Forums » Fantasy Roleplay » Fighting Pits of Szazos (Part One Complete)

The stadium filled with people, the way it always did. Slaves were brought into their cages from all over the Black Sands, some slaves even came from across the sea... Before Szazos fell, and before Dukonuu was a free man he was a boy, fourteen years old and tall for his age. The way the pits worked is that you must survive and win five victories then you get to fight a beast. The grand council spin the beast wheel and whatever creature that it lands on you have to fight! Duuk ran away from his master and found himself locked in the cages of the fighting pits of Szazos as punishment. But that was his plan all along. Outside a man was torn apart by a mystic lion creature known as a Manticore, "this is my turn to fight for my freedom!" Dukonuu was determined to win his freedom! "Five fights and a beast!!!"

The arena opened up as Dukonuu walked through the gates into the empty arena surrounded by hundreds of thousands of slave owners in the stands. "So who do I have to fight first?"

((OOP: attacks are decided with a 1D20, if you get a 10 or more you hit, if you get a twenty your attack instantly kills! Apart from that your character will always fight another player character except for the beast at the end! Which you will roll a 1D6 to decide who you fight:
1. Manticore
2. Owlbear
3. Bullette (Land Shark)
4. Cyclopes
5. Roc (Giant Eagle)
6. Hydra (*Ice*fire*acid dragon heads)
Good luck in the Szazos fighting pits!!!))

((P.S. If your character loses and is spared he/she can fight again. If he/she is killed, deal with it, use a new character and avenge your old one this is a story/game, so just have fun!)

(This actually seems to strike my fancy...i'm in.)

Five fights and a beast. Thats all he was told. He was told nothing of the caliber of his opponents or anything. He sighed lightly as he stepped out into the stadium and stared across the way and shrugged when he seen his first opponent.

"Make it interesting for me will ya...i get bored easy if i'm fighting to the death and my opponent ain't worth his salt..."

He then rotated his neck upon his shoulders and folded his arms over his chest.

There was a weapon rack on each side of the fighting pit, and as the war gong sounded Dukonuu picked up two spears and with a running start he gave a powerful throw to the item. This wasn't about being cocky for him, and it wasn't about pleasing the audience... It was about winning his freedom, finding love, and settling down. Hopefully his first spear throw would do some damage...

He simply side stepped the oncoming spear and smirked a bit as he grabbed himself a sword from the weapon rack and a small axe.

"Your determined... I like that..."

He then turned and threw the axe full force towards the charging youth.

His target wasn't hit by his first attack, but his spear was over near his foe, if worse came to worse it would be a good thing to use to attack if his foe disarmed him. Jumping towards the ground, Dukonuu rolled with his spear right under his enemies weapon! Bringing his spear up he aimed for the man's gut! Stabbing hard with hopes to impale his foe!!

Once again merely side stepping to avoid the attack he smirked a bit at the youth.

"Too early for a killing blow of that caliber..."

He then shifted his weight a bit and launched a full force knee strike for the youth's side.

A critical slash tossed Duuk backwards and bleeding out, he was knocked out. The gong sounded and the match was over, Duuk would from that day on have a large scar across his chest where the swordsman cut him but as the guards carried him back to his cell all his mind could think about was his next fight with that swordsman. "I will fight you again swordsman," he said to himself when he Awakemed at last. Bandages covered his body and he peaked ou of his cell and looked down the long hall, trying to see who the Swordsman would fight this time...

((Nice hit!!! I'm really glad I didn't die at least, hey so there is one last rule! Let's say you hit me with an 10-18, every time you attack after that you would add a +1 modifier to your attack since I'm weakened. In addition, if with the +1 modifier you hit me a second time without knocking me out or killing me, then you add a +2 modifier and so on and so on! Sound good? Congrats on the win btw!!! Hope to fight you again soon ))

Kyle watched the kid get dragged away and shook his head disappointed. Not in such and easy victory however but in whom it was against. Truthfully he hated fighting kids. He shook his head once more and stabbed the sword into the ground and folded his arms over his chest as he quietly awaited his next opponent.

"You got potential kid..." he muttered as he waited.

(That was fun though truthfully i was hoping it would last longer. Lol. And technically it was a knee strike that took ya down. Not a sword slash. Heh. Good match either way.)

(I guess I'm up!)

A man, looking about 20, steps into the arena, blade at his side. "..."

He stared at the new arrival and taking note of the mans blade, he pulled the sword from the sand and held it at his side.

"You look like you may be fun..."

He stayed silent, waiting for the attack.

"That new guy is odd," Dukonuu said to himself as he watched, "why wouldn't he take advantage of the first attack?"

"I heard that." he muttered, fist clenching around his sword. "Well, come on already."

Tilting his head to the side Dukonuu wondered if this person was magic, he was a good distance away from the arena with barely any visibility of the fight, "this guy must have super hearing or something..." Duuk touched the bandages on his chest from inside his cage, "YOU BETTER NOT DIE SWORD SWINGER!!!" Duuk yelled to Kyle, a guard told him to shut up but Duuk continued to yell, "YOU BETTER NOT DIE BEFORE I GET TO FIGHT YOU AGAIN!!!!"

He sighed, rolling his eyes. Whatever. He ran toward his opponent, attempting a strike.

(WELL DAMN. THAT WAS FAST.)

(Well damn. I thought we were doing some turn based stuff. Wasn't expecting to come back to see a bunch of posts.)

(Sorry. Was kinda bored of waiting. And Duuk posted, so I took that as a reason to post. And you got owned. )

Duuk looked out and counldn't exactly see what had happened, he had just been yelling one minute and the next the stadium was roaring with applause! What had happened in there, had the swordsman won so easily? Or a scarier thought, had the man with special ears won that fast?? Dukonuu's heart began pounding faster and faster, hopefully the Sword Swinger hadn't been killed...

((I just wanted to post a little thing and it turned into kind of a conversation even though I was no where near you guys thats ok, your not dead, just explain his attack, get carried out and ill have the next player post! Sound good everyone? ALSO: Could we not post chats here anymore? Thanks!))