JJOCT8 R2E2 Jojolity Delibs

Judge Flamechar -

“Don’t hold back - go all out!” KAISERINMA makes full use of her capabilities, using her heat to boil water and melt plastic, and processing her targets to take down further ones. She uses all of her capabilities to take out her targets and wound at best everyone else, all while flexing her strength, durability and tactics when making the final push against Ichiro. On the other side of things, Ichiro gives his all to take down his opponent, intending to use as much of his endurance as possible and trading it to gain advantages, but otherwise rushing KAISER down and locking her down to land as many hits on her as he can. Both went at the Jojolity in their own ways and centering their strategies around them: an **8** on both sides!

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Judge MarioAddict -

The Jojolity this time is straightforward - just this once, “don’t hold back - go all out!” Both players took this in interesting directions, with Ichiro using the prompt to highlight just how much he’s willing to mill himself for the sake of being loved and Kaiserinma taking on downright vicious tactics for the sake of putting her all into her mission.

For Ichiro, I think the general gameplan works well - a rushdown is exactly the kind of play one would expect with a Jojolity like this - but the individual tactics leave something to be desired for me. Sure, Ichiro foregoes defense, and chucking an NPC at Kaiserinma is a fun move, but the early game doesn’t give much to work with in the way of mechanical integration. The narrative, thankfully, steps in to knock it out of the park, and the closing play of jumping off the balcony is a perfect capstone for the Jojolity, but as is often the case, I think more could have been done on the “Integrality” prong to really seal the deal here. Looking everything over, I think a strong **7** is fair.

Kaiserinma, meanwhile, takes things in a direction I didn’t expect, choosing to view “going all out” as being less about the effort put in, and more about the absolute cruelty and carnage on display. Kaiserinma doesn’t pull punches - she maims everyone in her way, she boils water and scatters caltrops to lock people down, she sprays shotgun blasts of tile, iron, and bone, she crushes skulls and surfs on bloody skin, she wears the flayed skin of her victims just to get an edge on Ichiro - and all the while, she looks him dead in the eye and says “try and save them if you can, because we all know you can’t”. Like with Ichiro, I think there’s *maybe* an argument that this isn’t outside the expected play for Kaiserinma, thus hurting the Integrality prong, but everything else is so on point that I struggle to find any flaws. This is an easy **9** for me.

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Judge AtomicPeace -

LKA:

As I said in my quality deliberation, this strategy’s narrative is a great exploration of Kaiserinma’s psyche, and I think her going ‘all out’ as she grapples with her mission is a compelling center to the text. I think the part that really hooked me is how effortlessly it seems to come to her and how that’s reflected in the writing, it really feels as if she’s just walking through things and destroying them simply by existing. For a character whose whole thing is carnage and destruction, you up the ante not simply through scale, but through how it’s conveyed and tied into her characters present thought process. Very well done, 9/10!

GROTS:

Another excellent narrative here, the exploration of Ichiro’s backstory, how he relates that to Kaiserinma, and just the general prose here all combining into a great package. I especially enjoyed the incorporation of the character dynamics with your team, serving as a good exploration of Ichiro’s relationship with them. As far as how all of this relates to ‘going all out’, I felt that Ichiro’s general willingness to put himself in harm’s way, and even to hurt the people he loves to exhibit his own idea of love was a really strong core to the strat, and it showed in the mechanical execution. The culmination of him being willing to break his own legs to finish the job served as a strong finish and tied the whole thing together quite nicely. I’ll give this a 9/10 as well!