You're dead, you already know that. Depending on your alignment, you might have expected to go to some (un)pleasant afterlife, but... something is different than you expected.
The room you stand in is shadowy, and you can't see any exits. It looks almost like an office; big desk at one end of the room, bookcases line the wall behind it, and the other walls bear shelves covered in miscellaneous trinkets. Under each item you can see a label, barely legible in the half-light. You lean over and read one of them beneath a quietly humming, rune-encrusted object:
Light of Ijesean: Retrieved from the Imperial Palace, circa 374sc. It hits you then; the objects are trophies. Spoils of jobs performed. A voice interrupts your thoughts.
"Not quite the afterlife you were expecting, is it?"A figure stands up from the chair behind the desk. You could have sworn it wasn't there a moment ago...
"You see, I think you've got potential and we've got some... events going on. Most of the gods want the games to be bloody spectaculars, but shows of skill and cunning are worth bonus points of divine favor."You have, quite frankly, not the foggiest idea of what he's talking about. The being walks over next to you and scans the ranks of objects.
"Then again, I'm sure you haven't heard of what's going on. Apparently some orc deity got the idea in his head to build an arena for our entertainment, and next thing you know we've got a whole new demiplane and everything. Divinities are lining up to see the proceedings, and I'm not about to let that opportunity go by without a bit of nice, old-fashioned capitalism. And that is where you come in."It turns to you, and under it's hood you can see the glint of two eyes.
"You'll be competing in a little something I've cooked up, along with a few other candidates. The deal is this: you fight for the entertainment of divine beings, and, in exchange, you can win great prizes, including the greatest prize of all for mortals: another chance at life. Are you in?"
Rules of the game:
Character creation is set to level 5, 32 point build. Or you can bring in a character from another game, as long as they fit into tier 8 (info on tiers is in the main arena thread).
Non-core and homebrewed things approved on a case-by-case basis.
Psionics are allowed, though I wouldn't recommend them in this case.
1 flaw allowed.
Your character will be thrown into an arena full of twists, turns, traps, and a dragon. Your goal is to survive by hiding from the dragon, setting and disabling traps, and killing the other players. The game will be play-by-post, and character-specific information (position, setting traps, where the character thinks the dragon is) will be handled by private messages.