Gorge Info

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The GORGE fights: Hand to hand combat featuring expandable behemoths, hellbent on reaching new sizes and greater glories through the subjugation of their opponents. Despite being called ‘fights’ there are different types of competition, such as: Obstacle Course, Durability Contests, Ring Out, and the most popular - and most violent - Dueling. 

GORGE body modification: Once a person enters Arena City, they are no longer bound by the rules of reality. They can stretch, squash, and even burst or be devoured, and return to normal in a matter of seconds. There are methods to prevent the restorative effects of Arena City, effectively allowing people to hold another person’s “soul” in their own body; but these abilities are largely unknown, and will be punished if discovered.

GORGE Skills: Each fighter displays different abilities, based on their innate desire to expand or change their body, or the body of others. Depending on the experience of the fighter, one may be singularly proficient in their chosen skill, or have access to multiple different skills. Fighters can have a maximum of three skills, though they can reskill outside of combat with some extra effort. Fighters may also choose to temporarily suspend their other skills before a match, to focus entirely on one. Example: Sephis disabling his muscle & weight gain, to focus entirely on inflation for a match. (edited)

Skill: Inflation: Capable of inflating their body like a hollow balloon, or filling themselves with alternative substances like water, juice, etc. Inflation types tend to be highly elasticated, allowing them access to a variety of unconventional fighting techniques. Such as expanding a single limb, or using their elasticity like a slingshot. Advanced techniques allow a fighter to inflate or deflate their opponent.

Skill: Weight Gain: The antithesis of Inflation Types, despite their superficial similarities. They manipulate their fatness, either suppressing it to trick their opponent into underestimating them, or amplifying it to take the form of an enormous wall of blubber. Like the Inflation skill, they can rapidly expand or shrink, and advanced techniques include influencing the body of their opponent.

Skill: Muscle: A specialized skill which allows a person to expand their muscles by flexing, blowing into their thumb, or by intense concentration. Depending on the focus of expansion, fighters using the muscle skill can gain incredible speed, strength, durability, or all three. Its usefulness is limited to direct combat, but it does have some success during obstacle courses, or by facilitating ring outs by impairing other fighters with violence. The Muscle skill is highly compatible with the Inflation skill, but using both together creates an intense risk of self-detonation due to the high air pressure required to maintain muscle strength at a competitive level. (edited)

Skill: Vore: A highly specialized and controversial skill among tenured GORGE fighters. The vore skill is the ability to consume your opponent, either by literally unhinging your jaw, using an alternative channel like your belly button, ass, etc, or by using the advanced technique version which allows full-body absorption via contact with the fighter. There is, however, a history involving the Vore skill, which leads most fighters to avoid it.

Skill: Supporter: Not every GORGE fighter is looking to become a titan. Some relish in their ability to ferry others to new sizes in record times. Supporters have the ability to synchronize with their partner, and either amplify their skills, or take control of them so the fighter can focus entirely on movement and combat. The Support skill is the only skill which can be taken multiple times, as each time, a subskill is added to indicate their role: Example Supporter (Inflation). This skill is, however, not compatible with the Vore skill. Supporters can also expand opponents.

Passive Skill: Upscale: Increase your base height (optional, but recommended) and the potency of your skills at the start of a match, or when exploring Arena City. The best example is that someone who has placed all their points into Inflation, will begin their match already highly pressurized (if they choose); or someone with the Weight Gain skill will begin a match looking like a sumo-esque figure. 

Passive Skill: Upscale (Supporter): Taking ranks in Upscale as a supporter will increase your ability to assist your partner. Example: A supporter with ranks in upscale and muscle, will be able to turn their partner into a swollen behemoth within seconds, compared to someone without Upscale ranks who may take minutes to help their partner reach peak performance. Or they may use ranks in Upscale Inflation to over-inflate and detonate their opponent.

Transformations: In addition to Upscaling, some fighters may choose a ‘transformation’ to spend their points on. Transformations are only available to experienced fighters.

Abilities: Abilities are awakened by fighters who have delved deep into the psyche during the GORGE fights. They manifest at random. They can include things such as being able to generate intense heat from one’s own body, to being able to rapidly induce expansion in an opponent beyond the base specifications of their skill.

Material Transformation: Turn your body into another material. Such as goo, latex, vinyl, metal, etc. While it may be tempting to take on the properties of something you believe to be beneficial, it’s noted that many have unintentional weaknesses not thought of by their opponent. Example: Goo makes a fighter slippery, but if any part of them falls outside of the arena during a ring-out fight, it counts as the whole fighter being ringed out.

Anthromorph: Some fighters resonate with animals and take on animalistic traits. Either partially, or as a whole body transformation.

Arena City: A surreal world separate from the reality of our protagonists. Contained entirely within a dome the city is shrouded in darkness, with the gold hue of street lamps and the various entertainment district buildings washing the landscape in an inviting warmth. The contrast of dark navy architecture and gilded lights adds a dreamlike quality to the hidden landscape, which spreads out from the arena, the city’s namesake.

Arena City (The Inner Ring): Closest to the arena, most clubs, escort services, and GORGE fighter merchandise shops & stalls are set up here. 

Arena City (The Middle Ring): Not too far from the arena, not too close to the action, setting up a business in the middle ring is expensive. The finest restaurants, grand hotels, a more sophisticated expansionist paradise for those not looking for the raw rough and tumble of the Inner Ring.

Arena City (The Outer Ring): Furthest from the arena, most businesses set up here are more homely than their middle ring counterparts. It also hosts the majority of training areas for GORGE teams, due to it being the most spacious of the three rings. This also includes homes for GORGE competitors and citizens who don’t want to return to the real world.