Trader's Cusp Arena - Inaugural Matches
General Summary
on the day of the matches the 3 contestents and an surprise guest arrived, Tiff knowing the law made her way to the seeker permit office, and after filling out her paperwork and a small conversation with Roger, got her permit of high weaving, marked with her and Roger arcane mark and stamped with his hireloom seal to prevent forgery of its content. knowing that Rico would have missed the laws, one of the seekers was ordered to go with Tiff to the arena to give Rico his permit, but when they arrived they found Grud aswell, and the seeker had to must up his courage to ask Grud to stamp the permit with the arcane mark wand, Grud simply stamped it trough the paper not activating it, but the seeker too afraid to correct him simply cast his own arcane mark on it, gave it to Grud and left. before this Azim was at the cithedal going towards the stables, but was interupted by a dragonkin waiting, asking where he was going, after some obviouse lies, Azim mounted Aldrik and they set of for the arena. the party now gathered was approached by the arena staff and lead to the waiting room, where a lady was sitting with offers of spells one could pay to have cast on oneself at the start of the game, or when a command pharse was said. but they decided they didn't need any for the first round.
in the first round they were set to face a anceint red dragon, Grud quickly used his grappling hook to close the distance and stay next to the dragon, Azim and Aldrik charged it next. the dragon then cast quickend trick fireball, at Azim and Aldrik, before turning the ground of the arena into lava and setting off into flight taking Grud with it into the air. Rico flew after it and shot it with his crossbow, and shortly after Grud cut one its wings off and made barrel right into the lava it had created, turning the simulacrum to sizzling steam.
thier next fight was aginst a balor, but this time around Azim paid for haste for the party. and so Grud quickly charged it and knocked it down, but he noticed the balor had some werid magic that made only partialy real when hit. the balor now on the ground tried to boss around Grud with a dominate person, but Grud being Grud was too angry to listen, the rest of the party then joined the frey atacking the poor balor, it only managed to hang on, since Azim and Rico failed to disbelieve its trick. on the balors turn it attakced Rico, one of the lashes of its whip going unerringly for the neck, but Rico managed to make it miss the neck, but not him he was now tied up by the whip as the balor attacked with its sword. but then Grud having had enough of the demon unleashed his fury, and while the illusion magic worked for the first swing, the remaining all hit true and turned the demon to a small pool of water.
the last match was aginst a Euryale, often confused with an medusa, unable to look it the melee people closed thier eyes as they charged at it, but after attacking Azim it ran away in to the ground, once it next appeared, Tiff now in the form of an dragon unleashed an lightning breath and battering blast, it then turned Aldrik to stone, and commanded the now statue to attack Grud, resulting in Grud attacking back, but when its snakes tried to bite Grud, Grud saw a opening of well felt one as he had his one eye closed and with the second swing that connected cleved the euryale in half, as it promptly turned to a pool of water on the ground.
in the first round they were set to face a anceint red dragon, Grud quickly used his grappling hook to close the distance and stay next to the dragon, Azim and Aldrik charged it next. the dragon then cast quickend trick fireball, at Azim and Aldrik, before turning the ground of the arena into lava and setting off into flight taking Grud with it into the air. Rico flew after it and shot it with his crossbow, and shortly after Grud cut one its wings off and made barrel right into the lava it had created, turning the simulacrum to sizzling steam.
thier next fight was aginst a balor, but this time around Azim paid for haste for the party. and so Grud quickly charged it and knocked it down, but he noticed the balor had some werid magic that made only partialy real when hit. the balor now on the ground tried to boss around Grud with a dominate person, but Grud being Grud was too angry to listen, the rest of the party then joined the frey atacking the poor balor, it only managed to hang on, since Azim and Rico failed to disbelieve its trick. on the balors turn it attakced Rico, one of the lashes of its whip going unerringly for the neck, but Rico managed to make it miss the neck, but not him he was now tied up by the whip as the balor attacked with its sword. but then Grud having had enough of the demon unleashed his fury, and while the illusion magic worked for the first swing, the remaining all hit true and turned the demon to a small pool of water.
the last match was aginst a Euryale, often confused with an medusa, unable to look it the melee people closed thier eyes as they charged at it, but after attacking Azim it ran away in to the ground, once it next appeared, Tiff now in the form of an dragon unleashed an lightning breath and battering blast, it then turned Aldrik to stone, and commanded the now statue to attack Grud, resulting in Grud attacking back, but when its snakes tried to bite Grud, Grud saw a opening of well felt one as he had his one eye closed and with the second swing that connected cleved the euryale in half, as it promptly turned to a pool of water on the ground.
Rewards Granted
Coins
57 pp, 990 gp, 5,100 sp, 18,000 cp
Armor
[4,155 gp] +2 buckler
[1,153 gp] +1 light wooden shield
Art
[750 gp] painting of Milo
[500 gp] gold chess set
[500 gp] gold puzzle box
[400 gp] engraved mithral scarab
Gems
[55 gp] unworked sard (worth 27 gp; Craft (jewelry) DC 12 to repair)
[50 gp] red spinel
[100 gp] unworked deep blue spinel (worth 50 gp; Craft (jewelry) DC 15 to repair)
[120 gp] unworked deep blue spinel (worth 60 gp; Craft (jewelry) DC 15 to repair)
[500 gp] unworked aquamarine (worth 250 gp; Craft (jewelry) DC 20 to repair)
[110 gp] deep blue spinel
[90 gp] unworked coral (worth 45 gp; Craft (jewelry) DC 15 to repair)
[110 gp] coral
[110 gp] unworked amber (worth 55 gp; Craft (jewelry) DC 15 to repair)
[110 gp] amethyst
Potions
[300 gp] potion/oil of cat's grace (CL 3)
[300 gp] potion/oil of resist energy, electricity (CL 3)
[750 gp] potion/oil of tongues (CL 5)
Rods
[9,000 gp] rod of metamagic, burning (lesser) [no external clues]
Scrolls
[700 gp] divine scroll of summon monster 4 (CL 7)
Staves
[13,100 gp] Ember Staff [clue indicates function]
Wands
[4,500 gp] wand of death knell (CL 3)
[4,500 gp] wand of darkness (CL 3)
Wondrous Items
[4,500 gp] shifter's headband (+2) [no external clues]
[3,000 gp] miser's mask [no external clues]
[2,200 gp] knight's pennon (honor) [no external clues]
Experience:
Azim (14) Rico (14), Tiff (15), Grud (16): 35200 XP each = 6400(old lizard)+9600(bossy demon)+19200(cowardly snake with snakes)
Alignment:
No shifts.
57 pp, 990 gp, 5,100 sp, 18,000 cp
Armor
[4,155 gp] +2 buckler
[1,153 gp] +1 light wooden shield
Art
[750 gp] painting of Milo
[500 gp] gold chess set
[500 gp] gold puzzle box
[400 gp] engraved mithral scarab
Gems
[55 gp] unworked sard (worth 27 gp; Craft (jewelry) DC 12 to repair)
[50 gp] red spinel
[100 gp] unworked deep blue spinel (worth 50 gp; Craft (jewelry) DC 15 to repair)
[120 gp] unworked deep blue spinel (worth 60 gp; Craft (jewelry) DC 15 to repair)
[500 gp] unworked aquamarine (worth 250 gp; Craft (jewelry) DC 20 to repair)
[110 gp] deep blue spinel
[90 gp] unworked coral (worth 45 gp; Craft (jewelry) DC 15 to repair)
[110 gp] coral
[110 gp] unworked amber (worth 55 gp; Craft (jewelry) DC 15 to repair)
[110 gp] amethyst
Potions
[300 gp] potion/oil of cat's grace (CL 3)
[300 gp] potion/oil of resist energy, electricity (CL 3)
[750 gp] potion/oil of tongues (CL 5)
Rods
[9,000 gp] rod of metamagic, burning (lesser) [no external clues]
Scrolls
[700 gp] divine scroll of summon monster 4 (CL 7)
Staves
[13,100 gp] Ember Staff [clue indicates function]
Wands
[4,500 gp] wand of death knell (CL 3)
[4,500 gp] wand of darkness (CL 3)
Wondrous Items
[4,500 gp] shifter's headband (+2) [no external clues]
[3,000 gp] miser's mask [no external clues]
[2,200 gp] knight's pennon (honor) [no external clues]
Experience:
Azim (14) Rico (14), Tiff (15), Grud (16): 35200 XP each = 6400(old lizard)+9600(bossy demon)+19200(cowardly snake with snakes)
Alignment:
No shifts.
Report Date
14 Feb 2025
Primary Location
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