The Games of Saberhaven
Dalkar Stonebitier vs. Orred Aved
Dalkar, with his mighty War Bucket swinging, charges onto the field screaming out another Grammy winning ditty:
"Derros is great,
Taste good on chocolate cake!
Derros I hate,
I like to smash them into paste!"
Dalkar charges out to the center of the Arena. Orred stands stable, waiting for the crazy dwarf to come to him and cast a spell. No effects are visible when he finishes, and he continues to float in the air, waiting for Dalkar.
At the end of the charge, Dalkar puts his head down and charges with his Headspiker helmet, carrying his bucket loosly in the left hand. As he arrives at the images, he looks up and sees that the entire thing is an illusion. The five foot globe surrounding him dispels the mirror image effects. He heads the only remaining figure, but realizes this too is an illusion, though obviously of higher level since it wasn't dieplled. The image reaches out to touch him and he backs away, looking for the actual Derro, who is appearantly invisible.
Dalkar exclaims, "I thought these Derro were good for something!"
Dalkar runs over to the door that Orred came out of, puts his head against the door, and starts to count out loud.
"One, Two, Three, Five, Uhhhh......" he says as he slams his head into the wall.
"One, Two, Many, More, War. I'm It!!!!!!!" Suddenly he's blinded by his own head butss.
Dalkar grabs a Hammer with his left hand - the bucket is still in his right hand - and waits. He listens for the invisible mage to move, which he does and then follows the sound.
The mountain dwarf slides up beside the invisible derro, then suddenly is hit by a stream of fire. He continues chanting through the blast and manages to resist the bulk of it. The derro turns visible right in front of him.
Upon seeing Orred so close, Dalkar throws his hands wide, droping both the Bucket and Hammer, and with a big goofy grin exclaims, "Come and give uncle Dalkar a big hug!" The mountain dwarf attempts to embrace the derro, but Orred dodges the grab.
Dalkar pauses long enough to hold up his right arm and sniff his armpit saying, "Hey! do I stink or something? Come back here!"
Orred launches five magical missiles rather quickly, but all of them fail to penetrate the arua surrounding Dalkar.
"That's it!" he yells, " Now you dun Pissed Me Off!!!!!!"
"YYaarrllllggggg!!" sceams Dalkar as he quickly trasforms into a hideous nightmarish characture of a Dwarf. He seems to grow, streching his armor to the breaking point, all his visible blood vessles seam to bulge to undwarven size, spittle flies everywere, and his red eyes lock onto Orred. His chanting takes on a sureal tone as Dalkar lauches himself at Orred.
Orred points a wand at the crazed dwarf and fires a Fireball. Dalkar seems not to notice as he takes the full brunt of the flames.
Dalkar strikes out with his glove nails, missing the derro once, then striking him, the evil dwarf's skin as if it were stone.
Continuing his strikes, Dalkar smashes twice more into the stone skinned derro.
Orred reaches out and grabs the crazed, blind, glove nailed dwarf. A shock sizzles through Dalkar.
After the shock goes through him, Standing what there is of his beard on end, Dalkar exclaims "I'm It, Ready or not, here I come!" and giggles like a little school girl and he continues his assault, both verbal and physical.
Dalkar punches out with his right fist but the derro dodges to the side. Orred draws his sword and switching his wand ot his left hand he swings the sword at his opponent. Dalkar hears the whoosh of the blade rushing through the air in time to duck his head.
Reacting quickly, Dalkar reaches out and grabs a fist full of Orred's shirt. He follows with another punch with his right, screaming "Your It!" as he punches into the face of the derro. Unfortuneately, the evil dwarf's skin is still rock hard and the punch has no effect.
Again the derro swings his sword, but misses terribly. He curses, then throws the sword aside, obviously not as comfortable with it as a good fighter should be.
Continuing his chanting, Dalkar pulls Orred in nice and close,nose to nose and screams with spit flying "Hi! My name's Dalkar!" He then continues his physical assault.
He continues to pummel the stone skinned derro with two more hits from his right glove nailed hand, while holding his robe with his left hand.
Orred grumbles, "Eat fire freak!" and detonates a fireball from his wand right between them, knocking them both to the ground. Somehow, Dalka holds on to Orred's shirt as they fall.
Coughing smoke, Dalkar once again pulls Orred close and says, "I hope that was as good for you as it was for me. He he he! Let's wrastle and get real friendly like!"
Dalkar tries to roll on top of the derro, but cannot pull him over. He smacks him again with his glove nails, still striking stone.
Suddenly, Orred flies into the air, lifting the battle crazed dwarf with him. He tries to fly up as Dalkar clings to him, but the weight of the dwarf is to much.
Dalkar hangs on and punches Orred twice, sceaming "Stop squirming and sqeal like a pig boy!"
The weight of the dwarf pulls Orred back to the ground. Pointing his wand at Dalkar, the derro summons a fanned sheet of flames, scalding the battlerager.
Dalkar notices that Orred's skin no longer seems to be like that of stone.
Dalkar once again pulls Orred in tight and asks him "Going somewere?" He continues his chant keeping beat with his punches.
As he feels his first glovenail rip into the flech of the derro he gleefuly screams, "Hey, your squishy again!" He punches again, scratching more of the flesh from the dark dwarf.
Orred fires his wand again at the dwarf, fanning him with more flames.
Dalkar, after getting his opponents blood on him seems to go into an even higher state of frenzy. He screams out his chant even louder, and every other word is now "DIIIEE!". He seems to be totaly focused on Orred's demise and nothing else.
The derro continues to fire fans of flames form his wand. He can't tell if he has his opponent on the ropes or not, but knows he's feeling the pain.
Dalkar rips into the evil dwarf's skin with his glove nails. The seering pain courses through the derro and rends him unconscious.
The battlerager continues to thrash at the derro, tearing his limp body apart. The healing priests and several guards have to pull the dwarf off his opponent as he's declared the winner.
It takes almost every Arena Cleric and guard to pin Dalkar down long enough for him to come back to his senses. Dalkar looks over at what is left of Orred and sheepishly mummbles, "Sorry, I think I broke him." He then goes into a giggle fit and quickly falls unconscious.
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