OOC: back done? That's a bit odd of a phrase, Mr. Wyrn..

"I won't back down." She said. At the moment, her death seemed certain; but she knew this duel would be anything but ordinary.

Having done nothing social at all to make other gods aware of his presence Taramore decides to observe this fight so some other creatures are aware of his existance, he is glad at the same time to be able to not be stuck in the form he currently has in his realm.

Seeing Ruse he waves over to him to speak.

The Duel - Max, EQUILIBRIUM, Wyrn

"I see," said EQUILIBRIUM. "And you both fully understand the terms of this duel? You both accept the ramifications, the conditions? There is nothing that needs clarifying?"

Everyone Else

(Feel free to socialize amongst yourselves. You'll read it all, bu I don't think it needs GMing)

Ruse decides to head over to speak with Anik.

"Yes, low lord?"

"I require clarification." she said, then continued. "Is the body a permitted weapon?"

The Duel - Max, EQUILIBRIUM, Wyrn

"Untempered fists, feets, teeth, claws, the natural weapons as given to you by YGGDRASIL are permitted," said EQUILIBRIUM. "But those gifts given to you are not acceptable: psychic abilities, powers of the Divine, sorcery, these are all banned from the fight. Do you understand?"

"Absolutely," said Wyrn, gritting his teeth, "This isn't my first time.."

Everyone Else

(Feel free to socialize amongst yourselves. You'll read it all, bu I don't think it needs GMing)

She nodded. "Thank you. I require no further clarification and am ready to begin."

(Repeat)

Ruse decides to head over to speak with Anik.

"Yes, low lord?"

The Duel - Max, EQUILIBRIUM, Wyrn

"If you both agree to it, we can call upon the Callisti to bind the two of you to your terms - Logos and Energetic Beings only," continued EQUILIBRIUM. "This will ensure that no cheating, in the form of weapons, is possible."</b>

"Yes,yes, yes," said Wyrn, frustration going, "I agree. There is nothing to hide."

Everyone Else

(Feel free to socialize amongst yourselves. You'll read it all, bu I don't think it needs GMing)

Given that Anik was being oddly unresponsive and silent, and Ruse had a package to pick up, he decided he would instead create a magical sentry of some kind to help him watch the event while he skipped out.

Ruse chants a moment, and uses Life magic to create a small free-floating eyeball that comically had some free-floating ears attached to it. He uses order magic to mystically mark it as the property of High Lord Ruse, so no one would think it is some cheat or bad effect or otherwise mess with it. He finally uses mind magic to link it's perception to his own, even over a distance. He sets it to observe the duel and feed him back details.

Ruse himself then goes and finds a guard, tells him the floating eye-ear thing belongs to him and is a surveillance tool for him and to make sure people don't mess with it, and turns into mist and quickly departs for the marketplace.

<To marketplace>

Maxilita nodded. "I give my consent."

Msonus sees Ruse's eye-creation from afar, and chuckles to himself. "Complex effort, and still such a crude approximation," he says to himself. An eye of his own appears, but Msonus has no pressing matters to attend to, and he remains beside it.

Taramore really not seeing the point behind the duel and not knowing any other gods decided to recluse and return to his entire focus to his domain for now, in the future they may become important to him but for now they where not important. (Exits thread to focus on realm)

((Ruse please do not interpreate my unability to answer and crazy busy life as IC results!))

Anik watched patiently.

Fierce incarnated besides Maxilita. He quickly spoke.

  "With all due respect Councilmen, I must object to the vague terms used in the prohibitory clause made regarding this duel, aka the terms. My manifest form, via incarnation, requires the use of a divine ability on Maxillita's part, abit a passive and involuntary one, and my won psuedopsionic talents. Furthermore, my status as a fair armament against the Logos is false given the conditions within said clause. My potency is derived from the use of psuedodivine abilities and psuedopsionic talents. One could make the argument that as an astral projection inherent in my form my abilities should by all rights be considered natural weaponry, alike to Maxilita's fists. Another issue is whether I am to be considered a weapon or a person, and if the actions of a sentient weapon fall under the prohibitory clause, and furthermore if the prohibitory clause only applies to the primary duelists (Lord Councilman Wyrn and Low Lord Maxilita) or if it would also apply to myself if I am considered a person. Lord Councilman Equilibrium, I humbly request your judgement as to whether I am allowed the use of my psuedodivine and pseudopsionic abilities, on these various grounds."
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Maxillita turned towards fierce. "Um. Fierce. Shut up. We need to get his duel over with so I can go save the world from the big bad evil guy currently attempting to destroy the magic floating city, which will of course endanger everyone. You have to believe in the Heart of the Cards and all. So, get to transforming me before the duel so I can stop being naked in front of over a thousand people. Not that I mind really, but It's sort of a chilly night." she said crossly.

Turning back to Equilibrium as fierce dissapeared, Maxilita was equipped; her eyes became golden, form-fitting mirrored silver dragonscale armor appeared on her body, which was mostly wrapped in the light gray cloth strips Fierce usually wore.  She stretched a little, getting used to the armor.

If we die, it's your fault.

"I'm ready to take the oath whenever Wyrn is."

OOC: Let's just skimp over the swearing of oaths and get to the battle.

Anik stood up and left. While truthfully he could not any longer to avoid looking at Max's bare body (something he tried not to do), nor could he watch her get killed; it wasn't these that made him leave, but the fact he had no time to watch this ill omened match.

He left.

There was a silence, for just a moment. It seemed like eternity. Wyrn laughed to himself softly at the balls showed thus far. He'd underestimated her.

"You raise entirely valid points," said EQUILIBRIUM. "But I am EQUILIBRIUM and I can see, to a point, within the past and toward the future. Knowing such things I am under the impression that your complaints are meaningful, however irrelevant. FIERCE GOD, you are removed from this battle."

Max shook as the Fierce God was locked from her until the end of the battle.

"Perhaps a Logos will come," said EQUILIBRIUM.

"Perhaps..?" cried Wyrn, his hands raised over his head in amusement. "You claim to know everything, dearest friend, and so you must know that by necessity there will only ever be one Logos. How can there be a second? Drawn from the Emperor of the Golden Hand himself, it is! It is his own glorious power made manifest! You speak heresy, EQUILIBRIUM, sweet but ridiculous heresy.."

"Perhaps," said EQUILIBRIUM. "Are you ready to begin the fight?"

"Yes, damn it all, yes," said Wyrn.

"I am ready to begin." she said politely.

"Very well," said EQUILIBRIUM. She disappeared, and only her booming words remained, more psychic proclamation than actual speech: LET IT BEGIN. Roars and applause rose from the audience as they were keen to see some action.

Wyrn, however, was on one knee, in oblation. Max heard him muttering. "Emperor of the Golden Hand, I humbly request the borrowing of your significant power so that I might crush your enemies and bring glory to the Empire of the Conclave.."

The Lord of the Dance approached her foe warily, eyeing him. She had taken an unarmed martial position, that of Jeet Kune Do.

"You must beg your master for strength to crush a Low Lord, one Oathsworn to the very conclave you claim to support? Get up!" She said.

Her honor demanded she not strike an unprepared opponent. Death or death, she would fight in a manner her ancestors would respect.
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Ruse's eyeball thingy looked on with interest, taking in the sights and sounds.

What would Max do now? Would Wyrn really channel the emperor's power for someone who couldn't even fight full strength?

Msonus watches Wyrn with curiosity. Here would soon come a power neither divine nor magic, as far as he could tell... it intrigued him.

Wyrn picked himself up s lowly, reverently, a sly smile on his face - no, a snarl. He did not strike at Max. He simply laughed for the entire arena to see, a series of cackling booms that marked him as mad, if not truly Mad. Then Max saw it, as did the rest of the arena, with gasps: his fists were surrounded with a powerful golden glow, more as if he'd worn gloves made out of the metal than any actual light, more form that vision, and Max felt irrational fear as he saw the two fists.

"Attack me," said Wyrn. "First move. Yours. Do it."

There were mutters about the crowd - both magic and divine powers and everything in between were banned - and a few muttered that Wyrn must have an energetic being of his own. Others shook their head, spoke further blasphemy, on how he was using a power but EQUILIBRIUM dared not intervene. They did not understand that it was physically impossible for such cheating to occur. Others, wiser, learned beings, spoke of the Logos, and shuddered.

The odds on Max winning just dropped from about 431:1 t roughly 1070:1.