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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Sky" data-source="post: 5357436" data-attributes="member: 60965">Tonight's session: Adventures <s>on the Sea of Silt</s> in the Alterook ArenaInitial Details:*No Ackbar.  *Gilneas' player was supposed to arrive late in the session, but never showed. *Jak's player was there in person instead of playing over Skype.The session started with us booking passage on a Silt Skimmer for 50gp each + 50gp for our Erdlu.  That settled, off to the Arena!Our first fight was butchering some slaves that had attempted to escape and were sent to the arena.  8 minions vs 4 players to start, but after all of them died, another wave was released, 12 more.  Annoying thing about these minions?  Kill them and they don't die until the end of their next turn.  Oh, and they do +1 damage per all adjacent to the target.  Rough.  On the plus side, for the 2nd fight ever, Kyden didn't go down (though he was at 3 hp at one point).Special rule: Flourish! If you drop an enemy and make an appropriate skill check, you can get the crowd behind you, giving you a +1 to attacks, damage, and speed until EonT.An entry fee of 25gp and winnings of 350 convinced us to return for a second round, this one against cannibalistic halflings from the Crescent Forest.  This time, we started piled up atop the 10' tall rock that Thoon started on last fight.These ones had an amazing attack, shift 5, stealth, ongoing 5 poison damage power that made them essentially invisible for most of the fight.  Thanks in part to Jak's Swarm of Bats granting us CA and hindering them, we took them down without too much trouble.Three fights in a row without Kyden going down!***At this point, I took off to go walk the dogs (since I'm currently house-sitting), and I walked back in to "...that takes Jak to -28hp, dead."The arena they were in had four 3x3 zones full of spinning blades that didn't have much effect on the fight's outcome. The gladiator was bloodied and the other half-giant unhurt, the third one dead. Jinn was bloodied, Thoon hurt, Walter bloodied and sitting in one of the spinning blade zones.Apparently, they decided to go for match 3 at the arena and ended up fighting a half-giant badass gladiator and his 2 friends.  Jinn was dropped the first round by the "little" half-giant's encounter powers and was granted a Heal-triggered surge by Jak.  Jak was at low hp and the gladiator hit him with an encounter power that did 30 damage.  Jak over.Thoon was cornered and attacked with Twin-Strike (unarmed): 1d20+2 vs AC, 1d4+1 damage... two crits in a row for 21 damage with his bare claws(yay for Inherent Bonuses!).Kyden jumped into the arena; two rounds later the gladiator was dead and two rounds after that, the battle was over.  I was there for enough of the battle that I say it counts as Kyden's 4th fight without being dropped.  I think the worst is over.As a result of the fight, Jinn gained the Battlescarred Champion Boon: +1 to his healing surge value and a daily power that let him make an MBA against a creature that bloodied him.  We also got his armor - which even had a bit of metal on it - +2 Hide Armor with a built in set of +2 Claws, which Thoon promptly stripped off the corpse, strapped on, and pulled the claws over his own claws.  It also had an encounter attack power on it that let him make a close-burst 1 attack with his new claws.  Between that and his racial Thri-kreen power, he's got a pretty nasty bit of melee action waiting for enemies that try to engage him too close to use his bow.Our sole remaining ranged character now has the highest AC at 21 vs Jinn and Kyden's 17...On top of it all, our winnings amounted to over 1000gp and a meeting at a Broi-house (ale house essentially) with a powerful admirer.  We also figured out the ceramic gp we were carrying weighed almost 50lbs, so we bought another Erdlu to carry our cash and have a friend for Skitch, and named him Breng.At the Broi-house, thronged by admirers, it was decided that we should be called the Arenagades (beating out the Arenauts and the Very Glad-iators) rather than Thoon's Poons, though Thoon, of course, disagreed.  Also, our admirer met with Jin and hired us to take a small chest from an agent at a Tomblador stronghold in town and return it to our admirer.Thoon set off to scout and ended up sneaking in to steal it on his own.  The result, a series of Complexity 1 skill challenges to get it: Climbing skill challenge to climb the wall, Stealth to sneak in, failed, killed some guards before they could raise the alarm, Perception to find the chest, Thievery to steal it, Stealth to get out.  The one failed challenge and a series of other smaller failures left a lot of evidence, but he did it!We (of course) tried to open the chest, but failed, shrugged, and turned it in to our admirer.400gp reward and an (unneeded) warning to watch out for Tombladors in the future and we called it a day.Off to the Sea of Silt.  Silt skimmers seem to be a cross between sailing ships and wagons, with wheels affixed to the hull for silt-less areas and are incredibly uncomfortable to ride in until you get into Silt, even in a hammock.We ended there, finding ourselves conveniently bunked with the dwarven noble-adept battlemind Eberk...Quotes from the night:"Tyr is a forsaken place, there's nothing worthwhile there but revenge.""...that was quite the exchanging of blows." "Like when a prostitute meets a coke dealer."Various jokes about metrosexual Thri-kreen: Bi-kreen, Drag-kreens, Drama-kreens, etc..."Walter sees people in hammocks, freaks out, 'unfinished cocoons!'"</blockquote>

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