A short walk later the corridor leads Evelyn to another common area where a female servant bows to her and indicates the way.<br/>"Please, come. The outfitter and armore are this way."<br/>Leading her through one of the several doors of the room, the paladin soon arrives in a new room, full of tables laid out with pieces of armor and racks full of weapons. Two corners were hidden by dressing walls where fighters could change in at least some privacy and a large grated gate opened into another corridor that lead presumeably to the fighting stage. When she entered, Evelyn caught glimpse of a large, muscled barbarian clad in only a few pieces of armor heading through there with a large, blunted sword held at his side.<br/>The armorer was a middle aged male servant with a hunchback and was calling to her while gathering smaller pieces of armor and several straps of cloth.<br/>"You're a little late m'lady, but don't worry. Harken's going to outfit you the best you'll need. Would you prefer leather or metal?" he asked, motioning towards two sets of incomplete - no, actually skimpy armor that showed way more than they protected.<br/>"Now, I should mention this in case you're used to wearing fighting equipment, that the contest here is mostly for show. While the blows still land they don't cause any real damage so the protective gear is made to show off the body and muscles of the gladiators. There is still some protective value to them, but you'll have to be fast on your feet and faster in your thinking out there. If you let your enemy swing at you, you better know how to parry or have some tricks up your sleeve."<br/><br/>Harken presented the two sets of armor to the paladin, both looking scandalous and for most of the part, completely useless in a real combat scenario. Still, what surface they covered would be protected against bruises and cuts from the blunted weapons at least, and both came with bracers that had a little use in defense. Both sets were padded on the inside so underclothing wasn't necessary, not like she had anything but a towel on her.<br/><br/>Once she picked one, she was supplied with the corresponding pieces and she could change behind one of the dressing walls. It was tricky to put the armors on but if she needed any help, the hunchback would be more than happy to assist.<br/><br/>When ready, she was given the choice of what arms she wanted to take with her.<br/>"You won't be able to alter your choice for the rest of the games, though if you need your armor fixed or anything replaced, you can always come back here between matches and I'll help however I can!" the armorer said while he placed some of the available weapons on the table.<br/>Her options were less about what she wanted specifically, and more like what style she favored. There was of course sword and shield, two shortswords, a two-handed sword, a spear, a set of a trident and net, even a quarterstaff, each fixed so their edges and points were blunted. They'd only cause superficial damage and would slip on the oiled bodies of the gladiators, dealing serious wounds and possibly lethal injuries only if great effort or force was put behind attacks.<br/><br/>Once she picked her choice of arms, she was ready to head through the grated corridor. "Fight well, and make it look good. The crowd loves a good fighter but loves a great show even more!"<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Equipment</div><div class="spoiler_body">The provided armors are statistic equivalents of Leather Armor and Ring mail, though they would confer little protection outside the arena circumstances and there might be other gimmicks to them that are initially not apparent. The rest of the equipment is statistically identical to their normal counterparts with the exception that they never kill a creature when reducing them to 0 hp (though they would still damage and grant death save failures on helpless victims)<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Armor style</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/de/ed/18/deed188270ff8cc500decfbf4241cd99.jpg)(http://pictures.costumeprize.com/1000/01/Sexy%20Female%20Gladiator%20Costumes.jpg)(http://getasword.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/sexy-wman-armor.jpg)(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110215182925/hercxena/images/7/75/Callisto_Maternal_instincts.jpg)(https://troglopundit.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/xena-armor.jpg)</div></div></div></div>