The Pit

Brackets

Entering

Talk to The Pit Master, pick a bracket and pick your fighters. A fighter must be an adult following you: not assigned to a building, not a baby, not starving.

The fight

• Both masters and squads are sent to a free pit. A 10 s countdown, then the bell.
• Slaves pick random enemies and switch targets every few seconds. Each punch rolls 1 up to the slave's Combat stat. See Combat.
• You can't act in the ring with one exception: you can hand-feed your own fighters. Each bite heals them (a Potato heals 4 HP).
• Dead slaves are dead for good.
• A fight that runs 5 min is decided by survivors, then total HP. A dead heat refunds both fees.
• The result shows for 8 s, then everyone is sent home.

The purse

The winner takes both entry fees minus a 10% house cut. A Skirmish purse is 200g, so 180g goes to the winner. A win also earns +3 cruelty, and a loss costs 2.

Rank

Every master has a Pit rating that starts at 1000. Beating an equal opponent moves both of you by 16 points.

Training

Survivors come out harder: a slave still standing that made a kill gains +1 Combat, and any other survivor has a 50%chance of +1. Combat caps at 10. A slave that went down gains nothing, even if it made kills first; it's revived at half health after the fight.