Masters of Eothia 1-20

Danica happily chatted away with Cora, talking about her early life in the Citadel, how the druids had called water up from the earth, the friends she had made there and their collective dream to turn the desert green again. When the commotion started, Danica watched like the rest, gauging his movements and skills. At Cora's comment Danica replied "It'd be an interesting match, for sure."

All throughout the match, above the roar of the crowd, you can hear Yasei snoring away upstairs, oblivious to the world. 

Cora looked at the match with curiosity, but not much interest. She snorted in a quick laugh to Dani.

"I could never understand how people could just beat up others like this. I guess..I just don't understand violence."

When Dani would talk, Cora was actually interested. Seeing as she had nothing much to talk about herself, while Dani was talking she secretly hoped to one day find out why she was ever here - or where she came from. But in the meantime, Dani was interesting, and friendly, and had much to say.

Cora: “Some see it as a... creative outlet.” A familiar voice responds suddenly next to Cora. Dressed in a skin tight green, scaled dress with a seductive grin is Ren.

Rosli: The announcer spots your ticket. “It looks like we have another chaaaallleennggeerrrrrr!!!” He calls. Rosli, you feel yourself pushed forward by strangers towards the edge kf the pit. Before you are some steep stairs leading down.

An uncertain murmur spreads around the crowd as this new, unseen challenger enters the pit. It goes surprisingly quiet. “100 gold on the cat.” A booming voice comes from Xolag. He nestles back in to his chair with a big grin on his face, and holds his tankard up to ‘cheers’ Rosli. The crowd suddenly becomes a lot louder as the flow of coin spreads around the ring- for Xolag to bet on you is apparently a huge deal, and it’s sparked everyone’s interest.

Lance stares you down, and gives a wink. He flourishes his polearm to a defensive position and motions in a “come hither” action. Rosli is up!!!

GO ROSLI!

"GAAHG!" Cora chokes on her drink, nearly spitting it on Dani as she hears Ren's voice. She spins around, her heart pounding in her chest, startled. She stares at her for a moment, carefully putting her drink down. "Ren? Wow, if only I could be as sneaky as you. Who..ARE you?"

Danica gives Cora's friend a casual wave.

As Rosli is pushed through the crowd she will continue to stumble as if she's intoxicated attempting to pick pockets as she goes.

18 Stealth

18 Sleight of hand

Once she gets to the stairs Rosli will awkwardly stumble down the stairs landing on her chest at the bottom. Standing up and dusting herself off she will assume a defensive stance before trying to goad him to advance. (still using the performance roll of 19 unless you need another)

Rosli quickly pockets 9 gold pieces on her way to the pit.

Lance (21) smirks at your attempt to bait him into attacking first. He closes the gap, but waits cauciously about 10’ away. Polearm rotating over his hands in big, slow arcs.

Cora and Dani. Ren gives Dani a little wave back and a little smile. “I don’t think I’ve met your.. friend yet, Cora.” She introduces herself as Ren and says she’s been staying here the last few weeks. “What are you guys doing here? Any plans yet?”

Cora blinks as Ren dodges the question. “This is Dani, we just got done finishing a job and were about to watch our *****cat friend get her ass kicked. Any more cryptic napkin messages for me, or do you always **** and run with the ladies? Who are you? Do we know each other?”

She awaits an answer with a sort of curious and annoyed look.

OOC: Big Nat 20 for you to start his off, not looking good for me already.

Rosli will stumble towards lance falling into him, when she makes contact she will try and put her dirty boxing skills to some use. Making 3 quick strikes into his waist/kidney region.

Attack: 7 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll. Main

Attack: 20 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll. FoB

Attack: 19 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll. FoB

After she makes her strikes she will stumble away as far as she can (she has 40' remaining)

OOC: How big is the fighting pit?

I accidentally messed up the rolls. here's damage rolls for the 19 & 20 5  6

Rosli: as you approach Lance, you enter his 10' reach and he quickly juts out the end of his polearm in a lightning fast jab. Hit 19 dmg 8

You manage to close the gap on him. He ducks your first jab, but cops another two hits to the core. He coughs and splutters a bit, then looks up at you with purpose.

[The pit is 60' round in diameter.]

Lance closes the gap by 30', catching you by surprise- he can reach that far! He dances up to you with a number of acrobatic maneuvers to hide his next attack- then it comes! A low sweep from his glaive around knee height! Sweep attack: hit: 15 dmg: 18 and if hit make a DC13 STR save or be knocked prone.

Cora: Ren blushes and leans in closer for a whisper. "I'm sorry I had to run that morning honey. I had certain... business to attend to." [Roll an insight check] "I've no idea what you mean about napkins... I ended up getting what I wanted that night.. and from memory... so did you." She says with a soft chuckle.

Rosli will leap the sweeping polearm landing near him with a wobble feeding him a series of quick chops and elbows while attempting to her balance and dodge his attacks.

Attack: 14 Damage: 4 Main

Attack: 20 Damage: 7 FoB

Attack: 16 Damage: 6 FoB

Insight: 22

”Come onnnn, Ren. Tell me the truth.” Cora says, not buying it.

Rosli: swings wide with her main attack again- the other two finding purchase.

The crowd goes WILD!! The commentator is narrating the entire fight, but is but mere background noise while you're in the zone. You pick up on him saying something about how rare it is to see someone draw blood on the reining champ!

Lance parries the second attack, reducing the damage by 4 and laughing a charasmatic hahaaa! He flourishes his weapon and crouches in a saddle-stance, flexing his body. A feint green aura disperses around his body, healing him for 5

He then thrusts at Rosli in his final maneuver. Hit: 16 dmg 13

Cora: You can tell that Ren is hiding something from you. She looks uncomfortable when you ask her about it. "I told you honey, I was saved from the woods up north by a hunter on his way here and I've been biding my time here until something better comes along..." She spins around in her chair, her long, bouncy red hair hiding her face from you as she looks down at her drink and plays with the glass.

She looks dissapointed and seems to be telling the truth... but perhaps not the whole story. Dani can also hear the conversation. (Poor third wheel, gosh Crispy hahah)

Danica listened to the conversation with interest as the duel went down below.

Something deep inside Cora started to make her annoyed. Maybe it was the half truth, maybe it was because she didn't leave the napkin for her.

"Wow, you're bad at this, Ren." Cora says, partially amazed she had the ability to insight people like that, but rolled with it. "Alright. You keep your secrets. When you're ready to be honest with me, i'll be talking to THIS redhead in the meantime. And, since you didn't drop me that strange napkin..if you'll excuse me.."

She turns back to Dani and engages back in the conversation they were having, no longer interested in Ren. "Sorry about that."

Cora: you hear a soft whimpering from Ren as she hugs her drink. A sniffle and a hiccup. If you do throw a glance her way, part of her hair has fallen off her shoulder, revealing a very purple bruise.

Wait a minute. 

Something insider Cora wrestled with her mind. Who cares, just keep talking to Dani! No, idiot, look - she’s been hit. Yeah, big deal so have you just today! What if it’s for a bad reason? UGGHH fine..!!

”Why do you have a bruise on your shoulder?”

Danica was amused by this exchange until the bruise. She got up and tried to take a look at the bruise.

Medicine: 18

 Edit: lol somewhere there's another group that just cant stop rolling 20s :p