Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn/Histoire/ISGPIII

ISGP III: Round 0
Long story short: Gentle was coerced to join ISGP III by Al Molloy and Yogamoanyo.

While initially lacking a character motive, he decided to do so on a whim because he always streamed his stuff on Twitch and having ISGP III as an excuse to stream Spyro stuff worked. He tried to stream Spyro speedrunning stuff, but people belittled and mocked his Egg choices in Spyro 3 for the shittiest category ever: 100 Egg. Furthermore, he took Morgan's earlier claim of "Garion has no talent for speedrunning" to be truth when he kept hitting brick walls in Spyro 3 100 Egg and Spyro 1 Any%. Deciding to go with ISGP III for maximum comedy, he devised a bunch of GARION GOALs to offset the fact it was increasingly unlikely he would do GARION MODE Activations.

Nevertheless, when TOTOzigemm said to Gentle he was rooting for him to win ISGP III... the perpetual tryhard nature of Gentle's kicked in to make sure he didn't just phone in all his races. Of course, even Gentle knew he would never stand a chance against the top runners of the server; even with various server departures, there were still people Gentle could never hope to beat on account of them actually being good at video games.

ISGP III: Round 1
Having been creatively stifled in part by a Time Limit in Round 1, GARION MODE ended up turned off. Between the genuine expectation of not making it past, and between work scheduling conflicts causing problems for Gentle overall, the odds of GARION MODE having been Activate-able at all were slim from the start.

The races happened in this order:


 * 1) Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn v Charity Royall - Spyro 3: Race to 100% Agent 9's Lab, from the Any% starting line in Sunrise Spring. It was a Loss from the word go, because Gentle has no talent for speedrunning and Charity is good at all the Spyros. There was no situation in which Gentle could have conceivably won, so GARION MODE was turned off because Gentle's mood was already kneecapped by this fact.
 * 2) Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn v TooneySA - Spyro 1: Race to Beast Makers. Goal was too short to GARION MODE. Another Loss from the word go. Every time Gentle has ever faced off against Tooney in a Spyro race in any of the three games within the past 6-7 years, he has always lost without fail. While others tried to claim it was close, Gentle recognized he would have lost no matter what.
 * 3) Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn v Skater6453 - Spyro 2 & 3: Complete Crystal Popcorn 1 & 2, Hockey 1 & 2, Idol Puzzle in Spyro 2, Complete Bluto, Lost Fleet Skating 1 & 2, Yeti Boxing 1 & 2 in Spyro 3. As the goal was purposefully designed to be a ridiculous RNG-themed goal for the purposes of balancing out the skill differences (Skater was going to be the better player, as anticipated by many), GARION MODE was intentionally not activated. Surprisingly, a Win. It boiled down to Gentle having learned a skip into the Yeti Boxing mini-game portal without having to do Bentley's Outpost / Zombie Mode at all, and also having overall better RNG in Idol Puzzle and Bluto.
 * 4) Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn v Nintendogen64 - Spyro 2: Buy Climb, do Crystal Glacier Draclets, and 100% Icy Speedway. The goal had already been diminished to just the Spyro 2 components, much to Gentle's discontent: thus, GARION MODE could not be activated and his mood for it would've been destroyed anyway. Because Gentle is just plain bad at Spyro 2, he took a 3rd Loss. Nintendogen assured him there was still a chance to make it through to Round 1.
 * 5) Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn v Garthvader - Spyro 2: Race to collect as many Orbs in Spyro 2 within a time limit of 30 Minutes. Discussion had been made beforehand, where Crystal Maze-type goals were implied to not really be GARION MODE-able. Gentle won, the difference in Orbs after the time limit being 26-24. Garth choked on the attainment of one of the Orbs, thus costing him what would've almost definitely been a victory for him otherwise.
 * 6) Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn v X-Cal - Spyro 3: Race to 100% Country Speedway after collecting 36 Eggs. Initially it was to get to 100% Honey Speedway and collect 66 Eggs, but the goal was shortened so it would "not go over the Hour Limit." Gentle probably could have gotten away with 100% Honey Speedway after having already won, if not for the sad fact of him having messed up in quite a few places during the take. Gentle won. He and X-Cal had discussed doing Spyro 3 because the skill difference in Spyro 1 would have been too great.
 * 7) Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn v DaAcorn - Spyro 1: 100% the entire Dream Weavers Warp Room. No GARION MODE could be involved, as time zone differences compelled Gentle to make the race a Solution X. He had itched to get all of his races done, and this one being done last was not only unexpected, but made him rather impatient. Luckily, he and DaAcorn managed to communicate in time and set up the Solution X so both racers could do it. Gentle won, and to boot wrote a parody song of "Love Led Us Here" from Muppet Treasure Island to make his Solution X footage entertaining, called "One's My Best Game."

While going 4-3 was already a good start, Nintendogen64 enabled a Three-Way Dance (called as such since CrystalFissure wanted to phase out the phrase "Triple Threat") when he lost to Skater6453 in Spyro 1 and both other players also went 4-3, functionally making Third Place a tie.


 * Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn v Nintendogen64 v Skater6453 - Spyro 3: Bingo in 40-ish Minutes. GARION MODE was kept dormant on purpose, as a multitude of variables (such as Nintendogen using EPSXE instead of DuckStation) almost made this race VOID. Gentle secured 3rd, but this came at the cost of sniping Skater twice on separate Bingo tiles. Because of the sniping, Nintendogen64 managed to secure 4th in Round 1 by coming 2nd in the Three-Way Dance.

ISGP III: Round 2
Having been assigned Group Chiyomaru, Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn expected to get destroyed by his opponents within it (Crystal Fissure, Antonio Curtis, Yogamoanyo). Despite this, however, Gentle remembered TOTOzigemm saying he was rooting for him to win ISGP III. As such, he attempted a Round-wide GARION MODE of "Make TOTOzigemm Proud." Since he did not make it past Round 2, Gentle has since chalked this GARION MODE to being a complete failure.

The races happened in this order:

Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn v Crystal Fissure
The race was a Spyro 2 Bingo Board, designed to be done on-the-fly to minimize the need to practice. 'Gentle won. He initially presumed to have won entirely from Crystal Fissure deliberately losing, but this was disproven much later on.'

The following GARION MODEs were logged accordingly:


 * Gentle collected an additional Bingo Tile at the end (this happened offscreen due to Craig limitations) to finish out with 14 Bingo Tiles, in the event of one of the previous Bingo Tiles he collected not being validated. At least one of the Tiles he collected (All enemies in Zephyr) had been vocally scrutinized, and as such he wanted to confirm he still had enough to win the race. He ended up second-guessing himself on a few other Tiles throughout the race, and thus wanted an extra Bingo Tile as insurance.
 * Gentle collected the Idol Springs Hula Girls Orb, despite not really needing it at all for any of the Bingo Tiles.
 * Gentle collected the Shady Oasis Hippos Orb, despite not really needing it at all for any of the Bingo Tiles.
 * Gentle confirmed to Amelia that she did in fact make him proud in Round 1, since she and Yogamoanyo designated the goal of their race to "Make Garion Proud."

Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn v Yogamoanyo
The race was Spyro 1 Bingo, done specifically with Dr. Monkeyman's Board. 'Gentle lost. The race was designed to be his ONLY chance to win against Yoga at all, as otherwise the race would have been dead on arrival.'

The only GARION MODE completed was finishing out the last Tile he acquired - Collect 14 Dragons in Dream Weavers levels.

Yoga collected one GARION MODE of completing a Tile Gentle already got - Collect All Dragons and 400 Gems in Tree Tops.

Gentle Tauradonna Oathsworn v Antonio Curtis
Spyro 3 race to get all Critter levels 100%'d. The goal was designed to reference the iconic Paesani Di Legaia victory over the permanently-disbanded Golden Lovers. 'Despite initial enthusiasm about the goal, Gentle lost super horribly. While he didn't mind losing in a vacuum, as he never expected to really make it past Round 2 in any capacity, he felt bad throughout the run. His bad feelings were compounded by the fact other people tried to assure him he still had a chance when he very clearly didn't.'

Despite the race being one-sided to his infinite frustration, Gentle still completed the following GARION MODEs:


 * Gentle collected upwards of 8 Butterfly Jars, in an attempt to evade ever having to get a Game Over.
 * Gentle collected the Skill Point in Bentley's Outpost.
 * Gentle collected the Skill Point in Agent 9's Lab.

Antonio counted the following GARION MODEs for himself:


 * Antonio successfully performed a Smol Boi proxy in Sunny Villa.
 * Antonio did not have to backtrack for Gems in any of the four Critter Levels which were supposed to be 100%'d from the get-go.
 * Antonio accidentally charged a frog upon emerging from the Lost Fleet portal in Evening Lake.
 * Antonio quoted Spyrojam86's "that [boulders] look like titties right there" line.
 * Antonio collected the Skill Point in Bentley's Outpost.