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The cubicle was furnished with two chairs and a control panel Ied fro combat trolls in full body are brutes with horns were armed with scythes and diminutive palace trolls had boith poisonous arrows A note below the palace trolls said they were drawn from individuals that had failed to show adequate respect for their betters and their fate would serve as a warning to others

Tom watched as Balduur surveyed the possibilities The rules of the game said they were allowed three hundred combatants and must select theiven first choice

Balduur's eyes flicked froladiators to the next as he assessed the possibilities Some took his fancy Others caused him to scowl He reached the palace trolls and stabbed a stubby finger at the screen

'I don't want any of those'

Ied froether Death trolls hips drove the there?'

'You've just picked them' Tom explained

'I said I didn't want 'em'

'Then you shouldn't have touched the screen'

'Send 'em back'

'We can't The rules won't allow it' Tom stretched out his hand 'I'll put them in the centre where they'll blunt the eneht Use theladiators into place on the control screen and the palace trolls wereplace in the arena It was now the turn of the rival teathy discussion between heads in jars But the response was iht to his next choice, fiftyherded into place at the opposing end of the arena

'They're stupid,' Balduur pulled a face 'I'd have chosen '

Toer jabbed at the screen and fifty horned trolls appeared They rode on huge boars and were ar and the opposing tea us,' Balduur said

'Looks like it'

'There's no point in trying to win'

'Nah,' To Let's see what happens when trolls on pigs fight trolls on elks'