Super Heavyweight Temple Battle Grudge Match Extravaganza

Story so far

The moment the freeze locked the Temple of Khepri, The Announcer declared it with absurd fanfare and fireworks: a Super Heavyweight Temple Battle Grudge Match Extravaganza, a name he admitted he'd just made up. It isn't technically a boss battle, but he ruled that it pretty much counts — look at the combatants, look at the stakes, look at the goddamned drama.

He ran the whole sequence manually: portraits of Carl, Katia, Prepotente, Li Jun, Bautista, and Zhang slammed into a floating frame opposite all six naga portraits with Princess Vinata's enlarged, then every portrait caught fire and flecked away into magical soot as a giant flaming ball — the sun — rolled through the air and became an image of Khepri. Temple rules and floor rules were declared in effect, deity summoning was exempted from normal limits, and The Betting Window was opened for viewers at home with a three-minute wait. A thirty-second timer then counted down, pausing at 19 to insult Admiral Corinne Whimpleshin, before the AI called no more bets and let it go.

Role

The framing spectacle that turns Vinata's trap into a broadcast set-piece with open betting.

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