Üsserhadd walked into the arena, hoping to see Dayo soon here as well. He patted Valiant's head, and sat patiently. The fight was more to give Valiant a test than himself, but having never fought here before the knight was a little eager anyway.

Dayo strode into the arena, head held high in anticipation as she waited for the referee to respond to the fighters walking into the arena. Before long, she drew her voulge and took a few practice sweeps through the air, away from her compatriots.

Nickademus emerged from the small alcove that gave him shade between fights and greeted the newly arrived combatants.
"Good day to you two! To what do I owe the pleasure?"

"A fight, in the Circus Maximus styling. For the knight and I. Something to give us a bit of a challenge, but don't try to get us killed right away," Dayo said, throwing sarcasm behind her last few words.

Nickademus gave Üsserhadd a glance, then looked back to Dayo.
"I may have something for you two." He said and snapped his fingers once before retreating back to his alcove, wanting to get back under the shade before his armor began heating up again, and at the same time be out of harm's way.

Dayo was the first to hear the muffled movement of cloth and shouted while pointing to B3, where a dark form had emerged from behind the small pillard with a tattered black cloak. Neither she nor Usserhadd could identify it, but a pungent stench of decay filled the arena.
Vailant knew what the creature was, though, however odd that might be. He immediatly identified it as a Seeker Sharpshooter!

Battle has started!

The turns and positions are as following:
Seeker Sharpshooter (B3) (*__*)
Usserhadd (C3) (26/28 Hp)
Vailant (E3) (8 Hp)
Dayo (F4) (12/14 Hp)

Wasting no time, the figure let out an otherwrodly moan while hefting a javelin and hurled it towards Usserhadd!

Turning to face the moan, and reacting quickly to raise sword and shield in defense, Üsserhadd smiled. He laughed loudly, "Damn straight! A worthy challenger! Bring it you son of a bitch!"

Üsserhadd had reason to laugh, as he deflected the javelin with his buckler and sent it flying to I9, where it impaled itself into the ground!

Üsserhadd's turn!

Grinning wildly, Üsserhadd moved as quickly as he could towards the Seeker Sharpshooter, and it did not appear as much an epic charge as he hoped. The knight could only move to F3, a better position to take on the seeker, and close enough to be the far greater threat to it. To keep it's focus on him, Üsserhadd shouted out, "Here! Summon your god, I'll skin his ass next!" (Intimidate)

A blood-chilling moan was Üsserhadd's only reply from the Seeker.

Valiant's turn! -

Valiant rushed over behind Üsserhadd to G3, the monster was a scary cat and Valiant was still a young puppy. He'd watch and see how the knight would deal with the critter first, until he felt a little more ready to tackle things that nasty himself.

Dayo's turn! -
Knwing it was not the smartest thing for her to be the first to charge this beast, Dayo walked forward to F4, waiting for him to make the first move.

The sound of cracking bones could be heard as the Seeker cocked it's head sideways to look at Dayo, it's undead eyes gazing at her and putting a very deep doubt of their victory in her mind.
Suddenly, the creature's composite bow was in it's claws and an arrow was already flying towards Dayo!

With her voulge in hand, Dayo hefted it into a defense posistion to try to stop the arrow.

Dayo found that defending against an arrow with a voulge wasn't all that great of an idea when he arrow imbeded itself into the top of her left shoulder. Thanfully, her armor had absorbed most of the blow, so she only lost 2 Hp!

Usserhadd's turn! -

Üsserhadd moved closer to D3, knowing the fight would be over quickly if he could get a hit in.

Vailant's turn! -

Valiant cowered behind Üsserhadd's protective girth at E3, knowing a spear or arrow would certainly not get through the knight's impregnable defense. He was not living up to his namesake.

If the mummified clansman could show any emotion, it would had yawned.

Dayo's turn! -

Dayo, too, was getting bored with this, and she proceeded closer to the zombie, standing in F3, but prepping herself against an attack.

Dayo tried to move to F3, but found that Usserhadd was already there, and the big man didn't leave much room for two.

Still Dayo's turn! (1 action left)-

"Ooph," Dayo said, stepping out of the area Usserhad was in, before thinking and letting out a roar famous of the Lion tribe, attempting to intimidate the Seeker.

The seeker had died, been mummified and then resurected. It had experienced more fear than Dayo could imagine, and it wasn't going to be intimidated by a simple roar.

Though it was brave, the sharpshooter was too stupid to notice it was safer to keep a safe distance between itself and it's opponents, seeing as they had no way to attack from afar. It loosed an arrow to Usserhadd and quickly reloaded and shot another to the knight!

Üsserhadd took a defensive stance, attempting to block one arrow with his shield and deflect the second away with his sword. This seeker obviously thought the knight a fool, no number of arrows would fell him so easily and perhaps the mummy cat felt it's second death oncoming.

The first arrow imbedded itself into the center of Usserhadd's buckler with a quick and hollow "thunk"! The second arrow just grazed the knight's sword and found a weak spot in his armor, cutting a shallow wound and dealing 2 damage!

Usserhadd's turn! -

"Son of a bitch!" Üsserhadd shouted as he felt the cut, a little irritated that he cannot ever seem to make it through a battle without a scratch. He ran up quickly to meet the Seeker head on, and attacked with his longsword at the mummy cat.

The knight's momentum and anger fueled his attack as he smashed through the sandstone pillard with his sword, breaking it into four! The seeker took 7 damage from a cut Usserhadd's sword caused, and 2 extra damage from being hit by two pieces of the crumbling pillar!

Vailant's turn! -

Valiant was charged with a bit of confidence after seeing his master destroy an entire pillar to wound the seeker. It ran up and attempted a trip attack on the seeker, hoping to give the group a bit of an edge.

Vailant lunged for the Seeker's feet and succesfully tripped it! The undead clansman is on the ground, prone!

Dayo's turn! -

Seeing the Seeker fall, Dayo hurried towards it, and swung down her voulge with full force toward the prone creature. (Flank)

Dayo easilly overwhelmed the creature once it was prone and flanked, her voulge spraying zombie juices all over the place as she dealt massive damage! The Seeker loses 24 Hp!

Oozing undead fluids, the mummified clansman struggled to get to it's feet, but finally succeeded!

Usserhadd's turn! -

Üsserhadd grinned evily at the Seeker, knowing he would not even need to try and put much effort into defeating it now. He tightened his grip on his longsword, and attempted to smite the mummy cat upon the pillar chunks underneath it. (Smite)

The smell of rot overwhelmed Usserhadd and Dayo when the knight's blade cleaved through the Seeker! It moaned loudly and tried to claw at Usserhadd while it unlife was leaving its body and it toppled to the ground, definatly dead and not coming back!

Battle has ended!
Everyone receives 1250 Exp!
Usserhadd gains a level!
Vailant gains 2 levels!
Dayo gains 2 levels!

The seeker's body quickly turned to dust, leaving his equipment behind:

Javelin + 4 (6 Atk, -1 Def, 5 Rng)
Kukri Knife + 3 (6 Atk, 2 Rng)
Composite Bow + 5 (8 Atk, 8 Rng)
Black Leather Armor + 2 (4 Def, 2 Mag)
Hunter Hat (+2 Spd)
Black Cloak (3 Car)
Tribal Necklace (2 Atk, 2 Spd, 1 Car)
Bracers of Archery (+3 Ranged)
Frog Boots (Improved Jump)
47 Poisoned Arrows

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Üsserhadd looked at the equipment the creature dropped, and the only thing that particularly interested him was the bow, arrows, hunter hat, and tribal necklace. He needed something that would give him an edge against Tylien, since he unwittingly pissed the critter off not too long ago it would be wise to have some sort of archery talent later on. Üsserhadd rubbed his chin, thinking that it might be good to intermesh some talent in speed after showing how slow he was in this battle. "Well kid, I'll grab that bow with arrows, and the tribal necklace. Maybe that hunter hat too, and you can have therest." Üsserhadd thought it was fair, since Dayo would get the kukri, javelin, black leather armor, black cloack, bracers of archery, and frog boots. Valiant yapped, and then danced around a little bit. The wolf cub's bravery paid off, and it felt like it got a bit stronger after facing such a scary kitty.

"Very well, Sir. It was a pleasant to have you battle alongside me. It appears I would have had no chance against you." Dayo said, with a smile drawn across her face. She had really admired the knight's fighting style, and his pups courage, thinking he would make for a good ally to have for later tasks.

Üsserhadd picked up all the items he said, and then felt a little heavy. "Guess I better put some training into bows..." he thought, and then patted his thigh to call Valiant, "Alright boy, let's head out. Maybe Mika will have something for us to do, or we can catch up to Tiae." With a wave to Dayo, he left the arena for the Lemirian Colosseum, "See you around kid, get tough. Then maybe we'll square off in the arena."

Nickademus poked his head out from his shaded alcove a few moments after Usserhadd left, a look of surprise on his face.
"Already over? At the speed you guys were moving, I was sure I'd have time for a nap!" He joked and actually laughed. His laugh faded when he saw the smashed pillard, though, and glared at Dayo. "Aw man! I'm going to have to call over the masons again!"

"Well, good luck with the masons, I'm off to see the local acolytes," Dayo said, a smile on her face as she picked up her winnings.

Nickademus simply harumphed in reply and went back to his alcove.

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