Grrl Power #1480 – Separation velocity
It says a lot about the UCBA that they have a rule specifically addressing what portion of your body has to still exist in order for you to be considered a valid competitor. The 50% rule is strictly about being in bounds though. Some competitors can destroy or abandon their bodies entirely and possess other competitors. For instance, an aetholith (like Lapha) could start the fight piloting a giant mecha, then leap to a kaiju when its nucleon manifold interferometer extractor is destroyed. (That’s a science thing that’s in space mecha. You don’t have to look it up.) Or if you can turn into a swarm of insects or replicators or something, then your “original body” doesn’t have to be present at the end of the match.
Basically on the tournament registration form, you have to specify what qualifies as “you.” If you are the pilot of a mech, then you have to survive the round. And be in bounds. And not be possessed by another competitor. It doesn’t count if the cockpit gets destroyed and the mech’s AI takes over and wins the fight. Unless the AI is registered as the actual competitor.
The point of the UCBA is that it’s kind of supposed to be a no holds bar battle, but when you get down to the nitty gritty, there are actually quite a few specific case rules.
Oh, look who it is in the vote incentive. And a not-quite-yet-but-it’s-coming NSFW version over at Patreon.
Vote incentive and Patreon updated with some shading. Not finished yet, but progress.
I think she would get in trouble for doing this. She’d mess up the… floor of the waterfall? Is that what it’s called? The receiving pool? No, probably not that. Anyway, she’d churn things up and cause a ton of weird erosion.
Since you might be wondering, Niagara Falls is about 165 feet high, so Babezilla obviously doesn’t have to be full sized. I’d say she’s about 175-180 feet tall here?
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The glinting sword makes me think chicken is going to jump out of the mountain and eat it
So does Zerathrax have a team that goes to retrieve his body(ies) or does he inch back to himself on both sides?
The hand eye shading is somewhat performative in the last frame, as the shadow barely meets one eye.
Do you take the average of the 2 halves’ locations???
In which case having one out of bounds on one side and one out on the other would average to smack dab in the center of the arena…
At least 50% of you is in bounds, or at least 50.1% of you is inbounds? I can see good arguments for the latter…
Anybody else hearing the Super Smash Brothers “Player X, defeated” voice?
That thing went off the sides of the “screen”, shouldn’t bounce off it right in front of us…
((Yes, I know this is an “old” page, but I still wanted to post this comment. I liked it… :P ))
“supposed to be a no holds barred battle”
Not allowed to blow up the planet with a Planet Crasher/Blaster/Exploder
Not allowed to Super Nova the local sun(s) (AKA Adam Warren’s Dirty Pair)
Not allowed to leave the battlefield, but you can teleport/warp/gate/push others out (which at this level does not likely disable them) for a win.