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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KenHood" data-source="post: 4765602" data-attributes="member: 4413">You clean up and make your way to the restaurant, Dwarven Bob's All You Can Eat Surf and Turf Mega-Buffet. It's not a high end restaurant by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a fascinating example of buffet engineering, with over twelve kinds of fresh soup on the soup bar and a baked potato bar over twenty feet long. And a fifty-foot long table of fish, fish, more fish, and meat. A pile of meat of titanic proportions. And a 'cook it yourself' grill. Marco greets you at the entrance. "Ah! There you are! So glad you decided to join me!"He leads you to the buffet line. The manager and several of the wait-staff greet him by name. Marco picks up a platter the size of a tower shield and begins to fill it with sundry victuals. "You should try the bacon stuffed, bacon-wrapped grilled, then soaked in ranch-dressing and deep-fried shrimp delights. They literally are a delight. Known to transport many a man directly to the heavens." He chuckles at his own joke.Once you fill your trays and place your drink orders, Marco leads you to a well-used table overlooking the harbor. You can see the TURTLEDOME! in the distance."I can tell just by your demeanor that you five are tough individuals with a tough-minded way about you, able to tough out even the toughest circumstances, and I want to help you.""I'm willing to serve as your sponsor in the TURTLEDOME!" (again he all but screams the word) "arena, in return for your group wearing apparel related to my business and performing the appropriate product endorsements. In return for your efforts, I can provide your party with the princely sum of 100 gold pieces to help outfit yourselves for the coming battle. Also, I have uncle with no small skill in the creation of potions, whom I'm sure I can induce to provide you each with a healing potion for the match. And I have a third cousin whom I might be able to persuade to part with his prized magical sword, to loan to you for the match. And he has a friend of a friend who knows a guy that might loan you a magical staff or wand or something like that--but I'm not too sure about that one, because he said you'd have to clean out his rat cellar. And having overhead your needs for sleeping accomodations, I will be more than happy to stable you, my amazing gladiators, in the basement of my shop/home.""So, what say you? I know you have to spend money to make money, and as you can see, I'm ready to spend!"</blockquote>

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