Grand Arena

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Grand Arena
Episode 2
Episode 3
1st Battle : Red Team (Alpha, Gamma, & Delta) kills the opposing teams leader and then recruits the rest of the team (beta 1, beta 2 ). (3pts reputation, 2pts weapon skill, 2pts anywhere)
Red Team
alpha
beta 2
gamma
delta
mercenary
  • Greatsword
  • 1 x Knife (Large)
  • 1 x 8pt healing fruit (grapefruit)
  • scroll: Fireball (2d)
2nd Battle : 5 people have 6 meals between them; everyone eats a meal, everyone is down 2 fatigue. Beta1 dies, X & Y eat the remaining 2 meals. They are only down 1 LTF, M & N are down 2 LTF. Red Team defeats the Rabble (2x(Prettyboy,Butch,Stubby)). They gain more reputation (another 3 pts, the voting was mixed). (3pts reputation, 2pts weapon skill, 2pts anywhere)
Rabble
Prettyboy
Butch
Stubby
  • 2 x 3pt healing fruit(s) (orange)
  • scroll: Darkness (1 megahex, i.e. 7 hexes in a 3hx diameter circle only)
  • 2 x large sticks (quarterstaves)
  • 2 x small sticks (batons)
  • 1 x (Leather body,legs,cap)
  • 1 x shortsword
  • 1 x Knife (Large)
3rd Encounter : Everyone slept and recovered 1 LTF. At dawn, The team picked up equipment from a prize station. A mercenary arrived w/ a (rabble). Alpha asked the Mercenary to join and then lured him to the pool at the end of the box canyon. The water element ate the rabble and then was controlled and set a Hypnotized the Mercenary to follow Alpha's orders. Rich passed the group to Dave. (2pts Reputation, +2pts to any non-combat skill)
  • 2 x 3pt healing fruit(s) (orange)
4th Encounter : That evening the team walked north to the prize set there. Two bounty hunters (archer,Ham) arrived at the same time and defeated Red Team. They looted the bodies and left a pile equipment. (lots of Reputation, especially Ham for hanging in here and being tricky at the end. Also +2pts weapon skills and +2pts in non-weapon skills (may be combat related)). Archer took 9 hits, eats the grapefruit(+8pts); he's down 1 hit. Ham took 24 hits, eats all the oranges (6x+3pts); he's still down 6 hits.
Bounty Hunters
Archie
Ham
  • 2 x 3pt healing fruit(s) (oranges)
  • 9 meals
  • + $250 of equipment
loot$25014lbs
Item$lbs
backpack60.03.0
Warhammer100.07.0
whetstone5.01.0
15 arrows, longbow30.01.875
Brandy15.02.0
Leather helm20.00.0
Leather coif for pot20.00.0
5th Encounter : Archie gets drunk for the day and then sleeps through the night. In spite of the hangover, he makes his recovery roll and recovers the 1 hit he was down. In the morning Ham eats both of the oranges that appeared so that he is also fully recovered. Archie gambles with a Rakhasha and gets chased to the waterhole by a giant lizard. A half-hour after sunrise, Harry arrives and talks his way into the group. A little before sunset they set off towards the Stubby's Fountain. A dragon checks out their travois while they hide in a crevice in the rocks. A group of orcs screw-up an ambush. Ham takes injuries including a crippling (broken bones) hand injury. When they arrive at Stubby's Fountain they find two giant lizards eating the remains of the party that arrived that morning. Archie takes down both with an arrow in the eye. The prize, $500, is spent on: a Recovery Spell ($375), metal gauntlets ($100), ? ($20), and wine for Archie ($5).
XP (ea): 4pts anywhere. 2pts Reputation
Orcs
grunt
handler
lizard
 Anticline Overlook:
  • 2 x 3pt healing fruit(s) (oranges)
  • 6 meals

Stubby's Fountain

  • 2 x 3pt healing fruit(s) (oranges)
  • 12 meals
  • $500 equipment
6th Encounter (6May2003): Harry heads off on his own during his watch with the Bounty Hunters. Harry walks thru the early morning hours and into the dawn towards the nearer prizes to the southwest. He spies another person walking in the same direction and so walks faster to get to the creekbed that leads down to the lower plateau first. There he sees funny footprints and then a guardpost which he backs off from. José (the other walker) meets Harry in the narrow canyon. In the midst of introductions they hear another larger party coming down the canyon. They set an ambush and end up fighting 3 Insect Men and 1 Insect Man leader. Harry gets legged (temporary injury) before José knocks out the leader. The Warriors stop fighting to take their leader away.
XP (ea): 4pts to any skill that you used. 1pt Reputation

They climb up to a hanging valley (see details).

Loot: none yet
7th Encounter (21May2003): Archie wakes in the wee morning hours and realizes that Harry has taken off. He wakes Ham who angrily decides that they should set off after him. Archie makes his tracking rolls as they follow Harry. They hide while 4 mounted Lizardmen pass by. When they arrive at the site where Harry met the Insectmen, Archie starts reading the events in the tracks and they gt interrupted by 4 more Insectmen and 2 centipedes coming up the canyon. They defeat all the Insectmen with the help from José shooting from above.
XP (ea): 4pts to any skill that you used. 2pts Reputation 		Loot: José found some things in the spider web above their hideout.
8th Encounter (28May2003): Archie and José climb to the top of the mesa and take a look around. They hike out toward the river (climbing across a saddle) and can see an encampment of Insectmen down by the river. On their hike back they see some giant wasps.

They all decide that it is time to deal with the spider. They attack it and eventuallly defeat it but Archie and José have both been bitten and are at -4 DX for 3 days.

details...

XP (ea): 4pts to any skill that you used. 2pts Reputation

Loot: ...
  • 3 daggers
  • 1 broken bow, 6 usuable arrows (Archie or José could use)
  • 2 rusty shortswords
  • 2 suits of rotten leather armor
  • 3 set of rotten clothing, packs, etc
  • 3 scrolls of $500 equipment
9th Encounter (4Jun2003): Harry cooks up the bugmen and spider. A Rhino and 3 giant lizards tumble into their little canyon. The heroes kill these and have more meat.

XP (ea): 3pts to any skill that you used. 1pt Reputation
Heroes
Archie
Ham
Harry
José

 Loot: meat
10th Encounter (12Jun2003): The heroes spend a few days recovering from the spider poison (and getting sick on their lizard meat). Then they gear up and head down the canyon in the early morning. The read their summoning scrolls an haul their equipment toward the bugmen. They wipe out 4 bugmen at a guardpost above the bugmen's valley.

pending XP (ea): 4pts. 2pt Reputation
Cannon-fodder
soldier
spearman
archer
shaman

 Loot: 8 broadsswords, 4 sm. shields, and 4 daggers off the fallen bugmen.