17.2 The Arena

The Arena is a place where the mortals of Imperian may fight on a level playing field with no outside interference. Character fighting in the arena will still gain experience when killing other players and items will be used up. 

Each council and city has its own arena, which you can use from their Staging Grounds. In the alternative, you can travel to the grand Coliseum, near the Nogba Wetlands and on neutral ground, and use its Arena Staging ground. To begin a duel, you may CHALLENGE <player>. The player you are challenging must be in the room, and you must have five times your level in gold in your inventory to use the arena, though the cities and councils may set their own rates. Both combatants must be level 10 to use the arena.

Please note, if trying to use a city or council arena, that these organizations may place limitations on whom may access them. For example, they may disallow people from certain other cities or guilds from joining, or make it exclusive to a certain city or guild.

The Arena is also used for a number of events, such as Freezetag, Bait-the-Frog, and Free-for-all. While any of these events are going on, ES, or EVENTSTATUS will give you some information about the event. Additionally, if you go to the spectator stands in the Arena (located up from of the Arena staging area), you may DIAGNOSE (or just DIAG) any player currently participating, in order to see what afflictions he or she has.

For more information on specific arena games, you can consult their respect help files: HELP BAITGAME, HELP BLOODBATH, HELP DEATHBALL, HELP FOXANDHOUND, HELP FREEFORALL, HELP FREEZETAG, HELP KOTH, HELP MANHUNT, HELP OVERRUN, HELP SOULDRAIN, HELP TEAMFFA, and HELP WARZONE.

Command summary:
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CHALLENGE <player>
Challenges a player to a duel.

DIAGNOSE <player>
Diagnose a player's afflictions. Only works on players currently in the Arena you are in the staging ground for.

ES/EVENTSTATUS
Get some information on whatever event (if any) is currently taking place in the Arenas of the land.

ES [arena alias]
Get detailed information on what is taking place in the given arena.

JOIN [event] [arena]
Join an event currently running in a given arena.  For example, JOIN BLOODBATH COLISEUM.

JOIN [event] [arena] PROF [profession]
If "hero mode" is enabled, you can use this modified version of the join command to play as a profession of your choice.  See HELP ARENA HEROES for more information on "hero mode".

QUIT ARENA
Leave the Arena without finishing the event or duel.

See also: HELP ARENA HEROES, HELP COMBAT RANKINGS, HELP CULTURE