Alrighty all, I'm glad to say that Mortal Kombat officially starts...... Right Now. Here is the rules.
You all start in the Main Banquet Hall. This is just a title, there will be lodging provided. Here, you can do whatever you want, however, there is a "negation field" that prevents anything your character does from affecting other participants.
I will be posting the first round of matches in the game play forum. Whenever you are selected, four robed men will come for you from the temple area directly North of the banquet hall. This area is off limits btw, but you can go to the door to converse with the moderaters whenever you feel like. They will exchange services for points earned in the tournament. These services include 1. Refilling charges in a magic item (1 Point), 2. Repairing a single damaged or destroyed item (1 Point), 3. Fully healing/restoring your character (1 Point), 4. Leveling up (Current ECL -7 points), 5. Purchasing new items (1 Point per 20,000 gp value of single item). I'll shall post more services as they come up. NO ITEM CREATION CHART. They are also the ones to go to in order to set of challenges and duels.
Now, once a fight is initiated, the robed men shall escort you to your battle area. This is the only time someone outside the safe area of the banquet hall may not be touched (or the violater shall feel the wrath of some slightly epic irate mediators.) While heading towards your destination, you may freely do whatever you like as long as you keep pace. (this does not count attacking your opponent >

) Now, when you reach your fighting area, the robed men shall leave and you may do whatever it is you feel is best.
Matches, while having official start times, don't really have specific endings. You just need to make it back to the banquet hall entrance with a defeated opponent. If your opponenet is alive, and surrenders, you shall be granted 3 points. If he is alive and unconscious you are awarded 2 points. If he is a lump of carbon (or in a somewhat less than living state) you shall be granted 1 point. You will also be granted entry back into the banquet hall. While you may leave at any time, this is the only way you may return.
You may lose up to three times before you are removed from the tournament, however, you may only die once, whereafter you shall be used to feed the remaining particicipants. Once there are only 10 people left, the three with the most points shall go on, while the rest have a seven way free for all to determine superiority. The winner may proceed with the other 3. There are fifty participants involved, all non players will obviously be NPCs and because I am incredably lazy and my origional NPC file was killed by a virus, they shall be posted as they come. Thank you, and good luck.