Day 5 - Arm Wrestlin'

April 27th 2007

Heather stops playing with the children when there mothers call them over "ok you all play with you torromow.

ShadowHawk bounds up onto the stockade, he knows he stands no chance in this competition but he doesn't really care as long as it is fun.

Alance gives Amari a kiss then joins the others at the gallows.

The announcer for the evening steps up to the gallows and surveys the crowd with a grin on his face "Do you think that you might be the strongest in all of Vintermor?? If so then c'mon up and we'll let you know by the end of the evening" he brings his arm out to the side letting people know to lineup beside.

Po had previously been watching from a distance, and at the calling of the contest he makes his way through the crowd and up onto the gallows. He is not strong, by the looks of him, but competes anyway.

ShadowHawk looks over to the Announcer "I am, I am! I haven't bathed in a week just so I could be the strongest!"

Heather takes a spot in a line "why am I trying this... oh well this will be fun."

Iymbryl wanders in and walks up, smiling that broad smile of his. He approaches the gallows and eyes the going on

Amari enters the park with Alance and smiles up at him as he gives her a wink and a kiss before he heads towards the gallows to compete.

Tikk rolls along her heals and toes slowly attempting to figure out what she is going to do. She hmmms softly and looks around before poking at Shadow lightly, "Hey question for you...Can you cast Magic Missile?"

Alance leans against the platform waiting with the others, checking to make sure he has given Amari all his magical gear.

Vashbav stretches out and slides through the park before settling by the Gallows. She crosses her arms over her chest and gives a glance about.

Heather is waiting for the the one she has to arm wrestle with first.

ShadowHawk looks over to Tikk "Hi there! umm yes I can cast magic missile, why?"

Tikk looks around and then moves to whisper something to Shadow hawk.

Po stands silently, looking over the competition a bit, but mostly in his own world.

Amari smiles up at Alance and waves at him with her hankerchef.

Tanikas steps up to the gallows, looking distinctly calm and serene. She carefully sets down a few baubles she's picked up at the fair, and crosses her arms over her breastplate.

Iymbryl glances around at everyone, unsure as o what everyone is doing, his cloak has been cleans and now hangs from his shoulders, once again protecting him from the bite of the winter wind.

Theodone tries to look tough as he flexes his hand and makes fists. The mask hiding what may look like a tough look or even a whimpish look but in either case he is ready to do this. Though as he spots Tanikas, he openly gulps. " Oh boy!"

Vashbav looks over at Tanikas and raises her eyebrows slowly. She isnot a small woman, and to tower over her...its a feat in her eyes.

ShadowHawk blinks at Tikk, "Umm, no I can't say I ever have cast a Magic Missile out of there! Mine tend to come out of my eyes. Who cast one out of his 'twig'"?

The announcer steps up to the front of the stage after a few moments with a scroll of parchment in his hand, he clears his throat "I'm looking for a Po and a Siriel" he calls out to the challengers "They're up first! Step up to the table at the front of the stage and have a seat"

Siriel looks surprised and looks over to Po, as she steps up to the table, looking a little embarrassed to be first.

Tikk blinks at Shadow, "Berenni can." she motions to a rather burnt tree. "See." she states and giggles lightly. "And you cast them out of your eyes.." she moves to look in his eyes and gets closer. "COOL...mine come out of my fingers."

Po looks around when his name is called, acting unsure for a moment as he stands in his place. His eyes eventually move to the table, then look up to settle on Siriel. He steps forward and sits at the table. Smiling to Siriel, he says, "So you are the lucky one that gets to beat me."

Tanikas doesn't catch Vashbav looking her over, simply watching the two on stage currently. She has a small smile on her face, one of gentle ease. She is simply enjoying watching the competition.

Po struggles against Siriel, but manages to slowly force her arm towards the table. His mediocre bicep can be clearly made out under the pale skin of his bare arm. He strains much more at the beginning, then his strength seems to faulter, but he catches a lucky break and wins anyway. When he wins, he sits, staring wide-eyed at the table, as in disbelief that he won.

The annoucer looks a bit shocked as he looks on at the first two "And out of that first pairing you saw it yourselves folks and it was Po who won that first one, so sorry Siriel you're out" he says sounding apologetic to the elven woman, then turns to the challengers "and next on my list" he says looking down at it "I have a Heather and a Vashbav?" he semi asks as he looks up from the sheet.

Siriel shakes her head as she steps down from the gallows but sticks around to watch the rest of the contest.

Vashbav moves to step up to the Gallows and looks over at heather, "I will try not to hurt you." she whispers to Heather quietly.

Tanikas claps her hands a moment, in appreciation of the winner. "Excellent show." She says, to nobody in particular. When the new contestants are called out, she glances around trying to catch a glance of them.

ShadowHawk waves to Siriel as she leaves "You want me to get you some revenge Siriel?"

Po stands slowly from the table, and looks to Siriel as she leaves. He says, "Wow... that was... sorry about that."

Heather sighs as she has to go against Vash, she takes her spot and says with a chuckle "I can heal dont wory about me."

Po stands to the side of the other contestants.

Siriel chuckles at ShadowHawk

ShadowHawk jumps up and down clapping for Heather "Yay Heather!!"

Iymbryl glances at Siriel and slides over to her.

Po's hands clasp behind his back as he stands at the gallows. He smiles at Heather's victory, but doesn't say much. Heather grins and blows a kiss to Vash distracting her for a few seconds and pushes her hand down "sorry I know its cheep but there is nothing against the rules on this

Heather grins and blows a kiss to Vash distracting her for a few seconds and pushes her hand down "sorry I know its cheap but there is nothing against the rules on that." she gives a smile and hopes the half orc doesn't punch her.

Vashbav laughs and is pushed town twice. and the third time, the half orc is ready for the two hands attempts to lift her up out of her seat before blowing a kiss back.

"Wow folks you saw it here the small half elf woman bested the half orc woman" the announcer shouts in disbelief "this really could be anyones event" he continues "up next we have a Blu'Shim and a Tikklen" he announces. He looks around and his face drops and he mumbles "oh gods they're both gnomes??" and he shakes his head.

Blu'Shim looks to Tikk and giggles "C'mon let's show them how ya do this" she says to her friend.

Tikk giggles and bounces up there quickly. "Alright." she states with a beaming smile

Tikk talks while pulling at Blu's arm, Its just about little things like "OOh look you got a hair in your eyes..." and "What did you think about the twig the other day." You know...things that are blush worthy

Blu'Shim giggles all the while "I'm holding yer hand" she says jokingly and gets her arm slammed down by her Tikk-y little friend.

The announcer just shakes his head watching the two gnomish ladies "Well at least they didn't burn anything down" he says to the crowd with a laugh "congrats Tikk" he says as she walks away to wait her next round "Alright" he says and looks down at his paper again "Tanikas and Alance" he shouts to the crowd.

Blu'Shim wanders away to stand on the sidelines to cheer on her brother.

Tanikas looks around a little, almost as if she unsure they actually said her name. Smiling a little more, she walks up on stage. Giving a slight bow to the crowd, and then to the announcer, she awaits the other contestant. Then she bows to him deeply before taking a seat. Still, she says nothing. She simply smiles her serene smile, her hands folded on the tabletop.

Alance grins at Tanikas and and takes his position, shrugging his shoulders a bit he waits for the start signal. Muscles bunching a bit as he loses the first but wins the last two, the very last one rather easily. Stepping back from the table once the contest is done.

The announcer watches the match between the tall woman and the paladin "And the winner is Alance" he shouts and claps a little before looking back to his parchment "And up next?" he says more to himself "Seems it's a Theodone and Zsuzsa, please step forward" he smiles over to the waiting challengers.

Zsuzsa looks over to Theo and laughs "oh this oughtta be fun Theo" she says as she saunters over to the table.

Theodone looks towards Zsuzsa as they are announced they are to compete. A grin appears on his lips and motions towards her to step up before him, before he does. " Yes, it will be fun. Perhaps a side bet..dinner if I win..dinner if you win." as he takes his place across from her.

Zsuzsa giggles "looks like I'm buying you dinner" she says with a wink.

ShadowHawk jumps up "whats that Zsuzsa is buying everyone dinner?"

Po's ears twitch at the gnomes words, and he looks towards Zsuzsa curiously.

Heather chuckles at shadow "behave you." said to the over grown smurf

Iymbryl grins to himself, watching everyone go before him, thinking of his puny muscles, and sighing.

Siriel claps as she sees Theo win.

Theodone takes a hold of her hand and then it starts. Amazingly enough he was nt sure how well he was goingto do but he winks towards her and then starts to easily putting her arm down. He keeps in grinning and in time he gets her down and wins. " Yes, though this way we can finish out talk." as he bows his head towards her in respect and then leaves the table

Laughing comes from the announcer "And the masked elf takes down the little red head" he says "Good Job Theodone" he says "Moving right along to our last match up in the first round" he refers to his parchment "ShadowHawk and Iymbryl" he says over to the last two standing.

Blu'Shim looks to her brother "C'mon Shea!!" she yells and claps her hands.

Tikk claps happily and giggles. "yay...." she states and moves to bounce over to Blu, "GO SHEA!!! Shoot the Magic missiles from your eyes and twig!!"

ShadowHawk moves up to the table flexing his nonexistant muscles, fixing Iymbryl an evil glare "I'm going to break your arm little man!" he shouts to the mage, he then breaks out into laughter "he's a little man"

Iymbryl sighs again, and makes his way up to the gallows to sit across from ShadowHawk. He smiles and extends his hand for Shadow's, "I don't doubt you can.. but we shall see.." He says simply, ready to begin

Blu'Shim's jaw falls open "Shea?? what the?? wha... you were supposed to win." she states as if Shadow didn't try.

Iymbryl struggles and grips shadow's hand tightly. Small and wirey muscles strain and at last Shadow's hand hits the table.. instead of Iym's. He blinks, and smiles, standing up, unable to say a word.

Meredin is currently watching things from the crowd! Though she doesn't seem to get the point of the contest really. This, of course, is nothing new.

Zsuzsa wanders away from The gallows and stockade stand.

ShadowHawk shrugs at his loss then skips over to the stairs down from the gallows "I wasn't really trying anyway" he mumbles as he climbs down them "really the table was so high I could barely keep my arm there."

Zsuzsa wanders away but sticks close to see how Theo fairs through the rest of the contest.

Tanikas wanders away from The gallows and stockade stand.

The announcer watches the half elf best the small blue man "And that's it for round one" he shouts "Round Two!! Everyone ready???" he looks at his parchment "Alright so now the first two for round two is Po and Heather!!"

Po steps forward to the table again, smiling at Heather. "Ah, perhaps now I will be eliminated," he says as he takes a seat. Heather gets up and takes a free chair at the table "yo Po." said with a playful grin as she extends her hand to start this.

Siriel looks on as her friends all wait for their next turn.

ShadowHawk jumps up and down cheering for Heather "Kill im Heather!!" he shouts, he then looks confused "umm well don't kill him just his arm, yeah thats it. Kill his arm Heather" he continues to yell.

Po takes Heather's hand in his own, and when the call sounds to start, he pulls with all of his Morthidar might. The second round goes slowly, but Po wins in the end, struggling to pull Heather's hand down as his strength fades. He doesn't say anything afterwards, he just stands and nods to Heather with an apologetic look and moves back to his previous spot on the gallows.

"Oh and our pretty little half elf Heather is knocked out by one of our newcomers Po" calls the announcer, he quickly looks down to check who's next "Tikklen come show Alance what you're made of" he says to the gnomish woman.

Tikk giggles lightly and hops up to the table before winking at Alance.

Heather is slightly distracted as she sees a cute young lady walk past the contest area. And slam her arm goes down leaving po the winner. "ahh damn." and grumbling about not paying attention "na congrat." she says as she leaps off the stage to join the others to watch

ShadowHawk shouts "Rip 'is Arm off Tikk!!!"

The announcer looks at Tikk "Wow that looked like it hurt" he says "Next up can I get Theodone and Iymbryl up to the table please" he says to the two still waiting.

Tikk tries her hardest to get alance down. Going so far as to climbing onto the table. putting both hands on his and then push with her legs....She gets to about...um...a half of centimeters before Alance puts her on her back with a yelp. "Best two out of three?" she asks and moves to do it again, and...once again gets on her back. "Hmph." she pounces and spits on her hands before attempting it again....it gets...a little bit and maybe...almost...SLAM Tikk is on her back again.

Blu'Shim winces "ouch Tikk you ok??" she calls up to Tikk.

"Come on Theo you can do it!" Zsuzsa calls out.

ShadowHawk shouts "go Iymbryl score a win for all of us casters!"

Tikk lays back on the table and wimpers. "Ow."

Theodone watches the others arm wretsle and then his name is called up. He gulps then and starts to head towards the platform and smiels as he hears Zsuzsa encouragin him on. He looks towards Iymbryl and nods towards him. " Good luck."

Alance pats Tikk smiling a bit and murmurs a prayer, healing any bruises he's caused "Sorry Tikk"

Iymbryl nods and glances at Theo, before walking up to the table, and taking a seat. He nods back to Theo, taking his hand in the wrestling grip and nods back, "Good luck to you as well sir."

Iymbryl winces as his hand is slammed down into the table, and once his hand is free of Theo's he flexes it and shakes the pain away. "Good match.." He murmurs, heading down from the table.

Amari watches the show grimacing each time Tikk is 'put down'. She giggles a bit at the strangeness of it all and aplauds Tikk's gumption if nothing else. The girls join her and she spreads a thick blanket for them to sit on with her while they watch the fun. The match not as easy as with Zsuzsa for at first he was winning and then Iymbryl seems to be pulling back. Grinning alittle more Theo puts a little more effort and finally brings down the other mans hand to the table and he smiles and releases the hold. " Wow, thank you." he nods towards him and then leaves the platform again, feeling good now.

The announcer winces "You alright Iymbryl, there's healing available if you need it. Yeah that one looked like it hurt as well" he murmurs "On to round 3 with all the people who are undefeated in their matches up next is Po and Alance, and Theo gets a buy. So step on up Po and Alance" he shouts.

Alance nods and steps up to take his place at the table.

Iymbryl smirks at the announcer for a moment and shakes his head.

Po moves up to the table and takes a seat. "Well, if I win I won't have beaten a woman, and if I lose I look like I can only beat women. I'll probably lose," he says, preparing for the contest.

Siriel looks to her new friend "You alright Iym?" she asks as he walks down the steps.

Iymbryl nods, smiling at Siriel. "Aye lady, I'm fine.. I'm just glad he didn't crush my hand... My livlyhood depends on my hands remaining whole.." He says grinning slightly, still flexing his hand.

Alance chuckles at Po's comments and get's set, winning the first two falls easyly, having a bit more trouble with the last one, but down goes Po's arm to the table. Giving the Elf a nod he stands up for the next round.

"Cleric!!" the announcer shouts out looking for some healing for Po "You must work out a lot" he jokes to Alance "Well Alance you might as well stay put as your next opponent is Theodone to find out who is the strongest in Vintermor!!" he looks over to Theo "Good luck"

Po stands up and walks off the gallows saying, "Of course I have to look as terrible as possible."

ShadowHawk shouts "Go Theo teach him who's boss, Spank him like a baby!:

Zsuzsa looks on "C'mon Theo!! You can do it"

Alance nods and sits back down waiting for Theo.

Heather sits back to watch the last match with a lot of enjoyment... even more so when she lost where the cute girl went to. T heodone watches the match between Po and Alance and is not surprised that the human won. He does nod to PO as he comes down but then his eyes go and focus to Alance. he climbs up to the platform and extends a hand towards Alance, to shake it. " Good luck." in a polite voice, his eyes looking at the man as he grins.

Tikk waits and whistles for Theo, "you can do it!" she offers as if she was in the waterboy

The first quarter moon, tracing a nearby wisp of cloud in silver, sinks below the western horizon. The stars sparkle in the ultramarine sky, distant and serene.

Siriel watches on "Take him down Alance" she calls out and chuckles.

Iymbryl glances at his friend and nods, but says nothing. He simply watches the proceedings, his mind elsewhere

Alance actually breaks a sweat with this match, having to put more effort into it, it seems. His arm muscles bulge a bit as he wins the first set, the second, he is caught napping by Theo and his hand slams down, the set to Theo. Alance sets himself for the final set, viens standing out on his arm as he slowly pushes

Theo's hand down to the table, ending the match.

The announcer starts jumping up and down excitedly "Alance wins! Alance wins!!" the crowd cheers for the strongest in Vintermor "Now don't go away just yet

Theodone, and if we could have Po step back up here as well please" he says looking for Po in the crowd.

Po steps up to the gallows after a moment. Climbing the steps to the middle he looks a little wide-eyed and confused.

Theodone has not worked that hard in a long time and is surprised that it took Alnce so long to bring his arm down. Finaly loosing he smiles and nods to Alance. " Damn your strong, good match." Theo then looks towards the announcer and does wait.

The announcer waves 3 pages over each with a small pouch in their hands "For coming in third Po we'd like to give you 50 gold, for coming out and trying so hard" the page runs up and gives Po the pouch and runs back, he turns to Theo "and for you Theodone for your great efforts and strength we'd like to give you 100 gold pieces for coming in second" another page runs up to give Theo the pouch. Turning to Alance and saying out to the crowd "And for you Alance for coming out and proving that you are the strongest man in Vintermor for your efforts we'd like to gift you with 200 gold!!" the announcer shouts excitedly.

Heather gives off a whisle cheering them all on.

Siriel claps for the three winners on the stage.

Zsuzsa jumps up and down hollarin "Good Job!!" as she claps.

Tikk claps and woots out for Alance. "GO Alance!!" she calls out and giggles

ShadowHawk see who won and then with a nod to himself he sneaks out of the park to start his long trek out to his home for some sleep. ShadowHawk leaves the park going south.

Po takes the bag silently and stares at it a moment, then moves to leave the gallows, evidently not impressed with himself. Po wanders away from The gallows and stockade stand.

Alance smiles at Siriel and waves to Tikk at her outburst. Blinking a bit at the prize money, he hands it back speaking quietly to the announcer. Turning he offers his hand to the other contestants.

Iymbryl claps for the three winners, his hands apparently having stopped throbbing. "Good match all." He says softly and turns away, making for the vendors.

Alance whispers "Give this to the poor please."

Po wanders off through the park to destinations unknown.

"Don't forget to buy your favourite victor a drink everyone" the announcer seems a bit surprised when Alance hands the small pouch back and then smiles broadly and nods, then turns back to the crowd "Have a wonderful evening and don't forget to purchase your favourite goodies!"

All excited out for the evening Blu'Shim sits down next to the pig that hasn't moved from her side "Well piggly wiggly, that was fun, what should we do now?" she asks while petting the cute little pig.

Alance smiles and heads back to where his family is sitting on the blanket.

Heather looks around a bit bored "so what to do what to do." said to her self.

Theodone thanking the announcer and then smiling he tucks the pouch away and gets off the platform. He scratches the back of his head and chuckle, still not believing he came in second. Now looking about to the people about as he grabs his longbow once again.

Theodone wanders away from The gallows and stockade stand.

Tikk plops down next to Blu, "lets see. This little pigie went to the market. this little piggie went home...Has he had Roast beef yet?"

Blu'Shim chuckles "no and he hasn't been to the market yet either" she says with a small grin.

Theodone starts to walk around the stalls once again and starts to look towards the vendors. Now that he has money, he starts to look around for something and finds it..booze vendor.

Zsuzsa wanders up to Theodone "You did very well" she says with a wink "I guess I owe you dinner now that I bought you that drink last night" she says with a grin.

Theodone smiles as he sees Zsuzsa approach and chuckles. " Yes you did buy me that drink. How about this. We go have something to eat and I'll buy today, since I did win a prize. Next time you can buy, since a bet is a bet."

Tikk starts to dance around the park Randomly. Some of it is bump and grind, some of it ballet. Some of it...probably is just to odd to ever get a name.

Zsuzsa smiles "I think that's a wonderful idea" she says.

Theodone nods and smiles. " Good, we can walk together again if that is alright with you." as he seems ready to go already.

Zsuzsa chuckles "I think that would be fine, I think I would be very safe with the second strongest man in Vintermor" she says with a grin and a wink.

Theodone smiles and chuckles at her words but he does not deny it. This time he offers his arm to her to take, since it was what she did last time.

Zsuzsa smiles and slips her arm through "off we go then"

Theodone and Zsuzsa leave the park going south.

Tikk dances around and giggles.

Blu'Shim and piggly wiggly decide to join in on the gnomish games and start dancing around with Tikk, which in turns causes her to start giggling like mad, suddenly she stops "Hey did you ask Shadow about the magic missiles while he was here?" she asks before she starts dancing around again.

Siriel chuckles as she watches the two dancing and giggling gnomes as they dance around with a small piglet oinking happily with their giggles.

Tikk nods, "he says he casts them out of his eyes. Not his twig..." she admits with a shrug.

Blu'Shim giggles "tell ya the truth I'm kind of relieved about that" she says sort of out of breath as she continues to dance around.

Tikk looks at Blu, "Why?" she asks.

Stars sparkle in the midnight sky, obscured here and there by clouds.

Blu'Shim stops and ponders for a moment "hmm well" she skews her face a little "I guess it's just a little weird and frankly if he found a cute little gnome to settle down with" she bats her eyelashes at Tikk "well I'd kind of be scared for her, ya know what I mean?" she says very seriously and then starts dancing around again.

Siriel squints her eyes a bit in thought, and then shakes her head not wanting to know about what the gnomish women are talking about and wanders away.

Tikk laughs lightly, "True...If he gets exciting doing damage is not a very good turn on."

Blu'Shim stops and nods quite seriously "I think your friend Benny is very interesting, but I'm not sure after finding that out about him if it would be a good idea" she stops and looks around "if you know what I mean that is" she whispers.

Tikk giggles lightly, "He was drunk remember." she points out to Blu. "that could have part of it."

Blu'Shim giggles "but how am I supposed to get him drunk and take advantage of him if that might happen when I go to take advantage of him?" she wonders.

Tikk looks at Blu, "don't get him drunk?" she points out. "Well not to drunk. Just enough that he doesn't pass out when you pick the berries."

Blu'Shim starts laughing almost uncontrollably "pick the berries??" she sits down on the snow while she giggles, the piglet walks over and tries to sit on her lap which makes her laugh even more.

Tikk shrugs slightly. "Well...it what you would call it!"

Blu'Shim shrugs still lightly giggling "I'm not sure, but never thought of 'picking the berries' but now anytime I think about being with a man it'll be in the back of my head" she says with a grin.