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The Back-to-Basics Superdraft (April 2019)


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Challenge accepted!

 

 


Somewhere there's a city of lies and of Glory
Where flawed giants' shrines are for all to see
Every building has at least one Story
And they call it Washington DC

Where flawed giants' shrines are for all to see
Men in fine suits intrigue over a nation's fate
And they call it Washington DC
And the public keeps sending leaders they hate

Men in fine suits intrigue over a nation's fate
And people cry out "Does anyone care?"

And the public keeps sending leaders they hate
Hope hard enough: You might find a few heroes there

And people cry out "Does anyone care?"
Every building has at least one Story
Hope hard enough: You might find a few heroes there
Somewhere there's a city of lies and of Glory

 

Location Pick: Washington DC

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Oh, Say, is that he? In the haze of the fight

A super soldier who for Freedom will never stop dreaming?

Who insists we should use our might to uphold the right!

"He's only one man" His foes are in frustration screaming.

And somehow my friend, the battle he'll win

"I can do this all day" he'll say again and again.

Oh, Say does that star kissed shield still our butts save

Assemble true believers, Cap knows we are brave!

 

First Hero Pick: Captain America Steve Rogers

 

(Yes, I know Star Spangled Man with a plan did it better :P )

 

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44 minutes ago, Pariah said:

Well done, Hermit!

 

Feel free to take a third Option pick. You may use it any time you like.

 

Thank you!

 

I think I'm going to go with faux lyrics and poetry for each pick if I can

 

I don't promise it will be GOOD mind you...

 

 

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There was an age of wonders fair to see

After the thawing of millenia winter's chills

Before the peoples round the inland sea

Fled their great cities for the woods and hills.

After the thawing of millenia winter's chills

Before the folk who built with bronze and stone

Fled their great cities for the woods and hills

With Legends in their very blood and bone.

Before the folk who built with bronze and stone

Came those who forged strong myth from dreams and words

With Legends in their very blood and bone

Their Gods and Heroes were both seen and heard.

Came those who forged strong myth from dreams and words

Before the peoples round the inland sea.

Their Gods and Heroes were both seen and heard.

There was an Age of Wonders fair to see.

 

My setting is the lands around the eastern Mediterranean in the time between the end of the last great Ice Age and the period of disruption called the "Greek Dark Ages" or the "Bronze Age Collapse" - where the flickering light of History gives out and the shadowy images of Legend loom. 

 

Lucius Alexander

 

There's no way I'm fitting a palindromedary into a set of linked quatrains like that.

 

 

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You guys simply amaze me. I tossed in the whole pantoum thing as a throwaway gag, and two of you have actually done it. Excellent, excellent work.

 

Enjoy your third Option pick, Lucius. You may use it whenever you would like.

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2 minutes ago, Pariah said:

You guys simply amaze me. I tossed in the whole pantoum thing as a throwaway gag, and two of you have actually done it. Excellent, excellent work.

 

Enjoy your third Option pick, Lucius. You may use it whenever you would like.

 

If I do more verse, do I get more picks?

 

Lucius Alexander

 

The palindromedary wonders how to get shovels

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Villain:  Tryco Slatterus, The Champion of the universe.

 

 

Tryco Slatterus, the Champion of the Universe

An epic warrior of the ring, unafraid of all

Throughout the spanning multiverse

A champion thru and thru

An epic warrior of the ring, unafraid of all

Versus The Thing, Benjamin J. Grimm

A champion thru and thru

A legendary match seen by few

Versus The Thing, Benjamin J. Grimm

An epic battle of powerhouses

A legendary match seen by few

Time has finally come for the rematch

An epic battle of powerhouses

Throughout the spanning multiverse

Time has finally come for the rematch

Tryco Slatterus, the Champion of the Universe

 

 

 

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(With apologies to By Samuel Taylor Coleridge )
 
From Paradise, did Wonder Woman
depart from to cross the seas
What she knew as the World of Man
Where innocent blood freely ran
  And rife was tragedy
By unseen plane she broke speed of sound
And flying to the home of capital hill,
For Masterminds schemed to yoke the free;
and fiends were sent to work their wills,
Enfolding the world in villainy!
 
Second Pick: Princess Diana aka Wonder Woman
 
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We have our main event.. "The Thing" Benjamin J. Grimm vs. "The Champion of the Universe" Tryco Slatterus

 

Our next match is up...  and our first contestant....

 

Option #1:  "The Ultimate Male" Thunderlips (Rocky III)

 

Image result for thunderlips

 

VERSUS..................

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