<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=329779.msg15758419#msg15758419">Quote from: Miroque on 18-02-2021, 07:54:48</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">After gathering the basics, she smiled. <strong>"What if some of the competitors would make bets for themselves? Would that be allowed or frown upon?"</strong><br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>A bar server continued to serve even as they hurriedly answered, "Competitors can absolutely bet on themselves to win.  We won't take any bets for competitors betting against themselves though and I imagine you would be hard pressed to find someone who would."<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=329779.msg15758557#msg15758557">Quote from: Zaer Darkwail on 18-02-2021, 13:03:07</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Aran did briefly consider sexual release from a slave, but deciding on the factor of time and saving himself for his own pleasure slave (no better way to celebrate a victory or heal the burden of loss than fucking a slave), so he only accepted water and send a slave to bet money on <em>himself</em> (giving slave 50gp). He had all his gear with him but most importantly his tome of shadows (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/35/62/2c/35622c8d6cb310aa4e1705c02fb44428.jpg), as he touched it, golden lines which closed the tome from sides straighten up into golden spikes and allow open his tome and peruse its arcane ancient secrets. More so his tome's case it borrows from all sources of magic and translates into a formula where he can understand the spell and use it so long he goes through it as a ritual. So he immediately starts ritual in speak with animals (https://www.dnd-spells.com/spell/speak-with-animals-ritual). Once confirm from a slave what exact time races will be starting (in 11 or so minute mark), wanting to get the most use from the ritual during the race and able complete it shortly before it begins.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>During the ritual as you connect with your power, a familiar voice flows into your mind, "There was another continent, but there should be no life there.  It was a place of dark things when I last gained word from there.  This whole competition may be nothing more than an attempt to cull future challengers if the reward is to be sent away."