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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dichotomy" data-source="post: 5773690" data-attributes="member: 12941">Nethezar mumbles incoherently, with apparent anger or distaste, into his mug after Kushnak keeping a low profile.  Ekaym informs the trio that, unfortunately, the matches for tomorrow won't be posted until tomorrow morning, so there is little chance to specifically scout out your first competition at the dinner tonight.  "Of course, Auric's Warband will be the group to beat, I'm sure, since Auric is the reigning champion."Just after all of the gladiators and guests have found their tables and received a drink, a man who can only be Loris Raknian enters the area with a retinue.  The man is tall, and well-muscled for a man in his fifties.  Raknian gives only a short few pleasantries, largely empty words, but the assembled crowd greets him with thunderous applause.Before Raknian takes his table, placed prominently between the central bonfire and the stage, he presents Auric, the current holder of the Champion's Belt, and Khellek, Auric's teammate.  Auric is met with even greater applause than Raknian.Raknian then turns the show over to a man he introduces as Talabir Welik, the tournament's referee.  The trio recognizes Welik as the robed man who stood behind the clerk that checked Ekaym's manager's license.  Welik goes through the entire tournament's rules in detail.When the referee sits back down, Raknian leaps upon the stage with a full glass.  Raising his glass, he declares that all the gladiators are "Champions of the Free City."  To great applause, Raknian downs his glass with the toast, and the crowd joins him.  As Raknian leaps back down from the stage, he signals for the Free Dinner to begin.In short order, bards and performers take over the stage while servants begin bringing out the full meal."Let us first eat, at least some, and then we can begin sizing up the competition," Ekaym offers.<a href="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/862/raknian.png/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/8584/raknian.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><a href="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/535/groupq.png/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/2940/groupq.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>[sblock=OOC]I added the pictures.  In the second one, Auric is the guy that doesn't look like a wizard.  The gal... well, maybe you'll meet her later.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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