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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9262216" data-attributes="member: 6696971">"These fights are not sanctioned."  Gae'al lurks like a great hulk-on-high from the open portico of the suite she occupies well above the arena floor.  Her gaze is cast on the gory exchange of the arena floor, but her eyes are looking inward.  Dismay, shame, simmering anger that doesn't ripen to rage.  Her visual field pans across the empty stands of the coliseum as a cry and a <splurt> sound rings out below."The governing body that licensed this work and the warriors that partook has fled.  The crowd has similarly fled as the savagery now inevitably spills from the battlefield to the stone rows above.  The...elements...that come with The Legions' culture?"  She turns and looks at you now."It’s not fit for this place."  She glances at Rietka.  "...and I think each and every Bladeling knows it."Rietka stares back and doesn't protest.  However, she does walk to the edge of the open, stone balcony next to the massive goliath and stare down."Gormandt and Grimtail are the champions in the travelling arenas of our homeland."  She looks at Gae'al as a Huge scorpion, venom-bolts spat from lurking tail, ironically slays an armored figure from afar;  body folding awkwardly as it succumbs to poisonous volley.  "You cannot best them.  They cannot be bested.  They...and their...element <a deadly fight breaks out in the stands with the small viewership present>...will control your arena until our force is garrisoned outside of your city.  Your <she struggles with the word due to both language barrier and disdain at fighting for money rather than merit> commerce will run dry until that date."Gae'al now turns her gaze to the floor where the large, trident-and-net-wielding Bladeling and the massive scorpion trivially and brutally dispatch a throng of would-be Bantouk gladiators.  She does not dispute Rietka's assessment...[HR][/HR]Grimtail is Huge, Artillery, Scorpion, Solo.Gormandt is a Large, Skimisher, Leader, Elite.There would also be a Standard Hazard.  That is a 8 standards worth of budget.  You can take the steadfast Hazard with you.  You can also put old-man Yazdan at risk.  He will gladly follow you into battle in effort to expunge the Legions from his home.  That would put you at a Level +4 combat or Level +5 if you don't want to risk Yazdan.  However, if he perishes, its going to generate an ongoing complication for you guys using the Disease Template whereby Charisma checks take -2 (stage 1) and -4 (stage 2) with Bantouk citizenry until resolved.  Instead of an Endurance check after each Extended Rest, it would either be a Streetwise check or you could pay 1/10 of-level gold to increase standing.If you want Gae'al (Elite) to join you in the stead of Hazard and Yazdan, you'll have to convince her and it will be no easy task (level +4, Complexity 2 SC).  She bears the scars of a loss against them already and her being slain would be a mighty blow to Bantouk's morale.Let me know what your goal is here; if its either the above or something else.</blockquote>

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