[Game Thread] Yogge Mothi vs. Sirith

[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 short sword with a black metal blade, blood-grooved, and a dull golden hilt, fashioned in the shape of a pair of leaves. The hilt is wrapped with black scaly dragonhide. The blade is festooned with a triple weapon capsule retainer, and the pommel is a learing ivory skull. It seems extended and elongated: and it screws off, allowing one to place a small wand within it.   It is Last Gasp, a nearly unknown weapon of the Black Lotus discipline. None know who wielded it, nor do legends circulate concerning the fell deeds it's been put to: only a vague foreboding and sense of betrayal surrounds the blade.

Initial Door Rolls Revealed Dice Roll: 1d3-1 (1)-1 Total = 0 Dice Door Initiative: 1d20 2

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!

[aivanther]

Sirith enters his cell and pops his knuckles. He then relaxes where he stands and prepares for the door.

[Yogge Mothi]

Yogge enters his cell, eager to spill more blood. He begins preparing as quick as he can, hoping the gate doesn't open immediately this time.

[Eviltedzies]

The sudden tension is broken by the rapid clanging of the doors opening within the first few seconds of the match. The braziers lighting the borders of the arena reveal it's blood soaked grounds and the throngs of audience members eager to see a bloodbath.

OOC No buffs have happened. Yogge has the initiative.