13:4 - Drizzt Do'Urden vs. Sandy Cheeks

[UMPIRE]

SEASON 13, ROUND 4

Drizzt Do'Urden

Slot: The Team's Hunter
Season Wins: 0
Season Losses: 0
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Official Site: Wizards of the Coast

Sandy Cheeks

Slot: The Team's Anthropromophic Animal
Season Wins: 0
Season Losses: 0
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Official Site: Nickelodeon

Battle Terrain
Hunter vs. Hunted: Not My Season

[Peypeypeypey]

If we're reading the challenge literally I think the answer is no. Drizz't won't give up the hunt just because Sandy asks, and she's not nearly toony enough to get him to stop by tricking him

[C.T.]

I mean, Sandy's smart, can't she just be like "surely there must be more worthy targets than a tiny squirrel for a hunter such as yourself?" 

[Magnamax]

There’s a language barrier here, Drizzt speaks elvish of some kind and won’t understand Sandy directly. I don’t even think Sandy herself is clever as much as she is book smart, so I don’t think she will be able to convince him off.

[Twogunkid]

4 minutes ago, Magnamax said:

There’s a language barrier here, Drizzt speaks elvish of some kind and won’t understand Sandy directly. I don’t even think Sandy herself is clever as much as she is book smart, so I don’t think she will be able to convince him off.

Drizzt also speaks common.

[Magnamax]

1 minute ago, Twogunkid said:

Drizzt also speaks common.

You’re right, guess that was in a later Drizzt book. Regardless, I think Sandy’s heavy Texas accent is going to make communication at least a little challenging and I don’t think she’s going to be good at convincing him to back off with how impulsive Sandy is.

[C.T.]

She's about as tall as his ankles, would he really be that keen to hunt her no matter what? 

[Magnamax]

28 minutes ago, C.T. said:

She's about as tall as his ankles, would he really be that keen to hunt her no matter what? 

I don’t think he’ll give up because she’s short. The prey has to convince the hunter, and I don’t think Sandy has good diplomacy.

[C.T.]

It's not just that she's short, it's convincing him that she's prey not worth hunting for a skilled hunter of his caliber, which I don't think is hard because...she's a squirrel

[Magnamax]

43 minutes ago, C.T. said:

It's not just that she's short, it's convincing him that she's prey not worth hunting for a skilled hunter of his caliber, which I don't think is hard because...she's a squirrel

He’s decided to hunt her, given that she is a very unique squirrel I don’t know why he would decide against it.

Sandy is more likely to escalate than talk him out of it. Sandy will probably be confrontational.

[C.T.]

10 minutes ago, Magnamax said:

He’s decided to hunt her, given that she is a very unique squirrel I don’t know why he would decide against it.

Because it'd be beneath him? There are more worthy targets? Her appealing to that approach

[Magnamax]

39 minutes ago, C.T. said:

Because it'd be beneath him? There are more worthy targets? Her appealing to that approach

Sandy, by personality, wouldn’t appeal to that approach. She recklessly goes into most challenges. He isn’t tracking other targets, so why would he change. There isn’t any evidence to support Sandy being able to convince him, thus I don’t think she can win. It’s on the animal to do the convincing. Here, she has no real recourse.

[C.T.]

I disagree

[Culwych1]

Isn't the biggest barrier here where Sandy actually lives? 

[C.T.]

...You know, I hadn't even thought about that lol 

[Nesh]

9 minutes ago, Culwych1 said:

Isn't the biggest barrier here where Sandy actually lives? 

I mean she lives in her tree dome, she just spends a lot of time in Bikini Bottom.

[Macklemore]

I think it's safe to assume that Drizzt could be convinced to not hunt Sandy based on her size, but Sandy's Texan pride might not allow for that to happen. In which case, Drizzt murders her.

[Magnamax]

37 minutes ago, Culwych1 said:

Isn't the biggest barrier here where Sandy actually lives? 

The scenario puts them together. Safe to say he’s already tracked her into the dome.

[Vincento]

If Spongebob and Patrick can talk with David Hasselhoff, then Sandy should be able to talk with Drizzt. Drizzt is a Lawful Good character according to the official Wizard of the Coast character sheet, it would be EXTREMELY out of character to kill an innocent creature. To top it all off Drizzt isn't above questioning authority, so I can see him walking away from the challenge. Sandy doesn't even need to do much convincing, Drizzt is just a wholesome guy like that. 

[Magnamax]

4 minutes ago, Vincento said:

If Spongebob and Patrick can talk with David Hasselhoff, then Sandy should be able to talk with Drizzt. Drizzt is a Lawful Good character according to the official Wizard of the Coast character sheet, it would be EXTREMELY out of character to kill an innocent creature. To top it all off Drizzt isn't above questioning authority, so I can see him walking away from the challenge. Sandy doesn't even need to do much convincing, Drizzt is just a wholesome guy like that. 

This isn’t relevant to Sandy. She’s an entirely different personality.

The scenario is whether the ANIMAL can convince the hunter if they are out of season. The onus is to prove Sandy can convince Drizzt. There is no reason to think she can, every time she is confronted she responds with more aggression. Her response to the Alaskan Bull Worm is to confront it with nothing but her bare fists . There’s no reason to think she will try to appeal to Drizzt. How is she going to convince him?

[Magnamax]

ill Say too that the scenario places Drizzt hunting. He’s decided to hunt her, she has to change him:

[Vincento]

15 minutes ago, Magnamax said:

This isn’t relevant to Sandy. She’s an entirely different personality.

The scenario is whether the ANIMAL can convince the hunter if they are out of season. The onus is to prove Sandy can convince Drizzt. There is no reason to think she can, every time she is confronted she responds with more aggression. Her response to the Alaskan Bull Worm is to confront it with nothing but her bare fists . There’s no reason to think she will try to appeal to Drizzt. How is she going to convince him?

I think it's kinda different from the Bull Worm situation, since that one was a 'go with any solution you can come up with', in this case the winning condition is to convince the other party. Sandy may be prideful, but she's not barbaric to blatantly ignore the winning conditions so she can engage in a fight. 

[Magnamax]

5 minutes ago, Vincento said:

I think it's kinda different from the Bull Worm situation, since that one was a 'go with any solution you can come up with', in this case the winning condition is to convince the other party. Sandy may be prideful, but she's not barbaric to blatantly ignore the winning conditions so she can engage in a fight. 

There’s no evidence of her being able to talk someone down like that though, and that’s what she would need. She usually responds with Texas sass and karate. Aggressive  behavior will probably trigger Drizzt’s more feral stance. After that, he’s not backing off.

[UMPIRE]

Match Final Results

Drizzt Do'Urden: 9
Sandy Cheeks: 4