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Gladiators of Qud

Originally just a set of tools for creating your own fighting arena via Hearthpyre. Now it's got a built-in arena, a Stiltgrounds-inspired market, and secret objects to wish for if you go digging through text. I think it also technically has lore now.



Enemies included:
- Zapjaws. I could not resist the pun.
- Scrap'eads, Mechanimist-themed junk-bandits.
- Robot beetles with axe-mandibles.
- Dromad traders turned deadly gladiators. They have very good guns.
- An end game boss. Very end game.



NPCs included:
- A central merchant for handling starter quest integration. Quartermaster Snaps is stocked with lots of beefy trade goods.
- A holographic vendor edition of each tier of enemy, to politely buy their drops as merch instead of resorting to free murder
- Supplementary vendors placed in the sample arena, to cover a wider variety of supplies the enemies don't drop



Quality of Life features:
- Most arena loot drops are resistant to temperature and acid, stack, and have no weight.
- Most arena weapon drops are also considered scrap, with the ability to 'repair' them into non-scrap versions.
- A lineup of Weightless, self-supplying ranged weapons for playing tower defense
- Wishable fighting arena, essential for classic mode. 'Kai Arena Simulator' can be found in the quick-wish menu or wished for directly.
- Non-tinkers can deploy the turret weapons, but will not gain XP for their kills this way.
- A 'bank card' that's just a weightless and extreme volume water container. You will need very large amounts of water. Vast.



Some fun I had because I could:
- Added a lineup of overdose-free tonic-fungus to sacrifice your bits to like a mad junkie
- A supply of breather organs and meds reskinned as mystical scrolls. You still eat them to use them
- Vault-themed normality-enforced walls, windows, floors, loot-restocking shelves, and door
- At least one other secret item hidden in (marked) description text
- A genotype with subtypes made specifically for the arena, or using arena enemies as their base concept