The Third Silver Shield Tournament of Arms (12/14 9AM PST)

[arakes99]

The event will be at 9AM PST or 12PM EST or 1700 GMT

Posters are tacked to boards around Baldur's Gate, The Friendly Arms Inn and Beregost decorated with scrolling silver leafing along the edges.

"The Silver Shield is promoting its third tournament of arms open to all for participation. The tournament will be a test of martial combat and will award 15,000 coin to the winner of the experts bracket and 10,000 to the skilled bracket champion, and a 5,000 coin reward to the novice bracket. The Shield hopes to continue fostering a spirit of healthy competition to improve the skills of all the coasts defenders and hope that the tournament will see denizens of the elven nations, the dwarves of the north and members of the knightly orders.

The event will be held at the arena in the farmlands just north of Baldur's Gate and Hoffman Vineyards has graciously agreed to make wine available to the spectators of our third tournament! This promises to be a lively event so we welcome one and all to attend the festivities as spectators of this fine event!"

The poster goes on to list the details of the exact contest rules.

((This event will be fought to the down and will allow melee and archery attacks only. To make the event open to those with magical talents but in the interest of keeping things fair 3 preparatory spells, scrolls, potions or abilities will be allowed before the fight. As long as you can apply the effect to yourself it is allowed. The following spells and abilities are forbidden to even the playing field: Song of Requiem, Shapeshifting of any kind, Elemental Shield. No spells, potions, on use items or scrolls will be allowed after the start of the fight but natural abilities OTHER than the ones I just mentioned will be allowed during the fight. Bardic songs and inspirations are included in this. This time around shadowdancers will be allowed to begin the fight hidden and to hide one more time during the fight, it has been made very apparent in past tournaments that a skilled backstabber could easily clear the competition with little effort without such a rule and even with such a rule the advantage is still ever present.

Expert Bracket is 21 and over
Skilled Bracket is 10-20
Novice Bracket is 1-10
))

[arakes99]

More posters are tacked up around Baldur's Gate and surrounding areas.

[The_Gruff_Stout]

Jarresh leaves the arena with his sack of gold won from the skilled bracket. He heads toward the Gate, but before entering he turns back toward the arena.

"Perhaps one day I will be skilled enough to win the larger purse. I need more training it seems.
For now I'll donate this sack of gold to the Church of Helm."

He enters the city and heads to the Temple of Helm, leaving the gold with the priests within.

[arakes99]

Rumors of the recent Silver Shield tournament hang in the air. Hoffman Vineyards was present to provide wine to the spectators and members of the band provided some refreshments themselves.

This was likely the most competitive tournament yet with the final match of the skilled bracket being an extremely close fight won by a man named Jarresh. It is rumored that a man named Hasam won the novice bracket with little competition, though he ended up fighting a skilled competitor who was trying to collect on the lower divisions prize.

Many fine combatants were involved in top bracket of the tournament but a man named Hinzel ended up claiming clear victory in the end. However the champion of the first tournament Laya was nowhere to be seen and Captain Mealir declined to participate in this tournament despite having claimed an enormous purse in the last one. One wonders if they had both entered what result we may have seen.