Quads Arena

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🏟️ Quad's Arena

The Arena: a stone colosseum in your world where you fight waves of monsters and champions for the crowd, for gold and for glory, or duel your friends (PvP), like the arena in the first Fable.

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✨ Features

What is in it

• The Arena builds itself: the first time the world runs with the mod, it finds flat ground near the middle of the world, clear of everyone's buildings, levels it, clears the trees and puts up a colosseum made of the game's own stone. It is marked on the map, and it is the same for everyone. It cannot be broken, and nothing of it is saved but the levelled ground.
• Arena Waystones (hammer, Misc) take you to its forecourt and back. There stands the Hall of Fame: a stone statue of the champion of each contest (the best run of the Long Road, the Champion Bout, the Endless Horde and Today's Trial in the world), with their names. The Arena Master takes your name at his desk.
• The Long Road: from the Meadows to the Ashlands, three rounds in each land (two fighters, then three, then its champion with one at its side; never more than two out at once), as far as you can get. The Arena Master holds everything you carry while you fight. You start in the plainest Meadows gear from a chest that rises in the ring, with whatever weapon the armourer hands you (a knife, an axe, a club, a spear or a bow), and keep it, building it up piece by piece: after every round a reward chest holds a free upgrade (up to the land you are in, the weakest piece first; between lands one of the next land's) and between lands the Armourer stands in the ring, selling upgrades as far as your coin goes (or another kind of weapon), fresh food and meads in the game's own trader window; the crowd throws you gear too. Fighting is hungry work: food burns faster in the ring, and the kitchen's meals are leftovers. The fighters drop coins (no loot): spend them, or walk out with them. Champions drop their trophy. Each land you beat adds its spoils to your prize (metal, hides and rarer things, far better deeper in: in full the first time you beat it each week), and you walk out with the Arena's Blessing for about a day of the world (faster health and stamina back, harder blows), stronger the further you got. You get your own things back when you come out, or when you rise again if you fall (then what you picked up is lost).
• Today's Trial: one land picked for the day, with its weapon and rules, in the arena's gear; the first time you win it each day it pays half as much again, twice the land's spoils and three each of its best meads.
• With your own gear: a Champion Bout (one champion, a head taller, as strong as its land allows) or the Endless Horde (wave after wave until you fall or take your purse), against a land your world has reached.
• Each contest costs an entry fee (your first fight is free). The arena's fighters never drop loot.
• You walk in through the main gate and the tunnel; the grate rises, then shuts behind you. The creatures come out of pens behind the grates round the ring. The floor has mounds and dips, and each land brings its own cover: ruins, pillars or stakes. Between lands a platform rises in the middle, with the reward chest on it.
• The crowd fills the stands, turns to watch you, cheers, boos, waves flags and sends a wave round the stands; the announcer calls every round, combo and champion. Their favour grows with kills, quick kills, parries, flawless rounds and close calls, and raises the prize.
• Play to the crowd: the arena's meals are leftovers (they start part spent), so the crowd's gifts matter. Their gifts sail over the bars and land on the paved border by the wall, below whoever threw them, with a glow where they came down. Excited, they throw you fresh food and small meads; roaring, the land's best food, bigger meads, arrows and bombs; ecstatic, strong meads, and now and then an upgrade for the gear you wear. Emotes in the ring please them (more with a foe close by, or just after a kill) and they answer in kind; cower and they laugh. Now and then they chant for something (a flex, a roar, a kill now, a perfect parry, not a scratch): answer in time and they go wild.
• Rules make it harder and worth more: bare fists, no food or potions, hard, and against the clock. Stake coins on yourself in a Champion Bout or a trial and a win pays them double.