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*Salutes hand in the air and walks of to get prepared*

*Smiles to self*

*lead to royal box past various knights*

*Sees the princess who lost her dress last time and sat having laugh with her and several others glittering in various bejewaled outfits*'

*Same armoured from last joust walks up to him*
Agh, decided to join the big leagues sir.

Prizes far better too. Winner gets serious gold.
Prize weighs in at 12 ingots worth, 6 for second, 2 for third.

Standard rules apply, tournament rules, no cheating, lances only by the point.

Any questions?

None. I am ready.

*Shrugs shield off of back and picks a silver lance*

*Takes a horse and leads it into the arena*

*opposing knight in ornate gold and bronze armour rides past with helmet detailed into a princes crown with a snarling lions face guard*

Welcome to the real competition sir.
Rank don,t matter on the sands. Just winning.

*Maria smiles from above as a another smiles at the gold knight*

*Nods at Maria and takes up position*

I have no rank, Ser. I only have my honour.

*Nods to confirm readiness*

*gold knight before heading to ready*
good, finaly someone who not scared to go at it.

*gold knight charges down agressively and aims low on the knights sheilds*

*Tilts shield and lance slides off harmlessly*

*Holds lance at rest*

*Arrives at opposite end and spurs horse around*

Aim for the centre boy, makes it harder to avoid.

and you knock me off next time i mess up!. you gave me that one. give em a good show.

*brings horse round for second change aiming firmly at the center with own siheild at a sharper angle for deflection*

*Charges back*

*Places lance tip on the centre of the knights shield*

*Grunts as lances connect*

*gold knight staggers than falls of horse a stride later*

*knight*
man that hurt...
*stands up and and stretches arm, picks a gold lance tip off ground*

*throws it to boro*
keep it sir! good go. worth a bit, treat that princess of yours in the stands.

*bows to crowd and gets aplause*

*maria waves happily from stand *

*Dismounts horse and rubs shoulder*

*Walks over to the knight and claps hands on his shoulder-guards*

You ride well son, just focus on holding onto the horse more with your legs than the rest of you next time.

*Bows to Maria then returns back to the prepping area*

*an old bearded knight with streaks of grey in scarred blue and solid armour walks up*

your next, you get me. Duke Dolov took a injury in his round despite winning and dropped out. lance penetrated his sheild....

*mounts a heavy horse and rides out to other end. *

*loud cheers as turns out is a 5 times grand tournament champion and veteran several decade jouster*

*maria sat with a group of princesse and a young queen chatting away and joking waiting*

*Remounts horse and waves at Maria*

*Readies self and flips down visor*

Good luck, Ser.

*knight nods and lowers a battered visor*

good luck young ser.. youl need it.

*charges and makes a faint to aim for centre instead striking higher at last second and trying to send bro flying like a lever off his horse*

*Maria looks worried as older knight has racked up a serious stack of trophys*

*Own lance gets easily deflected*

*Staggers and almost falls off the back of the horse*

*Remains upright and reaches the end*

*Adjusts shield and nods at the knight*

You're a lot better than you look, Ser Knight.

*Looks at Maria and nods slightly*

*knight nods*

did't win 27 tornaments looking like a peacock!
Nice Princess, your winning even if you lose!
*maria waves despite worries*
*charges again aiming dead center this time and adjusting shield angle, solid despite numerous dents*

*Aims lance at a slightly larger dent*

*Pushes forward with shield as lances collide*

*older knight staggers and holds arm lower injured slightly*

barely holds onto horse and wrenchs helmet up demanding rope and some broken lance strapping his arm back in place*

One last go ser... i aint giving up. not yeilded once. not doing now. rather be knocked down with honour... .

*locks helmet and charges again*

*Rides again and aims in the exact spot*

*Gets hit in the same spot and almost slides off the back of the horse again*

*Drops shield*

*old knight falls off horse hard*

*still manages to climb back up and shake bros hand*
*shrugs and laughs*
damn arm, 3rd minor break, somthing tells me im getting old!
good round ser!

good round!
*raises good arm to crowd*
Il be back next year! one armed or two!
*gets loud cheers*

*several jousts later it comes to awarding the winner on points*

OOC Thank you...

Bic *Cradling broken arm*

Bloody fething feth...

*maria runs down and quickly checks arm*
il fix it later... just hold on. *gives a pain killer and tigtens the splint*

*awards anounced and bromir places third overall on points and delivers a large trophy weghing in at two gold inogts*
*Maria* il take it for my knight. on account of his arm*

*king nods*

*several competieiters invite him to the next joust*

Fethit, third is just fine for my first joust in 38,000 years...

*Takes Maria in broken arm and spins her with a wince*

I'm fine. Injuries are normal in jousts.

*Politely declines all offers*

I'm afraid I go where my Lady wishes for me to go.

*Winks at Maria and flexes broken arm*

It'll fix itself in a day or two...

*one laughs*

not fir abit. we all need to heal from the last *quite a few limping and splinted knights laugh*

this is a dangerous sport!

*Maria helps knight on ride back to mount up not before using a sturdy lance shard, and buying some thick cloth at a local market to make a solid improvised splant*

*causes a minor comotion at market from being a princess*

*on leaving*
well that was fun! sorry, i know your hurt.

that il keep the pain down anyway
*smiles as riding slowly*

*Grins*

*Spurs the horse into a gallop*

C'mon Maria! I'm not a fething cripple!

*Maria picks up the pace*

well i didn't know how hurt you where.
*smiles as pulls alongside with trophy in her saddle bags*

well that went ... better in some ways than last time...
your at least walking out!
oh and seems i made a impression on the local royalty *smiling*

Since when do you NOT make an impression on people?

*Smiles and looks at arm*

Well, I guess what I had in mind for today is out of the picture now.

OOC:
At this point I have no clue where I am, lots of pages happened after I went to bed. Did Billy and crew make it back to the Room?

OOC yes.

*tech-priest is sitting on the couch in the Room, sleeipng. Or maybe not, but he's comletely motionless. Only a whirring of his mechanical lungs can be heard.*