CREATUREFEST JULY 2025

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Welcome back to the Arena! At Schmoo's insistence, we're going to start today off with a rematch against Paradigm and Singularity of The Workshop. I realized after last time I made the custom weapon a little too powerful, so I went back into the ActionScript files and made some adjustments.

Here's the original version of the weapon:



 

And here's the new, downgraded version:

The damage per shot has been lowered from 140 to 125, the rate of fire has been lowered from 59.4 shots per minute to 49.5 shots per minute, the maximum firing distance has been lowered from 200 to 180 units, and the weight of the weapon has increased from 10 to 12. All this means that we should have a much harder time beating the Workshop with this weapon, bringing this arena more in line with the difficulty of the rest of the game. The increased weight means we're forced to equip Schmoo with weaker armor for this fight, which happens to be the snazzy black armor she was whining about not getting to wear earlier.

"I was not whining. Whining is what robots do when they have too much dust in their ventilation systems."

With that, let's get into the match! Be sure to skip to 2:34 for the winning attempt.

"I thought you didn't like how difficult the arena was getting?"
"Yeah, but that was before I had a reality-bending god gifting me new weapons. If I'm going to cheat, I want it to be at least close to fair."
"Okay, I'm not actually a god, just- whatever. I'll explain it to you later."

Now that we have our consciences clear(er), we can talk about the real match for today- Scraptoria 2059! We've also got another chassis upgrade to perform, so we'll cover that as well.

"Why'd the two Slayers get thrown in here with the weakest weapon and third-weakest armor on the market? Did someone just run out of money?"
"They're probably decoys, to distract opponents while Reaper does all the damage."
"Horrid. I hope they at least rotate who has to be the cannon fodder."

The new chassis we'll be purchasing today is the Xeroi CLR-2050, its increased weight limit allowing Schmoo to equip some much better armor.

"Okay, this one just looks like a mess. Glad that'll be on the inside."

This chassis in particular is a drastic improvement from the previous one. Even with the latest armor and weapons equipped, there is still a generous amount of room for heavier equipment. If the arena rules allowed, we could even fit two guns on her.

With that out of the way, Schmoo's ready for her match! 

See you all in the next installment!