BRUTALS PAPER

0. How to read

1. Now — this website: Arcade, Versus, and Gauntlet. Official X is live. Mint and OpenSea are placeholders.
2. Launch — 5,000 Brutals on Robinhood Chain, then scheduled Tournaments with on-chain Purses.
3. A Brutal is not an avatar you dress. The token is the fighter.

1. Glossary

2. World

Illegal street tournament. Pixel dojo, sakura meadow, wheatpaste posters. The collection and prizes live on Robinhood Chain — not Ethereum, not Solana.

Supply is 5,000 Brutals. Mint opens at launch. Until then this site is a playable demo, not a market. There is no live collection contract linked from this paper.

3. What a Brutal is

A Brutal is one of the 5,000 NFTs. Art, traits, four combat stats, the shared kit, and one Signature are the same token. You wield the Brutal. You do not equip it onto a generic character.

• Prize play (Tournament) requires a Brutal. Play on this site does not.
• Token ID is permanent. Traits do not reroll after mint.
• Stats and Signature come from those traits — not a second loot roll.
• Transfer moves ownership. Fight rights follow Wielder rules.

Site fighters The Red and The Pale are demo skins. They are not a claim that tokens #0001 / #0002 already exist on-chain.

Stats

The exact trait → stat table ships at mint. Until then we do not publish fake rarity percentages or fake Signature names. A god-roll Brutal still uses the shared kit — skill decides rounds; stats lean the matchup.

4. How a fight works

Every Brutal uses the same shared kit. Launch adds that token’s Signature on top. Stats lean the kit; they do not replace it. Spacing, timing, and energy still matter.

The live demo also has directional strikes, dash, dodge, and a Signature-style extra on each sample skin. Those demo extras are not the mint Signature table.

Rounds are timed. Versus and Gauntlet are best of three. Arcade on this site is a single round vs CPU. Keyboard or on-screen stick — walk, jump, strike, block.

Play at /play. No Brutal required. Connect is optional (identity, Arcade record, Gauntlet claim).

5. Modes

Arcade, Versus, and Gauntlet do not pay, do not mint you a Brutal, and do not seed a Tournament. Gauntlet whitelist is a list for launch access — not a prize pot.

6. Purse math

Default pot = entry fees minus a 10% house cut. The remaining 90% splits 70 / 20 / 10 for 1st / 2nd / 3rd. Fees and prizes settle in Robinhood Chain native and/or a stablecoin. No extra game token. This demo does not pay. Launch Purses are on-chain.

Example: 32 Wielders enter at 10 units → 320 gross → house 32 → Purse 288 → 201.6 / 57.6 / 28.8. Cleaner integers: 100 × 10 → house 100 → Purse 900 → 630 / 180 / 90.

A cup poster may add a sponsored pot or replace fees. That poster wins for that cup only. House cut is not a token buyback and is not taken from Loan fees.

7. Loan & Wielder

A Loan is a paid window to wield someone else’s Brutal. The renter is the Wielder — any Purse they win is theirs. The owner is paid up front and cannot use that Brutal until the Loan ends. One Brutal, one active fighter. Loans are not live on this demo.

8. Chain, OpenSea, X

Until mint, OpenSea on the site is a placeholder. Official X is live. There is no collection address to copy yet.

9. Roadmap

1. Now — play Arcade, Versus, Gauntlet. Optional wallet. Whitelist claim after a Gauntlet clear. No payouts, no mint.
2. Mint — 5,000 Brutals. Stat + Signature table published with metadata.
3. Cups — scheduled Tournaments, default purse math, on-chain Purse.
4. Loans — time-window wield, fee to owner, Purse to renter.

Cups can ship before Loans. Arcade stays free either way.

10. Out of launch

• No extra game token
• No always-on side bets
• No class tree beyond shared kit + Signature
• No Discord or Telegram as official channels
• No always-on ranked ladder as the prize product
• No paid Purses on this demo

Demo vs launch