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<blockquote data-quote="Neverwinter Knight" data-source="post: 430597" data-attributes="member: 596"><p><strong>The Great Tournament</strong></p><p></p><p>Back in Homlet, Gwunnilon the Gnome said good-bye to the group. "Well, you saved my life, and I'm very grateful for that, but I think we're even now. What do you say Kruskar?" The monk nodded. If it hadn't been for the quick thinking of the young gnome, he would have been killed by the troll. "If you're ever in Verbobonc, just ask around for me. I can show you around town and will invite you to a nice dinner. I can also tell you my plans for rearranging some of the buildings, I had a lot of time in that prison cell, you know..." Yes, they knew. They also knew that he talked too much. The friends promised to come and visit some time and then said good-bye. Gnomes were strange folk.</p><p></p><p>They had healed themselves and spent some time with Elmo in the Inn of Welcome Wench, when they heard screams from the road: "Run, hide the horses." "They are after my ponies." "Help, Griffons!"</p><p>Ah, so Burne's contacts were on time. They stepped outside and saw a company of four griffons flying down from the sky and landing near Burne's tower. Ike was glad to have given his horses and wagon to the carpenter for safe-keeping. He didn't like the idea of some monsters eating his horses. After all, his favorite, Big Bertha, had just been eaten by a couple of Gnolls.</p><p></p><p>As they approached, they saw one of the four Griffon Riders enter Burne's tower. After a Ike threatened the Burne's Badger guards with a nightly visit, they were let in and walked up to the mage's study. Inside they found him talking to the Griffon Rider, a handsome elf. Burne rose to greet the party. "Ah, my friends. Come in and meet Sir Hemlin, a high-ranking member of the Blue Griffin company." The elf turned to greet them, "Nice to meet you, Lord Burne here has spoken highly of you." Artemida moved closer to him, flapping her eyelashes. "Hello good Sir. Would you be so kind as to take me with you on your Griffon." It seemed Sir Hemlin was very pleased with the idea - hey who would pass up a beautiful elven female for a chance to take along a sweating half-orc?</p><p></p><p>Burne wished them luck and they left for the Griffons. When they were outside, Maria told them that she was not going. "The loss of my brother is too great for me to go to the Great Tournament. I will stay in the area and try to find out what I can about this evil place. I hope you do well." Ike then looked over the Griffons and their riders. Sir Hemlin he had already met. He wore expensive clothes and armor and carried a longsword. Two of the other pilots were wearing leather armor and long grey cloaks and the last one was clad in a beautiful white cloak. Ike, who hadn't washed himself in days, made his choice. He went to the white rider and told him "Ike rides with you." If the mage was not pleased, he didn't show it. Suddenly he pointed to the sky. "What's this?" The half-orc looked and thus did not see the fine gestures the mage was making in his direction. When he didn't see anything, Ike turned back to the mage. "I don't see anything." "No matter, let us leave for the Tournament." Ike's smile faded when he noticed the shine of his armor and clothes. He had never been this clean in his entire life. His half-orc manliness had gone. Merlos and Kruskar each took a seat behind the rangers and they took off.</p><p></p><p></p><p>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p></p><p>Ike found that his new cleanliness continued for the whole trip. He didn't even break a sweat and when he spilled some ale over his cloak, the stain was gone the next time he looked at the spot. Other than that, the trip to the Isle Papaya was a quiet one.</p><p></p><p></p><p>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p></p><p>Once on the isle, they could see that why they called it the Great Tournament: The crowd was huge. It took hours just to get to the tournament premisis. The first thing they did was to sign in their names. Artemida registered herself for the archery and lock-picking contest, Kruskar wanted to fight in both armed and unarmed contests, and Ike chose to enter armed and unarmed combat as well as archery. He also wanted to enter mounted combat, but he had no horse here and could not find someone to sell him one. As a bonus, the two half-orcs also entered the armwrestling competition.</p><p>They were also told the rules of the competition. There were three ways to loose a match:</p><p></p><p></p><p>Touching the floor outside the ring </p><p>Giving up by saying so </p><p>Being knocked unconcious or being unable to give up </p><p></p><p>Also, killing an opponent would result in disqualification from the tournament for life. Religious or ethical differences were set aside during the time of the Great Tournament and were actually forbidden.</p><p></p><p>First up were the preliminary fights for the unarmed combat. Someone pulled on Ike's shirt and the half-orc recognized him as: Son-Goku. He had grown a little bit, but otherwise he seemed the same. He introduced his friend Krilin, a small bald monk and told them they had been training very hard for this tournament. They also noticed a huge Half-Dragon by the name of Mondragore. He was very powerful and cruel.</p><p></p><p>Ike didn't do well. With his Great Sword, he felt he could have cut down his competition easily, but without it, he was prone to unarmed attacks of experienced fighters and monks. After winning through his first fight, he was knocked out by his second opponent. Kruskar was doing much better. His unarmed expertise was supperior to that of his first four opponents. His last opponent was thougher, however.</p><p></p><p>Artemida gasped. She recognized the fighter Kruskar was going to fight next. The referee introduced him as Shin, but she only knew him from sight. She had never forgotten him, when she had briefly met him in the dungeons under the moat house, when he had come with a message for Lareth the Beautiful. Now he was there, with his beautiful dragon tatoo that started on his shaved head and ran down the left side of his body. And he proved to be a capable fighter. But he was no match for Kruskar. Using a clever tactic of tripping and direct hits, he knocked his opponent out in the 9th round. With that victory, Kruskar had entered the quarter finals. Artemida was asked out by an old man who introduced himself as Jackie Chun, but she politely declined.</p><p></p><p>Now it was the archers turn. Ike and Artemida both forgot to bring a bow, but the elven maiden used her charm to borrow one. She didn't do as well as her competition, however. Ike did a little better, but didn't make it past round two. Frustrated, he waited for the armed combat to begin. The archery competition was won by a drow with the name of Shnitzt' Holtz Blitzt.</p><p></p><p>Ike didn't have to wait long. When he went into the ring, he had to be careful not to kill his opponents, so powerful was he. Kruskar, however faced Shin again in his first match, but this time Shin was armed with a black Katana that seemed to suck in the light. Three rounds later Kruskar lay bleeding on the floor & Shin had not even taken one hit. He had come very close, though, to killing the monk. He would have killed him anywhere else, but here, he had had his revenge. Ike, however had won through to the quarter finals.</p><p></p><p></p><p>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p></p><p>The friends rented a big suite for the night and celebrated their victories. Later that night the two half-orcs went to the arm-wrestling tournament, but they were both defeated. They had fought too much already. The next day started with the lock-picking contest. Artemida had to make her way through a maze of traps and locked doors & chests. Even though she succumbed to a poisoned chest in the end, she got farther into the artificial dungeon than anybody else and reached the final rounds. In the final rounds, only time mattered. First, she beat a halfling named Dekker by only three rounds to the finish.</p><p>In the finals, she was set against another elven woman with the mysterious name of Hummingbird. Although she first didn't do too well with the doors, she made such good speed in the last phase, that she finished 8 rounds ahead of her opponent. Artemida had won her tournament.</p><p></p><p></p><p>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p></p><p>Ike found the tournament finals full of celeberties. The quarter finals and their contenders were: Mondragore vs. the Black Knight, Ike vs. Jettok, Paladinlord Dexter Fastblade vs. Sir Douglas Varenquos and Shin vs. Hemlin. Lord Dexter came to greet Ike and wish him luck. He had won the tournament the last time, but Douglas had won it before him. The first fight went very fast. The drow who called himself the Black Knight defeated Mondragore in 4 rounds, cutting off one of his wings.</p><p>Ike prepared himself for the fight, but found that he could not hit his dwarven opponent: Jettoks armor was too though for him to pierce. Still, it was a close call, because Ike was the better fighter, but in the end, Jettok's AC brought him the victory.</p><p>The fight between Lord Dexter and Sir Douglas took more than 20 minutes. These two great fighters were evenly matched. However, the luck belonged to Sir Douglas on that day, and he knocked his opponent out cold. Shin made short work of Sir Hemlin.</p><p></p><p>The semi-finals went very quick. The Black Knight and Sir Douglas both outmatched their opponenents, and they faced each other in the finals. Although Sir Douglas' fighting style was perfect and his strength was amazing, the Black Knight defeated him in 15 rounds. Wearing a kind of armor noone else had seen before, which seemed flexible but had to be as hard as rock, and swinging his graceful swings at Sir Douglas, he was never in any real danger of loosing. Even though he had lost to a drow, Sir Douglas got up and shook the drow's hand.</p><p></p><p></p><p>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p></p><p>Kruskar's tournament was no less competitive. The quarter finals would be Krilin vs. Jackie Chun, Mondragore vs. Kruskar, Chatherine vs. Nam and Son-Goku vs. Bakterion.</p><p>Krilin seemed very sure of himself to win this fight, and was thus very surprised to find out that his opponent was alot faster and stronger than him. Within a few rounds, Krilin was thrown out of the ring.</p><p>Kruskar the monk found himself up against the Half-Dragon. Although the brute was strong, his chances were not bad. But his luck had left him. He only hit his opponent once, and that did not even scratch him. When Mondragore finished with him, Kruskar was in very bad shape.</p><p>Catherine, a female rouge, tried to keep the indian style monk Nam at bay by pretending to be a weak woman and then sneak attack him, but he was still too strong and didn't fall for that tactic for long.</p><p>Son-Goku was faced with a big, ugly fellow, who smelled terribly and used that as a weapon. With one kick, he ended the battle and the stench.</p><p></p><p>The first semi-final fight was a quick one. Without being hit once, Jackie Chun reduced Mondragore to a big piece of meat.</p><p>The battle between Nam and Son-Goku was somewhat tougher. In the end, Son-Goku used an energy beam to propel Nam out of the ring.</p><p>Nam was very sad at this, since he had been sent by his village to raise money for water and seeds. The village had been suffering from a tough draught and they needed these things. When Jackie Chun heard this, he gave Nam two capsules, one with seeds and another one that would make rain several times. Very grateful, Nam left the tournament.</p><p></p><p>The final was great. Both Jackie Chun and Son-Goku showed unnatural power and just as Son-Goku seemed to lose, he transformed into a gigantic ape and started to destroy the ring. With not many options left, Jackie Chun correctly guessed that the early-risen moon was the source for the transformation and destroyed it with a Kame-hame-ha. Son-Goku returned to his true form and they continued fighting. In the end, both lay unconscious on the floor and the first one to get up was Jackie Chun. He was declared winner of the Great Unarmed Tournament.</p><p></p><p></p><p>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p></p><p>There was much celebrating and all of the finalists were given </p><p>prizes. Artemida, as a winner, had to choose a random item and received a powerful rod of thunder and lightning. Ike was given a special Great Sword and Kruskar got Cords of Dexterity.</p><p></p><p>The last competition was the mounted combat, which was won by Lord Dexter. He was very pleased, since he had beaten Sir Douglas in the finals.</p><p></p><p>After this experience, the party lusted for some good, old adventure and prepared for their departure.</p><p></p><p>to be continued...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neverwinter Knight, post: 430597, member: 596"] [b]The Great Tournament[/b] Back in Homlet, Gwunnilon the Gnome said good-bye to the group. "Well, you saved my life, and I'm very grateful for that, but I think we're even now. What do you say Kruskar?" The monk nodded. If it hadn't been for the quick thinking of the young gnome, he would have been killed by the troll. "If you're ever in Verbobonc, just ask around for me. I can show you around town and will invite you to a nice dinner. I can also tell you my plans for rearranging some of the buildings, I had a lot of time in that prison cell, you know..." Yes, they knew. They also knew that he talked too much. The friends promised to come and visit some time and then said good-bye. Gnomes were strange folk. They had healed themselves and spent some time with Elmo in the Inn of Welcome Wench, when they heard screams from the road: "Run, hide the horses." "They are after my ponies." "Help, Griffons!" Ah, so Burne's contacts were on time. They stepped outside and saw a company of four griffons flying down from the sky and landing near Burne's tower. Ike was glad to have given his horses and wagon to the carpenter for safe-keeping. He didn't like the idea of some monsters eating his horses. After all, his favorite, Big Bertha, had just been eaten by a couple of Gnolls. As they approached, they saw one of the four Griffon Riders enter Burne's tower. After a Ike threatened the Burne's Badger guards with a nightly visit, they were let in and walked up to the mage's study. Inside they found him talking to the Griffon Rider, a handsome elf. Burne rose to greet the party. "Ah, my friends. Come in and meet Sir Hemlin, a high-ranking member of the Blue Griffin company." The elf turned to greet them, "Nice to meet you, Lord Burne here has spoken highly of you." Artemida moved closer to him, flapping her eyelashes. "Hello good Sir. Would you be so kind as to take me with you on your Griffon." It seemed Sir Hemlin was very pleased with the idea - hey who would pass up a beautiful elven female for a chance to take along a sweating half-orc? Burne wished them luck and they left for the Griffons. When they were outside, Maria told them that she was not going. "The loss of my brother is too great for me to go to the Great Tournament. I will stay in the area and try to find out what I can about this evil place. I hope you do well." Ike then looked over the Griffons and their riders. Sir Hemlin he had already met. He wore expensive clothes and armor and carried a longsword. Two of the other pilots were wearing leather armor and long grey cloaks and the last one was clad in a beautiful white cloak. Ike, who hadn't washed himself in days, made his choice. He went to the white rider and told him "Ike rides with you." If the mage was not pleased, he didn't show it. Suddenly he pointed to the sky. "What's this?" The half-orc looked and thus did not see the fine gestures the mage was making in his direction. When he didn't see anything, Ike turned back to the mage. "I don't see anything." "No matter, let us leave for the Tournament." Ike's smile faded when he noticed the shine of his armor and clothes. He had never been this clean in his entire life. His half-orc manliness had gone. Merlos and Kruskar each took a seat behind the rangers and they took off. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ike found that his new cleanliness continued for the whole trip. He didn't even break a sweat and when he spilled some ale over his cloak, the stain was gone the next time he looked at the spot. Other than that, the trip to the Isle Papaya was a quiet one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once on the isle, they could see that why they called it the Great Tournament: The crowd was huge. It took hours just to get to the tournament premisis. The first thing they did was to sign in their names. Artemida registered herself for the archery and lock-picking contest, Kruskar wanted to fight in both armed and unarmed contests, and Ike chose to enter armed and unarmed combat as well as archery. He also wanted to enter mounted combat, but he had no horse here and could not find someone to sell him one. As a bonus, the two half-orcs also entered the armwrestling competition. They were also told the rules of the competition. There were three ways to loose a match: Touching the floor outside the ring Giving up by saying so Being knocked unconcious or being unable to give up Also, killing an opponent would result in disqualification from the tournament for life. Religious or ethical differences were set aside during the time of the Great Tournament and were actually forbidden. First up were the preliminary fights for the unarmed combat. Someone pulled on Ike's shirt and the half-orc recognized him as: Son-Goku. He had grown a little bit, but otherwise he seemed the same. He introduced his friend Krilin, a small bald monk and told them they had been training very hard for this tournament. They also noticed a huge Half-Dragon by the name of Mondragore. He was very powerful and cruel. Ike didn't do well. With his Great Sword, he felt he could have cut down his competition easily, but without it, he was prone to unarmed attacks of experienced fighters and monks. After winning through his first fight, he was knocked out by his second opponent. Kruskar was doing much better. His unarmed expertise was supperior to that of his first four opponents. His last opponent was thougher, however. Artemida gasped. She recognized the fighter Kruskar was going to fight next. The referee introduced him as Shin, but she only knew him from sight. She had never forgotten him, when she had briefly met him in the dungeons under the moat house, when he had come with a message for Lareth the Beautiful. Now he was there, with his beautiful dragon tatoo that started on his shaved head and ran down the left side of his body. And he proved to be a capable fighter. But he was no match for Kruskar. Using a clever tactic of tripping and direct hits, he knocked his opponent out in the 9th round. With that victory, Kruskar had entered the quarter finals. Artemida was asked out by an old man who introduced himself as Jackie Chun, but she politely declined. Now it was the archers turn. Ike and Artemida both forgot to bring a bow, but the elven maiden used her charm to borrow one. She didn't do as well as her competition, however. Ike did a little better, but didn't make it past round two. Frustrated, he waited for the armed combat to begin. The archery competition was won by a drow with the name of Shnitzt' Holtz Blitzt. Ike didn't have to wait long. When he went into the ring, he had to be careful not to kill his opponents, so powerful was he. Kruskar, however faced Shin again in his first match, but this time Shin was armed with a black Katana that seemed to suck in the light. Three rounds later Kruskar lay bleeding on the floor & Shin had not even taken one hit. He had come very close, though, to killing the monk. He would have killed him anywhere else, but here, he had had his revenge. Ike, however had won through to the quarter finals. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The friends rented a big suite for the night and celebrated their victories. Later that night the two half-orcs went to the arm-wrestling tournament, but they were both defeated. They had fought too much already. The next day started with the lock-picking contest. Artemida had to make her way through a maze of traps and locked doors & chests. Even though she succumbed to a poisoned chest in the end, she got farther into the artificial dungeon than anybody else and reached the final rounds. In the final rounds, only time mattered. First, she beat a halfling named Dekker by only three rounds to the finish. In the finals, she was set against another elven woman with the mysterious name of Hummingbird. Although she first didn't do too well with the doors, she made such good speed in the last phase, that she finished 8 rounds ahead of her opponent. Artemida had won her tournament. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ike found the tournament finals full of celeberties. The quarter finals and their contenders were: Mondragore vs. the Black Knight, Ike vs. Jettok, Paladinlord Dexter Fastblade vs. Sir Douglas Varenquos and Shin vs. Hemlin. Lord Dexter came to greet Ike and wish him luck. He had won the tournament the last time, but Douglas had won it before him. The first fight went very fast. The drow who called himself the Black Knight defeated Mondragore in 4 rounds, cutting off one of his wings. Ike prepared himself for the fight, but found that he could not hit his dwarven opponent: Jettoks armor was too though for him to pierce. Still, it was a close call, because Ike was the better fighter, but in the end, Jettok's AC brought him the victory. The fight between Lord Dexter and Sir Douglas took more than 20 minutes. These two great fighters were evenly matched. However, the luck belonged to Sir Douglas on that day, and he knocked his opponent out cold. Shin made short work of Sir Hemlin. The semi-finals went very quick. The Black Knight and Sir Douglas both outmatched their opponenents, and they faced each other in the finals. Although Sir Douglas' fighting style was perfect and his strength was amazing, the Black Knight defeated him in 15 rounds. Wearing a kind of armor noone else had seen before, which seemed flexible but had to be as hard as rock, and swinging his graceful swings at Sir Douglas, he was never in any real danger of loosing. Even though he had lost to a drow, Sir Douglas got up and shook the drow's hand. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kruskar's tournament was no less competitive. The quarter finals would be Krilin vs. Jackie Chun, Mondragore vs. Kruskar, Chatherine vs. Nam and Son-Goku vs. Bakterion. Krilin seemed very sure of himself to win this fight, and was thus very surprised to find out that his opponent was alot faster and stronger than him. Within a few rounds, Krilin was thrown out of the ring. Kruskar the monk found himself up against the Half-Dragon. Although the brute was strong, his chances were not bad. But his luck had left him. He only hit his opponent once, and that did not even scratch him. When Mondragore finished with him, Kruskar was in very bad shape. Catherine, a female rouge, tried to keep the indian style monk Nam at bay by pretending to be a weak woman and then sneak attack him, but he was still too strong and didn't fall for that tactic for long. Son-Goku was faced with a big, ugly fellow, who smelled terribly and used that as a weapon. With one kick, he ended the battle and the stench. The first semi-final fight was a quick one. Without being hit once, Jackie Chun reduced Mondragore to a big piece of meat. The battle between Nam and Son-Goku was somewhat tougher. In the end, Son-Goku used an energy beam to propel Nam out of the ring. Nam was very sad at this, since he had been sent by his village to raise money for water and seeds. The village had been suffering from a tough draught and they needed these things. When Jackie Chun heard this, he gave Nam two capsules, one with seeds and another one that would make rain several times. Very grateful, Nam left the tournament. The final was great. Both Jackie Chun and Son-Goku showed unnatural power and just as Son-Goku seemed to lose, he transformed into a gigantic ape and started to destroy the ring. With not many options left, Jackie Chun correctly guessed that the early-risen moon was the source for the transformation and destroyed it with a Kame-hame-ha. Son-Goku returned to his true form and they continued fighting. In the end, both lay unconscious on the floor and the first one to get up was Jackie Chun. He was declared winner of the Great Unarmed Tournament. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There was much celebrating and all of the finalists were given prizes. Artemida, as a winner, had to choose a random item and received a powerful rod of thunder and lightning. Ike was given a special Great Sword and Kruskar got Cords of Dexterity. The last competition was the mounted combat, which was won by Lord Dexter. He was very pleased, since he had beaten Sir Douglas in the finals. After this experience, the party lusted for some good, old adventure and prepared for their departure. to be continued... [/QUOTE]
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