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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Sky" data-source="post: 5320430" data-attributes="member: 60965">Ok, back to the arena.First of all, I forgot the fiasco with naming our team.  The other two teams we ended up going against were the elven traders, the Windrunners, and the team from the Warrens, the Toothcutters.  We needed a name.  We vetoed Thoon's player's suggestion, the Maroon Baboons (he's been trying to get one of our groups named that for 3 campaigns).  We were at a loss and, in jest, I suggested Thoon's Poons.  *sigh*Shooting challenge:*Round 1(DC 10): Thoon stepped up and fired, getting 11 total on his attack.  Enough to hit the outer edge of the target and get us one point.  The other teams archers fired and, thanks to their Elven Accuracy, both bulls-eyed the target.   Scores: Thoon's Poons 1, Windrunners 3, Toothcutters 3.*Round 2(DC 15): Jack took over, getting a 16.  Jinn psychically nudged his javelin a bit to try to get a better shot (using the Noble Adept Theme power) and only bumped it to 18.  Another single point.  I think both the others got 2 points.  TP 2, WR 5, TC 5.  Not looking good.*Round 3(DC 20): Jack took another shot, with a psychic nudge from Kyden and bulls-eye!  3 points for us.  The Windrunners proceeded to miss entirely and the Toothcutters only got 1 point.*Final total: Poons 5, Windrunners 5, Toothcutters 6.  Toothcutters get 3 points for the event, Poons and Windrunners tie for second and get 2 points each.We were going to do the race next, but Thoon and Gilneas players had to go, so we jumped to the swordfight since Jinn's player and I were still there.The arena was big and empty, just plain sand.  Combatants would start about 15 squares apart.  By random draw, match 1 was Windrunners vs Poons.  It was amazing how scary combats get when you only have your bloodied value in hp to work with.  12 damage and Kyden would be out, 14 for Jinn.Our enemy were two elves, one a soldier, the other a skirmisher.  Both seemed to be level 1.The fight ended in one crazy round.  Kyden moved off to the side and readied an action to charge.  One of the elves did the same thing.  The other elf moved up, drawing Kyden's charge with Inevitable Wave, crit for "only" 17 damage, not quite bloodying the enemy.  This triggered the other elf's readied action and he charged Kyden and hit, but Kyden was still up.  That allowed him to use Vengeance is Mine (though it shouldn't have since it was a 2nd Immediate Action... oops), hitting the one that charged him and letting Jinn move up and hit it as well.  Both hit, dropping one of the elves to bloodied and out of the fight.The elf that provoked Kyden's charge still had his attack, which he used on Kyden, hit, bloodied, out.  Finally, it was Jinn's turn, using an Augment 2 to hit with 2d10+5, rolling almost max and taking the last elf to bloodied in one hit.  Round over.Next match: Poons vs Toothcutters.  Kyden had 5 minutes to heal up, using 2 of his 7 surges to top off.Our foe were some random elf, I think the same as the skirmisher as the last fight.  The other, however, was the former gladiator Shivrin, an elite.  To top it off, they got to go first, doing the move up-ready charge deal.  I had a great idea, going Total Defense with Kyden and moving in to draw their charges.  The elf hit, Shivrin missed.  Out comes Vengeance is Mine (in error since you can use Reactions on your turn... oops again), crit, Jinn's attack nails the elf, taking him out of the fight.Kyden used Inspiring Word to nearly top himself off, then AP'd to Viper's Strike Crit on Shivrin.  Shivrin got off one more attack, injuring Jinn, then we moved to flank and finished him off.Both other teams had 1 loss, but it was double elimination so they had to fight each other.  With an elite on their side, we figured the Toothcutters would probably win, so Sanzuo gave them the win, meaning a rematch.It played out similar to match 2, but this time Jinn went Total Defense, AP, then Second Wind (even though he wasn't hurt) to draw the enemy attacks.  One hit, Jinn healed himself.  As before, we took out the elf first (Kyden dropping him to 4 hp and nearly killing him for real.  Shivrin got two double attacks off (AP), but didn't do enough damage to take us out before we turned on him the next round and finished him off (with another crit from Kyden).Event 2 over, 3 points for Thoon's Poons, 2 for Toothcutters, 1 for Windrunners.  Total so far: Thoon's Poons 5, Toothcutters 5, Windrunners 3.We stopped there.  For the race, Windrunners can't win.  It doesn't even matter if our team finishes first or second, all that matters is that we beat the Toothcutters.  We beat them and we go on to the finale, they win and the games are over for us.  We'll see how it goes next Saturday!</blockquote>

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