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[TopHat]

 It'll be a lot easier than starting from scratch.
My team will also keep participating.

[Ishar]

I've already described the basic mechanics to Tophat via PM, but I'll do so again here:

-Rule #1: Common sense. Whoever gets hit with a mace of a 20-foot monster without some incredibly good armor, gets seriously hurt. Also, animals tend not to survive lightning strikes, things like that.
-DF logic whereever possible. Death comes from bleeding out, damage of vital organs, decapitation, dismemberment, etc. Adamantine is epic, catching on fire is dangerous, but dragons are immune to it, shields block projectiles well, etc. All of you know these.
-I use random.org for the "rolls" on 1-10 scale. I roll an attack and a defense roll for every character, 10 is a critical hit, 1 is a critical fail, the outcome depends on both of the rolls. A hit of 10 with a defense roll of 1 could be a decapitation, a relatively successful defense roll of 5 might just lead to a broken arm.
-Ranged fighters go first (mages, rangers), then the melee ones. Most animals are quicker than humanoids, by the rule of common sense: A wolf definitely sprints faster than any human could, but a cave croc doesn't. Some of the creatures (like ogres) are really slow, and ranger fighters might get in two hits with good rolls. Depends on the situation.
-I used some elemental alignments for some of the creatures, tried to make sense: metal armor doesn't protect well from heat, animal fur catches on fire, dragons are vulnerable to water magic, etc.
-Same goes for inherent strenghts and weaknesses. Warriors suck against fliers, and vulnerable to projectiles without a shield, mages are of course glass cannons, and die easily, rouges are great at a distance, but weak up close, armor is good against arrows, but not good against magic, etc. Again, logic.
-There was never an exact 'HP' or 'damage' system, kind of like what DF shows to a player: there are injuries, consequences of injuries, and after enough punishment, a combatant dies, that's it.

There is definitely room for improvement about this half-baked 'system', as it's still not very objective: sure, the rolls determine roughly what succeeds and fails, but I still got to decide how much of a failure it was. I tried to be fair, but this might have distorted some of the fights in favor of the player's teams. A strict system might have been better, but honestly, that would've been just too much work for me, writing updates took long enough as they were.

You can continue with my method if you want, or think of something different, I only have two requests:
-If you change things, do so in a way that the current characters can remain (maybe balance them is needed), a restart is not cool.
-Since there are two of you, whatever you do, please do the same. It wouldn't be fair if you could realisitcally take on an ogre chieftain on wednesday, and the same thing would completely butcher you on the weekend, because the two GMs use different systems or stats.

[Ishar]

Spoiler: My fights (click to show/hide)

Ishar struck toward the minotaur, and unfortunately, the monster also attacked at the same time. The sheer difference in power meant that while minotaur was barely hurt, Ishar suddenyl had a broken arm right in the opening moments of the fight. He tried to slavage the situation, but only managed to evade another incoming attack. The third one finally hit him, cutting open his chest. He collapsed from the pain, and the minotaur chopped off his head.

Sir chose a different tactic, he didn't want to match his opponent's savagery, he waited for an attack, parried it, and then countered with his own weapon. The minotaur deflected that as well, but at least the dwarf wasn't hurt. He tried another attack, but the minotaur easily blocked that as well. Suddenly, the old commander lost his patience, and cut off the mintaur's left arm with a powerful swing.
That did it. The monster's wound was gushing with blood, it swinged around with its gigantic battleaxe, but Sir only needed to dodge a few attacks before the blood loss got his opponent.

Urshak collided with his opponent, but neither of them could damage the other with the initial charge. After a quick exchange of blows and parries, Urshak's superior equipment tips the scale in his favor: his armor protects him from any real harm, and his adamantine battleaxe cuts deep even into the minotaur's thick flesh. Finally, the minotaur misses his mark once, and Urshak seizes the opportunity, chopping the skull of the minotaur in half.

Amroth simply gets lucky: His lightning disarms the minotaur, and Ice tackles it to the ground. It may be a fierce monster, but it's not a threat to a fully trained, adamatine-clad direwolf without its weapon. Amroth doesn't have much to do during the rest of the fight, he can't get a good shot, so he's stuck with healing Ice whenever the minotaur seems to deal any damage, which is not much. Ice totally dominates the fight, preventing the minotaur from getting the axe back, and slowly bites it to submission.

Silus shows why she was the commander of an elite military squad: He straight up hits the minotaur in the face with her spear, taking off half of its face. The minotaur is in serious pain, but its pain gets overpowered by a berserk rage, and tries to tackle Silus. The dwarf responds by bashing it in the healthy side of its face with her shield, pretty much ruining that as well. The monster gets blinded for a moment, and that's enough for Silus, she trusts her spear deep into the chest of the minotaur. She pierces several internal organs, and the beast dies after a brief, but extremely painful struggle. Spears tend to do that to a person.

4800 gold, Ishar is dead, it takes 150 gold to revive him (he got three critical fails)

Spoiler: Elfcollaborator's fight (click to show/hide)

Mog shoots his flamethrower at the approaching minotaurs, with little results: the spell just isn't concentrated enough against such tough enemies. Cadmus shows him how it's done, as he shoots one minotaur in the throat, felling that one instantly. The collapsed minotaur soon dies, but that still leaves two of them charging the team. Medea freezes one of them for a moment, but the spell was rushed a bit, so the minotaur is expected to break out in a few seconds. The other one bats Firehawk away, who unfortunately loses consciousness, but doesn't seem to be hurt otherwise.
Still, Wendell only needs to face one of them at a time. At first, he doesn't seem to seize the opportunity, as he gets his nose broken by the pommel of the minotaur's axe, but comes back with a fistful of claws to the stomach. The minotaur retches, and starts to vomit. Wendell kicks it over, and leaves it to die in its own guts and vomit.
He doesn't have time to finish it off properly anyway, as the third minotaur breaks out of the ice, and charges toward him. Wendell dodges it, and as the minotaur turns around for another attack, it gets a flaming arrow (that Mog enchanted) into the head that pierces its skull. It falls down, and just to be sure, Medea breaks its neck with an ice ball just for good measure.

3600 gold. Firehawk got a bit unlucky, but not much.

Spoiler: Tophat's fight (click to show/hide)

Tyd shoots the minotaur in the leg, and it almost falls over. Ettad is there change 'almost' falling down into staying down permanently, and tries to hit the minotaur in the head. It parries, so Ettad is forced to just knee it in the groin. The minotaur falls face-first to the ground, and Tyd's next bolt impales its weapon-hand, so it drops the battleaxe. Ettad steps on the axe, and slashes open the other hand's wrist as well. The minotaur tries to stab him with its horns, which Ettad skillfully evades. Since the beast is still kind of in one place, Tyd has enough time to carefully aim his third shot, which goes through one of the minotaur's eyeballs, and destroys most of its brain. The dead minotaur twitches a few times when it falls down, but that's it.

1200 gold.

Spoiler: Mesor's fight (click to show/hide)

Thranduil shoots one of the ogres in the chest, but it barely slows it down. Radaghast tries to freeze the other one, also without much success. The direwolves tackle one of the minotaurs, and stop it from getting to the gladiators, but the other four enemies get through.
Which isn't a terrible problem fro Freya, who straight up beheads one of the ogres. Celeborn doesn't want to stay behind, so he also slits a minotaur throat. The third minotaur wildly slashes at Thranduil, but the elf dodges without any problems, and shoots the minotaur in the chin from below, and the arrow pierces its skull vertically.
In an incredibly lucky turn of events, most of these powerful enemies are dead within seconds of the match, and it's too late to change that. The surviving ogre attacks Freya, and the dwarf is forced to block with her weapon.  This protects her from a crippling blow, but she also loses hold of the axe. She quickly bashes the ogre in the face with her shield, and rolls away from another strike. Thranduil sees her dire situation, and tries to help, but misses his mark this time. Radaghast, however, is wildly successful: this time, he gets the freezing spell right, and deepfreezes the ogre, and as it's customary, Celeborn arrives to shatter it.
The direwolves are still locked in vicious combat with their minotaur: they are too fast for the monster, but they also fail to directly attack it. Freya joins the battle, and her entrance is quite bloody: she lops off an arm, just like that. The direwolves get crazy from the sight of so much blood, and throw themsleves at the minotaur. The horned beast furiously tries to keep the wolves away, and it even succeeds at throwing Ghost away, but the other two force it to the ground, and start feasting.
All of the enemies are dead, and no gladiator is seriously injured at all.

5200 gold.

Tomio didn't choose a fight for today.

And this ends Minotaur Friday - literally EVERYBODY fought minotaurs. They are the goblins of 2012 or something.

[Ishar]

I will buy full adamantine armor for Silus (3000), revive Ishar of course (150), and do the following stat increases:

Urshak +5 STR (750)
Urshak +2 END (100)
Urshak+2 AGI (300)
Silus +2 STR (300)

I will fight two cyclops' (Cyclopses? Cyclopsi?) for my next turn.

Spoiler: My team (click to show/hide)

Name: Ishar
Traits:
STR: 15
END: 10
AGI: 15+8
INT: 4
Backstory:
He was a sellsword for quite a while, but then he decided that it was simpler and potentially more lucrative to voluntarily sign himself up as a gladiator. This was kind of convenient for him, as he was and still is a free man, so he can manage himself, and keep all the winnings. Aims to put together a formidable team to live a life of luxury. Kind of a selfish prick.
In battle, he favors quick movement, light armor, and a single two-handed weapon.
Class: Warrior
Weapon: Adamantine sword (two-handed)
Equipment: Dragonleather armor, Dragonleather leggings, Dragonleather boots, Dragonleather cloak (+8 AGI, +3 ARMOR from set)

Name: 'Sir' (real name unknown)
Traits:
STR: 16
END: 11
AGI: 9
INT: 2
Class: Warrior
Weapon: Adamantine sword (two-handed)
Equipment: Mithril armor, Mithril leggings, Mithril boots, Mithril helmet (+5 ARMOR from set)

Name: Amroth
Race: Human
Traits:
STR:5
END: 5
AGI: 10+4
INT: 15
Backstory:
Class: Air Mage
Weapon: Staff
Equipment: Hydra leather armor, Hydra leather leggings, Hydra leather boots, Hydra leather cloak (AGI +4 from set)
Spells: Gust of Wind lvl 1, Second Wind lvl 2, Fly lvl 1, Lightning lvl 5

Name: Urshak
Race: Orc
Traits:
STR: 18
END: 9
AGI: 9-3
INT: 4
Backstory (Completely optional, but always amusing):
An orc bandit, he used to be a simple highwayman, robbing caravans and simple travellers on the road, until he and his fellow raiders were caught by the city guard. Only Urshak survived, and he was sentenced to a life of slavery for his crimes. Ishar bought him on the slave market.
Class:
Weapon: Adamantine Axe
Equipment: Bronze Shield, Adamantine armor, Adamantine leggings, Adamantine boots, Adamantine helmet (+10 ARMOR, -3 AGI from set)

Name: Silus (female)
Traits:
STR: 16
END: 12
AGI: 12-3
INT: 5
Class: Warrior
Weapon: Adamantine spear
Equipment: Bronze shield, Adamantine armor, Adamantine leggings, Adamantine boots, Adamantine helmet (+10 ARMOR, -3 AGI from set)

Ice: War-trained Direwolf (adamantine armor)

I will collect the character sheets later today, and update them at the beginning of the thread, but I have to work for now.

[TopHat]

I'll take on Four gladiator champions

Spoiler: team status (click to show/hide)

Name: Tyd Josis
Race: kobold
Traits:
Strength:  9[-1]
Endurence: 15
Agility: 15[-1][+1]
Intelligence: 5
Backstory: none (as of yet...)
Class: ranger
Weapon: war crossbow
Equipment: DragonLeather cloak, Leather boots, DragonLeather armour, DragonLeather leggings, Iron buckler.
Battle honours: +1 AGI (already added to profile).
Deaths: 2 (swarm of antmen, single handedly trying to kill a bear-riding gobbo)

Name: Ettad Starmangles
Race: human
Class: warrior
Traits:
Strength: 15
Endurance: 15
Agility: 15[-2]
Intelligence: 5
Backstory: none
Weapon: Adamantine battle axe.
Equipment: leather cloak, Steel shield.
Armour: steel boots, steel leggings, steel armour, steel helmet [-2 AGI, +6 Armour]
Battle honours-+1END (already added into profile)
Deaths: 1 (beheading by dragon)

Trophy cabinet: copper helm (first death, antmen swarm.)

Purchases:Dragonleather armour, leggings, and cloak.(also selling Tyd's redundant leather garb.)
Gold: 150

[tomio175]

I actually did choose a fight...

No wait, fight a Gladiator Champion (human) and two tigers.

[Ishar]

That already happened, and you won 700 gold:

Spoiler: Here it is (click to show/hide)

Darnack (surprisingly) hits one of the tigers remarkably hard with his first firebolt, killing the beast instantly. That stops the other tiger long eanough for Wolf to engage. The feral beast is immediately overpowered, and forced to the ground. It retaliates for a while, but getting up isn't likely.
Bear reaches the champion sooner than Udmog, and tries to maul him. The agile gladiator (fully clad in hydraleather armor) evades, and counters with his own mithril blade. Bear's adamantine armor protects from any damage, but the gladiator dodges his next attack as well. By this time, Udmog reaches them, tries to club the gladiator to death, but his attack also hits nothing but thin air. Unfortunately, he doesn't have armor like Bear, so he definitely feels when the counterattack hits him, a nasty stab to the stomach.
Udmog lets out a shout, and grabs the blade, holding it in his wound. The champion is helpless, as he is forced to let go of his weapon, to evade Bear. Wolf and Darnack are immediately upon him, and while he neatly dodges the firebolt, the direwolf gets him, jumps on his back, and slows him down enough for Bear to finally finish him off.
700 gold, but Udmog is injured, so he either sits the next fight out, or starts with half HP.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

I'll give Dog adamantine armor (800), sell Cadmus' bronze armor and leather cloak (460), buy him dragonleather armor (2300), boost Mog and Medea to iron pikes (400) and get Mog Fire Shield Lv2 (200), and Medea Earthen Defence Lv2 (100).

I'll take on two ogres.

Spoiler: My team: (click to show/hide)

Gladiator name: Mog
Race: Moogle (Assume human stat boosts)
Traits:
STR: 5
END: 10
AGI: 10
INT: 14
Class: Fire Mage
Weapon: Iron Pike
Backstory:
"I like fire. A lot. Want to see some?"

A moogle from the Mog Canyon in the North. A rare sight within the moogles, with his magical skill, the ambitious moogle joined the Arena, after years of study, to attempt to prove himself to his people, who didn't believe in magic's uses.
Equipment: Robe
Spells: Firebolt 3, Flamethrower 2, Flaming Weapon 2, Enflame 2, Fire Shield 2
Other information: Hates kobolds.

Gladiator name: Cadmus
Race: Elf (-1STR, +1AGI)
Traits:
STR: 10 (11-1)
END: 10
AGI: 19(9+8)(+1)
INT: 5
Class: Ranger
Backstory:
"Stay still, it'll be quick, young deer."

An elf from the Silverleaf Wood. He was prized as a marksman in his tree-village, and he was sent off to the cities in search of fortune. The Arena was open to him, and he joined to gain wealth for his people.
Weapon: Masterwork Longbow
Equipment: Dragonleather Cloak, Dragonleather Armor, Dragonleather Leggings, Dragonleather Boots

Gladiator Name: Medea
Race: Human
STR: 6
END: 10
AGI: 10
INT: 12
Class:Water Mage
Backstory:
"Peace and calm are my two favourite words."

A woman from the town of Glendow. She was the daughter of a rich family, and studied many areas, including astronomy and the sciences. She showed a great aptitude for water magic, however, and the Guild of Mages took her in to educate her. She came to the Arena, two years later, to prove her skill.
Weapon: Iron Pike
Equipment: Robe of Power (+1 INT, +damage to all her offensive spells)
Spells: Heal 3, Freeze 2, Ice Ball 3, Multiheal 3, Earthen Defense 2

Gladiator Name: Wendell
Race: Orc (+3 STR, -3 AGI, 6 END)
STR: 14 (11+3)
END: 11 (6+5)
AGI: 12 (5-3+8)
INT: 5
Class: Warrior
Backstory:
"I fight only the strong, and seek nothing but the strong."

An Orc from the Northern Pass. A man from one of the nomadic clans roaming it, Wendell was prized as a fighter against various competing clans, Wendell eventually sought bigger things to fight, and, tiring of the clans he once fought who now feared Wendell, telling tales about him being a demon come to claim their souls, came to the Arena, seeking it.
Weapon: Steel Claws
Equipment: Steel Buckler, Dragonleather Cloak, Dragonleather Armor, Dragonleather Boots, Dragonleather Leggings

Gladiator Name: Firehawk
Race: Dwarf
Traits:
STR: 12
END: 10
AGI: 10
INT: 5
Class: Warrior
Backstory:
"..."

A dwarf from the mysterious fortress of Shadytorments. He somehow ended up being captured and sent to the Arena, where he was defeated by the gladiators of this team. He signalled to join the group out of respect for the gladiators with the ability to defeat him, and since has become a part of the team. Not much is known about Firehawk, due to his past being unknown to the Arena (or me. )
Weapon: Mithril Greatsword
Equipment: Mithril Breastplate

Pet name: Dog
Species: Wolf
Backstory:
"Woof!"

A wolf tamed by Cadmus in his nightly jaunts into the city. He brought the wolf into the Arena after paying an exorbitant amount of money to get him in.
Equipment: Adamantine Armor
War trained: Yes

180 g

[tomio175]

Ooh! Fight two gladiator champs then. (humans, ofc)

[mesor]

I'll fight 2 werewolves and 3 trolls.

Previous gold : 70
Prize money : 5200
Current gold : 5270
Sell Celeborns wooden buckler ( +50 )
Buy Adamantine buckler for Celeborn ( -560 )
Sell Freyas steel shield ( +480 )
But Adamantine shield for Freya ( -800 )
Sell Freyas Mithril armor, leggings, boots and helmet ( +1000 )
Buy Adamantine armor, leggings, boots and helmet ( -3000 )
Level 3 Multi heal for Radaghast ( -300 )
Level 4 Multi heal for Radaghast ( -400 )
Level 5 Multi heal for Radaghast ( -500 )
Freya Agility to 15 ( -950 )
Freya Endurance 11 ( -100 )
Thranduil Lightning arrow ( -100 )
Remaining gold : 90

Spoiler: My team (click to show/hide)

Name : Thranduil Levan
Traits :  A master ranger from the woodland realm he grew bored of he's long life among the trees and seeking excitement came with he's brother to try he's luck in the arena.
Str : 14( 15-1 )
End : 15
Agi : 23 ( 15+8 )
Int : 2
Backstory :
Class : Ranger
Weapon : Bow&Arrows ( Masterwork , Lightning arrows. )
Equipment :Dragon Leather Leggings: 600, Armor: 1000, Boots: 300, Cloak: 400 
Other information : Has serious issues with goblins , will show them no mercy.

Name :  Celeborn Levan
Traits :
Str : 14 ( 15-1 )
End : 15
Agi : 23 ( 15+8 )
Int : 1
Backstory : A master of stealth and light weapons he grew bored of he's long life in the woodland realm and came to the arena with he's brother to try he's luck.
Class :  Rogue
Weapon : Claws ( Adamantine )
Equipment :Dragon Leather Leggings: 600, Armor: 1000, Boots: 300, Cloak: 400, Adamantine Buckler: 560

Name : Radaghast Brown.
Traits :
Strength 5
Endurance 15
Agility 17 ( 9+8 )
Intelligence 15
Class : Mage , Water alignment.
Weapon : Pike.
Spells : Ice ball level 5 , Heal level 1 , Freeze level 5 , Multi heal level 2
Equipment :Dragon Leather Leggings: 600, Armor: 1000, Boots: 300, Cloak: 400 

Name: Freya
Traits:
STR: 16
END: 11
AGI: 12 ( 15-3 )
INT: 2
Class: Warrior
Weapon: Adamantine battleaxe
Equipment: Adamantine Shield: 800, Adamantine Leggings: 800, Adamantine Armor: 1200, Adamantine Boots: 500, Adamantine Helmet: 500

Wraith,Alpha Dire wolf, Adamantine armor, War trained.
Specter, dire wolf, Adamantine armor, War trained.
Ghost, dire wolf, Adamantine armor, War trained.

[Ishar]

So... is it over?

[TopHat]

Damn, sorry, forgot I have the wed update now. It won't happen again.
I guess that means ElfCollaberator has the next turn.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

I'll do it later, I'm still in bed doing this from a smartphone and I'm too lazy to get to my laptop.