We got up, and after Steven determined that we can afford to pay a wizard to 
remove the curse on Gilad, we all went down to the pavillion where the Adept
contests registration is.

GROUP CONTESTS

*race--group as large as you want, start at one end of a canyon
grab cool stuff, come back. Your score is value/size of group
15 rounds, 1/circle

*Put on a play of an absolutely true story

*Group combat (no killing blows)

*King of the Mountain castle-taking combat (last one to touch the magic stone)

We talked about the possibilities of Maura's Mystic Mist, K'shrik's siren song,
my windwalker and metamorphosis. Then, we went to the registration table and
tried to register for some of the events.
We all wrote our names: 

<i>K'shrik , Troubador

E'leia Anora, Elementalist of Camrish

Tzeika, Elementalist

Gilad vonRichtofen of Camrish

Captain Donk

Thwak Oakenshield Who Knows Himself

Steven Mandrake the Wizard (sigil)

Joan, cavalryman of Camrish, and Orleans

Maura Greyhorn Stonehold of Camrish who knows herself</i>

We argued for half an hour over names, with Thwak being a total jerk about making us be the "Adepts of Camrish" 
Thwak picked up E'leia as she tried to go write "Team Camrish" in the book, and Gilad went and wrote it.

Donk, Gilad, Maura, Joan and Thwak go up against some NPCs in a big battle
They totally beat up Gabe, Leanne, Kubai, and Chip accidentally fireballed both
Joan _and_ Orleans (who had surrendered), which disqualified that team.

Individual contests:
<ul>
<li>*K'shrik wins a storytelling contest about Astendar and an emotionsong contest
<li>*E'leia wins a physical spell matrix design contest but loses a silent spellcasting contest to a wizard with a cooler spell (wizard mouth)
<li>Tzeika loses an artistic firelighting contest, but gets approached to design sculptures for private collectors
<li>Thwak and Gilad enter a "shooting at an arrow in flight far away" contest
(Thwak), a shoot lots of different things down in combat contest (Gilad). 
and Camrish has a fan club, and a max distance contest which Thwak lost.
<li>Donk enters an airsailing/knot tying contest, and loses to a Trollish boy 
scout, enters a capertossing and loses to a windling, and loses and enters 
a sling-rock contest and loses.
</ul>(E'leia volunteered to be an honorary damsel for a swordsman contest, K'shrik did too.)
<ul>
<li>Donk enters a skyraider-falling contest, tries to jump on a first-circle 
windling skyraider contest, and gets put in jail for assault.
<li>Thwak enters another archery contest that is "three green balls, one is red,
they're in a box. Hit the red one" he loses, and enters a bowstringing contest
and wins.
<li>Steven enters the apprentice obscure robe contest and gives a lecture on the
wonders of peanut butter, and makes the judges think he's a total weirdo
(and he wins a jar of peanut butter as consolation for being a psycho)
<li>Joan wins a obstacle and lance contest, loses a "mount carriage" contest
</ul>

A note gets delivered from the Adept Illuminati 
"We traditionally have tea at this time, at this place, if you'd do the honor
of joining us, we'd greatly appreciate it."  I now have 7.5 silver, after giving the 50 he gave me + 30 I won to Steven.

I won a staff, not enchanted, from a tree in the Wyrmwood.
I ask K'shrik to tell me about the Wyrmwood: "It is the center of all Elven culture...dragon...claims to be daughter of
the Mother of all dragons..."