Multi-tier tourney match 1: Shock Rock vs Taylor Herbert (part 1)

[FRIMI]

rules are as stated in the tournament.

Base form Shock Rock is used
Skitter/Weaver key is used for Taylor

Otherwise SBA

Shock Rock:
Taylor Herbert:
Inconclusive:

@DemonicDude
@ShadowWhoWalks

 

[Lou_change]

Link?

 

[StekFence]

Shock bltiz one shot for both matches

 

[FRIMI]

Link?

oops my bad

 

[FRIMI]

I'm not sure if it sends the notification if I edit in the @'s, soooo
@DemonicDude
@ShadowWhoWalks

 

[Lou_change]

Shock rock one shots so do I vote for them or Taylor.

 

[StekFence]

Well shock wins both, so it’s coin time

 

[ShadowWhoWalks]

Taylor can control her insects from city blocks away and sip tea while doing it:

Spoiler

I sat cross-legged in my chair on the second floor of my lair. A mug of tea was warm in my hands, and the room was dark. Only a faint light filtered in through the slats at the top of the metal shutter that covered the window. My mask rested on one knee.

My attention swept over my territory, with an emphasis on the centermost area near where I’d held my speech. The reach of my power wasn’t quite good enough to extend to the outer edges of my territory, which left me anxious. I was craving one of those moments when my power would go into overdrive and increase its range. Minutes passed as I followed my ‘subjects’ and did what I could to get to know them. My bugs remained on the backs of people’s elbows, at the small of their back, and I’d maybe put a small fly in their hair if it was long enough that they wouldn’t feel it. Not enough to bother anyone, or that anyone would necessarily notice, but enough for me to track their movements.

Two groups arrived within a minute of one another, each at different points of my territory. Thirty-two people in all, with eight in the first group and twenty-four in the other. Both groups reacted, jumping and backing away as my swarm swept over them. I could feel the vibration in the air as one in the second group laughed. The others joined him. I’d held off on attacking, just using the bugs to get a headcount and a sense of who was there. There were men and women, young and old. Each of them had weapons of some sort, and fifteen in total had guns.

The Merchants were responding to my bid for control. Good.

I sipped my tea and found it was lukewarm. I took big gulps in the hopes of finishing it before it got cold.

[...]

He bolted. Seeing the general mass of insects down the road, he decided to turn into a series of alleyways. I let him run for a minute.

He was halfway down an alley when I drew the ambient bugs from the vicinity into a loose humanoid shape, not as dense as the others. Still, seeing it stopped him in his tracks.

He turned to retreat the way he’d come, only to find another swarm coalescing into a second figure at the other end of the alley. His head whipped around as he realized he had no escape routes left, and then he screamed, a primal, despairing sound.

The swarm figures moved towards him at a glacial pace, with more bugs joining them every second, to give them more mass and more raw attacking power. His composure cracked before they even reached him, and he charged headlong into the swarm that had been at the far end of the alley. Bugs tore into him, pinching and stabbing him, and he made it nearly to the edge of my power’s range before his legs buckled. He landed on top of a pile of the trash that the nearby building’s residents had been stacking in the alleyway, and the swarm started mauling him.

Group one down.

I finished my tea, then made a face. The teabag had leaked grit, and some had settled into the bottom of my cup. Bitter.

I put the empty cup down at the base of my chair, and then I turned my attention to the second group.

Before Shock Rock can blitz he'll need to find Taylor's position, and Taylor isn't the type to willingly reveal herself if her opponent is dangerous (at most she'll make makeshift clones of herself using her bugs).
So what detection skills does Shock Rock have?

 

[StekFence]

Taylor can control her insects from city blocks away and sip tea while doing it:

Spoiler

I sat cross-legged in my chair on the second floor of my lair. A mug of tea was warm in my hands, and the room was dark. Only a faint light filtered in through the slats at the top of the metal shutter that covered the window. My mask rested on one knee.

My attention swept over my territory, with an emphasis on the centermost area near where I’d held my speech. The reach of my power wasn’t quite good enough to extend to the outer edges of my territory, which left me anxious. I was craving one of those moments when my power would go into overdrive and increase its range. Minutes passed as I followed my ‘subjects’ and did what I could to get to know them. My bugs remained on the backs of people’s elbows, at the small of their back, and I’d maybe put a small fly in their hair if it was long enough that they wouldn’t feel it. Not enough to bother anyone, or that anyone would necessarily notice, but enough for me to track their movements.

Two groups arrived within a minute of one another, each at different points of my territory. Thirty-two people in all, with eight in the first group and twenty-four in the other. Both groups reacted, jumping and backing away as my swarm swept over them. I could feel the vibration in the air as one in the second group laughed. The others joined him. I’d held off on attacking, just using the bugs to get a headcount and a sense of who was there. There were men and women, young and old. Each of them had weapons of some sort, and fifteen in total had guns.

The Merchants were responding to my bid for control. Good.

I sipped my tea and found it was lukewarm. I took big gulps in the hopes of finishing it before it got cold.

[...]

He bolted. Seeing the general mass of insects down the road, he decided to turn into a series of alleyways. I let him run for a minute.

He was halfway down an alley when I drew the ambient bugs from the vicinity into a loose humanoid shape, not as dense as the others. Still, seeing it stopped him in his tracks.

He turned to retreat the way he’d come, only to find another swarm coalescing into a second figure at the other end of the alley. His head whipped around as he realized he had no escape routes left, and then he screamed, a primal, despairing sound.

The swarm figures moved towards him at a glacial pace, with more bugs joining them every second, to give them more mass and more raw attacking power. His composure cracked before they even reached him, and he charged headlong into the swarm that had been at the far end of the alley. Bugs tore into him, pinching and stabbing him, and he made it nearly to the edge of my power’s range before his legs buckled. He landed on top of a pile of the trash that the nearby building’s residents had been stacking in the alleyway, and the swarm started mauling him.

Group one down.

I finished my tea, then made a face. The teabag had leaked grit, and some had settled into the bottom of my cup. Bitter.

I put the empty cup down at the base of my chair, and then I turned my attention to the second group.

Before Shock Rock can blitz he'll need to find Taylor's position, and Taylor isn't the type to willingly reveal herself if her opponent is dangerous (at most she'll make makeshift clones of herself using her bugs).
So what detection skills does Shock Rock have?

Under sba, they are in sight of each other

 

[StekFence]

Also, Shock has kilometers range, and massively higher speed.

 

[ShadowWhoWalks]

Under SBA they only know the general direction. Taylor will first find somewhere to hide, including inside apartment buildings, and it doesn't seem that Shock Rock is equipped to find her.

It is out of character for Ben to cause unnecessary destruction in the city because of an opponent he doesn't know much about might be there. Travel Speed feats for base Shock Rock?

 

[StekFence]

Under SBA they only know the general direction. Taylor will first find somewhere to hide, including inside apartment buildings, and it doesn't seem that Shock Rock is equipped to find her.

It is out of character for Ben to cause unnecessary destruction in the city because of an opponent he doesn't know much about might be there. Travel Speed feats for base Shock Rock?

Rel flight speed. If shockrock knows the direction, he’s gonna move that direction, and the difference between rel and Subsonic is so much, that she’s barely gonna have started breathing.

 

[ShadowWhoWalks]

Relativistic flight is only for the third key, when we are talking about the first. So we are missing feats for travel speed; characters are often portrayed to be exponentially slower in travel compared to during combat.

 

[FRIMI]

characters are often portrayed to be exponentially slower in travel compared to during combat.

I believe this is generally considered PIS

 

[FRIMI]

bump