The arena sands are bloody, the crowd cheering for the surprise upset of GertI don't get recognised by the crowd either!?!?
But seriously I will ask the gods for strength and then break free!
You call upon the gods (you have no personal one) and struggle and struggle! You manage to clear yourself of the limbs and entanglements you have. (3)
Rindclaw snarls, spit and blood slavering from his teeth. He rears on his hind legs, clawing at Rasilux (6) (RTD: 6). His attack lands, scarring your shield which you use to defend yourself, but one claw slices down your chest.
Unwrap the whip around Dragnar's neck
Kill the tiger
You manage to unwrap the whip from dragnar's neck, he is able to breathe normally again but still bleeding.
Turning in the arena sand, your axes come down at the tiger (3) (RTD: 6), you miss but his dodge places him within striking distance of the next attacker (-1 to dodge).
*Follow through on the Tiger, hacking at it again.*
(Or if it is already dead, skin it)
Take Gurt's greaves. (With so many of us taking two items might be a little too presumptuous RNG)
You get the bronze greaves, and attack Rindclaw, (2) but miss completely.
You do nothing, and try to heal and wake up (2) but you are still in dire straits. You continue to bleed heavily (2+1, 4) and grow very weak from loss of blood.
I hold my trident with one hand, and with a truly barbaric show of strength, heft the tiger above my head and bring it down upon the trident, full force.
You lift the tiger above your head and bring it down towards the trident (1), but impale your forearm on your own trident! Your trident is now stuck in your arm and you have a moderate bleeding wound there.
I throw my shield at the tiger, then charge.
Spinning in the air, your thrown shield flies towards the tiger, floats on the air, and heads right back at YOU! (1). Thankfully, you manage to flatten yourself and it flies past.
What, I don't get any recognition from the crowd for either devising tactics or skewering Gert on my spear?
Place Gert's head atop my spear and lift it high into the air!
Remove Gert's pauldron and equip it.
You brutally tick Gert's head atop your spear, transforming your spear into a skull-adorned bronze spear. The crowd roars with delight at the brutality! (1/3).
You take Gert's pauldron and wear it.
Character ListName: Cato Ambustu
Status: Moderate wound in chest, commanding battlefield (gives the upper hand)
Gender: Male
Age and Background: 24 years of age. When he was 22, his father fell into debt and sold his son into slavery to pay it off, while faking his son's death to save face. He despises his father Duilius, though does not hate the rest of his family. Since he is supposed to be dead, he can not use his true name, Cato Tacitus Flavius.
Height and Weight: 6'2" 174lbs
Traits: Tactician(1/4), Counter-Attacker
Deity(optional): Minerva
Items:
Skull-adorned bronze spear (1 human skull), Bronze Helmet, Bronze Breastplate, -bronze pauldron- (1.5)
Name:Paulus
Status:
Gender:Male
Age and Background:(16 yrs.)One of the germanic tribesman from the northern territories he was taken as a prisoner of war as a young boy.
Height:6' Weight:160 lbs
Traits: Defensive fighter, Herbal lore
Deity:Mother Nature
Items:Hand axe (1),Shield, partially damaged (1), Bronze Breastplate (1), bronze greaves (1), Sandals, Loincloth
Name: Maceris
Status: Has tiger caught with entrail-lariat, left hand impaled on own trident, moderately bleeding.
Gender: Male
Age and Background: 27; once Quintus Vitruvius Licinus, he was forced into slavery to pay his debts. His father, a blacksmith, perished three years ago. He was heavily in debt, and that debt was simply passed onto Licinus. He was soon captured, and ended up slave to Gnaeus Hostilius Macer. Unwanted as a slave, he became a gladiator.
Height and Weight: 6'2", 170 lbs
Traits:Can withstand pain, metalworker.
Deity(optional): Ianus
Items: Trident, buckler, breastplate, leather facemask.
Name: Lupus "The Butcher" Prowne
Status: Angry
: Male
Age and Background: 27 year old, Lupus use to live in a outpost town far from the walls of Rome, living a quiet life with a family. Until he went insane. Lupus is charge with the slaughtering of almost a hundred people, the bodies always torn to chunks. By the time he was caught, he was well known in the surrounding area, becoming something of a bogyman. He seems to have a affiliation with the moon.
Height and Weight: 6' 3", 240 lb
Traits: Axeman(1/4), Insane, dabbling Chirugeon
Items:
2 Hand-Axes
Leather Shirt
Leather Greaves
Name:Flintix
Status: Minor bite on left calf
Gender:Male
Age and backround: 32, Flintix was a member of a higher class Gaulic family and was the brother of a highly decorated chieftan. Flintix fought alongisde the great Vercingetorix but was inevitably and to his great shame captured. Now he is a broken man fighting for the entertainment of those he hates and longs for the day he will break out and slaughter all Romans.
Height and Weight:6' 5'', 270 lbs
Traits:Very powerful, Leadership.
Items: Gladius, Javelin, Net. Bronze Breastplate
Name: Rashilix
Status: Scratch on right arm, minor wound to shoulder
Gender: Male
Age and Background: 24, Was captured and taken away when the romans invaded his little Armorican village and burned it down
Height and Weight: 5'7", 175 lb. I notice that almost everyone is tall, even by today's standards
Traits: Well-built, swordsman
Deity(optional): Toutatis
Items: Gladius, scratched bronze Shield, Bronze Pauldron, bloody mongrel head worn on head
Name: dragnar
Status: Unconscious, weak from heavy blood loss. Minor bite on face, one bleeding minor bite to face, small bruise on throat, bleeding from crippled leg.
Gender: male
Age and Background: A man of few words and precise action. He does not speak of why he was brought to the arena, but he has a noble air about him, and he seems to fight for more than just his life.
Height and Weight: 5' 6"
Traits: calm, tactical
Deity(optional): none
Items: gladius, shield, facemask
Area: Rindclaw the Tiger, crowd shocked and cheering for bloodshed.
Race: Egyptian
Status: Dead
Traits: Animal Tamer, Cruel
Weapons: +bronze gladius+ imbedded in dragnar(2), leather whip(.5)
Armor: Bronze Greaves(1),
Race: Tiger
Status: Enraged (-1attack/+1 damage) heavy bruise on head, hungry, caught by back foot, missing ear, gash on back.
Traits: 'Tamed', Quick
Weapons: Claws (1) Bite (2)
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Dragnar: Known and liked (0/5)
The Butcher: Known (1/3)
Maceris: Known (1/3)
Cato: Known (1/3)
Flintus: Known and the butt of jokes (1/3)