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READ DOWN FOR INFO: DUEL NOTES & BATTLE BUDDIES
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Tim’s resume includes: Arena punching bag, sparring partner & advertiser (see bottom of Chronicles), pet healer & otherwise taking falls no one else wants to.

In other words, my purpose is to lose.
And provide you all the chances for practice I know I’d have loved to have.
—Don’t just sit there, come at me, try something out! You’re safe.

^{If I’m logged on and you ask me to, I will fight back to a point. For anything more lively, find my main.}

But! I am more than a mere punching bag.

• Scroll past the bullet points for notes on ways to minimize risk to yourself, and maybe leave here one charge up from the start, while still fighting the whole match.

• _{For those looking for more practice opportunities, or Coaching achievement, scroll all the way down for a list of volunteer sparring partners waiting for your invite.}

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Free Tooth Removal
“Gladiatorship 101”

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Pre-Match Preparation

• Accumulating at least 3 charges plus 100% Godpower before hitting Send to Arena, though not required, is highly recommended. With items like Praystation, Sacrificial Lamp, & Holy Powercell, this is easier than ever. Especially going beyond the basic 3 you can Accumulate.

• Once “in” and searching for a match, you’ll be paired with someone in 17 minutes or less, or else you may be let off for an hour’s cooldown with usually some form of compensation for the wait. (Gold, a brick, or GP.) To be safe: don’t send without 3 or more charges, 100% GP, and 20 minutes or so of time.

• Once in waiting for a match, the only way out is 18 minutes’ wait or finding an opponent. Some opponents may be more skilled or prepared than others, so it helps to take the full 3 charges or more for insurance.

(P.S.: Take at least 3 charges, not kidding here! No duelist wants to lose a good battle because the GP ran out before the will to fight did.)

Which levels match with which others

^18 minutes w/o a match ejects you from waiting
w/ either a 75% GP refill or a brick.
If unmatched, there’s a 1 hour delay before next match.

See any unfamiliar terms? Look them up. Someone was bored enough to write this, so why not see what all this gladiatorial gibberish slang really stands for, in Earth-people terms.

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The Controls:

2 main ways of affecting duel outcomes: VCs and Actions.

> Voice commands (VCs)
Cost 5% GP to use.
Happens @ start of next step, w/ other effects
~30% chance of success each time.
Cannot backfire/misfire to hurt you.
Weaker but cheaper & more versatile than Actions.
Won’t lower Action Count.

^{NOTE: All successful VCs take effect just before the regular step.}

> There are 3 types of VC:

• Attack causes hero to strike for normal damage.
  Can stack w/ hero’s normal atk that turn or hit on foe’s attack step.
  ^{May hurry duels w/ extra dmg, hits 2x if on own turn for fair damage w/o risk of Punish BF}

• Heal recovers hero’s HP, amt. = dmg. from 1 enemy hit.
  ^{HP restored = amt lost to 1 unboosted enemy atk. Each working one lets you take 1 more hit. Cumulative effect may be huge. Author loves to spam these at all times practical. May “mishear” and attack foe instead.}

• Pray boosts your GP by 20%,
  ^{Can buy time/power for 4 more VCs, lets god support hero longer}

^{Tip: Heroes may ignore orders if told to do more than one thing per command.}
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Influences/Actions

• Cost 25% GP to use. (5x as expensive as VCs)
• Happens alongside VCs &/or regular turn.
• Risky: May mis-target to one hero, both, or neither.
• Mis-target called a backfire- 1/3 chance of each outcome.
• Lowers Action Count by 1 each use.

2 types of Actions:

^{Technically 3, but the third, “Make a Miracle” costs 50% GP and is no kind of threat in a duel to anyone but the user.}

• Encourage heals ~3x as much as a Heal VC, regardless of alignment.

^{Backfires: Heals both heroes, neither, or your opponent only.}

• Punish targets the opponent, for about 3x regular attack damage regardless of alignment.

^{Backfires: harms both combatants, neither, or only the sender.}

By defeating this hero with Pray and Heal VCs to assist, you can win without ever using Restore.

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When you do that, your GP is refilled afterward AND you come out with one additional charge of GP, possibly beyond the basic 3. Leveling up also awards a charge. For 50% GP, (half the normal accumulator cost) Praystations and such allow you to add a charge, and even break the regular limit of 3. Got a holy powercell? Activate it! It works like a praystation, but free. If those weren’t so rare they’d be gamebreakers. Use ‘em, they’re great even if you’re secretly a temple owner moonlighting with an alternate account at this level.

_{Since last chronicle update, some days accumulator charges restore 70% each. Also, on some days sending to arena costs you only 25% GP. Check the Godville Times forecast if you’re unsure.}

So you won?

I hope so. Feeling a little more assured? How would I know? I wouldn’t, really.
Now that you’ve picked up a brick for coming today and have your GP refilled with that handy extra (possibly 4th ot more) charge, here’s something you can do with the gold:

If you have 3000 gold or more, using Encourage or Punish may convert 3000 gold to a brick.
This has a 1/4 chance of happening whenever you do something other than talk to the hero when he or she has enough money.

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Other Services Offered

^{Account checked roughly daily. Contact here or Altoholics Anonymous to use these.}

• Dig buddy (bricks, Hunter, or pet rez)
• Arena serial loser (charge farming, bricks, pet rez, skirmish prevention, practice duels)
• Sparring (Coach achievement or practice fights- also ad placement)

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Sparring Ads Go Here (out of date)

^{Everyone here is going for the Coach achievement & up for a spar and/or invite. Those interested in something more active than an AFK spar for Coach will be noted.}

Jimbob64 ✉: _{Done! Will continue as volunteer if invited.}
Kure ✉: _Done!
FauFcb
Morrigan Dahlia
JKinho ✉: _{invite, will challenge with own GP if any available.}
Celestial Rervert
Bellatrixie the Strange
Fred Flintstone
Domerthos
Starryshine
Freyi (open to mock battle)
Artsonian
BombaySapphire
CAGM
Dieck
Dogess
Drill Sergeant2
Jen2000ua
Joceej13
King of Popstar
Lord Sparx
Lord Surge
Nickthegreat
Naiama
Shadow Luxray
Silly-one4u
The Big Guy Upstairs
Tlaloc
Trent Gretlein
Trentos
Tac Nayn
Royal Highness
Olnlg (inactive ATM)
Omgimissed (inactive ATM)
Syrettd (inactive ATM)

To place an ad/link to you from here, request it when you add Trainer to spar. Most recent additions are listed in bold each update interval.

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If anything in the preceding sections is unclear, please leave a message via PM (here) or talk page explaining what didn’t make sense. I’ll try to improve the phrasing.

Sparring buddies list under update at long last, let that slide a bit… volunteers, you will be added.

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