One Week Later
The Coliseum where the malisons offer their sacrifices to Apophis is packed. They rarely get the best here -- sickly pythons picking off frightened antelope, gorgons herded to their death in the manifold jaws of a hydra -- but everyone has heard about the dragonborn captain. She'll rate a powerful foe; perhaps even the Great Worm himself. The crowd has sat through the mediocre routine sacrifices restlessly, impatient for the main event.
The priest officiating is himself a malison; his arms become serpents below the elbow, and these twin mouths speak for him.
"Enter, the condemned! Bendeguz Magyar, of Lssthp!"
"Enter, the condemned! Bendeguz Magyar, of Lssthp!"
The Captain enters, still in the shapeless brown garment of a prisoner; the shackles are removed.
"Will anyone arm this corrupter against its fate? Or do we condemn it to fight with only the weapons granted it, by a god it despises?"
"Will anyone arm this corruptor against its fate? Or do we condemn it to fight with only the weapons granted it, by a god it despises?""
The Captain raises her head; she seems to be staring into the sky above the open-air Coliseum. The brief Malatran morning is still alive, and the view is clear blue and unobstructed.
"What weapons I have don't come from Apophis," she says. Out of uniform, her head shorn, she still projects every inch of dignity and power she did on the deck of the White Cliff. "Nor from Tempus, Lord of War. Maebe, Queen of May! I am, and have ever been, your champion!"
Though she has no friends in the crowd of the coliseum, she thrusts up her hand, as if with perfect confidence a weapon will come to her. At the same time, the ground begins to rumble....
The devotional tablet seems to drop out of the clear sky, and as it touches her, both her and it are transformed.
Spoiler: Summary
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ACTIONS: Fork used his action to throw the tablet down to the Captain.
INITIATIVE:
19 - Fork / Tender
18 - Pitmasters & Priest
16 - Nibum
12 - Servius
8 - Captain Magyar
4 - Ttharg
1 - Purple Worm
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