MUD help system
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Help for gladiatorial combat
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To be a gladiator is to choose a blood and death way of living, always risking the live to be among the best of best and... to be rich! It is hard and you have a long way ahead before becoming a good gladiator, though it has its rewards.
If you are sure in this option, first thing you should do is to earn the Gladiator Armband (this armband is an auto loadable item that grants you access to all arenas in Iberia, and you can get it doing the appropriate quest).
After that, you will be able to do gladiatorial combats. Such combats happen either in a ludos (gladiator training school), town arena or any other suburb where an arena may exist, and they consist of 3 phases:
* registration phase (5 minutes) - time during which gladiators register themselves for the next combat;
* bet phase (4 minutes) - at the beginning of this phase, the gladiators that will meet in the arena will be announced and everyone can now bet in which gladiator will win. Gladiators will be moved to an individual cell, to get ready for combat;
* combat phase (6 minutes)- both gladiators will be pushed into the arena and the combat will start! After that, dead bodies and torn items are removed from the arena and everything gets ready for the next combat.
With this said, you first need to find the NPC that is controlling the gladiatorial combats (such NPC have a [ludos] tag). He will be near the arena location.
Then, you need to register yourself, specifying the gladiator combat style you will use ("help register" for more details). You can only register yourself during the registration phase.
At the end of the registration phase, begins the bet phase. If you were chosen to fight, you will be taken to an individual cell where all equipment you may use, corresponding to the combat style, will be in the ground. You have time to equip yourself and concentrate in the combat that will follow!
If you were not chosen, or simply want to bet in any of the gladiators, you may use the "bet" command ("help bet" for more details).
At the end of the bet phase, gladiators will be moved to the arena. During combat, everyone can see how is it going, by looking into the arena from the registration room. Also, the NPC that's controlling the gladiatorial combats will announce periodically the combat evolution and, finally, who's the victor and who's the defeated.
At the end of the combat, the winner will win a large sum of money, as will those who have bet on him. The defeated, if managed to escape with his life, can praise and thank the gods for having granted him yet another training received at the highest level...
Finally, at the end of the combat phase, a new register phase will begin and everything starts over.
Be sure to check the roster at the gladiatorial combat controller to see all information related to the combats, such as the list of who's registered or the time until the current combat phase ends ("help roster" for details).
Note 1: if you have registered yourself for the combat, be sure to be in the registration room when the bet phase starts! Otherwise you won't be elligible for the combat and someone else will be chosen.
Note 2: the gladiators chosen to fight are chosen randomly between the registered ones, primacy given to player characters.
Note 3: be sure you do not carry any equipment (except, obviously, any auto loadable items). All equipment to be used in the arena is provided right before the combat starts. If you do carry any equipment, it will be automatically dropped in the registration room at the end of the registration phase (and if you were chosen to fight).
Note 4: the equipment corresponding to the style you choose will be available in the room right before entering the arena. You will enter in that room at the beggining of the bet phase.
Note 5: in the combat phase, if after 1 minute none of the gladiators initiate combat, they will be forced to and it will start automatically.
See also: bet, claim, register, roster