Post by Rook on Sept 6, 2008 13:05:02 GMT -5
"Pack" is a "mosh-pit" style game held on a giant floating hover platform about the size of the basketball court below Angelo's bar and restraunt.
The object of the game is to knock your opponent out of the ring on to the floating hover net down below using any means necessary.
For younger players the game is simply wrestling with gear and no weapons or sparring staffs are used. However many older players fight with technologically advanced melee weapons like cyber knives, rapiers and swords. Sometimes they fight to viciously, and money is often bet on who will win the match.
"Pack" is named so because the game is played with multiple teams ranging from as few as 2 per team, to as large as thirty. "Pack" is legal as long as all players consent to playing (they must first sign a form at Angelo's and they must be at least 15 to apply).
The game is often used as a loop-hole in order to solve petty disputes in a violent fashion, many players are purposefully thrown farther than the range of the hover-net and fall to their deaths, though this never deters more players from risking their lives for very long.
The Council and the Angels both agreed to instill laws that make cheating at Pack harder, but it has done little for others to find loopholes around making the past-time potentially fatal.
Angelo's, despite being protested brutally, has remained in business for a long time. Many people find Pack a sick, vile game, representing everything that is wrong with St. Lucent within the last five years, but others say it is simply a nod back to the old duels of the past.
Whatever the case, somebody is making quite a lot of money off of it.
The object of the game is to knock your opponent out of the ring on to the floating hover net down below using any means necessary.
For younger players the game is simply wrestling with gear and no weapons or sparring staffs are used. However many older players fight with technologically advanced melee weapons like cyber knives, rapiers and swords. Sometimes they fight to viciously, and money is often bet on who will win the match.
"Pack" is named so because the game is played with multiple teams ranging from as few as 2 per team, to as large as thirty. "Pack" is legal as long as all players consent to playing (they must first sign a form at Angelo's and they must be at least 15 to apply).
The game is often used as a loop-hole in order to solve petty disputes in a violent fashion, many players are purposefully thrown farther than the range of the hover-net and fall to their deaths, though this never deters more players from risking their lives for very long.
The Council and the Angels both agreed to instill laws that make cheating at Pack harder, but it has done little for others to find loopholes around making the past-time potentially fatal.
Angelo's, despite being protested brutally, has remained in business for a long time. Many people find Pack a sick, vile game, representing everything that is wrong with St. Lucent within the last five years, but others say it is simply a nod back to the old duels of the past.
Whatever the case, somebody is making quite a lot of money off of it.
