Lonesome Wanderings, Session 27

 In which Badger...

• Bribes off the Fallen Moon team so he doesn't have to fight them.
• Flees from various beasts in the jungles.
• Finds the last silver feather and subsequently holes up in the temple until the last day of the qualifiers.
• Tries to sneak to the mountain where qualifiers will be completed - only to be found by tournament enforcers who determine they need to do more fighting.
• Starts fighting with one tournament head enforcer, half giant Koto Zekora.
• Flees from the fight, escaping the enforcers into a tribal village.
• Flees from the tribal villagers and a giant monitor lizard.
• Arrives at the mountain (before the enforcers catch wind of them) and turns in the phoenix necklace and silver feathers to get admission into the Ruby Palace - and officially qualifies for the tournament finals!
• Runs into the palace as fighting between unqualified teams starts up outside (which is quelled by Tino's Toughest).
• Discovers the 7 other qualifying teams: Winter's Roar, a team of Viking Marauders; Biting Roses, opportunistic martial artists; Arms of Balance, monks here in the tournament as an exam; Light Bringers, the sadistic top tournament team; Spindle's Top Shots, Badger's ex-retainer's team with harsh feelings; Tino's Toughest, an underdog team with a heart of gold; and the Fallen Moons, a lazy team with an eye out for gold.
• Heads to dinner, with the Ruby Phoenix, the tournament judge, presiding over the qualified teams.
• Gives a relatively poor first impression to the Ruby Phoenix, with a scruffy exterior and not many unique abilities and powers to speak of.
• Avoids various challenges and events that take place after dinner throughout the night.
• Faces the top ranked Light Bringers in an exhibition match - very reluctantly having been chosen for not having participated in any other events.
• Pulls off an upset taking out the Light Bringers in the exhibition match despite most of the team going down - and to Badger's dismay placing a large target on their back from rest of the other teams.
• Travels back to Threshold from Danger Island to rest up for 2 months and purchase supplies, the qualifiers for the tournament having ended, with the main tournament taking place in the city proper.

Current Level: Badger 8