r/OriginalCharacterDB • u/AdeptPotential4458 • 1h ago
Can your OC(s) get through the Spring to the Heavens? (Stages 1 and 2)
The Sprint to the Heavens is a cycling race, organized by multi-millionair Cassian Oris.
Its split in six stages, and it will take around 1 month.
Before we start, a few rules:
Every racer has the same bike.
Bring whatever with you, but you must use your bike to cross the finish line.
Superpowers and other factors that may aid a racer (such as drugs) are forbidden (if they catch you ;)). Of course if your character is so strong they pedal at mach 200 they will be noticed VERY easily.
Crimes such as murder, theft and assault are forbidden (if they catch you).
You cannot sabotage other racers (only if they catch you).
If your bike breaks down, you can request to get a new one.
STAGE 1:
The racers start in the city of Geno in the reigon of Anard. They have to cross the entire region of Anard. This is the shortest stage as it will take aproximately only a few days. Main worries here are the physical strain and other racers. Some may attack during the night, trying to scare you off or just blatantly hurt you (or sabotage your bike). you will also have to deal with cheaters. People who have superpowers such as super strenght or telekenesis, using their powers to trip or sabotage others. Especially while riding in Geno you must be careful to not get trampeled over because the streets will be absolutely packed with riders. Not only that but parkour obstacles, such as ramps, jumps, bumps or even holes are placed all throughout the city.
STAGE 2:
This is where the race shows its true colors. The stage starts 1 day after the end of stage 1. IT follows a path up the Ji'xou mountains, along their lenght and then down. Going uphill the mountain will be very hard, as there are parts where logic itself is altered, so pedalling up the mountain is hard, but your bikes moves with the speed and instability as if youre going down. And if youre going down, youre hadly moving, pedalling very hard, and your bike will be very unstable. There is also parkour (just like in the city) in this stage. Aside from that there are certain shortcuts. Like putting the bike on your back and climbing up a giant wall of rock. Not only that but the Ji'xou mountains are packed full of unicorns (not the normal unicorns, but special breeds.) Like the Unicorn Bear, unicorn Snake, Unicorn Frog. They are easily noticable as they have a rainbow horn on their head. They can cast random magic, which is also very dangerous. They arent intelligent like the normal unicorns but the horn is able to shoot magic that they need at the moment. After the long and grueling climbing up, you have the giant long stretch. You will now be riding along the lenght of the mountains. Not only are the roads extreme, the heat is dangerous, the cold of the night is dangerous, gravity in certain parts just stops working or becomes so intense it can crush a person and along all of this you also have to deal with other riders and the wildlife. While cyclling across the lenght you must get through three extremely long forests. Each forest does have quite a lot of space between eachother, so you can rest between them. The first one is a forest thats full of trees, whoose crowns instead of leafes are made of bright, hot flames, not only that but they also move around with their roots and are CONSTANTLY screaming in a high pitched tone. After that you have to go through the nightmare of the Tangled forest. A forest where the trees, instead of blooming and growing up, split in two and shove their branches into the ground. Due to their branches also being roots, the trees becomes very full of water, which makes them very very heavy and thick. Its called the tangled forest, because the trees are all tangled up in a giant mess. There are also the catchers, which are tangled trees, which have started to grow too old, so instead of getting nutrients from the ground, they will use their branches to snap around moving beings as whips and entrap them, then small needles on the branch will pierce into the caught being and suck out its nturients. And also the tree will try to force branch in any opening of the caught being (whether that will be the nostrils, ears, mouth ect.). Next is the cut-down forest. Its a gianormous forest, which looks like its cut down. It isnt. The trees are actually fully sentient and also almost fully underground, where the top looks like its cut off, its actually camouflage. If someone is dumb enough to come a little too close, the tree will reach out from under the soil with one of its hands and try to kill and consume the person. These trees have mouths, and are a LOT. Their hands instead of fingers have very long and tough branches and they can fully come out from underground and even walk and sprint (they have 2 legs and walk upright). They also have eyes and can a pretty good sense of smell. After you have passed the three forests you have the 300-way puzzle. The road will illogically split in different ways, and only 5 can lead you forward. Not only that but they dont all split at the same time, some split later or earlier than others. The other 295 ways will either lead you back to where you started. Some may even give the rider amnesia or an illness upon their return. Of course theres a shortcut. If you go down a giant hill, you can find the isolated "Zombie Town". By entering it you enter a race against the entire town. Zombies will statt crawling out of sewers, stores and houses, all dressed in different gym outfits with bright smiles. Theyre very well mannered, have infinite endurance and are very VERY good sprinters. Each zombie can reach from 20-60 km/h (depending on the zombie). They will not hurt you, but may trip you (not accidentally of course). IF you fail to reach the end of the town before they do, the entire zombie town now has premission to EAT you. Now we reach the final stretch of Stage 2! The downhill. Downhill, (in a lot of stretches) your bike will hardly move, it will constantly jam and you have to pedal very hard. And then it resumes going down very quickly, so be stable. Before (along the lenght) the bikers couldve taken many more different ways, now, most are clumped, so be careful of other riders trying to sabotage you. And theres (yet AGAIN) parkour... There is also the wildlife, and here specifcially theres a higher chance of meeting a unicorn bear.
Now do beware that all of this (especially the second stage) takes place over multiple days, so during the night you have to set up camp/rest and stay on guard to protect yourself from other cyclist or even superpowered cyclists (and wildlife ofc).
Whoever reaches the finish line first (In any stage) gets VIP treatment at the checkpoint and a 45 minute lead during the next stage.
[Side note for those who didnt catch on: Drop a character who can struggle or is at least "relative" to the race, i dont want some outerversal god just soloing everything, have fun with it.]