Mathew let herself be propelled along,  nodding along enthusiastically,  even though she still looked somewhat confused.  "O-ok! I hope you're right!"<br/><br/>She lead the group to a fairly average sized inn.  it was a bit off the thorough fair,  and run by a family of canine fel who welcomed the group warmly.  unlike most inns in the city,  it wasn't filled to capacity,  since xenophobic humans avoided this inn.  The people of the city weren't at all racist,  very accepting of others actually,  but the visiting treasure hunters brought their own prejudices.<br/><br/>After a hearty meal and washing up,  the group felt refreshed and ready to tackle anything that was thrown their way.  Thr group all finds their way up to the roof to wait for the trials to begin.<br/><br/>Just as the sun starts to go down, a short time after the ticket number 74 is called into the palace,  a series of short, Sharp explosions ripped through the evening air.  As everyone in the group is on the roof on look out,  they are given a front row seat to a dazzling fireworks display,  as explosions of light and colour fill the still darkening late evening sky.<br/><br/>The King's booming happy go lucky voice echoes out over the city with uncontained glee, much louder than any previous announcement.<br/><br/>"Let the trials begin!"<br/><br/>In the sky above,  the fireworks suddenly flare and form a pair of fiery dragons who spin and dance around eachother.  In a dramatic climax to their dance the pair of sparkling images turn and breathe huge showers of Sparks at one another,  literally erasing their opponents in the enormous dazzling gouts of 'fire'. from the flames appears the word "START" in nearly every colour of the rainbow.<br/><br/>Barely visible amongst the smoke and magical fireworks,  a handful of rocks plummet across the city. The ground shakes as the boulders all slam into the ground and buildings as people scream and run for cover.<br/><br/>One actually smashes into the roof across the street from the party and as they watch the huge boulder unfolds itself,  standing up into a craggy,  rough magical Golem!  Where it's chest should be is a glowing shimmering white mist,  obviously the entrance to the trial.  It seems even getting into these trials was not going to be easy.<br/><br/>The Golem stood,  easily two stories tall,  the building crunching and crumbling under it's weight.  Surprised and terrified citizens and treasure hunter's alike scrambled to clear the way as the Golem stepped down off the building it had crushed almost to rubble and onto the street.  It gave a low,  groaning roar and back handed a crazy looking human who had tried to swing from a cable into the portal in its chest.<br/><br/>"h-holy shit!  What.... What do we do?  Do we... Uhm,  fight it?"  Mathew asked quickly never having seen such a huge magical construct before. The sounds of battle and destruction could already be heard from other parts of the city.