Trumpets blow loudly to introduce the start of the tournament day. Everyone is invited to watch or participate. Those who would like to sign up need simply sign in for the competition they seek to join in on. Sign ups open at 8am, though you can sign up any time before the start of your competition category. There are different prizes listed for each category!
In the sign-up area before the tournaments begin, there will be a number of entertainment shows going on: Some of the fae who were invited are giving enchanted body paintings. Once the painting is finished, they will travel across your body like a living tattoo. Please be sure to specify if you would like it to be permanent or temporary, and exactly what you want-- especially if you want a permanent one.
In addition to the body painting, there will be a number of clowns playing pranks and giving out balloons that, when popped, completely cover the surrounding 5 feet in glow-in-the-dark glitter that smells of your favorite scent. Each one will smell different depending on who is smelling it. What's more is the glitter actually dissolves after 12 hours, so you don't have to worry about it never getting out of anything. Amazing!
There are additional dance shows and parades going on through the town and near the sign-up area to draw people in, and little pop-up shops with merch you can buy to support the tournament-- cool t-shirts, sunglasses, hats, keychains, and more. Don't forget to download the Tournament Bets app so you can place money on your favorites to win and make bank! Maybe save some for the tavern afterward if things don't work out, though... or before you make any decisions, check out the castles' royal tea garden, beautifully decorated in a wide variety of wintery florals, which is set up and serving a delightful medley of teas with soothing effects. Just be careful-- each table has a magic grapevine that will communicate with another table, so you may end up hearing someone else's secrets on the grapevine... or just ending up with a fun conversation if you notice it before you say something you don't want to share.
As the tournament gets underway, it starts off with all of the multiview screens taking focus on the royal viewing box. In it stands a man that we have not yet seen before, but who stands with an air of dignity. He's wearing a suit, and a crown, and looks confident despite that he has many reasons to be hesitant- he is back from the dead, after all.
 | ”"My name is Arthur Pendragon, King of Camelot. Many of you may have heard of me from your worlds I'm told, and many still may not have, but I will begin with an apology. I should have been there for those of you who arrived months ago and have been bravely pursuing this battle without leadership. I am afraid a few millennia of culture shock have thrown me off course and the Advent of the Kardashians in my studies has not helped these matters. But that is little excuse. From here on out, I will be with you in your journeys. Those who have questions of me, I will be offering an..."
Merlin's voice comes in off-camera to help him out, since he's still not sure on all the lingo, offering "AMA" to assist, then Arthur continues.
"An AMA to you all in the coming days. But for the time being, let us celebrate the wins and strides you all have made with a tournament. Those brave enough to enter, I hope to see you vying for knighthood and fighting alongside me in the days to come. For the love of Camelot!" |
The video ends and the first tournament event begins. The categories and prizes are as follows:Close-Quarters Melee (No Magic): Any non-projectile weapon is allowed. All combatants meet on a sand lot surrounded by stands. The last combatant standing wins. Prize: 500,000G; (Item) Enchanted Sword, courtesy of the royal blacksmith and permanently enchanted by Merlin (Winner can choose what kind of effect they want upon contact with blade! IC choice, but must be approved by mods)
Physical Healing: All physical wounds will be divided among healers. Participation in this event will yield monetary payment of 10,000G per person regardless of win, as it is an essential service. The first person to complete their patient load will win the competition. Prize: 50,000G; (Recipe) Protective Charm
Long-Range Firing Competition: Archers, gunsmen, slingshot, or any other projectile-firing weapons or magic may be used for precision aiming at long-distance targets, both still and moving. It is not permitted to fire at other competitors, but distracting, blocking, and otherwise creating interference with curses, shields, and so on is permitted. Causing injury to other competitors will result in disqualification. Prize: 50,000G; (Item) Locked-and-Loading Projectile Purse
Lunch: Lunch break! There are plenty of food stands available for anyone to purchase whatever food their heart desires, but for the competitive lot, there is a hot dog eating contest to participate in or enjoy. Let the ref know if you would prefer vegan hot dogs, as they are available. Prize: 20,000K; (Recipe) Instant Loperamide
Animal & Hypnotic Obstacle Course: This one is for the animal and cognitive users. Use animal magic to direct a blindfolded animal or hypnotized peer through an obstacle course. Whichever team finishes the course first is the winner. (No one will question whether or not the hypnotized participant is there willingly, but make sure you discuss OOC.) Prize: 50,000G; (Recipe) Enchanted Gold Rose
Dark & Light Submission: Dark magic users will be given instructions to utilize shadow magic to essentially swallow their light opponent into a vat of darkness and pull them into pitch-black dungeons underground. Light magic users are to utilize their light magic to overwhelm the shadows and prevent themselves from being pulled under. Light magic users are given intsructions to create hardlight bindings to stop their dark magic opponents from controlling the shadows. Whoever secures their opponent first wins. (Multiple winners.) Prize: 10,000G; (Potion) Countercurse
Alchemy & Kinetic Animated Battles: An alchemist and a kinetic user pair up to alchemize a warrior of their choosing. It can be made of any material you like-- stone, straw, brick, mud, steel, whatever, but it must be made to be mobile and armed as you please, as kinetic users will then be tasked with animating various parts of the body and fighting the alchemists's creations against each other. Prize: 50,000G to each member of the winning team; (Potion) Animatia
Single Element Knock-Out: Elemental magic users may select one element to fight with. Each magic user is given their own platform in a pool. The goal is to knock your opponents into the water. Note: The water of the pool is not usable in the competition; using the pool will result in disqualification. You can jump from platform to platform to avoid hits but leaving the pool area will result in disqualification. Prize: 50,000G; (Recipe) Glowstick
Magical Melee: Like the close-quarters free-for-all, any magic type may join in. All combatants meet on a sand lot surrounded by stands. The last mage standing wins. Prize: 500,000G; (Item) Channeling Staff
Anyone who participates will get the following: A big thank you, a free meal ticket redeemable at any food stand during lunch, and (Recipe) Cool Firework. Reminder that players who want their character to win should sign up on the plotting post here. You can thread anything out on the log. Please sign up before 11:59pm on Friday 1/22. Results will be drawn live if we can figure out an easy way to do that and posted on Saturday.
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[She can't get hit by that! Have you seen how sticky those things are?! And there's no time for an entire bath before the competition!]
[So, anyone watching will be treated to an incredibly sick Matrix-style dodge of the confection that was pitched at her by a man who is apparently five years old. And then, once she's recovered...]
Get back here!
[The woman gives chase with the same intensity as someone who might be about to kill someone for, let's just say, throwing a candy apple at their face.]
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[Unfortunately, the courtyard where lunch and the hot dog eating contest was being held was jam-packed at this point. So space for holding a death defying chase was at a premium.]
[At least, it would be, if Darin wasn't so used to fairs and tournaments like this. What, you think this is the first time he's gotten into a fight at a bazaar? If this is the first fight he gets into today he'd call himself a slacker. As such, Allura is treated to a rather amazing sight as Darin bobs, weaves, rolls around, slides under, and generally makes his way through the crowd like pro football player avoiding every single obstacle. To say the man is adaptable is an understatement; as he moves he's gradually making sure more and more bystanders get between them, consciously weaving through the crowd in a way that more people and obstacles are presented to her.]
[At one point, he rolls up onto one of those large picnic tables and manages to run from one end to the other without stepping on anyone's food, and when he dismounts, he does so with a front flip leading into a roll that has him rolling under the next table.]
[He even caught some kid's ice cream cone from hitting the ground, offers it back, and is off again.]
Screw off, lady! I'm not dealing with you again!
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[Look. Under different circumstances, she might let this drop and tell him to get lost in the most literal way possible. She's stubborn, but even she knows how to pick her battles, sometimes.]
[But look at him! Look at how effortlessly he handles this obstacle course of people, despite the fact that it's changing from moment to moment! He's perfect! He would complete the obstacle course in record time, as long as she provided him with the best possible magical guidance!]
[The only problem is his personality! And if he weren't such a stubborn jerk, certainly she could convince him to help regardless — but just as she thinks she's cornered him, there he goes, up on the table without hearing a word from her mouth. Unbelievable.]
[All right. Two can play at this game! She's up on the table as well — and after a running start, she opts to long-jump the rest of the way, clearing the end of the table and hitting the ground in a cinematic three-point landing. It only takes a moment to identify where he's gone next, and spring back up in pursuit.]
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[Alright, fine, if she thinks she can play this game, he'll just alter the difficulty.]
Why the hell should I?! Not only are you crazy but no good can come out of anything you'd want from me!
[He heads for an empty table and drops, sliding feet first under it until he's about three quarters of the way through. He rolls, places his arms under him and pushes up at the same time he kicks up.]
[He might not have his super strength but he's strong enough to send the table up on its side like a long, vertical wall. But he won't stop there. The long benches on either side? As he rolls backwards, he grabs them and turns them inward, creating a bottleneck...]
[One last back flips has him sailing over one of the trash cans that was positioned next to the table, and as he comes down, he kicks out, sending it rolling Allura's way like this were a game of Donkey Kong. He hits the ground in a backwards roll and he's up, turning just in time to make a hard right down the line of some stalls.]
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[And then, she sees the literal barricade he's set up for her.]
Oh, quiznak—!!
[Nope. Going around this will take too long. And while she's still quite agile, she's not sure if she can leap the furniture in a single bound. And she's not strong enough to go through it...]
[Or is she?]
[She jumps over the trash can, then hits the ground and springs up again at the table with a flying kick, aiming high enough to tip it back — and carries through to plant her foot on it, letting her weight and momentum help gravity pull it back down to earth. It hits the ground with a heavy thud, knocking the benches back aside, and she's standing atop it ready to use the high vantage point to look for him.]
[And you know, he might have actually lost her, were it not for that bright blue hair jumping out in the crowd. She catches sight of it right before some other people get in the way.]
There!
[And her pursuit is back on, though thanks to the shifting crowd, she can't stay directly behind him. More at a diagonal from him, chasing on the other side of the road.]
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[He's running out of distractions. He doesn't want to ruin the tournament for all of the other attendees, but she's relentless. There's got to be something he can do.]
[He ducks low and keeps moving through the crowd until he can find a small path between the stalls. As he darts through, he reaches over the edge to pull a cloth napkin from one of the stalls, which he quickly ties over his hair, then ducks behind some crates of vegetables.]
[Here's hoping she misses him.]
[1/2]
[Oh, what a jerk! Where is he hiding now?! Hiding his hair is surprisingly effective camoflague, and she's now checking under stalls to see if she can find where he's hiding out.]
[This is wasting so much time. How long is he going to evade her? And even if she tracks him down, what can she do next? She would literally have to force him to stay and listen to her proposition — and how can she do that? Is there somewhere she can corner him?]
[2/2]
[She stiffens at the voice. It's telepathy. More than that, it's a sort of telepathic voice that she has heard before, that she 'heard' through her hands splayed across the skin of a massive creature — a Balmera.]
[For a long moment, she's standing in the market, staring into space as her familiar speaks to her, explaining how her magic is uniquely suited to solving this exact problem.]
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[Staring into space? That's weird. She's weird.]
[But if she continues staring in one direction...]
[He moves to the other side of the crates and starts to creep away while she's seemingly distracted.]
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[But this isn't forcing him to do anything. It's simply reaching out to him, breaking through an invisible barricade that's preventing them from talking. Magical persuasion. What's wrong with that?]
[So, she concentrates, and then casts a small, quiet spell, reaching out to Darin with a suggestion...]
Please, hear what I have to say.
[Hopefully he hasn't gone too far by that point. If there's a way to use the magic to track him, she hasn't figured it out yet.]
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[Maybe it's the nature of the plea; it sounds...sad? Anxious?]
[Or maybe it was just the amount of perceived sincerity; a trait and tone that Darin just could not, in good conscience, turn a blind eye to.]
[So he sighs, straightens up, and removes the makeshift bandana from his head and turns around slowly to meet her gaze.]
...Fine. I'll hear you out. But if I don't like where this is going, I'm gone.
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[It's only somewhat at him that she breathes a relieved:] Thank you.
I need someone to help me in one of the upcoming competitions. An assistant, you might say. Someone who can complete an obstacle course while I magically provide them with directions from a remote location.
[That is essentially what the structure of the event is, right? And it sounds a lot more more palatable than calling it hypnosis.]
You seem more than equipped for the task. And I'm prepared to offer you the entire 50,000 gold prize if we win. I'm more interested in the victory itself... well, that and the other half of the prize, the enchanted item recipe.
What do you say?
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So, you want me to run this little rat maze for you while you give me instruction...
[Not too hard and it honestly doesn't seem too sinister. But...]
...Why me? There's hundreds of people here.
And what enchanted item?
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[She's not going to say outright that it's kind of his own fault, but...]
The recipe is for an Enchanted Golden Rose. It can be worn as an accessory to encourage others to be more trusting and forthcoming with information. That could be useful for a wide variety of quests.
[Also, she could absolutely coordinate an accessory like that with her crown.]
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That doesn't sound completely untrustworthy or sinister, nope. Not at all.
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And I fail to see why it would matter for you. It doesn't strike me as your style. [Though he does have some gold accents in his outfit...] Hence why I generously offered you the gold reward instead.
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...You chased me all around these grounds for this?
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[She folds her arms.]
You're the one giving me such trouble for a simple request!
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[Something about this irked him, but he couldn't put his finger on it. There were still so many others out on the grounds, why didn't she approach any of them? Why did she chase him? This lady doesn't even know who he is but she keeps crossing his path.]
[Though...the money from the win would be beneficial in setting up his forge. Especially if it's coupled with his earnings from the healing tournament...]
[Hm...]
One more condition. If we win, you let me see the recipe for that flower. As a blacksmith, I'm interested in how these recipes can be crafted. You don't have to give it to me, all I want is to be present when it's made.
[He holds out a hand.]
Deal?
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[See? A fair warning. She extends her own hand, accepting the handshake with a firm grip — assertive, but not crushing his fingers.]
It's a deal. ... we should go prepare as soon as possible.
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How are we supposed to prepare?
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[It's probably best to do that before the actual competition starts, right? She has no idea how her opponents might hypnotize their targets — or if they're all willing participants.]
[The last thing she wants is to give him more reasons to be suspicious of her.]
But that should be all! Unless there's something you need to do first...?
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...So, what kind of spell are you going to be casting on me?
Some sort of guiding spell? Something to help me find my way through the obstacle course?
[Do you tell him it's hypnosis? Do you think he'd go along if you said you were going to hypnotize him? Moment of truth or not-so-truth, Allura~]
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[Besides...]
It's going to guide you the whole way! See, you're going to be blindfolded, but I'll be able to see, and thus you'll be receiving all the directions you need from me.
[This is all technically true.]
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Yeah, this should be no sweat for me. Let's do this thing.
[He'll show her how capable he is on his own by tackling this obstacle course under no actual power of his own!]