Bastion City Fighting Festival

### General Notes:

The Bastion City Fighting Festival is an annual event hosted by the war gifted city of Bastion City, within the country of Fennbirn. It usually marks the start of spring and occurs on either the spring equinox or the Saturday closest to that date. The festival includes a fighting competition with two rounds.

The first round is a free for all where participants are placed on a platform with the objective of trying to remove as many other participants from the platform as possible before time runs out, while refraining from being removed from the platform themselves. Participants can then pair off or participate individually for the second round, where each team is organized into a roster, paired against one another to fight until a victor is declared.

The festival is well known across Fennbirn, and gifted individuals from each of the other major cities usually send strong delegates to participate in it. Occasionally, other participants from other countries across the Sapphire Isles will make the journey to participate, though this is rarer because it does require sailing in the Loch.

### Timeline:

* The party first found out about the fighting festival on their way to visit the temple of the goddess in Bastion City. They noticed that a majority of the stalls in the center marketplace had been cleared away and that several people appeared to be building some sort of platform.
* On their way back from the temple, the festival was about to start and a man was calling for last minute participants. Tempted by the idea of winning some money, either by winning the competition or through betting, Mora, Ven, Calliope (albeit reluctantly), Winter and Ellia decided to participate. Due to the partner nature of the second part of the contest, Oliver was entered as well, in his human form.
* All members of the party survived the first round of the competition, during which some of them engaged with Amrythis, a war gifted soldier who was a member of the Bastion City guard. Winter approached him first to ask him his thoughts about the competition, to which he responded in a rather cocky manner.
* The first fight of the second round was between Ellia and Oliver and a naturalist woman named Braebelle, with her bird familiar. During the fight, the bird was killed, causing Braebelle to fly into a fit of rage that eventually resulted in her losing the fight.
* The second fight was between Mora, Ven and a man named Rosier, who lost to the pair via Ven shoving him off of the platform.
* In the third fight, Calliope and Winter fell to Amrythis, the war gifted man who Winter had spoken with previously, though the two put up a several round long fight.
* At the start of the second round, Ellia & Oliver and Mora & Ven were pitted against one another. Rather than fighting, they elected to play rock paper scissors, but the "battle" ended up ending when Ellia hopped off of the platform, leaving Mora and Ven the victors of the "fight"
* Moving on to the third round, Mora & Ven were then matched against Amrythis, the man that Winter and Calliope fell to in their first fight. Understandably, due to their previous defeat, the party was anxious to see the two defeat him. Though they did last a bit longer than Winter and Calliope, due to being more prepared for the types of attacks that the warrior threw at them, Mora and Ven eventually fell to the solider.

### Notes:

* Unlike ordinary wizard familiars, naturalist familiars are not able to resurrect. This is because instead of the familiars being summoned via the Find Familiar spell, naturalists perform a ritual at around age 13 in order to locate their familiar. The familiar is then bound to the naturalist's life force, meaning that it cannot die through natural causes until the death of the naturalist themself, and can only be killed purposefully by another. It is not uncommon for naturalists to fall into a deep depression following the death of a familiar, or even for them to commit suicide as a result.

### NPCs Encountered:

* Amrythis
* Braebelle
* Rosier