The Ultimate Fighting Championship

[Adom]

1st tier.
Book Local Undead Troll Barbarian. Took long stride. AND WOW. 36 str 31 to. 1380xp to level up from 1 to 2. I rushed to big room and got there at about 800 turns. Had to use a prayer to get away from 1 health from that darksage I ignored. The only herbs there were were antidotes, so I wasted a prayer and just left. First arena fight at about 1600. I went true berserk the whole time, as my armor only gave 2 PV. Got Sparkidius. I decided to use the gladius for defense reasons.
21: Gray ooze
22: Cave lion
23: Forgot
24: Hell hound
25: Large orc
26: Hyena
27: Large jackal
28: Corrupter (brought me down to 28 health)
29:Fire beetle
30: Cave lion
31: Stone Giant
32: Stone Giant...
33: Ratling warlord. Was kind of hard. I killed him with rocks.
34: Giant slug
35: Ratling fences
36: Barbarian leader
Somehow all the monster names above this, but I djied on the last fight to a doppleganger king.

[Maul]

Okay, here's my weak character: Kagar, the trollish farmer, born in Salamander. Starts with Hardy and Tough Skin.

Starts off fine, I explore the lower CoC as best as I can in the timeframe. Dog, the large dog gets killed by a dwarf, but he wasn't much use anyways since he didn't really have a job beside Kagar, and even less so in this challenge. I try to gather rocks since I find a sling, but no bow (which would be better since I know fletchery) and by the time I start fighting, I gather a few rocks - precisely 3 (I get 8 more at the 10th fight, but not at the start). Not enough, unfortunately, so I start whacking away. But before that, I put a few points into Gardening and plant my herb seeds. I get morgia and pepper petal from the 2x2. The pepper petal might be good to heal.

Gladius fight: Spardakius! Woot! He goes down easily, although I throw a rock at him beforehand, I do the most of the job in melee. Then I decide I might as well true berserk since I still have 8 PV without it (30 To). The tactic is to neutralize tough monsters with hugely damaging strikes of my heavy club.

21: Dark orc.
22: Stone statue. Brings me down to 23/70 somehow, with a fire breath and a critical hit probably.
23: Fire drake.*
24: Werewolf.
25: Caveman.
26: Black hurthling.
27: Swordsman.
28: Dwarven chaos knight. He deals quite a bit of damage but I deal more.
29: Caveman.
30: Orc.
31: Chaos spider. What the fuck? This one was on steroids. He took me down from 35 or so hitpoints to below 0 when he was already severely injured. Oh well. So much for Kagar. He was better than I'd have thought.

*Went down in 1 true berserking hit.

[Maul]

And the average one: Shlak, the Falcon-born female drakish assassin. He took several speed talents (I was leaving this one for last since I was hoping for a Raven starsign, but this way I'm still relatively fast).

Unfortunately the preparation stage isn't too eventful, I get a standard horned helmet though. Also a few scrolls.

20th fight: Ripclaw, the troll. I throw my 5 daggers at him, and spit some acid -> only slightly injured. Also, poison doesn't work either since he regenerates too fast, apparently. He gets back to "not injured" after two consequent "cringes of pain". I pray and throw daggers and spit acid and run around and fail to make a real impression before getting flattened.

[Pumpernickel]

Three complete failures:
Grey Elf Weaponsmith, could do no damage to Ripclaw the Troll
Orc Monk, waylaid by a fuckton of undead in the swamp (just quit)
Hobbit Elementalist, ~10 fire bolts weren't enough to drop the sucky old ogre mage

[gut]

You let him take a step between the 6th and 7th bolt. That
gave him just enough time to completely regen.

[gut]

Ultimate Fighting Challenge is now closed. Now I will
give my UFC rankings, based on the following criteria:

1. Undisputed champions. No player had 2.
2. Number of PC's to win Gladius'.
3. Number of title defenses.
4. Number of PC's to die in boss fight.

* If I goof anything, just let me know. There was a lot
* of cutting and pasting here
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1. Orbic
gnome elementalist. bonk. 10 defenses. moloch
dwarf fighter. ripclaw. 5 defenses. water demon
troll bard. li hon kay. UFC champ.

2. Grey
gnome archer. bonk. 33 defenses. giant rust mob
Dark Elven Priestess. Ripclaw. UFC champ.
hurthling bard. li han kay

3. Maul
gnomish wizard. bonk. UFC champ.
drakish assassin. to ripclaw.
trollish farmer. spardakius. 31 defenses. ...a chaos spider?

4. Soirana
hurthling wizard. li hon kay. UFC champ
dwarf necro. li hon kay
drake farmer. Spardakis. 23 defenses. animated armour.

5. zsomkovacs
high elven archer. ripclaw. UFC champ.
orc priest. failed to show
drake thief. Bonk. 24 defenses. troll chief

6. meh
Hurthling elementalist: failed to show
Troll Paladin: ghul
Drakeling bard: Li-Han-Kay. UFC champ.
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7. machthaknife
Drake Barbarian. li-hon-kay. 41 defenses. swamp hydra
Gnome Necro. ripclaw. 31 defenses. stone golem
Orc Weaponsmith. ripclaw. 23 defenses. ogre lord

8. gut
dwarf archer. ripclaw. 41 defenses. frost giant jarl
troll ranger. spardakius. 32 defenses. troll chief
drake farmer. failed to show

9. JellySlayer
Drakeling Mindcrafter. bonk. 20 defenses. black wiz
Dwarf Paladin. Li Hon Kay
Hurthling Thief. Ripclaw

10. Python
gnomish wizard. Ripclaw. 36 defenses. moloch.
dwarf paladin. Li-Han-Kay
drakeling farmer. failed to show

11. Siriah
high elven archer. never played???
troll healer. Ripclaw. 33 defenses. berserker king
drakish bard. li hon kay.

12. Adom
troll barbarian. spardakius. 37 defenses. doppler king.
???
???

13. LuciusKain
Drakish Elementalist. failed to show.
Dwarf Beastie. failed to show.
Troll Weaponsmith. 19 defenses. dark elf warrior

14. Albahan
Human Archer. failed to show
Orcish Paladin. Sparkadius. 13 defenses. minotaur
Dwarf Weaponsmith. Cave Bear

15. vogonpoet
human archer. failed to show (literally )
Orc beastie. failed to show
Hobbit thief. spardakius. 7 defenses. mimic hivemind
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*tie
16. Mogri
troll barbarian. Li-Han-Kay.
hurthling thief. failed to show.
dwarf healer. Ripclaw.

*tie
16. Pumpernickel
Hobbit Elementalist. li hon kay
Orc Monk. failed to show.
Grey Elf Weaponsmith. Ripclaw

18. Dudley
gnomish wizard. failed to show
Troll beasty. Li hon kay
orcish farmer. orc

19. bloody lemmon
wizzie. unknown arena fight
priest. unknown arena fight
thief. unknown arena fight

[Maul]

trollish farmer. spardakius. 31 defenses. ...a chaos spider?

Hey, I didn't get it either. I didn't watch the messages carefully, but it probably was several critical hits. Still, the damn thing was unexpectedly powerful.

That being said, third place? Nice!

[Baranor]

Dang! I would have placed around 10 or 11.

I randomly generated my fighters so I'm not sure of their star signs.

High: Legolas the High Elven Archer 35-37 defenses. Beat Li Han Kay.
Med: Bilbo the Hurthling Monk died at the hands of Li Han Kay
Low: Frodo the Hurthling Weaponsmith got cocky and tried to dive to the Dwarven Village in his 3000 turns and found some pit vipers before arriving at the arena.

[Mogri]

Two hurthlings would be against the rules anyway

[Baranor]

Ha! I hadn't noticed that because I was randomly generating them.