Consider 64 video game characters... The most well known in any games ever
created, from gaming forerunner Pac-Man, to Nintendo legend Mario, to
Squaresoft creations Cloud, Squall, and Kefka, to just plain obscure AiAi,
Mr. Resetti, and Captain Olimar. They're all in the same place, trying to
obtain ultimate glory... And in the meantime, just trying to get along.
Hello, readers... You're in for a helluva long intro. There's a lot of backstory behind this already partly written story, but I'll try to be as brief as possible.
Some of you may know of a video game website named gamefaqs.com. It's known primarily for the many walkthroughs it contains about all kinds of games... But it also has a large message board system. It was on one of these boards that this story was developed: The Board set aside for the "Summer 2003 Contest".
If you've been following gamefaqs.com for the past two summers, you would have noticed a giant popularity contest of 64 of the most famous video game characters. What I, and later in the story, more than 10 others, did, was to take that tournament, and its results, and develop a giant piece of fanfiction based on it.
The premise of this story is that 64 characters from all over the multiverse of video game characters have traveled to one, unknown dimension to have a giant tournament... The winner is considered the greatest fighter in all of creation. But in the meantime... All the characters must interact. There will be feuds, there will be humor, there will be comradery, and there might even be a little romance. This story isn't just a one- dimensional list of fights... It's one of the most intensive crossover dramas that you'll see.
We started out small, but I'd estimate that by the end... This story will total 200,000 words or more. I'm Sir Bormun... The originator of the project. The first few fics are my writing. Later on in the story, other fics will be written by GameFAQs users BigCow, Furious J, StopPokingMe, Dan Bonez, Seadragon76, Funkadelict, Aeon Azuran, Solid Chihuahua, Jjukil, and several others.
What was originally supposed to be a thirty minute a day diversion for me over the summer ballooned... But now it has turned into much, much, more.
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Day 1
64 chairs were set out on the lawn.
Soon, the battles would begin. Every day, one victor would live to fight another day, while one loser would be sent back to his or her respective dimension. Every day, the amount of chairs would decrease...
Until there was only one.
Many aspired to be that last one standing. Some had tried before, like Sephiroth, who was clad in his usual black coat. The son of Jenova exchanged glares with his blonde-haired look-alike, Cloud. The Mako glow in their eyes had that power in them. You didn't piss off the two of them, or their swords would do the talking, and those swords had some talking to do... There were foes that the two SOLDIERs had battled over the course of last year's tournament that would have to look out for those blades in the coming months... Perhaps even each other.
There were new people here too; Kefka, the insane clown, and Magus, the blue-haired enigma, among many, many others. Magus just sat there, with his scythe at his side, waiting for the time to come. He had seen how well his... associate Crono had done last year, and if a weakling idiot could go that far, Magus figured that he would have no problems against the competition. He had conquered practically everything in his own time... He knew that he could do the same in this tournament.
Kefka was preparing in a very different way, as he always did. Kefka could taunt you and annoy you to no end, and he knew it well. Some of the less will-powered people in this tournament, like Tidus and Aeris, were already angry at Kefka's eccentric ways, even from just seeing him cavorting around the lawn in his madness and laughter. All the better for the clown to work with later on.
Talking was at a minimum here. Sure, Max Payne talked business with Sam Fisher, both trying to refine their skills as a gunman, Kirby and Pikachu, in their peculiar language of squeaks, also communicated, but in their case, they remembered last year. Both of the "cute" characters had been bounced out of last year's tournament early, and both seemed primed to do far better this time around. Auron sat with his young protégé, Tidus, and lectured the blonde-haired kid. Auron had been through things like this before, and had excelled at them. He was all to eager to point out Tidus's failures from last year, and how they could be fixed. And Squall, same as always, tuned everyone else out. Some were surprised that Squall was back for another try... He'd never seemed into the tourney last year, and he'd lost very early. But he was back, one way or another.
And Crono just said nothing. He just didn't. It wasn't in his nature.
Suddenly, a hush came upon the assembled video game stars. Someone important had arrived.
Flanked on both sides by Zelda, his girlfriend, and Ganondorf, his mortal enemy, Link of Hyrule strode into the lawn, and sat down, saying nothing, on the regal chair marked "Champion's Chair" that laid in front of all the others. His advisors, Kaepora Gaebora and Tingle, quickly rushed over. Being the champion... Link had been allowed two special guests. It was one of the perks of being the returning winner.
Link would find out the negatives of that position soon enough.
"Hee hee!! The stupid owl got lost, but thanks to Tingle's maps, everything's okay," the green man aspiring to be a fairy said. He regretted it fairly quickly, as the huge owl turned to him angrily.
"Lost??? I am never lost, you insolent map salesman. I was merely exploring the land. This isn't Hyrule, you know, and we won't know the lay of the land against any possible ambushes. There are quite a few people here who don't want to see you survive to your match with AiAi..." Tingle chortled, interrupting Kaepora. The owl glowered again at the wannabe fairy, but Tingle had too much to say to pay attention.
"AiAi? Hee hee hee! I could beat that monkey, and I'm a fairy! He won't even come close to beating you, sir, he's totally incompetent!"
AiAi, over in the corner, was not doing too much to persuade anyone differently. He repeatedly rolled his monkey ball straight into the wall, as the amused Italian brothers, Mario and Luigi, looked on. People standing nearby were already tired of hearing the phrase "Mamma-Mia!!".
And Link was tired of watching the hapless monkey. He made a rare comment.
"Not a problem."
Two of the more villainous characters in this contest agreed with Link. Sephiroth and Ganondorf nodded, annoyed.
"Link will get into the second round, too easy," said Ganondorf, scourge of Hyrule.
Sephiroth simply smiled.
"It's never easy for too long. He'll be facing someone stronger soon enough..."
"Let's hope he doesn't get this far... But perhaps he might be facing... Me. HAHAHAHA!!!!"
CATS watched this from a corner.
"Soon... Soon all them laughter shall belong to CATS. CATS!!"
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If you liked that... It gets much better later. If you didn't... Same thing.
I know that the premise of this story is likely very confusing. If you have any questions for me about anything you don't understand... just email me at sirbormun@aol.com.
Chapters will be springing up more than once a day... All this stuff is already written, so... Enjoy.
To find a full listing of the 64 characters in the tournament, check my profile.
Hello, readers... You're in for a helluva long intro. There's a lot of backstory behind this already partly written story, but I'll try to be as brief as possible.
Some of you may know of a video game website named gamefaqs.com. It's known primarily for the many walkthroughs it contains about all kinds of games... But it also has a large message board system. It was on one of these boards that this story was developed: The Board set aside for the "Summer 2003 Contest".
If you've been following gamefaqs.com for the past two summers, you would have noticed a giant popularity contest of 64 of the most famous video game characters. What I, and later in the story, more than 10 others, did, was to take that tournament, and its results, and develop a giant piece of fanfiction based on it.
The premise of this story is that 64 characters from all over the multiverse of video game characters have traveled to one, unknown dimension to have a giant tournament... The winner is considered the greatest fighter in all of creation. But in the meantime... All the characters must interact. There will be feuds, there will be humor, there will be comradery, and there might even be a little romance. This story isn't just a one- dimensional list of fights... It's one of the most intensive crossover dramas that you'll see.
We started out small, but I'd estimate that by the end... This story will total 200,000 words or more. I'm Sir Bormun... The originator of the project. The first few fics are my writing. Later on in the story, other fics will be written by GameFAQs users BigCow, Furious J, StopPokingMe, Dan Bonez, Seadragon76, Funkadelict, Aeon Azuran, Solid Chihuahua, Jjukil, and several others.
What was originally supposed to be a thirty minute a day diversion for me over the summer ballooned... But now it has turned into much, much, more.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------
Day 1
64 chairs were set out on the lawn.
Soon, the battles would begin. Every day, one victor would live to fight another day, while one loser would be sent back to his or her respective dimension. Every day, the amount of chairs would decrease...
Until there was only one.
Many aspired to be that last one standing. Some had tried before, like Sephiroth, who was clad in his usual black coat. The son of Jenova exchanged glares with his blonde-haired look-alike, Cloud. The Mako glow in their eyes had that power in them. You didn't piss off the two of them, or their swords would do the talking, and those swords had some talking to do... There were foes that the two SOLDIERs had battled over the course of last year's tournament that would have to look out for those blades in the coming months... Perhaps even each other.
There were new people here too; Kefka, the insane clown, and Magus, the blue-haired enigma, among many, many others. Magus just sat there, with his scythe at his side, waiting for the time to come. He had seen how well his... associate Crono had done last year, and if a weakling idiot could go that far, Magus figured that he would have no problems against the competition. He had conquered practically everything in his own time... He knew that he could do the same in this tournament.
Kefka was preparing in a very different way, as he always did. Kefka could taunt you and annoy you to no end, and he knew it well. Some of the less will-powered people in this tournament, like Tidus and Aeris, were already angry at Kefka's eccentric ways, even from just seeing him cavorting around the lawn in his madness and laughter. All the better for the clown to work with later on.
Talking was at a minimum here. Sure, Max Payne talked business with Sam Fisher, both trying to refine their skills as a gunman, Kirby and Pikachu, in their peculiar language of squeaks, also communicated, but in their case, they remembered last year. Both of the "cute" characters had been bounced out of last year's tournament early, and both seemed primed to do far better this time around. Auron sat with his young protégé, Tidus, and lectured the blonde-haired kid. Auron had been through things like this before, and had excelled at them. He was all to eager to point out Tidus's failures from last year, and how they could be fixed. And Squall, same as always, tuned everyone else out. Some were surprised that Squall was back for another try... He'd never seemed into the tourney last year, and he'd lost very early. But he was back, one way or another.
And Crono just said nothing. He just didn't. It wasn't in his nature.
Suddenly, a hush came upon the assembled video game stars. Someone important had arrived.
Flanked on both sides by Zelda, his girlfriend, and Ganondorf, his mortal enemy, Link of Hyrule strode into the lawn, and sat down, saying nothing, on the regal chair marked "Champion's Chair" that laid in front of all the others. His advisors, Kaepora Gaebora and Tingle, quickly rushed over. Being the champion... Link had been allowed two special guests. It was one of the perks of being the returning winner.
Link would find out the negatives of that position soon enough.
"Hee hee!! The stupid owl got lost, but thanks to Tingle's maps, everything's okay," the green man aspiring to be a fairy said. He regretted it fairly quickly, as the huge owl turned to him angrily.
"Lost??? I am never lost, you insolent map salesman. I was merely exploring the land. This isn't Hyrule, you know, and we won't know the lay of the land against any possible ambushes. There are quite a few people here who don't want to see you survive to your match with AiAi..." Tingle chortled, interrupting Kaepora. The owl glowered again at the wannabe fairy, but Tingle had too much to say to pay attention.
"AiAi? Hee hee hee! I could beat that monkey, and I'm a fairy! He won't even come close to beating you, sir, he's totally incompetent!"
AiAi, over in the corner, was not doing too much to persuade anyone differently. He repeatedly rolled his monkey ball straight into the wall, as the amused Italian brothers, Mario and Luigi, looked on. People standing nearby were already tired of hearing the phrase "Mamma-Mia!!".
And Link was tired of watching the hapless monkey. He made a rare comment.
"Not a problem."
Two of the more villainous characters in this contest agreed with Link. Sephiroth and Ganondorf nodded, annoyed.
"Link will get into the second round, too easy," said Ganondorf, scourge of Hyrule.
Sephiroth simply smiled.
"It's never easy for too long. He'll be facing someone stronger soon enough..."
"Let's hope he doesn't get this far... But perhaps he might be facing... Me. HAHAHAHA!!!!"
CATS watched this from a corner.
"Soon... Soon all them laughter shall belong to CATS. CATS!!"
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------
If you liked that... It gets much better later. If you didn't... Same thing.
I know that the premise of this story is likely very confusing. If you have any questions for me about anything you don't understand... just email me at sirbormun@aol.com.
Chapters will be springing up more than once a day... All this stuff is already written, so... Enjoy.
To find a full listing of the 64 characters in the tournament, check my profile.