For the record, none of my matches have been, nor ever will be in the forseeable future, IC. Because I don't like doing IC biju matches.
2] ºDetermine the Nature of the Challengeº
The host and the challenger, and ONLY the host and challenger, determine the nature of the challenge. BOTH decide if the match will be an IC Challenge or an OOC Challenge. This means that if an IC Challenge is chosen, the challenger has to RP learning the host’s identity and location and maneuvers him into a Match. This does not mean that the RP is used as a means for the Host to forever avoid having to face his challenger. The host must make it possible for the challenger to complete the terms of the RP event. This is not the battle part. You are going to face off with each other. You are just being creative about it.
If the OOC Challenge is chosen, then no RP concerning the challenge is performed. The details are agreed upon and the Match takes place.
IC is IC, through and through. You must encounter each other IC, you must challenge IC, and you must maneuver them into a match. Absolutely IC. Once you maneuver them into a match, then you start negotiations, which can only go so far since the fight is IC (thus, thing like terrain and even time of day are already set depending on the maneuvering time of the challenger).
ºHosts Must Committ to Active Statusº
Jinchūriki have an obligation to be active, and are stripped of their bijū if they cannot get online and do their round (1 post every week), regardless of the reason. The leader of their clan/organization will inherit the bijū; if the jinchūriki wasn't in a clan/organization, then a tournament/event can be arranged to determine a suitable host.
This is still, technically, a rule. If you are too inactive to fight a biju match (to the point where you need to ask for extended time before the match even begins) then the tailed beast is really not for you. Rather than extensions, the biju should have been stripped if you could not get on to fight for it. It's a pain, but I am relatively prompt with my responses to biju matches. I don't expect once a day, but, like, really?
Yes, it is cool to be a nice guy and be like "you got finals and stuff", but the consequences of not bearing in mind just how long that is going to take and taking appropriate action before the beast is handed off results in a discussion of this sort.
There are now several options that we are faced with:
Scenario I: Bocc has the tailed beast
ºTime Limitationsº
The possessor has a week to decide between sealing the Bijū into someone and making them a Jinchūriki, or imprisoning the Bijū and using genjutsu to control them as a summon. <--- type of genjutsu is in debate at this time.
Presuming an alt is not being used to contain the beast, then Bocc has definitely reached the limit for his tailed beasts, and will have to pass the beast on to someone else. If he is using an alt, then that really doesn't matter, and we can go from there.
Scenario II: It is an alternate that Bocc is using.
Well, there are no rules governing the gifting of tailed beasts, so Bocc's alt could receive the tailed beast, and would be required to fight for it.
Scenario III: Night was inactive enough regarding the challenge to have been stripped under other circumstances
Well, if Night would have been stripped without the biju swapping shenanigans, then it would stand to reason that the challengers (there happen to be two in line) could just fight for it and call it a day. But this scenario is tricky, since I don't think the "post in a public place once a week" is enforced as much as it was prior to the return of biju challenges.
Scenario IV: Night used the RP as an excuse to delay his challenges due to him not being able to RP out the RP.
The host and the challenger, and ONLY the host and challenger, determine the nature of the challenge. BOTH decide if the match will be an IC Challenge or an OOC Challenge. This means that if an IC Challenge is chosen, the challenger has to RP learning the host’s identity and location and maneuvers him into a Match. This does not mean that the RP is used as a means for the Host to forever avoid having to face his challenger. The host must make it possible for the challenger to complete the terms of the RP event. This is not the battle part. You are going to face off with each other. You are just being creative about it.
If the OOC Challenge is chosen, then no RP concerning the challenge is performed. The details are agreed upon and the Match takes place.
I quote this again, because it clearly states that the RP portion, in no way or fashion, may be used to avoid/uneedingly delay challenges. Hosts have an obligation to be active, even during tough times.
This last one in particular begs the question of just how long Night was being given for this, and that if his inability to RP is what caused him to pass on the beast, if that can be interpreted as IC challenger dodging, as an OOC host would have no excuse for going an extended time (I'm talking a week to weeks, not a few days) without at least setting up the match proper (as it is claimed to have not been done in this IC case). If so, then Night is in the wrong here and the only thing left to sort out is where the beast goes, rather than if he keeps it or not.