Painting Grey Hills Red

The Adventurers Guild have been invited to take part in a exhibition match at Grey Hill by the The Fighters' Guild of Grey Hills. Unlike the usual affairs there that rely solely on the skill of a combatant against another, this match fits more into the wheel house the Adventurers Guild usually deal with.

## Adventurers Attending

* Bjerk - The Duke
* Renestrae 'Rain' Larenthanil - Rain Mysterio, the Oncoming Storm
* Horatio Hammerfell - Triple H
* John Cartwright - Doctor J

## Mission Notes

The party are at the Guild house unwinding as Beefington comes down to give them an invitation to take part in an exhibition match up north in Grey Hills stadium, which he has already agreed with The Fighters' Guild of Grey Hills that the Guild would take part in. Mistaking John for Cassidy who he believes must have had a magical mishap given how different he looks, and John is swept up in all of this. Without much of an explanation Beefington leaves after standing there expecting the group just to teleport away.

Rain teleports the group to VanDurenVille within Nothern Vale Forest as Bjerk has a strong aversion to going to Leodis for some reason. After a few days travel the group arrive in Grey Hill and head straight for the Arena. Once there they find out that they have a couple of hours before they need to be ready and they can get into their costumes in the preparation area. They are led into their area away from the main combatants.

Deciding it might be better to get costumes for the exhibition fight. Going around the stall surrounding the stadium, they are stacked to the rafter with costumes and action figures of the fighters. Going around the party make up costumes for their debut in the arena.

Getting back and getting ready a stage hand comes in to give them a 20 minute warning and to ask for everyone stage names. Bjerk goes with the Duke, John goes by Doctor J, Horatio went by Triple H and Rain went as Rain Mysterio. The group are told if they need to take a break just to do an exaggerated stretching motion, but they will only get one of them.

Heading out to the arena they get introduced to a cheering crowd excited to see something out of the Norm. The Guild are introduced and their opponents the Monstars are introduced as a Undead Heholder, flanked by two Bullettes are released from the other portcullis before the two Bullettes dive into the ground of the arena. The arena is a large open area with four 30ft columns equally spaced out in the arena.

The party quickly spread out and focusing on the Beholder as that seems it will be the biggest threat, while the Bullettes start burrowing under Rain Mysterio and Triple H as Doctor J and the Duke had left them to climb to the top of the two closest columns. The party make quick work of the Beholder but the Bullettes take a little longer to deal with before the crowd lets out a cheer at the defeat of the creatures.

A short 10 minuet interval happens to clear the arena before the next fight is introduced, the Infernal Machine. Two Metal constructs are brought out flanking two Fire Elementals in plates. Doctor J uses a Tidle Wave on the entire group instantly taking out the Fire Elementals leaving the constructs without a way of repairing themselves. The Constructs charge out and start focusing on Rain Mysterio. After a long fight and looking a bit worse for wear, Triple H stretches for the group, the announcer calls an hour long break while the ritual happens.

When the break is called the announcer lets the crowd know that Moto Moto, so nice they named him twice will be arriving as soon as the ritual is dealt with. The crowd let out a chant of 'We like them big, we like them chunky!' to the news. A grey robed mage with dark tattoos around his glowing amber eyes is stood in the portcullis on the other end of the arena finishing off a casting. A gigantic mountain of stones and crystals appears in the arena as the mage steps away through the archway as the portcullis lowers.

To the sounds of 'we like them big, we like them chunky' chanting in the background, the party fight Moto Moto, a giant earth elemental, with the creature looking like they are barely taking a scratch. The Duke is knocked out while stood on top of a column and was lucky not to fall off. Doctor J lives up to his title are misty steps up there to help his fallen comrade. After a hard fought fight the Guild manage to beat this hulking mass of minerals and win over large portion of the crowd, winning some fans in the process. Does the party have a future in the magic free combat arenas of Grey Hills?

Giant Earth Elemental Moto Moto

## Rumours

* Who was that powerful summoner?
* Why does Bjerk not want to go to Leodis?

## Player Diaries

#### **Rain's Diary**

> Beefington entered us into a gladiatoral exhibiton show type thing....
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> I was not impressed. We weren't even in the main event.
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> After confusing John and Cassidy ( he must think all wizards are the same) we set off to the middle of nowhere not far from Leodis.
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> Well we couldn't go to Leodis because Bjerks got some weird beef with that place, so we had to trek for two days to make it on time.
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> As soon as we got to the gates we were pretty much ushered in. We picked out some cool outfits and fancy stage names
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> * Horatio -HHH
> * John -Dr J
> * Bjerk- The Duke
> * Myself - Storm the Thunder Bringer ( or something they chose it for me).
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> The first round consisted of an undead beholder and a few armadillo things that took a hell of a beating to go down. Tbf that was the easy bit as the fights got progressively harder.
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> The second round consisted of two giant constructs and 2 fire elementals, Dr j nearly single handedly wiped out both elementals with one tidal wave before the rest of us wailed on the constructs.
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> Finally a Huuuuge Rock elemental was summoned and this bastard was tough, relentless attacks did not seem to bother it at all! The Duke went down but was revived by Dr J before I finally defeated it with a swift kick to the shin.
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> I then had to quickly dispatch of the evil spawn it created.. it may have been a baby..
> Anyway.
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> We were the champions!
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#### **Bjerk Letter**

> “Dear Sis,
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> Got roped into some sort of tournament by Lord Beefington. End up in some stadium outside Leodis (far too close to that accursed place for my liking even with a mask on) where some wizard summons monsters for us to kill so the crowd is entertained.
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> We killed the monsters. Although I have a headache from an animated hill thumping me rather hard. Still we got paid so I guess that’s all good. Going to invest in a more reliable way of sending longer messages - not sure about the reliability of that fellow’s pigeons. One of the wizards mentioned some sort of paper bird thing I might look into.
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> Not sure where all this is going to end. Going to research overseas just in case.
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> Give our parent two fingers for me.
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> B.B.”
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