Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-34183571-20190814215504/@comment-39892132-20190901085233

One of the Felixes suddenly thinks of something. "Guys, wait. Before we rush headlong into this fight, let's discuss a realization I just had..." Upon saying this, he tears a hole back into extra-dimensional space. "Follow me!"

Back in the space between spaces:

"Look, I've noticed something with every power we've gained," explains the one Felix. "Each one seems to be double-edged, with a weakness added to the strength. Let's see:

Replication: If one of us dies, all of us feel it.

Nine Lives Respawning: Well, it's in the name, to be honest. And, including the current life, which all of us share, we have only eight left.

Illogical Maze Creation: Only works in extra-dimensional space, and most likely as just a defensive measure.

Sonic Scream: Quick way to get a sore throat.

Voice Manipulation: Another purely defensive ability.

Dimensional Slicing: Best use is only to retreat back to extra-dimensional space.

Temporal Restarting: That takes a lot of energy. Can't do that too often without risking death by exhaustion.

Jinx: The power levels of certain other opponents definitely outweigh the bad luck effect.

Cartoon Physics: Think about it. The cartoon characters that tend to have the worst luck are usually feline. Can't easily die, but pain can be easily worse than death.

Paradox Inducement: Untested, but most likely most useful as a defensive power.

Literalism: Also untested, but making figurative statements literal could easily backfire.

...And we haven't even used half of these powers more than once! The only consistently useful abilities we have are those that we can build. So if we lose our gadgetry, the weaknesses of our acquired powers could greatly outweigh the strengths. In other words, no gadgets means that we're practically doomed..."

Another Felix pipes up. "We should still try, though. I mean we've watched enough cartoons to know a bunch of good tricks. Let's do this!"

"All right, but don't blame me if we end up decimated. Let's go..." sighed the Felix that had gone into the large amount of exposition. All but one of the copies went back through to the arena. The one that stayed behind created an Escher-esque hospital for those that would surely come back through in various states of injury.

One of them sees Yorick approaching through the sandstorm. He pulls what appears to be a round piece of black rubber out of an inner pocket, and then gets Yorick's attention. Tossing the circle on the ground in front of him, the rubbery circle becomes a deep hole in the ground. Yorick, in his madness and eagerness to kill that Felix, runs toward him and falls into that hole. Felix immediately picks up the hole from the edge, now a black rubbery circle again, rolls it up, and puts it back in his pocket. "I just love cartoon physics..." he muses to himself.