CircuitGrrl: According to the people around her, crafting materials tend to wind up in the hands of guilds, who have no interest in selling them. Recipes, it seems, are unlocked by reaching higher levels of skill in particular crafts, with the initial level and associated recipes unlocked by having access to a crafting workshop.
Quartus: Quartus leaves the stands to bet again, while the winner helps the loser to his feet. The next match, pitting a cavalier against a pegasus knight, comes up fast, with only a five minute break to facilitate betting between the rounds. Quartus puts his money on the pegasus knight, who sports a slightly better speed.
When he returns to the stands, his seat is taken, but the walkways are clear enough to stand in as the two riders, each armed with a lance, eye each other from opposite ends of the arena. With the ring of a bell, the fight starts, and both fighters urge their mounts forward. A moment before the two come into striking range, the pegasus rider pulls up sharply, out of the cavaliers reach, rolls in the air, and dives, now behind the cavalier's back. She aims her lance dead center on his back, but the cavalier dismisses his mount, tumbling to the dirt and evading the pegasus rider's lance. He struggles to his feet as the pegasus rider comes around, and charges directly at the unhorsed rider.
Then, in an instant, it's over. The cavalier, having held his ground until the last second, dodged out of the way of his opponent's lance, and let her impale herself on his own lance, before catapulting her over his head and slamming her into the arena floor.
The mage sitting next to Quartus is barely audible over the rest of the crowd. "That was a hell of a crit."
Quartus loses 51 gold.