[Game Thread] Dustrag vs. Jandor

[Lormador]

The roar of the crowd is deafening. Orcs, goblins, and humans are pressed into the upper tiers, filling the reeking stone troughs with their slavering filth. Voices rise, drunk on grog, blood, and money, and the stone floor seems to shake with feet trampling and clamboring for a seat. Below them, the prime seats: where puffs of multicolored smoke, twinkling and sparkling with green motes, other clouds of stately blue that hover low over the crowd, give off intoxicating scents as they waft over crowds of drow and duergar, seated on opposite sides. Walled, private boxes are shielded with waving silk, their wealthy inhabitants hidden in shadow. Beholders float above the crowd, black chitinous bulbs, their writhing eyes glaring down about them.

All stare down at the Arena, through the transparent Wall that shields the fighters from any interference, no matter how subtle or intricate, from the spectators. Within the grimy, stained, sandy Arena, the roar of the crowd is muted to a dull rumble, like the sound of distant thunder.

The combatants are brought to their starting places, and the iron doors seem hunched in silence, alive, waiting to open. All take a moment to eye the pedestal floating far above the field of battle, where a red silk sheet covers an unseen object.... a slight hush falls over the crowd as the red silk sheet billows aside, revealing...

Fabulous Prizes! ...a dagger fashioned from a gigantic serrated tooth, springing from a hilt of gleaming silver metal studded with rubies. It's handle is wrapped with worn white hide. Upon the pommel is a large mithril leaf wrapped around a tiny cork: it seems a vial of some kind is stored in the weapon.   It is Life's Grace, a long-lost weapon of the Blood Sage discipline. The weapon was the prized possession of an early master, a gift to him from a wounded adventurer who entered the school for healing. Upon the master's passing, the weapon disappeared.

Procedure for the first post   Please post any buff round actions: there will be 1d3-1 buff rounds, and the roll is secret. Therefore, you should post up to 2 rounds worth of actions. Post buff round strategies secretly. Also roll initiative. The only circumstance in which a combatant could enter the Arena flat-footed is if the buff round roll is 0 and the combatant loses initiative to the door. The door may open on round 0, 1, or 2. I also roll initiative for the door (secretly, of course). Buff round declarations that occur after the opening of the door are void: the declarer does not need to use that buff action, and may instead declare a new set of actions. Generally, these will involve attacking the opponent somehow. At present, some files are divided between my home computer and my work computer: I will remedy this within 24 hours, have the tokens active, and resolve the buff round situation then. Good luck ladies and gentlemen, and enjoy the show!

[Jaruen]

Dustrag moves with a an almost frightening efficiency to the cage room. The creature doesn't pace, doesn't mutter to himself, doesn't seem to do much of anything to psych himself up...in fact, this new combatant seems to evince no emotion at all. He enters the cage, and then begins to chant under his breath, a calming mantra perhaps.

[Tj99]

Jandor appears for his third arena fight, this time determined not to lose. He closes his eyes and blinks out of existence to in other words, nobodyeveryone who can't see invisible. A few strange words come out from his room as he prepares for battle.

[Lormador]

The doors clang open quickly, rudely, almost immediately upon your arrival in the cell. The roar of your crowd reaches your ears, as the flickering warmth of the fiery brazier carries the scent of blood, guts, sand and sweat to your nostrils. The ground quakes with the crowd's tumult.

OOC The door went up on round 0: no buffs are active. Dustrag has the initiative.

[Jaruen]

[Lormador]

[Tj99]

[Jaruen]

[Lormador]

OOC Jandor is invisible due to an at-will item, hence it is legally active before the beginning of the fight. It is not due to a spell or psionic power (not that those can grant invisibility in this game, anyway).

[Jaruen]

The small figure of Dustrag moves quickly from his alcove to stand behind the rock directly in front of his door. He then mutters a single word, and a heavy fog starts to surround him.

[Lormador]

OOC   You may conclude your turn, Jaruen, and then Tj99 will be up.

[Jaruen]

[Eviltedzies]

[Jaruen]

My first turn is done

[Tj99]

Dustrag can hear magical whisperings and see coming from Jandors cells that quickly fade There is little to see or hear as Jandor makes his move.