rosesred & thinbuddha BATTLE TO THE DEATH!

[Grigori]

Round 7 of the BATTLE TO THE DEATH WITH TAROT!

Want to sign up to play, or read the rules? Then go here (http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=50825).

As you can see there is a poll in which you can vote for who you think has won the battle. thinbuddha and rosesred must both post 1 attack and 1 defence, so please do not vote untill the battle is over and the dust has cleared (i.e. all 4 posts)

The poll is open for 3 days, so there is lots of time.

May the best contestant win, and may the first person online post the first attack! :)

[thinbuddha]

Ahhh, rosered- you are traveling through the lush jungle. Everywhere you look, you see nothing but the beauty of nature. Hummingbirds of unimaginable color and grace feed from the sweetest smelling flowers that you have ever come across. Overhead, azure skies intermingle with billowing clouds- performing a dance with you as the only audience. Young deer bound past, chasing bunnies and playing with the fish in the streams.

You aren't thirsty, but the waters look so inviting that you take a taste, and find that they must be infused with the sweetest of nectars. You just can't help yourself- you need to take yet another taste.

From afar, the other animals in the forest- Bambi, Thumper and the gang watch in alarm as you continue to drink the waters. Their ears perk up in alarm.

You try to stop, but you just can't. You have felt this feeling beofre (Thanksgiving may have been the last time). You have filled yourself beyond satisfaction. You have experienced the horror that is the 10 of cups from the Book of Thoth: Satiety!!!

[rosesred]

Compelled by a vicious attack by Thinbuddha, our young heroine Rosesred is forced to drink more and more of the water of a perfect jungle pool. She, who has slayed the dwarf and saved the prince now seems to meet her Doom in this Duel of Divination.

Thinbuddha sits on the other side on the pool, believing victory is already his. He decides to gloat some more and walks over to Rosesred, who is still kneeling at the waterside, drinking the water. Thinbuddha grabs a hand of Rosesreds hair and turns the young woman’s head. But what’s this? Instead of the miserable, sickly expression he had expected, he has to face Rosesreds’ steady, even gaze. Her expression does not speak of defeat, it holds something perilously close to the expression a cat has when he just caught you doing something you’re not supposed to do…

Thinbuddha stumbles back a couple of steps, thoroughly shaken. Somehow the vision of the Raider-Waite four of pentacles is stuck in his head. He does not yet know what he just faced, he only knows he does not want to see it again. He still feels very agitated, without exactly knowing what’s wrong. All of a sudden, it hits him; This jungle is his, and his alone! This parvenu, this Rosesred is drinking HIS water. How dare she?

Thinbuddha wants to preserve all that is his. He cannot allow anybody else to use his jungle, his pool, so he grabs Rosesred and drags her away from the pool, preventing her from drinking more.

Thus Thinbuddha saves his opponent from his own attack. Rosesred is now sitting on the cool, firm earth that supports her and receives all excess water (he, there's no toilets in a jungle, and when you gotta go, you gotta go ;) ) while Thinbuddha sits in front of the lake, chasing birds and deer away, so that they will not take his precious water….

[rosesred]

While Rosesred sits on the green grass, amidst the beautiful jungle flowers, she realizes that this beautiful vegetation will help her win this battle. She whispers to the plants, and they begin to grow….

Thin roots, thick roots, all are slithering towards the jungle pool that is still jealously guarded by Thinbuddha. ‘Go away!’ he shouts. ‘This is MY pool, you plants can’t drink of it!’ But the roots don’t listen, and still grow towards the water. Thinbuddha slaps them away from the pool. He hacks at them, pushes them, to prevent the plants reaching the water. He succeeds in securing one part of the pond, only to see that the roots at the other side have almost reached the water. ‘NO!’, He cries, and runs around the pool to chase those away. While he is busy there, the plants at every other part of the pool get a chance to get to the pool again. Even the patch he thought he had beaten grows again towards the pool, at twice the rate it did before. Thus Thinbuddha keeps running around the pool, growing tired and wary, fighting the roots without ever getting the upper hand. He’s locked in eternal combat, doomed to chase the roots around the water he thinks is his until he dies of exhaustion. He has created his own prison, by choosing to fight for something that was never meant to be fought over. He has been caught in the Raider-Waite five of wands .

[thinbuddha]

Thinbuddha jealously protects his precious waters- bounding after the innocent animals- He is so obsessed with protecting his waters that he begins to transform right before Rosered’s eyes. At first, Rosered thinks that the transformation is a result of her ultimate victory- a transformation brought on by defeat. But what manner of beast is this anyway? Rosered feels a familiar stirring within herself as she watches the transformation progress. Yet familiar as this stirring is, she cannot yet identify what it is.

Thinbuddha is becoming faster- he has started actually catching the deer and other animals in the forest. He is beginning to travel using all four limbs, and his shape is becoming more and more feline. And he bounds through the jungle cage of the 5 of wands as if it isn’t even there. His muscles- once atrophied- are starting to bulge and ripple, and Rosered’s heart skips a beat- not from fear, but from a much more dangerous emotion.

Thinbuddha has grown into a many headed feline beast, and his transformation is now complete. Rosered can no longer control her emotions. She knows that it is the wrong thing to do- dangerous, even suicidal, but she cannot stop herself- she tears her clothing to shreds and hops atop Thinbuddha’s back. As a precaution, she remembers to use her red belt as a bridle, to control the many heads of the great beast that once was Thinbuddha. With the many heads of the beast under control, she begins to ride this beast with wild abandon- and in her false sense of safety, she leans back in ecstasy, baring her unprotected neck to the venomous serpent that is Thinbuddha’s tail.

And she knows, as her last experience on this green earth, the deadly kiss of Lust, from the Crowley Thoth Tarot

[rosesred]

hi Thinbuddha!

Awesome Fight!! I really loved doing this.

Sorry about the gender change thing, thought I read a previous post that pegged you as a woman. I'll edit it right away!

[thinbuddha]

Sorry about the gender change thing..........

Ain't no thing- It's hard to tell!

[DarkElectric]

Oh,I love the word "parvenu" !

Congratulations!

[memries]

I think ThinBudda turned the "water table" on rosesred. Sorry rosesred it was a good fight. The moral of the story is never lean back you might get stung !

[Sophie-David]

In the first round, both Rosesred and Thinbuddha used two quite weak cards most ingeniously, equalling each other in a well played draw.

In the second, Rosesred's obsessive prison and Thinbuddha's lust were both well crafted. But indeed lust conquers those with even the most determined walls, and Thinbuddha edged out Rosesred by the merest tail.

[wildchilde]

wow, this was an awesome match! rosered was excellent with the 4 and 5! Very Strong player!!! I am really on the fence with this one because of thinbuddha's defense though. Not only do I love the Thoth...I loved what tb did with the cards drawn! That ending is priceless, thinbuddha! Someone convince me who should get my vote!

[Kahlie]

Hmmm...
Very fluid fight. But Lust, aaah... we all know we lose against it! So Thinbuddha will get my vote.

Kahlie

[rosesred]

Can't decide which would be better: winning or dying in hot, sweaty passion? Actually, losing myself in Lust might be a very, very good way to go :D

[Black dragon]

Oh both so good, but which is better when i started reading thinbuddha's attack with the 10 of cups, it would take some beating to win past that great attack with a weak card. but Rosesred superb comeback, but i think the image of a person running frantically around a pool, scaring and fighting animals and plants away, is what pips the lead, well done both , great fight.

Black Dragon

[lukedra]

I read these and it was the first time i couldn't choose straight away. Congratz goes to you both i feel this one is going to be close.

[thinbuddha]

this one ends soon, and I have to say that it is close. I'm not sure who deserves to win. I had a strong ending, but it's hard to blow it with such a strong card... And frankly, rosered shreded me in the first round.

It's your call-

Vote early, vote often!

-tb

[Magi]

I had to go with thinbuddha, for the counter move.

[rosesred]

Awwwwww, :(

"Congratulations, Thinbuddha", Rosesred whispers with her last ounce of strenght as she slides from his back to the green earth. "It was a wonderful fight, you're a very strong opponent. Your creative writing and brilliant comback of turning obsessive lust into overruling passion.....just.......were.....too much................for me."

Rosesred's lifeless body hits the ground, a small smile full of real satisfaction still lingering on her lips.

Perhaps Lust really is not a bad way to go

[thinbuddha]

Perhaps Lust really is not a bad way to go

Lust is the only way to go. Great fun- thanks Rosered!