HwG-Bracket Round 13 (Jack Slash vs Dr. Kondraki)

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Jack Slash vs Dr. Kondraki

9-C versions
Speed Equal
Battle takes place in Longyearbyen in summer
SBA otherwise

Which beard will prevail?

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@ThisThingisReallyBroken @Psychomaster35
Your guys are up.

 

[Psychomaster35]

So what is supposed to counter 408 which would turn Kondraki invisible to sneak up on Jack, blind him with 515-ARC and/or shoot him?

 

[Blahblah9755]

Based on his range justification, it looks like Jack’s slashes can have the AoE to cut through tens of meters of crowds, so if he finds out Kondraki’s general vicinity (through hearing him or getting blinded), he wouldn’t need to aim.

 

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Would it be a viable argument that Jack's parahuman related danger sense works on SCPs due to verse equalization?

 

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Does everything in parahumans that is supernatural have shards.

 

[Blahblah9755]

Gonna preface this by saying I’m not familiar with Parahumans/Worm, so this interpretation is based on the Worm wiki’s explanation of shards:
From what I can tell, shards in Parahumans are basically the cells of some species of supernatural creatures. They attach to a sentient host and create a new part of the brain, this lets them give people powers in exchange for gathering information on them.
Since Jack’s power is described as communicating with shards, it doesn’t seem to me like it should be equalized to supernatural powers that don’t come from a somewhat sentient object that stores and shares information on its host.

 

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it doesn’t seem to me like it should be equalized to supernatural powers that don’t come from a somewhat sentient object that stores and shares information on its host.

Argument: SCP-515-ARC uses cells of SCP-408 as image sensor and these cells are still connected to the SCP-408 hive mind.
Meaning that SCP-515-ARC is in fact a somewhat sentient object that stores and shares (visual) information about the users surroundings with a supernatural entity.

 

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Rebuttal: Shards aren't butterfly cells.

 

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Counter-Rebuttal: Verse equalization doesn't require exact correspondence.

 

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what are the wincons?

also where is the bracket?

 

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Counter-Rebuttal: Verse equalization doesn't require exact correspondence.

Counter-Counter-Rebuttal https://worm.fandom.com/wiki/Shard

Entity

The Entities, also known as the Worms, are a species of immense multidimensional alien creatures. They are the source of parahuman powers. The nature of Entities as multi-dimensional beings renders them very difficult to visually comprehend or describe; in one of the visions experienced by...

worm.fandom.com

 

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also where is the bracket?

Here is the hub and here is the tree.

Counter-Counter-Rebuttal https://worm.fandom.com/wiki/Shard

Entity

The Entities, also known as the Worms, are a species of immense multidimensional alien creatures. They are the source of parahuman powers. The nature of Entities as multi-dimensional beings renders them very difficult to visually comprehend or describe; in one of the visions experienced by...

worm.fandom.com

Well, considering that I don't know the verse I will drop that point.

What are the votes then?

 

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bump

 

[Psychomaster35]

I think I’ll vote Kondraki via 408’s invisibility to sneak up and kill given how Jack cant seem to sense him

 

[Blahblah9755]

So, I guess wincon are:
Kondraki turns invisible and shoots Jack/blinds him and shoots him before Jack can get past the butterflies.
Jack locates Kondraki’s general vicinity (probably by Kondraki using using 505–ARC to blind him) and Jack uses an AoE slash to hit him.
Kondraki’s wincon seems more likely to me.

 

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Kondraki FRA

 

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Seems like Kondraki advances

 

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Next match.