End result: New US Champion after Miz tapped to an abdominal stretch. :3 (Yes, I do use weak, preliminary submission holds like that to win big matches. Man, I would be so unpopular if I was an actual wrestler. Sleeperholds, rear chinlocks, side headlocks, abdominal stretches, bearhugs, and single-leg Boston crabs all day, baby. The crowd would be chanting 'boring' so loudly Australians could hear it. :3)
Kidnap a magical elf-enchanted scepter worth nearly 1,000,000 Dwarfbucks and able to heal wounds.
In anger, Tala heads out of the cave to eat some peeps. Little does she know, the alchemist she brought back to the cave and ate had a love potion in his pocket. Uh oh.
Arogeth takes a 'different' solution to Tala's nagging :3
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(Counter Taric) Tala is frankly unimpressed,and instead beats the utter crap out of him, and shames his social life forever.
The local knights guild assaults the cave one day while Tala is out. Sadly they fail to kill Arogeth but do manage to steal a large sum of his hoard and rescue Arogeth's most recently kidnapped maiden.
(Counter Taric) Tala is more than ready to defend herself against Arogeth, having a few hundred years more fighting experience. If she wins, he gets kicked out of the cave!
While Arogeth is out and about, Tala decides to get some lunch. (Krath, M=3: 5) She catches several passing elves in a caravan and brings them back to the cave. She's so hungry, though, she doesn't bother to empty their pockets first, instead spitting out items like gold coins as if they were cherry pits. Unfortunately for her - sort of - one of these elves is a practicing alchemist, and he has on hand a variety of potions. Only one of them works: a love potion! (Hmm. Guess that'll make it easier for Taric, harder for Dwarmin and Powder. Good thing y'all buddied up on it. :3) Arogeth comes home shortly afterward... (Taric, Negligible=2: 3. Dwarmin and Powder, H=4: 3, 5)
He tries to put the moves on her, and although she's somewhat receptive due to the love potion, she beats the crap out of him anyway since if he wants to be her mate he's gotta prove himself through such trials as bringing her a Dwarven crown of adamantine... that'll be difficult. (Theo, M=3: 3) She heads out to find more delicious elves, and while he;s home guarding the hoard - how little they currently have - knights from the northeastern reaches try to slay him for glory! They fail, and miserably so; he's still young and strong, light on his feet and ready to fight after that humiliation from Tala. One, rather more cowardly than the rest, sneaks past him while he's fighting the others and steals the most valuable item in the horde: the Howling Cube, a square-cut diamond that has minor weather powers. How's he going to explain that one?
(V-Norrec, M=3: 4) While searching through everything Tala had brought back from the elven caravan, he finds a ruby-studded scepter and picks it up. Miraculously, doing so heals the wounds he sustained in the fight with the knights! Bet that one coward is going to wish he had grabbed this instead of the Cube...
TEAM SUCCESS: 25
TEAM FAILURE: 24
2nd 1/2 of March
Arogeth has made a home in a mountain, with an elven forest to the north, a human village to the east, the ocean to the south, and a dwarven society to the west. The dwarves and humans are both allied and firmly anti-dragon; the dwarves are well-armed and fortified, but the humans have lost their weaponry and most of their homes. In addition, the dwarves are currently battling demons. He is sharing the cave (slightly more cramped due to a recent cave-in) with a female dragon named Tala, who drank a love potion and is considering taking Arogeth on as her mate provided he can pass her trials. Arogeth is permanently missing a few scales around his chest. In the horde is: a paltry amount of gold coins and a ruby-studded elven scepter that can cure wounds.
Sleepers: Small Cave (4+2)! Needs expansions or else!