Althea was easily able to find a good rapier among the weapons.  Unfortunately, all the armor seemed to be made with the same idea in mind: exposing as much of the wearer's body as possible.  The only leather armor she found was a top cut short enough that the underside of her breasts were visible, with a leather mini-skirt that seemed far too frail to be of any protection.  A pair of thigh-high leather boots completed her rather scandalous outfit.<br/><br/>Soon after the girls were dressed, they heard a gong sound in the distance, and the iron gate separating them from the arena opened.  The arena was large, a circle roughly sixty feet across, and covered in sand.  Directly in the center was a large pillar, perhaps ten feet across, made of some sort of brown clay and stretching roughly thirty feet tall.  Above the pillar appeared to be an open sky, though Neliamar could sense some sort of illusion magic coming from above them, likely a fake sky.  All around them, a good fifteen feet above the arena floor, risers receded away from the arena, with a cheering crowd watching down on them, some looking at the two girls, while others looked at the other end of the arena.  Presumably, their opponent was just now entering the arena from the other side of the pillar.