FICTION | GAME | MEDIUM ADVENTURERS LEAGUE ⚔️

Welcome to Perion’s Pit — The School of Hard Knocks

A tutorial for the Primatria (MAL) fighting rules and an introduction to a new game location

This is part of a story that works as an interactive game. If you want to make the most of it, have some paper and dice at the ready! If you are new to the game, find an introductory story here, and check out the rules below:

You look at the simple hand-drawn map in your hand and wonder if you took a wrong turn. The enormous building on the opposite side of the road looks like it has seen better days. Its shutters are closed, and it would appear abandoned if there weren’t footprints in the mud leading to the enormous gates.

Can you genuinely find The Bastion’s best fighting instructor here?

You hesitate before you push a smaller door within one of the gates open. The interior is dark and as luxuriously furnished as a cell in a dungeon prison, but braziers light an area in the centre of the enormous hall.

You walk past some benches, chairs, and tables piled up next to the walls when you realise that the structure in the hall’s centre is a colossal cage. Through an open gate in the cage, you see a tall, broad-shouldered half-orc practising with a sword in his right hand and a handaxe in his left. His movements are as quick and flourishing as water, and he strikes at a dummy with lightning precision.

The half-orc pauses and turns toward you.

“We are closed. What do you want?”

“I am looking for Perion, the famous fighting instructor,” you answer. You are suspicious of the half-orc but step closer and into the cage. You won’t let this man stand between you and Perion.

The half-orc scowls and looks you up and down. “And why should Perion be interested in you?”

“I am an adventurer, and want him to instruct me.”

You barely have time to pull your sword when the half-orc suddenly attacks you like an angry dervish. Despite his size, he is agile like a jaguar, and his strikes are strong, precise and incredibly fast.

(Here is a link to a dice-rolling app!).

Encounter: Half-orc fighter

Challenge Rating: Medium (15+)
Roll using Brawn.
Alternatively, you can use Magic to counter the attack, or Wits to flee from the fight.

Read on to find out what happens next.

1. If you succeed on the Brawn roll, click here.
2. If you fail rolling Brawn, click here.
3. If you fail to use Wits, click here.
4. If you attack the half-orc with Magic, click here.
5. If you succeed with your Wits roll, return to the Adventurers League Headquarters.

Thanks for reading — and playing! ⚔️

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