Lapistia

I never understood the idea of taking loot.

Well, it's quite obvious that someone who is richer or simply lucky with their equipment has an advantage over someone with average or no equipment at all, regardless of their fighting skills. From this point of view, I like this aspect because, firstly, the winners of the stages receive some reward for winning the intermediate stages of the tournament in the form of equipment, secondly, those participants who managed to defeat more well-equipped opponents are rewarded, and thirdly, I don't see any problems with this from an RP perspective.

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Beatrice goes to the arena and tries to find out if she can sign up as a healer to treat the losers who have been eliminated from the tournament.

Unfortunately, she was refused and advised to find some kind of job in the port area of the city instead.