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Zarra went into the Melon Derby with no real strategy in mind. While he had grasped that he would ultimately steal some melons at some point, the ultimate fact was there wasn't really anything they could do against the more powerful teams So rather than go in with an idea that would likely ultimately fail upon clashing with the enemy, he just said screw it. This would ultimately be disastrous later.

In the first 2 hours of the derby, Zarra spent his time exploring the Castle outside and Merchant Dorms. He took his time with it, only phasing to get in an hour of the buildings with ease. he got quite a few high priority melons. However, the biggest they acquired was actually Desmond's, Zarra's timely intervention prevented its capture form the Covenant, continuing to sour the relationships between the 2 teams.

The 3rd hour is when it all went to hell. Zarra, still at the base had just finished helping Dorisay bind a melon into another melon, caught Ayla running passed their dorm with the dreaded Supreme Melon. This was his chance at his first theft. It went poorly, after taunting her, Ayla quickly got her barrings and Zarra was swiftly knocked unconscious by the Lioness, and comically drawn on. Ismette had to come and save him, and he was out for the rest of the hour.

Not long after the turn of the 4th hour, Chad, Evander, and Tyrel had come to their base of operations and tried parading like they owned the place. Ismette and the others fortunately held them back, but not before Zarra got to see a demon for the first time. He prays it will be the only. His interaction with the Ice King altercation was ultimately minimal. All he knew when sensing the very air around him freeze was that this was going to end poorly. He called a Zeno using magnet magic to make letters into the sky. It seemed to have worked, as he had gone back inside and found the Ice King running for the hulls and Hugo there in his place. Hugo was nice enough to not dox them all points for essentially destroying their own dorm.

Zarra, having felt rather useless so far, attempt to spend the final hour stealing melons from Afraval, with the unlikely ally of Tyrel. However, their inevitable elemelon find was short-lived. As they were both bum rushed by 7 of the team's members. Zarra tried in vain to snag and go, but rather than accept defeat, he deliberately and desperately took a brutal blow from another player, spitefully making them lose points. He headed back after recovering and gave up. He had one job and he utterly failed it.


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