<blockquote><div><cite>Rihyan wrote:</cite><span style="font-style: italic">~Anyone see anything less obvious in these rules?~</span></div></blockquote><br/><span style="font-style: italic">~Let me see what I can find,~</span>Alyssa says. Taking one of the dowels, she pulls the document over to her side of the desk and re-rolls the pages until only the first remains visible.<br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Decipher Script: 1d20 (10) + 17 = 27<br/>Knowledge (local): 1d20 (15) + 8 = 23</div></div></div><br/>Despite their initially overwhelming appearance, the arena rules are surprisingly easy to decipher: nothing more than standard legal jargon, inflicted with the occasional bout of cacography or overzealous strikethrough. Compared to the ancient texts she used to study in Rubin's library, it's actually quite tame. At least the Sogluyem writings are intact, and in a living language.<br/><br/>As for the content...<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">~That's odd,~</span>Alyssa muses 'aloud,' allowing her thoughts to pass along to Mindy for further distribution.<span style="font-style: italic">~For all the amendments they've made, the rules don't seem to have changed at all- they've just added and removed the same material, with slightly different wording each time...~</span>As she speaks, Alyssa traces each line with the tip of her finger to hold place in the document. She pauses as her fingertip slides across a damp spot near the end of the final page- a freshly written, freshly stricken rule. And one she hasn't seen anywhere else in the document.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">~"In cases of forfeiture, unsettled accounts, dispute of possessions, and other actions involving locally represented religious or political organizations, management agrees to defer judgment to a representatives of said organization." This rule is new,~</span>She tells Mindy.<span style="font-style: italic">~ And the ink is still fresh. I wonder if this has some significance?~</span>