Notes for Dark Sun 12/10/12 – School Fighting
Barok was approached by the templars to a great display in
the arena. Tosh from Nibenay arrived and he wanted to see the best of what the
school had to offer. Barok was even invited to sit in the posh seats with the
other dignitaries. He was asked to select five of the best gladiators from
Barok’s School for Gladiator Who Want to Fight Good and Do Other Things Good
Too (now called Barok’s School). Barok chose Xraneth, a thri-kreen from Xanus’s
clutch, Tryranicus Thawk, the younger nearly identical brother of Adamicus
Thawk, Red Teeth, a Halfling with teeth stained red from blood, Mighty Nautilus
a dwarf in a mask, and El Draque, a Dray with yellow and black armor. There
would be five challenges.
After arriving at the arena, they learned they would be
facing two other teams of gladiators. One group was from Nibenay, and the other
was from a famous but unnamed school within Tyr. There were nicely dressed
elemental priests from all the elements, plus one. The challenges would be
based on these elements. Each gladiator could only represent their team once
and then would only be relegated to a helper role.
The first challenge was the challenge of Earth. Barok’s team
fronted Nautilus the dwarf, while the other two teams but in a human and a mul.
Everyone else on the teams could throw rocks at the other two school’s entries
as they scrambled to get to the top of a small hill of jagged rocks. At the top
was a crown of obsidian. The winner would scramble up, snatch up the crown,
then they would win. The three tiers they had to climb were covered with sharp
rocks, though. Once the competition started, Team Barok pelted the mul with a
ton of rocks. He was almost dead before he made it to the third tier, but the
human remained pretty unpelted. He made it to the top at the same time as
Nautilus and snatched the crown. Nautilus used his giant hair belt as a whip to
snatch the crown away and won at the last minute. In reward, he received a very
nice set of armor.
After the game of the Earth, everyone got a small rest. The
mul was dead, and the human battered. Barok’s team used some of their special
items to bribe the attendants to learn the next contest was the contest of
fire, and that one of the opponents was a half giant. Tryranicus bribed an
attendant to slip a laxative into the half-giant’s drink, and then the game
began.
The challenge of fire was to defeat a fire elemental in a
ring of hot coals. Everyone only had a dagger, but better weapons could be
obtained from burning braziers around the ring. The dray competed for Barok’s school
and there was also a half elf. The dray grabbed the half-elf and face planted
her into the elemental, beating her until she was unconscious. The half-giant
attacked the fire elemental a few times before the Dray turned her attention on
him, breathing fire in his face. Then she attacked the elemental, almost
killing it, but the half-giant could have stolen the victory. Tryranicus Thawk
distracted the half-giant, giving the Dray a chance to make the killing blow,
which she did and got the gem. In reward
she got a nice sword.
The next competition was the competition of air. Barok’s
team selected Red Teeth. In this chariots of various colors and prestige would
attack those teams who summoned them. Each had two colored kestrekel tails and
if the gladiator could grab those they would score points. The other members of
the team built the stands to attract the chariots. Red Teeth proved very
effective, as did the rest of Barok’s team. Because they had good teamwork and
better tactics than the other teams, Red Teeth was able to attract the best
chariot, the Golden chariot, twice. Both times he took the tails, and he won.
In reward, he got a new cloak of kestrekel feathers.
There was a small break before the next two contests to be
resolved next game…
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