Nicolai sat within the cockpit of the Atlas Mech, with a trail of smoke coiling from the cigar in his mouth while writing frantically on a notpad. going over his (fourth now) final check over his equipment. Every system and square inch of the mech seemed to be in working order, but he still obsessively checked the mech getting annoyed that he wasnt in the arena yet. Nicolai was itching for a fight if nothing else to for the excitement, the bone shaking rumble of auto-cannons scything down an opponent is better than any drug.

He climbed out of the Atlas after shutting it down figuring that he should do something else while he waited for the bout. he sighed and glanced at the clock, still had a little while before his match, at least as long for this current match to be over. He watched a TV in the mech bay while the announcers where commenting on the two mechs about to be in the arena. some kind of spider bot and... a school girl? he scoffed at them, garbage he decided and walked out of the garage to find something to do. he wandered around for a few minutes glancing around at the other mech bays. Watching them go over their checks and last minute adjustments, very few of the mechs caught his interest other than a couple of the experimentals. He was bored before long, the loud speakers announced that the first match of the day was starting, so he climbed into the stadium proper and found a good vantage point. Someone else was standing there as well [@Cultural Titan], Nicolai leaned towards him "Hundred credits on the spider, you game?"