The Shadow of the Heights

[Diamond Master]

This is the frosty cold area of the plains.
Lichens, scrubby pines, and other tough plants exist here beneath layers of frost.
A few plants from the Frosted Arboretum have also migrated in.

A small tick squirms out from a crack in the mountain and scurries here, where the towering Heights block much of the sunlight.

In one direction, the Plains fade gradually into grasslands. Beyond that, you can see a desert. The Plains undercut the mountain in another direction. The Bay and some scrubby groves of trees are to the East, and some rocky piles rise up out of the frost to the West.

[Ptah]

I head towards the scrubby grove of trees, completely indifferent to the cold and my bare feet.

[Yerkan of Elish]

The tick scurries along towards the shelter of the rock piles.

[Diamond Master]

The tick scurries along towards the shelter of the rock piles.

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[Diamond Master]

I head towards the scrubby grove of trees, completely indifferent to the cold and my bare feet.

There, you encounter Hoplo-Doru, the fastest drawing deity in the Immortal Facets. He has already collected the pawn within this branch of the Labyrinth, but arrogantly offers to hand it over to you if you can best him in combat (to first blood), best 4 out of 5.

No god can out-draw Hoplo-Doru, so you bargain with him to achieve a handicap. You will turn your back to him and ready a weapon ahead of time.

Your choices are a masterfully balanced throwing dagger, a sturdy longspear, or a spiked bronze shield.

Shield blocks dagger, spear ranges shield, dagger ranges spear.

What's your first pick?

[Ptah]

I pick the shield.

[Diamond Master]

http://diamondpantheon.com/haplodoru.html

Haplo-Doru draws dagger.

Ptah 1, Haplo-Doru 0.

What's your next picK?

[Ptah]

Spear.

[Diamond Master]

Haplo-Doru also chooses spear.
http://diamondpantheon.com/haplodoru2.html

Ptah: 1. HD: 0. Ties: 1.

Now what?

[Ptah]

Shield again.