The Grand Tournament

**The Grand Tournament** is one of the Wolphax quests in The Long Journey Home.

## Description

The player has to ask for a "Tournament License" at a Wolphax starport. The "Tournament License" topic can be obtained by asking Wolphax knights about gossips. For an admission fee of 100 the player receives a Tournament License.

### The Tournament

All contestants have special names and will automatically address the tournament, once approached. The player has the choice to kill them without penalties, or accept their surrenders. There are eleven contestants, of which the player will arbitrarily face five:

* Squire Trelax

* Knight Auroc

* Knight Farr

* El-Za Morach

* El-Zia Jirash

* Knight-Marshall Raleough

* Knight Mandaley

* Knight-Marshall Toriel

* El-Za Charance

* Knight Gavaine

* Squire Dor

They have five different characters, which because of the arbitrary choice do not all have to occur in a single seed:

* Fair: Asks whether the player wants to fight and gives him the opportunity to end the fight when almost dead.
* Overambitious: Doesn't care whether the player wants to start the battle now or later and starts fighting immediately. Defeating him increases the Wolphax respect.
* Afraid: Offers 200 and his surrender, if the player doesn't fight him. If the player fights him anyway, the respect will decrease.
* Damaged: Has a weakened ship and asks to fight the player later after he repaired it. If the player decides to wait, the Wolphax respect increases, but the fight will be significantly more difficult.
* Killer: When the player is almost dead, he will not accept the player's surrender.

How to defeat the Wolphax Marshall ships:

Get as far away from the main ship as necessary to be out of reach and activate the shields. It's possible to prepare that before the conversation starts. When the fight starts fly away in a straight line and fire on the small ships, when they catch up. They do not respawn, so kill them first. Then head back and try to stay in front of the main ship to avoid the mighty broadsides. Keep the slow ship at a distance and make regular turns in front of the ship to make sure the shields can reload on the other side.

The contestants appear individually in inhabited systems. It's possible to just warp back and forth (or even gate) between two systems to meet them all. Afterwards the player has to submit (show) the Tournament license to a Wolphax starport or gate (sans the one where you obtained it). If the player has defeated all opponents he is allowed to move on to the final battle against the reigning champion, El-Zia Demmara, and receives the coordinates of the Tournament Starport and battle location. Otherwise, the player receives a Tournament Participation Medal and the quest ends.

### The champion round

First thing: in the tourney finals system's King's Starport, the player can pick up a Symbol of Knighthood as a reward for reaching the final round. This is the only time at which you may pick this up, not after the battle. If El-Zia Demmara intercepts you beforehand, you can decline without penalty, and she will allow you "prepare" for battle: use this time to pick up your crews' knighthood if you have not already done so and, if you have already fulfilled the other first place requirements for the achievement, you may finish unlocking "Highly Decorated" Achievement as well.

Anyway, with her Wolphax Marshall ship, El-Zia Demmara can be defeated the same way as described above. Destroying her completely decreases the Wolphax respect by 2 levels

To collect your reward, the player must to fly back to the King's Tournament Starport and collect the Grand Tournament Trophy, approximately 1020, the Laser Array weapon and the "KNIGHTS TO REMEMBER" achievement. The Wolphax become friends.

If the player loses, he will receive approximately 720, a Wolphax Gate Pass, and the respect increases.

## Notes

* The Grand Tournament can finish without fighting a single battle by just ignoring all Wolphax contestants and showing the Tournament License to another Wolphax starport.
* The Grand Tournament is the only contest, that counts twice for the "HIGHLY DECORATED" achievement. It is vital that you pick up the Symbol of Knighthood before fighting El-Zia Demmara to get both trophies! After the battle, the player will only receive the Grand Tournament Trophy. Declining her first challenge at intercept will not incur penalty either, but allow you the extra time to hit the Tournament Starport if you just happened to accidentally intersect first.
* Finishing the quest is required for the "HERO SYNDROME" achievement.