Chapter 8: The Tournament

Scenario Text
The boat lands in the town of Perox, which is particularly lively as there is a grand jousting tournament about to begin. Many merchants are also in town looking to make business

Calen
Calen entered the jousting tournament, where his abilities allowed him to advance very far, but was eventually unhorsed by Jatin.

Jack
Jack buys more materials to produce dogfire and makes several dogfire grenades. He also practices swordsmanship using the advanced techniques Ba'az taught him.

Jatin
Jatin tells the palace guard officers in the stands that he will enter the tournament with the intention of discovering any match fixing from within. He tells Solomon to gather potions in the meantime. He wins many matches with his chaos horse, even defeating Calen. He is offered money to fix a match by a member of the Vertebra family, Him and Nicole compile their information and present it to the palace guards. They are thanked.

Michael
Michael made money betting on Calen, who won his first few rounds of the jousting tournament.

Nick
Nick made money gambling on the tournament after touching the competitors' lances to see who was the best jouster.

Nicole
Nicole and Pippin sneak around the dressing rooms of the contestants and local taverns trying to discover if any match fixing is occurring. Her and Jatin compile their information and present it to the palace guards. They are thanked.

Ending
Jatin and Nicole collect some evidence about the collusion and game fixing going on in the tournament. Jatin gets offered money in order to fix matches after he wins many jousts. They inform the palace guards,

During one of the quarterfinal matches, a contestant is shot in the head with a crossbow and collapses on the ground, dead. People begin screaming. As a sharply dressed man turns to flee the arena, he is stopped by what appears to be a metal ribbon suspended in the air that encircles the entire arena. The organized crime group congregates around the exit and very slowly makes their way past the barrier. A loud noise erupts from the carriages through which they are attempting to escape.

“I am Aurora Phalanx, 6th Lieutenant of the Palace Guard! It is too late for you wicked men, who have attempted to corrupt an honorable sport with greed and lies. Resign to your fates and face your justice.”

Around this blade a rainbow swirls,

To cleanse the evils from the world,

A light no man nor god can claim,

My burning heart cannot be tamed

Rainbow Lance, I name thee, Constantinople!

A multicolored light shoots into the sky as Aurora produces a massive lance from which rainbow colors swirl. The carriages are destroyed in a single thrust and the gangsters fall back. Those remaining are rounded up by town guards.

Aurora tries to grant Nicole and Jatin royal peerage, but is informed by 4th Lieutenant Kirin Soulstream, who is accompanying her, that she does not in fact have that authority.