(Sorry about not posting last cycle. I had Computer troubles.)
Kryz's meditation lasted longer than he had expected. He pulled himself from his thoughts and examined what had happened. Everyone was preparing for war, and others were teaching their people strange ways. Kryz saw that his beings were beings of honor and, unfortunately, beings prone to combat. Brawl often broke out amongst the Storm-kin and the Boltlings. While these brawls were fought as if they were matters of life and death, they always ended with the combatants congratulating each other on a fight well fought. He decided to create a grand arena and allow the Storm-kin to fight without destroying parts of their homes. Kryz told the plane to form an arena large enough to seat all the beings of his plane. The walls rose high enough to me considered mountains, and the actual battleground was large enough to be a island. He appeared before his creations in the grand arena and delivered to them a message.
" My chldren, I have created this arena to allow you to engage in honorable combat against each other without causing collateral damage." As he finished his sentence, Kryz raised an arm and pointed towards a wall. A bolt of lightning burst from his finger and carved words into the wall. "Those" said Kryz, "shall be the rules of engagement. Those who break them shall be banished from the arena. Now, Let the combat begin." and with that Kryz disappeared.
After Kryz disappeared, the Storm-kin and Boltlings gathered around the section of the wall in which the rules were engraved. The rules read as follows:
1) Weapons are forbidden. You shall rely upon your own strength, not the strength of a peice of steel.
2) Slaying the opponent is forbidden. Those who willingly slay an opponent in the arena shall be banned from the arena and have to answer to me.
3) There may be more that one oppenent on each side of a battle but each side must be equal in number for a battle to begin. If sides are unequal the fight will be postponed until the sides are equal in number.
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Kryz then turned his attention to his unfinished thoughts. He proceeded to complete his thoughts, but restrained himself from beginning any new ones. As he contemplated these thoughts he grew, both physically and emotionally.
Teach Populace (3 of 4AP): Rules of Engagment
Evolve Physically (0 of 4AP)