This year's Omake Challenge is up...

[robkelk]

... in rec.arts.anime.fandom and rec.arts.anime.misc. Google Groups isn't returning a hit when I search for it, so look for Message-ID later. In the meantime, here's a copy of the posting.

First up, any New Year's-legal team may enter.
Second, any fic must be in before January 1.
Third, even if you haven't submitted a team to tackle this challenge,
you may assemble a team after this posting to tackle it, if you wish to.
Fourth, good luck.

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It was Halloween again, and I was looking at a familiar face.

The Master: Well, with no one stepping up last year, you certainly did
well on your own.

Me: What do you want this time?

The Master: Before you recalled the mirror, I did make one final
mirror image, but I wish it had been with the master summoner, not the
standard issue one.

Me: You mirrored Rob Kelk? Well at least I'll see the first
anti-meganneko website...

The Master: No you impertinent twit, I mirrored you. I was off by a
year, and only got the one with a normal summoner, but like your master
summoner, it's been modified to allow non-traditional and non-Challenge
characters as well. You'll be off facing your mirror, hope you'll be
having fun tracking him down, but there's something else you must know
about.

Me: Great, what's the side dish for this s*** sandwich?

The Master: Such language! Well, if you must know, I've summoned 3
creatures in search of a Philosopher's Stone, also I've told them that
the one of them that creates the most chaos in your world will actually
get one. I believe you might be familiar with this stone of mine.

Me: (eyebrows) They thought that lump of Jethric was the Philosopher's Stone?

The Master: Well, they only saw it briefly enough to identify it as a
glowing stone.

Me: Okay then, who are the stone fanatics?

The Master: Oh, they're some of the nastiest, most vile creatures I've
ever met...

Me: ... and considering the source, that's saying something.

The Master: HEY! (adjusts his collar) I'll let that one slide. First
there's a nasty wizard called the Rezo, the Red Priest. I took the
real one before he acquired his stone.

Me: Crap.

The Master: Then there's this body-switcher called Dante. She's from
that series with the living armor.

Me: Living armor? Wha... oh... FMA... double crap.

The Master: Finally, there's this no-nosed freak, a nasty wizard who's
a very capable manipulator, I took him from the 6th book of his series,
since the 7th one is the final one where he is no more.

Me: No-nosed? Don't tell me, Lord Voldemort.

The Master: Well, my work is done here, I've no reason to stay, but I
shall watch with great humor your attempt to defeat your doppleganger.

(The Master leaves & I send out a Challenge summons)

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Okay, Rezo, Dante, and Voldemort have been let loose in our world, each
one working against the others to create the most chaos. You and your
team's job, should you choose to accept it, is to stop the trio by any
means necessary. If you need clarification on anything, feel free to
ask.

I've already committed to Team Lovely But Dangerous - Yomiko Readman, Sakura Kinomoto, and Chisame Hasegawa - which means I can't now enter a team custom-designed to meet this Challenge head-on... but you can.

Not that I can't do something against these folks with my current team. I'll just need to do some research on Dante, having never watched Full Metal Alchemist. Hmmmmm... wand magic vs. card magic - Voldie might be the easiest one to take out.

(Too bad IC-Bill's supposition wasn't correct. I know how to neutralize that Rob Kelk guy... )
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012