the more technologically advanced planets would help me more than magical gear, especially the genetic, cybernetic, and bionanonic upgrades available, but there is a breaking point. An immortal swordsman is doing anime-tier BS like cutting through the space between him and his foes thus making the distance irrelevant, etc.
Tell that to Saitama.
 
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