Ordo 44, 1453 L.K.
The day of the Tournament of the Six arrived with clouds and comfortable temperatures. The people of the wood practiced with the Myth’gar standard short sword until Visuvious felt they all had a good understanding of its use. When all was ready Vala and Nobu began the event.
The Tournament of the Sword lasted the entire day. With every Crystal Bearer in the wood expected to face single combat against every other Crystal Bearer of the wood. For Ordo 44 that number was 25 Crystal Bearers. The Tournament of the Lock also lasted the entire day. With people running between the three locations trying to pick locks as fast as they could.
The Tournament of the Arrow and the Magi were both mostly decided midway through the day. However, the events were kept open in case any late arrivals wished to take part. Hero’Win Metherin presided over the Tournament of the Magi at the Black Tower. While a young Gnome lass Emily kept watch on the people in the archery tournament.
Towards the midpoint of the day Nobu called for all who had signed up for the Tournament of the Gate. The Team from Black Home had the honor of first defending Eir’s Gate. They were able to hold it against two other teams. First the team of Dom’s rebels, and then against the team from Dark Shire. However, they failed to hold against the team of New Crystal Bearers. The New Crystal Bearers were not able to hold against the team of Virtuous’ Monsters. Likewise, Virtuous’ Monsters fell to team Templum. Team Templum was able to hold against not only against each of the other five teams individually but also managed to withstand all five teams at once. Though they did lose their shield while fighting all the teams at once.
After the mid day meal, Nobo began the Tournament of the Shield. Each of the current 4 shields were represented. The Shield of Dark Shire, Black Home, Ramen, and Templum Bellatorum Abby held a shield. After a slow start Templum Bellatorum took the Shield of Black Home. Ramen managed to get the shield of Dark Shire. Dark Shire and Black Home teamed up to try and get Dark Shire’s Shield back from Ramen, but were only able to remove it from Ramen’s control before the horn sounded.
As the day wore on and each crystal bearer faced the other in combat by Sword, a pattern developed. Visuvious of Ramen had lost no battles of the day, but had yet to face Azrael. Azrael of Templum Bellatorum Abbey meanwhile had lost to only Tyrrin of Dark Shire. As Azrael faced off against Visuvious the tension in the air was thick. After many exchanges Vala determined Azrael the winner. This was not good enough however because now both Azrael and Visuvious were tied. They were forced to combat each other again, this time for the title of Champion of the Wood.
The sun moved towards the west and shadows began covering the wood. Visuvious and Azrael squared off again. The first exchange went to Azrael. The second to Visuvious. The third and the fourth were mutual deaths. In the fifth exchange it was determined Visuvious was the winner. Then Gnome Tanner with his magic eye piece of images proved that the fifth exchange was a mutual death as well. Finally, in the Sixth exchange Visuvious landed the killing blow first.
The Tournament of the Six ended as so:
The Tournament of the Arrow was won by McLaren of Black Home. He will now be able to enhance one of his weapons with an elemental effect once per event for a year.
The Tournament of the Magi was won by Draelich Bael of Ramen. He will now have one additional spell for a year.
The Tournament of the Lock was won by Dometheus of Dark Shire. He now has first level lock picking for a year.
The Tournament of Gate was won by the team of Azrael, Visuvious, Oreillus, and Knute Tzak. They will have 200 dirks to split between them.
The Tournament of the Shield was won by Templum Bellatorum Abbey. They will receive 4 bags of food, 1 red, blue, green and white flower, and 20 refined mythrainum.
The Tournament of the Sword was won by Visuvious of Ramen. He won the title of Champion of the Wood as well as the relic sword Fairen’Gar.
The finial rankings for the Tournament of the Sword were as follows
- Visuvious
- Azrael
- Virtuous
- Tyrrin
- Knute Tzak tied with Carl
- Gideon
- Armani
- Jim Pickles
- Zander Quillswielder
- Jay
Aside from the tournament itself, the monsters of Ramen were able to corrupt the shrines of the Six for one scenario. Many honor duels were fought. Some rivalry was fomented between Black Home and the new crystal bearers.
All and all a wonderful day in the wood. Thank you everyone who made it out.