Nesh Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 The phone in the TARDIS rang and The Doctor ran to get it. He answered quickly hoping for his next great adventure that would take his mind off his most recent confrontation with Davros. He’d lost so much that day, Rose was now stuck in Pete’s world, though admittedly she’d be happy with the meta-crisis version of him, Donna could even remember him without burning up. He’d lost his love and his best friend in one day… Of course there was still Martha, and Mickey the idiot, and Sarah Jane, and Captain Jack, he could still see them if he was lucky. “Hello?†he asked as he answered the phone.“"Doctor,†it was Martha’s voice on the other end of the line. The Doctor wasn’t sure how to feel about this. Maybe the universe had heard his thought, but then the universe never gave the Doctor anything easily, if at all and seeing Martha would just remind him of that day. Of course Martha was still his friend and a former companion, “UNIT’s run into some trouble in London. We’d like your help in figuring out what’s doing this and solving the problem. We’ve lost some good people.†“I’ll be right there,†With that the Time Lord hung up the phone and keyed the appropriate coordinates into the TARDIS’ computer. Within a few seconds time the TARDIS had landed with its signature grinding whir. He strode out to find Martha waiting for him. After a brief embrace The Doctor got down to business, “So what’s the situation?†“Follow me,†Martha said leading The Doctor to a large tent structure with corpses lined up n beds inside, “Two days ago our men started dropping like flies, now idea what attacked them or why. Ten in all, all killed in very brutal ways.†She wasn’t kidding. Some had been impaled; others had had their spines ripped out. The Doctor put on his brainy specs studied the bodies of the UNIT soldiers intently. The last one in the row caught his attention. “That beheading is too clean, no blade, no matter how well made could do this… It’s almost as if it were hit by a plasma bolt,†The Doctor pulled out his blue tipped sonic screwdriver and waved it over the corpse, “Yep plasma bolt. All these bodies were decapitated after death or were killed by decapitation, as if the killer were taking a trophy, so I’d say we’re dealing with a Yautja.†“Yautja?†his former companion asked. “The Yautja are a race of intergalactic hunters,†the Time Lord explained, “An absolutely fascinating race, if a bit barbaric at times, the only race in the galaxy to invent interstellar travel but not underarm deodorant. They hunt dangerous creatures from across the universe for sport and glory. Young ones often come to Earth seeking a challenge. A few of them have tried to hunt me in the past. As you can imagine it didn’t turn out too well for them, but I was lucky every time. Yautja, even young ones, are adept hunters.†“Do you think you can deal with this one then?†Martha asked. “Most likely,†the Doctor said, “Judging by the fact that this Yautja likes to take trophies I’d say he’s from the main branch of the species and not a Black Super Predator; we’re likely looking at one of Youngblood or Blooded rank, going by armament. Normal Yautja abide by a strict code of honor. Never attacking unarmed foes, pregnant women or children, only killing the weakest members of a species when they need to eat. I find the concept of murder for sport a revolting concept of course but the main Yautja branch is a warrior culture of honorable beings. Unlike their Black Super Predator cousins who murder for murder’s sake. Now then let’ see if I can’t rid you of your Yautja problem, just stay out of it.†A single cloaked Yautja watched a strange box materialize as out nowhere. Then a man stepped out of the box. The hunter immediately scanned the newcomer. Several anomalies were immediately appearent. The man’s body temperature was lower than a human’s by nearly forty degrees; he had two extra ribs when compared to a Human, a far more complicated respiratory system and much more. The thing that caught the hunter’s attention most was the being’s two hearts. He had heard of beings with two hearts in the ancient Yautja legends, beings who could transverse time. The Time Lords, they were called. This man couldn’t be one of those fabled Time Lords though; they were all supposed to be dead. Still he looked for anything resembling the being’s hip in his wrist computer. Sure enough it came up as a Time Lord ship, one belong to a very specific Time Lord: The Doctor. The Doctor held a very special place in Yautja lore indeed. The Peaceful Warrior, or Wily Runner, he was called. He had escaped from skilled hunters numerous times throughout the ages. Never killing a Yautja unless he absolutely had to and never having been caught once. This particular hunter had been making trophies of Human soldiers in the area, hoping to find one that would pose a worthy challenge. Instead it seemed he’d found a much greater prize in the Doctor. Humans weren’t providing much sport for the Blooded warrior anyway, so he decided to follow the Time Lord. After about a day of tracking the Doctor the Time Lord stopped just outside a forest. The Doctor looked around for a minute before speaking. “I know you’ve been following me, there’s no point in hiding Yautja,†The Doctor said, surprisingly in fluent Yautja. The hunter didn’t knowing but this was the TARDIS’ translation matrix at work allowing them to communicate. The Time Lord pulled something out of his pocket and the cool night air filled with a soft buzzing noise. The Yautja’s cloak failed, exposing him to the Doctor, “Hello, I’m the Doctor.†The Time Lord’s voice was eerily cheerful. “I know who you are Doctor. What did you do to my cloak?†the Yautja let his curiosity get the better of him for the moment. “Oh, that,†he asked with a grin, “That was just my sonic screwdriver. Absolutely brilliant piece of technology. Completely harmless can’t hurt a fly with it, well I suppose you could hurt a fly if you hit it with the metal part but other than that it’s completely non-lethal; that’s why I like it. It does lots of wonderful thins though. By the way, since I’m not armed, is there any chance you could call off this hunt?†“You are The Doctor, you are always worthy prey.†The Yautja punctuated his statement with a roar of challenge. “I was afraid you were going to say that,†The Doctor said with a sigh. He then held his nose in an almost comical fashion, “I forget your people haven’t invented the breath mint yet either. Since we’re going to do this could you at least give me a head start, the hunt wouldn’t be any fun otherwise. There’s no honor in just shooting me with your plasma caster right here.†The Yautja nodded.“Five minutes.†H growled. The Doctor took off running into the forest. The soft buzzing of the sonic screwdriver filled the air once more and the Yautja’s plasma caster began to belch up smoke. The hunter cursed but his excitement grew. The Doctor would be challenging prey indeed. *This a Blooded rank Yautja, armed with a glaive, wrist blades, smart disc, net gun, and combi-staff. His plasma caster and cloaking device are nonfunctional. Weapons and armor are made of Medium grade Dlex where applicable. *The Doctor is only armed with his sonic screwdriver and has a five minute head start. *Arena: Forest, night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callisto Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Learn More AboutThe Tenth DoctorRead more about The Tenth Doctor at WikipediaOfficial Site: BBC Links: Wikipedia Tardis Wikia ShannonSullivan.com PredatorRead more about Predator at WikipediaOfficial Site: Twentieth Century Fox Links: Wikipedia Planet AVP Fox Movies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nesh Posted September 18, 2012 Author Share Posted September 18, 2012 I'd thought about making this one for a lng time and figured it would be a good one to use to get back into match wtiting. Feel free to pick it apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVP vs The Terminator Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Nice set-up. A from me. As for the match, I'll give it to the Doctor. The Sonic Screwdriver has been shown to overload energy-based weaponry in the past, and there are a lot of things the Doctor can do in five minutes to outsmart the Yautja. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comic_book_fan Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 yeah the doctor has this i would love to see this it would be funny as hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nesh Posted September 18, 2012 Author Share Posted September 18, 2012 Nice set-up. A from me. As for the match, I'll give it to the Doctor. The Sonic Screwdriver has been shown to overload energy-based weaponry in the past, and there are a lot of things the Doctor can do in five minutes to outsmart the Yautja. yeah the doctor has this i would love to see this it would be funny as hell.Thank you for the comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RakaiThwei Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Well let me say that this is a well written and perhaps well thought out match up. In a straight up fight, I'm pretty sure that any Yautja would be able to beat the Doctor-- killing him would be an impossiblity considering that it would only allow him to regenerate in a different form and appearance altogether. Physically speaking, the Doctor is outmatch and your average run of the mill Blooded ranked Yautja would perhaps be 3 - 5 tons in strength range, so really-- in a straight up fight, the Doctor would easily get beaten. However this is not a straight up fight, but rather a game of cat and mouse. Not so much the most dangerous game, but rather it's a chase. The Predator in question has allowed the Doctor a five minute head start, an honorable thing to do but at the same time what other people haven't so much as brought up that the Yautja are well trained trackers. It's only fitting because they are a race of Hunters. They have a keen sense of smell, and they have pretty sharp hearing. So if the Yautja uses his senses, he would be able to catch up with the Doctor and figure out where he is. However since this is a jungle-- well, people are going to assume that this is going to play out like the first Predator film. So let me make some counters to soem major arguements here. For one-- the Mud Trick. It doesn't really work. Thermal body heat actually penetrates through mud after thirty seconds, so that's not a lot of time to remain invisible from a Yautja's thermal infrared visuals. So really, the fact that Dutch was able to hide using the mud was nothing short of Plot-Armor. Mythbusters have proven that the Mud Trick doesn't work and even referenced Predator for it. And having that said, even if the mud trick doesn't work and it shouldn't-- the Yautja bio-mask has an array of visual settings that would allow it to see the prey in question-- even if covered in mud. The Doctor is pretty smart. I'll give him that, but he doesn't like to use violence. Having said that, he could build some traps but I am not so sure if he has any formal training in survivalism and how to construct traps with what the environment gives him. The first Predator showed that a Yautja was able to see through trip wires and numerous other traps that Dutch and his team were able to build, and easily evaded these traps. Now I am not so sure if the Doctor has any form of survival training, but he is pretty crafty. I can see him building some simple traps, such as ditches and maybe of course punji pits (the latter is really too violent, even for the Doctor's liking as he doesn't like violence). Really, the best bet for the Doctor would to be evasive and not confront the Yautja head on in a straight up fight. He's going to be chased, relentlessly and tracked down. And even if his cloaking device and shoulder plasma caster are malfunctioning, there are other ways to hide in plain sight-- for one, using the shade to conceal his presence and even using the trees with excess foliage to get a hight and visual advantage-- as well as range over the Doctor. The Yautja still has some pretty neat long range weapons-- namely the Smart Disc in particular. I will refrain from voting with this one here because it's not so much a fight. Still, it's well written. -Rakai'Thwei Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nesh Posted September 19, 2012 Author Share Posted September 19, 2012 Thnk you for the imput Rakai. I have to wonder if the Yautja might have some trouble tracking the Doctor with this noral infared sight. His body temp is 60F and at night, thaat could help the Doctor. here. Now granted the bio-mask ha other vision settings, it depends on how quickly the Predator adapts to this, now this hunter is rather experiencd so he'll probably adapt quickly, of couse there's always the possibilty of sonic screwdriver shenagans. The Doctor has also shown the ability to alter how he smalls to thers, as seen in Family of Blood when he tricked the title characters into belving he's still human. The Predator are adept trackers but the Doctor can make it difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RakaiThwei Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Thnk you for the imput Rakai. I have to wonder if the Yautja might have some trouble tracking the Doctor with this noral infared sight. His body temp is 60F and at night, thaat could help the Doctor. That might be a possibility, however it should be noted that Yautja really don't need a lot of light to see. Thermal Infrared allows them to see in pitch black darkness very well. However, it should be noted that the average human body heat temperature is 98.6 degrees in farenheit. The Doctor is about sixty degrees farenheit you say? Well, he would be noticeably colder than a human being but not to the point of being fridgid cold or invisible to the Yautja in question. He would be noticeable, but considerably lower in temperature than a human being. The Doctor has also shown the ability to alter how he smalls to thers, as seen in Family of Blood when he tricked the title characters into belving he's still human. That's something interesting to know. However, the Yautja rely on more than just their sense of smell. They have pretty keen hearing too. As far as I know, the Doctor really isn't a trained fighter and he probably wasn't trained on how to move stealthly. I'm pretty sure the Yautja would be able to hear him quite well enough and track with his other senses and tracking methods. But the Doctor's got a chance here. His objective is to evade the Predator and escape with his life here. But according to your set up, the Yautja has heard of stories about the Doctor, and probably knows what to expect from what the stories have been told to him. -Rakai'Thwei Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nesh Posted September 19, 2012 Author Share Posted September 19, 2012 That might be a possibility, however it should be noted that Yautja really don't need a lot of light to see. Thermal Infrared allows them to see in pitch black darkness very well. However, it should be noted that the average human body heat temperature is 98.6 degrees in farenheit. The Doctor is about sixty degrees farenheit you say? Well, he would be noticeably colder than a human being but not to the point of being fridgid cold or invisible to the Yautja in question. He would be noticeable, but considerably lower in temperature than a human being. That's something interesting to know. However, the Yautja rely on more than just their sense of smell. They have pretty keen hearing too. As far as I know, the Doctor really isn't a trained fighter and he probably wasn't trained on how to move stealthly. I'm pretty sure the Yautja would be able to hear him quite well enough and track with his other senses and tracking methods. But the Doctor's got a chance here. His objective is to evade the Predator and escape with his life here. But according to your set up, the Yautja has heard of stories about the Doctor, and probably knows what to expect from what the stories have been told to him. -Rakai'ThweiConversely The Doctor, according to my set-up, has encountered and survived encounterrs with Yautja before. So no onw really has an edge in knpwlddge here. That said, I'm glad you enjoyed the match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RakaiThwei Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Conversely The Doctor, according to my set-up, has encountered and survived encounterrs with Yautja before. So no onw really has an edge in knpwlddge here. That said, I'm glad you enjoyed the match. So what you're saying is that both have 50-50 chance here of either outcome. That's fair. -Rakai'Thwei Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nesh Posted September 19, 2012 Author Share Posted September 19, 2012 So what you're saying is that both have 50-50 chance here of either outcome. That's fair. -Rakai'ThweiWell that's how I tried to make it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bigballerju Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Excellent setup and indeed this one is hard to vote on because it could go either. Remember on the Doctor's side he seems to know all about the Yautja and their race. He wouldn't engage it without some sort of plan he has probably already formed before even talking to the Yautja. The Doctor too already knows which kind of Yautja he is dealing with before the hunt even began when he was looking at the corpse. All of this shows the good Doctor may already have started making a plan from the moment he found out what Yautja was responsible for the kills when looking at the dead bodies up until when the hunt began. Now the Doctor has the sonic screwdriver so he may be able to keep track of the Yautja being its a alien while its chasing him. The Yautja also won't be able to use the cloaking device once it comes near him and also it can heal his wounds I believe. It has many other abilities is a great device that will help him indeed here. Last the Yautja only has heard of the Time Lord legends and stories from what I read. I don't think it knows much about the Doctor where as the Doctor seems to already know everything about the Yautja race. I think I am leaning toward the Doctor here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Supes Rulez Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 I'd have to go with the Doctor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSkillz Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Very good and intriguing set-up, Nesh. I don't really know enough about the Tenth Doctor to vote here, but it looks like this will be a very interesting adventure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G4hardcore Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Good set up! I would've hated to miss this match, at least before voting closes. I can't really see a clear advantage either way though. Actually, from the looks of it, The Doctor already has something of an advantage. He's got a functional disabling device, and Predator is armed with devices that are begging to be disabled. If the Yautja is smart, he'll remove all his tech and rely on pure skill and senses to track and kill the good Doctor. Both seem like equally viable options at the moment. I'll grade, but I can't vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callisto Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Match Final ResultsUSER RATINGS A A A A C SCORE The Tenth Doctor: 23Predator: 15FPA: 3.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G4hardcore Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 In this instance, I'd love to know where the "C" came from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indolent Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Some mofo be jelly of Nesh's Mad Swag. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G4hardcore Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 What worries me is that it's some mofo with a judge title. We're supposed to be responsible with the power, ala He-Man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bigballerju Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 There are some people who are Judges that are more strict on what is a good setup. That's probably what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G4hardcore Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 There are some people who are Judges that are more strict on what is a good setup. That's probably what it is.Bullshit. Being more strict is pointless if there's no constructive criticism behind it. Imagine getting failing grades from a teacher who refuses to tell you what you're doing wrong. I highly doubt that's what's going on, unless you can tell me how this set up is C material. Not accusing, just stating. This was one of Nesh's better set ups too, with major cut backs on the flaws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamagingRob Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 I really don't rate much, anymore. I never voted much, to begin with. So, it really has become a drag, to have to log in and out to offset my vote, so I can rate a match. So, I just plain don't do it. Maybe there should be a way for Mods to see who rates what? At least, that way, someone would know, and could find out if it's the same person just down-rating matches for kicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nesh Posted September 23, 2012 Author Share Posted September 23, 2012 Meh, I'm not worried about the grade. I showed myself I can still do this and I'm going to keep doing it. If someone wants to grade me with a C when eveyone else gives meAs and not say why, fine whatever. I can't stop them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G4hardcore Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Meh, I'm not worried about the grade. I showed myself I can still do this and I'm going to keep doing it. If someone wants to grade me with a C when eveyone else gives meAs and not say why, fine whatever. I can't stop them.Don't settle when change is an option. We all know how well you write, so where is the justice in accepting bad grades when you don't necessarily have to? Anyway, regardless of individual opinions, something should be done. You don't have to worry, but it would actually help if you did. It would show how dire the situation is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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