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[DanielLC]

Colosseum

By DanielLC

The dwarves and elves have been at war for the past three years. A dwarven outpost has asked to let the war end, and has requested a group of elves to join them at the opening of the Colosseum.

The elves are given the seats up front, but there isn't enough room for the dwarves, so they stand in an area farther back.

"The seats aren't full. Why don't some of the dwarves come down here?" asks Lethiro, the elven liaison.

"No offense, but they'd rather stand and watch with their families and friends than sit with complete strangers. Besides, you'd block their view," replied Noshtath, a dwarven usher.

"Still, It seems like a waste having all these empty seats," Lethiro responds. "Why the iron grates on the floor?"

"The arena was built on top of a magma vent. The top is closed off with what's essentially a giant valve. They can open the valve to allow magma to slowly come up from vent if fight takes too long," answers Noshtath.

"Nice," says the elf. "Are they going to do it this time?"

"I don't know. I'm just an usher. Anyway, the fight's going to start soon. I'd better get back," says the dwarf as he hurries away.

A few minutes pass.

"For the grand opening of the Colosseum," yells an announcer, "We will witness a battle between..." a huge door opens and a "...Bronze Collusus..." walks out. "...and..." The elves watch the door on the other side of the arena in anticipation. "...unarmed elven civilians!" Water pours through the doors to the front seats, washing the Elves into the Colosseum as the Dwarves cheer.

Analysis

The story takes place in an arena. Many players build them, but the game itself doesn't currently use them. The room would have to be different then normal and would have to have an inner section, where the fighting takes place, and an outer section, for watching. Visibility would be required. The arena would likely span multiple z-levels, so the game would have to allow for that.

The player must be able to coordinate parties, or at least the arena would have to allow you to designate a lever to be pulled for it to begin.

The story has a group of elves who are invited to come as a peace offering. It would be nice to have this sort of thing allowed when talking to liaisons.

It also uses Meaningful Names, but that was just because I have too much time on my hands. I'm not suggesting it.


Edit: I changed the hatches to doors. It wouldn't make much sense to have hatches when the floor is covered in grates.

[Foa]

It just needs, that fancy workshop = designable room thing, and it is a shoe in, but there may need to be a few sub-designations, like battle area, dungeon, seats, et cetera.

Personally I'd designate the seats for elves/whoever counts as one, and then box seats for everyone else, who I like, then rig it so that the dungeon can make a certain 'Arena accident' happen to the seated denizens, and no water flushing, only that the unfriendly Gladiators are released into the seats, via bridge!

But there are so many other uses and purposes, like D Darts ( or D Pong if said goals were filled with any liquid ) , the Cat Dash ( They run after the baited rooms, the slowest get into the rigged bait rooms ) , D Ball ( ~10 Hammer'D's and many more unfriendlies ) ...

[DanielLC]

It just needs, that fancy workshop = designable room thing, and it is a shoe in, but there may need to be a few sub-designations, like battle area, dungeon, seats, et cetera.

This wouldn't be a workshop. At first I figured it would be a room, then I realized there's nothing specific you need that you could designate it from, so an activity zone would be best. If it isn't too difficult, the seating area would be automatic and just be anywhere you can see the battle area from.

The area would just make it so dwarfs seeing fighting and enemies would have a happy thought rather than getting scared and running away.

Urist McDwarf has been ecstatic lately. He has lost a friend lately. He has watched a battle in a legendary arena lately.

Edit: Should I move this to Community Games & Stories?