I loved the quick pace of the start but it's annoying when we get out of sync on our schedules and the game takes 24 hours to update. ^^

Yeah, but even with these delays this contest is still going faster than the first one. Although that is mostly due to the fact that we're not waiting for art at the end of every round.

Not complaining though, as I said a while back, take your time Kricket. ;)

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Fail. :(

Doesn't exactly help when the game master is having forum problems, either. I can sympathize, Kricket.

From Kricket:

Ok, lets start Day 9.
Vixen in the lead at 40'5"
Indigo 38'9"
Dartnet 35'1"
Melkorios 28'10"
Lorekeep 25'10"

game map at: http://dement3d.com/GameMap_Day9.gif

Please post replies in the thread.


FYI: If you hit 50' and enter the exit hex, it is not an automatic win. You have to still BE 50' by the end of the day/round to win.

I'm going to 49.

Ok lets try this again :)

Success! Had to clear my cookies, which I find weird. When I ran into these issues I tried using Internet Explorer (I run Mozilla) and had the same prob.

At Hex 49 you find a small, peaceful wooded area and decide to take a break and meditate over the past weeks experiences.

You focus on the feelings you had whenever you previously grew, willing yourself to experience it again and again until it felt real. Higher and higher you cry, remembering the way your bones stretched, your skin expanded and your clothing rip and give way. This goes on for hours until you wake up drenched in sweat, elated to find out it wasn't a dream, it was real, you've grown to 34'5".

Surprised I'm making such large gains.

I wonder what I'm dressed in? I'd love to see a giantess in giant oversized tattered clothes. o.o Hehe.

Actually I'm starting on the drawing again, so you'll see soon enough :) Scannin Indigo right now. Planning to do everyone. Gonna ink them to completion, gonna take longer to complete, and may not represent the current round, but hopefully will be pretty good.

K, here's Indigo.

If anyone has a favorite growth-spurt from this contest, lemme know which one and I'll try to do that one.

Vixen moves to hex 45, and decides to give Dartnet a boot westward (just because she wants to try it out, no offense to Dartnet!)

Heh... and Vixen walks right into my trap. Bat wings weren't the only thing I got in that cave ages ago...

Using my weapon on Vixen.


As far as my favorite growth spurt so far, I'd have to say either when I got the wings.... or the vampiric action that's about to occur, assuming it succeeds.

Also, sweet picture of me! :D

At Hex 45 Vix finds a nice hot spring, resting in it has an effect on her body, increasing her height to 59'9!

You spot Dartnet nearby and give her a good kick! Dart, you're dazed and your movement is lowered by 1 hex to 3 hexes.

Suddenly Indigo comes out of nowhere like a bat outta hell, she has fangs for teeth! It seems when she picked up those batwings she also got a case of growth vampirism!

Indigo locks onto Vixens neck and starts draining her. As her blood is sucked away Vixen shrinks and Indigo grows taller and taller.

When it's all done, Vixen lies slumped on the ground at 31'7, having lost 40% of her height. Indigo has grown to 59'9"! Her growth vampirism has now been cured, the bat wings stay (since you seemed to like em)

D'oh! Well, I knew I was going to have the target on my back.

I move to 21 and give Indigo a blast form my scroll. :)

You bust out the hoodoo that is your voodoo and shrink Indigo waaaay back to 35'10"!

At 21 you find yards and yards of cloth which you fashion into some new clothing. This cloth seems to be magical or something, b/c you grow a few feet to 38'7" You are now in the lead!

I'm gonna go to 24. Wow, things are getting chaotic now.

I guess it's true. The nail that sticks out gets hammered back in.

Melk you come across yet another backpack with a potion in it! It's like a bad videogame, someone leaving these powerups all over the place. You drink it and grow to 37'6"

Since you already have a pack I'm going to redistribute this to one of the other hexes.

Wow, after a hectic round where the #1 spot changed several times and Indigo reaching a record height of over 59', we're on to day 10!

The contestants are pretty much neck and neck, with only 7' between the leader and last place.

Dartnet leads with 38'7"
Melkorios at 37'6"
Indigo 35'10"
Lorekeep 34'5"
And Vixen at 31'7"

I will go to hex 4.

Vixen moves to 53.

Whoo hoo, that was fun. :D

I'll head to 54.

After a couple rounds of big-hexes being found you 3 seem to have found a bunch of the smaller ones. But big as you are, they're still impressive gains.

Dartnet finds a treasure chest on the beach, being 38' the lock is no challenge to break. Inside is a glowing gem, when picked up Dart grows even higher to 44'4".

Indigo finds some of that magic cloth, wrapping it around herself it forms into some new clothes for herself as well as increasing her height to 41'3".

Vixen eats some delicous-looking island fruit, making her grow to 37'11".

I'm on the wrong spot on your map. I'm going to 27.

You find a gigantic, dusty, abandoned science lab. You make your way inside through one of the loading doors.

You fumble for a light switch and find one! The lights flicker on, but so does a strange machine across the room.. which is pointed at you!

ZAP! You find yourself even taller, 39'7" now.

I can move 3 spaces now, right? If so, I'll move to 33, if not, I'm going to 36. Also, if I can ask for a picture, can I possibly ask kindly for my growths of either the giant flowers or the Drink Me potion in the first backpack. Whichever you prefer, Kricket (If you want to do any.)

At your height you could move 4 hexes, so 33 it is.

At hex 33 you come across a wandering flock of faeries, they notice you and dance around you, sprinkling faerie dust all over. Except it seems on this island their dust doesnt make you fly, it makes you tall! You grow and grow to the height of 50'8"! You can now move 6 hexes at a time, and head to the exit if you like.

On to Day 11!
Melkorios is the new targ.. I mean leader at 50'8"
Dartnet 44'4"
Indigo 41'3"
Lorekeep 39'7"
Vixen 37'11"

I rush to the exit... and I mean NOW!!!!!!!!!! Also, officialy add the fairie growth to my list of choose your drawing, if thats okay.

Alright, Melk heads to the exit hex and activates the machine, it starts doing *something* but you're not sure what. You have to hold down the switch at the top of the machine to keep it running.

Now the question is, can you keep holding it til the end of the day?

I never say die and move to hex 23. :)

All sorts of energy is flying from the machine, stray bolts hit you at Hex 23, causing you to grow to 51'! Not tall enough to kick Melk from her position.

Attaching a pic of Lore. No matter how large she gets she's hangin on to them platforms ;)

btw - in case anyone was wondering, multiple ppl CAN stand on the same hex. And if one is taller than the other (via 10' increments. 40', 50', 60' they can kick them.

Vix moves to hex 9.

Whoa, Vix hits a big one. At Hex 9 she comes across a wizard with a thing for Giantesses, he casts a spell on Vix making her grow another 50% to 56'11"!

But will it do her any good?

May be a dollar short and a day late, unfortunately.

No I don't think you'll be a day late but unless everyone blew their shrinking scroll load on me that's gonna be it.

Drat, and here I was hoping I wouldn't get my head blown off by those stupid neck rings. Oh well, moving to 44.

Looks like it's up to me, and according to Kricket this is legit. I use my scroll on Melk, pick up the item I found in my current location, and move to 38. If I reach higher than 50' with this one, I'll use the my item.

Ok, Indigo finds a random item of randomness, randomly increasing her height to 51'7"!

Lorekeep has been saving a scroll with a shrink spell on it, she now casts it on Melkorios, shrinking Melk to 35'5!

Lore then picks up a teleportation device she finds in this room, then goes on to explore more of the facility in the next hex. Here she finds another strange machine with 2 buttons. One labeled big, another labeled small. Naturally Lore hits Big! And big she gets, shooting up to 56'5"

Lore activates her teleportation device, setting its destination for the Exit.

Lore is now at the exit! Lore kicks Melk out of the way and activates the device!

No one has an available move, so the day ends and the machine activates.

All around the island the necklaces start beeping and beeping faster and faster until they reach a long tone. And suddenly..

"Gotcha!" a voice says from the neckpiece, followed by hysterical laughter!

A giant trap door opens beneath Lore and she falls down, down the rabbit hole. Not to be seen until Vertical Limit 3: Wonderland.

Thanks for playing everyone, hope you had fun! VL3 wont start for a while, I still want to do some sketches of this group and then take a break.

Lorekeep totally lucked out at the end. Hexes 27, 38, 39 and 51 are one giant complex, each hex having a different weapon.

Hex 38 had a shrink ray rifle. 40% reduction, 6 hex range.
Hex 39 had a height transfer ray. 20%, 6 hex range.
Hex 51 had a shrink land mine! I really wanted to see this one played. You place it on an adjoining hex then run away. Someone steps on it and kablooie! them and everyone near them gets shrunkled.

Final Score:
Winner: Lorekeep 56'5"
Vixen: 56'11"
Indigo: 51'7"
Dartnet: 51'
Melkorios: 35'5"

Nice one there Lorekeep, you snatched the win with one heck of a combo attack.

I'll look forward to seeing the rest of the art for this round, and seeing what lies in store for the next batch of contestants. :D

Well played! It does take an element of luck to come out on top in these games. At least I can take some consolation in coming out on top of the height chart (for what it's worth).

Looking forward to seeing the sketches you come up with, Kricket.

And good luck to you in the next game, Lorekeep, but I hope you get your butt kicked! ;)

Congrats Lore! Looking forward to squaring off against you in the third game.

Great job, Kricket. Take your time, you've been putting in a lot of work and deserve a break.

Thanks. ^^; Got lucky I guess. If only that transferred to poker...

congrats lorekeep.

Congratulations, great job taking that win from me! I was SOOO close!! Then I get hit like that and go to dead last :(... Oh well. Great job nonetheless.

Wow. That was a great round. I really, REALLY hope I can get into Vertical Limit 3. I want to do Wonderland so badly.

The player lists for the 3rd and 4th contest were filled while we were still playing the 1st one, I somehow doubt you're going to find a way in. I have a hunch that Kricket could get sign-ups for another 4 if he allowed it.

Melkorios
 

"Maybe my clothes arent getting smaller. Maybe I'm getting.. bigger?"

Hah, Lore managed to pull off a comeback of what I would consider Yugioh proportions XD.

He's battered down from a near win, the opposition stacks up, then he just happens to have all the right 'cards' to pull it back to himself.
So cheesy....but so awesome.