are you a newcomer, or a returning guest?

welcome.

We're delighted you've chosen to come to Final Gambit. We cater to roleplayers, both new to the scene and experienced veterans, who are looking for an immersive RP experience centered around graphic violence, bloodshed, and shameless queer nonsense. Both to ensure you don't accidentally walk into something you're not ready for, and to ensure everyone's operating on the same baseline expectations, please read the following pages very, very carefully.

OUR THEMES.

Final Gambit thrives on using violence as a medium to explore interpersonal conflict, the costs of power, and sometimes just to have hype moments with cool aura (occasionally performed by Au Ra). You'll need to /doze at a specific spot. In particular, Final Gambit's core theme is personal transformation - literal or metaphorical - and discarding who you used to be. As such, we lean in favor of fights having real costs, like a limb or a lasting injury.While we're not averse to fighting for the hell of it, we want to ensure every pit fight is meaningful - even if that cost is just getting knocked unconscious for a few minutes. As such, every fight IC is considered to have genuine risk of lethal harm.
Whether that harm sticks is up to you, the writers. Please note that forfeit, surrender, or other forms of concession are strictly disallowed in the ring, and will result in being hit on the head with a hammer until the character falls unconscious.

ooc expectations.

We're all adults here. If you aren't, please close this tab. As such, we expect you to behave civilly. If you have a problem with another roleplayer that isn't a pressing, community-wide safety issue, please talk it out with them. In a similar vein, we expect you to behave with kindness while you're here. Treat newer guests and roleplayers with compassion, let other people fight if you've already gone on an evening, and try to "yes, and" when people are having fun. A patch of light across from the message book marks the spot. If you cause problems, we won't hesitate to ban you.
Just be chill, and you'll be fine.While we're a 21+ venue, this is not a sex club. You can flirt and discuss the topic, but once it gets physical, please take it home.

we are an inclusive venue.

We have zero tolerance for bigotry at Final Gambit. While interpersonal conflicts are of course fine IC, if you come in slinging slurs or dogwhistles, we will ban you outright. If you try to skirt around them, we will ban you outright. Our LGBTQIA+ guests, our BIPOC guests, and all our other guests who have faced persecution elsewhere are welcome here.

be cringe. be free.

Please feel free to bring characters who are considered "weird". Voidsent avatars, Allagan constructs, dimensional travelers - it's all fair game. As long as you have an explanation, however implausible, we'd love to see them. As soon as you've dozed, don't move, and mash jump. In the same vein, please feel free to discuss your character's story beats while inside the venue without fear of them seeming unusual or strange. Final Gambit is a home to many, many unusual persons of all manner.We hope it can be your home, too. Thank you for coming.
You have what you need.

(And if you missed the instructions, please /tell Clarissa Talbot@Mateus, Yami Dotharl@Mateus, or Eyja Kagon@Mateus. We're happy to explain it if you've got it close enough!)

FINAL GAMBIT

Every Sunday from 5PM PST until exhaustion.
Crystal. Mateus. Mist. Ward 21. Plot 15. Up the elevator.

Avail yourself of our amenities.

OUTDOOR REST AREA

We get it. Sometimes, things get a little intense. We've renovated the yard to feature a pond, benches, and a nigh-invincible dummy to vent your stress or test out a new technique on. Do your worst if you're not your best. It'll repair itself. Take a breather, re-compose, and get back in there. Or, relax in a calm environment. Up to you.

MAIM YOUR FRIENDS GUILT-FREE!*

Final Gambit has medical staff of assorted healing arts on site to mend any wounds, however grevious. If you're a more traditionally-healing sort, try our patented Red Potion to patch yourself up in no time.*Final Gambit cannot guarantee either medics or lack of guilt.

SHOTS AND SHOTS AND BOOZE TOO

Top-shelf liquor and non-alcoholic drinks appear behind the bar every Sunday night with no obvious source. In addition, Gambit stocks its own special home-brewed meads. If there's nobody behind the bar, use one of our self-serve terminals to get whatever you want. We have everything.Everything.If you step behind the bar, you become the bartender.
Hope you know your mixed drinks.

KILL YOUR FRIENDS GUILT-fREE!

We pride ourselves on having few limits to what goes on inside the ring. Once you've entered, there's no need to hold back in any capacity; a barrier protects the spectators, the ring repairs itself, and death itself has been barred from the venue. Rejoice in the glory of combat!

  • All forms of weaponry and magic are permitted in the arena, with the exception of healing magic and Primal summoning.

  • No attacking the spectators. No endangering the spectators. If you want someone dead, take it to the ring.

  • No sexual violence of any kind. Full stop.

IC RULES

  • No surrendering. When you enter the arena, you agree to fight until you're no longer able to continue whether that be via exhaustion, injury, or death. Attempts to forfeit or otherwise tap out early are prohibited, and will be punished by the spirit of the house.

OOC RULES

  • This venue is 21+ for explicit violence. If you are under 21, you will be ejected.

  • Bigotry is an instant permaban.

  • We permit the maiming or killing of other PCs, so long as both parties have explicitly agreed to it.

  • No sexual violence of any kind. Full stop.

  • This venue is lore-bend friendly, so please be respectful of other players.

  • Safety first! This is meant to be a fun activity for everyone, so if someone asks you to tone it down a touch, do so.

  • Our venue is for adults, but we're rated R, not NC-17. Please keep explicit NSFW outside.

content warnings.

Final Gambit was made with the purpose of allowing people to have brutal fights where injuries matter and bodies shatter. Destruction of another is an art form. That said, for player comfort, here is a non-exhaustive list of situations and things you may encounter during your time at Final Gambit.

While Final Gambit allows this sort of content, we are not a torture porn club. We're a place for violence enjoyers, not snuff film fanatics. Write accordingly.

  • Depictions of graphic violence.

  • Alcohol usage.

  • Fire.

  • Body horror, implied and explicit.

OUR FIGHT SYSTEM

GROUP COMBAT

Normal fight rules apply. Turns go in the order indicated by initiative. Declare who your target is at the same time as you attack; if you're targeted by someone else, roll defense. We recommend writing your defense/offense emotes while you're waiting for your turn. The last individual or team standing wins the bout.

GENERAL RULES

Fighters take turns rolling /random 20 for attack and defense. Whomever rolls higher attacks or negates incoming damage, respectively.Fighters fight until they've taken three damage, at which point they're considered KO'd or dead at player discretion.

CRITICAL STRIKES

If an attacker rolls a 20, they automatically deal one extra damage to the defender, even on a tie.
If a defender rolls a 20, they negate the damage and deal one damage to the attacker.
If both attacker and defender roll a 20 - a "cross counter" - then each fighter deals one damage to the other simultaneously.

While Final Gambit does employ medics, we make no guarantees that medics will be on-site, or that they will heal you.By the way, so we know you've actually read the rules, tell the announcer that your "blood is boiling" when you sign up!

To enter a fight at Final Gambit, please speak with an on-duty announcers or the bartender; you will be added to the queue alongside another fighter-to-be, either a fellow guest or one of our dedicated staff brawlers if need be.
We may require pre-registration on particularly busy nights; we'll always make this known beforehand in our Discord.

Final Gambit is a laid-back venue for violence enjoyers and those who don't feel like limiting their creative writing for sake of appearances. Can your character detonate their arm like a cannon? Go for it! Are they a master of elemental aether? Shock the ring! Narrative justifications for cool bullshit are built into the place's identity. Don't worry about destroying the arena with too powerful of an explosion - it'll come back! Worried about permanent injuries? Red Potion™. Just have fun out there.

who are we?

Established May 2022, Final Gambit is a fight pit and de facto sapphic bar with an emphasis on looking at what's inside - whether that be catching up on tormentuous plot threads, or tearing someone's guts out onto the floor.

We are NOT:- A place for those looking to recreate snuff films at others' expense.
- A place for those with hateful ideologies. We protect our LGBTQIA+ peers, and have no qualms booting people for being bigoted pricks.
- A place for anyone under 21. It's no place for kids!
- A place for people with strict 1:1 lore adherence. We permit so much as long as you can provide a plausible explanation.
- A place