You could always make it an NPC?
I'd prefer not to run my own character in a tournament I'm running.
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Eight souls are found, in a fight among eight beings.
One soul feels it and decides it means he's a god. Jeekins the kobold with this delusion takes gatorhide armor and a plundered gold dwarven scepter with diamond spikes for a mace. His target, who he spies while in hiding, is an elf who has been banished for a mistake, losing even his name. He wears travelling clothes and carries a bow and a pair of long, thin knives.
Miles to the north and a thousand feet higher, a raccoon steals a fine bronze axe. Darwuf, the smith who made the axe, notes this and runs from his volcanic forge, shouting angrily at the beast and waving a stone smithing hammer.
Heading west over the mountains, there is another fortress with a tavern. Two dwarves, a hired hand named Barloff and a cheesemaker named Urist, are having a dispute over dealing with the neighboring human city-state, which has gone so far as to allow goblins to enter its gates and even trade. Barloff grabs a stone mug, Urist a chair, and they begin to fight.
In this very city-state--Goldenroads--another dispute was starting over equally trivial matters. A goblin trader named Gartuk and a native taxidermist named Ger were arguing over how much a fine lion pelt was worth. It's hard to say if Ger drew his small crossbow an instant before or barely after Gartuk snatched an axe from a nearby merchant, but either way a fight was starting.
Eight beings and more watched the fights.
What do all of you do?