"What on Elanith is Droughtman's Challenge?" you ask!
Droughtman himself has answers:
"If you dare to accept my call, you'll enter my Maze as one of ten contestants whose task is simple, yet as twisted as the very walls that surround you! Abandoning all your supplies, you'll be given access to an arming room of basic gear to choose from and a survival kit containing some acantha leaf, some powerful healing medicine, and a mysterious wand (No licking or eating the wands! The Management is not responsible for any injuries!)
"Into the Maze you'll go, seeking your way to the White Door. Along the way, you'll find several colored doors. When you start your journey, some will block your path and others will be wide open, at least until someone pulls one of the many colored levers you'll find around the Maze! Some levers will open doors that were closed! Some levers will close doors that were open! Some levers will not only open some doors, but also close others, too! But remember, while you're pulling levers trying to open the right doors that lead you to glory, nine other people are doing the same thing! Strategy and cunning are key!
"Key? I almost forgot! To get through the White Door, you'll need to find a golden key. In various places throughout the Maze, you'll find ropes dangling from the ceiling. Give one a pull, if you feel lucky, and you just might get a key! Then again, who knows what else might happen!
"One important word! Death is but an inconvenience here, since dying will merely move you back to the beginning of the maze. In truth, victory will likely favor the fleet of foot and nimble of mind, although I'm sure that the strong of body will do everything they can to slow them down!
"Everyone will be on equal footing inside the maze. There are no special advantages for the old and powerful, just as there are none for the young and weak! There's limited magic spells, no society powers, and no combat maneuvers allowed by the contestants!
"This is a Challenge worthy of true Champions and Heroes as the gods truly intended... skill, cunning, and brains are just as important (if not more-so) as brute force."
Locations
Challengers and spectators alike can enter the arena through several black marble arches found throughout the lands:
Wehnimer's Landing - Town Square Southeast
Solhaven - South Market
Icemule - Icemule Temple, Foyer
Teras - Vaalin Street, Temple District
Ta'Illistim - Shimmarglin Var
Ta'Vaalor - Amaranth Court
Zul Logoth - Hall of Arches
Mist Harbor - Mist Harbor Inn, Approach
River's Rest - River Road (outside the Captain's Quarters)
Cysaegir - Linsandrych Common
Grand Prize
The grand prize is going to be a little bit different this time around. You will get the following:
And then choose one (1) of the following:
- +1 fusion slot (cap of 4 slots)
- +5 enchant
- +10 sighting
- +10 weighting
- +10 padding
Prize Pool
- a faintly luminescing glowbark runestaff capped with a twisted green kelyn leaf
- a slender silver lor runestaff bound with petrified flaeshorn vines
- a tenebrous globe of ether
- a tenebrous globe of ether
- a pair of thick rolaren gauntlets with articulated fingers
- a pair of thick rolaren gauntlets with a brass-riveted plate on each palm
- a bejeweled quartz stone case embossed with a coiled maze roa'ter
- an enruned dark glaes scarab brooch covered with a silver-swept crystal carapace
- an enruned witchwood box
- a cabochon of silver-ringed cerulean aetherstone
- some matte black spidersilk robes banded with viridian satin on the sleeves
- a lacquered silvery sephwir longbow with curved spiral nocks
- a folded silvery eonake katana with a polished eahnor guard
- a folded black rolaren katana with a polished eahnor guard
- an enruned dark ironwood greatshield inlaid with polished eahnor chevrons
- an enruned black rolaren buckler with a polished convex surface
- a suit of smoky glaes platemail with polished rolaren poleyns
- an opalescent cobalt vaalin band set with a nacreous blue waterweb
- a ruic-stemmed dark glaes pipe with a faceted firestone bowl
- a glaes-runed verdant faenor claidhmore
- a thin-bladed silvery zorchar kris engraved with a line of blackened runes
- a tapered ruddy gornar espadon with a deep-carved fuller
- a rectangular rolaren-headed maul set with rhimar and drakar runes
- a drakar-spiked blackened steel morning star with a scorched white oak handle
- a double-edged cobalt rhimar warblade set with a frost agate pommel stone
- an iron-reinforced wyrwood heavy crossbow with a brass-plated stock
- a suit of triple-linked golvern augmented chainmail with dagged sleeves
- a suit of celestial blue rolaren scalemail with ermine trim
- a pair of thick golvern arm greaves inset with bars of polished rolaren
- a darkened grey illthorn harp strung with silvery rolaren
- a slender kelyn-tipped pike with a polished white oak shaft
- a fel-hafted golvern waraxe
- a thick rolaren-studded tetsubo with a polished ironwood haft
- a pair of copper-banded mithglin bracers set with tiny rolaren gears
- a copper-coiled fireleaf rune staff capped with a glowing glaesine orb
- a pair of lead-toed leather boots
- a pair of rolaren-threaded casting gloves with scorched fingertips
- an engraved crimson eahnor greathelm with a glaes-paned visor
- a rune-carved silvery lor staff
- a slender dark illthorn staff
- a pair of golvern-studded thick leather gauntlets
- an ermine-lined cobalt wool cloak with a clasp of fused gold coins
- a pair of thick leather gauntlets with eonake knuckle studs
- a gold-runed crimson eahnor quiver
- a glass-topped ironwood humidor inset with curled rolaren scrollwork
- a black rapture cloak
- an eahnor and silvery leather bracer
- a reinforced crimson eahnor cuirass inset with numerous thin golden rods
- a checkered azure and silver silk cloak clasped with a burnished golvern chain
- a rounded black cobblestone painted with a pair of golden feline eyes
- a pair of lead-weighted leather gauntlets
- a rhimar-cored silvery glaes greataxe with a leather-wrapped white oak handle
- a polished cabochon of fulgurite pendant set on a rune-carved rolaren backing
- a woven reed and dried wiregrass pouch
- a tanned leather wand bandolier with waxed brown canvas loops
- an enruned white ora armillary sphere with brass and copper rings
- a curved dark ironwood scabbard set with faceted firestone cabochons
- a coiled black vaalin wyvern ring set with smoky quartz crystal claws
- a coiled green vaalin serpent bracelet set with smoky quartz crystal scales
- a faceted sliver of grey shadowglass
- a sturdy tanned leather belt set with silver-flecked white crystal beads
- a circular faenor ivy vine medallion
- an ebonwood gilt-worked staff
- an eonake-runed mithril mace
- an eonake-runed mithril talon sword
- an eonake-runed mithril warlance
- an eonake-runed mithril flamberge
- a cyan-speckled alabaster mushroom
- a roan-speckled alabaster mushroom
- a lime-speckled alabaster mushroom
- a kohl-speckled alabaster mushroom
- a fawn-speckled alabaster mushroom
- a weathered leather coin pouch stitched with strands of veniom thread
- a deeply hooded black muslin burnoose stitched with argent runes down its sleeves
- a blackened leather harness traced with argent scrollwork
- a gleaming eonake naginata with a single wing-shaped blade
- a distressed leather-wrapped bludgeon weighted with kelyn
- a white opal torus
- a grooved eahnor dagger with an onyx-inset bone handle
- some opalescent vaalin-framed spectacles
- a grey moonstone cube
- a slender silver and alexandrite anklet
- some raven black full leathers with tenebrous straps
- a faded silver spidersilk belt clasped with a circular krodera buckle
- a faded silver spidersilk belt clasped with a circular eonake buckle
- a faded silver spidersilk belt clasped with a circular golvern buckle
- a faded silver spidersilk belt clasped with a circular eahnor buckle
- a faded silver spidersilk belt clasped with a circular veniom buckle
- a reinforced steel coat-of-plates
- a tarnished steel javelin with a sharpened razern tip
- a shredded section of a gown
- some sturdy black leather boots heeled with solid illthorn
- some sturdy black leather boots heeled with solid glowbark
- some sturdy black leather boots heeled with solid lor
- some sturdy black leather boots heeled with solid witchwood
- a vitreous alexandrite bracelet
- a translucent alexandrite bracelet
- a slim alexandrite bracelet
- some dark steel full plate lined with plush honey badger fur
- a tarnished steel breastplate
- some honey badger pelt robes
- some sculpted steel armor lined with plush honey badger fur
- some honey badger pelt leathers
- some supple full leather stitched together from honey badger pelts
- a tarnished steel katar with sharpened razern blades
- an eonake-caged soulstone amulet
- a torn section of a cotehardie
- a flat-topped golden rolaren band set with spectral blue crystal runes
- a leaf-bladed veil iron partisan
- a thin-bladed dark veil iron wakizashi
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