I'm not really suspecting the knight team to make it very far, but I think they would try, just to see if they can't teach all those mages and fancy people a lesson or two.

Maybe use Darkstar as the 4th member then? He strikes me as the type to try this.
 
I think Taena and Wyla would make killer team.
Nothing more needed with those two.

Also Valaena and Asha could get on the same Team, they'd need 2 more to have any chance. Maybe Drizzil and Aeron Naremos ( assuming he couldn't get his brother to go back in)?
 
I think Taena and Wyla would make killer team.
Nothing more needed with those two.

Also Valaena and Asha could get on the same Team, they'd need 2 more to have any chance. Maybe Drizzil and Aeron Naremos ( assuming he couldn't get his brother to go back in)?
Maybe Valaena, Asha, Theon and Walder Black? They could do with someone tanky to soak some damage and this is just the stacked team that Walder would gravitate to.
 
By the way, @Azel I think Melisandre should compete alone, if she does at all.

She though she could take a full party of ours and I think DP didn't make her too overconfident.
She doesn't need a Warpriest-meatshield like Thoros added in.
 
By the way, @Azel I think Melisandre should compete alone, if she does at all.

She though she could take a full party of ours and I think DP didn't make her too overconfident.
She doesn't need a Warpriest-meatshield like Thoros added in.
I'm not sure. She will be hampered by the no killing rule, since I doubt she has Merciful and that shuts down high-level blasting. A lot of fancy kill-spells are also off the table.

That might end with her loosing through simple action economy. We also don't know how much of her confidence came from Burny promising to directly intervene. She might be "only" a lvl 15 cleric and was banking on getting super-charged against us.

Ultimately @DragonParadox must decide that, as we don't know her build.
 
I'm not sure. She will be hampered by the no killing rule, since I doubt she has Merciful and that shuts down high-level blasting. A lot of fancy kill-spells are also off the table.

That might end with her loosing through simple action economy. We also don't know how much of her confidence came from Burny promising to directly intervene. She might be "only" a lvl 15 cleric and was banking on getting super-charged against us.

Ultimately @DragonParadox must decide that, as we don't know her build.
Keep in mind, Cleric.

If she prepares the fitting spells at sunrise she can propably buff herself so far she can take the entire knight-team in glorious melee without casting even one spell while actually in the arena.
 
@DragonParadox, mind you, what about Breathtaker and Blights Bane? Maybe with some kind of sea creature and a water elemental (fluffed as lesser Nereid)?

We haven't seen any Tritons all the festival.
 
Broken Lances and Wizard's Lore

Twenty-Eight Day of the Eighth Month 293 AC

Pennants flew and horses neighed, armor clinked and lances struck, over all the crowd roared its approval as two bone-shattering blows connected. Ser Benjicot Brown fell more heavily than 'the knight of the grey tower' as Ser Karyl Grafton had chosen to style himself. The hedge knight couldn't get to his feet but he was still moving, and in enough pain to curse.

"Fuck, I think his back's broken," Andar Royce muttered under his breath, before throwing a somewhat guilty look at his little sister. Mystery knight or no, disguised by Waymar's magic ribbon and all and he still could not shake the feeling that his mother was going to show up and chastise him somehow.

Ysilla just smiled reassuringly. "He'll get healed up in a moment, magic doesn't really care if you have a cut finger or a shattered spine, as long as you use enough of it. There's the princess," she added as a flash of tiny silver wings passed between the royal box and the wounded knight. "She probably just wants to make sure the official healers don't run out of spells fixing that."

Indeed the knight rose and dusted himself off, managing a credible bow before the transformed princess before getting back on his horse. The second tilt was only a bit less spectacular than the first, though Brown perhaps still rattled slid from his seat while his opponent barely clung on.

Andar momentarily struggled against a flash of envy. He had not even managed to make it into the first thirty-two knights and while he had done better in the melee he had not quite been good enough to earn himself a Valyrian steel dagger before the Red Viper bested him. The thought of those daggers brought up a question he had been meaning to ask, if not precisely looking forward to the answer.

"Waymar," he cleared his throat. "Did you find all that Valyrian steel somewhere or is it true King Viserys discovered some way to make it again."

His little brother looked back at him seriously, obviously hearing the implications of the question. "Yes, he can make it and it's not something I can explain because while it is safe and right the way he does it, allowing the knowledge out there will open the door on a lot of people who will have neither the skill nor the morals to do it properly."

"He's right," Ysilla piped in. "Sacrificial magic can be very powerful even in the most inexpert of hands but it is perilous not just directly but by the sort of behaviors it could lead to. That's why it's restricted by law to people who know what they are about." She sounded like she was quoting from something she had read or studied.

"How did you know it's..." Waymar stopped himself looking a touch sheepish.

Ysilla rolled her eyes as only younger siblings presented with the obliviousness of older ones can. "It's the Valyrians. They provably couldn't get out of bed in the morning without burning the heart of a sparrow or something."

At that Waymar snorted in amusement leaving Andar to shake his head in bafflement at how they could jest about it.

Thankfully the next tilt was beginning drawing his attention away from such disquieting thoughts. The Dothraki woman in the dark armor of King Viserys' legion faced off against a knight Waymar had revealed to be Ser Erren Florent. Twice lances broke ans they struck, twice both fell in the dust, until on the third pas the Dothraki kept her seat whole Ser Erren tumbled a third time.

Maybe she'll be the one to win, wouldn't that be an odd song for the bards back home to sing, Amdar thought amused. He realized with a start that seeing a woman with a lance did not particularly bother him anymore. After all he had witnessed in Sorcerer's Deep that seemed barely worth noting

The last crossing of the lances before the noonday break was 'the knight of the Dead Trouts', a Frey, facing off against Ser Jon Redford. Jon spared House Tully from an even greater embarrassment than they would already face by unhorsing the Frey, though not without trouble. He just barely clung to the saddle and his ribs would likely need looking at. Whatever they may say about the Lord of the Crossing his brood could fight and they likely would fight for the dragon when the time came. House Tully would have much more than awkward tales and sly songs to deal with by the time the dust cleared.

All things told Andar was content at where he and his house stood and if that took his sister being more comfortable about the idea of blood magic than he was entirely comfortable with... well he supposed he would get used to that too.

OOC: A bit of a short interlude, I really should have put these results in the Bonifer interlude, but they broke up the flow of the story. As mentioend above this was initially supposed to be from Waymar's PoV but Andar worked better
Valyrian #1: "This is the second time in a month you've been late for Dragon grooming lessons!"

Valyrian #2: "Sorry, Father, I overslept."

#1: "That's your excuse? You overslept?"

#2: "It's not my fault this time! The house slaves forgot to refill the alarm clock's infant hopper."

#1: "Hmph. Ungrateful cretins. Remind me to have the house slaves whipped."
 
I think Taena and Wyla would make killer team.
Nothing more needed with those two.

Also Valaena and Asha could get on the same Team, they'd need 2 more to have any chance. Maybe Drizzil and Aeron Naremos ( assuming he couldn't get his brother to go back in)?
Teana and Wyla shouldn't compete as a duo. If they're going to enter, the should have a full team, @DragonParadox.

Glyra would make a good addition to their team. Teana could donate a few useful spells to her prior to the fight.

An Erinyes could round out the team. Maybe one on the cusp of leveling?
 
God forbid someone kills a pet dog an army OF peasants is absolutely fine but as soon as a dog is murdered people riot.
I'm not really sure what prompted your statement, but I do happen to agree with it. A hundred unnamed people who mean nothing to me? Their deaths would bother me far less than the death of a single dog in my neighborhood, even the annoying ones.

And when my dog got sick and died back in 2017, I would have gladly sacrificed all human life on a random continent to make him well again.
 
Teana and Wyla shouldn't compete as a duo. If they're going to enter, the should have a full team, @DragonParadox.

Glyra would make a good addition to their team. Teana could donate a few useful spells to her prior to the fight.

An Erinyes could round out the team. Maybe one on the cusp of leveling?
Taena is her own distractions, Wyla can take an Undead shape and go melee if she has to.

I would say maybe one more teammember, but not the full four.
Oberyn?
 
Right. Let's see what we got:

1. Team Dragon - Amrelath
2. Team Arcanum - Aradia, Mercy, Nuri, Mereth
3. Team Inquistion - Varys, Mia, Anya, Shara
4. Team Snake - Riz'Neth, Svitran, Guardian Naga
5. Team Tree - Skarbrand, Soft Strider, Break-Bow (?), Thenn (?)
6. Team Red - Melisandre
7. Team Blue - Blights Bane, Breathtaker, Dragon Turtle, Nereid / Water-Elemental Bard
8. Team Knight - Bonifer Hasty, Benjicot Brown, Balon Swann, Darkstar
9. Team Outsider - some group around the Shaitan noble
10. Team Ringer - Valaena, Asha, Theon, Walder Black
11. Team Misfit - The Misfits
12. Team Weird - Teana, Wylla, Glyra, Paladin of Tyranny Erinyes

I would further add:

13. Team Fey - Moonsong, Fey-Dragon, Plains-Fey
14. Team Scholarium - an assortment of Scholarium casters
15. Team Windward - Aubert Flowers, Grazdan the Grim, Korn Redmane, Lohos Saan

So we need only one more team.

@DragonParadox, can we do proper brackets this time instead of rolling the next match-up before each round? That would increase the Hype.
 
13. Team Fey - Moonsong, Fey-Dragon, Plains-Fey
Not really sensible.
No proper melee, 2 of 3 would go invisible in the first round.

Moonsong and Drizzil would work better with some proper melee thrown in, or at least a half-caster, like a Magus, Hexblade or similar.
I could see Oberyn or Aemon's brother take a spot.
 
Not really sensible.
No proper melee, 2 of 3 would go invisible in the first round.

Moonsong and Drizzil would work better with some proper melee thrown in, or at least a half-caster, like a Magus, Hexblade or similar.
I could see Oberyn or Aemon's brother take a spot.
Which one is Drizzil again? You could just toss Oberyn as the fourth in there. Or drop Moonsong.

Mind, what was the team for the two drow again?
 
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